It was ironic; as a child I hadn’t particularly liked working in the fields. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The helper worked in the shadows beyond the dark mountain range; he worked with the black sand, making bear prints side by side. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“During World War II, when many American men had either gone to war or were working in industries that produced equipment for the war, there was a shortage of farm labor,” Mom said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“I made the condition that I wouldn’t work in an office,” Elizebeth wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Panchito and I can find work in Santa Maria thinning lettuce and topping carrots.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Screaming when I left for work in the morning. Screaming when I came home at night.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray stood there for a second and gave me a once-over, as if he was upset that I was trying to work in Cluck Bucket. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I doubt she’ll find work in this town again,” Elizabeth says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They worked in teams, a man slashing the cane, a woman binding every twelve stalks into a bundle. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He worked in the barbershop for a while, then got a job working for Free Venture, an environmentally certified nonprofit that refurbishes and recycles e-waste on-site. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At dusk, when the work in the fields was over, she started toward the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I had done that, being in that city where the Herald Dispatch was, I went visiting and I worked in their office; they let me observe how a newspaper was put together. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can get work in Mexico too,” he said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She said that different members of the family were working in good jobs, and some even had small businesses going. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s parents in my neighborhood work in factories, so the idea of a “business trip” is foreign to me, but I don’t ask any questions so he doesn’t think I’m stupid. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The manual workers, The Club, left almost in a body to work in war projects plants. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apá quit when he was in seventh grade in order to work in the fields. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My parents, my older brothers and sister work in the rice field while we younger kids stay behind to work in the community garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second day it rained, and Dad spent the morning doing book work in the house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last wall of the tenement—one of the buildings he had worked in— and at any moment the wall threatened to collapse. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He works in construction and treats his wife like a queen and his kids like gods. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I believe in God, that He works in mysterious ways...but this, this is too much. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One girl who had been making two dollars per week in Meridian wrote home to say she was now working in the Chicago stockyards and making two dollars per day. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Madam wants her outside peeling potatoes. You’re to work in here.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday was Dad’s day to work in the shop, so he and Mom wouldn’t be up for another two hours. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“She will work in the kitchen with Becky. That is my decision. Do not disturb me again with womanly prattle.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roberto and I continued going to school and working in the fields after school and on weekends. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The syrup tasted like thin honey laced with hickory smoke, and everybody who worked in the factory secretly spooned it all day long. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trampita offered to help me clean the gas company on Friday so that I could finish work in time to make the performance at eight o’clock. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Ultima and I worked in the garden every morning, struggling against the llano to rescue good earth in which to plant. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The “red cell” committee thought it unlikely that an established terrorist group would work in the United States during a hurricane. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The Newton of rhetoric—the one person whose work in this department overshadows the whole history of the subject—was, of course, Aristotle. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

When I came to New York after high school, I worked in my Aunt Mary’s leather factory and stayed with Buheh, who had moved to the Bronx. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day after Bible school, Wishbone and I were sitting out front while Gus worked in the garden. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

He worked in a garage, so when the bus broke, he pulled out his box of tools. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mind works in mysterious ways,” says Johnny. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment he felt as if he, too, had betrayed her by having his own plan: to get a postgraduate degree in America, to work in America, to live in America. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Consuelo said you would show us what we are to do. We have never worked in the fields before. Our father was a fisherman.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I worked in a Wall Street mailroom and finally found a job in the post office from which I was fired because I could no longer stand the stultifying work. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I give up,” shouted the tormented man and went off to his work in the pulp magazine house. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We no longer work in the fields but spend the hours learning to fight in combat as rumors spread that Youns have invaded our borders. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We kept up our running menu all through work in the gravel pit that afternoon, and into the evening in the barracks while we lay next to each other on our shelf. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

In like manner, he did work in optics that transformed our understanding of light and laid the foundation for the science of spectroscopy, and again chose not to share the results for three decades. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Lawes’s children knew the inside of the prison from movies they watched there, and the inmates who worked in his house as cooks, cleaners, and handymen knew his family. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you get too large, you don’t have enough work in common. You don’t have enough things in common, and then you start to become strangers and that close-knit fellowship starts to get lost.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke in short, jerky sentences, hopping nimbly from thought to thought, as though his mind worked in a free, associa- tional manner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she had been working in the fields beside him she had been planning all this out! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He’s working in his uncle Anthony’s pub twelve hours a day, twenty-five shillings a week and every day soup and a sandwich. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Before the Russian Revolution, about 80 percent of the population were peasants who worked in the fields like their medieval ancestors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That book, which has been described as the most influential work in the history of science after Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions, presents a number of arguments which have become famous. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some resigned from the white man’s agencies and came to work in the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So everyone on Malaga is gone. And my father is gone, maybe to do God’s work in heaven. I don’t know. All I know is that they’re all gone.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Each morning the thirty men working in the kitchen prepared three hundred dozen eggs, twenty-five hundred pancakes, five hundred pounds of bacon and sausage, and 180 gallons of coffee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unable to find a job, he placed his portion in storage and left for Minneapolis, where he found work in a drugstore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“My Lord”—his arms were spread open wide before the congregation—“your Lord, works in mysterious ways.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

But he was surprised to find himself looking for it there, of all places, and to find the same order at work in the great and the little. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Like Gilbert, Galileo practised what he preached, and it was the peripatetic approach that was blown apart by his work in Italy late in the sixteenth century and early in the seventeenth century. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Your grandpa Ted worked in construction, and they were going to build it together, right on this very spot.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

This person’s parents will have done meaningful work in the garment business, passing on to their children autonomy and complexity and the connection between effort and reward. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Today, many incarcerated people work in prison, typically earning far less than the minimum wage—often less than $3 per hour, sometimes as little as 25 cents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For reasons that confound medical science, the product also fails to affect those working in certain professions—the editors of fashion magazines, for example. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When they had eaten, the merchant turned to the boy and said, “I’d like you to work in my shop. Two customers came in today while you were working, and that’s a good omen.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We'd land on the Normandy beaches, drive south, lie about our ages, and work in vineyards or ski chalets. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Without anyone asking, Blake or Josh would saunter in, wash a stack, and then go back to playing bluegrass music or working in the shop. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

At the time, it had sounded fun, working in a zoo full of interesting animals. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

While they both waited for their big breaks, they worked in a soul food restaurant. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They lived the much easier life of working in the “house.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Jenna acts as security guard and cheerleader of our work in progress. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m a fan of hard work in all forms,” she said. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He had a friend that worked in a print shop, and with his help we printed over a hundred copies of the letter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he returned to Germany after being deported, he was made a lieutenant and worked in the Abwehr, the Intelligence Department of the German Army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Well, this guy I met—Matthew is his name—works in one of the labs here, and he says they would be interested in looking at our genetic material for research,” she says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

My parents don’t even work in Maryland; they have to commute to Washington, DC. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But yesterday Kilvin had paid me for a span’s work in the Fishery: two jots. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here is her account of “subject #18”: A Russian tailor artisan comes to America, takes to the needle trade, works in a sweat shop for a small salary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The gang members worked in their own clique apart from us at the quarry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bright side, my sister and I were now legally allowed to work in the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They shared a lot of history—Syria, emigration to America and New Orleans, work in the trades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Oh, these people’s minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they’re not like you and me,” said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“That’s quite a jump! Why were you working in the kitchen?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

There is nothing to be proud of working in this tejas place. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I’d find an easy job, the kind other kids had, working in the dime store or maybe a hotdog stand. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Amsterdam News and Ebony always printed pictures of blacks who worked in downtown offices or who had achieved some small recognition. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As an organizer working in urban communities, Barack had told me, he’d contended most often with a deep weariness in people—especially black people—a cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

At first she had worked in Pots and Pans, but now they had changed her to Costume Jewelry. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Zinaida had worked in a textile factory for five years before joining the 122nd Air Group, and she was assigned to become a parachute packer for the 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Seeing the faces of the seventy-six young women who’d been chosen to attend the leadership forum because they were doing meaningful work in their communities, I fought back tears. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t call him that. And what dudes? Nobody in Garden Heights is checking for me. Hardly anybody knows my name. Hell, even you called me Big Mav’s daughter who work in the store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

How her appearance would shock Mamá, who worked in a crisp yellow jacket in Señor Aguilar’s beautiful hotel. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It is being designed so that four people will be able to stay aboard for long periods of time, working in a laboratory, exploring ideas that involve gravity or the lack of it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the man who worked in the West Indian restaurant on 147th Street. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘God works in his mysterious ways,’ she said, which was her stock reply whenever she didn’t know the answer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone was there, except Willie, who was looking for work in Milwaukee, and Nicholas, who was in the public library reading up on contracts and music royalties to get a record deal. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe one day I would go to America and work in the movies. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She likes to bow, neh? Is she always this dirty? I work in field, I like dirt! The cold! Come in, come in.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She and Zeitoun had never promised that he could finish all of the additional work in five days. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s the rainy season; there’s little work in the fields during this time, and my back is getting worse.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Emilika was twenty-three, Catholic like me, had brown hair, a freckled nose, and worked in a photography shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even without knowing what had happened inside, looking at its exterior made my guts churn, like when I was working in the deli late at night and heard something out back....Never mind. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“I had to work in Sonny’s Shop. You know my old man makes me dress up like this when I’m behind the desk.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he works in a factory, but if he could be anything in the world, what would it be, you know? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Okay. Khudafis. Have a good day at work in case I don’t see you in the morning.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She started work in her own house first. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not bad, but strongly, of working in soil. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Both live with single parents who work in the medical field, that kind of stuff.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Every day she works in the rice fields, planting and harvesting rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyddie went to work in darkness and came back to supper in darkness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

She beat Lyddie to work in the mornings and had two of the machines oiled and gleaming before Lyddie even entered the room. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wish I could do my work in the early morning before the sun’s so fierce. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her sister Mary worked in the Big House, and she planned to tell Mary that she was going to run away, so someone would know. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He had to stop school at eighth grade to help his family work in the fields. What a shame.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

DeVante leans against a broom near the cash register, wearing one of those ugly green aprons Daddy tries to make me and Seven wear when we work in the store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He figured he had something else working in his favor: he was happy. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

When he comes back to London, he goes to work in a new gallery that Goupil’s has bought. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And Twiggy's not going to work in America. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It meant that all family units were to be dismantled to make way for barracks housing only single men and women working in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Georgia Douglas Johnson. I read some of her work in a book called 3000 Years of Black Poetry. I’d never heard of her before, and I bet nobody else in class has either.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It unleashed itself from the broken and semi-broken appliances in the kitchen, the dead machines which hadn’t worked in all the time Isidore had lived here. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

By 1956, more black women were now working in other areas of the laboratory than in West Computing itself. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I squint my eyes and see a parade of small children, and two of the young women I’d seen working in the nursery with Mina. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And my dark complexion doesn’t necessarily mean anything; Antonio’s mestizo skin is even darker than mine from working in the fields all day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also something else working in my favor here: my genetics. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She imagined that they all had university degrees, that they worked in office buildings, behind desks of their own, where they typed and smoked and made important telephone calls to important people. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a man working in the store too. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Bill and me worked in that patch of field peas. Run cultivators, both of us. Bill was a hell of a nice fella.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We passed village fields where people were at work in the rain and mud. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had returned to his work in 1946, to remove the blinders from the eyes of the black man in the wilderness of North America. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you say that you wanted to work in the kitchen this year?” she asked. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Their fathers were off working in a mine somewhere, able to come home only during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I like to come here, to his old palace, because it pleases me to see his works in ruins. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Or that people know me as anything other than “Big Mav’s daughter who works in the store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He took the coffee for the train, on the walk back ruminating about the nature of work in downtown Chicago. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I've seen it in some of those homes I worked in. Television gets the best of the family love. People stop talking to each other," she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The other thing that made me doubtful about all this had to do with the actual description given by Chrissie and Rodney: their picture of a woman working in a nice glass-fronted office. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a man of action; he did his best to ignore the unseen world that the sages worked in. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to use my knowledge and skills to work in the field of increasing human intelligence. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the men held Sutic down as the people filed by the bowl, dipping their feet, dirty from the work in the fields, into it one by one. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I-I wouldn’t—I came here to speak with you about—” about coming back to work in the shop. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Post was back to work in a week. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Throughout the year the animals worked even harder than they had worked in the previous year. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

They valued Mary’s help for this task, as she on her own could squeeze into narrower gaps than the mulefa, and, with her double hands, work in tighter spaces. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m from Grimsby and I certainly don’t want to work in a district hospital there.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Back in school, I could not focus on the work in class. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He told me he worked in Easons office, clerk, inside job? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Bears are unpredictable, and what works in one circumstance may not work in another. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“He worked in the mines and sang baritone in a barbershop quartet. After he died, my mother changed our last name. She thought it would make things easier on us.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But today was Theden, that meant that if I ate dinner quickly, I had nearly an hour between Elxa Dal’s class and my work in the Fishery. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I’m a Beta; I worked in the Fertilizing Room; nobody ever taught me to do anything like that. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made it my little fort; I put a blanket over me and worked in there, with a light that Dad rigged up. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Can you believe he's even gonna try working in the stockroom at the store she works at? When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

One user, CaptainOverpants, claimed to work in Mr. Griswold’s hospital and said that Mr. Griswold was still in a coma and had been secretly moved to hospice care because he was dying. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Chinese had arranged a small conference room for the Americans to work in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this time molecular work on DNA in England was, for all practical purposes, the personal property of Maurice Wilkins, a bachelor who worked in London at King’s College.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They worked in the kitchen under Alice, who preferred assistants who were disinclined to natter all day, to better hear her own voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It worked in their second game, when the little man overreached himself with an unsound assault. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He said she had offered him the job when she had seen him working in the neighborhood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, my job cleaning the ghetto ended, and I was put back to work in Plaszów. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because of bannings and imprisonment, people often had to work in both organizations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when you are working in the field you do not have time for train watching. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Object and I had worked in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I heard a million! My uncle worked in one of his factories before Liberation, and he knew all about Old Rong.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except the stove hasn’t worked in weeks. Bri’s done all the cooking in the microwave when there’s been electricity. Which there isn’t anymore, in case you hadn’t noticed.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was hent intently to his work in the noonday sun, and somehow I knew at that moment what would happen, I could see it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Most of the residents of Hippie Cove were, like me, summer squatters who’d come to Cordova hoping to score high-paying fishing jobs or, failing that, find work in the salmon canneries. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was far more strenuous than the work in the courtyard, and after our first few days on the quarry we fell asleep immediately after our supper at 4:30 in the afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though we worked in the same house and slept under the same blanket, we had little time to talk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s working in another part of the building, but he’s come to check on us. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His bet was that most of them ended up teaching in programs like this or working in advertising, neither of which appealed to him on any level. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

There was a subtle limp to her walk, maybe, but if I hadn’t known what had happened, I would have just assumed she was coming in from a long afternoon of working in the Garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Catelyn knew all the men who worked in their stables, and he was none of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Lyddie went to work in the icy darkness and returned again at night. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Henry went home after dinner, and Pa went away to his work in the Big Woods. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

This made rather a curious noise sometimes, when Mrs. Popper was working in the kitchen, but she got used to it, as she had got used to so many other strange things this winter. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

All these small creatures are working — working in sun and rain, during the hours of darkness, even when winter’s grip has damped down the fires of life to mere embers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Tris, I worked in the Dauntless control room. There were cameras everywhere, all the time. I tried to warn you that people were watching you during your initiation, remember?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Why couldn’t the child work in the spinning room? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Try doing detail work in that blinded condition. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The rich lady said, “I remember that you mentioned working in the bazaar making garlands.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was still working in the fields, still serving the overseer at night. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Men working in the fields wore goggles and tied handkerchiefs around their noses to keep the dirt out. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He did not work in the yard, help in the house, wash cars, shine shoes, or anything. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't see no woman working in the store. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer she worked in Cape May, New Jersey, in a hotel. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Combined with my paid work in Kilvin’s shop, this left me with barely enough time to eat, sleep, and study, let alone give my lute the time it deserved. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was trying to make a go of it alone, working in a real estate office selling lots, and it was rough. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother’s name, my mother’s office, even though she hadn’t been to work in months. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He’d been working in the Ford River Rouge complex for the last five years when Ruth gave birth to their first child in the middle of a snowstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He waves his hand at my work in progress. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He did not know her name, but he knew that she worked in the Fiction Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I was seventeen when I first met you,” Katie was saying, and I was working in the Castle Braid Factory.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew there were women who sent their work in to him and hoped I might do the same. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was a college undergraduate in the early 1950’s, I was fortunate enough to work in the laboratory of H. J. Muller, a great geneticist and the man who discovered that radiation produces mutations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I worked in the kitchen I could pretend none of this was happening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Dr. Cullen is a brilliant surgeon who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here,” he continued, getting louder. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After being laid off from his job at a marketing company in 2003, he now works in an insurance company’s software and systems department. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Unable to find work in the rainy Northwest, McCandless had hopped a series of freight trains back to the desert. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took the pins out and said to him, “Well, here in Africa that temple has to do a hateful lot of work in a day.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"By what? He's handsome, good education, lovely parents. He works in his father's accounting firm." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to envision them, two brown bodies curled against each other under a threadbare blanket, both worn out from a hard day’s work in the harvesting fields. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“But you’re saying she ended up working in the fish place.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My take on it, working in a place where physical confrontation was always possible, was that most men, meeting other men, instantly asked themselves: Could I beat him in a fight? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been cheated, but like all North Koreans working in China he was in no position to protest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was dressed for work in a pair of jeans and a grubby white T-shirt. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I found my work in the South Side Boys’ Club deeply engrossing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working in the priory kitchen now. They might need me more if Sister Fenella’s ill.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Until the end of colonialism, she suggested, researchers tended to work in their own countries’ possessions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My mother, who for some reason could not get a permit to work in Johannesburg, could not even afford to buy tea and brown bread. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to quickly wrap up my work and prepare for the seven weeks away from home—and possibly much more, if I decided to stick with the job and work in a prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said incredulously, thinking of the pale, quiet students who worked in the Archives, sorting, scribing, and fetching books. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Having worked in the mill for a while, I had saved some money. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them worked in factories, or did, before factories shut down owing to a lack of electricity and manufacturing supplies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Millions of other agricultural workers were told to move to cities to work in factories. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He worked in the back, behind a curtain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was a little old white-headed woman working in a flower bed. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among COs, working in a max was considered more macho than working in a medium or anywhere else. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After ten long hours of working in the sun, my father would come home and then start working on building our new house. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

