| 单词 | British |
| 例句 | Eras and his circle were respected members of the British upper classes, and Charles found it easy—and stimulating—to be with them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In November 1777 Howe began planning a battle that would defeat Washington so thoroughly that he would be forced to surrender, and the Revolutionary War would end in a major British victory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were in New York City, which remained the capital of wartime British America; the rest, including Arnold’s American Legion, were in the South. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In stinging rebukes, Strong questioned William’s loyalty and friendships, and at one point limited his contact with British officers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Up to the Tea Water Pump, I found only unfamiliar faces, slaves who had freed themselves by joining the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I'm going to put your name on my British visa application as my research assistant,” she said quietly. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Desperate to unload his stolen cache of documents, he approached a British businessman in Moscow named Greville Wynne, urging him to take a message to the British embassy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not since the soldiers had come to Boston had Johnny removed his hat when the British flag went by except once when it had been knocked off his head by a soldier. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Wentworth not to reveal their conversation, hoping that he would report it to the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen” she said, “those British are playing music again.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were also highly questionable patriots, having sat out the recent war against British tyranny in deference to their cherished consciences. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had told Gogol that Ganguli is a legacy of the British, an anglicized way of pronouncing his real surname, Gangopadhyay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But to take Father’s gun was pretty bad; Father was right here and he seemed a lot more real to me than the British did. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba's still sounds American, and Ma's shifts between Indian, British, and American, depending on which one has more power in the moment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We can’t tell. The British are trying to blockade the harbor. They’ve got ships offshore there, all the time, watching for our ships.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I guess the British. I mean that’s what they said in New Haven.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They screamed out insults to the British ships. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “They lie. When the British fled Boston, back in the spring, they took escaping slaves with them. They promised them freeeeeeedom.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Rebel troops had been beaten there, and the British had taken over the city, but the way Sam wrote about it, he made it seem like a glorious victory for the Rebels. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And, to keep the British pinned down in New York City, Washington wanted Clinton to think that Gates’s troops were on their way there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British are going to bring in some English papers to sell, so we're building a proper newsstand as well. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The British would trust her because she was “the wife of a man gone over to the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The words of the bald-headed man came to me: “If the British win, we’ll all be free.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z British warships nearly captured the Rhode Island vessel, which returned empty. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They removed their white camouflage suits, revealing British military uniforms. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another British experimenter who applied DDT in acetone solution to his skin reported heaviness and aching of limbs, muscular weakness, and “spasms of extreme nervous tension.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The master used his connections in the British high command to secure extra firewood for the house, declaring that his aunt’s bedchamber be kept as warm as the month of June. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ludsbury’s voice was bass, British, and his Adam’s apple seemed to move as much as his mouth when he spoke. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Most figured the Americans wanted New York burned to the ground to leave the British without shelter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a child, Palestine was under the rule of the British,” my father said. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One enterprising rock critic has tried to solve the problem simply by calling his music a cross between the British new wave music of the 1980s and hip-hop. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “A cocktail party,” Mama repeats with an even worse British accent. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Jan: “You shouldn’t include the Jews. I don’t think anyone knows what’s going on in Russia. The British and the Russians are probably exaggerating for propaganda purposes, just like the Germans.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A few days later we had another visitor only this time he wore a British Army uniform and brought a lackey with him to take notes and check things off on a list. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The experimenter lost 10 weeks from his work, and at the end of a year, when his case was reported in a British medical journal, recovery was not complete. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z According to a spokesman for the British army, Woodall served as a pay clerk. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Washington knew that just the opposite would happen, because the farmer was a Tory who would quickly report the conversation to British officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British promise freedom to slaves but won’t give it to the white rebels,” she said as she pushed the handle up and down. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He read American newspapers and magazines, but only skimmed the British newspapers, because there were more and more articles about immigration, and each one stoked new panic in his chest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Ironically, amid such intense suspicion of the British, no one seemed to take note of the double agent inside the KGB's London residency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That’s why the Dinka lived in isolation until the nineteenth century, when British explorers and missionaries began pushing through the swamp. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Other British couriers who rode south were never heard from again. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Americans took the British insult—and turned it into a battle song. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Without inoculation, she said, the smallpox epidemic could easily have handed the colonies back to the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On one mission, he carried back to the British a crumpled piece of paper that he said he had found. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson’s concern ratcheted up another level when he started taking a good look at the British crew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Arnold, safe in British-occupied New York, was commissioned as a British brigadier general. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Once on board, she stepped behind the large wooden wheel and pretended she was Josephine on a run through the islands, escaping from the British navy. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Then the picture changed to a worried British captain and a war-room map of the Atlantic Ocean covered with little toy-sized ships. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The British then moved on, razing fifteen more towns and burning fourteen hundred acres of corn. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z One of the best examples of this involved a new British coding device called a Pletts Cryptograph. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The concept of a World Wide Web—a system for creating, organizing, and linking documents so they could be easily browsed over the Internet—was developed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z On September 26, 1777, the British, under Howe, marched into Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked to talk about Graham Greene, the British novelist, and his novel on Haiti, The Comedians, which narrated the story of the Duvaliers and their secret police. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Getting out of England was going to be his only hope of eluding the British authorities. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z T. It had more than two thousand times the blast power of the British “Grand Slam,” which is the largest bomb ever yet used in the history of warfare. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sonia and Tara can swim at the British High Commission club only because their father works for a British company. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the third week of February, the newspapers reported that British Foreign Minister Bevin had announced his intention to bring the Palestine issue to the United Nations in September. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He had seen so much of the British army he had come half to believe that they were, even as they said, invincible. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z True enough, although Johnny had not found out one thing of genuine value by the letter-carrying he had done for British officers, it had been a good contact and he needed money. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When the British finally began their march toward Lexington on the morning of the nineteenth, their foray into the countryside was met — to their utter astonishment— with organized and fierce resistance. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z British planes meant the Allies were advancing, taking the fight to the Germans. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The British had jailed her husband for “surreptitious correspondence with the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sugar Act actually reduced the Molasses Act tax by half, but this time the British government intended to strongly enforce the new measure. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Washington had made him an agent long before, ordering him to pose as a Tory and to stay with the main British forces as they moved across New Jersey. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On a clear, cold night in late October 1942, the men climbed into a British bomber. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Since its origins in the deckrooms of British warships, the Mess Night had evolved as a gathering of men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember, for instance, books such as Will Durant’s story of Oriental civilization, and Mahatma Gandhi’s accounts of the stmggle to drive the British out of India. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our orders are to protect British property and citizens.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I feel better facing Mrs. Gruver with the good British posture Nan taught me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z By 1780 General Sir Henry Clinton, successor to General Howe as commander of the British forces in America, had split his troops in two. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Prince answered the hail of a British ship, ordered his longboat overside, and he and Nat went to present their papers to the British captain. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The British soldier was grinning, and Johnny guessed that he had been put up to this game merely to snare ‘the yokels.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was the British concession and the Japanese. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The hilarity of the British soldiers did not ease their fears as to the fate of the prisoners. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A French counterspy had gotten his hands on a British spy’s list of ships carrying war supplies from French ports. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The things we leave behind are some British coins, a red guitar pick, and a Bartlett High keychain. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Soon after Deane arrived in Paris, he was targeted by a flashy, quick-witted British agent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After the British weren't in control anymore, the Jews wanted control and the Arabs wanted control. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t he say that Africans are not ready to rule themselves in Rhodesia? If the British tell him to call himself a castrated monkey, he will.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was here the men had stood; here upon this Green they had formed a thin pathetic fine, a handful of farmers to resist the march of seven hundred British regulars. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If I am caught writing this I will be in trouble, whoever catches me—German, French, British. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This was mainly because British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was adamantly opposed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While the Maori achieved some stunning temporary victories, they could not maintain an army constantly in the field and were in the end worn down by 18,000 full-time British troops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Now and then, as a sign of victory, slain foes were scalped, much as British skirmishes with the Irish sometimes finished with a parade of Irish heads on pikes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the accepted rules of war, the British soldiers should have been treated as prisoners of war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I regard the British Parliament as the most democratic institution in the world, and the independence and impartiality of its judiciary never fail to arouse my admiration. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, after Paul Revere had passed on his news, you can imagine that all of the men in the militia movement gathered around and made plans to confront the British the following morning. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, after retrieving the intelligence report, Brewster would sail past British guard boats and cross Long Island Sound to Fairfield, Connecticut. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At long last the British authorities decided it was safe for us to go to Gombe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And the distinguished British scientific administrator Walter Fletcher warned an American audience that commercial prospects were certain to exercise “a vicious influence” over academic standards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As William hunkered by the radio, Norway fell to the Nazis, and the British Army struggled to regroup after its defeat at Dunkirk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A British captain gloated over them, and made polite sounds of sympathy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At Castle Island the British Colonel Leslie had orders to fire upon them if they attempted to sneak out of the harbor. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Elizebeth and William first saw the letters, British and American officials already knew the broad outline of the plot, and many Indians who had worked with the Germans had been arrested. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The manual was written by a British Royal Navy commander. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Washington knew firsthand the risks of having a letter written in regular ink fall into British hands. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When the war between the British and separatists began, both sides vied to win the Haudenosaunee as allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But did the British know that both these firebrands were staying at the Clarks’ out in Lexington? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It did not seem to puzzle the British officer at all. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It may metaphorically be said” was a bit of British reserve, but it was clear what Charles was arguing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I hoped they weren’t trying to get the trainband organized to fight the British. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the road again, they saw burned-out tanks and armored cars, German as well as British and French. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Arnold passed the British many secrets, such as how many French troops were landing in America and where and when they were landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They were allowed to pass because they could supply British officers with scarce goods. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Proper British airmen flying over the European Continent carry a couple of photographs in their emergency kit, just in case they’re shot down and need fake ID. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z British people love those things: a plate for the Queen’s birthday, a plate with the prince’s wedding portrait on it. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I assure them he does exist and is not a crank: cranks do not get elected as Fellows of the British Academy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aden's in Arabia and once it was British. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Many of the rebel houses that were occupied by the British army had burned to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On September 19, 1777, Redcoats under General Burgoyne clashed with American troops, who nearly defeated the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In December of that year, the group learned that the British intended to seize a cache of ammunition being stored by a colonial militia near the entrance to Portsmouth Harbor, fifty miles north of Boston. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z King George had hired eight thousand German soldiers to fight alongside the British. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t say the British regulars lacked fight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In other words, Arnold wanted to be a double agent for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Boston was inundated with British soldiers, and now every third person one met in the street wore the handsome uniform of King George the Third. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z All I have to do is cough up everything I can remember about the British War Effort. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Anorak” was a nickname Halliday had been given by a female British exchange student at his high school. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z News of the British march did not come by fax, or by means of a group e-mail. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in 1921, the British embarked on their first expedition to Everest, and their decision to engage Sherpas as helpers sparked a transformation of Sherpa culture. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Chief Joyi’s war stories and his indictment of the British made me feel angry and cheated, as though I had already been robbed of my own birthright. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington even suggested that Hunter tell his British case officer that he got the information because American officers “are very incautious in speaking of the strength of their regiments.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The kouros it most resembled, it turned out, was a smaller, fragmentary statue that was found by a British art historian in Switzerland in 1990. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Their cover was blown when an African-American woman who was waiting on them in a local tavern recognized one of the men as a British officer from Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course the British beat—they always do.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, Wright discovered the forgeries, but the Patriots’ trickery kept British gunboats away long enough for the revolution to take hold in Georgia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A similar case occurred in 1939 when a group of engineers calling themselves the British Interplanetary Society designed a ship to take people to the Moon—using 1939 technology. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The British followed by turning Barbados into a sugar island; then the French found rich soil on Hispaniola all over again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In 1775 the Mohawk Nation allied with the British against the separatist settlers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Private jet, of course,” Benji said with a strange, almost British accent. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z “But the Minutemen shot the British in the eyes at Bunker Hill,” I said. