| 单词 | border |
| 例句 | He invited King Joffrey to send an envoy to the Iron Islands to fix the borders between their realms and discuss a possible alliance. lyrion read the letter three times and set it aside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The walls were a pale blue, with a border of elephants and giraffes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The borders at the top and bottom are lilac. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “It’s a big risk for them. They might lose their jobs, maybe their families, if they got stuck on the wrong side of the border. Or their lives if they ended up back in Syria.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In 144 school districts in eleven Southern and border states, desegregation happened in a peaceful manner, with no need for the federal government to intervene. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Shin could not have escaped North Korea without an abundance of luck, especially at the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It says here the FBI is working with both the border patrol and the Mexican Federales to try and find us.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Anything the light touched belonged to the sun gods and the sun gods never allowed any evil to pass through Bali’s borders. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z ‘Little do they know of our long labour for the safekeeping of their borders, and yet I grudge it not.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I traced my fingers along the gold-colored stitching on the borders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z One weekend the two men drove from Phoenix to Nogales, on the border. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But a Special stood between her and the border of dense trees and brush, waiting to intercept any stray Smokies. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Sam waved his arm vaguely: neither he nor any of them knew how far it was to the Sea, past the old towers beyond the western borders of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The indigo bodice was bordered with a thin line of gold, and an ice-white cape hung from her shoulders. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z On December 2, he reached the Morelos Dam and the Mexican border. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As he set out on his trip, he noticed another teenager, a gangster named El Brujo, at the bus station in Honduras waiting to go to the Mexican border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He and the others were going to hide in the caves, then try to cross the bridge at the border to Jordan. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “They’re telling me the same stuff. I think...I think this moat must be the border of Night’s territory. If we get across, we should be okay. We’ll have to jump.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The mountains proved a natural border of sorts. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Now my heart is breaking because I’m alone on the wrong side of the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Before I can speak, Bushra says, “Six Turkish guards patrol the border. If one goes into the building, another comes out to cover him.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z They stepped out of the beech-grove in which they had Iain, and passed on to a long green lawn, glowing in sunshine, bordered by stately dark-leaved trees laden with scarlet blossom. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He lifted our kite, red with yellow borders, and, just beneath where the central and cross spars met, marked with Saifo’s unmistakable signature. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Papa says Rashid Uncle’s house is a bit over halfway to the border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The yard was bordered with a chain link fence. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Strange behavior, bordering on very dangerous; why try to pass a semi in the freezing rain? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We were issued a one-day pass to cross the U.S. border and take the examination at St. Joseph’s Hospital, which was located a few blocks from the U.S. customs office. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Since I’m an illegal immigrant, the obstacles didn’t stop once I got across the border. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z It came from the first house beyond the border of Zimbabwe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If the old tsar had so mercilessly killed the people of Khazaria in Sarkel, what would the new tsar do to the large communities of Jews living within his borders? Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The rule was first come, first served, and there had been another call on the border collie. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Some of America’s youngest but strongest stars had ventured north of the border to play. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It travels all the way to the Texas border, mostly at night, when the dark will make it harder for him to be detected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We didn’t want to call attention to ourselves in case they were members of any of the border gangs, who had been abducting people along the Frontera, the border between Mexico and the US. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z And embassies came from many lands and peoples, from the East and the South, and from the borders of Mirkwood, and from Dunland in the west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Dad was always parking his cigarettes there, and it was ribbed with a row of black cigarette burns, like a decorative border. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And in the evenings, I did border patrol. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The person was certainly skilled, but he—or she—was attacking the music with such ferocity that it bordered on madness. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We caught a bus and went a few kilometers outside Algiers, to a beach with rocks at either end, bordered by shore grass on the land side. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Now I was drinking sugary tea with Zalabia Bedouins and squatting on a sand drift in Wadi Rum, the Valley of the Moon, less than twenty miles from the Saudi Arabian border. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We took our usual route to the market, not along the streets but through the narrow walkways between the buildings, mostly commercial warehouses and garages, that bordered the square. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It's dark, except for the emergency bulbs that glow like red eyes along the border of the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And I’ll be in trouble for nearly getting shot dead by border guards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “If it was so great, why did she run for the border?” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Brightly colored knee socks with white borders, a brown velvet coat trimmed in white rabbit fur, and a matching muff. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z This grave stood among many others, worn down and no longer known or cared for, on a hillside just at the border of Wang Lung’s western field. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He's always so calm—bordering on mysterious, even. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dalai lifted the drape of Boori Ma’s sari, a cheap white weave with a border the color of a dirty pond. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A smuggler promised to deliver them for $2,000 up front, but he robbed and abandoned them in Tapachula, just inside the southern border of Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Glass lampposts sprouted up between the hedges bordering the path. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Woulda been nice if Nicaragua bordered with the U.S. but it doesn’t, so up through México I went. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Then the mob of cheering Romans carried him around the Pomerian Line, carefully avoiding Terminus’s borders, and escorted him back home to Camp Jupiter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Go away, muchachos. You cannot hope to cross the border without a guide. Hundreds try every day and get caught. Go back where you came from.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z While we’re down there, we can cross the Kentucky border and take pictures of ourselves, one foot in Kentucky, one in Indiana. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My city was about twenty feet around its borders and growing. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He traveled across the border weekly to pick up condiments and other supplies that graced our table as polio en salsa verde and enchilada con came. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The bamboos at the corner of the house swayed slowly under a gentle night wind and through the twilight he could see dimly the fringe of trees at the border of the near field. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Surrounding all of this lust was a border of politeness. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He surfed the Web, looking for articles on Afghanistan and the flood of refugees pouring across the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z We crossed the black border of the jungle and disappeared. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z In the distance, there was a glimpse of the river that bordered the community. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The tablecloth was bordered with yellow and brown pineapples. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Then I thought of the ficus hedge that bordered our yard, and the distant skyline of Los Angeles. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I watch him as he begins to carve a border around the initials. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z On the board he’s drawn a large map of Europe, in white, with yellow dotted lines for the borders between countries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The policy has led to several jittery years of missile launches, frozen economic deals, border shootings, and periodic threats from the North of “total war.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z All our neighbors have these great maga- zine-cover yards with flowers that match their shutters and expensive white rocks that border fresh mounds of mulch. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z One of the women was embroidering a wedding sari, coiling gold thread along its borders and fastening it with the tiniest stitches imaginable. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He eyed Ned with a smile on his lips that bordered on insolence. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He walked all morning, following back roads he hoped led away from the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The market was a ten-minute stroll, well past the tailor shop and the pharmacy, to the town that bordered our village. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I started to step even faster down 125th Street, toward St. Nick, hoping I could make it to the border before they could catch me. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Within a week, the protests, inspired by the nonviolent actions of India’s Mahatma Gandhi, spread to other cities in North Carolina, and then crossed the borders into Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I think of a doll I had once, with white fur on the border of her skirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They straggled down the highway in a loose body, blocking the way from the white line to the frazzled weeds that bordered the sun-heated concrete slab. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her homework bordered on algebra even though it was only fourth grade, and I helped her with it, sometimes doodling spirals or patterns on the side of the pages while she worked. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Had they crossed the border into the United States? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Sula stopped and with her toe pushed them into the bordering grass. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t know exactly when her foot crossed the border, bringing her from one state to another. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z About arriving at the border, and Safaa’s carpet bag, and the guards shooting at me. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z One of my aunts had to hide in the back of a truck with her husband and two young children until they were driven miles to the Iran-Pakistan border. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “First, you cannot control your borders, and second, you cannot control us. ” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It was stay here and risk our lives or get on the train and risk our lives, and we might as well try to cross the border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Some scraggly pink geraniums, marigolds, and spindly poinsettia plants, Lupita’s gardening efforts, bordered the front of the house. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There’s a city—Kent—circled in the west of the state, not too far from the Mexico border. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z “Why come to the border if we don’t have papers?” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Trees covered every hill and bordered every path. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s easy to pick out where the wealthy sectors border the poorest ones—where the steady light from electricity gives way to flickering lanterns, bonfires, and steam power plants. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Acre is in the western Amazon, on Bolivia’s northern border, the hinterlands of the hinterlands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We will lead the others across the border into a new country. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z His enthusiasm bordered on mania, yet still it failed to inspire us. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She got another bull’s-eye on the third target—aiming for the edge, but landing within the border. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Why, Maine extends northward almost to the mouth of the St. Lawrence, and its upper border is perhaps a hundred miles north of Quebec. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It's one of my favorite squares in Amsterdam, with a statue of the painter in the middle and cafés around the border, where Mama used to take me for special treats. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When they tried to return, they were stopped at the border by American immigration authorities who would not let them back into the country. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z German tanks had crossed the border into Poland; the Luftwaffe, the German air force, had attacked a Polish border town, and the invasion of Poland by the Germans had begun. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “There are eleven counties under the watch in Pennsylvania and just over the border in New York, too.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then Esperanza and top officials from both countries on the border would descend on Opium and try to install Matt as leader. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Blank bordering on Sullen and when I looked over at Edmond he had the saddest expression on his face but when he saw I was looking he smiled. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Its reputation went far beyond the borders of the city; Chicago was known throughout the United States and the world as the Queen City of the West and the Gem of the Prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “People just walk over the border and stay.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Many, having made the lonely haul from Mexico City, would welcome company for the remaining 380 miles to the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Hedgerows along country roads and bordering fields provide food, cover, and nesting areas for birds and homes for many small animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The boundary between our land and Doña Ana’s was bordered by eggplant bushes, and between us and Doña Lola by annatto, oregano, and yucca. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Cheers to you, crossing the border into Idaho.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Finnish music blared from the radio, a sign that they had passed the border, out of the USSR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s at least a hundred miles to the border.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As they walked away escorted by border patrolmen, Lupita overheard an older woman complain. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “Suddenly you’re very smug,” Mrs. Levy said in a voice that bordered on hysteria. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a girl his age, and there was a look on her face of resignation bordering on sorrow. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Food production also arose in West Africa and Ethiopia, and by around 2500 B.C. cattle herders had already crossed the modern border from Ethiopia into northern Kenya. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a Tuesday in winter. We’re not sleeping in a nest house. We can go Saturday. If you wait for me after school, we can go somewhere a little closer than the Indiana-Kentucky border.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Both the East and the Tropics are in a state of enormous expansion within their own borders. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was a slow time at the border. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Annie looked up and down the empty road, to the patch of trees that had somehow survived the farms that bordered it on both sides. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It stood on a wide boulevard and there were tall trees in front of it and a grassy lawn bordered by flowers. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Police escorted him to the border and booted him across. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z While unicorns and merpeople are only too happy to stay within the territories designated for their use, dragons will seek any opportunity to set forth in search of prey beyond the reservation borders. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ekon wasn’t standing near the Greater Jungle’s border now, but it didn’t matter. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The border patrol called the police, the police called the FBI, and they all sat in front of us at a small table in a nice little office at the International Bridge Customs Station. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z At the border, Polish authorities deny the Jews entry and detain them in open fields, without shelter, food, or water while the Polish and German governments argue. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I walked back along the border of the lawn, traversed the gravel softly and tiptoed up the veranda steps. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z One day, we crossed the Kenyan border without realizing it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “I looked for you at the border,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s go to the border now,” Salvador told her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z They chose a spot on Russia’s Kola Peninsula, near the Finnish border, and set to work with the hope of drilling to a depth of fifteen kilometers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Clara’s retinue was gradually pushed into the back rooms of the house, and an invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after Jadzia left, the Nazis set up a border between the two towns. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Once more they took to the road, walking north toward the United States border. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I was watching him walk down the path bordered by flowerless green bushes when the assembly bell rang. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He showed Chamberlain the new brigade flag: triangular, white, with a blue border, a red Maltese Cross in the center. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The younger of the two was already at the top of the zoos border wall. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Within a few hours, cars had backed up from the track entrance all the way to the border. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "We are a state," he continued, "which stands with open borders at the center of the competition between two world systems." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My mom knew exactly what to do, and it was almost impossible for me to imagine her residing on the borders of sanity. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z My parents crossed the border like that, too, and even got robbed, but at least they made it here alive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A place where there’s never any new people, a place you can never get beyond the borders of. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z His appetite, on the other hand, was fierce, sometimes bordering on the violent. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He’d been traveling for twelve years between Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Austria, and other countries, clearing customs and crossing borders without incident. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The drovers they brought here to oversee the Negro patrols and fortify the border think the Negroes in your part of town should be taking all the risk to herd the dead, not them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The ring has been smuggling precious national resources over the border into Canada. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Troops from both sides lined the border, and Dacca was insisting on nothing short of independence. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They could have bided their time until the borders eventually reopened or gone through legal channels to get us green cards before we left Iran, but that would have likely taken years. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what you did,” he says, “but you opened a chance for us. We ran on your heels. Through the border. Out of Syria. Into Turkey.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z These pillars were painted red, as were the wooden window borders. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The last battle, before this story opens, and indeed the only one that had ever been fought within the borders of the Shire, was beyond living memory: the Battle of Greenfields, S.R. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Hilali loves to follow the males, particularly when they go on their exciting border patrols or when they are hunting. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I crossed the road and headed back, keeping to the trees that bordered the creek. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 He might also have felt somewhat uncomfortable knowing that this easternmost option contradicted the impression that Madison had created in the earlier debates—namely, that a more western location near the Pennsylvania border was preferred. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He looked, now, as if he bordered on apoplexy. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “We need to get going if we want to get to the border just after it.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The borders had reopened, and he left the country on a "business trip" to Italy. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Maybe. Nomadic peoples rarely have one language they all speak. I’m sure a lot of the Pecheneg bands nearer to the Kievan border speak Russian. Why?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The fact that the school was in a border area, with white neighborhoods just east of it, did not placate conservative critics. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The spot she had chosen to spread her blanket was under a handsome black walnut that grew at the edge of the woods bordering the acres of cotton. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove north, making his way over the Wyoming border. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z One stack represented all the people who crossed the northern border out of Chattana province that day; the other stack was for all of the people who had come in. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In order to expand her borders, she wanted Mark Antony to get rid of him. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Once when I had a little time from the railroad, Elzenia, my brother, Johnny, and me went up north along the Oklahoma border before the first of our children was born. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With no identification papers, Shin knew he would be arrested if border guards did their job. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was hot, and the road was bordered by dense vegetation on either side. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They came over the border every year for the potato harvest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Next day, early in the morning, they came down again to the borders of the Road. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z So I wanted to come to the other side, across the border. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Isaac was there to greet us, holding a pretty border collie by the collar. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z These battles secured the kingdom’s borders and brought peace to the land. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Less than a week after crossing the border into Poland, the Germans were in Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Yet we are allowing pesticides to enter them via the rivers and by direct spraying over bordering marshlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All we had to do now was join the line to our right, walk across the border with everybody else, and we’d be free. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z When our own Troop C came wearily back from the border they said that none of this was true. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They did not know, and could not guess in that misty light, that they were in fact only just within the northern borders of the marshes, the main expanse of which lay south of them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I pictured her sitting in the kitchen, the wallpaper border near the ceiling with its strips of stamped ivy, the floral porcelain handles on the cabinets. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There was a large front garden and a maize field bordered by rounded peach trees. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nala, the world’s bravest and boldest border collie, bounded through the brambles. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A motion-picture camera was set up at the border—to record the fabulous victory. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Breashears, who had worked around many helicopters during the course of a long and distinguished film career, immediately found a landing pad bordered by two gaping crevasses at 19,860 feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Also, by 2000, traders by the thousands had begun to move back and forth across the border supplying food and goods for markets that had all but replaced the government’s public distribution system. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still following other men, Shin climbed into a boxcar bound for Chongjin, the largest city in the far north of the country and a gateway to rail lines leading to the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The trail to her house is bordered with stones she gathered and put there. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Far, far, below, the Abbey grounds looked like a spread-out pocket handkerchief, the great wall representing its border. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The edges that bordered the vast opening were smooth, except for one odd, repeating pattern on both sides. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “I’m from one of the border villages,” she murmured. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I half jogged, half stumbled into the nature preserve that bordered Nicole’s house. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Then, too, there was quick money to be made chauffeuring stolen cars across South American borders. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They have to mark the neutral bit “IRELAND” in big letters made of whitewashed stones, hoping the Germans won’t drop bombs there thinking it’s the UK side of the northern border. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The “eternal” problem happened along the stretch of creek between the Logan County borders. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The creek was bordered with marshes, but if you went a few yards back the land got higher, dryer. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I jumped to the side of the road, swung over the stone wall, and cut across the pasture to the next stone wall, which was bordered by a line of trees. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t much more than a meandering dirt lane, one car wide in spots, cutting through the blandness of sagebrush and ducking down to an anemic border river. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By this time both of them must think she and Salvador were over the border and in the United States. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “That border is locked down tight,” Nina said. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead, floating about two and a half feet off the ground, lying wrapped in a tight little ball with her nose tucked under her tail, was a small black-and-white border collie—dozing in midair. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Leila worked part-time as a bookkeeper with a heightened attention to detail; her memory for little things bordered on the photogenic. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They were far beyond the borders of the Bree-land, out in the pathless wilderness, and drawing near to the Midgewater Marshes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My sister did make it back across the border, and my parents were none the wiser. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Many settlers on the borders of Indigenous territories believed that the newly created, professional US military might not support their interests. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Along the borders of the rich lady’s sari were embroidered flurries of blossoms in pale yellows and pinks twined with green leaves. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The borders are lush with flowers: tulips and daffodils, irises, peonies, pinks, chrysanthemums, something for every season. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Before she had finished smoothing the soil and laying out a border of little stones, she had worked out her plan. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Papá and Mamá decided to cross the border in Nogales because they had heard that the immigration office there was not as busy as the one in Tijuana or Mexicali. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They had divided their forces, I learned: some remained on the eastern borders, not far from the Greenway, and some invaded the Shire from the south. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “She’s nearly sixteen now, like the Polish girl. My father sent her up north near the Danish border for safety. I haven’t heard from her in over three years. I’m going to find her.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Nargis said she’d call us first thing if she learns anything. And Professor Sahib is headed to Jalalabad with his sons to search along the Afghan border.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was Nox, actually, who surprised her most, with three bull’s-eyes into the nearer targets and the two final shots along the border of the inner ring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Now, the struggle would for the first time take me outside the borders of my country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The preacher stands there, his rheumy brown eyes locked on Katherine's bosom and a smile that borders on indecent on his thin, pink lips. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But lately without the black market not so many commerçants cross the border and it will be difficult. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Year’s End the few survivors were rounded up in the woods, and those that surrendered were shown to the borders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The children spent all day arranging the corn into two mammoth piles, inside a border of red leaves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On leaving Omaha, after a night spent in a Salvation Army dormitory, a truck driver had given them a ride across the Nebraska border into Iowa. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The final regular season football game ended with Big Creek winning big over Tazewell High School, just across the Virginia border. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The river marks the Guatemalan border, just as the Rio Grande defines the Mexican border to the north. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Those borders began to shrink, and thus the power of Rome to crumble. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Of course the Enemy has other servants, but they will have to journey all the way to the borders of Rivendell before they can pick up our trail. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A set of steps led down to the lawn on whose border Robbie still worked, and which extended to the Triton fountain fifty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She had laid the headboard down flat near the flowerbeds that bordered the house, with the side rails below it and the slats to either side in neat rows, like ribs. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On a steep slope, a paved road runs parallel to our route, bordered with pines and a stone wall. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t that tall fence at the border checkpoint run along the entire bottom of the United States? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z It requests a meeting between you and Ghohg at the border between our kingdoms. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He was framed with a white border, like a scene in a comic book. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z But at seventy-seven, he's long since ceased leading men into border wars. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We will take the train to the border tomorrow and then change trains to go to Jodhpur, our new home. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z By the end of January 1945, the Americans had driven the Germans back to their own border. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z They walked together along the rocky path bordering a wide meadow, each of them with a stick to lean on. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She was embroidering a border of lotus flowers, a proper border for a wedding sari, because the lotus pod’s many seeds are scattered to the wind, suggesting wealth and plenty. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “See how one side’s flat? That’s where it borders with the DR.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z By that time it must have been crawling with Eyes up there, and everywhere else close to the border. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z And Austin on its hills among the bordered lakes might be across the world from Dallas. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the border guards told them to shut up through a loudspeaker. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the column next to the photo there was a notice, bordered in black, that caught my eye. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were farmers from just across the German border, not far away. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa says that once we are over the border he will be able to find work easily, that doctors are always needed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Before we reached the border he rolled down the window, and the fresh air, which was welcome, was uncomfortably cold. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Koly, will you find something for the border in one of Tagore’s poems?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z For more than two weeks he held a customs post on the border and from there sent the nation a call to general war. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Many generations ago, our kingdom negotiated a treaty with the Fairy Queen that established the border between her lands and ours,” said the Mistress. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She stood up to go, and as she made her way toward the exit, skirting the borders of the dance floor, she saw the huntress in the crowd ahead of her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Devils Thumb demarcates the Alaska-British Columbia border east of Petersburg, a fishing village accessible only by boat or plane. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Polgars, thinking of everything, had taken a chance on their way across the border and asked the guards that very question. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They crowded, dark and uncontrolled, to the borders of the drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It bordered the south side of Ravenskill, and was just a few minutes from town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z My fear and discomfort crept beyond the borders of the classroom and accompanied me out onto the wide boulevards. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Maybe politics and borders were supposed to keep us apart, but David and I built a safe space, a nest where our differences brought us together. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z His only chance was to reach the border, and he bounded with an agility that would have impressed a bighorn sheep. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the Soviet military tracked Powers from the moment he had crossed the USSR's border. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Mexicans along the border, he notices, are quick to proclaim their right to immigrate to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Gas lamps had been installed at haphazard intervals along the corridor, leaving pockets of gloom whose borders shivered as Belknap and Holmes moved past. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’ve painted the border with flags of different countries and the middle with smiling faces. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She broke right, running hard and fast toward the volcano and the mist- shrouded circle of mountains that bordered it. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It came in mid-February, blown over the border from a conflagration on the campus of South Carolina State College in Orangeburg. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The British are not about to offer their excuses; true, they were sleeping during the years Germany was rearming itself, but all the other countries, especially those bordering on Germany, were asleep too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Ben saw his sister fall into a hedge that bordered the classroom window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z During his entire regime, Pol Pot had been provoking the Youns’ attack by sending his men to their borders and massacring Vietnamese villages. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jones was a valuable and mysterious secret agent operating along the watery borders between Union and Confederate territory. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Half a dozen border guards with guns and walkie-talkies move between the buildings and the canopy, between waiting vehicles and people standing around. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The incursions of barbarian tribes from the north and east became more frequent, and the cost of defending the far-flung borders of the Empire became ever more impossible to maintain. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Really it is not one train, but many on many routes, all going to the same place, la frontera, the border. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I added, “No. On second thought, that could get a little weird. Let’s just hop across the border to Canada and get married.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Twelve miles on foot brought him to Topock, Arizona, a dusty way station along Interstate 40 where the freeway intersects the California border. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a relief to be back in her world, heading north across the state border. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It floats just below the upper border of the screen. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Early the next morning we left for Mbeya, a Tanganyikan town near the Northern Rhodesian border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The empire had defensible borders, yet the vast majority of the population couldn’t be trusted in the ranks—the Macedonians had a long-standing reluctance to arm the natives. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He stopped the car, and I could see that the edge of the road bordered a vertical slope that crumbled into vacancy, a fall of perhaps two thousand feet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a herd of cows grazed on this land, or a man on horseback rode the borders, a sombrero shading his face, his shirt stained yellow with sweat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now she addressed her words to the woman bordered in gray satin who lay before her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Its edge is a scar, another border to cross. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We would have to walk about five hundred miles to reach its border. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was back at the United States border on January 18. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Mexican authorities wouldn't let them cross the border until they paid the tax on their recently sold car. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “If I hadn’t run to the border, Dapir might still be with us now,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The first time it conked out, we were still an hour shy of the New Mexico border. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Black professionals constituted the bulk of the residents, many of them graduates of the universities that sat on its borders, Loyola College and Morgan State University. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He gave the position his all and became known among his teammates for toughness bordering on recklessness in his efforts to keep the ball out of the net. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z So, at the southern border, where he should’ve kept going until he dropped over the waterfall, he was transported back to the northern border and swept down the creek all over again. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Soon they were in a gray twilight and could see that the stream bordered the further edge of the wood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Shallow lobes and a jagged border and hard veins that rose up from the rubbery green flesh. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A high metal fence stretched along each side of the border, and a large building was set in the middle. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The town is bordered by rivers, something Finch would have liked. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She followed him to the border of the dance floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “With the right licenses, you can get butterflies through customs. When you can’t, there are other ways to cross borders.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The young North Korean border guard had been watching Shin’s progress. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The Taliban were in hot pursuit, and he had a lot of money riding on getting his human cargo across the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z If you flew your technology-based starship into a zone where technology didn’t function, your engines would fail the moment you crossed the zone border. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Though we lived just on the borders of actual starvation, I could not bribe Granny with a promise of half or two-thirds of my salary; her answer was no and never. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Even the Elves do likewise at need, and blindfolded we crossed the borders of fair Lothlórien. Gimli the dwarf took it ill, but the hobbits endured it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “The border is two days away,” she says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Aliens, yes,” Garret Charles continues, his accent growing thicker by the syllable, and bordering on German. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But when he looked through the window, to the row of underbrush and pines that was the border of Forest, it looked no different to him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I stare at the crowded border with its milling people. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z "The border guards cast cursory glances at our documents and waved us on," Wolf recalled. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the tiles had similar blue borders with little designs painted in the centre. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The other people had come for the border collie. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “The camp has magic borders. Nothing, not even weather, is allowed in without permission. It could be a land without rain.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z In truth, Father, I am so stirred up by the thought of my first military duty—even if it is only reviewing border troops—that I hardly hear my good mother. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z One might at first be surprised that Clovis descendants could reach Patagonia, lying 8,000 miles south of the U.S.-Canada border, in less than a thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once he was deported at 2 A.M. and spent the night cowering, sleepless, near the border guard station, afraid for his life. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Not all of the trains go all the way to the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z There was a fresh smell in the air and, once in a while, a crackling in the long grass that bordered the paths. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The river here was bordered with clumps of wrinkled rock that seemed to grow out of the ground like fungus. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s the river. The creek flows up here and curves into the river. The Hidden Lakes complete the other border. See?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of such incidents, I listened when my parents remarked that Mexicans were often mistreated in California border towns. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at all the cities and towns below reminds me of borders, which remind me of Esteban and his perfect white teeth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Jorge came over the border and shot them. He got into a lot of trouble for it, too. He, uh, he saved my life, and I owe him everything.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Each man wore a new cloak, heavy grey wool with a white satin border. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the nation in its percentage of residents who were born in the state and still live within its borders, often right on top of where they were born. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The conflict was mostly geopolitical, with a long-standing border dispute between both nations. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He went into exile in Nigeria, was indicted for war crimes by the United Nations, and was eventually captured in an SUV stashed with cash and heroin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I put it and the bottle of water inside the wagon, pulled the wagon right to the border of the deadness. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There was the occasional border skirmish, but crossings from one side to the other were rare. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Well, no, I rode the bus to the end of the line, which was the reservation border. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Most of the people of that country lived on the borders of the Wood in pine-board houses built up close to the trees, where the old magic lingered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guard borders. I don’t kill giants. It’s not in my job description.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He turned again, eyes burning with purpose, bordering on anger. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He regards me with something that borders on disgust. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z This mysterious man drove us to the Congolese border, which was jammed with crowds of people trying to get out of the country and head into Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Bono said, “She is a treat in that garden. That’s a very fine place to see her. She fix the borders different this year? She and Mr. Gitney had a plan last summer.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This was no problem, as thousands of Mexicans flooded across the border every day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And mostly, we guard the borderlands. We protect the borders of things.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They now lived in Baltimore County, which sits on the northern, eastern, and western borders of Baltimore City, a horseshoe that fits around its more well-known neighbor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A border of marigolds edged their way around the whole rectangle. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He moves a few steps forward and disappears from view, hidden by the edge of a eucalyptus grove that borders both our properties. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Below was a small, shallow cut, barely through the skin, bordered on both sides by a white area, very sore to touch, which was going to be a bruise and turn black-and-blue. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I went on along like this for around fifteen minutes covering a good mile and maybe more, when I saw a patch of hemlocks bordering the left-hand side of the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the outside there was a border of flowers and vines made from bits of colored glass set into a lead frame. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Central Americans are sent back to the Guatemalan border on el bus de lagrimas, the bus of tears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The sky lightens as we follow him through a maze of streets, ending on one that's bordered with small shops. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She burst up from the stairwell, waving her crumpled presentation notes over her head, and when she saw Dari’s egg border, she squealed and tackle-hugged him. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “We should be there by early afternoon. We’ll take the quiet road and meet up with main traffic routes closer to the border.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z To enforce its rules, North Korea began a substantial buildup of electronic and photographic surveillance along the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Adah did weird, morbid things for her hope chest, black borders on cloth napkins and the like, which exhausted our mother. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Conquering the hostile savages on our northern borders,” she answered. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Parthia and Rome had been engaged in a tug of war for decades as provinces along the eastern border of Rome’s territory changed hands and shifted loyalties. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Between Bechuanaland and the northwestern Transvaal, dozens of unmarked roads traverse the border, and Cecil knew just which ones to take. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘They say in my land that he can govern the storms in the Mountains of Shadow that stand upon the borders of Mordor. He has strange powers and many allies.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z To stay near the border in the refugee camp with strangers? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “I set a few on the border of the yard every day.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Lush, green mesquite bordered the road and shut off most of the horizon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A little thrill sparks in my belly as we walk out of Tal Al Karama and take the road for the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Cars were still stacked up at the border long into the night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “They closed the border completely, even to trucks and buses,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon the Laughing Man was regularly crossing the Chinese border into Paris, France, where he enjoyed flaunting his high but modest genius in the face of Marcel Dufarge, the internationally famous detective and witty consumptive. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He stopped to fix a border of broken glass he had placed on the footpath. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We were then escorted on foot across the border to the Mexican side of Nogales. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z I look down and run my hand along the edge of the border wall of the field mat. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A quarter mile from Fry, a couple of human-shaped silhouettes were visible at the forest border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It took me a long time before I left the safety of the main house, and I never ventured to the borders of Rose Hill again, not until I came to Miss Preston's years later. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z There were one, two, three smaller holes bordering the top of the hole where Seven stood. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She started a border of small circles that would go all the way around the big stone rectangle. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z By supporting Moore, and, more importantly, by endorsing his new tactic of direct action, Austin would soon have an impact far beyond Durham or even the borders of North Carolina. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In order for him to return to the U.S., he had to cross the border with a coyote, just like he had the first time. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z If we were that close to the border I did not want to be hailed by a sentry along the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The entire length of that border was about to become a battlefront. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Although not illegal, indulging in the so-called grandmaster draw—in which neither player strives to win but, rather, halves the point after a few inconsequential moves have been made—bordered on unprincipled behavior. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I pointed to the cliff wall that bordered this little section of forest. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was told I couldn’t drive him because it was against the law and the authorities would take him at the border rather than let his body cross. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He was a “coyote” and was supposed to help us get through our second obstacle—the border, without getting caught by Immigration. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Brother Luke placed Robin on the stone seat bordering the wall, propping him against the column which rose high to the vaulted roof. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Instead, the immigrants declared the border to be a deadline and treated any black person crossing over as an invader of their turf. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Many families are still asleep but others must have left or been allowed across the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The border between their lands was porous; the Queen’s death would hover over their cities and villages, too. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I put the ocean in there, to represent his hometown, Bensonhurst, which borders the ocean, where he hooked up with all those girls way back when. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He halted their journey, and they rested, squatting like little hunted animals, in the borders of a great brown reed-thicket. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z While I was learning to swim, Irene had spent her summers building fences, moving cattle, branding, and helping the neighbors who bordered her parents’ ranch, and their neighbors. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They found a place in the swamp land bordering the main boardwalk and crouched together, scanning the night traffic, looking for signs of Tool or of Nailer’s father and the half-men he had appeared with. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The expression of dismay burst from Lupita as she looked at the border checkpoint. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z As the two approached the border, they saw that many of the automobiles had parked. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Its far border ended in the trees of a game park. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Instead, I took Ginger for a walk around the golf course that borders swinging singles. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The Romans had already threatened Egyptian borders by seizing control of neighboring Syria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Running for the border with his death three days behind him, and no man speaking to him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was during the First World War that a silent pilgrimage took its first steps within the borders of this country. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We had crossed the border and the signs of poverty were everywhere. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The pot was soot-black and the feeble flames that licked its sides showed pale pink and bordered with black, like flames in mourning. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He simply wanted to get as far from the border as possible. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We were protected again, thanks to the Fleece, sealed inside our magical borders. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They went in single file along hedgerows and the borders of coppices, and night fell dark about them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Papa told us after we got here, after we settled down and were safe, that thousands of people have died crossing the border both ways. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Walking on, he met a third border guard and a fourth. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He was somewhat skeptical, however, and wrote apprehensively to his friend Miyoko Watai in Japan: “I think the Hungarians may arrest me as soon as I cross the border. ” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The lane was bordered on the left by wild, low-growing brambles, on the right by a high, neatly manicured hedge. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Halfway up to the border, Abuelita stopped to buy us new outfits before we drove on. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The young mouse had set a scorching pace, marching through the night from the far borders of Mossflower Wood. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He explained how he’d sneak across the border into Germany, grab Heisenberg, and drag him back to Switzerland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Each had knotted, carefully combed tassels, fleur-de-lis borders, ornate medallion designs, and minute scalloping amid a motif of connected eight-spoked wheels, all in rust and fire orange. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Readers of black newspapers around the country followed the exploits of the Tuskegee airmen with an intensity that bordered on the obsessive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Then Reb Saunders became ill, and at the same time my father also took to his bed with the flu, a severe case that bordered on pneumonia for a while and frightened me terribly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The East German government referred to the structure as the "Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"; it was bordered by minefields and a no-man's-land known as the "death strip." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I trust the black border on the page will not prove prophetic. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z ‘It came out of the mounds that lie on the borders of my country,’ said Pippin. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z True to the meaning of her name, she will be without borders, without a home of her own, a resident everywhere and nowhere. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The war in Vietnam spread to Cambodia when the United States bombed Cambodia’s borders to try to destroy the North Vietnamese bases. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the borders of the USSR, western Europe had now been at war for three years. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The roadway was bordered with daisies and buttercups, pale and thin, of course, compared to the brilliant masses of color in Barbados, but pretty all the same. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The creek ran at the city’s outside edge, so it was likely right outside of the photo’s border. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Eventually some of them were able to bribe guards, cross the border, and make their way to Kraków and other towns. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He tried crossing the border several times before he gave up and stayed in Tijuana. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z With every answer, Mrs. Moss was getting testier, until her attorney interjected, “We’re bordering on harassment.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They flooded across Opium to the border of the United States until that government threatened to put El Patron out of business. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With a deliberation that bordered, to her thinking, on something stylized, he folded his hands together and waited at attention. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z They nodded respectful goodbyes that bordered on bows, and left. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The land on the Opium side of the border was deserted. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many members of the hostile class were resettled to distant provinces along the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He looked at the paper and saw a black-and-white map of the South Side, around the borders of which was a shaded portion an inch deep. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z On one occasion Colonel Gerineldo Márquez asked him for instructions for the evacuation of a spot on the border where there was a danger that the conflict would become an international affair. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “The trucks would be turned back from the border and fined. Maybe even banned from crossing.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On March 17, American B-52s began striking targets across the Vietnamese border in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Although still within the Holy Roman Empire, he had crossed a significant invisible border, from the northern states where the Reformed Churches held sway to the southern region where the Catholic influence was dominant. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The last stop on our tour was Dari’s room, where Indian mixed with American, Bollywood posters bordered baseball posters. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The border guards wore silver gloves and moved the game pieces by waving their fingers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z JING-MEI WOO A Pair of Tickets The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A chain-link fence ran all the way around, and it was bordered on three sides by squat stone houses and on the fourth by another of Yazd’s boulevards. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z A boding of ill we thought it, my father and I, for no tidings had we heard of Boromir since he went away, and no watcher on our borders had seen him pass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You know the border’s closed now, for Americans? Now let’s refocus our attention.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1980s I visited Chetumal, a coastal city on the Mexico- Belize border. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Those of us not ordered to the border will be given city commands, where we’ll hunt down Resistance fighters or Mariner spies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He’d written all the facts and numbers in the center of the board, but he’d also painted a border of smiling eggs to add an “artistic design element.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I watch her for a moment, then turn to the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Grassland, mesquite, scattered low shrubs, and bare rocky soil surrounded both sides of the border. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Two- and three-story wood-frame houses bordered the park on all sides, identical in construction, distinguished by paint color and the type of furniture on their long porches. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Nothing gets inside the borders unless the director, Mr. D, wants it to. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I look down at my supper plate, fried beets swimming in a pool of bright pink juice, half-cooked hash browns turned pink where they border the beets and cold oatmeal. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anti-Turkish rebels set off a car bomb in Ankara, so the Turkish government shut the border,” the man says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The Tumen River, which forms about a third of the border between North Korea and China, is shallow and narrow. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I plowed on until I came to where the hemlocks began to border the road, casting a cool shadow on the snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Beyond this lay the fields, the clear cultivated land bordered by the forest. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Our numbers seem to hold them back from physical assaults, but more shouting matches are starting to break out along the border that is quickly forming. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom says our family was here before the border,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z If I was bom to live on an island, then I’m grateful for one thing: that the tides rearrange the borders. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon he entered one of the mill districts bordering the river. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Baird had been groomed to take over the family dairy farm, located in Lewiston, a small farming town on the border of Utah and Idaho. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The path was now plain before them, well-tended and bordered with stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But now, at dusk, the plaza was empty and the large building that dominated its southwest border was quiet and seemed unoccupied. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For these reasons, border rules began to change in late 2004. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It’s Sunday mid-morning, and the air is still cool and crisp, but the bordering trees have left a carpet of leaves beneath them. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We visited an army unit at the front, and at one point I took a pair of field glasses and could actually see French troops across the border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine, in this heat wearing a gown sprinkled with rubies, diamonds, and pearls, and bordered with 150 feet of Russian ermine. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve come to enjoy the risk, the sensation of vertigo when I realize that I’ve shot right over the border of the socially acceptable, that I’m walking on thin ice, on empty air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We drove all night, slipping across the border just after midnight and reaching Liliesleaf Farm at dawn. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing for it but the straight dash over the border, no way was open but one. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Well, Dr. Carhart said that he’d once taken a train from Switzerland to Italy and at the border the train went through a long dark tunnel. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When your animal has been roused, work in all bad faith to provoke a border intrusion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They came out in the evening shade on a wild meadow bordering a stream. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent the night in the car behind a closed-down gas station a half mile from the border. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked quickly at the borders the other women were embroidering. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Some escaped illegally across borders, slipping into neighboring countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Gray described a place of old stone walls where the earth smelled faintly of tar and hemp, bordered by a river. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The only letters they opened without fear were the ones with red borders, the holiday letters that mustn’t carry bad news. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a ragged strip of grass bordering the street, and as Jake walked along the ground seemed to rise nearer to his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Created in the nineteenth century as a volunteer citizen militia to fight American Indians on the frontier and, later, Mexicans along the border, the Rangers had evolved into a kind of state police force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the first two centuries of colonization, the border between natives and newcomers was porous, almost nonexistent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “No, sir, please. We are just walking to the border. My grandmother needed to rest. We didn’t do anything to your family,” Amil said as loud as he could. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Then she ran off, disappearing into the thick stalks of corn bordering one of the farms that led around the opposite side of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z To his right, the jungle’s trees still loomed like sentries; to his left, a barren expanse of russet dirt stretched several yards wide between the city’s edge and the jungles border to create a no-man’s-land. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Then I bordered all of it with dozens of miniature marigolds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Blythe was in California, but the Arizona border was within spitting distance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She pointed to another spot, bordered by a large cluster of trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Everything beyond its borders may have been withering away, but Central Park was full of fall's royal beauty. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He flashed her that grin, the one that made her borders feel unprotected. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The Germans had now been pushed back over the entire western border of the USSR. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We paid a guard a small bribe and slipped across the border. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z So we quietly plant our hopes out here in the jungle, just a few kilometers from the Angolan border, at the end of an awful road where Mobutu’s spies won’t often risk their fancy cars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The authorities have traced the partial license plate and VIN from the vehicle that exploded to a rental agency on the Illinois-lndiana border. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Instead he says, “Screw you, fence-hopper. Go back across the border.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “No. They work everywhere, not only at the border.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A skinny kid with braces, a member of the debate club as well as drama, he has a passion, bordering on obsession, for recycling. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Headmaster pushed Neel back through the low-hanging branches that bordered the narrow path to the pond. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I read and watched talk shows and took Ginger on walks around the golf course that bordered the swinging singles complex. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She would tackle the problem of land mines when she actually reached the border. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty hours after crossing the border, we arrived, the three of us in the backseat of a red pickup truck that smelled of cigarette smoke and gasoline. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z That evening, Albert’s father took Levi across the border to France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z People in the border states, who had been sheltering runaway slaves, helped further the mystery of an underground road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He thinks about how a year ago, he barely had one family, and now he has three: Maya and Grace and Jess; Mark and Linda; and a family across the border, lost but not gone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And immediately beyond Korea's borders, Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong seized control of the mainland in 1949, following a four-year-long civil war with the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bunches of pansies and roses were meant to bloom in the four corners, all connected by a border of twining green vines. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The interior voice nagging me not to be a fool—to save my skin and take off my skis and walk down, camouflaged by the scrub pines bordering the slope—fled like a disconsolate mosquito. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “It’s in Arkansas, only a little way from the Missouri border.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Straddling the border of France and Switzerland, it employs three thousand people and occupies a site that is measured in square miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z This flag was white, with a red field in the upper left-hand corner containing a blue cross bordered in white and thirteen stars. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Above the shirt is her face, bordered by blond hair pulled back, and highlighted by her cuts. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The roads were paved with stone-flags, dark and hard; and beside their borders instead of trees there marched long lines of pillars, some of marble, some of copper and of iron, joined by heavy chains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “That is the name for men who take people over the border. The boy told me. This Tomás, he is the fattest coyote in Tijuana.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z We knew we needed to keep moving toward Kenya, but we were afraid of the local tribes between Kapoeta and the Kenyan border. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To avoid checkpoints and get farther away from the border, Shin followed a winding footpath up into the mountains, where he walked for most of the day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had finally gotten the hang of his journal, writing things that bordered on thoughtful—but it was still just a sham. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was 1998 and they were building a hydroelectric dam on the Taedong River, which forms the southern border of Camp 14. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Ruined walls bordered a square courtyard about the size of a tennis court. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The sun was bending to the west, so he might not make it to the border before dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer sat just over the border, in Berlin's Soviet sector. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Nine out of ten households traded to survive.1 More and more North Koreans sneaked across the border into China for food, work, trade, and flight to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I look in the distance, at the chain-link fence bordering the parking lot. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z “There’s no point being at the border unless we learn something. Something to help us cross.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The prestige of his outlandish voracity, of his immense capacity as a spendthrift, of his unprecedented hospitality went beyond the borders of the swamp and attracted the best-qualified gluttons from all along the coast. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The village, like many others in the region, was populated mainly by Yanomami Indians, a forest society on the Brazil-Venezuela border that is among the least Westernized on earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not long after they cross the border, they look out of the window and see a black sheep standing in a field. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z For as I say, as I motored on in the sunshine towards the Berkshire border, I continued to be surprised by the familiarity of the country around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “His music stopping barroom brawls and border wars.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z All the same, she braved a run at the border. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped over the low stone border and onto Uncle’s property. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I looked all around us again, at the rusted border poles coming out of the water, the headlights shining across the waves. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z To provide an alibi, he ordered air strikes right up to the edge of the Vietnam-Cambodia border, starting twelve hours before they would cross into Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z There was only a rhythmic vibration just below the border of actual hearing. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z White mists began to rise and curl on the surface of the river and stray about the roots of the trees upon its borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We’re not far from the border, and the people of this region look and speak so much as they did in Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To places that didn’t share a border with slave states, had never countenanced the abomination of slavery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Haukelid slipped across the border to Sweden, beyond the reach of the German search for the ferry saboteurs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As she walked along the rising road that bordered the sea, Lupita’s eyes smarted from the sharp brightness of the blue water and the white surf curling onto the beach many feet below. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z One by one, the pods are lined up like a white-bricked garden border along the perimeter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lee, whose identity was confirmed by South Korean intelligence officials, worked for three years along the China-North Korea border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the border was finished, Maa took the sari to the marketplace. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z In seconds I’m off the slope, moving on the level, closer to the border crossing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he does not want to reach the border penniless. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z At the point where Ida's garden bordered the canal there was a gate in the wall, just a few inches above the waterline. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But even the deafest and most stay-at-home began to hear queer tales; and those whose business took them to the borders saw strange things. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Once we crossed the border into Ethiopia, we were in forest again. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The soldier at the border looked no different from the debils who had terrorized us, but we eventually came out from behind the trees. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I chose a pattern with a woven look at the corners that resembles the weaving of a basket, five strips of fabric around the border. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They moved quickly between other enclosures, but when they reached the grounds’ border, her steps slowed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Jurassic refers to the Jura Mountains on the border of France and Switzerland. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You could take the road,” the old woman continued, “but the border patrol would ask you for identity papers. Do you have any?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was wide and pleasant, bordered with trees and edged with a pleasant meadow. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I became impatient, stuck to the huge toll road that strings the northern border of Indiana, bypassed Elkhart and South Bend and Gary. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s not even a real war, not like World War II. It’s all terrorist attacks and retaliation and enemies without borders. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z No one really knew what lay beyond its borders. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dress was grey wool bordered with white satin; over it she wore an ermine cloak clasped with a silver wolf’s head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their route was taking them well to the right of the cloud, to the east of Dunkirk, toward the Belgian border. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z While No. 46 was working on Brown, another operative, No. 28, learned a seemingly vital secret from a young Kaw Indian woman who lived near the western border of Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And most of them crossed the border at its softest point, in Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Link house stands on a cul-de-sac, up a slight rise with tall young oaks raining acorns over a small front yard and a curtain of cedar and pine bordering the back. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Duties complete, he scampered across the field and through the stand of trees bordering the swimming pool. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z How his cousin would show up in her red Acura and drive us all the way down to the Mexican border. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Russia bordered twelve other countries these days, and some of those countries bordered some of the world’s wealthiest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She drove herself across the border to Mexico with Adelaide Belle Perry’s passport. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Made of intricate bands of metal, within the round border of the amulet lay two overlapping circles, one on top of the other. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z We find a viewing spot on the fake hillside to watch the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It was freshly painted with borders of orchids and lilies and water hyacinths outlining each panel. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the procedure undertaken borders on the doubtful. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Sí, that is what I ask and so do the others who help people cross the border.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Before long they came to the borders of the Entwash, and there they met the other trail of which Éomer had spoken, coming down from the East out of the Wold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Eventually they also made hazardous supply flights to the partisans, the guerrilla groups who were fighting against the Germans in the Bryansk Forest near the Russian border with Ukraine. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Escorted by that caravan of trucks, they were driven, without a word, up through a crimson sunset and the occasional energetic wing bursts of horned larks, to the Colorado border. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A border of ermine lined the neck and provided slender sleeves that only covered her shoulders. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The ground was cool under my bare feet and suddenly, for the first time since we had crossed the border, I felt like I was back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I turned around and saw them coming too, two border patrol trucks rolling up the hill with their headlights full force on us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Among the Yankees pouring down to the border was Charles Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the region’s colonial-era records survived in the Mexican town of Altar, in the border state of Sonora. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rounded stones bordered the path, and sunlight filtered down through the canopy of trees. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The United States had installed Jupiter medium-range missiles, topped with nuclear warheads, along the Turkish-Russian border, putting them within easy range of Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A marching host of Elves had come up silently: they were hastening toward the northern borders to guard against any attack from Moria; and they brought news, some of which Haldir reported. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The shadow of night rose, dividing the eastern sky into pale blue above and gray below, with a rosy border where the sunlight still shone on a haze of dust in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many people from other parts of the Shire were also asked; and there were even a few from outside the borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I wondered if they sent the people back to the other side of the border. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We finally found a cheap, rundown motel on Campillo Street, a few blocks from the border. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Not when he cut class as a sophomore to cross the border to Juarez to shoot pool and drink. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “But in the message—I could have read it to you again if you hadn’t burned it— it says that the group who wants to close the border is headed by Mentor! The schoolteacher!” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “It’s closing its borders to people like us.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Hitler orders troops to the border of Czechoslovakia, sending a strong warning to those who dare to mistreat Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The lawn outside the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She would look around the walls of the room, which they had decorated together last summer with a border of marching ducks and rabbits playing trumpets and drums. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She doesn’t respond, and we stand there, staring at each other in silence, something bordering on understanding passing between us. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z They camped in a dry gully bordered by a tangle of shrubs, and took shifts dozing on the hard rock ground and keeping watch. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z On the edge of the green is Mrs. Spencer, a white woman whose farm borders the school. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Cleopatra sent her soldiers to guard strongholds on Egypt’s borders, expecting Mark Antony’s troops to engage Octavian on land, but Mark Antony no longer had an army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It was close to the border of Denmark, close to where my sister, Anni, might be. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z This done, he moved with slow step and abstracted air towards a door in the wall bordering the orchard. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She liked the idea so well that she felt there must be something bordering on sin involved in it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The tiny box has silver antenna rods, and its curved screen is framed by a wood-grain border, with two chrome dials and a teeny-tiny built-in speaker. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The countryside was striking from here, a deep green sweep of playing fields and bordering shrubbery, with the school stadium white and miniature-looking across the river. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke with a finality bordering on indifference. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “A visit from a fairy broker is a significant event, and carries certain expectations. I’ll concede that the merriment borders on foolishness.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Most of the rabbits were feeding near the Mark holes, which were close beside the field, concealed among the trees and undergrowth bordering a lonely bridle path. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Old scars with old motifs stitched along their borders. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “And not from Kojo. His grandfather came to America from Zimbabwe, a landlocked country in southern Africa that’s bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia, and Mozambique.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “So they must have taken the precaution of moving some of their avatars outside of Sector Ten. They were probably waiting in a gunship just across the sector border, where it was safe.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There are bales of hay lining the entire surface of the trailer, stacked up higher along the back, and red bandanas knotted together like streamers all around the border of the frame. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Is that true?” asked Matt, who knew almost nothing about the countries bordering the Farms. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stroked her knees, just above the border of her embroidered socks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, I get it,” a border guard said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And while Americans were still digesting these worrisome assessments, out of the Middle East came the first sketchy reports of Egyptian troops massing on the Israeli border. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The borders of the two tents in the clearing stood no more than four or five feet apart. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z None of the rest of them—Rishi or Pappa or Ma—could ever manage casual nonchalance bordering on arrogance. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Did they have any trouble with immigration people at the border? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Each segment was bordered by a solid line. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z If he lived closer to the border, he might be able to pick up a foreign station from England or Switzerland. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They take buses across Guatemala to the Mexican border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The whole situation was a little suspicious, but the girl's passport was in good order, and she'd been approved to cross the border before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Gram is uneasy, I can see her eyes flitting nervously around the room, like she's crossing the border into a really foreign country. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t sure just what it was, but it looked like they meant to mount a huge attack on Khe Sanh, the American base next to the Laotian border. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As for the dog, I always got my pets at animal shelters, so I called the Wasilla shelter and was told—perfect, really—that they had a three-legged border collie that needed a good home. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As they started toward the border, the white beam from the helicopter held them in its light. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Defeat drives them to the worst this border world has to offer: drugs, despair, and death. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In a moment of mischief I made the border of blossoms from the mango tree. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The gate between the rampant wolves was wrought iron, bearing the symbol of the sacred ash and bordered by a high, spiked fence that circled the Ice Court’s grounds. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The map showed picnic areas and a playground off to the left, near the inland border. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But I am going down beyond the southern borders to get some news, if I can. I have been idle longer than I should.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z England had a sense of compactness, like a garden, a lovely garden, but this country was without borders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ten days after a joint communique by the government and the opposition announced the end of the war, there was news of the first armed uprising of Colonel Aureliano Buendía on the western border. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She said that when he and her mom met, he’d just crossed the border, so he was the freshest kind of mojado. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The locations were changed but the settings were alike—a strip of wasteland bordered by rows of rotted shacks, and somewhere near a mill, a cotton gin, or a bottling plant. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now her trip north would be delayed, and she'd spent too much of her money, and on top of all that, she’d left her passport at the border. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Early the next morning, Shin hopped a coal train bound for nearby Musan, a mining town on the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Syrian guards aren’t interested in who comes to the border from the Turkish side,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I made Ma promise not to tell our relatives I was coming to the country right across the border. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Bartolo told me there would be trains near the warehouses just over the border. We’ll go in a moment to look for the train tracks.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z My half-sleeve collared shirt came from a thrift emporium at the border between Lake and Winter. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z From there the driver drove off the main road toward the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z For a large commission, would he exchange $50,000 in lempiras on the border with El Salvador? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z That name even you hobbits have heard of, like a shadow on the borders of old stories. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “When my grandfather was my age, he had dropped out of school, crossed the border, and was supporting his family. So, no.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Roads literally stopped at the border of many black neighborhoods, shifting from pavement to dirt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It takes a few hours to cross the first state border. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He sat down on the border of grass and leaned against a telephone pole. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z We were high in the mountains and had just crossed the Montana border into Idaho. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z To meet once a week seemed to him much less regular, entirely too haphazard, bordering on carelessness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z So we break camp, walk over to the beach that borders the lightning section, and head into the jungle. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Evil had been seen and heard there, sorrow had been known; the Elves feared and distrusted the world outside: wolves were howling on the wood’s borders: but on the land of Lórien no shadow lay. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And there have been other things. There have been sightings of strange creatures near the border of the Wood. Creatures that are not human. We have encountered them ourselves on our journey here.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z We don’t see many of the Big Folk over the border; and anyway I had never heard of any like this black fellow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I knew that he would get my fellow pikins from the border to their new homes in America. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke, he led me to the shelter of the tall hedges bordering the garden labyrinth I had often seen from my window. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z What was the border patrol guarding that was so valuable? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The border is now empty of people and traffic, but crawling with Turkish guards in gas masks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He’d done security convoy, escorting trucks to the Turkish border, dressed in full body protection, hoping neither he nor the trucks would stumble onto land mines or IEDs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z A border of zinnias surrounded an oval parking area. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Spreading south at a mere one mile per month, those pioneers would have reached the southern tip of South America only 700 years after crossing the Canadian border. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No. We should call the border patrol. I bet they know what to do,” Pita said, sounding older than her ten years. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There’s the constant lite FM, which occasionally borders on dangerously funky, coming out of the nurses’ station whether Smitty or Howard is behind it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The South’s schizophrenia over how to deal with the North is occasionally acted out in a kind of Kabuki theater on the border between the two Koreas. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “No, it’s not! I really like that design on the border. Have you shown Aunty yet?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Hazel crossed the road without waiting for Pipkin, who caught him up under the hedge bordering the near side of the little lane. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Furthermore, all foreign scythes must register before crossing our border,’’ he said. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She hoped that he could cross the border fast as a fox- far away from the snares of those who would trap him. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The stories were nothing like his story; for this he felt a gratitude bordering on love. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At night we climbed to the roof and looked north across the border.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the very least, the border patrol would keep an eye on that particular area of the river in case anyone else tried sneaking through that gap in the fence. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Treebeard stood alone there now, like the distant stump of an old tree: the hobbits thought of their first meeting, upon the sunny ledge far away on the borders of Fangorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Bridge had once believed that state borders were something you could see, actual black lines that you could walk along if you wanted to, one foot in front of the other. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Interstate 35 goes from the Mexican border all the way up to Lake Superior, and some of the heaviest traffic is along the two-hundred-fifty-mile stretch between San Antonio and Dallas. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z A group of men were caught bringing liquor in over the Canadian border in cartons of eggs. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The land was green: in the wet meads and along the grassy borders of the stream grew many willow-trees. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The first streaks of evening lay against the sky like a purple border on a blue sari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She thought that if she walked along the border of the Wood she would eventually come to another village where she could hire a carriage with the promise of payment upon arrival in Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I lock my eyes on the border to track activity. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z So close to hills where smugglers cut border fences to let people through. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At the border post separating the Soviet Union from Finland, Gordievsky lay motionless, covered with a heavy blanket. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The city darkens as I reach its border, a wide dirt clearing a few yards wide that separates Lkossa from the first of the Greater Jungle’s towering black pines. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z But she couldn’t, you don’t take a cat on a day trip across the border. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She forced herself to recall the house in New Rochelle with its borders of flowers and the flagstone walk. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to leave sight of the freeway now,” Salvador told her, “and walk on the bordering streets. Not even a goat could walk along these steep banks.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z From inside the bungalows bordering the plateau and jutting out over the water, we could hear the rattling of plates and silverware. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z “Unless you want to get skewered by your friends in cabin five. Here—Chiron thought these would fit. You’ll be on border patrol.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We’re so close to the Syrian border, which boils with guards and tear gas and people clamoring to cross. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Whether in the sugarcane fields or by the leafy stream bordering my family’s land, being outside had always calmed me. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z All the while, they were riding along a range of hills that bordered the fields. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The border guards hear me, or perhaps they hear the hush in the crowd. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A pair of border guards lounged at a table in front of another door made of reinforced glass.They were playing a game Matt had never seen. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The fields were bordered by poplars and crisscrossed by streams and irrigation ditches, on the banks of which tiny female figures squatted and washed clothes. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z After his mother’s funeral, Lorena’s dad took the bus from Guerrero all the way to the Arizona border, where he met a man from his hometown who everyone had recommended. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In all, the INS has hired more than 5,600 additional agents since 1993 to expand its forces along the southern U.S. border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Rich land is scarce in Kerm, and a Domain’s pride is in the length of its borders, and the lords of Kerm Land are proud men and umbrageous men, casting black shadows. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the one not fabulous section in Brandywine, a narrow valley of older apartment houses between the dumps and the highway that bordered the next school district. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Smugglers exploit refugees by charging exorbitant fees to smuggle them across European borders, hiding them in trucks and containers, where they are at high risk of abuse, injury, sickness, detection, and even death. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z With eight other Mexicans he did not know, he crawled through a sewer tunnel that started in Tijuana and ended on the other side of the border, in what Mexicans call El Norte. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He stuck to the borders, avoiding the carpet inlay. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Helmut waited, car lights on, until I had disappeared down a narrow, twisting path that led into an unpaved street bordering Alexandra to the north. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I told her about Mother’s cousin who lives in Peshawar and that she was going to meet us at the border.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He knew what he had seen with his own eyes all his life, the mutilated bodies and pools of blood at the Greater Jungle’s border. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “I don't want that to seem weird, like I'm trying to follow you across state borders. It's just, well, it's someplace new, you know? A fresh start.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Gold leaf illumined the capitals and the delicate tracery which bordered the pages. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z It was like crossing the border into another country. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Moreton Bay is bordered on the north by Redcliffe and on the south by Wellington Point, with Wynnum in the middle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I could see it now—a blue star centered on a white field, surrounded by a red border. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The second time he hit the southern border, he was transported to the northern border again. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west , as the little boats went rustling by along their fluttering borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I don’t have to look over my shoulder to know that we are nearing the edge of the circle’s border; a few more steps and I will lose this. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It has infected law enforcement activities on roads, sidewalks, highways, train stations, airports, and the nation’s border. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On the highway, trucks hiss their brakes, stopping at the border before entering the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Early in their history, the Marajoara must have sneered at the lowly cultures on their borders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I figured outside the camp borders, there must be a blizzard happening. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “My mother loves roses. We had them all around the border of our house.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Game would be more abundant in the dwarf willows that bordered the waterways. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Entering Stamps, I had the feeling that I was stepping over the border lines of the map and would fall, without fear, right off the end of the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The East has half of humanity within its borders, and the Tropics more than half of Earth’s resources. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z So I went home, and with Lmatarion and a friend and some soldiers I knew, I went up to an area near the Ethiopian border where there are a lot of cows. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Spassky’s respect for his nemesis bordered on adulation and possibly even fear. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bull stood there accepting the small hurts of the border skirmishes waged on four frontiers of his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of three days, he sent us to Oujda, a dusty little town right across the border from Algeria and the headquarters of the Algerian army in Morocco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will be safer there. It is too far away from the border for the RUF to kidnap children.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a school on the reservation border filled with the poorest Indians and poorer-than-poorest white lads. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The long scarf I’m wearing with it is a cheerful red with a blue border. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She ordered them to follow her and went into the woods that bordered the road, plunging into the woods, almost running. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Although I was not far outside my own country’s borders, I felt as though I were in an exotic land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He says we should close our borders so that real Americans can get the jobs they deserve. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought of writing about being deported, but I did not want my teacher to know that my family had crossed the border illegally and that I was born in Mexico. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z It was clearly hand drawn, embroidered by a lush border filled with any number of creatures within the leaves. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I was sweating like a heroin smuggler at a border crossing when we cracked the door open onto the girl-less girls’ floor. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z To get them away from the border with its armed guards and that crazy man with his documents and gestures and pointing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z And Adah, crocheting black borders on napkins and tossing them to the wind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I say, “Doesn’t the Ohio River run the entire border? So we’d have to stand on a bridge—” But he keeps right on like he doesn’t hear me. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Behind them, on the border itself, was a tangle of cast-off machinery and tanks that seeped a black liquid onto the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In Camp 14, Shin had often discussed with Park what they would do after they crossed the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The flowers swayed in the cool afternoon breeze as I strolled through the garden toward the bushes bordering the main verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z After his election to the White House, President Trump limited the influx of refugees, increased immigration arrests, and pressed to build a wall along the United States’ border with Mexico. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Gray like the others surrounding it except for the roses my mother planted around its border just before I was born; they still bloomed each spring around this time, without fail. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And a town not too far from where you live has a law that bars me from coming within five miles of its borders. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The plane took off in weather that was surprisingly cool for central Bolivia and flew east, toward the Brazilian border. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He talked about China for more than half a day, explaining where to cross the Tumen and how to behave at the checkpoints near the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I slid over the stone wall and began to run crouched over toward the stone wall at the other side of the field which bordered the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days there were only two topics of conversation: the Radio Mullah and the fighting just across the border in Afghanistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The man back in the truck at the border had been right: That was where things changed. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z They ruled the drug empire that formed the border between the United States and Aztlan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m not saying I will, but I could go on for hours escorting the reader—forcibly, if necessary—back and forth across the Paris-Chinese border. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Red awnings with thick green borders hung across the wide windows of the large, squat building. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He told me later he had received the wound during a border skirmish with the outlaw dragons who lived in the hills of the seashore. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mad weird seeing across the border for the first time in my entire life, taking in the country where my grandparents were born. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “We must be well inside the border,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z German guards apprehended him when he crossed the German border from Austria. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After plannings and more plannings by El Alacrán and the rest, dodging bands of police and border patrols, I Manuel Flores, shivering with fear and cold, have touched the earth of the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z We trudge on through the snow, the lights beckoning to us in the distance, the park border coming slowly closer and closer. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z She neatened the border of her sari where it rose diagonally across her chest. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The grass was neatly trimmed, and almost every yard had a border of flowers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The train stopped in Kaschau, a small town on the Czechoslovakian border. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way he said the word, I knew that at that moment he had crossed some invisible border into a different land, and he would not be returning to our childish band again. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It forbade Germany to place soldiers in the Rhineland, a wide strip of unprotected German land that bordered France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of people were searching on both sides of the border, but without much success. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The border control agents had said that Ampai had died in a fire only hours after Nok's visit to the Governor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The thought of a scythe having milk and cookies before bed bordered on absurd to Citra. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The Bushi family came from Kacanik, an Albanian town of twenty-eight thousand in the mountains of southern Kosovo, not far from the border with Macedonia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The ceilings were high, but no cherubs danced around garlands, and no braided molding curled around the borders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z What if I have to get a temporary tattoo at the border, as we’re pulling in to New York Manhattan City Island? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z What could this man know of borders and states’ rights and die Constitution and Died Scott? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a job, Park traveled north to the border with his wife, where they illegally crossed into China and stayed with his uncle for eighteen months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Well, we might have trouble getting across the border....” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The street below was poorly lit, bordered not by leafy trees but by closely parked cars, nothing like the pretty street on The Cosby Show. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z More tightly organized and military minded than Tiwanaku, the rulers of Wari stamped out cookie-cutter fortresses and stationed them all along their borders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Caroline had tried to make the sweatshirts more appealing by sewing large Santas, bordered with glitter, on the fronts, but this only made the dingy cotton seem dingier. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She was holding a leather purse in her lap which matched the turquoise border of her sari. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z So I set out with the other refugees for the Sudanese town of Pochala, not far from the Ethiopian border. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “We advise you not to cross the border with him, then.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z High Commissioner for Refugees from working along the border with North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I ignore the growling in my stomach and pray that I'll be at the west border of Central Park soon. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Of white wool it had been, bordered in cloth-of-silver and patterned with blue stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The change in speed sent him stumbling across the border into one of the oily black pools, where he fell on his stomach and skidded out the other side in a plume of goo. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Around the time that Shin and Park were formulating their escape plan, the North Korean government concluded that the border had become far too porous and posed a threat to internal security. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Because of this, things on the border had become very tense. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He turned onto a walkway bordering one of the smaller canals. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now might come a Saxon wearing the beard and a sort of Phrygian cap, as a sign of defiance—now a knight from the Marches of the Northern border. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The stream was there no more than a winding black ribbon, bordered with leaning alder-trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Nothing that bordered on the undisciplined or unorthodox was tolerated at PM. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Not long after that we came to the border of Ethiopia. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This was also true of the cement squares of the walkway leading up to the Perfect House, which were bordered by perfectly matching azalea bushes, all the same height, alternating between pink and white blossoms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The Shire-hobbits referred to those of Bree, and to any others that lived beyond the borders, as Outsiders, and took very little interest in them, considering them dull and uncouth. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Several times, we see the family I crossed the border with. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He got scared and ran back across the border. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “As I did before—cross the border. The Orgota have nothing against me.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z In spite of their fear, they reacted to an oppressive oddity, or what they called evil days, with an acceptance that bordered on welcome. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z For this reason, he had decided to send American soldiers across the border into Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Out in the field nearby they were laying out bodies, row after row, the feet all even and the toes pointing upward like rows of black leaves on the border of a garden. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We hardly have a functional hospital in our borders, or a passable road outside Kinshasa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time he is deported, Enrique knows he must quickly get back over the river, into Mexico, away from Guatemala’s lawless border towns. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And more: twelve girls and six of their parents from Aberdeen High School, South Dakota, who cheered her with signs as she crossed the border from North to South Dakota. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Armed guards stopped us at the border gate and asked us for documentation. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z How to start with the edges, the borders, and work in, using my imagination. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad gave no explanation as we drove through the border town and headed for the interior. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know how your parents crossed the border?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Although the borders remained sealed to tourists, life started returning to something a little closer to normal after The Occupation ended, which was soon after I left. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it is a divisive national issue, pitting those who welcome cheap labor against those with concerns about border security and the cost of providing social services. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z After a while we turned south, toward the border with Guatemala. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But today she’d decided to drive us to the border herself because there was only room in the pickup for six people. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The soldiers bordered the town along the west and the north in two long fire-speckled fences—a lovely sight in the gathering dusk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They both know it’s wishful thinking that borders on delusion, but right now it’s all they have. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z And how weird is it they put cops all along the border so no Mexicans could sneak in? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “But they’re getting all the fame and opportunity,” Milo persisted with a petulance that bordered on sniveling. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For the next six months they were assigned to protect railway lines and other industrial targets near the border with Poland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The Long Island area included within the gypsy moth spraying in 1957 consisted chiefly of heavily populated towns and suburbs and of some coastal areas with bordering salt marsh. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Finally he looked toward the border of Village, to the place where the path entered Forest and became shrouded in shadows. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They were marched into a communal shower by the border guards. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The border was crowded with soldiers who either didn’t speak English or pretended not to. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He later learned they were Chinese border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “How do you come to speak my language? Did you serve on Ravka’s northern border?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Free to report for duty as full-fledged servants of the Empire, after which we’ll lead men to their deaths in the never-ending border wars with Wildmen and Barbarians. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z When people began chipping away at the Berlin Wall, more joined in—including the very East German border guards who were supposed to protect it. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The crust beneath us continued to crack and as we reached the border of the field the frigid trees also were cracking with the cold. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “They got robbed when they crossed the border,” she says, wiping her hands on her apron and looking toward the door. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Three days later, at the Brazilian border, Rondon’s boat came up alongside Roosevelt’s yacht, and they met for the first time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The page she’d opened to appeared to be a map of Turkey, though no roads were marked and no borders indicated. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z So he came up with a sketchy plan: he would travel west and south, putting as much distance as possible between himself, North Korea, and border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The plantings had, by then, expanded from the hothouse to a plot of land by the abbey—a twenty-foot-by-hundred-foot rectangle of loam that bordered the refectory, visible from his room. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I want to rest, but Baba is determined to reach the border before we stop. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Isn’t that why Amá never told us what happened to her on the border? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Disease usually results from inconclusive negotiations for symbiosis, an overstepping of the line by one side or the other, a biologic misinterpretation of borders. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Declaration’s note back to me was prickly, bordering on peevish. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I hope I am close to the border, but truly I do not know. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Cutthroat turned gentleman, he escorted her safely to the Egyptian border. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The route terminates at the city’s southeast border, close to Richard’s house. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The play area was bordered by wood-slat benches where old-country people sat cracking roasted watermelon seeds with their golden teeth and scattering the husks to an impatient gathering of gurgling pigeons. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z To that end, Shin said he had twice traveled to border areas inside China and planned to do so again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z These refuges are part of a chain including also the refuge on Upper Klamath Lake just over the border in Oregon. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The same bright lights that bordered the winding path hung in the air over the walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the untreated fields there was no trouble; the damage stopped at the border between treated and untreated fields. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So far, I’m good: no hand stamp at the border, and nobody’s tried to kill me. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They say he was in Azerbaijan when the war began, and the borders were closed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We left two days later in a black pickup truck, driven by a man Rafael had found who took people to and from the border. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z All around the edge of the quilt I put a border of bugs and butterflies. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z At that time, our village was really far away from the school, near the northern border of Kenya. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z A family steps from the hordes to speak to the border guards. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It was not what he expected when he boarded the bus to the border, but it did not take long for him to realize that success in the United States required more than hard work. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “I fled in a hay wagon, disguised as a milkmaid. They never thought to look for me there, and I crossed the border with papers I forged myself in a woodcutter’s hut.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The local people along the border, the Anyuak, were good to us, and we went from village to village. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get to the border we’ll pretend we’re just going over on a day trip; the fake visas are for a day. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Nabila stepped outside and joined me in the garden bordering our verandah. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They fought in Sherman’s devastating “March to the Sea” and in the last battle of the Civil War at the Battle of Columbus on the Georgia-Alabama border. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And this was a minimum, because there seems to have been some overlapping of treatments along field borders and in corners. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then she sheared off the tops of the hedge that borders Phoebe’s yard. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z In the past half century, the governments of China and North Korea have cooperatively used their security forces to make sure that the intermittent seepage of Koreans across the border never turns into a flood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The KGB, which guarded the USSR's borders and kept watch over foreigners and Soviet citizens alike, was on high alert. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was an old woman whose space bordered mine. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Edna could not control a feeling which bordered upon complacency at her friend’s praise, even realizing, as she did, its true worth. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson noticed that Washington seemed “unusually reticent” about his choice, probably because Mount Vernon adjoined the site and Washington also owned considerable acreage within its borders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Every mother on both sides of the border warns her children that La Llorona will get them if they wander too close to the river. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Having reserved his limited cash for the cigarettes and snacks he gave to border guards, he had eaten little in recent days. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Madison did need to come up with at least three votes on assumption—here Jefferson's account is accurate—and eventually four members switched their votes, all of them congressmen from districts bordering on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They were standing in a country lane bordered by high, tangled hedgerows, beneath a summer sky as bright and blue as a forget-me-not. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Exactly a year before, the Soviets had begun moving troops over the borders into the country. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They were walking along a winding path on one of the many hills in San Francisco, bordered on one side by green grass and on the other by squat houses, a road, and parked cars. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Her lips were coated in a complementary coral gloss, and a bit of the color had strayed beyond the borders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Modeled after the border crossings above ground, the sign was perhaps meant as a joke among spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He escaped from the Russian army and snuck over the Polish border and married my mother in an arranged marriage. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They were probably unsavories—people who found enjoyment in activities that bordered on the fringe of the law. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z One of the defectors was a woman in her forties who had crossed the border before. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Gently Ned covered the boy with his cloak, a bloodstained bit of blue bordered in crescent moons. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Many of the residents in the camp were single men, most of whom, like us, had crossed the border illegally. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the square, I noticed that there was a white truck of an odd, square shape parked on the street bordering it, perhaps a block away. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I barely have time to give the order before Blue Platoon is on us, fighting as viciously as if we're a tribe of border raiders. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The room is small, tiled white with a border of tiny blue mosaics. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He couldn’t like Professor Trelawney, even though she was treated with respect bordering on reverence by many of the class. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The forests were of all shapes and sizes, and many of them bordered one of the schools. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Baby tarpon are abundant in all that labyrinth of mangrove-lined streams and canals bordering the lower third of the western coast of Florida. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Decorative hieroglyphic borders were added to the poster-paint pictures that already adorned the walls of the temple. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Various teams of Indians who had slipped across the twisted passes of the border undetected were working for Jean de Satigny. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bordering Jade River constantly flooded, sweeping away the strongest of walls as if flicking a lock of hair. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He suffered, in the words of one of his few biographers, from shyness to a "degree bordering on disease." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It’s a perfecdy round blue lake with a border of grass between the water and the road. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to the thick bushes and the swamps and muddy banks that bordered the creeks, only small bodies could wiggle into the dry nooks and crannies of the island. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z But the people living in the Great Lakes region are confused by their place on the country’s edge—an edge that is border but not coast. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I learn that Burma is the largest country in Southeast Asia, that it borders India and China and Siam. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I wanted to jump out of the truck and run, run down the hills dipping into sandy valleys in front of familiar houses bordered with passion fruit and morning glory. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Mei-li and the cave and getting chased by the cops and Mong saying I was his best friend and then going swimming and me staring through the Mexican border at the kid selling clay suns. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At the border, North Korean authorities detained Park and his family. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Behind the hospital was a wide, sloping lawn, bordered by flower gardens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Marlena skips theatrically around the border, a whirl of shimmering pink. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It’s the man who crossed the border with his family. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z More and more countries are closing their borders to refugees coming from Syria. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z In August 1967 a missionary’s two-year-old daughter came down with measles in a village on the Toototobi River in Brazil, near the border with Venezuela. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There were alleyways and roads bordered by teetering piles of broken and damaged furniture, stowed away, perhaps, to hide the evidence of mishandled magic, or else hidden by castle-proud house-elves. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I pull out a bar for the three of us to share as we gaze at a radio tower across the border in the Dominican Republic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z This state of affairs produced a temporary anarchy and a state of mind bordering on hysteria, particularly among the planter elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Midway was to be fun, a great pleasure garden stretching for more than a mile from Jackson Park all the way to the border of Washington Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The sun was bright, and the crisp line of shadow, downhill, made a visible border. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her voice incited others, and now large numbers of people were calling out, “Close Village! Close the border!” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Already war is gathering on his eastern borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He touches the border of the shrubbery with the rim of his racket and sets one or two wild irises nodding. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They decided we must walk farther into the interior, toward the border with Kenya. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Her spirit had reinforced the magic borders of the camp, protecting it from monsters. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z So well adapted was the border culture to this environment that other ethnic groups tended to copy it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There was only one problem: the borders were closed and no one was permitted to leave Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Back on the ground, we stroll along the quays bordering the Seine, where so many writers walked for centuries before penning their masterpieces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I stood near the border of the girls’ area, waiting, trying to spot Michelle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Having enjoyed a good morning's motoring in splendid weather, and having lunched well at a country inn, I had just crossed the border into Dorset. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Slowly Dermer s crew realized they were sailing along the border of a cemetery two hundred miles long and forty miles deep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was at the beginning of time, and a river ran outside Yo's window, bordered by cypresses, willows, great sweating ferns, thick stalks and palms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They drove south from Rapid City and after two hours crossed the South Dakota-Nebraska border. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he bounds away he yells, “Trusting fool! You will never reach the border!” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Past small office buildings; past the bicycle repair shop; and now she could see the river that bordered the community, its dark water moving swiftly, foaming around rocks here and there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The bold flags in the border, the faces of the kids in the middle, give me strange comfort. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Just before we reached the South Dakota border, Gramps took a detour north because he had seen a sign advertising the Pipestone National Monument in Pipestone, Minnesota. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “Checking that nobody has sneaked on to cross the border,” Baba says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z At the far eastern edge of MidMerica, near the EastMerica border, was a home with a river running beneath it, spilling from its foundations into a waterfall. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He said that trains pulled up to stops filled with dead people from both sides of the border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z New York was a Free State, they argued, and any colored person became magically free once they stepped over the border. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had been told that the crop is harvested by Canucks from Canada who flood over the border at harvest time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Even within the safe borders of camp, that’s not the kind of advertising we wanted to do. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I’m scared to travel farther from the border and my family, but I can’t stay in the hills another night. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He grips a small bundle and doesn’t look strong enough to outrun border guards, yet that’s exactly what he did. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z If both countries set aside land along their common border, the dealers would establish Farms and stop the flow of Illegals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She does not know what happened after he was driven across the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One of their roommates, Bobby, gave them a ride to the border of the valley on Hannibal the elephant. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z With crowds of people, heavy traffic, uniformed officials shouting and directing, it reminds me sharply of the Syrian border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He managed to get across the border to Sweden by bicycle and traveled from there, by plane, to Great Britain. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It bordered the Bakers’ backyard, with a wall of hedges separating it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z They go back and forth because they’ve been living there since way before those borders existed and they have no paperwork because they don’t belong to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “The Mael doesn’t even share a border with us. It’s as far away as anywhere can be in the Fae.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was because she was raised within the physical borders of such a place, because she lived in proximity with the Dreamers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He could smell the scent of the pine grove that bordered the area. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I brushed the dripping heads of the azaleas as I passed, so close they grew together, bordering the path. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Border guards have guns, Ghalib. Their job is to secure the border to Turkey. They’re not going to care what happens to people hiding illegally.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Ekon didn’t admit it aloud, but the more distance they put between themselves and the jungle’s border, the better he felt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “All right. We’ll go to the warfront and find out where Eden is, then cross the border. The Colonies will probably welcome us—maybe even help us.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Yes. Much more. But perhaps the Ekumen, which is a hundred light-years from border to border, will be patient with us awhile.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At her feet, Yolanda is knitting furiously at a tiny blanket, pink and baby blue and pastel yellow squares with a white border. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Ever since the U.S. bombings of Jalalabad, the flood of refugees had increased tenfold, causing more confusion and chaos along the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Then, on the drive home, as Gramps and I were approaching the California-Oregon border, I just had this sudden flash—a vision of me lugging a cello through New York City. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and “her place.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks later, Bobby, Eugene Torre, and the two bodyguards drove in a rented car to the border of Hungary, were asked for their passports, and without further delay were allowed to pass. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Around midnight they crossed the border into Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Three hours she gave to stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They were smuggled into prisons and concentration camps and across borders into Sweden and Switzerland. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And you can see them perfect ’cause they got these border-patrol vans parked right there on the sand, shining their headlights over the border part of the water. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “They’ll probably get the traffickers to bring them over the border since their passage has been paid for. Once Mariam reaches Peshawar, it will be much easier to find her.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Unluckily, he fell in within the county borders. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He crossed the empty square and turned into a narrow street that was abruptly quieter even yet, and stopped before a frame house and went up the flower bordered walk to the porch. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z How can you cross a border between countries and not plan it? Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, we steered clear of the old residential neighborhoods bordering the Levee and headed deeper into the vice district’s underbelly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was around nine o'clock that I crossed the border into Cornwall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore and Harry followed him onto a narrow dirt track bordered by higher and wilder hedgerows than those they had left behind. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z No border patrol will stop me from leaving. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I got to see some interesting parts of the world from the cockpit of an F-86, all the way from the Mexican border to the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another girl, eh? Three women and a boy. All right, we’ll take you all back to the border and let you go.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The outer border is purple, and there are lavender pillows propped up against the headboard. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “A large one. It has specific borders and its own governing body, and we’re in the middle of it right now. We can talk about it later. Go ahead, sir.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Triangular, with a slightly raised border and a smooth shining center. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Closing the border between East and West Berlin was not the idea of the KGB, the Soviet army, or anyone in the Kremlin: It was the brainchild of Walter Ulbricht, East Germany's hard-line communist leader. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Just after dawn on race day, March 27, the first headlights blinked over the border crossing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Above his head, on the lowest branch of the pine tree, the Golden Fleece shimmered, its magic protecting the camp’s borders from invasion. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z General William Westmoreland, the commanding general of US forces in Vietnam, pointed out that the American air base in Da Nang, near the border between North and South Vietnam, was now vulnerable to attack. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z No, it wasn’t as famous as Mount Hood, across the border in Oregon. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Santa Rosa County borders the Gulf of Mexico at the western end of the Florida Panhandle and had long been known for agriculture. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She was perched on the roof of her car, which was now parked across the street, on the grass bordering the duck pond. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In mid-July the Soviet Red Army had reached the prewar Polish border. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Those plants are automated,” said the border guard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Giants and other portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more important matters: Mr. Frodo was selling Bag End, indeed he had already sold it — to the Sackville-Bagginses! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Most of the fence past the gates borders the edges of tents, so there isn’t really anywhere to enter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He explained that if he continued to live near the border, he would be arrested by the police and forcibly sent back to North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z This morning, past the Cedar Falls train stop, Annabelle runs on a friendly path of crushed rock bordered with trees, all bright green and yellow with baby leaves unfurling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z For every restraint in force north of the border, Tijuana offered unlimited indulgence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The mound rose at the south end of a rectangular, hundred-yard-long pavilion that was bordered by two knee- high berms. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Three weeks into the semester, Paul dropped out, and my father, convinced that his son's lawn-mowing skills bordered on genius, set him up in the landscaping business. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It was at the very edge of the property, which was bordered with a chain-link fence. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I walked the land from post to post, trying to place myself within its borders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z As I sprint faster, the layers I’ve built to protect myself since I crossed the border flake off, like scorched leaves on the trees along Kobani’s Aleppo Way. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The allamanda bushes bordering the garden bloomed heavily with yellow, cylindrical flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I look at the border where my family is. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z When they arrived in the town called Agony, Luna ran ahead to the widow woman’s house, just at the border. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Oho! We have an aristocrat here,” said one of the border guards. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Why would he want to close the border?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z North Korea announced a new policy of harsh punishment for illegal border crossings, with prison terms of up to five years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The fact is that I no longer want to leave, escape, cross the border to freedom. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I cracked open the door to the UN pod and stood at the border of cool, soft-lit sanity and the vivid familiar chaos of Congo at war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z When they planted the marigolds, they put a flowered border around each statue. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “The point is, the borders are sealed to keep mortals and monsters out. From the outside, mortals look into the valley and see nothing unusual, just a strawberry form.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z After ten days of travel, they arrived at an overflowing refugee camp across the border. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Are you hoping to cross the border there?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z In the middle of one border my grandmother had sewn a tiny satin triangle, a red heart to protect my mother at the neck, as if she were her baby yet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And then, finally, as we crossed the reservation border, I stopped laughing. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Around the perimeter is a shallow border of refuse where the shops stood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Four bull’s-eyes, and the final shot right on the border of the innermost ring. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was yellow with dark-blue fish and a red border. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Dee stays close, and I hold her hand as I lead her from the back of the bar to the border of the dance floor. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Along with everyone else in town, Jack cheered the Polish soldiers riding horseback through the streets on their way to the border to protect Poland. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z As the Confederates attempted to take control of Kentucky, a border state between North and South, Garfield was assigned to help push them out. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We passed through the border without a problem and arrived in Lobatse in the late afternoon, where there was a telegram for me from Dar es Salaam postponing my trip for a fortnight. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Three miles over the Pennsylvania border they risked a visit to the cottage of a colored farmer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I paint a girl with wings instead of arms, flying along the border where darkness becomes light, unsure of where she's supposed to be. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Now here he was on the Czechoslovakian border at midnight. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And because her family frightened and embarrassed him, he took her away to the north, and it was black and lost where he went—somewhere on the borders of Oregon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her avocado skin had a ridged texture like corduroy, her graying hair was shaggy and matted, and her build bordered on obese. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The room pulsed with feeling, the feeling flowing with the music and the breeze from the curtains, feeling colored by the blue flowers painted in a border around the walls. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I know exactly what you mean about crossing the border. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “You’ve never seen them, but they’re bright—bright as a hundred fires! You must be very careful crossing the border, though. Don’t get out of the boat. The ground is full of land mines.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z From there he traveled overland to the U.S. border, crossed over to Houston with help from a coyote, and then finally flew on a commercial airline to New York City. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “European countries are surrounded by countries that are similar to one another, while America has Mexico, which is really a developing country, and so it creates a different psychology about immigration and borders.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z These two regiments had become friendly during the Mexican Revolution while patrolling the United States border with Mexico the year before and hoped to be fighting side by side in France. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now he depended more and more on Woody, who had youth and a citizen’s mobility, who could license the boat or cross borders easily. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Some days, they walked so deep that Ivy forgot there was anything beyond the forest’s borders, and she emerged from its shadows puzzled to find Poppy Cottage standing just where she’d left it that morning. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Many thousands of Mexicans had flooded across the border in search of work. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Gibb Street became the line between the blacks and the whites, like a border between countries. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This would be the western border of the Great Fire and, aside from the thick smoke, relatively safe. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Presently, some sort of fish was served to me on a plate with a small but noticeable trace of coagulated catsup along the border. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z We have one foot over the border into the promised land, or possibly the grave. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But one minute they were traveling along through a thick copse of trees and the next they came out into a wide clearing bordered by canyon walls of gray granite. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z At no time was the border deserted, and at no time was it possible for Matt to run the remaining few hundred yards to freedom. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If the press got wind of the Cambodian sorties, he could claim American planes had strayed accidentally over the border. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The snowfall obliterated the borders between the fields and made Kabuo Miyamoto’s long- cherished seven acres indistinguishable from the land that surrounded them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He drank ten beers, stumbled across the world’s most heavily militarized border, and surrendered his M14 rifle to startled North Korean soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I spent my lunch period sitting in one of the green fields bordering the school, staring at the simulated scenery while I munched on a protein bar with my visor on. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Already burdened with nearly two million Afghan refugees, Pakistan had closed its borders to Afghans in January of that year. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I’ve got to get to the border,” he said, not even stopping as we met. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I was sure my son had managed to escape abroad by crossing some border pass or had taken refuge in some embassy, on the assumption that he was being looked for. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, darling. A man who takes people over the border. You pay him and he helps you go to the United States. Only first you have to cross the Farms.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was described three decades after his death as having had “so much taste and talent that his mind bordered on genius.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Irritated by the interruption, the King answered brusquely, “There have been some sightings—nothing definite, mind you—but it seems that some of the Xi have been coming across the borders into our lands.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Along one of the walls sat three young boys, cross-legged, on a mattress covered with a blanket with shredded borders. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Most of them had been raised—some even born—in refugee camps along the Pakistani border, and in Pakistani madrasas, where they were schooled in Shari’a by mullahs. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z A group of men burst from one of the junkyards and ran across the border. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Canvas sides are stretched over a metal frame, like dozens we saw crossing the border between Turkey and Syria at Bab al-Hawa. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A part of me feels like I jumped over some kind of border, and now I'm on the other side realizing I can't cross back. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z At the top of the mountain was a white pole marking the border between Elfland and the domain of the goblins, defiantly flying the flag of Ghohg. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Oh, I’m not staying in a detention facility on this side of the border,” Velia said, shaking her head. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He edges closer, bordering on friendly for the first time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z We decided we should still go to Mexico, and I said we’d just pay for a bus to take us down to the border. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She survived initiation, the wilds, border skirmishes, whippings. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z They emerged from the woods on top of a low bluff that marked the border of the marshlands. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly in front of them, bordering the pavement, there was a brick wall with fearsome-looking spikes all along the top of it. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Just hit the border at high speed and crash through and keep on running. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z When we arrived at the United States-Mexico border, Papá told us that we had to cross the barbed-wire fence without being seen by la migra, the immigration officers dressed in green uniforms. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z A quarter an hour was a decent take, and he was saving for third-class train tickets to the Mexican border, the price of a new life with his girl. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Turkish border guards burst into the sunlight from beneath it, guns pointed, ready to shoot. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My loose post wasn’t even along the border anymore. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Somkit looked down at the border permit Pong held in his hand. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I turn my back on the border and follow two strangers through the darkening hills deeper into Turkey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Most never penetrate the border marked by the orbit of Pluto. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This last entry was written in red ink and decorated with a border of green-ink stars; the anthologist wished to emphasize its “personal significance.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tiny, beautiful restaurant with white tablecloths and bay windows opening onto a cottage garden—hedges and trellised roses, nasturtiums bordering the flagstone path. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z As Pennsylvania was a free state and Maryland was a slave state, it came to be regarded as the border between the free North and slaveholding South. k Several Civil War battles have two names. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The plan for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was this: Endurance would sail from South America into the Weddell Sea, which is bordered by the Antarctic Peninsula. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z By the dozens, then hundreds, then thousands, they began to assemble at the border crossings between East and West Berlin on the evening of November 9. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Her roommates’ checks were on the kitchen table, one on top of the other, all of them pink and bordered by flowers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Sometimes I think about why we get to be alive when so many others died for no reason walking the same walk, crossing the same border. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For the first time, we knew our story was being heard beyond the borders of Pakistan. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It has been lucrative work, augmented by a group that for years has been in constant need of his services: U.S.-funded Nicaraguan contras across the border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He bought them some furniture and gave them some money until José Arcadio recovered his sense of reality and began to work the no-man’s-land that bordered the courtyard of the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But walking through the Kingdom of Death, she felt a drowsy sort of peacefulness, like balancing on the border of sleeping and waking. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Approaching what is now the Peru- Brazil border, he noted that “the farther we went the more thickly populated and the better did we find the land.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I made my way down the riverwalk, the long path bordering the waterfront, trying to ignore the villagers who plugged their noses as they passed. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z About a hundred miles north of the Peru-Chile border, the coastal highway passes by an uninhabited beach ringed by a tall chain-link fence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We arrived at the southern border in March, and, boy, is it warm! Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He put his hand on the fence and watched the people filing through the border on foot a few yards away. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z People crossing the border checkpoint on foot or on a bike are less likely to be inspected. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Slowly, occasionally stopping at an area that his instincts told him was a likely exit from or entrance into the trees, he probed with the glasses along the pines bordering each lake. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re poised on the border with everything we might need for an eventual destiny assembled around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The look in his eyes is bordering on crazy. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “My family will look for me when they cross the border,” I say. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “They were a gift,” I said, trying not to deviate too far from the original lie I’d told the border patrol agent early that morning. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Osage had seen what had happened to the Cherokee Outlet, a vast prairie that was part of the Cherokees’ territory and was near the western border of the Osage reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They lived without fear of what would happen when they stepped over the border between childhood and adolescence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Outside, the smell of pine trees wafted in from the yards of the houses that bordered the back of the school. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z He piles the lint on top of the hump that makes the border for feet space. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z A few days after the borders between the U.S. and England finally reopened for Casual Passage, the letter from Piper arrived. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When the train rolled out of Camp 18, so did Kim, who knew the countryside well and used his personal contacts at the border to find a safe way to cross into China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Smooth, pastel-colored tiled streets, just like the ones above, but bordered by white brick walls instead of homes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A secret agreement on border security was signed between the two countries in the early 1960s, according to the South Korean government. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But during the few days my parents thought my sister was safely within our country's borders in San Diego, I was terrified for her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the border, floodlights blaze into the night, shining on the canopy, the buildings, the endless barbed wire. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Here, on the borders of death, life follows an amazingly simple course, it is limited to what is most necessary, all else lies buried in gloomy sleep;—in that besides our primitiveness and our survival. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The societies of the Caddo, on the Texas-Arkansas border, and the Coosa, in western Georgia, both disintegrated soon after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He gave us three days to report to the U.S. immigration office at the border in Nogales, Arizona. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They had gotten over the border, but only for minutes and those few minutes could easily have cost them their lives. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I was mightily relieved that she hadn’t won; she was bordering on unbearable as it was. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I thought you were still patrolling the border. I didn’t notice you at the wedding.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z And once he dropped me off at the motel, I could cab it to the airport, catch a flight to Canada, and be over the border before I was missed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Amil seemed a little steadier on his feet, and we joined the growing mass of people headed toward the border, still many miles away. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Now I know he’s an aristocrat,” said the other border guard. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z General Baligant’s army is already most of the way to the border, cooling their heels and dusting their epaulets while they wait for your orders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We reach the end of the cemetery and come to the great wall of the church which borders it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z In 1949, after centuries of inaccessibility, Nepal opened its borders to the outside world, and a year later the new Communist regime in China closed Tibet to foreigners. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice and her sons made it out of town and began walking east, toward the border with Ivory Coast. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Thousands of Americans a day were sprinting for the border. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A little red box with swirly golden borders peeks out of the cabinet. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The graveyard faced east, all the stones and markers laid out in a fan shape bordered with saw palmetto and evergreen trees. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This was in the Marsabit district, just south of the border with Ethiopia. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert heard Levi ask his father to help him escape across the border to France. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It started with reports of increased fighting in the north and east, on the borders of Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The tree’s magic still protected the borders of camp, but it no longer used Thalia’s spirit for power. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z On the corner of his desk were two stacks of papers that he still had to transcribe into his border control notebook before he could leave for the evening. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z For Ulbricht, the problem with the city's open border had nothing to do with spies: It was with the dissatisfaction of his own people, the seventeen million citizens of the German Democratic Republic, or GDR. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But if somehow he gets to the U.S. border, he will call her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I never planned to cross the border, yet here I am in Turkey. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “From Kobani. My family is on the other side of the border.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mostly at night when it was cooler and we wouldn’t be seen. Away from the border, into the hills.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It had a depiction of Holy Beings holding bundles in their hands, and a Rainbow Holy Being bordered its edges. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It came from the east, from beyond the border of Mozambique, where her nameless village lay on the banks of an uncharted stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore blue hats with a red border and a gold star above the brim. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “I caught wind of some local legends near the Mongolian border. Cost me nearly two months of brutal living to track her down.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I think he'd tanked up a good deal at luncheon and his determination to have my company bordered on violence. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It would have to be something bordering on miraculous to lure him out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Those last to the party were the last to leave: the Ptolemaic Empire outlived its rivals, largely with the same borders, until the Romans defeated Queen Cleopatra VII and her lover Antony in 30. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Reports reached us that these Polish Jews were languishing on the border in a squalid no-man's-land of temporary camps. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Just when the situation begins to border on pandemonium, the Metropolitan Police come to their rescue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The grass in this field wasn’t green, it was silver and pink with a border of blue-leafed trees. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He was after the North Vietnamese troops just across the border in Cambodia that were moving into Vietnam, attacking, and running back into Cambodia to hide in the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But for those who crossed the border without inspection, adjusting status is almost impossible due to their illegal entry. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Today I will jump the border and turn north for Alaska. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z While most of the after-school was huddled around the borders of Harmonee, playing Maestro, I stepped over to Rose, who had leaned against the far wall with her arms folded. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z History had taught him harsh lessons about the countries that lay on Russia's western borders, and he would not make the same mistake twice. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Some plots sported brick pathways and flower borders, while others looked haphazard. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Montag's face was entirely numb and featureless; he felt his head turn like a stone carving to the dark place next door, set in its bright borders of flowers. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Lupita looked directly at his face, not the shameful photograph, and said, “Salvador, we must find a place to sleep. My feet are very sore. I cannot cross over the border tonight.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “We crossed the border a few hundred yards back. You’re not in Alaska anymore. Can’t you feel it, Al? You want to get to Alaska, you have to go through me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It's a rectangle with a henna-inspired border and a cooking pot in the middle with steam rising from it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was her favorite one, pale yellow bordered with the cornflowers after which she was named. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Soon the dwindling company, following the Isen, turned west and rode through the Gap into the waste lands beyond, and then they turned northwards, and passed over the borders of Dunland. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Just over the border in South Carolina, the number of blacks surpassed that of whites by more than a hundred thousand. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I begin a border of fireworks exploding around the edges of the poster. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Its windows are bordered by deep red tile and gold detailing. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The permeability of North Korea’s border tends to improve when border guards and local officials can accept bribes without draconian punishment from higher-ups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “What happened to the other people who crossed the border?” he asked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of the southern highlands were “debatable lands” in the border sense of a contested territory without established government or the rule of law. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Asra liked best to tell long meandering tales about his young days on a Commensal farm in the Kunderer Valley, that broad splendid plain I had driven through coming from the border to Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even the most liberal ones who had spent a lifetime fighting racial and social injustice and who cherished the notion of open-mindedness drew the line at the Midland border. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Serra, bets over who will win border on the obscene. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was as tall as her chest, thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom, carved with a border of knots and loops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z An expression flashed across Celaena’s eyes that bordered on fear and confusion. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A couple of trucks and buses move through the border checkpoint. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The land rose and fell gently, and the fields were bordered by hedges and trees. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When he looked up at me, I recognized Matt—stocky, red-cheeked, a lot older and nearly bald with a fringe of gray hair bordering the sides of his head—but still Matt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “Accuracy on matters Irish are not the forte of the English. Truth is, we're the friendliest people you'd wish to meet. Even north of the border. We just gun each other down occasionally, that's all.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The border lay a few hundred miles north, an eight-hour drive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As we get closer to the border, I see more and more Muslims on the opposite path from India seeking new homes. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I’ve just realized. The border will be closing in three weeks.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A stone wall bordered the held, and a low barn stood at the far corner. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “He was only immortal in the territory where he was reborn—Alaska. But not in Canada. I wish I could kill all the giants by dragging them across the border from Alaska into Canada, but...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My first thought was that he must’ve been taking a midnight jog down the beach and strayed inside the camp borders. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z We would cross the border into México and take a series of buses back to Pátzcuaro. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I pick up the mini soccer ball from the step between us and trace my finger along the blue border of the FC Cincinnati logo. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Step outside the narrow borders of what men call reality and you step into chaos—ask Rinehart, he's a master of it—or imagination. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They invaded Shansi province, as well as the provinces bordering us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There was also much that couldn’t be planned for, a larger unruliness that paced the borders of our every day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Many of the single mothers pause at the 2,000-mile-long U.S.-Mexico border before making their final push into el Norte. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z |
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