He worked in the kitchen of a naval hospital and they both said he was a medical dietician for the United States Navy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The thing is, I work in the morning.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Some were from peasant families, some were the children of intellectuals, some were the children of factory workers and had worked in factories themselves. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Florence and she had met at work in the middle of the summer, a year after Richard’s death. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Too many times, Allen had seen up close how racism worked in the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t Oliver just said he was going to work in Geneva? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly Franklin worked in France for America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white man who worked in the building stepped into the elevator and waited to be lifted to his floor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His teacher instead sent all of the “poor kids” to play outside or to work in the garden. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I have been working in service to a man of great charge. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He spoke of his childhood in Hoi- gufn, where his father, a descendant of slaves, had worked in the nickel mines. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was a little jealous to think of them all here cozily together while she was hard at work in the cornfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He’d designed the hull to resonate every few seconds, sending waves through the Mist and alerting Festus to any nearby monsters, but it only worked in one mode at a time: water or air. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Malia’s been living and working in New York, finishing out her gap year before college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If you spilled something dangerous on yourself while working in the hoods, you could simply pull the drench’s handle and rinse yourself clean in a stream of cool water. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But dresses that was OK to do my work in. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

My work in the Artificery over the last couple months had tough- ened and strengthened my hands, but not in entirely the right ways. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His daughter, Vicky, was working in a drugstore just off Five Points, where the rally would be held, and C.P. was afraid that she would be caught in riots. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked in a blacksmith’s shop and as a waiter and as a bellboy in a hotel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Could she have been working in the home where he picked her up? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She tells Uncle Pa go back to bed, that he has to go to work in the morning not like some from the North that she won’t mention. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At times her pupils were dilated and she moved slowly, but she continued working in the hospital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I played it with Carlos and my younger brothers, Trampita, Torito, and Ruben, on school days when I had no homework, and on weekends when I was not too tired from working in the fields. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Under Fifteen Fugees were still very much a work in progress. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It definitely isn’t anything like the apartment that Emmett and George lived in while they were working in New York City. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each time I glanced at him, I felt that old instinct at work in me, tensing my muscles, preparing me to take flight. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

That year, 1849, she went to work in a hotel in Philadelphia, as a cook. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apá doesn’t say much, but he always tells me, “Don’t work like a donkey like me. Be a secretary and work in a nice office with air-conditioning.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I realize that I have to leave for work in four short hours. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Starting tomorrow, I want you to work in the house,” he said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are in a crater, the English are coming down obliquely, they are turning our flank and working in behind us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The thing is that these jokers usually work in pairs." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. It is work in the tea plantations of Ceylon.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There in the corner, worked in faded thread, initials had magically appeared on the fraying hem: M-T-L- Suddenly, Mrs. Weidenbach appeared, gripping the preacher’s stovepipe hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting in the backyard with my drawing pad in my lap while Mom works in the garden, padding its perimeter with bark chips and seaweed. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two of them worked in the big machine shop across from the creek down by the Big Store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

All the Dutch men who either fought or were mobilized in 1940 have been called up to work in prisoner-of-war camps. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

If there’s no one else working in the building or in the neighborhood, you can hear every single step in the private office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He uses it to rent a place to live and work in, a room and an alcove, with bright light from a large southern-facing window. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A cook was at work in the kitchen, where the breakfast table was piled with junk mail, pill bottles, and tissue packets. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He worked in the sabotage division of the Abwehr, and he had hatched a plot against America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“I guess you work in those towers, in one of those cubicles. Cubicleville.” Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Rodin was known to MI6, the Soviets assigned Blake a new KGB contact, Sergei Kondrachev, who worked in the Soviet embassy in London as a junior official in charge of cultural events. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

What this research showed, though, is that the process works in the opposite direction as well. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“This particular design will only work in one place. My ma’s garden.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I used to work in a store like that.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every student at the Academy spent several hours each day working in the kitchens or the library, cleaning the practice hall or sweeping the corridors. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The children who had played at selling each other might already be working in the fields now. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker figured that since I was leaving early, I should do the whole day’s work in the morning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Now James Garfield would reward him for his hard work in the campaign: The advice Guiteau provided. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Determined not to allow the Vietnamese domino to topple, American agents worked in secret to prevent elections in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Armpit’s father worked in the daytime as a meter reader for the electric company. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I work in a big accounting firm, doing a lot of standard work. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

I carried the note pad in my shirt pocket and, while I worked in the fields, memorized the information I had written in it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“No harder than I worked in England,” she says. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Monod and Jacob had compared notes and found, to their astonishment, that both were working on two aspects of the same general problem, and they had combined some parts of their work in the 1950s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

To think of the magic he could have worked in her room with his voice, a voice that gave a different flavor to every word, made every sentence a melody! Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is a girls’ camp for those who are considered too weak to work in the rice fields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re both working in the hospital tonight, though, so there’s no way they can miss the drill. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When she was sixteen she had fought vigorously with her mother, for Victoria had taken it into her head that she would work in the Seventh Magpie as a pot-maid. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is trying to make the best of it because he wants to work in the church, but he thinks the classes are dumb; he must study things he doesn’t need. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The day was cold “but clear, bright and beautiful, a splendid day to live and work in.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Gitl had been working in the sorting shed, where mountains of clothes and shoes, mounds of books and toys and household goods from the suitcases and bags were divided up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I can gather, he worked in her office, was married, and had children, but I probably still have dozens and dozens of emails to get through. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Barrel-maker John Flynn was also working in the building and had just stepped out on the platform for a breath of air when he was startled by a tremendous noise behind him. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Muscles and veins ripple his forearm, like the arm of someone who works in fields all day. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fathers liked Crane because there was steady work in the oil field. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dog barked again as the two began work in silence. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

A nurse who used to work in the hospital before it was bombed has made up camp beds for us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Faget put Allen’s insight to work in the design of the Mercury space capsule, six feet wide and nearly eleven feet long, weighing three thousand pounds. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I can tell him I’ll be working in a few weeks delivering telegrams and getting big tips at the post office and ready to pay my own way. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

That Monday at after-school Rose and me worked in quiet. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He, Ranofer, was to be allowed to work in gold, to learn a bit, to practice, to fashion a leaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Later that year came the award ceremony for the Comstock Prize, given every five years by the National Academy of Sciences for outstanding work in physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Bueno. Perhaps the motel can use her. This boy can work in here with the dishwashing machine. Have you told him yet what he must pay?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

At first blush it didn’t seem to make sense to Joe that a kid like Day would have any reason to work in a place as dirty and dangerous as the coulee. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He had been working in a tidal pattern so long that he could feel a tide change in his sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time Scooter told us about the day they worked in a carnival sideshow, with Ollie as the “World’s Biggest Sea Worm!” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Since graduating from college, he has worked in education and now serves as dean at a prestigious high school outside Philadelphia. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She struggles through the difficult pregnancy, working in a refrigerated fish factory, packing and weighing salmon and catfish all day. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the evening, we worked in the kitchen, a group of almost grown young women talking and laughing with their Mamá, cheerful and deliriously happy. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They worked in silence for a long time. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Gassed in France and back to Limerick to work in the gas works. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But having the independence of mind and the strength of personality to defend your work in front of the most incisive aeronautical minds in the world—that’s what got you noticed. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I have to go—the phone won’t work in the elevator.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Odile had been very shocked when Max introduced me to her on my first day in Cambridge and afterwards had told Francis that a bald American was coming to work in the lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Or consider the fate of the Mexicans who immigrated to California between 1900 and the end of the 1920s to work in the fields of the big fruit and vegetable growers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We were working in two-man teams—one man on guard while the other slept, switching off every two hours—and 1 remember it was still dark when Kiowa shook me awake for the final watch. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sought work in a field where he might be successful and took a job as a draftsman with the architectural firm of Loring & Jenney. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Wes’s mother, Mary, works in medical technology, specializing in elder care. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And, he said, he could get my mother a job working in a poultry processing factory. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

One spring morning I was at work in my tent repairing equipment, patching my clothes, and studying maps when a voice said, “General, may I visit you in your tent, please?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t you rest better up on your bed or something? I’m—I’m going to be working in here. Making a lot of noise.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He spent most of the day in a space suit, working in his hot lab, putting together his tests. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They work in silence for a while, and then Frank stops and tips his white cap back. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They reported to work in vast factories that had appeared almost overnight—at least they seemed to be factories, but there was “no receiving dock and no loading dock,” Parkins reported. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This time last year, when she was back in Beaufort with her folks, she wouldn’t have given a second thought to a slave going to work in the rice fields. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

So hard that roughly two thousand feet of steel disappeared every day from the bit ends of all the jackhammers and pneumatic drills at work in the canyon. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Szilard and Fermi, working in separate labs at Columbia University, came up with a figure closer to 2.0—still a large quantity under the circumstances. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

With Geak toddling after us, Chou and I and the other children work in the gardens and do menial labor in the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, Lizzie had gotten them because she worked in the storeroom office. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

"Not my line o' work in the castle, Smudge." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

One study indicates that as late as 1970, more than 70 percent of all blacks working in metropolitan areas held blue-collar jobs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Talking about how well I was doing in class and working in the office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was so prosperous a smith that he did not live and work in the same place. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what I could gather, Mr. Winterbottom worked in an office, creating road maps. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Mark’s mom took the call and then told them both about how the police had found nothing but an empty office and some ladies working in the kitchen. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She would work in the garden and kitchen—she would work day and night to make them like her! A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I usually have to worry only about myself, but when you work in a system, you are responsible for everyone's safety. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each morning, I put on a straw hat and rough gloves and worked in the garden for two hours. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took Sam a week to fix the roof, because he could only work in the afternoons, after school let out and before night classes began. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Raskin did not consider his later work in computer design at Apple to be a departure from music. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

For a year and a half, I went to classes in the morning and worked in the afternoons and evenings until midnight. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s mother earned an online degree after her children got older and now works in accounting. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I made up every scrap of work in every class, I got a tutor, I studied like a monk... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he got work in a factoria, and every month, he sent home money. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter quoted the section of the fellowship award stating that the fellowship was valid only for work in the designated institution. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I already told you I’m not working in a hardware store,” Dad says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

That’s how numbers work in rugby: a player doesn’t pick his number,his position on the team determines that, and it’s something that never gets messed with. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Of Marina Raskova’s original three regiments, there were men now flying and working in both the 586th Regiment and the 125th Guards, and those units were now led by men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We kept working in silence for a while. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, my mom was working in the clinic and Jim, the Australian doctor, said, “Your father’s coming to visit.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Two others were in the haberdashery business, one had a graphic design studio, another made feather hats, and another worked in the finance department at Tishman Realty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It looked like only dead-end jobs out there for someone like him, working in a gas station or on the assembly line at a nearby tire factory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And he went into a ten-minute diatribe about the dangers of doing hot work in a space suit, especially with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon after, a friend emailed Kathy a document that seemed to shed light on the state of mind of the soldiers and law-enforcement agencies working in New Orleans at the time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Throughout his long career in the United States and Europe, Welles worked in stage, radio, film, and television. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I almost said, “We work in this heat because we have to work. We don’t have no choices about it.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Exhausted, fatigued from sleepless nights, from stressful work in the freezing cold, they somehow at once pulled themselves up.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All the other workers have spent their lives working in fields, and their hands move quickly, automatically. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man in the red vest who worked in the Jumping Frog Lounge came out, yawned, and remarked that he might as well close for the night. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Chicago and Petersburg, Virginia. I got me a cousin in Petersburg. He work in a library down there.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mark’s brain worked in weird, creative ways. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like just about all the men and even some of the boys from school, he worked in the oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Teller saw the lab as a reflection of his own brimming self-esteem—as a huge laboratory staffed with name physicists working in lockstep according to his handcrafted research strategy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In the packet was the name and address of a stockbroker who worked in Boston and lived in Sharon, Massachusetts. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was more than Joe’s chosen brother, he was his best friend, and they hunted through and worked in most of Vesper County. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The months went by and fortunately for them there was very little abdominal swelling, and she worked in pain and out of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’m remembering how she used to frown at me when I begged her to take me to work in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“True, but don’t forget that real agents always work in pairs.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

By a strange quirk of fate, this ambitious choral composer found himself working in the one building in the world which, by dint of its architecture, was responsible for a new style of choral music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The men worked in silence now, like moles deep in the earth. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the work in the post office ended, I was assigned by the relief system as an orderly to a medical research institute in one of the largest and wealthiest hospitals in Chicago. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Irishmen working in England send their telegram money orders on Friday nights and all day Saturday and that’s when we get the good tips.The minute we deliver one batch we’re out with another. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She’d been planning to work in her flower beds, the way she usually did to pass time between orphans, but she was currently facing a conundrum. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s husband, Henry, encouraged his wife and her friend Susan B. Anthony to lead work in support of the amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“What everybody does. Went to school, high school, college, worked in the summers.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet the very next night, Hauptmann’s manner will be frighteningly closed; he invites no questions and supervises Werner’s work in silence. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jones leads a life that Ashoke’s mother would consider humiliating: eating alone, driving herself to work in snow and sleet, seeing her children and grandchildren, at most, three or four times a year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in the Library of Alexandria in the second century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think it’s time to give up,” I said as Mom and I worked in the garden, weeding and watering. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He towered over her, a great beast of a man, as big as Yai but with an even thicker neck and arms that were muscular and brown from working in the sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He was just working in the factory and they came and took him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We had started meeting a few months back to discuss issues that came up in the gospel and to do Christ’s work in the bohios and barrios. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie sat cross-legged across the room, working in the glow of an oil lamp. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She pictures her son working in a crisp shirt and shiny shoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Surely monks sleeping in other cells, their bodies exhausted from work in the fields and hours of prayers, heard me and lay awake wondering. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On business trips, Jack was sometimes able to see Moniek, who moved to the United States in 1950, settled in New York State, and worked in the construction business. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t earn enough working in Kilvin’s shop to pay back Devi at the end of the month, let alone make enough for tuition too. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

That’s more people than work in coal, oil, and natural gas combined. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He usually does missionary work in other countries during the summer, but in May he twisted his ankle during a Spartan Race, so he’s keeping busy teaching us chemistry. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

They cleaned his well, and more than a dozen offered a day’s work in the fields whenever they had time to spare it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I organized the men into different crews, and after they had finished working in the fields we set to work on restoring the main house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perhaps the only time during my work in corrections when being small and light was an advantage; aside from a little pain in my neck, I didn’t get hurt. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nicknamed Muck House by the people who worked in it, she remarked. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Some of these folks have come a long way, like Mr. Daryl, who’s been clean for six years and works in construction now. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was painful for him to go to work in an office when we moved. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Poppy worked in the Coalwood mine until 1943, when a runaway mine car cut off both his legs at the hip. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had just embarked upon the immensely difficult topic of human Transfiguration; working in front of mirrors, they were supposed to be changing the color of their own eyebrows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This God does not work in especially mysterious ways. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I savored the thought of helping Roberto clean Main Street School and not having to work in the fields any longer after school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When we fled from Lithuania she rushed me to Insterburg and, through a friend, arranged for me to work in the hospital. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The film kept talking about growth spurts and acne problems caused by working in the forges, and proper flipper hygiene, and finally it was over. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We talked about the Foundation of Hope Ministries, and he asked if I saw myself doing more humanitarian work in the future. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Finally he said, “You know, Stella, when I was eleven, I had to quit school. Grandaddy needed me to work in the fields.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

After three months of housework, she asked Stewart, her temporary master, if she could work in the woods with the men. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in that same store his entire life, and he always lived in this same house. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The whole family set to work in clearing up the broken pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

They walked to the gate and found the gold sign worked in its grille. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Then tell me. I’ve got to go to work in a few minutes.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning early, every evening until it was too dark to see, Daddy worked in his garden or among the vines. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

That is Creole for Partners in Health, an organization Farmer and some supporters had created in Boston to raise funds for his work in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He was working in his room at Princeton University when in burst a young physics teacher named Bob Wilson. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white racist won’t tell you that it also works in reverse. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy—an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went back to Bozeman and worked in construction and as a forest services firefighter for a year and a half. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The guards immediately saw this and threatened us, but we would not increase our pace, and we continued this go-slow strategy for as long as we worked in the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that was left of her own blood was Hodor, the simpleminded giant who worked in the stables, but Old Nan just lived on and on, doing her needlework and telling her stories. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Spines and fins were severed in the morning before the awakening of the town; claws and pincers worked in mute terror at the soundless approach of serrated teeth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather did missionary work in Iceland. I don’t think people in Iceland call out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’And how did you get yellow paint on the tip of your ear? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

His life at Down informed his work in many ways. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want to work in a hatchery all his life. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Shin heard from other repairmen that the foreman’s wife, while out working in the woods, had stumbled upon a secret execution in a mountain gorge. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We’d sit in the window—she was at work in London so there was no danger of her walking past and noticing us. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash went about her work in silence as Ana upbraided her about her poor cooking skills, the invisible layer of dust on the dining room table, the unevenness of her stitching on their stockings. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After graduating from Princeton, Bernard worked in banking before pursuing his law degree. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Workers enriched the soil with one thousand carloads of manure shipped from the Union Stock Yards and another two thousand collected from the horses working in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Jaime arrived at the end of the party because he had stayed late working in the clinic for the poor where he was undergoing his first training as a medical student. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The stench was so disgusting that when we returned home from work in the fields, we couldn’t hold down a single bite,” recalled one man. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d steal it from an open room—that always seemed to work in the movies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“So, we asked you to come in today because obviously this has been a rough year for Sparrow, and she’s had a lot of trouble getting her work in.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We asked courts to recognize that such a judgment cannot rationally be passed on children below a certain age because they are unfinished products, human works in progress. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Bribery or violence was my choice if I dealt with that fisherman still at work in his boat in the inner dock: a faulty engine seemed not worth either. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to teaching, König worked in a laboratory in Berlin, where he was busy creating new sabotage equipment. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I had one very practical reason never to work in the daytime, aside from my inclinations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I wasn’t working in the barn, I worked in the fields. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“I can't just sit out a year and work in some diner.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Three were scientists checking the efficacy of sprays; 8 worked in greenhouses; 5 were farm workers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her father died that day, while Nancy worked in the hot suite. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can’t I just swim and work in my garden this summer?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Harper, who worked in the B-block yard, was the main victim by most accounts, but other versions of the incident made him out to be a hapless error-maker. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember what he said on the first day, about working in the control room, where the Dauntless monitor the city’s security. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She went on to work in government as a member of the Russian legislature and deputy chair of the Committee on Defense. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“He was a great man. I’ve got allergies, that’s all. Look at my daddy. Look at yours too. They worked in the mine all their life, and they never had any problems with their lungs.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Caesar worked in the machine factory outside town and his changing schedule rarely overlapped with hers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The people who worked in the store stared at the Tillermans suspiciously, and Dicey hurried them out. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It just slipped my mind—I had a lot of pickups today A lot of work in the city. I’ll get it tomorrow, all right?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Drawings of gowns were tacked to a corkboard, and racks held examples of work in various stages of completion. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Look, I have to go to bed. I've got work in the morning. I love you, okay? Let me know when you're coming home.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He's good-looking, he's strong enough to handle the work in the mines, and he can hunt. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I worked in a factory, at a fast-food restaurant, and at a parcel shipping center. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Patterson explained how his father and three hundred other quarrymen went on strike days before the stock market crash in 1929, never to return to work in the pits again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They play sports on the same team, or work in the same building. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Why would any Indian risk going off to work in sugar? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s stupid even thinking about it. As stupid as wanting to work in that office up there. We’re all way beyond that now.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the clerks could work in this automatic manner. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twin studies had originated in Francis Galton’s work in the 1890s. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Farmers must always keep the future in mind and must work in its service. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss learned more about Javier and Eugenia, learned about when they’d come to the States, how long she’d worked in a laundromat before getting a better job at a beauty supply store. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Caleb was a cabinetmaker and worked in a shop making kitchens. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remember Guillermo saying the cracks and breaks were the best and most interesting parts of the work in my portfolio. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

So you work in a record store while you study to become a teacher? If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How hard it had been to write of Papá’s death, far harder than to tell Aunt Consuelo that she and Salvador expected to find work in Indio. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He was a sallow young man who worked in one of the mills. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Viola worked in electronics, and she and her husband, Frank, had bought a house in Queens. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was dfferent, a workingman who had never been late for work in the thirty years that he worked for the New York City Housing Authority, and he was a good, good man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a walking object lesson about how dangerous work in the Fishery could be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the master quarryman was sent to supervise fifty apprentice stone cutters and two hundred and fifty laborers who would work in the Somme valley, an area known for its limestone. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

And it made him almost too warm, accustomed as he was to hard work in his sparse burlap tunic. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“She works in the garden,” I repeated softly; perspiration stood on my brow. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that kept me and Ma from losing our minds was working in the fields. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It doesn't change anything for me; I still have to work in the shop with Roza. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“And what about working in Pennsylvania? Where your wife and kids live?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

This half-knowledge works in me like a kind of possession, and for a few minutes I’m taken over by it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She listened, her ears learning how to work in this new world, and she could hear the sounds of birds chirping and trilling, and this was somehow comforting. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had received a B for his semester’s work in psychology because he had messed up some math equations on the final examination. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

On the eighth day Father had to return to work in Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

For the next twenty-odd years, he did further analytic work in Washington. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But here even Victoria was surprised, for her father agreed with her mother, saying that working in the bar at the Seventh Magpie was something that a well-brought-up young lady would not do. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan was working in the fields, and I sent one of the boys to call him in. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still didn’t want to go back out on the water, but I wasn’t old enough to work in the hardware store, or down at the 7-Eleven. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

At night, people are home in bed, which makes them an awful lot easier to reach than if they are off on errands or working in the fields. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Nancy spent most of the day working in the bakery. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Whenever she had a chance, she slipped outdoors to work in the vegetable garden or to tend to the animals with her father. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that Mr. Muhammad, convalescing, could no longer work the daily long hours he had previously worked in Chicago, he was now more than ever burdened with heavy decision-making and administrative duties. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So on the first day I work in the office, I ask Miss Carol, the secretary, about Miss Saunders. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Justice remembered that he had a friend in Queenstown named Sidney Nxu who was working in the office of a white attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is why that Squirrel Squad video game never worked in the motel game room.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Goodness knows what you’re up to when we leave you here. You need to see something of society if you’re ever going to work in any other household. Just be sure to hold your tongue.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she forced me to work in her bakery every day after school for twenty-five cents an hour. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, Elizabeth went outside and greeted her neighbor, the Reverend Simon Hosack, who was working in his garden. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every now and then, Bertha looked dreamily over at Gus like he was a movie star and not some scraggly haired man who worked in a mattress factory over in Cooperville. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

After a long time, she put the work in her basket, covered it with a cloth, and stood up from her chair, knees creaking. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I did arithmetic at a mature level because of our work in the Store, and we read well because in Stamps there wasn’t anything else to do. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, It’s amazing how life works in mysterious ways. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Social epidemics work in exactly the same way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a stick broken from a nearby willow she searched through the reedy water, poking around and around the spot where the bag had gone down, working in bigger and bigger circles. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako had known two former college girls, previously rich, who’d gone to work in a canning factory just to get out of the camps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He says no and gives me some lame excuse, like Faith works in another office on the other days of the week. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Look, Princess Peach, this isn’t how things work in the championships.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I heard about kids working in private offices in the neighborhood or at one of the insurance companies on 23rd Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That’s so cool that you get to work in the kitchen at the prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And I’m really proud of your work in the ReStore program. I’d love to have you be a peer mentor next year; you and Angel.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Edward was a man who worked in the laboratory with Dr. Kylmer and me. But I didn’t think I had mentioned his name.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Even as the work in the summer heat started to warm her, Ophie could have sworn she felt a chill in the air. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“But you moved everything. Can’t you work in here without changing everything? You even took down her records. Why would you do that?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They were peasants who had also been expelled from their hacienda, arriving as humbly as their ancestors of the preceding century to beg the patron to give them work in the coming harvest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But their ignorance also worked in our favor: it allowed us to invent code names for people we wanted to talk about and pretend that we were referring to family members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an instinct at work in me, a learned intuition. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To have any chance of leaving Riverbank, they would need powerful allies—and they would have to work in absolute secrecy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“All men have to go to the cities to work in the mines so that people back here can survive.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead of returning to the Department of the South, she worked in the Contraband Hospital at Fortress Monroe. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Moshe did the same, working in a furrier’s shop outside the camp. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile at meets, my hard work in the gym was starting to pay off. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So I was glad when I found her out back and she said she’d have me working in the garden that day, although calling it a garden required a whole lot of imagination. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

They work in secret and seldom cooperate with journalists. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He could turn out such work in short order.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Pattillo, you don’t like the idea of working in Oklahoma, do you?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would have been hard to persuade Jumpsteady to work in the daytime if a millionaire had gone out for lunch and left his front door wide open. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together they worked in a stale little infirmary where Mr. Kapasi’s smartly tailored clothes clung to him in the heat, in spite of the blackened blades of a ceiling fan churning over their heads. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She obtained her bachelor’s degree at Columbia in 2003 and began graduate work in cybernetics. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

As a teenager Bloom had worked in De Young’s Alcazar Theater and worked his way up to become its treasurer at age nineteen. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The porter took a friend with him, a machine-gunner on leave who worked in a tailor shop, and was sure that between them they could hold a place. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Kay took him to work in the kitchen, and gave him a nickname: ‘Pretty Hands.’ The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was absolutely necessary, he said, that the pigs, who were the brains of the farm, should have a quiet place to work in. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had not seen Osha. since they'd taken her captive in the wolfs- wood, though he knew she'd been set to working in the kitchens. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Keeping up with Paul as he worked in the clinic required patience and stamina on her part. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when she couldn’t sleep, she got up and worked in the middle of the night. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

After my father’s death my brother abandoned his schooling and began to work in the jute mill he would eventually manage, in order to keep the household running. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Whenever I met my classmates they would tell me about the jobs they had found, how some of them had left town to work in summer resorts in the North. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but we figured if you were here early, we could work in your classroom and plan some things for our club. Is that okay?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The man who worked in it lived in a house at one end and he used to dig or cut great quantities of vegetables, put them into a hrududu and drive them away. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music, above all, works in sound and time. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Dedicated her life so fully, in fact, that when my dad’s work in Congo ended and he had to go back to the States, she’d stayed on and they’d divorced. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

MY LIFE, during the Defiance Campaign, ran on two separate tracks: my work in the struggle and my livelihood as an attorney. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaede was working in the cliff garden when she received the summons. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The younger Halley, however, straddled the transition and produced some of his best work in the new century, after the Newtonian revolution. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

In other places, just when I thought I might be hired, I was told to first obtain a permit allowing me to work in a white neighbourhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year later Farmer published an essay about his work in Haiti, “The Anthropology Within,”in a Harvard Medical School publication, and the anonymous donor suddenly surfaced. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Heinck had lived in America for several years, working in various American factories before returning to Germany. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Bertus is not the only one being forced to work in Germany. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

De la O was born in Texas, part of a large Mexican American family making a living working in the fields. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“I not ask to work in no cane field,” I say. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother said he was working in a chrome mine in Zimbabwe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cilia did not look at the work in her idle fingers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said he worked in a restaurant, but she can’t remember which one. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The office was full of a rush of work,” Starrett said, “but the spirit of the place was delightfully free and easy and human in comparison with other offices I had worked in.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I finished talking about my desire to work in international law and how a job at this firm would be the perfect gateway into that field. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“And don’t tell me God works in mysterious ways,” Yossarian continued, hurtling on over her objection. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

To work in the Box of a max was—well, the maximum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As some men worked in the hold, others broke open the chests and flung the tea into the harbor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And how will you pay for school? Will you work in the school cafeteria? That won’t even pay for your books. Then you will realize what you’ve done.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Leading up to the hearing, Michael and I had been followed several times while doing investigative work in Monroe County. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Albert Einstein, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk, showed the physics world that nature worked in quanta rather than in smooth increments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To get away from the violence, Poppy moved his family first to Harlan County, Kentucky, and then, when battles erupted there, to McDowell County, where he went to work in the Gary mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Lisa, who worked in the cottage, steered me into the staff bathroom and poured water over my face to flush out the chemical. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There was a special number for each type of work in The United States Marine Corps Manual of Military Occupational Specialties. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not too keen on my plans to work in the theater, which is no surprise. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They work in the morning and don’t after lunch.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may be a vast chapter in the development of art here that is largely lost to us simply because Neolithic artists worked in wood or other impermanent materials. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy worked in a rubber factory and was very wild as far as men were concerned. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would have been working in the office and answering the phone all that morning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It explained why her parents had brought her to New York, so that the doctors could work in secret. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We lived in a little shotgun house, one room for the three of us, worked in the oil business, and then started my own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, they worked in such reckless haste that they often failed to note that a new discovery was something already known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think your Papa can work in the fields any more,” she said, rubbing her hands on her apron. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Fear had worked in our favor until a new mayor began promoting the city as a family theme park. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My mother sends money she earns working in the tomato fields to Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I going to be able to enjoy chicken so soon after working in the processing shed and gut-composting pile? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t little Johnny never say nothing,” asked Praying Mother Washington, “to make you think the Lord was working in his heart?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

As Karl Johnson explained to me, “I’ve seen young physicians run from these hemorrhagic viruses, literally. They’re unable to work in the middle of an outbreak. They refuse to get off the plane.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she likes watching the reaction when she says she works in the city. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps his lips sealed as he chews, his jaw working in an exaggerated motion. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He even start writing his own book, bout being a colored man living and working in Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They settled to work in the smallest bedroom, which was kept, according to Griphook’s preference, in semidarkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But she was thrilled about the chance to go work in the big house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” Angela said, “I dreamt about the black man who works in the restaurant near the post office. Him and my father.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mothers of these children worked in the fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m very sorry about your daughter. Another of my sexers lost a child once, and he didn’t wreck my car. You won’t be returning to work in my hatchery.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed at a doctor’s house in Johannesburg, sleeping in the servants’ quarters at night, and working in the doctor’s study during the day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A girl should not be idle, for then the devil may do his work in you,” my father said to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Stop all that. Anyway that’s not how it works in real families. You don’t know anything about it.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Coach arrives he starts talking about what worked in the game and what we need to improve, just like he always does. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet now I felt best when I was out there alone, working in the garden or running the tractor. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet from morning till night we work in the scorching sun, growing food for the army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But Grandpa, what sort of people are they that work in there?” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Customers at the various bars his father worked in were quick to buy him beer. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am not supposed to do work in this shop unless your father tells me to. Does he know you are up here?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Lest the kind-hearted mother feed Lucia during his absence, the father left no money in the house when he went to work in the mornings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy’s girlfriend, or ex-girlfriend, sometimes eats lunch here. She works in the dentist's office on Stocker—in the building where Daddy has his office.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“Numbers mean something, too. Not just math, Lanesha. Three means life. Eight means power. Four means hard work in this here world. The material world. Put them together and they can mean something else.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Sí, there is Rafael. He works in the automobile tire store next to Lucky’s garage. He has no sweetheart now.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I don’t climb out my bedroom window and down the drainpipe like Judy; I go to school and work in the store and help with dinner and do my homework and go to bed. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The only Europeans who knew tea were those few who worked in India, China, or Japan. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The two drugs working in me had my head going in opposite directions at the same time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cholly found work in the steel mills right away, and Pauline started keeping house. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure, Charlese. You may start working in the office as soon as you pay the fines for the three library books and two math books you lost last year.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a long time I thought I could live and work in Haiti, carving out a life with you, but now I understand that I can’t. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We worked in teams of two or three, and I knew something was different when Frankie insisted on going into the house alone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Employers openly discriminated against Irish and Jewish women with math degrees; the odds of a black woman encountering work in the field hovered near zero. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the night, she had done the same with the golden faranji, standing right beside him while he did furious work in a laboratory of spurting flames and shattered glass. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Generally he wore a gray business suit if he was working in his office, or a white lab coat if he was working with animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you think I’m telling tall tales, get chummy with some white cop who works in a Black Belt district and ask him for the lowdown. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I think he’ll be adding more pictures. It’s a, you know, what do you call it? A work in progress.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Only the human mind is designed to work in this way, programmed to drift away in the presence of locked-on information, straying from each point in a hunt for a better, different point. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She paused, then repeated proudly, “My uncle works in an office.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

That kind of genius status means that he gets a cushy job working in the science lab as a teacher’s assistant for his community service. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She spent much of the day sleeping in a kanga on her mother’s back as Generose worked in the apartment, cleaning or cooking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

But a few evenings later, when several of us were sitting around a fire in the farmhouse, Ruth began telling us about the sort of office she’d ideally work in, and I immediately recognised it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He don’t try to do whittling and nothing else together since he near whittled his little finger off that time whilst telling ’bout how hard he use to work in Kentucky. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“You can go now, and don’t you let me catch you doing this again. As long as I’m working in this house, this room is off-limits. You got that?” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My father’s brother, my uncle Katsuhisa, worked in a poultry hatchery in Georgia. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Every moment I work in field, I think of you,” the woman said to Papa, switching to English, weeping harder now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When that didn’t work, he became methodical, working in such a way that the wheel could not possibly escape him. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finished my work in the library, wondering all the while whether Margaret had gone to her husband about me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because chemists for so long worked in isolation, conventions were slow to emerge. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Met Bong,” I ask, “I have done nothing but work in the field and watch the older girls train.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were in Hollywood working in pictures and now you’re painting houses? You sure must have done something wrong!” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Colonel Cathcart and Lieutenant Colonel Korn lived and worked in the Group Headquarters building, as did all the members of the headquarters staff, with the exception of the chaplain. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The net effect was that for all his quiet humility the man’s wide-ranging knowledge and quiet eloquence commanded absolute respect, and never more than when he was at work in his shop, plying his craft. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After he didn’t make it in Nashville, they had moved back to North Carolina so he could work in the furniture mills. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before going to law school, he’d worked in Chicago for three years as a community organizer, earning $12,000 a year from a nonprofit that bound together a coalition of churches. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For the past two years, Kermit had been working in South America, where he was currently supervising the construction of bridges for the Anglo Brazilian Iron Company. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She must have been working in her greenhouse when she heard about us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matthew, after working in the fields all day, forced his wife against her will to get some rest while he sat by his daughter’s bedside at night. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Cheryl Moody is a public school girl who works in a dreary mall job to earn money for college. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Lucky ladies, having Joaquin for a brother. Yeah, he’s working in the pottery booth.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He’d worked in the army as an emergency room tech in Korea and at Fort Lewis in Washington. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Douglass came north to escape and find work in the shipyards; a big fellow in a sailor's suit who, like me, had taken another name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That depends on Suraya’s friend who works in the kitchen,” I respond, my thoughts elsewhere. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

My work in teaching him to read had finally paid off a few months earlier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she decided that with a broom in her hand, working in the yard, she would look as though she belonged on the place, certainly no one would suspect that she was a runaway. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest are going to work in warm comfortable offices and no one has a care in the world. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Groping for the right words, Lupita said shyly, “Not once did I write that you and Uncle Hermilio do not get along together or that you work in the fields.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They were works in progress, malleable, and could be set on the right path if the law behaved like a stem but loving parent rather than as an instrument of punishment. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She was going to work in a ten-cent store and she did not want to work there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

"What the hell, you trying to sabotage the company? That stuff wouldn't work in a million years. It's remover, concentrated remover! Don't you know the difference?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was Hailsham, maybe a few years before you lot. Apparently she’s working in this clothes shop right now. A really smart one.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in Indianapolis now, and he had promised Cara that she could come and visit him there—maybe at Thanksgiving or Christmas. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I slept in the barn, ate in the barn, worked in the barn. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I’m signed up to work in the kitchen, or help Miss Lavinia dress, or anything, for a year, and Isannah is thrown in for nothing—because she is so young and has a delicate stomach. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put the whole works in the toe of a stocking, pushed the wad into a rubber overshoe, and stood it with its fellow in the back of her closet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

We wake up before dawn to start working in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is being sent to work in Vincent’s old branch in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I learned that the majority of the slaves worked in the cotton fields from six in the morning until nine or ten at night with only a fifteen-minute break for a meal and water. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She worked in a large house—a mansion—outside Danville, for a family of what was then called gentlemen farmers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gets a job in the gas works in Coventry shoveling coal into the furnaces like Uncle Pa Keating, shoveling coal and waiting for the day he can go to America after me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The warden will be at work in the cell house. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed that what would work in the home would work in the factory, and what would work in the factory would work in the home. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is lonesome to work in the fields without you to talk to and to make me laugh sometimes. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I was at the Daily News, I watched the editors and reporters at work in the newsroom. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There are rumors,” my father said, his voice breaking, “that we are being taken somewhere in Hungary to work in the brick factories. It seems that here, we are too close to the front. . .” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wait a minute, he said—he had a new, fast probe test for Ebola virus that would work in just twelve hours. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he could learn much about me from the way I saw myself working in the world. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means if we work here, we work in it. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Claudia knew that hundreds of people who lived in her town worked in offices in New York City and could afford to pay full fare both ways every day. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too! I was bom on a farm. And now I work in the fields with my family.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when the people had finished their work in the fields, the birds flew down and ate as much grain as they could manage. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She has become too weak to work in the laundry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When she’s joined us, Beetee shoos us all back a bit so he can have room to work in the sand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Other than Sanjeev and an ex-boyfriend who she believed worked in a pottery studio in Brookfield, she knew no one in the state of Connecticut. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

You didn’t need to work in no stable to know what breeding is! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Vincent follows this proposal with a letter the next day, making sure that Theo understands that they are partners: “My studies and everything in the way of work in the studio is definitely your property.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Sugar work in Hawaii brought the same scene as took place in the Caribbean —the foreman on his horse, the gangs of workers harvesting the cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I think you will enjoy working in our laboratory complex.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s all coming together. Most people don’t pay attention to that kind of news, but working in the ethics office, I hear it all. I remember something about a daughter,” she says. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

There was a butcher who worked in the mouth of a narrow alley. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That means we run one team short since they work in twos.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and her maiden sister worked in the San Francisco city school system for over twenty years. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m on do my work in here,” I call out. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His passion is to preach to “those who work in the darkness, in the heart of the earth..., are very moved by the message of the gospel and also believe it.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Cook had worked in the scullery for the previous Mrs. Caruthers. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Next to me, Kim wipes his forehead and continues his work in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first Harriet worked in his house, doing the housework that she despised. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waffle day\\ The news was passed to the knot of officers outside the mess hall by one who worked in the kitchen. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many were there for passes and permits to enable them to live and work in urban areas, to marry or move to another ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it lives a certain woman who works in the chicken farm. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He squinted, willed his eyes to work in the growing darkness, wishing he had a flashlight. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She had to get herself assigned to work in a space suit in Level 4 areas. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that he went back to working in the stables and speaking broken English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be neat to work in an office, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“She helps with the babies now, but she used to work in the orphanage. Start with her. If anyone can answer your questions, she can.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

When I was little, she stopped acting and worked in a sports-equipment store. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe he’d end up working in Africa or an American inner city, he said, but Ophelia was betting it would be Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

So Wilson became a laboratory technician, then a transportation coordinator, working in a cubicle in a low-slung building in Astoria, Queens, overseeing fuel deliveries for the company’s fleet. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those blacks who worked in the Union Stock Yard had every reason to be cautious. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He hated his job and talked incessantly of leaving to work in the post office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do some very good work in my sleep.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I would have to go to work in the salt mines this time.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a warm night for early June, and since the AC in Satan's Hearse hadn't worked in this millennium, the windows were cracked open. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After the cyclone hit, many of the men and older boys, and even some of the girls, had left to find work in faraway cities. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Suffer through that racket or work in an oven. That fan doesn’t really cut it on a day like today.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I felt so guilty for working in Quito, leaving you alone with Papito and his temper.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the Voigt Empathy Test had been devised by the Pavlov Institute working in the Soviet Union. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Some of the most fascinating control work in European forests employs the forest red ant as an aggressive insect predator — a species which, unfortunately, does not occur in North America. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see how working in a mine can teach anything beyond how to use a pickax.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I got home from the hospital, Mama was working again at a button factory she had worked in before. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There was no mention in his bio that he worked in clay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I told you nine years ago you were becalmed, didn’t I? And you are. Your indenture’s almost over—but what can you do? Keep on working in a chandlery, like as not.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having always worked in the house, Ashley didn’t know any of that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmer’s involvement in Russia had started two years earlier, when he made a futile effort to convince the Soros Foundation to provide funds for PIH’s TB work in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Later on, he worked in Miriam's father's small brush-making business, which produced all kinds of brushes: bottle brushes, shoe brushes, and large brushes for scrubbing. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Fire me? Who else gone come out here and work in secret while you hang around the house drunk all day?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But there it was, working in their faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are simply mathematical constructs that make the mathematical operations in string theory work in the manner that they have to. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He was working in a pub or something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in the kitchen at Viola’s elbow, which I think she found more aggravating than usual, as she had to cook and teach me at the same time. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They worked in silence, side by side, for the rest of the afternoon. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She helped to mount shows of Vincent’s work in the Netherlands and Belgium, and then in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But his face was a wasteland, as if his best years had been spent working in a coal mine. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care. Pop worked in a tower.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The thought of little Tidbit sweating and working in the dangerous swampy water made Polly feel ill. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koffi had worked in the Night Zoo for eleven years—looking after its beasts in every condition, from torrid rainfall to scorching sunshine—but she’d never felt a heat quite like this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“They do not know that God works in mysterious ways.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

When we had finished the work in hand, he said to me:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He came to Brandeis after his work in the mental health field, just before the sixties began. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He works in a factory in Queens sealing video games in plastic. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps you want to become a veterinarian, work in a kennel, or work with horses. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

No way is Momma gonna let me not work in that office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the men of the village were not working in the fields, they clung together in groups at the adobe corners of houses and whispered to each other as we drove by. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another fact that doesn’t exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“The element of surprise has worked in my favor all night,” he said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Cilia bent her face over the work in her lap. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was late, and as always they were expected to work in the morning and needed sleep. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to work in the junkyard,” I said when he answered. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"You know," I said, "I once did some volunteer work in a hospital. Do you need any workers?" Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Five out of the six women in the photo worked in PARD. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The fear was that if the bomb failed, government support for all other work in the field would cease, and research into the atom’s benefits to society would go fallow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He worked in a listening post as an erfasser, or a radio monitor. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Apparently, wishing things into existence only works in fantasy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Those monks who refused were murdered or made to work in minefields. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked in town but weren’t too practical. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is a popular “Dear Jack” letter that works in much the same fundamentally poindess way: Dear Jack, I want a man who knows what love is all about. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

It works fast, and it works in many, many directions at once. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It's a dusty-pink color, subtle enough that it would work in their brightest rooms. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t think that being grounded also included working in the ground. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Boys and girls worked in offices doing clerical work. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had worked in the fields their whole lives, and now they were old. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though newly arrived Mexicans often work in industries that rely on cheap labor, like restaurants and construction, they rarely organize. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She works in the middle of us: feet flat on the floor, she leans forward in her chair, takes our green plastic tub full of fresh garlic on her lap, breaks up all the doves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d walk into a factory like the Zeiss works in Germany or the Pierce Arrow plant in this country and announce that he could speed up production by one-fourth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would anyone ever want him to work in a hospital? Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

While I waited for my father to return with Ultima I worked in the garden. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lost several fingers working in a prison factory and was now disabled as a result of his forced labor at Angola. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Dad worked in those labs, and when he tried to quit, they killed him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Everyone always tells me to work in an office, which shows they don’t know me at all. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When I lived and worked in the prison hospital—especially after I had become the X-ray technician—I was part of an emergency medical response team. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The old and the sick would find work in the fields. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doon thought they might fit across the boat somehow to make railings to brace yourself against, but he couldn’t get them to work in this way. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At least half of the girls working in the factory cannot read or write, so Jutta reads them the letters that come from boyfriends or brothers or fathers at the front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Amari wondered how she could explain the need to work in harmony with the natural world. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine them telling the Doctorita how I work in the fields, and the Doctorita assuming it’s a matter of time before I come begging for my job back. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She said that God works in mysterious ways, and it just so happened that she had inherited some land in Texas when Grandma died. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When your animal has been roused, work in all bad faith to provoke a border intrusion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all the grown-up Coalwood boys I knew had either joined the military services or gone to work in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Odessa was growing, the promise of good work in the oil field an irresistible lure. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recall once working in our courtyard on a sunny afternoon, while some men from the general section were working on the roof above me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s cousin works in La Victoria. He doesn’t want his name mentioned.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t suppose you girls ever did a decent day’s work in your lives.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was doing a hot necropsy in Level 4, perhaps the most dangerous work in a space suit. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her dialect deepened as she spoke, abandoning the smooth lyrics she had been trained to use when she worked in the houses of white men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

How could Hermione have a nervous breakdown—the generally preferred term for her friend who worked in the wireless—how could she choose silence and fear and sorrow in her children? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And when she really didn’t want to be disturbed, she worked in a windowless room in the basement. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it’s low-wage work in general that has the effect of making you feel like a pariah. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, and yet—work in so many ways becomes our lives. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working in the fields like everybody else, and stayed past picking time to live with a family twenty miles away from her own. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you let yourself see the truth? The teacher says he’s not capable of doing the work in a regular class.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Lafayette began his field work in Selma, he had been arrested during Freedom Rides and sit-ins at least ten times. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Groves talked it over with Oppenheimer and other scientists at Los Alamos, many of whom had studied and worked in Germany before the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There’s some devilry at work in the Shire,’ he said. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Merry napped and Mama worked in the flower shop, making a Thanksgiving arrangement for our dinner table. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Tou really must be top-notch working in a place like that. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My parents have been working in here, slowly organizing her things. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The memories of the hard work in the rice fields, her father’s careworn hands, the plain rice in the dinner bowls, and Ma’s sighs washed upon her like the splashes of water from the lake. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Here, too, came the beggars after their day’s work in the wealthy suburbs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“See this name. It’s her friend. They worked in the same office.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I could live and work in here if I go positive for Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “that spirit ain’t got to work in everybody the same, seems to me.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Hanako wondered how it worked in Japan: Did you just keep working until you died? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Vasudeva had taken over all the work at the ferry and Siddhartha, in order to be with his son, the work in the hut and the fields. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Kisevalter, a CIA agent who had worked in the Soviet bloc, managed to determine the Russian man's identity from clues in the doctored photograph. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Monday through Saturday my mom worked in her office and puttered around her garden dressed like a homeless person. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next day I sat in the kitchen with Viola and watched her punching down the bread dough, the cords working in her forearms. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

And I don’t know any of them, except the ones who work in this law office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He was late for work in the coffee shop. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time she knew better than to say that she'd sooner work in the stables. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I know I work in the absolutely worst cubicle with the most ancient computer, but that doesn’t mean I’m not qualified to at least assist you with this interview,” Delilah says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They worked in silence, daydreaming of various things. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, there are so many saints, it’s hard to remember them all. All doing God’s work in different ways.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“That could work in our favor,” Arnold said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Previous work in Adaurice’s lab had shown that crystalline A-form DNA fibers increase in length when they take up water and go over into the B form. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Being sent to work in rich homes, he wouldn’t be suspected when he sized up their loot and cased the joint,, just running around looking busy with a white coat on. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gloria had been working in the laundry of an indigo plantation when John Valentine met her. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“She works in the garden, sir,” I said, the words barely audible, and the word garden hardly coming out at all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, men were working in an open trench, up to their knees in muck—a common sight in the months to come. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd was working in and out of the stores like ants around spilled sugar. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold was working in a hospital lab in Philadelphia, with no access to valuable secrets and no interest in spying ever again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never know how hard I worked in my own time to avoid doing jobs like this.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

To the boys, he said, “Mr. Sharpe and Mr. Gitney will be working in the experimental chamber until later this evening. Tell the cook she need not prepare them anything. They wish no intrusion.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He gave permission for missionaries to do their work in the southernmost part of Sudan, and that is how my family became Christians. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michah works in the building across from the shop, doing odd jobs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

For sixth period, I worked in the attendance office, so I knew every one of your classes. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Her stepfather, Jacob Marrel, put her to work in his studio. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was young, working in the bar, not bothering with these women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mid-1930s, she spotted an article about the Friedmans in the Sunday paper, covering Elizebeth’s Coast Guard work in detail. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He must have been working in the kitchen this morning, as part of our agreement with the Amity. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back in Washington, D.C., the Public Allies founders had mustered a fledgling class of fifteen Allies who were working in various organizations around the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a town in Kansas. Nice place, bit of a work in progress, like most frontier towns. And I get the feeling you’re going to get to see it firsthand.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When we were finished, Aileen wanted to do some more work in the darkroom, a different photo project for another class, so I was on my own. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

And now she was in Paris frolicking with a man who worked in the wireless while Emily cared for her children. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe a dad who would go to work in a suit. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For a year he’d worked in a refugee camp with an international aid organization. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

She said since the time she worked in our office. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The deep antiquity of the Babylonian tradition is somewhat exaggerated, however: their most impressive work in mathematical astronomy dates after 300, roughly contemporaneous with developments in the Hellenistic world. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But now that Gale has gone to work in the coal mines—and I have nothing to do all day—I’ve taken over the job. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty or thirty thousand in the central city is more likely, according to Nicole Couture, a University of Chicago archaeologist who helped edit the definitive publication of Kolata's work in 2003. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He noticed, though, that Pocock was at work in the shop a great deal these days. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Robbie must’ve been there earlier to put some work in: An entire city had sprung up from the music swirling out of the skeleton woman’s guitar. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I knew how to sew beautifully now from my work in the tailor shop. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was always the chance she might be recognized because she had lived and worked in and around this area. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept me busy doing anything but working in the garden. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The way Lola tells it, they had relatives who found them farm jobs out in the Central Valley; then during off-seasons they worked in restaurants and hotels and department stores—cleaning, fixing, serving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

He’d tried, without success, to get a law passed to allow immigrant workers to get permits to work in the state. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Ivy’s right again. The Lord surely does work in mysterious ways.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I told him that I work in the salvage factory,” Max says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Did you know there are children who are forced to work in the rubbish heap? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They found short work at a sawmill in Bear, then an afternoon pulling stumps at Crossland, finally steady work in Goshen. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

GTE was a telecommunications giant that did a lot of work in the consumer market, as well as for the government, including the military. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“No, but I read all her pieces, and I know a fellow who works in the office where this paper is printed.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learn, in a couple of hours of scattered exchanges, that Melissa was a waitress before this job, that her husband works in construction and her children are grown. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My job was soon relegated to working in the pens, moving the sheep from one to the next to let them learn to recognize their lambs before it got more crowded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘I want a experienced mechanic to run this and keep the works in good shape,’ Patterson said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He and Lyra stayed with the wolves for a while, and then moved to Oxford to work in the kitchens of Jordan College. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Not the children who worked in the trash heap. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I knew that the black girls who worked in white homes stole food daily to supplement their scanty wages. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was talking to some of the others on my block, and one of them works in the Mess.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We can work in the Dauntless compound, drawing tattoos or making weapons or even fighting each other for entertainment. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

"He could work in a zoo," said Zigzag. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As recently as May 2008, one could find a brief introduction to the organization’s criminal justice work in the section entitled Legal Department. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It was obvious,” Teller said later, “that Oppenheimer did not want to support further weapons work in any way.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he’s the anxious type of guy that might work in such a quiet place on purpose. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who fought this war between America and the Soviet Union maneuvered in secret, often alone, working in the shadows of Berlin, Moscow, and Washington. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He told me about living and working in buildings constructed hundreds of years before the United States was even founded. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Each time I was over at the ranch, working in the bar, I would tune in to classical music. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked in the forests, felling trees, and so did she. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had worked in every corner of the earth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I'm going to spend a year in California, working in the café, working on my art, and saving up for school. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She and Koch collaborated on several screenplays, and she was finally given screen credit for her work in 1941. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

After college, he had taken a job in the Loop, working in the marketing department of a company that sold office equipment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I only suspect that he commutes to work in New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was talk that other unions might join the carpenters’ strike and bring all work in Jackson Park to a halt. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Winston, who worked in the mill with Mr. Spencer, added, “Now I know ’bout stingy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He tells me this at night when I work in the basement of the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next eight months he worked in Zizmo’s rum-running operation, observing its odd hours, getting up in the middle of the night and having dinner at dawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After inspection we would work in the courtyard hammering stones until noon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Set atop these odd beliefs and quirky traits, however, was the mind of a supreme genius–though even when working in conventional channels he often showed a tendency to peculiarity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then they expected me to stay on and keep working in the nailery, keep letting them beat me when they felt like it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“It is twenty-four by seven. You work in the day, and then the night, and then the next morning.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

For the next decade, Ogden and Kira enjoyed a peaceful, happy existence, living and working in relative seclusion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She told him that they were going to have to wake up early so that they could work in the cornfield before it got too hot. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Come tomorrow at daybreak, then. Three days it took me to make that box, so you will give me nine days’ work in return. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I will not work in a house in which such things can occur.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The first real work in Jackson Park began on February 11, when fifty Italian immigrants employed by McArthur Brothers, a Chicago company, began digging a drainage ditch. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

My first job was carrying lunches to the men who worked in the roundhouse, for which I received twenty-five cents a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

You work in a store, you notice if something is missing. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked in finance, for a company called Cantor Fitzgerald, and her dad was a math teacher, so he was interviewing at schools in the area. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I skipped breakfast and went to work in a daze. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Pearl works in her flower bed across the street with a little help from Fo’ty Ounce. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"That's him, that's the partner. Didn't I tell you he was around here somewhere? They always work in pairs. It's the oldest trick in the book." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her dad had been beheaded by a sharp piece of slate when the tunnel he was working in collapsed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

They have left their children behind in Central America and Mexico to find work in el Norte, and they have found this place to sleep. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There may have been—there must have been—influences, both subtle and apparent, working in their several ways to induce her to do this; but the most obvious was the influence of Adèle Ratignolle. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

They felt so warm and strong, almost as wrinkled as a crumbly’s from days spent working in his wood shop. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“All you men work in the same area,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. My mother works in the big plant.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t work in the open, couldn’t let their faces be shown without drawing attention. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know why, man, but I got so hyped I started working harder than I’d ever worked in my entire life. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Perlstein,” the huge white man who worked in the Special Housing Unit, or the Box, with Sing Sing’s worst inmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Turn, dear," said Flora Baumbach, the dressmaker, who lived and worked in a smaller apartment on the second floor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite their father’s hideous accident, my father’s two brothers were also miners; Clarence worked in the Caretta mine across the mountain from Coalwood, and Emmett in mines around the county. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It worked and worked faster: I felt the pulses throb in my head and temples; but for nearly an hour it worked in chaos; and no result came of its efforts. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only groups that didn’t run numbers based on testing worked in the small Theoretical and Physical Research Division and the Stability Research Division—the “no-air” engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

All in preparation for the work they feel they were born for, missionary work in Africa. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They assured her that she could go back on night work in the summer if she wished. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The job itself was very boring—I worked in the filing department of the administrative building of the university. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

At least she was sure the jacket would work in here. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Doha recognized her as someone who also worked in the administrative offices. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Eurynome and the nurse together laid soft coverlets on the master’s bed, working in haste by torchlight. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I have work to do when I am home, the little time I am at home, she lets me have the quiet I need to work in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She worked in Spain during the Civil War as a foreign correspondent and got very badly treated by the Republicans, hence her pro-Fascist bent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe working in the garden will make some people smile. We have to try to get along the best we can,” my mom says, her voice uncharacteristically meek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, he faced our latest robot, a work in progress for this year’s competition. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

Clearly I’m here to stay awhile, so Mother Marie-Pierre has put me to work in the clinic. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seems to want to stay and watch me taste it but she hurries back to her work in the open kitchen preparing the bahn-chahn, the savory half dishes of vegetables and fish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been working in the beet fields all day. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I will be working in the school office, filing papers, stapling letters, that kind of stuff. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

As a result, political prisoners were recruited to work in the kitchen for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheehan and Smith worked in adjoining rooms, each reading documents and typing stories as fast as he could. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I could see her in her white uniform, working in the emergency room. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He spends what little money he has from working in the dining hall on transatlantic phone calls to Ruth twice a week. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In this way Duke was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his continuing work in the field of white supremacy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Ang Dorje became an able student and achieved the equivalent of an eighth-grade education before quitting to go back to work in the mountaineering and trekking industry. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see what the big deal is,” Citra said as they worked in their journals after dinner one evening. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was a Birthmother, and then she worked in Food Production for years, until she came here. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

I started to work in phases a little bit. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He worked in the district attorney’s office for two years and then opened a criminal practice of his own. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other potters seemed to slump as one into dejection, all but abandoning their work in favor of long, lugubrious visits to the wine shop, where they commiserated with one another. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The third — and perhaps most important — implication of these studies is that persuasion often works in ways that we do not appreciate. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me too. I live with my mom too. My dad’s working in Chicago.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Park wondered if his dad saw his mom in the street or from the road or working in a restaurant. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

One day, in 1849, when Harriet was working in the fields, near the edge of the road, a white woman wearing a faded sunbonnet went past, driving a wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fowler came to tell me I was to work in the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A striding huntsman had been worked in scarlet thread upon the breast of the fat boy's fur-trimmed surcoat. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The kind that other kids' dads, the ones with real jobs, would probably work in and make their families a lot of money. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

If there was one thing he understood about working in an emergency—surviving—it was that there was a large measure of luck involved. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The brush factory where I had worked in the ghetto had been relocated to Płaszów, and I was assigned to the twelve-hour night shift. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Brimming with new discoveries, and with Goedart’s work in her mind’s eye, she planned a new book. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Eric’s parents owned the bakery and worked in it as well. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The usual crowd was present—Singer, Blount, various men who worked in stores along the block and in the mills down on the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Those are much cheaper, and it could work in the short term if I can save up enough for lessons. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Arthur, who had come pattering through the stone corridors of his palace with a mind fixed on the work in front of him, stood waiting in the doorway without surprise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few eejits worked in the house, and he preferred not to think about them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man’s finger traces K, T, and A. “She always wanted to work in New York.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“This old woman of mine, she will look after you. Have you two ever worked in the fields before?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

For years, Angola—a slave plantation before the end of the Civil War—forced inmates to work in the fields picking cotton. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My mother didn’t want to work in a factory. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My sister Precious got a job working in the little corner store and had her second baby—Rockell. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have to keep working in class, although we don’t know if we are going to be together next year or not. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

On Monday morning, I retrieved Caitlin's last letter and brought it to school with me along with the money I had saved from working in Harare as a down payment. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Addison is this really serious-acting black woman with tight gray hair in a bun and these suits that make her look like she works in a bank or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them worked in the dark, feeling their way blindly, in cold so fierce their hands froze to the metal tools they held as they made sure their companions were able to fly. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

That day they were working in the prison shop, assembling bird feeders, which was barely more interesting than stamping out license plates. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“If you don't, you will never get work in this community again. I’ll see to it.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They were wearing bright-red space suits, complete with helmets and goggles—at least they looked like space suits—and they were working in complete silence. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

She sang when she was in the fields or working in the nearby woods. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Griggs, my friend who worked in the Capitol Street jewelry store, was stealing regularly and successfully. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can work in a factory,” I said, “just like Uncle Piet.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their own wealth and good fortune seemed to them as nothing compared with Psyche’s, and their envious anger so worked in them that they came finally to plotting how to ruin her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s always work in the kitchen. Just join me when he’s done,” she said to me and started from the room. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

"I always thought you liked working in the deli." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You think you ever going back, Miss Saunders? Back to working in a big company?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can’t work in a rice economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Dorothy Vaughan and her twelve fellow teachers were welcoming 301 education-hungry youngsters, urged along by parents who wanted more for their children than a life of work in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And I’m reminded, too, of the song that goes: My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumbermill there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a sore spot with every scriv who lasts more than two days working in the Archives,” she said. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab was starting to operate on an industrial scale, with graduate students working in shifts to keep the cyclotron running round the clock. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano José, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Miss Lucy worked in a room down the hallway from number 18’s common room. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I worked in a factory in Morristown, New Jersey, where my parents had moved. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One user, CaptainOverpants, claimed to work in Mr. Griswold’s hospital and said that Mr. Griswold was still in a coma and had been secretly moved to hospice care because he was dying. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

My dad wanted to have his own nursery once, but all he does is work in one. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Papá and Roberto often whistled their songs when we worked in the fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Take the business about Ruth’s office: Chrissie would never herself have talked about working in any office, never mind one like that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that summer, while Josiah and Tayo watched the cattle and the sheep camp, and Robert worked in the fields each day, Rocky read magazines and ran laps at the baseball diamond twice a day. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And she had tremendous problems of her own, working in the grueling factory by day and visiting my dad at night. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The word grapes reminded me of working in the vineyards for Mr. Sullivan in Fresno. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I had to go to work in order to get my ration. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Every weekend I come home with more money than I could make after a month of working in the fields for Mariana and Alfonso. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought only nice people were allowed to work in the castle.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

A few of them, like Old Rit, worked in or around the Big House. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On welcoming me aboard he told me that I was first to work in the bookkeeping section, sorting and filing checks according to some intricate accounting system. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He works in acquisitions. They bring back books from all over the world. They’re a different breed entirely.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t lie or steal. And he’s strong and eager. They have him working in the fields already. And soon he’ll go to school.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s an honor to meet you both. I’ve been following all your work in the papers, and...Well, it’s truly an honor.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He had leathery skin, curly white hair, and gnarled hands, like he’d spent a lifetime working in a machine shop. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Every year Roberto and I missed months of school to help Papá and Mamá work in the fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Though the work in the fields had grown easier for her, she still ached from it. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Amelia, Prudence, and Betsy worked in the spinning room on the third floor, so she supposed they did not know Diana. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every day I had to work in the garden. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

About 4.6 million people came from Mexico to work in agriculture. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I’ll end up working in a factory, marry some loser, and have his ugly children. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The millions of Africans taken to work in sugar were not taught to read and write. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But without exactly understanding why, his words soon began to work in me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Mama had helped Baachan once, but she hadn’t realized she was still working in the fields. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But Elizabeth and her family are at Hilly’s watching the game so Aibileen’s working in the house alone. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had worked in these woods that were so close to the road, swinging an ax just like a man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monday is a full day working in the city I pick up a lot of people and seem able to weave nicely through the traffic for once. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

They took up work in the stockyards, steel mills, and other industrial plants, accomplishing what they had been recruited to do. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At the time, Nichols was head of CBS Radio’s sound effects department and the only woman in the country working in the field. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I spent the intervening days catch- ing up on my sleep, working in Kilvin’s shop, and enjoying my new, luxurious accommodations at the Horse and Four. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Alfred L. Kroeber, the renowned Berkeley anthropologist, built upon Mooney's work in the 1930s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They’s still plenty light and you can work in the barn, and tonight I wants you to stay with Missy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

We didn’t always get the best teachers, and some of those who came resented being sent to work in what they thought of as a remote and backward place. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was uncomfortable to work in that narrow, poorly lit space, getting in each other’s way with our tools. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Allen, who had previously worked in juvenile detention for the Division for Youth, knew from crazy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometime in her teens a friend of Cecilia’s father who worked in the Victoria and Albert Museum had come to examine the vase and declared it sound. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If I might make a suggestion, you could send him to Hogwarts to work in the kitchen there. In that way, the other house-elves could keep an eye on him.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But you’re not finished. It’s a work in progress,” Muhammad says, not letting go. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

"Sometimes I work in the evenings, but you look like you need rest, so I'll ask the boss if I can take a holiday. Can we go home, Jay?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“I work in historical research,” her father said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“My husband works in a bakery,” she rattled on pleasantly, openly, as though she had known me for years. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came legislation that guaranteed equal pay for equal work in public employment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He volunteered for work in field hospitals even when he was exhausted from his regular duties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord does work in mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

After school he had worked in a factory, but the wages were too meager for him to live on his own. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are working in a more unusual clef, have your teacher check your answers. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

But when Rosalie was a kid she worked in the blueberry fields of northern Maine, and the damage to her shoulder is an occupational injury. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there it was, working in their faces. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Karolina offered to hook her up with the cousin who worked in the meat plant. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The economy in Cambodia is bad and Meng thinks maybe there will be work in Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was reported in i960 that only 2 per cent of all the economic entomologists in the country were then working in the field of biological controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hermione had stopped drawing attention to herself in class, keeping her head down and working in silence. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The women sniffed the bottles and knew that there were other ingredients at work in that liquor. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I really will be working in a lab, why not test the hopefully edible plants and water before we escape? The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eleven years before, he tells the townspeople, his mother left home in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, to work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She said she liked to keep herself to herself, which was uphill work in a town like that. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone working in the White House lived in the limbo of not knowing whether we’d get a second term. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

All week Beatrice and the chambermaid, Sara, had been at work in the kitchen, preparing pastries and sweetmeats for Lady Isobel’s feast on Yule night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t work in about 70 percent of people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

People were everywhere; some working in the quarry itself, others scattered about the hillside; the heftier among the men splitting boulders, the women and children chipping fragments off the larger stones. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked like somebody who worked in an office. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some artists reach a creative peak quite early in their careers and then “go dry,” while others, after a slow and unpromising start, may achieve astonishingly original work in middle age or even later. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They look like the older women you see working in the alley behind a restaurant, pouring out buckets of dirty dishwater. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Leave me now. Tend to your own preparations. You will have your spectacle. And I...I will work in darkness.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mama and Baachan would need two of the boxes for work in the fields the next day, so she stuffed the three boxes as full as possible and put them into a basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He’d thought it’d give them more time together, see how they worked in a partnership.She stood, and they walked to the front row together, Dimple’s back straight, her shoulders set. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I work in the house where they live. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He read before work in the mornings and every evening before bed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It worked out well, actually. When I was fired I had just started classes here, and they were able to give me some work in the offices. I’m studying to be a cameraman.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There is an almost ungovernable, biologic mechanism at work in scientific behavior at its best, and this should not be overlooked. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, well, Michael has a habit of talking too much. All I can tell you, Luke, is the Lord works in mysterious ways.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Or, what if a regular coffee drinker drives to work in the morning without his usual cup of caffeine? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the only thing that really works in these countries is the stick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often says that people just don’t understand how cleverness works in a child and that all these troublesome things I do are actually signs of strength and intelligence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He sure don’t like working in that store,” Elizabeth once observed to her aunt. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The same logic works in reverse; if you know how much light a train’s headlight emits, you can measure its apparent brightness and calculate the train’s distance from you. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The LEP had several undercover operatives stationed there, most of them working in the Snow White exhibit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Lucy volunteered us to work in data entry,” Windy whines. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would only wave from the door as he went off to work in the mornings. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for Mr. Schmitt’s cousin, a stocky redheaded young man with blotchy freckles, there was no one working in the store that day but Mr. Schmitt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reverend nodded, adding that Clarkebury students were required to do manual labor after school hours, and he would arrange for me to work in his garden. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke has no memory of who dialed 911, but says there were men working in a nearby mill, and he suspects that one of them called immediately after Shawn fell. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He used to work in the garden every weekend, kneeling on a green rubber pad, obsessively inspecting every leaf as if he were manicuring fingernails. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of spending my days underground, I was studying or working in a law office where the only physical activity was running errands or putting files in a cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And she works in the bargain and earns twenty dollars a week now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. de Klerk, for his part, suggested that the system of separate development had been conceived as a benign idea, but had not worked in practice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is an attorney now, working in an office in the Hancock building. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mom works in the mornings and then goes to Oklahoma University at night to get another master’s degree. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He looked at his hands carefully, as if he really cared about inspecting them, and his mouth worked in a strange, convulsive grimace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dell went to night classes and after three more years got a certification for adolescent counseling, and that put him on the path to work in education. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s two boys and a girl, and she works in the chemist part-time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We were hired to work in the house of a well-known businessman. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Every day, I heard about it—not because people were unhappy that he was here, but because the police presence in the neighborhoods they were working in was extreme. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He intends to arrange an exhibit of Vincent’s work in Paris in a few months. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Despite growing up around images of the Confederate South and working in the Deep South for many years, I was pretty shaken by the symbols. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kumalo was surprised by this, but quickly promised that the girl would never have to do any work in his household. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m glad we said it anyway,” her mother answered, eyeing the men working in the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to work in Lagos. I want to work in the university, and I want to live with him.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is heading north to find work in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“By order of the Department of the Dead, working in conjunction with the foremost representatives of Afterlife, I declare before the full moon that this month’s All-Souls Festival is now in session!” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He went to bed thoroughly exhausted and woke at dawn, stopping just long enough to eat a meager breakfast in the kitchen before riding off to supervise the work in the fields. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That prisoner slept on the same dormitory floor and worked in the factory as a garment cutter, a job that allowed him to accumulate scraps of fabric, which he traded for food and other goods. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Our social life suffered, sometimes because of my schedule, sometimes because mentally I just couldn’t handle certain kinds of Manhattan parties or dinner dates after a day of work in the prison. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was this that made me get to work in dead earnest. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m tired of working in the school office. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He knows these things because he once worked in insurance. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

She hoped so, but she sensed something besides Pluto at work in that storm...something dark, powerful, and not necessarily friendly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

One of them worked in the wine shop across from the hospital. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He stays inside, working in his asylum studio painting self-portraits and touching up older canvases. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One hundred and seven heat-conditioned Epsilon Senegalese were working in the foundry. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already his teacher was getting testy as more pupils vanished out of the classroom to go to work in the fields now that the weather had really and truly turned toward warm. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever Uncle talked about building an extra large room for Father to work in, Father always kept very quiet. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood took up Loomis’s proposal to work in the developing field of ultrasonics, which involved sound waves with frequencies inaudible to humans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Even without the fair he faced an intimidating portfolio of works in progress, chief among them the grounds of Biltmore, the Vanderbilt estate in North Carolina. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s responsible bodyguard William Crook had a more esteemed career, working in the White House for more than fifty years—a time that spanned the administrations of Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It just took sixty years to make his proposal work in practice, and then it worked only if one had one’s feet on solid ground. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

After that, she tried to work in earnest, and, therefore, she didn’t hear James come back. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

With deep misgivings Olmsted had left the work in the care of his superintendent, Rudolf Ulrich, whom he had come to distrust. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

MDR had claimed the life of a close friend, a priest named Jack Roussin, who had been living and working in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, the capital of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him how I never wanted to work in any of those offices, or that I’ve also dreamt of performing on a stage I’ve built. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My mind was learning to work in different ways, becoming stronger. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If you want a down payment on a store, bring the owner of the store you work in now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had never taken time to answer a single question; though we worked in the institute, we were as remote from the meaning of the experiments as if we lived in the moon. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of Alexandra’s first settlers came from the tribal reserves, where they could no longer eke out a living, to seek work in the city of gold. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I worked in London I used to visit the Natural History Museum at least once a week, and I made notes about the things I saw there. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why was Gregor the only one condemned to work in a firm where at the slightest lapse someone immediately attracted the greatest suspicion? The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rishi, oblivious to her internal storm of turmoil, had pushed his bed up against the far wall, so they had a clean rectangle of space to work in. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We see locals working in the fields who straighten up to stare at us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had to finish their work in progress before they left Riverbank, he told them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had planned to work in the yard, only to look outside to discover snow. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Father and Dr. King had been doing a lot of work in the projects, housing work. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Mary let me work in her factory, but she cut me no slack by any means. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy went back to biological work in space suits. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that day on we worked in silence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had always been a dark woman, her skin ruddy and brown when she worked in the fields. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The lion was the right mount for me. You and your friend will have to sit on one of the water creatures—each animal works in a different way.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He, like virtually all the others, worked in more than one field: he published on monetary reform as well as astronomy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My father was dark that summer from working in the backyard. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t slept well the night before, even after a full day of work in the Garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The BDM provided child care, or Kindergarten, for the children of mothers who worked in factories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since she works in a laundromat with coin-operated machines, she's always giving customers quarters for their dollars. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We were wondering if you know of a Mr. Beiderman. He used to work in this department.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

To leave the township for work in the city, or for any other reason, you had to carry a pass with your ID number; otherwise you could be arrested. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Squeaking shoes, a large coat, even larger than the man inside it...Dussel is returning from his nightly work in Mr. Kugler’s office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You are because the Lord, to quote a great woman, works in mysterious ways.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flores tells the class we will be working in pairs today. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A clergyman, who must have borrowed his voice from Mr. Edel, concluded by asking God to take care of the Jews, all those in concentration camps and prisons and everyone working in Germany. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Because many white people live and work in them.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The young people work in little teams under the banner of the company whose phone support they are providing. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

He worked in a soft job in the prison’s school. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m saying we should talk about it. Not everyone has private islands. Some people work on them. Some work in factories. Some don’t have work. Some don’t have food.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It’s really prestigious to work in a bank. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Kennedy had been working in her classroom down the hall. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She could get work in a heartbeat, and when she had a salary, we could move into a little apartment in town. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The way the system works in South Africa is that you’re arrested and held in a cell at the police station until your bail hearing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Then I tell her she needs to go on in the living room, let me do my work in here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The next day, somewhat to my surprise, six or seven of the porters set to work in earnest upon their arrival. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the Lord works in mysterious ways; it was two of the oddest things that come together and saved my life. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

One morning the old man showed me how to split and stack firewood, and for several hours we just worked in silence out behind his house. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pretty heroine would have to get on piece work in the factory; her sensitive brother would have to go out peddling papers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only the young would work in the factories. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think their farm will get better off with more children out working in the fields?” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second, I can see the shame she swallow ever day, working in that house. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I'm not sure I want to work in a store all my life." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t say it happens every time, P. K., but I am saying it could happen at any time. The Lord works in mysterious ways.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think this problem—not being taken into account—exists in some degree, however minimal, for nearly all people who work in prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned with my mother and found work in a food factory; on weekends he did domestic work at beach cottages and rentals. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When they could, they stopped at small farms, where Tristran would put in an afternoon's work in exchange for food and some straw in the barn to sleep upon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those who worked in the Yard, including the skilled butchers still employed by Swift and his fellow bosses, chose to stay put in Packingtown, a short walk from work. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, he has long desired a peek inside the Lefèvre town house, which is something of a legend amongst his colleagues who work in interior design. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Ezra, who worked in the big house, said, ‘You don’t know where this Ohio is. How you going to get there?’ Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think that’s right to fix it so little children can work in factories?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, I had that vegetable garden in our backyard one year. So I can work in the fields.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My favorite show was Mr. Chameleon, about this detective who worked in disguise. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Ten years he had worked in the same fields she had, and yet he hadn’t aged a day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had been excited about going to work in New York. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They prayed about God's calling Reverend Buckminster home to do His work in heaven. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

This is a glimpse of the API at work in the game. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about calling the practice, bringing forward my next appointment, but I don’t think even their automated system works in the middle of the night, so I went back to bed. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in a big, old-fashioned hotel just around the corner from The Birches. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I told him no, because I knew that he didn’t like to leave until I had fallen asleep, and I didn’t want him to be tired for work in the morning. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The width and speed of the fire made it impossible for weary firemen to work in an organized or coordinated way. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

At first he worked in a poultry market, and after wringing the necks of chickens all day, he came home and drank until he slept. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

These things don't start until a little bit after midnight and some of these people work in the morning, including Madrina, who sometimes takes clients as soon as the bembé is over. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

How to start with the edges, the borders, and work in, using my imagination. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Train came through with the initial funding, and in January 1868 Stanton and Anthony turned their backs on twenty years of work in the abolition movement to begin publishing the Revolution. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Knowing how a song works in the lives of children is greatly beneficial. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Only two bathrooms, which is a relief cause I worked in houses where they was five or six. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They all worked in the same insurance office. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Owning a barbershop or a funeral home, working in the post office, or riding the rails as a Pullman porter— those were good black jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“You can buy them. My father never did. He liked to work in the sun. When it got too strong he wore a straw hat.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Amari still wasn’t sure of how she felt about Polly, who at first seemed to be indignant that she wasn’t working in the big house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, some people around the Institute were skeptical of her ability to work in a space suit in Level 4. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men who work in factories and shops in the city are coming into the lanes to have their supper, wash themselves and go to the pub. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Its basic importance did not seem sufficient cause by itself to lead him out of the protein field which he had worked in only two years and was just beginning to master intellectually. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Of all the black employees working in research at Langley in the early 1960s, there were still only five categorized as engineers and sixteen with the title of mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Because even though she flinched every time Amari was hit, she couldn’t help but realize that this incident would forever ruin her chances of working in the main house. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

After working in tandem with Elizebeth, it felt strange to go back to breaking codes by himself, but that was Army policy. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Mom designs postcards; Dad works in health insurance,” I said. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Nazis also took Jews away to work in Kraków’s factories. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She wandered around the building until she finally found a young officer working in a filing room. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He worked in the fur business, but was constantly out of a job. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did seasonal work in the lettuce and potato fields up north for a few years; then he stayed home, with the family, trying to keep up the west side house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t be working in here, son. I mean as a vendor.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was working in the oil fields of Canada, up on the tree line where the tundra started and the forests ended. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or how she says she’s working in her office, but spying reveals that she’s really going through boxes of old photographs she got down from the attic. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One day my father summoned the courage to ask Schindler to hire my brother David, then fourteen, to work in his factory, and Schindler agreed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

She continued working in the main-house kitchen, kneading dough and sewing on the sewing machine, daily growing more deformed by her maternity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturdays and Sundays we continued working in the fields, picking carrots and thinning lettuce. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was the first significant work in the physical sciences to be produced in England. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Almost immediately, he was corralled by an acquaintance of mine, a beautiful and high-powered woman who worked in finance. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When she was back working in the factory or cleaning apartments, she gave me money for lunch. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

One morning shortly after buying Grog, Smith logged the colt’s name on the work tab, then sent Seabiscuit out to work in his place. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are there less fortunate souls in heaven who work in a celestial basketball factory so that I can play? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was dressed practically for work in the shop, light trousers and a gauzy linen shirt cuffed at the elbow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I’m such a young Executive, I can still do Messenger work in a pinch,” Martina boasted. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

You’d think a woman who works in a bookstore would have stumbled into the cookbook aisle by now, wouldn’t you? Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marches were planned, demonstrations were held, and the black work force was urged to stop working in solidarity with student grievances. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was very tall and thin; squinting through his rain-washed glasses Harry recognized the barman who worked in the other Hogsmeade pub, the Hog’s Head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It took months for Bonnie, who worked in the chilly inspection dock, to secure the two uniforms, a boot here, a pair of pants there. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What nature does blindly, slowly and ruthlessly, man may do providently, quickly, and kindly. As it lies within his power, so it becomes his duty to work in that direction,” Galton wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He also gives us daily bread to nourish our bodies, that we may have strength for our work in the world,” I say, feeling a contentious spirit rise in me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I worked in silence but for the crying of owls, the scrabbling of mice, and the knocking of my heart against my ribs. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mom continued to be the breadwinner, working in the factory while my dad recuperated from his injuries. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He could make out Cutie’s large, gleaming figure at the Martian L-tube, watching closely as the team of robots worked in close-knit unison. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

One of them is my friend, a beautiful, brilliant woman who works in advertising. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He worked in the Y.M.C.A. so he could help those Chinese who needed help in whatever way they needed it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sir told him he should wear one set to work in and one set for relaxation. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“How are we to work in this? I need more builders.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As the gunboats went farther and farther up the Combahee, they began to see slaves working in the rice fields. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He works in blocks of flat color, no impasto showing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wished my father worked in an office! Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He gazed across the valley, where construction crews were working in the Field of Mars, building fortifications for tonight’s games. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even after her mother married Henry, sometimes Naomi slept next to her when he was away working in an oil field. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s like working in a museum,” she said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could feel the spiders working in the corners. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had thought that she could offer the man something in exchange for information, but it seemed that all he cared about was his work in front of him, which Ophie couldn’t even see. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And being devoid of ambition, and striving not toward accomplishment she drew satisfaction from the work in itself. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting concluded with a new sense of optimism, a feeling that perhaps a united black community, working in tandem with a sympathetic white mayor, would force Durham to live up to its progressive reputation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They pulled weeds and worked in trash gangs now, but one day the field work would make them as big as the men grappling and pinning each other to the grass. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

To me, this meant working in the garment center or its equivalent. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The talk somehow works in their favor, there’s a shield in the language, there’s no fair way for us to fight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been working in gas stations since the day after his dad’s funeral, when he grabbed a job filling tires. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have to work in the laundry rooms tomorrow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The articles and posts in the comments sections are legion—all from people who see the devil’s work in everything. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It wasn't because he failed to make things work in Mexico. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Over the next two days, Xan did her best to conclude her work in the Free Cities as quickly as she could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

After an hour of work in the hot island sun, Taylor called a break. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

After a long pause, Roberto answered, “I’ve been thinking about getting a job in town. I am tired of working in the fields.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"And when it comes to making perfume, you have to work in sterile conditions so you don't contaminate the product." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Something about how the Law of Natural Selection, which always worked in Nature, sometimes inexplicably broke down in Man. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Adam Clayton Powell, the pastor of Abyssinian Baptist, had led a protest that resulted in more black people working in the stores on 125th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Harriet, wearing her first bandanna, working in the fields, thought about him, brooded about him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

That he would make sure that he was the last one to work in a mill. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

I asked him, on a hot Wednesday in July while we all ate ice pops, “Did you know I’ve dreamed of working in your store since I was five?” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

White, who had ordered his men to work in pairs for security, received a tip that a former member of the Al Spencer Gang had shown up in Pawhuska to kill federal agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gold asked Fuchs for specifics about his work in America. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in the Japanese embassy and lived in an apartment building popular among congressmen. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

His father worked in the garment district in Manhattan as a presser. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Computers working in the Space Task Group and the astronauts, whose office was the same building, often ran into each other going to and coming from the bathrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But five minutes later he broke a rule, and of course he couldn’t help it because they said his brother who worked in the meat market had brought Bones up on raw meat. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Gaffer Gamgee stopped even pretending to work in his garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It's not like I have to go to work in the morning. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Krogh was to head the so-called Special Investigations Unit, working in partnership with David Young of Henry Kissinger’s staff. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t work in an airplane cockpit on a stormy night with an exhausted pilot trying to land at an airport with a broken glide scope. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Although this technique is rather dubious mathematically, it does seem to work in practice, and has been used with these theories to make predictions that agree with observations to an extraordinary degree of accuracy. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I should think from the colour of his clothes that he is working in the quarries.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s short employ at the Ford Motor Company marked the only time any Stephanides has ever worked in the automobile industry. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Men were worn down by the backbreaking grind of their work in the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“You think maybe one day I can work in here, too? Maybe answer the phone or something?” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

And the things she dreaded worst about working in New York was the crowded El trains. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in the company’s tax division and loved the work. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But now we had to at least prove that we had a right to work in the country, and that was exactly what the employment authorization card stipulated. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Israel Thomas and his son-in-law had volunteered a day’s work in Matt’s fields the day George Lawrence brought his boy over to the farm. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I worked in that organization for more than thirty years and I want to tell you how the KGB works against the best interests of democratic forces in this country." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, Miss Celia works in the flower garden, tending to the mums. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

With all potential playmates either in school or working in the fields, Christine entertained herself by joining in the lessons in her mother’s classroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

True, work in the fields had calloused her hands, but it had given her a strong, erect body. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annette worked in Paris for the Duke and Duchess de Guiche, and it did not escape the Duke’s notice that someone extraordinary was polishing the pewter. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had a knit skullcap and a permanent squint from working in the sun. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The sun was not yet past the horizon by the time I took my seat at the Linotype machine, and I worked in the glow of the single gas jet. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And can I jump out of this plane right now and work in you? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

She worked from dawn to dusk, worked in the rain, in the heat of the sun. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And even if I explained it slowly and simply, Papito would most likely brush off plays as a huge waste of time and grunt that I should be doing real work in the fields. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, my washhouse friend Tess, who also worked in the main house, ran out and said, “Marse Tom say get food on the table!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He spent afternoons working in the store or reading aloud to Abuelito. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I thought, the slave who worked in the field, in a certain frame of mind, might even be happy to see the house burn down. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girls had worked in teams, and they beamed with pride at their inventive defense systems. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Bayona based his assertion on interviews with doctors and nurses working in government clinics. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

For as Jeanne’s folks were out in the fields, working in the hot sun, a snake slithered into their house. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Where he worked in a Chinatown noodle shop and slept outside next to the steam vent and awoke one morning to see that his feet had turned almost black with the cold. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I got the bucket and gourd back she said, “Come close and keep your voice down. What you doing here? You work in this stable?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

And a few weeks after that: “Theo’s brother is here for good, he's staying for at least three years to work in the studio of the painter Cormon.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In 1990, Peralta was in the vanguard of Mexican immigrants who bypassed the traditional barrios in border states to work in far-flung cities like Denver and New York. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The cafe and the barbershop was whites only, but I knew a boy that worked in the cafe. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you want to believe him, don’t you, Bob? You want him to work in the club.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His nose and forehead are pink, like he’s been working in the sun. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

This boy already knew, but he had to work in the cotton fields and pretend that he didn’t. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the Council of Tides, the few Grisha working in Ketterdam all knew each other and exchanged information readily. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mom had begun working in a nursing home, and Dad, as always, did everything he could to support her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Partly it was the grinding exhaustion of work in the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what they make. I’d work in the office. I’m going to be an accountant.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was his friend Syme, who worked in the Research Department. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We had lunch there, then a truck pulled up, and we worked in two- man teams to load the truck. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not. I worked in the kitchen, at first.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He tells Theo, “I want to show him Sien and her baby, which he won't be expecting, as well as the house bright and the studio with all manner of work in progress.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“She came here to work in exchange for the repairs on your rickshaw. She wanted to make things right. Not many people are brave enough to try that.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in a machine shop on the Hill, helping to build the super-precise explosive molds needed for the implosion bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning, before the sun rose, Minli, her mother, and her father began work in the fields. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, ma’am,” said Viola, “I believe Captain Tate is working in the shed out back.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Ruth was permitted to sleep until the sun rose, went to bed when Madam retired, and rarely had to work in the kitchen or garden. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that I would have to work in the fields after school by myself. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

How the work in the grounds was planned. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I could feel my heart rate starting to slow, and then it raced again as I heard him ask me, “You work in public relations, is that correct? Huntingdon Whitely?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The facts suggest that something is at work in the eagle’s environment which has virtually destroyed its ability to reproduce. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Our work in bio had become more difficult than ever, simply because I was trying to dislike him and it wasn’t working; he was almost bionically likable. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes. This first morning I don’t work in many long time. I get up early and wash clothes so you and your brother have something to wear today as soon as it dry.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had another job too, which paid me the best pay I ever had before I became a lawyer, which was working in construction. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Ma had told me that, back then, when she waren’t working in the field, she was tending to this girl name of Missy. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“Investment research has had to have huge amounts of cost ripped out of it, so a lot of firms are using shift work in Bangalore to do bread-and- butter company analysis.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Reverend Hunt begins to explain again, but Captain Smith finds us boys sitting idle and tells Reverend Hunt he needs us to come work in the gardens. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Somehow, the heroine had to seek work in a grocery store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work in Chicago had begun to look hopeless. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Kenny was working in the small building they had put up near the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed this beautifully modern open-plan office with three or four people who worked in it having some kind of joke with each other. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

This one addressed the “scope and program of future work in the field of atomic energy.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

How had her body worked in such detail? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

For lack of anything else to do when my body gets too sick to work in the garden, I often watch the villagers dispose of the corpses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She continued to live in this fashion, spending the winter in Canada, and the spring and summer working in Cape May, New Jersey, or in Philadelphia. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to make sense of such a tragedy, surely it is, but the good Lord works in mysterious ways. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“When was the last time you left your work in the study?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the British had considered the Indigenous peoples to be rightful owners of the land, British laws against squatting might have worked in their favor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had been working in one of the new colonies for ten days straight and now he had two days off and was on his way to a party. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peer around from where I am working in Jordache, hoping to see her go splat. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s funny,” I said, “remembering it all now. Remember how you used to go on about it? How you’d one day work in an office like that one?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Carter had built it in the early 1930’s for the old mules who had become too broken down to work in the mine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hand-to-hand was his specialty, he said; he’d worked in other areas of basic training but generally found his way back to it. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Elsewhere, there were men working in the fields, and women carrying water in yokes across their shoulders. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mother had been working in Baltimore for the past five years, and I considered Baltimore home, so I knew about Johns Hopkins. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the homelands, the firstborn son almost becomes the father/husband by default because the dad is off working in the city. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had assumed she was going to be praised for her work in Maine the previous winter, when she had collected more than one hundred thousand women’s signatures in support of a prohibition law. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Mama had sometimes worked in the garment center, and so did my sister Geraldine. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

My recent favorite is a snowman that works in a furnace factory. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They were getting used to working in the dark. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

"I have to work in the morning," I said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even a prison chaplain, one of the “good guys,” faces the underrecognized moral dilemma inherent in working in a jail. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If my dad works in this neighborhood, he definitely has money to help us out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She continued down the row of stunted carrots, working in the rich fertilizer that Maesie, the Academy’s cook, had given her at the start of her shift. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I went to work in coveralls for twenty-one years,” he says as we sit in his office on the morning after the college and career night. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

One day when they were all working in the Rosses’ apartment, Marshall got out his indoor bowling game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joanna worked in a factory while her mother took care of the baby. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s guaranteed to work in one month or your money back.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beowulf had made the best of all he had, putting each imperfection to work in the service of his integrity. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

All but one of the Haitian doctors who worked in Cange had their homes in Port-au-Prince or abroad. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The way it works in the hood is that if any mom asks you to do something, you have to say yes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So Voldemort went off to Borgin and Burkes, and all the staff who had admired him said what a waste it was, a brilliant young wizard like that, working in a shop. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m away working in the shop, see? These here men come to the house and say to Sissy, ‘Your husband’s just been killed, see?’ A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indigenous women cook and clean and work in fields and take care of children; they don’t sing in the spotlight on TV to thousands of fans. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the officers at Fort Detrick had noticed a certain abrupt quality in her hand motions and had accused her of having hands that were “too quick” to handle delicate work in dangerous situations. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dad worked in the barite mine and spent his evenings at the Owl Club, so Billy had a lot of unsupervised time on his hands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That meant at least four and a half hours of gut-ripping work in the heat for nothing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She yells at us all the time because Dad is from the North and he never sends money home from England where he is working in a munitions factory. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

But even as he worked in his shop, Hugo’s father must have kept thinking about the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And just this past year she got a better job working as a chambermaid in the same hotel Jude had worked in. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Most, though, were contract farmers or sharecroppers who worked in fields owned by hakujin. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was now more determined than ever to get justice for Javier, for Reg and Shawna, for every person who had been harmed by the monsters who worked in the building behind him. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s got to be the greatest thing,” he said, “to work in the West Virginia capitol every day.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

As 7th graders, you will work in teams of 3 or 4 students to identify a need in your community and a solution. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Baachan reluctantly put the comb in a pocket and said sadly that she had to go work in the fields now too. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“He works in the most boring department,” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion.There was, as Squealer was never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Why I never saw fifty dollars until I was twenty-one years old, with all the other boys with the afternoon off and all day Saturday and me working in a store. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you would be the kind of Nigerian working in IT and driving a BMW,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first link was to a Harvard University page for a Professor Susan Thomas who worked in the math department, and below that was a résumé website for the same person. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

And, in the day’s most interesting incident, he argued with an inmate who came in after working in the mess hall with his shirt stuffed with stolen food. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she asked, “Can you work in the fields for my grandparents? Your hand...” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He and his colleague Charles Sumner Tainter went to work in Bell's Washington laboratory, using their own ideas and input from other scientists whom they had contacted by letter and telegram. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As a first step toward cutting costs, Helen volunteered to go to work in the chicken palace, as the cashier. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They worked in teams of two for it took one man on each end of the saw to get through those trees. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Our leaders always look clean and refreshed at the end of the hottest day, because they work in very pleasant environments,” charged Reynolds worker Mabel Jessup. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was winter and very cold, he worked in pants stiff with urine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was aware from media coverage that in addition to his work in Haiti and seeing patients in Boston, Farmer had begun working internationally in the field of tuberculosis. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He’d waited tables at a roadside restaurant in Panamá, which turned out to be the only experience he needed to find work in the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Or they might have to work in the garden, pulling weeds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

First she was in prison working in the laundry and dying fast Then us got her move to the mayor’s house. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I decided to seek out my treasure, I never imagined that I’d wind up working in a crystal shop, he thought. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

You’re here because you have apparently stopped doing work in your major subjects. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice, Nora, and I tend to do our work in front of the TV or with music playing, but we all get good grades, regardless. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

After working in the cavity for a while, Robin said, “Let’s look at the gills from inside.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Only Big Ma and sometimes Papa when he came home from work in time. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strangely enough, in view of this class, we had been told never to communicate with the handful of inmates who worked in the Academy. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that with the fickleness of a child’s earache, Barack’s three years of work in the state senate had been all but wiped away. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I think I might work in my room for a while,” I said. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It’s so enticing, like I’ve been working in the sun and have come home to sink into a feather bed, knowing nothing will disturb me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Salvador lapsed into a glum silence, Lupita asked, “Aunt Consuelo, could you teach me some English words as we work in the fields?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

My personal dread derived from the obvious fact that it’s not only the software writers and computer geeks who get empowered to collaborate on work in a flat world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

My work in the 1970s focused on the black holes that can result from such stellar collapse and the intense gravitational fields around them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he wanted to get out of working in the store, he wouldn’t show up after school until almost dark, and Tateh would scold and punish him by making him work even longer hours. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their huts were not finished and they were forced to work in bitter cold and storm. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That summer I worked in the sun may have made me physically indistinguishable from the Mexicans working nearby. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would at least have died after having crossed the strait, after having worked in a crystal shop, and after having known the silence of the desert and Fatima’s eyes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Strength of habit, most likely, for here at last was a place I knew, a city I had lived in, worked in, for over a year. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A large campus just doesn’t work for me anymore, and a flexible schedule makes therapy easier to work in. At an academy I would always be missing school. That’s one of the reasons I’m here.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Antonina’s father, who worked in an ore extraction factory, aggressively disapproved of her flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The American introduced himself as Paul Farmer, a doctor who worked in a hospital in a nearby town called Mirebalais, helping poor people. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Times like these, I wish my father was a long-haul trucker or worked in the International Space Station. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And I see your wounds are healed up now. So you can start doing your share of the work in this house—” The girl was nodding quickly. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

He said he had worked in the same store with my father and Uncle Bright Star overseas. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A woman’s place is in the home,” he would say every time he saw a married woman working in town. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had worked in the Medica for the better part of a year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a while, Miss Celia was working in the backyard all the time but now that crazy lady’s back to sitting around the bed again. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the time, the time he was not watching his mother’s magic or thinking of airplanes, he spent in the idle pursuits of bachelors without work in small towns. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Jess, with her bold prints and her Converse trainers and her beauty, her attitude, works in the fashion industry. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1941, three years before Avery’s landmark experiment, two scientists, George Beadle and Edward Tatum, working in a basement tunnel at Stanford University, discovered the missing link between genes and physical traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“He does work for the government, Lester. I’ve bragged on him a million times. This is my sister’s boy. He works in the governor’s office...the assistant to the assistant.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Most of the time I work in the control room, but for the next few weeks, I am your instructor,” he says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

In those days, working in the mines was almost as much of a rite of passage as circumcision school, a myth that helped the mine- owners more than it helped my people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pay from Roberto’s part-time janitorial job and our earnings working in the fields on weekends were not enough to get us through. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

If the men who worked in the matzoh factory saw us, they sometimes would separate us and give everyone hot baked matzohs. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Men and women were coming home from work in the early twilight. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her parents, the photos—arid Mia’s work in general—were less enchanting. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Many African Americans today believe that uplift ideology worked in the past and ought to work again—forgetting that ultimately it took a major movement to end the last caste system, not simply good behavior. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We don’t know much about how these men felt when they were first told they were going to work in a women’s regiment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Rileys’ cook had heard the whole thing; she just kept on working in the kitchen and watched Betty Jo and her lather. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Hannah didn’t tell them was that her hands on the instrument felt instantly at home and at work in a way that they never had with the Oxford alethiometer. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

This must be a hard science to work in. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This woman. She is a healer, near Tu Do Street. She works in exchange for rice wine. All the time, drunk.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

"I'm gonna go to night school. You come too. Gonna work in a recreation center for little kids, you come help me. You was always so comical. Get you a job." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They told me you used to work in the orphanage.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to talk to you because I want to be sure you’re thinking about what you want to do for work in the future.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma works in a gas station, behind the register. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Mamá was saving to pay the moneylender, she was working in the fields to help, and Salvador was thinking of buying a motorcycle! Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Evrybody looked at me when I came downstairs and started working in the toilet sweeping it out like I use to do. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The eyebrows work in consort with my inky black hair, which weighs in midway between curly and wavy, and calls for the invention of a new word. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He would call pretty women who worked in the factory to his room, and on the pretext of lecturing them on labor rights and trade union law, flirt with them outrageously. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But of course Mama wouldn’t let her work in a factory again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, what do you expect? I work in the honey house with her. I have to spend time with her.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those white hands working in concert, committing their facts and figures down on blue paper. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If my daughter were in heaven could she still watch the baby while I work in my manioc? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She often works in mysterious ways, organizes and orchestrates things he never sees coming until all the threads come together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I worked in the church office whenever I could. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

"Just around. We all carry them when we work in the orchards. They left a lot of nests there," says Rue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That means that when the reader has to handle the complicated phrase, her work in analyzing all the other phrases is done, and she can concentrate her mental energy on that one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

To preserve my dignity I went to work in a wheelchair. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So many people can’t find work in this economy,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Often after work I’d drop him off at an intersection near the Cross County Mall, where he’d visit his girlfriend at work in the Fashion Bug store. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my voice didn’t work in the dream. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

All the way home in the car Mom had borrowed I kept picking it out of the tiny hole I had worked in my pocket and slowly tossed it out the window. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony had stayed in school through high school, although he missed so many days working in the junkyard that he wasn’t able to graduate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t legal to work in the US. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Shin was always hungry and he would eat his lunch as soon as his mother left for work in the morning. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Papa was in a camp, yes, but perhaps he was a tailor there and worked in a warm place inside. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I settled on a plain glazed, Calista was behind the counter, showing him pictures of her “work in progress” on her phone. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

Extra great, because I work in the fanciest office ever. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Stop going to work in your official car. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

People who work in these areas do not come back to the village. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have lived entirely on my own in the world—something few nineteen-year-olds get to do—worked in an office tower, moved halfway across the country with no money or support in search of something. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if that was lost on the citizens who became Peacekeepers or worked in the Nut, it was not lost on the stonecutters who formed the backbone of the resistance here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But Braden knew from his work in tennis that that is impossible. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“They’re a work in progress,” he said, and chucked a water bottle at Carlos, who dodged it easily. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I know a man who works in the munitions plant,” Uncle Moshe whispered. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

My job was to work in Mission Control and to talk on the radio with the crew, relaying necessary information to them. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gift, which they had never even known worked in reverse, was leeching the life out of all the plants she touched. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Africans who had worked in sugar quickly left the plantations and tried to farm or moved to nearby towns. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

They usually wear jeans and T-shirts, stuff that’s easy to work in. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He collected scrap metal, made clay pots, and worked in a convenience store. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“You will work in the laboratory after dinner. Every night. Even Sundays.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She had worked in the citadel nursery, too, and with two Ellens, a distinction had been needed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In this cycle, countless creatures worked in tandem as well as against one another. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

At last, something was working in the city! City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He had vague notions of struggling to learn his letters while he worked in the coal mine, every day a battle to survive the dangerous work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Erickson, based at the University of Pennsylvania, worked in concert with a Bolivian archaeologist, who that day was elsewhere, freeing up a seat in the plane for me. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pennsylvania coal country was the most dangerous place to work in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Playing here, working in the Fishery, and with a wealthy patron on the horizon, I’d no longer be forced to live like a pauper. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I only come out again when I hear him leave the house for work in the morning. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She must be only twenty-five, and I remember Dennis bragging about how he recruited her outside a downtown temp agency with the promise of working in a multinational business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And years later, it was also to be the starting point for my work in theoretical physics. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick up my three pieces of paper and ask Mr. Daniels if I can work in the hallway because of the noise. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In traditional medicine ‘spirits’ did the work in the body that we would attribute to electrical impulses travelling along the nerves; these spirits were, we might say, barely material. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He had worked in the railroad shops up there before and his old boss had promised him a job come next pay day. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“If I work in Santa Maria, we might be able get through this winter with what we’ve saved,” he said worriedly. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Most of us were deep into our thirties and working in all sorts of careers, from banking and government to nonprofits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Women and children worked in the neighboring sheds, twisting hair, weaving hair, plaiting hair with thread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I do my work in the kitchen, try to appreciate the fact that she’s not hanging around with me in here. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Having worked in intelligence himself, he marveled at the thought of this “wispy, gentle, self-effacing woman knocking off, one by one, some of the nastiest pieces of business then existing.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And the afternoon before, we worked in Gloria’s kitchen and made egg salad sandwiches. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Faces of my teachers, distorted with my exhaustion, saying over and over, “Sparrow is going to repeat eighth grade” and “Sparrow hasn’t done work in months” and “What’s wrong with your daughter, Ms. Cooke?” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d been down there since dinner, working in a stand of tall slim post oaks. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finding somebody to work in the rain wasn’t easy, but Curly eventually hooked up with an outfit in Bonita Springs. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You sent one of your sons to work in a nearby village for a relative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It would not exist as a work in the form that we know today were it not for the engagement and approval of a broader public in Handel’s lifetime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Last Saturday after school, one of the men who worked in the Griffin, a former tobacco hand named Martin, told her that the door to the roof was unlocked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We’d do everything from bowling to volunteer work in the community. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But as for building the beastly thing, “we were working in absolutely unexplored territory.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Ma and Aunt Polly worked in the house and all the cousins played together in the yard till dinner time. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two men don’t know each other, but they work in unison, shoving Sasha to the floor. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Although she had no prior experience in the specialized field of high-altitude medicine, she had spent four months doing volunteer medical-relief work in the foothills of eastern Nepal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, Chinese immigrants and people of Chinese descent had faced severe discrimination, so few worked in federal jobs or moved in government circles. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In Miss Palma’s class, she offered to come over after school a few days that week and catch me up on my class work in every subject we had together. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew he was working in low light, by touch alone, in those cursed leather gloves he always insisted on wearing, but Inej didn’t think that was why he seemed so agitated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Plodding ’long behind the cap’n was keeping all ’em worries and thoughts at bay, but it was also giving me a ’preciation ’bout me and Ma’s talk ’bout working in the fields. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Before I started to work in the museum, Louis and his wife Mary took Gillian, another girl who worked at the museum, and me on an expedition. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers at work in their fields crumpled to their hands and knees and groped aimlessly about, unable to find their way to their own doorsteps. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I’d committed myself to spending three days a week working in my capacity as First Lady while reserving the rest of my time for family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Three doctors work in white coats with sleeves rolled up. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Strong lost his hearing and ditched the gang to work in a tannery in Canada, or so the rumor went. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Paul insisted that her approach would work in the long run. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I hired a fast powerboat. I guess the owner’s still around; he said he’s going to try and pick up some work in Oxford.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He was excited to help me clean the gas company and not have to work in the fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"About how my mother works in a cafeteria, and about my neighborhood, and all that. He always trying me, and he don't even know me like that. Just wouldn't shut up." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you boys finish up your work in your room.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

When Richard was a junior in high school, she was working in food service at a residential care facility. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He put the manicuring table in the front window and he plopped me right there and I worked in the window. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the annoying fact that my parents could always sense when I disobeyed them, Mama actually worked in the office of my school, just two narrow desks away from the daily attendance rolls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Here I’ve been working like a slave, much harder than I’ve ever worked in the onion fields, but I feel as though nothing mattered except just to be alive right at this moment. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

They pay her to work in an office, but I know she lives for the marches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father’s parents worked in the cane fields there before they went to California. Luke could be a relative of mine.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Louis and I were doing three lawns a day each with Pasqual coming to work in the evening and early morning to do edge work and cleanup. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

We worked in silence, except for Aunt Goldie humming “When the Roll Is Called up Yonder.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Doha thought he was someone who worked in the local government office. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

On most days, by the time I am awake, Pa and my brothers are already gone and Ma is busy sewing clothes for the family or working in the garden. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton was a warm woman with a soft voice and close-cropped hair who worked in customer service at a credit rating company. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But that is Rachel to a T, trying to work in just one last sin before leaving civilization. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl went to work in the dark, stripping the dead of boots and clothes and other possessions, emptying their purses and counting out their coins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was working in the mines in the North. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the Stasi in East Germany, much of the KGB's work in Russia had nothing to do with chasing foreign spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And with few exceptions, those who worked in the lab recalled their time there as “magical years” pervaded with “enthusiasm and zeal for accomplishment,” in Kamen’s words. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Some of the grown-ups who lived there worked in Mark’s kitchens, but most of them had one or two jobs in the city. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He spent weeks out on the vast and remote plains, working in the intense heat and rains. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

A huge wave of immigrants came to the United States, many of them Germans who had either worked in or even owned breweries back home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The Taker recently got a job at the QFC on Mercer, and Lucy and Adrian work in the deli section with him, and Jules is Adrian’s girlfriend. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was working in a tequila factory and living in a two-bedroom house that had electricity and a water well. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had begun working in neighbors' gardens and doing pickup work as a maid in town in exchange for mealie meal. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He says he can’t stay forever, he has to go back to work in Coventry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Women agents who worked in the laundries passed the word. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I have work in the morning. I need to go home. I’ll take a streetcar.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My mother worked in exchange for her food and keep, which still happens today. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Jethro ran out to the road to take it, to report his father’s improvement and the state of the farm work in general. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going to move to New York and work in finance, she said. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

With his overgrown curls and faded jeans, Dr. Morales looked more like a singer in a rock band than a person who worked in a laboratory. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

Viola was working in the kitchen but had received her gifts of snuff and a thick red flannel petticoat from Mother earlier in the day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He puts on a blue jumpsuit every morning, faded where it strains over his huge shoulders, too short around the ankles, and walks to work in big black boots. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When my mom got home from work in the evening, my father told her he was trying. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

His tie was dark gray silk, and the tiepin was a tree, worked in silver: trunk, branches, and deep roots. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His mother worked in the kitchen, checking in on him periodically, her lap stained with turmeric. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of August I worked in the fields and orchards. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked in an investment bank back that way, he said, tilting his head in the direction of South Station. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Gogol G,” he signs his work in the lower right-hand corner, as if there were a need to distinguish him from any other Gogol in the school. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cas looked down at the gun in her hand as her mother yammered about firefighters and police officers and some friend of Dad’s who worked in the mayor’s office. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She got sick of my dad working in the same job for basically the same pay. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And many more will come now that Abakaliki has fallen. You know that since Enugu fell, accommodation has been a big problem. Some people who work in the directorates are even sleeping in their cars.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I suggested that each work in the area he knew best. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the peak of the planting season, and the nights spent on the hard ground took their toll of men whose endurance was needed for the hard daily work in the fields. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s dressed for work in a crisp shirt and tie, a fancy watch flashing at his wrist. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

You could go downtown and see colored people working in the dime store behind die counters, even handling money with cash-register keys around their necks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Towards evening he made friends with a barber’s assistant, whom he had seen working in the shade of an arch. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel was working in the forge and his hands were black. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Señor Elfren asked her, “Where did you work in Mexico?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Zuckerman, at work in the kitchen, heard the crickets, and a sadness came over her, too. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the past, a semi-skilled black man in Chicago could earn a decent wage working in a factory. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The older man explained that he was in bad health—working in the tobacco factory had ruined his lungs and heart. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It did not work in the third game, nor the fourth, nor the fifth, which proved to be their last. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Makes you never want to wake up, but in the end you got no choice, that’s the way it works in this world. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Francie, working in the flat above the saloon, heard their raised voices through the thin floor boards. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thankfully, he turns to the television screen and lets me work in silence. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Amaka was asking him about his missionary work in Germany, but I did not hear much of what she said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once while working in the fields, a black mamba snake slithered over his foot and prepared to strike. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I mean, I can even try to define is if I want, because equality isn’t really working in the present tense, is it? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“She cooks for me from time to time—and she works in the coroner’s office. In my line of work it’s always good to have a friend there.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

It is arguable that 2 + 2 will equal 4 in any universe; and, surely, levers and balances would work in the same way in any universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All I need is a pressurized area that I can work in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worked in a cramped circle of desks with two lawyers and did clerical work, answering phones and researching legal questions for staff. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She could work in a Flushing district, he said, nodding to say that he could do that. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone else would have been expelled, but he had the queen’s favor, and so the old guard had no choice but to stand aside and let him do his own work in his own way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Students working in the fields are the Juvenile Column of the Centenary. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today I work in colored pencil, but I hold them so hard and press so powerfully, the pencils keep breaking. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He learned that ’cause he used to work in a barbershop when he was a little boy. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d be working in the fields all day, right in the midst of so much photosynthesis, yet without any idea of what photosynthesis was. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if what worked in the first simulation doesn’t work here? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

After graduating from BYU law school, he worked in several county attorney’s offices in the state, spent a year as the Logan city prosecutor, and in 1997, he joined the Cache County office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This is ridiculous because she’s a doctor, and because she works in a notepad factory. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Since then he had carried out such a prodigious number of pretty experiments that virtually no one except Cavalli dared to work in the same field. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

And now, since a lot of the girls have already worked in groups together, it leaves the boys as our main partner options. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Noah, I’m going to tell you how things work in the real world. It might make you mad or sick to your stomach, whatever—but I want you to listen closely. Okay?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

I told Bob he could work in the shows like Snickers, the poodle who rides Stella. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I worked in a broken system of justice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It’s never “All right now, Big Mav’s daughter who works in the store.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

However long he’d worked in the junkyard, he was never too tired to drive across the valley to hear me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We worked in there from morning till night, except for school, and Tateh had us timed for that. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She works in Baltimore and lives just outside the city. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Gonzalez, what was the name of that big kook you had working in here, the big fat one with the green cap?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put her typewriters under another window, with shelves for her manuscripts and works in progress, and she immediately started thumbtacking index cards with story ideas to the walls. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Amari could hear laughter of men on boats and slow, sad chants of slaves working in the rice fields nearby, finishing up their labors for the day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, as I was working in the church’s back office, I heard singing coming from the sanctuary: Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me around, Turn me around, turn me around. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The extra ration we get for working in the factory. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His paddle kissed the clean water, his shoulders worked in perfect rhythm. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. I don’t think he’s going to be working in the kitchen for quite a while. Why? Are you afraid I’ll fire Mrs. Linfont and start cooking myself?” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

They would make me work in the fields and feed me bread and water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I might go back to working in a hospital.” Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smith would then take him out to work in the afternoon, just as if he were racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the weather turns bitter and I go to work in the snow and Helena struggles up the hill with the food bags and there’s just not money to buy enough coal. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He would later go on to do some of the world’s pioneering work in attention science, alongside the senior Mackworth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was at this time that I changed from my old numbers man, the one I’d used since I first worked in Small’s Paradise. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men already knew each other from Farmer’s work in the central plateau, and their friendship only strengthened after they met again at St. Jean Bosco. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"And I'm working in an all-night photo booth." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day, she and Mother worked in the house and talked. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

I am reluctant to leave, but I am supposed to work in the laundry rooms, and I don’t want the Amity to say I’m not fulfilling my part of the deal they offered us. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Where do you find the people that work in this place, Gonzalez? I never see people like this anywhere else.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From about eight o’clock, he would work in his study for an hour and a half, when he would take a break to listen to Emma read letters or a novel. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when I arrived at work in another jeans and sneakers ensemble, she seemed startled, as if some strange vagrant had made a wrong turn into the office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I came to see if I could do some work in exchange for them. May I see the repairman to ask him this favor?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think Dad and I got along as well as we did—which wasn’t that well, but still—because I didn’t see him that often, with school and then work in the evenings. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She had met and made friends with a few other women married to men who worked in the same factory as my father, but having acquaintances was not the same as having her family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

When I'd started working in Atlanta, staff were scrambling to handle one crisis after another. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Most teenagers camped out for concert tickets, but I had to camp out so that I could continue to legally work in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She told Mr. Breland that she had been working in their store alone because her husband was on a business trip. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

At his request, they assemble an assortment of little cakes for him to take back to District 12, where he can examine their work in quiet. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You could be working in the fields instead.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don stayed behind in Anacortes, lodging with family friends and eventually finding work in a lumber mill. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Ray said he understood where I was coming from, I still felt a little stupid turning down his offer when the only other option was to work in a grimy chicken spot. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The cost of this trip keeps going up, but I’ll make it back this summer working in my dad’s office, and anyway, it’s a small ransom to pay for Margo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He works in an office in the city. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There were hundreds of us working in the Factory that morning, all in Green uniforms. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They were all men working in America, anxious for news of home and family. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t get warm again, because the heater didn’t work in his new pickup. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One morning, a few weeks later, the chief warder, instead of handing us hammers for our work in the courtyard, gave us each needles and thread and a pile of worn prison jerseys. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she noticed that both Joon and Ben had stopped painting to stare at the other end of the table, where Nat was working in utter silence and concentration. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The first possibility is that he worked in complete isolation, without knowledge of anything that had gone before. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My job here in prison is working in the kitchen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

For fourteen to sixteen hours a day he worked in that sumptuously decorated hole in the ground and never stopped moving the entire time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"She died when I was little. She had yellow hair, and sometimes she used to sing to me, I remember. She worked in an alehouse." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“I have to leave for work in a minute. I’m catching an earlier train today.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’s already renting an outside studio to work in; he has been since the previous spring. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“And like...not to brag, but I can do ninety percent of the work in there with my eyes closed and a hand tied behind my back.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Their older brothers and sisters, those who were eleven to fifteen, carried water out to everyone else who worked in the fields. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Okay, maybe there’s a tiny, minuscule part of me wondering what it would feel like to announce, Ben’s actually the world’s youngest surgeon or Ben’s working in the mayor’s policy office. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Has your mother ever worked in an office? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Communism only works in theory, and goes against human nature. This place won’t last.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Chestnut was fiery and had done a lot of work in the black community to enforce civil rights. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Though Ammu did as much work in the factory as Chacko, whenever he was dealing with food inspectors or sanitary engineers, he always referred to it as my Factory, my pineapples, my pickles. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This seemed to be Will’s go-to response lately, and that definitely wasn’t going to work in this case. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Spoiled! I’ll work her harder than she ever worked in her life, and give you a fine cook into the bargain.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mouth was at liberty-, my lips worked in the air. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, then you don’t work in a house now?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew Joseph worked in the garment center, pushing a hand truck through the busy streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Or that in two days, I hadn't figured out how to get the hot water to work in my uncle's bathroom and that no form of deodorant would mask the stench of my body odor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Outside her window, her father was working in the garden. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z