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She survived the British occupation while my father fought with Washington’s troops. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite those regulations, in February 1940 the British ATA became the first organization in the world to officially allow women to fly aircraft in wartime. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Ma keeps her in up-to-the-minute fashion, which has always been British until now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He was smart; he loved “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”; and he had the best voice ever: deep and resonant and British. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Rab must see to it that the uncle who every week smuggled out copies of the Observer also took out the British deserter. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One of those speculators was the British governor of Virginia John Murray, the Fourth Earl of Dunmore. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Another was Oliver Strachey, a British cryptologist who ran a code-breaking unit in Canada that tracked spies, just as Elizebeth’s team did. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Many of the secret messages came from British and German vessels. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Over the sleeping giant of the Malvern Hills, a double rainbow linked the Worcestershire Beacon with the British Camp. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Ideas for international control had been making their way to Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill for months, albeit haphazardly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Our first knowledge of the symptoms of acute poisoning by DDT was furnished by several British investigators, who deliberately exposed themselves in order to learn the consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He’d got himself set to win the war and throw the British out of the country so we could be free, and when Sam was determined he usually stuck to things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the apples were harvested, hundreds of ships crammed with expensive British goods crowded the docks. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My name is British and Jewish, like me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The British could have captured most of the American army, including General Washington! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Insults are the least of my concern. I’m more worried about the British invasion.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The BBC newscaster is reporting the British losses in the Atlantic. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z When President James Madison went before Congress seeking a formal declaration of war, he specifically referred to British support for Indigenous fighters on the frontier. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Hoping to bomb the British into submission, the Nazis increased their attacks on London in a terror campaign dubbed the Blitz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the alarm spread that the British had left Boston, the system of calling up the Minute Men had worked well indeed. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who keep claiming they don’t want to be occupied by the British don’t realize how unfair they’re being. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He sent most of his men across to face the British and others north to defend Fort Washington and Harlem. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Off the coast of British Columbia, there is a special black bear called the Spirit Bear. It’s pure white and has pride, dignity, and honor. More than most people.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “I must repay a debt, Just Sal. I wagered Captain William Farrar that the British would not dare hold this ridiculous birthday celebration. It’s a slap in the face to the people who are starving.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought we were called the British Isles.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What no British bullet could do in the revolutionary war, the opposition press had managed to do in the political battles during his second term. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And then I wondered why the British soldiers would allow themselves to die so easily just because their king told them to go march up a hill and fight. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In 1905, Edward Elgar, a fervent admirer of German music, described the British music scene as ‘vulgar, mediocre, chaotic and insipid’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The British were driven from Malaya and into surrender in Singapore in seventy days. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The British promised each prisoner would receive two pounds of pork and hardtack biscuit every week. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, a miraculous cable arrived from John, pronouncing himself “safe and sound” aboard a British destroyer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The U.S. boat crept up to within a half length of the British boat’s stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He knew that a British fleet under Admiral Thomas Graves was on its way to Yorktown from New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She also wanted a small British flag to fly atop her locks, but the hairdresser talked her out of it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if the rebels decide that turnabout is fair play? We need to care for them so they do not harm their British captives.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It said that French troops were in British territory and must leave. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Patriots called them Tories, an old British word for supporters of royal power. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British withdrew from the fight to maintain their thirteen colonies in 1783. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z German bombs pounded British cities night after night. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The British had the best uniforms and the shiny new guns, but there was something exciting about the Patriots—being underdogs and fighting off the mighty British army. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe, I vomited into small buckets and brushed my teeth repeatedly with chalky British toothpaste. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z From countless trained and volunteer sources, including perhaps Lydia Darragh, Old Mom, and the egg seller, Washington got enough information to spoil the British plan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you a tennis player?” she asked in a heavy British accent. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Unable to eliminate the Indigenous population through open warfare, the British eventually launched a campaign of systematic destruction of the Powhatan agricultural resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He was the sort of man who would become a British Israelite nowadays, and spend the rest of his life prophesying the end of the world by measuring the passages in the Great Pyramid. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z So Washington decided to give Gray even more bits of truth to ensure that Gray would be trusted by his British handlers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Among these was my great-grandfather, who had died fighting the British demons when they had wanted to force the Tang people to let them sell opium in the Middle Kingdom. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In some parts of the world a woman with a monthly is unclean but we British cherish our women with the monthlies, oh we do indeed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z One cannot help but suspect that the beleaguered aristocracy of Virginia saw in Hamilton and his beloved commercial elite of the northern cities the American replicas of British bankers who were bleeding them to death. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The performance was uncompromisingly British, and I quietly concluded that the white-mustached figure of Bragg now spent most of its days sitting in London clubs like the Athenaeum. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Tristran would have insisted on the most beautiful girl in the entire British Empire, if not the world, and boxed you, or been prepared to, had you argued with him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much to them, but with food in such short supply I figured we could get a pretty good price for them if we could get them to a British commissary somewhere. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the darkness he thought at first they were Hessians or British and identified himself as a British officer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He calls me this even though I’m no longer British. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z British generals saw West Point as a key to victory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I, too, had been susceptible to paternalistic British colonialism and the appeal of being perceived by whites as “cultured” and “progressive” and “civilized.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1950, a vote at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science showed that about half of those present now embraced the idea of continental drift. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He had enough troops to keep the British in Boston, but he did not have enough men or ammunition to take the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The tragedy of the war, on so many levels, and the apparent unravelling of the certainties of the previous century, elicited an unprecedented collective response from British composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Being so close to mainland Europe—a short sail to France—it had been a point of embarkation for British troops during the Napoleonic wars earlier in the century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So he ordered the Secret Service, an intelligence agency run by the British Army, to spy on the Sons of Liberty. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over they explained to him what a fine job he had and what a glory it was to be part of the British army. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny had been told off to carry letters for the British officers, to keep on good terms with their grooms and stable boys over at the Afric Queen. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And as for the British Union of Fascists, I can only say that any talk linking his lordship to such people is quite ridiculous. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He hated violence and bloodshed and had an intense distaste for the terrorist policy of the Irgun, but he hated the British non-immigration policy even more. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Years later, when I saw the film Oliver, I wondered if anyone knew that, like those British boys in the orphanage, American children beg for food in some foster homes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She said this man owned many carpet factories and lived in a mansion located in the British Concession of Tientsin, the best section of the city where Chinese people could live. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All, by now, felt a certain confidence in the British way of doing things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, positively: The ability to consider experience so abstractly allowed me to shape into desire what would otherwise have remained indefinite, meaningless longing in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until he reached Menotomy was he once again following the tracks of the defeated British army. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the British women, now that the war was over, the situation in the air was the same as it was in the United States and the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Ten days after the British flooded the river with their ships, news that the Congress had declared independence arrived in New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The mail sent by British intelligence to track down Brewster was Nehemiah Marks, a Connecticut man who did for the British what Brewster did for the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British still use those endings, but Americans are now more likely to use the shorter quit, bet, wet, wed, and fit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In March, a British court convicted Fuchs of espionage and sentenced him to fourteen years in prison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of i960 a deluge of reports of dead birds reached British wildlife authorities, including the British Trust for Ornithology, the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, and the Game Birds Association. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Desperate to stop such an alliance, Wentworth begged Franklin to talk to British officials and end the war—on British terms. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A female presence at this level was such a rarity that a British record keeper later corrected the minutes of the meeting, whiting out the “s” of “Mrs.” so that she became “Mr. Friedman.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “The British are coming, the British are coming,” classmates yell. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Just before the boy turns nineteen, the man in the grey suit removes him from the town house without notice, setting him up in a modestly sized flat with a view of the British Museum. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Shackleton had consulted the British Army’s nutritionist, who believed in the newfangled idea of vitamins and who helped concoct the rations. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z One theory makes him a British agent who decided to spy for the Americans after he saw that they would probably win the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In mid-1775 someone in Bermuda, a British colony off the coast of North Carolina, reported that the royal arsenal at St. George’s Island, Bermuda, was full of gunpowder and had no guards around it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of the Greenwich Road was lined with British soldiers, relaxed and laughing as their prisoners—captured American soldiers— walked three to a row between their enemies through the doors of the Bridewell Prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, thanks to Revere and Dawes, church bells rang and muskets fired—warning signals from the Patriot network that the British were coming. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the evening of April 30, the night before Opening Day, a British reporter named F. Herbert Stead visited the fairgrounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On a drizzly afternoon ten days later, thirty-four British commandos gathered on an airfield in Scotland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a battle at Bunker Hill where the Patriots massacred the British troops before they were driven off, and the Rebels also took Fort Ticonderoga without much of a fight. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like all policemen in the British concession, he was a bushy-bearded Indian with a red turban wrapped around his head. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the three, we know now, was a British spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "I can see you don't believe me. But it's true. The British. They're rounding up the SS. We are free." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Later they told us the story of how, during the First World War, the British army had taken all their horses, and for a while they’d had none to pull their wagons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The British woman who's organized this day of races likes bringing order through her megaphone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Madam wore a groove in the floor pacing back and forth awaiting news of the final British victory, her footsteps tipping and tapping in measure with the ticking of the clock. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z After several months, Hitler conceded that the British air force was superior to Germany’s, making an invasion of Britain impossible at this time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The boys dug hard and the American flag snapping on the foredeck of the Husky Clipper began to move past Duckworth, creeping halfway up the length of the British boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The British made up this song, to tease us in battle,” Paul added. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Each weekday he went to his office near Wall Street, where he worked with a team of British physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The British soldiers went about their business as though oblivious of the many hostile, curious eyes watching them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Norwegians would lead the way and do everything possible to help the British soldiers demolish key parts of Vemork. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another source was Elias Boudinot, a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress who went into the army as a colonel and became superintendent of British prisoners of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That the British are putting up a fight with the help of the Americans, even though the Americans are also fighting Japan. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Joseph Stalin, the Soviet premier, called desperately for the Americans and British to launch an invasion of German-held Western Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Next she fell into melancholy, grumbling about the lazy British commanders floating at anchor off Staten Island, observing New York through long spyglasses but making no move to invade. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At his urging, the Royal Society agreed to engage a reliable figure to tour the British Isles to see if such a mountain could be found. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This poster from, the National Women's Social and Political Union in England shows the force-feeding of a British suffragette. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z British readers of The New Yorker who assume that this august publication is in constant ignorant error when it allows “1980’s” evidently have no experience of how that famously punctilious peri-odical operates editorially. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “The British demons forced us to let them sell it in the Middle Kingdom,” I said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But, when Arnold told them that he was to take command of the fort at West Point, the British knew they had a man who could give them the most important military post in America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z What most concerned Al Ulbrickson, though, as he watched the British crew working out at Griinau, was how much they reminded him of his own boys. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I’d like to thank everyone who believed in us and our egg,” she said, addressing an invisible audience as if she’d won some grand award and inexplicably putting on a fake British accent. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When the war began, British scientists recruited him to help with a secret war-related project—the atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of the grave site, skeletal warriors erupted - spartoi in the tattered remains of British redcoat uniforms. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "We are coming here from India. It was a British colony, just like America. Most recently we have been living in England." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z British ships continued to land at Staten Island, hundreds of them carrying thousands of soldiers armed with countless guns and bullets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of April 18, 1775, a young boy who worked at a livery stable in Boston overheard one British army officer say to another something about “hell to pay tomorrow.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The British army in northern France was “making strategic withdrawals to previously prepared positions.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In January they took over the British concession and returned it to the Chinese. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Rab said, and Johnny knew this was true, sometime the British would not stay tamely shut up in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only was she the World Champion, but the British media nicknamed her “Miss Sensation.” Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The parasitical British administration kept tentacling out to half of the subcontinent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As Lund had in Brazil, British scientists discovered some strange-looking human skeletons jumbled up with the skeletons of extinct Pleistocene mammals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After the Boston Tea Party, in 1773, when the anger of the American colonists against their British rulers began to spill over, dozens of committees and congresses of angry colonists sprang up around New England. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex doesn’t even try to guess how she got her hands on today’s edition of a British tabloid. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The British didn’t mix in with the arguments. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I ducked down one street after another, trying to find a way to the river, but the army had erected barricades at the ends of most of the roads to keep out the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Best boy-zz in world,’ and he suddenly struck out at the British. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Not known is whether his arrival was due to chance or if Massasoit had asked him to come down because he had picked up a few English phrases by trading with the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The honesty electrifies Helmuth, the way the British announce their own losses to the Germans. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z About the stables, British orderlies, officers, servants, and small British horse boys, the servants of the servants, were always congregating. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In a message sent under a flag of truce, Washington told British General Henry Clinton, in New York, that he would spare André’s life if Clinton turned over Arnold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermione, incredibly, was sitting in a corner, attempting to read an enormous book entitled Home Life and Social Habits of British Muggles. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Lafayette, ordered to trap Cornwallis, sent Private Charles Morgan, playing the role of a deserter, into the British camp. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Elizebeth heard a rumor that a former British Navy officer was their chief code maker. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Before the British occupied the city, Stansbury taunted Patriots by singing “God Save the King,” urging them to join him in the chorus. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, neither Germany nor Italy—the two crews, other than the British, about whom Ulbrickson was most concerned—had won their preliminary heats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z News of the Reverend Smith’s death provoked a huge outcry in British newspapers and in Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The shoreline, the British discovered, was a cemetery. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z British officers were sleeping in chairs, on benches, on the floors, but he remembered that one of the tavern-keepers was a prominent Son of Liberty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His girlfriend, Yinka, was like him—she, too, went to England often and lived in Ikoyi and spoke with a British accent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Arnold arranged for a boat, under a flag of truce, to take a Tory woman and her children across the Hudson to an area held by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Shouted orders filled the air, along with nervous laughter and the sound of British boots on the cobblestones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The “departure” that Blatch, other suffragist leaders, and particularly Alice Paul came up with was picketing, a tactic that Blatch and Paul had seen used effectively when they had aided British suffragists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Yes, Nne,” she said, and, turning to Obinze, repeated her daughter s words in an exaggerated British accent. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By analogy with the engulfing of Aboriginal Australian hunter-gatherers by British colonists fed on wheat and cattle, we have to suspect that some of the “lucky” Africans parlayed their advantage into engulfing their African neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The British army was hardly marching down Wall Street, but ten ships had docked downriver on Staten Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z There were thousands of British troops quartered in New York, and British sailors, too, besides the regular population of 25,000. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were a couple of British and some aviators. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Like America—it used to be a British colony, but we fought for our freedom. The Zimbabweans did the same thing.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “God’s judgment on the British,” whispered the Patriots. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But this time, the Stem gang was shooting the British. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As I watched, one of the British pitched over flat on the road. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z British accent, face like a Greek god, legs for days? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Traditionally, it has meant “debatable,” and that’s how the British still use it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An expert at getting through British lines, John made his way to Charles. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He ended up in a tiny British fishing camp on the southern edge of Newfoundland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just before dinner time at Farm Hall, the English mansion at which Germany’s top scientists were being held, a British officer named T. H. Rittner asked to speak to Otto Hahn in private. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “One always has room for a spot of tea,” she says, still in a British accent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The night before the battle, the Americans had been warned that thousands of British troops were on their way. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z In my mind, great detectives always had British accents. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Alice has a house, a family, and a part-time business. In Richmond. Half a day away by glorious British Rail.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But then a quarter of a billion people, a whole subcontinent, rallied behind Gandhi—and they twisted the British lion’s tail! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 30, 1942, one thousand British planes attacked Cologne, Germany, leaving the Rhineland city in flames. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Patriots’ spy network saved Adams and Hancock from the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The men had told terrible stories about how the British treated their American prisoners. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z With relief he peels back the foil covering his breakfast, extracts the silverware from its sealed plastic packaging, asks the British Airways stewardess for a glass of orange juice. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It annoys a certain lady that her spouse has such supreme faith in the British, and a certain husband attacks his wife because of her teasing and disparaging remarks about his beloved nation! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In the British boat, Ran Laurie dug furiously at the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But then he realized that the blast hadn’t come from either of the British ships. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Before the British Empire there were no railroads or postal services in India, and Africa was full of tribal warfare, with spears, and had no proper clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m really curious to see what they decide, only I don’t think they’ll ever work out a plan, because the British have landed in Sicily and Father’s all set for a “quick finish.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But the natives soon learned that most of the British were terrible shots, from lack of practice—their guns were little more than noisemakers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1714, the British Parliament offered a prize to the person who could solve the longitude puzzle. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z His elder half-brother, Lawrence, who had been a British officer, saw to it that George was accepted as a midshipman in the Royal Navy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke with a crisp British accent, an upper-crust accent, the kind of voice you might hear at Oxford or Cambridge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nearly a year later, French soldiers and their Indian allies ambushed a large British unit led by General Edward Braddock north of Great Meadows. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a day, the British promised boiled peas and rice with butter twice a week for their American prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z How can you give a strange middle-aged British man that much power over our lives? You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "You laughing yet? You failed to consider that in the British navy an officer has the right to execute a sailor who is a danger to an operation." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z While the British knew a lot about how the machines operated, neither they nor anyone else could tell Elizebeth which of the many billions of Enigma settings the South American spies were using. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The car doors opened and out stepped a few British soldiers, followed by ten of Germany’s best scientists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Hale slipped behind British lines on Long Island, saying he was a schoolteacher—a natural “cover.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All that day the British transports had been readying their landing boats. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the British occupied New York, Sons of Liberty broke into his print shop and left it in ruins. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British would now have to row and win in a repechage the next day if they were to be one of the final six boats in the medal race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The British government agreed to send Oppenheimer a team of top physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Washington’s troops chased the British from the battlefield, killed a passel of them, and took a couple of hundred prisoners. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The British were everywhere: they were fighting the Japanese in Burma, and they were fighting the Germans in North Africa. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Papa listens to the words that the British newscasters say. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The main paved road in town had been put in by the British when Sudan was a colony of theirs. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When the British finally attacked the forts, they found them empty. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z As the British marched on to Concord—rank on rank, as if on parade—the Patriots’ spy network mustered hundreds of militiamen. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He even had them officially listed and denounced for desertion, in case some British agent needed proof that the agent was really a former American soldier and not a spy posing as a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I live in a house, with window curtains and a lawn, in British Columbia, which is as far away from Toronto as I could get without drowning. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “The British won the war, but they lost many battles,” Jaja said, and my eyes skipped over the rows of text on the page. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z That was the decisive factor in the British Empire’s eventual defeat of New Zealand’s well-armed indigenous Maori population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z According to one story, at Howe’s headquarters she spotted a British officer who was a second cousin from Ireland. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Do you really believe that the British are telling the truth?" says Fikeis. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Because Burke had defended the British monarchy, Dad would have said he was an agent of tyranny. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Cilia collected a basketful of notes that the British officers had written Miss Lavinia. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Both were important allies of the British, and after the epidemic neither was able to fight the colonists successfully. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We heard that the British shoot first. And if you don’t die from a musket ball to your gut, they’ll finish you off with a quick stab in the heart with a bayonet.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z When Elizebeth forged her own path to Enigma, the British were impressed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Grandfather did kill British soldiers with that sword. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A British officer shouted, and the troops marched out. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul said he’d rather get shot on the battlefield than starve to death in a British prison. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “The British government is determined to keep us their slaves. We’re going to fight.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the turn of the century, two British physicists tried to use the wiggle theory to solve a simple problem. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So he laid a siege, surrounding the city so that the British couldn’t come and go. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the New Jersey side, guarding Trenton, were Hessian soldiers hired by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The three people who between them established both the scientific method itself and the pre-eminence of British science at the end of the seventeenth century were Robert Hooke, Edmond Halley and Isaac Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Paul Revere started a word-of-mouth epidemic with the phrase “The British are coming.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna changed what was left of her British pounds and bought petrol from a man who led her into a dank outhouse with creamy-fat maggots crawling all over the floor. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Gossip in the coffee shop, especially from British officers, gave Townsend many bits of information. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British School is not going to open this fall and Miss Williams has gone back to England.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, most of the British medical community adopted his antiseptic advice, too. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z South, and James Watt’s 1769 invention of his steam engine to solve the problem of pumping water out of British coal mines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The five men raised them in toasts to the French and British armies, and to the crushing of Germany. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Someone said John Jay was in England, trying to iron out our problems with the British. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a country parson was an honorable profession for a British gentleman, and one that left a good amount of time for pursuing other activities, such as collecting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, people were saying, ‘Have you heard? At sunrise this morning over at Lexington the British fired on us.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Their match was to begin in May 1971 in Vancouver, Canada, on the beautiful campus of the University of British Columbia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I search the box for more treasures and find the round pieces of white metal that Papa thought were musket balls and two British half cents from Concord. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z For the next meeting, André, dressed in the uniform of a British officer, was to arrive via a British warship, the Vulture. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured out I would run past the British troops and come out ahead of them before they reached Dr. Hobart’s house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were doing such terrible things to people that American and British gunboats had opened fire on them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, they held their position, the white blades of the U.S. shell flashing furiously alongside the crimson blades of the British. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, when the British ruled Zimbabwe. This is exciting! It must be worth a lot—and look! Here’s a plastic duck.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Space and time were on his side if he could keep the army united until the British will collapsed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “You know,” the guy continued, “just about every poem we received was one of those dreadful rap poems. But yours was so simple, so dignified, and so American. And yet, it sounded almost.. . British.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Presently a boat approached them and a British officer came on board. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington was suspicious about the letter, wondering if Hunter had been given it by the British and if it was “intended to fall into our Hands.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We learned English in school—Zimbabwe used to be a British colony—but I spoke Shona with my family and friends. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To win the Cherokees to their side, British authorities provided weaponry and money, while separatist representatives threatened the towns with complete destruction if they did not remain neutral. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Washington could slow down Howe, but his ragged army had little chance of keeping the British from sending troops from New York to occupy Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If you thought that the departure of the Romans caused the British Isles to descend into mindless savagery that would not be reversed until the Norman Conquest in 1066, think again. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Once Papa brought home a British doctor who was visiting the hospital. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The British had evidently thought her sufficient to prevent boats crossing the river that night. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know you were British,” I say. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z To the British, the Rhode Islanders who rolled the barrels off the ship so that they would not have to pay the sugar tax were smugglers, pure and simple. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z You can tell by his British accent that Professor Swann didn’t grow up here. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z "That lovely British accent!" the receptionist murmurs, breaking the silence. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Warren tells us to take out our MacBooks and begins the lesson on British literature. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In the 1890s, the price of cane sugar was declining, and the planters who owned sugar fields in British Guiana were on the edge of bankruptcy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He continued his career as a British officer until the end of the war, when he sailed to England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If the Wampanoag and Mexica had shamans who could magically inflict sickness, why couldn’t the British? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This military victory eventually led to a British capitulation three years later and to freedom for the United States—and lasting fame for Washington. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The British commandant was throwing a ball in honor of Queen Charlotte’s birthday in ten days’ time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps it had something to do with the great British sea captain Lord Nelson, but that would be only a guess. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not have the careless, almost British look of most of the Devon Masters, because he was a substitute for the sum- mer. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the British officers had limes, lemons, and oranges these days—they and their friends among the Boston Tories. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He ain’t no cardboard soldier like some of these British boys. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They sit in the dark, the small flat lit only by the dim amber light of the radio, and listen to the British voices pulsing across the crackling airwaves. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I came to give you this. Mum sent it through a British journalist.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But then Nate noticed that the bigger of the British warships had slowed down. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Drums beat and fifes blew and beneath everything was the steady clockwork blast of the British cannons firing at the troops stationed north of us. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I found myself with a British inflection and by no means one of Liverpool. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some wore Greek armor, some British redcoat uniforms, some camouflage with tattered American flags on the shoulders. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The British press called the HeLa hybrids an “assault on life,” and portrayed Harris as a mad scientist. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This worldwide migration has been studied and graphically described by the British ecologist Charles Elton in his recent book The Ecology of Invasions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During the French and Indian War, Washington and other people living in America thought of themselves as British, subjects of the king, and citizens of their colony. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of British soldiers landed from Royal Navy warships. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Woodhull married a wealthy English banker and lived comfortably the rest of her life; Tennessee Claflin married Francis Cook, a member of the British nobility, and became Lady Cook. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The British put him to work—as a spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British abolished slavery in name but kept it in practice. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Each member nation had its own specific interests because each had had different experiences in the previous 150 years of British and French intrusion, including the French and Indian War. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z And then, just after dawn, the British attacked. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The Active and the Kingfisher, British men-of-war, stood by ready to blast them out of the water if they obeyed the Town and returned to London with the tea. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with a photograph of an extremely nondescript British heir and his equally nondescript blond fiancée smiling blandly. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They found nothing, leading to suspicions that there was another British spy in their ranks who had got to Church’s house before them. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially the British Crown did not provide much regular military support to the settlers in its colonies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For the British, the episode was an embarrassment. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Now Massasoit was visiting a group of British with the intent of changing the rules. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Following such impulses, a few Spanish—and a few French, Portuguese, and British— deliberately spread disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the decisive vote came in April, Madison attributed his defeat to “the exertions and influence of Aristocracy, Anglicism, and mercantilism” led by “the Banks, the British Merchts., the insurance Comps.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Tonight most of the British Isles will see temperatures plunging well below zero. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So even though some of her family hadn’t approved that she was marrying an Italian, not someone from their British social circle, her engagement was a time of social whirlwind and happiness. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a strange accent—British, maybe, but also as if he had learned English as a second language. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And part of the idea was to make sure that Redding Tories wouldn’t be able to do to the Continentals what the Minutemen had done to the British at Concord and Lexington six months earlier. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Lee became suspicious, but while he was pointing a finger at Bancroft, Franklin learned from his agents in London that Lee’s own private secretary was a British spy! George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z British fishing vessels may have reached Newfoundland as early as the 1480s and areas to the south soon after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On a narrow street we passed a British Red Cross ambulance. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Madam set us to polishing the silver in the hope that we’d soon be serving dinner to the British high command. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke with one of those exaggerated British accents that almost sound phony. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z But near Concord a British patrol held Revere for a time and took away his horse. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Travis said in a horrible British accent, imitating his mom’s favorite cooking reality show host from the Food Network. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Relying on bottled oxygen as an aid to ascent is a practice that’s sparked acrimonious debate ever since the British first took experimental oxygen rigs to Everest in 1921. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z British and Hessian soldiers were getting closer to the fort. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Lydia Darragh and her family were living on Second Street in Philadelphia when British troops entered the city in September 1777. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z British forces set all the homes and other buildings on fire. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The British had sailed their war ships up the North River and had fired on the town, but now all danger was past. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Honeyman sold meat to the British and to the Hessians, so called because they came from the Hesse region in what is now Germany. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact the British boys still rowed with the long layback that English prep schools and universities had taught for generations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Because the British were the most active in the early years, British names are predominant in the geological lexicon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They had concerns that she might turn to the more violent and controversial methods of the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Major battles of the Revolution, with symbols indicating which were won by American or British forces and which resulted in outcomes that were not so clear, are shown on this map. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought mostly with their bayonets, which were twice as long as the ones the British used. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Johnny rode through the town gates, telling his business to the British sentries there, then went first to report to Paul Revere. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When the British had all the things in the house, they set the house on fire. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Six British guards stood warming their hands, their muskets leaning against the small pile of firewood. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “You really must write about the horrible things the British did in Kenya,” Olanna said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Americans marched fairly stylishly out of the British compound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was more cautious nowadays about crossing through the British encampment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before that, the British government’s Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement there. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I could go back to the British School, be sensible, and start singing about the king again. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If the British held West Point, they could cut off the northeastern colonies from the others. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them were two men, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, former British Airmen who had both been shot down and captured during the Great War. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Beginning with that day when Goblin had tumbled Lieutenant Stranger in the mud, Johnny had no more trouble with the British stable boys. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then why would you say “did used”? 1202=11 The British, as you might have noticed, have a different way of dealing with used to. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere, a bell dinged, and the British lady in the sensible shoes disappeared. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The British moved their small cannons up the hill and took aim, but I loaded. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The British boys were taking long, sweeping strokes, all but lying on their backs at the end of each pull. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Dasch struggled to reply in German, so Kappe switched to English and used a fake British accent to try to hide his harsh German accent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Despite official disapproval, the stunned British eagerly exchanged knives and guns for Indian canoes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He came from the prairies, where he had tamed countless mustangs for the British cavalry’s effort in the Boer War. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A British report said: “There is one Brewster who has the direction of three Whale Boats that constantly come over from the Connecticut Shore once a Week for the purpose of obtaining Intelligence.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But table 24 is the meteorological event of the century: ten British tourists who seem to have made the decision to absorb the American experience entirely by mouth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason, because he’s handsome in a British film star kind of way, not a Depp or a Pitt, but a Firth, or a Jason Isaacs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z With the absorption of Europe by Russia and the British Empire by the United States, two of the three existing powers, Eurasia and Oceania, were already effectively in being. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z British and American planes waged brutal air assaults over Germany in retaliation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I also know that the British aren’t going to be the rulers anymore and I guess we don’t like British people telling us what to do. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Haukelid relayed the details to British intelligence in London, saying that the job would be tricky and might result in the loss of civilian lives. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “She gets that from these hair videos she watches on YouTube. A lot of the girls are British. Now she runs around saying everything is either ‘brilliant’ or ‘mental.’ Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1943, the Atlantic was full of German submarines and British battleships. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The British soldiers at the Neck were asking more and more questions of any known Whig, and sometimes, for a whim, would refuse to let him pass and often again delay the trip. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the next lane over, the British boat backed into position. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The British were coming back, but once again Ran Laurie, with his narrow-bladed oar, was having a difficult time getting enough of a catch to help power his shell through the wind and waves. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The British allowed these people to pass in and out of Philadelphia because they were helping to feed the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ll have Jenny fatten up the British navy and make their ships sink to the bottom of the sea!” yelled a red-faced man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The French arrive in Rhode Island, beginning a series of moves that will fool the British into expecting an American-French attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z During Franklin’s long stay in London he had become well aware of British Secret Service tricks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought they had seen the British Union Jack and were friendly. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z British newspapers splashed his face on their covers, making it impossible for him to show himself anywhere in public. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He hides his surprise at my British, no-trace-of-India accent and quickens the pace of his words. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The main British Army was spending the winter in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I read how, entering India—half a billion deeply religious brown people—the British white man, by 1759, through promises, trickery and manipulations, controlled much of India through Great Britain’s East India Company. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The British have brought our neighbors here for a visit. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Eastern private schools, modeling themselves after elite British institutions like Eton, taught rowing as a gentleman’s sport and fed their young-gentlemen oarsmen into the nation’s most prestigious universities, places like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As the Ulster Scots arrived in the British colonies, they settled in Pennsylvania and in other British-held areas on the homelands of several Indigenous nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In the first minutes of April 19, hundreds of British troops left Boston, crossed the Charles River, and marched toward Concord. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British were upset over the seizure, and wanted their ship back, while the French were upset that the ship was being detained until the president could decide what to do. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I wish I'd shouted back that I did worship Gandhi, because he was a powerful historical figure who helped free India from British rule. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z His worries were on target: the virus, not the British, stopped the Continental army's drive into Quebec in 1776. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It would be a small meeting, for of the twenty-two original members many had already left town to get away from the threat of arrest by the British. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But above all, the British were, in the eyes of many—including Al Ulbrickson and George Pocock—the boat to beat in Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If the British had considered the Indigenous peoples to be rightful owners of the land, British laws against squatting might have worked in their favor. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z With the Proclamation of 1763. the British Crown established what it considered a clear boundary for its colonies along the Atlantic Coast. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “British royalty always carry crumpled tissues with them. They call them handkerchiefs.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Then in August 1781 came a report that de Grasse had decided instead to sail to Chesapeake Bay to fight British forces in Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Johnny would not be able to tell Doctor Warren the exact number of casualties the British had suffered, but he could tell him that they thought they were heavy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally the British came upon Lexington Common and the two sides met face-to-face: several hundred British soldiers confronting less than a hundred militia. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He set up the deception so that British scouts stopped his horseback couriers and grabbed the fake documents, thinking they were real. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the long run, the evolution of an independent American nation, gradually developing its political and economic strength over the nineteenth century within the protective constraints of the British Empire, was probably inevitable. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The entire thrust of the colonists’ justification for independence was to reject that designation on the grounds that they possessed all the rights of British citizens. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Whatever the mutual antagonism between Boer and British, he said, the two white groups would unite to confront the black threat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t the French fight for individual freedom, Jefferson asked, exactly like America’s struggle against British oppression? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z An actor noticed that Koch had used a British line from Wells’s story about hiding in the drains. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Boston was the headquarters for the British army in America, Paul explained. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Around fifty of the Minutemen and lots of British troops had been killed on Friday at Lexington or Concord, or wherever it was, although nobody seemed to know how many for sure. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z American and French soldiers travel to Yorktown, where French warships close the trap on British troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A British lawyer pointed out that it was “ridiculous to call it a World Convention and then exclude half the world.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “The iniquitously expensive and secretive British secondary school my sister and I attended. My father thought we were too young to be sent abroad, but he was determined that we be as European as possible.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Although shall survives in parts of England, even the British use it less these days. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A Yankee caught impersonating a British soldier would be shot. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Oceania comprises the Americas, the Atlantic islands including the British Isles, Australasia, and the southern portion of Africa. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Winston Churchill, the British prime minister himself, sent warnings based on captured German codes to the Soviet government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, in the first days of December intelligence reports about British troop movements began streaming into Washington’s headquarters from various sources. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He considered himself part of the British army and was always bragging about what ‘we’ were going to do to rebels. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z My secretary, Judy Fella, had used her not inconsiderable charm to persuade British Airways to give herself and me free seats on a Concorde as a publicity venture. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a lot of lovely Victorian architecture left over from the British. But most of it’s decaying.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The country’s ten thousand dead had gone unmoumed and uneulogized while the boys went on singing English songs and playing cricket, moved only by reports that reached them, three weeks late, from the British Isles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hardly any ships coming or going from New York City these days. The British attack is coming any day.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Delivery trucks pulled in and out of the market, and inside were a hundred different stalls, with names like Gibbs and Pardoe Fruits, Great British Mushrooms, and David Kira, Banana Merchants. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He gained his reputation as an effective writer against British encroachments but was a reclusive nonpresence in debates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A man whose duty it was to watch the British boats at the foot of the Common came in to say he had actually seen the men getting into the boats, heading for Cambridge. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward they walk together through the Center for British Art; there is an exhibit of Renaissance works on paper, which they’ve both been meaning to see. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He would stay and keep track of the British plans until the very last moment. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The reels contained pictures of thousands of classified British documents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In three months the British suffered three hundred thousand casualties. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z An experience in British Columbia speaks volumes on this point. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His voyage had lasted almost five years; he had been the naturalist on the HMS Beagle, a British surveying ship. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A British player, Robert Wade, supplied Bobby with a detailed analysis of Spassky’s openings in two loose-leaf books, one marked “Spassky; White” and the other “Spassky: Black.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I loved her dearly, but she was Canadian, born in the late nineteenth century, and thus deeply imbued with British class-consciousness. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This was in the early 1930s, when the French were still trying to make Pondicherry as Gallic as the British were trying to make the rest of India Britannic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They were the first British prisoners to return home, almost three years since most of them had been trapped during the opening days of the Korean War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He may have wanted the British to know at least some secrets so that England, fearing that France was close to aiding America, would decide to end the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowing was, after all, a quintessentially British sport, and the 1936 British Olympic eight-man crew hailed from the venerable old Leander Club. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z ‘The American Revolution. Most of the Colonial leaders were Greek demigods. The British generals were Roman demigods.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Lydia Darragh tells an American officer what she heard while eavesdropping on a British meeting in her home. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Out in front, the Japanese, still rowing like demons possessed, stretched their lead over the British to a full length. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z After Josh graduated from Hampshire College, he and his girlfriend, Safron, joined us in Cambridge, England, where the Courters had arranged to exchange homes with a British family the summer before I started high school. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The British Parliament had placed a tax on sugar without giving the North Americans any voice in the matter, and the colonists were furious. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The master and his unlikely pupil started with simple rhymes and short passages from popular British versifiers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The hosts of This Morning are agonizingly British—a middle-aged woman named Dottie in a tea dress and a man called Stu who looks as if he spends weekends yelling at mice in his garden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the distance I could see the British troops milling around the house. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs and the British team had moved from New York to Los Alamos in August 1944. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As 1940 ends, more British bombs have fallen over Hamburg, but the Nazis have overrun Poland, France, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the British wanted a place where they could pretend they weren’t in China, I thought. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In which the spymaster leads the British into a final trap and wins the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in charge of trying to keep order was General Thomas Gage, commander of all British troops in North America. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not infrequently, the others who played the British jigs and hornpipes with me on fiddle or pipe were of my Africk race. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But if she hadn’t been such a cracking radio operator and been promoted so quickly, it’s not likely we’d have become friends even in wartime, because British officers don’t mingle with the Lower Ranks. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Revere was carrying a sensational piece of news: the British were coming. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days later, the world spins wildly again when the British and the French honor their promise to Poland and declare war on Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Besides running covert operations, including dirty tricks known as sabotage, Franklin’s work would include gathering intelligence, sending out counterintelligence agents to hunt for moles and British spies, and using propaganda against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That anything they discovered of British plans should be told only to the four men who were looked upon as the leaders of the Boston Whigs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z British warships had been streaming into the harbor all month, Paul said. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “She’s a rare British lass in a crop of bloodthirsty Americans.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z This was the latest of a growing list of terrorist activities against the British Army in Palestine. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z At my new school here, I wear a British schoolgirl’s uniform: a green sweater, striped button-down shirt, and tights and a blue skirt. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z What moved me most was a brief image of Winston Churchill weeping after he heard the news of the loss of the British vessel. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa changed his accent when he spoke, sounding British, just as he did when he spoke to Father Benedict. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to enjoy fooling the British, right from the beginning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Colin Maclaurin and Brook Taylor, perhaps the best British mathematicians in the era of isolation from the Continent, discovered how to use calculus to rewrite functions in a totally different form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Some British physicians praised his antiseptic methods as an effective way to stop infection. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Regiment upon regiment of the finest British troops were arriving. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, British troops have fought on the continent in every century since the Norman Conquest of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z British schools treat colonialism the same way, to an extent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A year later British forces struck even harder, overwhelming the Cherokee and destroying their capital, Etchoe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It's been a month since the British came. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny,” Jackson explained, “the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Especially as, like most shot-down British airmen, she spoke only the most basic schoolgirl French and had no clever forged identity to fall back on in Nazi-occupied France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The British preference, have woken, was once considered obsolete in the United States. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was full of people who’d come to talk about the British raid. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We copied them from the British, and even the British had forgotten their original purpose, which was possibly to support a heavy sword. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At first the British were much excited and searched Boston from end to end. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The difference between the American and British ‘bye.’” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Just a few months ago, when the British came, everyone was dying. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A distinguished British student of animal populations, Dr. Charles Elton, has said, “We are hearing the early rumblings of what may become an avalanche in strength.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What happened with education in South Africa, with the mission schools and the Bantu schools, offers a neat comparison of the two groups of whites who oppressed us, the British and the Afrikaners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z My friends included a girl named Rachel, whose mother was white and had a British accent; Susie, a curly-haired redhead; and the Mendozas’ granddaughter whenever she was visiting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In the last few years researchers have focused more and more on a proposal linked to the name of Knut Fladmark, an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I watched soccer, cartoons, music shows featuring British boy bands, and world music from Ireland, America, Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z American and British troops were just beginning their attack on Germany’s ally, Italy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Daily Mail's full of how Great British guts and Great British leadership won the war. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He imagined that she would be hurt; his writing had become the best of her hobbies, and she came home every day with books and journals from the British Council Library. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The entertainment for the night is a British indie rocker who looks like a root vegetable and is popular with people in Alex’s demographic for reasons he can’t even begin to understand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Many British colonists, especially Virginians, wanted to move westward across the Appalachian Mountains. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Major Benjamin Tallmadge, Washington’s intelligence chief, saves a “country girl”—a spy—from British pursuers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Culture isn’t just symphony orchestras, movies about dead British royalty, and hard-bound books. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z While the British colonel set Lazzaro’s broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. Campbell, Jr.’s monograph. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Long hours serving the British commandant had melted off the fat from his second and third chins and created heavy black circles under his eyes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on good terms with the British grooms and by great good luck, from the point of view of a spy system, intimate with the Colonel’s horse boy, Dove. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a doctor in England before he returned to Malawi to deliver us from British rule. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The “fashionable clothier” picked up intelligence tidbits from British officers getting their uniforms fitted in his shop. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Forcing female soldiers to wear men’s boots isn’t unique to the Red Army in World War II. Combat boots in women’s sizes for British soldiers were introduced in the United Kingdom only in 2012. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z British and American scientists were both exploring the science. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And with good reason—he was helping British scientists figure out how to build an atomic bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And he knew that the French would see the meeting with Wentworth as a sign that the British might end the war before France officially became involved. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A year later Sir Ferdinando Gorges—British, despite the name—tried to found a community in Maine. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “And I’m British on one half, and American on the other!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Claiming to be an escaped slave, he said he would work as a servant or guide if the British would free him after they won the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The British had forbidden the General Court to meet, but the Massachusetts men had merely changed the name of their legislative body and gone on sitting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was illegal, but night after night, Helmuth listened to the British war reports and compared them with the German news. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet of course it was a British prison ship he’d died on. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We shall never surrender,” a grimly defiant Churchill promised, but many expected the British to fold. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The British cavalry didn’t need him anymore, so he had been forced to leave the mustangs and find a new job. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The British had sent Cockcroft to the United States to solicit engineering help to turn the magnetron into a serviceable radar apparatus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The difference between British racism and Afrikaner racism was that at least the British gave the natives something to aspire to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z His voice rose on the last word, as he made his best attempt at a proper British accent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The British boat, once it got going, also went out hard, charging furiously back up into contention. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The moment aroused a whole orchestra of rich emotions among the British—pride, patriotism, nostalgia for the lost past of the war and derring do, hope for a rejuvenated future. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Even if he had asked if the seat was taken instead of asking if it was occupied, I could have told that he had a British accent. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I thought it was pretty funny that he kept calling the British Lobsterbacks, when he was dressed in red, too. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They had another British officer in here one time, an English airman, very I-say tip-top well-bred chap, and though he was kept under guard he was always allowed to walk about with his hands free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z By the time Victoria was seventeen, and Tristran also, she was in all probability, he was certain, the most beautiful girl in the British Isles. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The file also contained her home address—2206 Greenleaf Lane, Vancouver, British Columbia—along with a lot of other information, including her blood type and her school transcripts going all the way back to kindergarten. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A number of them left Ireland for religious reasons, but most were victims of disastrous British policies that brought economic ruin to Ireland’s wool and linen industries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Sayle is giving away the computers. He’s not making any money out of them. In return, he’s getting a medal and British citizenship. Fine—what’s he got to hide?” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z So the Astrea, and some four hundred other vessels, started in a vast convoy, guarded by British warships. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had once laughed at Obinze’s refusal to fly British Airways, because it was, after all, what the big boys flew. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The S.O.E. was a secret British organization tasked with carrying out acts of sabotage behind enemy lines all over Europe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For his part, Norman Mackworth had been born in India, the son of a British eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery for locals. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Any concession to British economic and military power, no matter how strategically astute, seemed a betrayal of the very independence won in the Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As the British Empire fell, the Afrikaner rose up to claim South Africa as his rightful inheritance. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Not exactly. He’s got his heart set on a cavalry charge. Drawn sabers, all that glorious French business. He was horrified when I had to tell him we didn’t use the British square.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z British ships continued to sail up the river all the day and all the night. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When everything was ready, thirty-four British commandos would fly in on gliders, land, and set out for the plant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sky around him, Heiberg could see the other men, along with the supply crates the British crew had tossed out of the plane behind them. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “And every single one of the guys developed a massive crush on her, including Jim; She was actually the one who gave him the nickname Anorak,’ a British slang term for an obsessive geek. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Harriot Stanton Blatch, the youngest daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, lived in England for twenty years and worked with British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When I thought of Western democracy and freedom, I thought of the British parliamentary system. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In previous wars against Indigenous nations, British commanders had assigned ranger groups specific missions, but to fight the Cherokee, both the regular forces and the rangers would target even the elders, women, and children. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Both women agreed with the motto of the British suffrage movement: “Deeds, Not Words.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That’s why the British interceptors could listen to just a few bursts and say, with absolute certainty, “It’s Oscar, which means that yes, his unit is now definitely outside of Tobruk.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Haukelid climbed into a car with the British officers, and they drove though a city battered by German bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Michah slips an envelope into the hand of the British guard at the gate, nods, and we cross the threshold of Bergen-Belsen for the last time. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her British accent, one of the few things he clearly remembers about her, is gone; she sounds as American as he does, with the low, gravelly voice that had surprised him on the phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Instead of waiting for the British or the Americans or the Russians to save us, we should be saving ourselves. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The world's experts in decrypting Enigma, the British had created banks of powerful electric machines—called bombes—to help with the work. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They want a picture of a perfect, dignified, British intellectual, a loved-up boyfriend with a bright future as an academic and philanthropist. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘The British are furious that we licked them so.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know why they put a dumb kid like me in British lit. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The gunfire was coming from the British fleet. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Overall, it was a dignified, friendly affair and a reminder that even heads of state are capable of talking about their children and joking about the British weather. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The battery readout showed four red bars—more than enough for a quick jaunt through mainland Europe and across the British Isles. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Billy and poor old Edgar Derby and Lazzaro had been in the hospital when the British passed out blankets and mattresses, so they had none. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z More than thirty British bombers were lost and crashed in fog after a single mission in December 1943, an event known as “Black Thursday.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1953 a large British team, organized with the righteous zeal and overpowering resources of a military campaign, became the third expedition to attempt Everest from Nepal. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z By stealing and reading secret messages and by reading the decoded reports of agents and spy hunters, Washington was finding out what the British were going to do sometimes even before British troops knew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of November, all of Manhattan Island was in British hands. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z As usual he walked the horse through the British encampment, through the idle men, stacked muskets, military stores, camp kitchens. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One moment she floated on clouds of fancy, imagining her grand life once the British beat the rebels. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "Did you ever think about going to British East Africa to shoot?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But Germany’s bombing campaign against London and other British cities backfired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A pleasant, British woman’s voice asked for the floor. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Aware that German people were listening, the British Broadcasting Corporation, or the BBC, broadcast the news in the German language. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At Los Alamos, the British team of scientists began packing up to head home. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That was what people called children who were born after liberation from British colonial powers. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A split second later, he saw the British boat do the same. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Alfred Loomis was brought into the talks; after hosting the British delegation for a week at Tower House, he pressed Bush to make radar a priority of the NDRC. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I wondered what that meant, to be free from the British. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Why isn’t it safe? Is it because the British are leaving?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z British Bulldogs was aborted 'cause Tom Yew's a minor legend in Black Swan Green. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z One warm spring day in May of 2007, the Medicine Hat Tigers and the Vancouver Giants met for the Memorial Cup hockey championships in Vancouver, British Columbia. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The British army finally appeared—four thousand Redcoat soldiers, marching in endless lines. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The British officers I knew were confident the American army was fallen apart. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Kondrachev was the only Soviet official in London who knew Blake's actual identity or his role in British intelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z According to the front page of the Herald, the British had staged daylight raids on Stuttgart, and another hospital ship had been torpedoed, but not sunk this time. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I certainly didn’t sound like them, and not just because they were British. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The British ambassador registered a protest, the American Embassy in Paris was stoned, and Canada sued the United States for over $386,000. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He spoke to them only in English, careful English, as though he thought that the Igbo he shared with their mother would infect them, perhaps make them lose their precious British accents. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘I was afraid if I said anything, I'd be next, sir.' Well, if this spinelessness is the future of British society, heaven help us.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Thayee says the British invented high tea, but Indians and Pakistanis perfected it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I had had my picture taken on the first day, wearing something my mother had put together for me, something between Little House on the Prairie and British manor attire. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Howe’s intelligence officers firmly believed that someone had passed the British plan to Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul had ordered purple, white, and green flags, but some women objected, because those were the colors of the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The British announcer, caught unawares, broke back in, excited and relieved, “That was Herr Hitler! The games are open!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This happened especially to Jaime, who made fun of the British royal family and at the age of twelve displayed an interest in reading Marx, a Jew who was spreading revolution around the world. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In India, Gandhi also preached noncooperation—refusing to use or buy British goods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In two years, the British post would become the penny post, which meant that a letter would cost a penny per half ounce no matter where it was going in England. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could get a better price for my old stockings. Every old man in America drags his rusty sword around and claims he ran it through a hundred British. It’s a piece of junk.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Also on the list are the punitive armies of Rome, the fecklessness of Byzantium, Ottoman indifference, and British gunboats. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Catching a British spy, militiamen grab Major John André, who carries plans for the defense of West Point, given to him by an American traitor. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought the Lady was dozing, but her eyes snapped open when Madam described how British soldiers had looted the City Hall library. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s an old song she snitched from her mother—British alternative, rising good energy, from the time of shoulder pads and big hair. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Kainene said on the phone, when he told her that he would be going to Lagos for the memorial at the British High Commission. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “There was a British guy who was kind of mean to me—” “Ugh, they always are,” Freckles says. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But the king was unable to withstand the firepower of the British and eventually surrendered his kingdom. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But British gunboats fired on the barge that was carrying Arnold across the river, and he was forced to return to West Point. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In countries that are not the British Empire, they cut out children’s tongues, especially those of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Panicked, the British government took MacMillan’s prescriptions to heart and, among other reforms, proposed a series of “allisland” scholarships for academically minded students to go to private high schools. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Thousands of British soldiers were on the attack. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z It has been caused, simply, by the informal divide-and-rule policies of the British colonial exercise. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The British magazine Chess relaxed its stiff upper lip, calling Bobby’s effort a game of “great depth and brilliancy.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the treaty that ended the war, France turned over all territory in North America east of the Mississippi River to the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1856 he became head of the natural history section of the British Museum, in which capacity he became the driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On March 17, 1776, as the siege of Boston neared a full year, the British left the city on ships that sailed for Halifax, a safe port in British Canada. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Noting William’s rapport with his British counterparts, the Army made him a point man in U.S.–U.K. intelligence relations, twice sending him on long trips overseas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Leonard Barden, a British chess journalist, claimed that Fischer was asked so often what his result would be that he learned the Serbo-Croatian word for “first”: prvi. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A British man began narrating, his voice melodramatic, like he was telling a ghost story that just might be true. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He ordered Tallmadge to set up a spy ring that would provide such important secrets as the size and location of British military supplies and “the health and spirits of the army, navy and City.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington put General Benedict Arnold in command of the American forces that entered Philadelphia after the British left. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Rasheed stopped to look at an engraved silver dagger in one shop, and, in another, at an old rifle that the shopkeeper assured Rasheed was a relic from the first war against the British. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Of course the British children loved singing about their gracious king. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that his regiment had made a magnificent retreat, and the British were, lucky they’d got out of it alive, but it sounded the other way around to me. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After only two or three months in the reading room of the British Museum, it became clear that I had joined a lonely community. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Beggin’ pardon, Reverend,” he shouted, “but the British have sailed into the harbor!” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Franklin and Deane sometimes sent Bancroft on missions to London, not knowing that this gave the double agent a chance to report in person to the head of the British Secret Service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But they beat the British in a fight down in South Carolina. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z In Concord that day, the British were confronted and soundly beaten by the colonial militia, and from that exchange came the war known as the American Revolution. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Arabs were killing Jews, Jews were killing Arabs, and the British, caught uncomfortably in the middle, seemed unable and at times even unwilling to stop the rising tide of slaughter. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I clutch the satchel and viola to my chest and brace myself for the inevitable tackle of a British soldier, the demand for papers. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A British agent in Redding, Connecticut, sent in another report: “Private dispatches are frequently sent” from New York “by way of Setauket, where a certain Brewster receives them, at, or near a certain woman’s.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All the British members are still watching them. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the morning the men took out their maps and compasses, checked nearby landmarks . . . and realized the British plane had badly missed the intended drop target. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Rajiv, another film major in my class, asks in a British accent so lovely and warm it could star in its own rom-com. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z As Henry Dundas, the British secretary of war, put it, their goal was to “prevent a circulation in the British Colonies of the wild and pernicious Doctrines of Liberty and Equality.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The contents of the saddlebags were then returned—along with documents that had been created by Washington’s men but that looked like real British documents. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This idea long precedes the legal claim to authorial copyright, which did not exist in British law until 1710, and was established later elsewhere. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The Americans don’t have big cannons this far from the forts. The British aren’t supposed to be anywhere near here.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Now the ship that had plundered and pillaged up and down the east coast of the American colonies was sinking under the relentless attack of a British man-o’-war that had chased it upriver. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z If he really were to supply the whole of the British Army with Amo bars he could become immensely rich. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Free of British domination, the nation has prospered and I along with it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was starved beyond recognition when the first British soldier walked through the barracks door, only thirty kilos. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The expedition's main object, explained in the fund-raising brochure, was “to cross the Antarctic from sea to sea, securing for the British flag the honor of being the first carried across the South Polar Continent.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z On the icy morning of December 13th, Revere rode north through deep snow to warn the local militia that the British were on their way. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-four British soldiers were dead, and nothing had been accomplished. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A spy’s fate awaits Nathan Hale, who was captured by the British and hanged as a spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold assured André that he would be safe going overland to the British lines because he would have a pass signed by General Arnold himself. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This is how Washington learned that the British were about to speedily depart. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British captain looked even more pleased and sounded more sympathetic. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But merely wishing for relations to improve was taking something of a gamble, for Cal Tech’s fabulous chemist Linus Pauling was not subject to the confines of British fair play. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z If you believe in stereotypes, British cooks fall into two categories. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z What the economy consisted of in 1960 was potential—raw materials, human beings, high spirits, some money from the marketing board reserves left over from what the British had taken to rebuild their postwar economy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The way I figured it, the Rebels had hidden there and begun shooting at the British troops as they marched by. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “British landing craft are engaged in combat with German naval units,” according to the BBC. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The remarkable fossil sloth head had been presented at a meeting of the British Association of the Advancement of Science in Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And our application for British citizenship kept getting denied. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No sooner had Ernest’s wire been dispatched than horrifying news arrived: the Athenia had been sunk by a German U-boat torpedo, in the war’s first attack on British shipping. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z What I learned from my year at the British Museum and from my summer at home, other academics have learned; others have known the impossibility of going home, going back. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Glancing at the bookcases, I thought I could distinguish the two volumes of Bewick’s British Birds occupying their old place on the third shelf, and Gulliver’s Travels and the Arabian Nights ranged just above. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z West Point guarded the Hudson River, a prize that the Americans held and the British desperately wanted. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked through the halls of the British Museum for a couple of hours, learning the names of paintings and drinking a series of Diet Cokes from small bottles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Both the British and the Americans frequently used horseback riders to carry messages, and both sides tried to capture the riders and get the messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If American and British engineers could build an underground tunnel long enough and somehow reach the cables from below, then the Soviets would have no idea that the United States was listening in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I sold it to the British consul. He told me he would put it in a museum in London.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At noon, the guns at the Battery, which the British had taken to calling Fort George, would fire a royal salute. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the Germans arrived, British intelligence officers set up hidden microphones all over Farm Hall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The British intercepted the telegram and cracked it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It was one thing for Sam to say he was going to fight the British; they were a long way from here. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There, it had been said: the man considered himself British. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There would be terrible bloodshed, he predicted, unless the British would give over the problem to the United Nations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The first British colonial militias fought Indigenous people and French and Spanish colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z On April 6, 1775, Gage’s mole in the Sons of Liberty reported that he had seen four stolen British cannon and other weapons in Concord. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that they’ve got a harbor, the British can bring whatever they want on shore. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Tara is running along the pavement toward her sister and mother, weaving through swimmers, waiters, and British women. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘We are at peace ...’ Suddenly close by, over at the Afric Queen, the British drumsticks fell. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of selling them to the British was gone. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All through November I tried to find out about the British commissary—whether it really existed or not, and where it actually was. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Amil said it’s good that we will be free from the British, but what does that mean? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Besides, e’er sounds a little British or something.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It boils down to this: the Americans, the British are that faceless clot you don’t know, but a Frenchman or an Italian is your acquaintance and your friend. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Lots of better men got shot today—Lexington—Concord ... The British are sending boats back and forth tonight, taking off their men from Charlestown. I can sneak along over with them.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1915, a British crew of twenty-eight men was stranded there, with no ship and no way to contact the outside world. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They passed their insights to the French and the British just before Germany attacked Poland in 1939. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I was worried because the great German battleship Bismarck had been hit in the rudder and was doomed to going in circles until she was sunk by the British. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Certainly this campaign was going to be a short one—if everything went as the British expected. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The British Prime Minister and the German Ambassador are brought together by your employer for secret talks in the night, and you're not even curious?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the young impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe fighting the British. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z British officers would not allow him a Bible or a visit from a clergyman. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite its British origin, it had been baptized with the very Indian name of Covadonga. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At one in the morning, the British pilot announced they were ten minutes from the jump site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson seemed to think that, once unmoored from British docks and unburdened of European baggage, the ship would sail itself into the proverbial sunset. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She pulled out a glossy brochure for the Franklin Valley Conservatory, a summer program in British Columbia. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Light doesn’t go in a straight line, but in a curved path around stars—an effect that the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington went on an expedition in 1919 to observe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Germans were shocked, never imagining that British bombs could reach them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Blake's Soviet case officer went to extreme lengths to make sure that he was not being tailed by British and American agents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a useful distinction, and one that the British would do well to reacquire. ft TOMBSTONE: Drop the of in all of and both of. r.i.p. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy Pilgrim says he went to Dresden, Germany, on the day after his morphine night in the British compound in the center of the extermination camp for Russian prisoners of war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Recess at the British School was nothing I looked forward to. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In spring 1867, he published his study in a respected British medical journal. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Benedict Arnold, one of Gates’s generals, argued for a counterattack that would smash the British force. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Captured American and British and Australian soldiers were forced into slave labor, starved, and beaten. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He studied British literature at Kim II Sung University, which is reserved for children of top officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z ‘No. But by the time the British got back to Lexington from Concord, the Lexington men were ready for them. And they fit ’em and harried ’em all the way to Charlestown.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z American spy John Champe swims to a welcoming British patrol boat after out-running pursuing Americans, who think he is a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some clutched arms that had been shattered by British or Hessian musket balls. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Washington knew that his men in Whitemarsh would be overwhelmed if the British sent troops from both New York and Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And this past March, the Americans finally drove the British out of Boston. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Police arrested and jailed many of the British suffragettes, often treating them harshly. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She tells him that she had hated moving to America, that she had held on to her British accent for as long as she could. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The stormy weather kept the big British warships from laying their trap in the East River. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I’d heard that there was a British commissary in White Plains, which was about twenty-five miles southwest across the New York State line. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We passed two British ambulances, abandoned in the block of vehicles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z With God at the top, British society was neat and ordered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he spotted the British troops formed up on the training ground. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To Stansbury’s surprise, he later wrote, Arnold “communicated to me, under a solemn obligation of secrecy, his intention of opening his services to the commander-in-chief of the British forces....” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Hameed straightens her spine and lifts her shoulders, reminding me of the way Nan always told me and my brothers to stop slumping like lazy Americans and use our good British posture. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I it. highly explosive fuel for execution of British spy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z For example, in the French and Indian War Ulster Scots fought with the British against the French and their “Indian” allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie believed that France was trying to keep the British colonists pinned to the Atlantic coast. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Threatened by Patriot cannon on the high ground, the British leave Boston. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A delightfully clear original manuscript of ‘Sumer is icumen in’, possibly in W’s own hand, survives at the British Library. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He was a big chief in Southern Sudan and fought on the side of the British colonizers against the Arabs who lived in Northern Sudan and wanted to control the whole country. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not know they had renamed kwashiorkor after the British prime minister, but her amusement dissipated when she went to Adanna’s room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the coastal waters between Washington State and British Columbia. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The British have already tested a large number of other species for susceptibility to radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That summer, while Variation was being compiled into its book form, a review of his earlier book, Origin, appeared in the North British Review. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z British intelligence gave the job to the man in Norway with the most experience in sabotage: Knut Haukelid. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As if to underline the association, the British Parliament passed a Jewish Naturalisation Act in 1753, which was not to be emulated in any other European country for half a century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Folks said the British wouldn’t attack the fort until spring. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He invited Britain to join his forces if they chose, but it was to be an Indigenous-led resistance and his fighters would not take orders from British commanders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z British intelligence officers knew about the Long Island spy traffic. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British finally made a move toward the end of August, rowing half their army across to the Long Island in flat- bottomed boats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early nineteenth century Sir Stamford Raffles, founder of Singapore, while supervising the British occupation of Java sent two gamelan sets back to Britain, housed today in the British Museum. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I did not understand the measures some took against merchants who still carried British goods. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1774, he set up a secret group that met regularly at the Green Dragon Tavern with the express purpose of monitoring British troop movements. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The British let some few Jews in, and then closed their doors. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I had known a writer’s loneliness before, working on my dissertation in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The British have finally scored a few successes in Africa and Stalingrad hasn’t fallen yet, so the men are happy and we had coffee and tea this morning. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Colonel Arbuthnot, uninterested in what a pack of foreigners called anything, replied with true British brevity: “Yes.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as the British were concerned, this included Cherokee territory, although the Cherokee Nation had never agreed to be part of France. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The girlfriend was one of the best spies the British had, but fortunately for Washington, when her report reached Clinton, he did not believe it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Townsend proved his loyalty to the British not only by writing for the Gazette but also by becoming a partner with Rivington in a coffee shop. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But when British newspaper The Daily Mail offered what in today’s money would be a $500,000 prize for the first person or persons to fly nonstop across the Atlantic, several contenders took the bait. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Consider my bookshelf your personal library,” she says, bowing as if I’m a British royal. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A British nurse grabs my arm and I feel the sickening lack of muscle, the bare nerve rolling between my skin and bone. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “The British Lord Dunmore in Virginia offered freedom—total freedom—to any slave who escapes to his camp.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB had just promoted him to rezident of the KGB's London station, putting him in charge of all spying operations in the British capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z With the British gone, there would be good things for everyone: "white" salaries long denied Nigerians, promotions, top jobs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By then, Fuchs had returned home to England, and Lamphere reached out to his counterparts in MI5, the British equivalent of the FBI, to track him down. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The tune that Hamilton sang, called “General Wolfe’s Song,” was supposedly written by the great British general on the eve of his glorious death on the Plains of Abraham outside Quebec in 1759. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As fighting continued, in 1781 in eastern Ohio, British troops displaced residents of the Moravian villages. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But bombes were costly and time-consuming to run, and there were nowhere near enough of them, so British code breakers were also solving many Enigma messages—fully or in part—with pencil, paper, and know-how. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Looking somewhat like a British officers’ club, the Marshall was wood-paneled, with plush burgundy velvet curtains, several fireplaces, and oak tables fitted with brass lamps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was one funny thing about it, though—it wasn’t a Rebel prison ship, it was a British one. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z British code breakers called this kind of word a crib—slang for “cheat sheet.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They had been “civilized” in that they now wore British clothes and had adopted British manners. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fuchs explained that he and the British team were working out the details of how best to separate U-235 from U-238. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in 1908, at age twenty-three, Paul joined the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I wondered if it was my guy with the shaved head, but no, there was no British accent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He has a British accent so over the top you’d think he was making fun of Harry; Potter. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was in a British hospital that his son had been bom. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the narrator did have a thick British accent. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, issued an ultimatum to Hitler: If he dared to invade Poland, Britain would declare war on Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m still not sure what it means to be free from British rule. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Mr. van D. turns white, and when she notices it, Mrs. van D. turns red, but she’s not about to be deterred: “The British aren’t doing a thing!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “But we didn’t shoot. Our plan was to wait until the British were close—close enough to see their eyes. And then we’d all shoot at once.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z One British wag wondered aloud where the storks were. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z In the battle between the British and French fleets in Chesapeake Bay, thanks to Washington’s agents, the French may have been reading Admiral Graves’s flag signals. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That fall, a mysterious British visitor turned up at the estate, lugging a briefcase. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Hunter handed Washington a sample of his ability to swipe intelligence material—a letter that was supposed to go to the commanding officer of British forces in Canada. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But the British, thanks to Bancroft, knew what was going on. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a British stay, and would have a passport in a year, and she hinted that she might be willing to help him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z At midnight, while we were sleeping, India became independent from British rule. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Hamilton took his hash in tea—the British way, I assumed. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His voice was cool and Bostonian, almost British. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Rab had wanted a picture of Boston being strangled to death by a British grenadier. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z While Honeyman was selling meat to the British and Hessians, he was gathering information—the location of camps, the number of troops, the roads without sentries. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In my very best British, I say, “But I thought you can’t take it with you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Wasn’t independence from the British supposed to free us? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He did not extend a hand, knowing the British custom. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1896, an indentured worker in British Guiana who called himself Bechu began publishing a series of letters to the local newspaper, revealing the conditions on the sugar plantations—or “estates,” as they were called. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I have heard a good many people say that it is leveling the British class system. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In 1763 King George III of England declared that no British subjects should settle on Indigenous lands in the Ohio Country west of a “proclamation line.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The British and the hated Hessians held them both. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z She helped me shake off my British accent and survive the first few months here, but I'm thinking of replacing her. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1960, Tanganyika was still under British colonial rule, and Louis said it had been very difficult to get this permission. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z But, according to a newly discovered account, Hale was tricked and seized by Major Robert Rogers, a bold British officer known for his cunning. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the novelty of public concert-going, music- making in the British Isles had had a more democratic profile since the temporary fall of the monarchy during the 1650s, at the end of the Civil War. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Things are more British than they were last year. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The British had set up a new camp in Brooklyn on Long Island, and Washington was moving his troops around like pieces on a checkerboard. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If his theory became well known, and popular, it could topple British society on its head. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Their nervousness was the result of British history. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Despite the tremendous cost of the British attacks on its villages and crops, the enormous Cherokee Nation remained strong, with a well-functioning government. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Not one ship had come into Boston for five months except British ships. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z British grammarians will concede that sometimes the extra comma prevents confusion, as when there are other ands in the vicinity: I went to the chemist, Marks & Spencer, and NatWest. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “Including the British monarchy. So, I don’t really feel bad for you. Anyway, he was totally fine when I danced with him. I don’t get why you hate him so much.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Rogers, switching to civilian clothes, claimed to be head of a ring spying on the British and got Hale to admit that he also was a spy—with members of Rogers’s “spy ring” as witnesses. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather’s there in an old British army uniform, feeding the machine dollar bills, but it takes a lot to buy a gun and we’re running out of time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “It’s difficult to find in hardcover these days. It’s a British publication, a very small press. It took four months to arrive. I hope you like it.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A bullet struck his leg, but he rode on, leading the final assault that shattered the British fortifications. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the United States and Britain were now fighting together, Elizebeth turned to British code breakers for help. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “It’s already on top of my list because I know they teach the British curriculum.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The immigrant Handel, a naturalised British citizen from 1727, demonstrated more successfully than any other composer before the nineteenth century how music could become the collective voice of nationhood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He told them the Nazis had executed every one of the British soldiers. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In which a traitor offers to sell out his country for British gold. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All night he had been ransacking his desk for his notes on the British monarch of legend, notes hurriedly copied from a hundred-page survey of British history that he had once read in paperback. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But apart from my flight bag, all my British pilot’s gear had to be destroyed, helmet and parachute and all. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Later, though, when Hunter added solid military intelligence about British units, Washington began to trust him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the greatest king who ever sat on the British throne. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Vincent adds diagonal threads from the corners to create an X through the middle, so it looks like the Union Jack British flag, or a six-pointed asterisk. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There’s that smooth, subtle British accent of his. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We learned a lot from the British—and if they had not been good fighting men we wouldn’t have taken it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was such a hit with British readers that an American magazine, The Cosmopolitan, carried the serial, too. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z These bits of information included where British troops were stationed, what forts were being built, how many warships were entering and leaving New York Harbor, and how much food the troops had. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Born in 1871 to a handyman and his wife in New Zealand when it was a remote outpost of the British Empire, Rutherford became an intuitive theorist and the preeminent experimental physicist of his age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She became animated after a few glasses of gin and talked about a marvelous film on the royal family that had been screened at the British Council. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The British hospital was a big villa built by Germans before the war. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The British often used a “mask” to keep their messages secret. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His service as wartime governor of Virginia had ended disastrously when British troops burned the capital as Jefferson galloped off and into official disgrace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Tallmadge was “at a tavern called the Rising Sun,” getting a report from the egg seller when he was warned that British cavalry were nearby. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Lake Windsor Downs offers four choices to home buyers, each named after a British royal family: the Lancaster, the York, the Stuart, and the Tudor. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was becoming convivial and even made attempts at dry, almost British humor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She recruited working women, set up lecture tours for British suffragettes, and brought in a number of wealthy supporters to the cause. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Washington knew where most of the work would be done: New York City, headquarters of the British Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Why were British cities still using gas street lighting into the 1920s, long after U.S. and German cities had converted to electric street lighting? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the illegal taps never led to the identity of the leaker—the Times reporter had actually gotten the story from a British journalist in Cambodia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Johnny saw that he was mending the silver hilt of a British officer’s sword. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z These British experts knew that most Nazi spies used their own version of the Enigma machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Their elite troops all raced back to Port Stanley as the British paratroopers advanced. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Rarely did a week go by now without a new act of terror against the British. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Where possible, the British will drop pamphlets an hour ahead of time. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Or he had British riders stopped and their saddlebags examined. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A British philosopher and political scientist who could read and write in Latin and Greek before the rest of us can tie our shoes. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But the Germans were our masters now, until our allies the British and the French arrived to drive them out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The people of Waltham just didn’t find out the British were coming until it was too late. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "It's not funny. They wanted to know who Lord Lister was. Wanted to know why I worked for a British detective agency." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The British colonizers were driven by the belief that they were entitled by divine decree and by royal declaration to live on and use the land and resources of North America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "Every day that Germans spend at the Russian front will be a gain for the British." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The highest-ranking men of the British army had taken over the empty rebel mansions. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Furious that Germany attacked civilians, the British retaliated, bombing Berlin the next day. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1959 several British and French research teams found their independent studies pointing to a common conclusion — that some of humanity’s ills are caused by a disturbance of the normal chromosome number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I have great respect for British political institutions, and for the country’s system of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had twice been wounded in battles against the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They are Edith Cavell’s, the British nurse who smuggled two hundred Allied soldiers out of Belgium in The Last Lot, the 1914—1918 war, and who was caught and shot for treason. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The victorious Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones: Russian, French, British, and American. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Indians and Australians were fighting for the British in the Pacific and the Far East; Canadians were fighting for them in the Mediterranean. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He had a map drawn of what he had seen, persuaded Prince Charles to look at it, and curried favor with him by asking him to award British names to all the Indian settlements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I had played there many times with Henrik and other boys when we were a few years younger, imagining we were defending Willemstad against pirates or even the British. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Germans asked the British where exactly they were, and why they’d been brought there. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If I tried to impersonate a British person, like that, Libby would tell me I’m working too hard and ruining the scene. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z All English dictionaries, he declared, were vestiges of the same British tyranny that the American Revolution destroyed forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And not a word about that business of the British searching our ships and seizing our men! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before this, the British had spotted how good Elizebeth was at code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the radio, the breathless British voice said it was quite extraordinary that a second coup had occurred only six months after the first. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There, he jumped off his horse, leaped into the water, and swam toward a British patrol boat, yelling for help. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s what the British call us,” Martin said. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Spirit Bears five hundreds of miles south of here off the coast of British Columbia, not here in these islands.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z More slaves from Africa had been shipped by the British than by any other nation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Even though Haupt had earned two medals on his voyage for spotting a British naval blockade and warning the ship to run past it safely, Haupt and Wergin weren't allowed to leave the freighter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In the last twenty strokes, and particularly in the final twelve gorgeous strokes, they simply powered past the British boat, decisively and unambiguously. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Once, as they sat together listening to a lecture at the British Association for the Advancement of Science, he turned to her and said, “I am afraid this is very wearisome to you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “To the first settlers, the American backcountry was a dangerous environment, just as the British borderlands had been,” the historian David Hackett Fischer writes in Albion’s Seed. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The Germans were, of course, broadcasting in code, so—at least in the early part of the war—the British couldn’t understand what was being said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Here is an example: a British anthropologist named Dr. Louis S. B. Leakey is displaying some fossil bones—a foot, part of a hand, some jaws, and skull fragments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The city swelled by the hour with Loyalist refugees who wanted to live under the protection of British cannons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them came an equal number of British redcoats with bayonets fixed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Fifty members of the British Parliament had staged a march in London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the court stands a statue of Paul Kruger, the president of the Republic of the Transvaal who fought against British imperialism in the nineteenth century. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember a British Airways flight was going into New York. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They could see the Captain, British flagship, stationed between Long and Hancock’s Wharf, and over by Governor’s Island, the Lively, and beyond, the Mercury, the Magdalen, the Tartar. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The police had blocked off the street; the crowd’s response to the speeches urging an end to the British mandate and the establishment of a Jewish state had been overwhelming. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Safron bought me the British edition of the latest Harry Potter book the day it was released. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was about the break through on the British front. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Best thing would be to break into the desk of a British commander, steal a pass and forge her name and his name on it, and act free. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He used three adoption studies, two American and one British, each of them containing in-depth data about the adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He would continue his job as a British spymaster by running agents in New York, including Ann Bates, a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who had left that city at the same time as the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t going to wait for Mr. Shaved Head with the British accent to contact me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Okay,” Connor said, not quite with the enthusiasm or the British accent I had been going for. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z One of the first items on the very long list I have been given to think about including in my confession is Location of British Airfields for Invasion of Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The British command was well aware that their military could not defeat the Cherokees in their own country even with irregular warfare. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “The British Purchasing Agency? They can’t take it back. They’re paying twelve and a half cents for beans all over the country.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I touch my Star of David, then each of my British charms, which usually calms me down. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z By then the British were safe home again. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was needed, he said, for British officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite being Iraqi like me, Belet spoke in a snooty British accent. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It certainly would hearten Doctor Warren when he heard how stupid the British had been. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So Champe was on his own when he tried to get through American lines then make his way through British lines to get into New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes the British reports seem more truthful, more accurate, and that infuriates Helmuth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton insisted on flying the British Union Jack. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Suffice it to say the British expedition met with resistance at Lexington, and fired upon the local militia. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Prior to Mossadegh, the country's most valuable resource was under British control. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In the 1850s, however, William Thomson, a British physicist, noticed something odd about Charles’ law: the specter of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As he recalled in My Early Life, “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence— which is a noble thing. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z At one moment, the British were in retreat; an hour later, the word was that they were triumphant, that they were upon us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I could not, however, take this view,” Burnham wrote in a letter to James Dredge, editor of the influential British magazine Engineering. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The British Army and Navy sang a rousing song called “Heart of Oak”; the rebels had writ one to counter it called “The Liberty Song.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He learned that Rameel was married to a British woman named Isadora, and that they had two children together, Ezra, a daughter, and Micah, a son. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z While the Irukandji lives in large numbers off the coast of Australia, Irukandji-like symptoms have been experienced as far north as the British Isles, and in Hawaii, Florida, and Japan. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A good many of the British purchasing men were crippled, but they wore their uniforms just the same. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But he had no training in intelligence, and he didn’t fool the British Secret Service, which had a large network in Paris. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After that they might race against the University of British Columbia or a handful of other Northwest crews. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The British army paraded up Broadway the next day, cheered by Loyalists all wearing a red ribbon or flower in their hats in support of the King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa says it was a group decision between Lord Mountbatten for the British, Jinnah for the Muslims, and Nehru for everyone else. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z For instance, there were funny things like little plugged-up funnels, some gray called pixie-cups and some bright red called British soldiers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z K. Fuchs, Lamphere learned, was Klaus Fuchs, a German-born British physicist who joined the Manhattan Project with a team from Great Britain. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As though they had not a care in the world the British officers crowded into the Episcopal churches and army chaplains held services for the soldiers in the barracks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They would stand about and wonder who ‘those Mohawks’ might have been, or what the British Parliament might do next, but never say what they themselves had been doing, for each was sworn to secrecy. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As he galloped across the British Isles with the helicopters thundering above him, people stood and gaped and wondered what on earth was going on. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Other crates held British flags and pictures of the Queen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z ‘He told me I was a foreigner and I didn’t understand how British schools were run,’ she said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In countries that are not the British Empire, they cut out children’s tongues, especially those of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Genêt’s first action in the United States was to hire American privateers, privately owned and manned ships, to attack and plunder British ships in the name of his government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The French were causing trouble again, pushing their way into British land. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Indigenous fighters went to a British garrison in Canada to obtain weapons and supplies, and Tecumseh called for a unified and coordinated Indigenous-led war on the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If you are not familiar with Mrs Symons's books - a series running to seven volumes, each one concentrating on one region of the British Isles - I heartily recommend them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I could almost hear a man with a British accent narrating the action. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z But what he didn’t know was that the smiling soldiers were Americans, wearing uniforms swiped from a British ship. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Experiments have been undertaken by the British in the hope that the method could be used against the tsetse fly in Rhodesia. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Germans had reached the Channel, the British army was in difficulties. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He told Gold where he was living, where the British team was working, and who was on it. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The American Congress, frightened by the marching British, fled Philadelphia and ran to Baltimore. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Daliwonga’s response was that he was trying to restore the status of his royal house that had been crushed by the British. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington’s lost letter, stolen from a saddlebag by British spies, asks for help from a Philadelphia dentist. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “British brains dream up a chemical bond stronger than gravity!” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z News of the British reaction to the “Boston Tea Party” spread as “express riders” carried letters to and from Committees of Correspondence. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their teacher, a charming eight-months-pregnant young woman dressed in a traditional Indian sari, moved seamlessly among British, American, and Canadian accents as she demonstrated reading a paragraph designed to highlight phonetics. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The recommendation was controversial, for Jongintaba’s mother was from a lesser house, but my father’s choice was ultimately accepted by both the Thembus and the British government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z British agents sent numerous reports to their case officers, tracking the French as they set out from Rhode Island to join up with the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We took to it the horrifying news that the Irgun had hanged two innocent British sergeants in retaliation for the three Irgunists who were hanged on the twenty-ninth of July. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Scholars have long acknowledged such borrowings as moccasins, maize, and military tactics—the Indian-style guerrilla skirmishes with which the rebellious colonists bedeviled British soldiers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Art Form simply disintegrated, all at once, like one of those exploding, vanishing faces in paintings by the British artist Francis Bacon. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z James Armistead, spying for the Americans, convinces General Arnold that he will spy for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t anything to do with the captured Heinkel bomber; it was just an ordinary air raid, the Luftwaffe doing their worst to try to destroy British defenses. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z ‘Don’t you lose track of that Dove, Johnny,’ Paul Revere commanded him, ‘for if ever the British march out to attack us a colonel’s horse boy might well know something is happening, in advance.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the British troops the view was that the French had let them down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I got to the lake in the woods and remembered the game of British Bulldogs we'd played here when the lake froze last January. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z 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 As tensions intensified between the Spanish in Florida and the southern British colonies, both the Spanish and the British sought to win over the Cherokee Nation as an ally. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Because British food stocks were low, Redcoats had taken grain from her. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Equable emirs collected taxes for the British, and the British, in return, kept the Christian missionaries away. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The colonists wanted a voice in the British Parliament. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But those southerners in the hallway study weren’t living in circumstances similar to their British ancestors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose you keep up with any British tabloids, do you?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A robin—the little British bird with a red breast, not the big American robin—came to my windowsill one winter while I was sick in bed. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not plain old tea. Earl Grey. It’s British. It was my grandmother’s favorite. I thought, ‘What if we make Earl Grey-flavored ice cream and put the halwa in it?’ A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Ah yes, Him with a capital H and I don’t mean Mr. Gable. A certain big...bad...British...wolf?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Dawn came, and still the British didn’t attack. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The British thrashed the Patriots in a big battle in Brooklyn. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z If the British go out over the Neck, we will show one lantern. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Confident in the devices, the British army had already distributed eleven thousand of them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For example, in 1808 a British sailor named Charlie Savage equipped with muskets and excellent aim arrived in the Fiji Islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Americans and British were also eager to learn exactly how much these German scientists had figured out about building atomic bombs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a clipped, vowel-flattened way of speaking that told me he was from somewhere else but faking a British accent, though not particularly well. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z From New York to Virginia, American intelligence operatives like Armistead were bewildering the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, she heard an officer reading the actual order for British troops to march from the city at dawn on December 4 and head for Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British used rockets later aboard their warships during the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of the furniture is modern and shaped like boxes and domes, and some of it looks like it came from a fancy British tea party. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z After winning a prestigious scholarship, Houseman seemed destined to attend a British university. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z To honor his promise to defend Poland, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain turned to the Soviet Union. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Every man is free,” the frontiersman Robert Rogers told a disbelieving British audience, referring to Indian villages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As part of the British Empire, India was contributing both men and supplies to Britain’s war effort. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z It is likely that the first British villages in North America, thousands of miles from the House of Lords, would have lost some of the brutally graded social hierarchy that characterized European life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When have I ever expressed an interested in British royalty, a concept with which I don’t even agree on principle? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Liar! Give me that paper or I’ll turn you over to the British commander so fast your fool head will spin.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The cloud cover will keep British bombers away. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he got the post, he offered to arrange the surrender of West Point to the British for £20,000, a sum equal to well over one million dollars today. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he once had been for “the independency of the Colonies,” Bancroft decided that he would tell British intelligence “all the information in my power.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z British intelligence, with its thorough knowledge of the French landing, was ahead of the Culpers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As in British Guiana, Trinidad, and Mauritius, Indians were first brought to Natal to cut cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And he never stopped hearing those British battle drums, that ghostly RAT, tat, tat, tat, tat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Right after the war, the Jews’ Haganah mediating body stepped up the longtime negotiations with the British. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then came the famous British Museum Massacre. Two thousand culture fans gassed with dichlorethvl sulphide.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The CIA determined that Blake had passed over 4,000 documents to the Soviets, many of them containing highly classified information about British and American spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even before the British got into their transports, word had come back to Boston that the King’s fort at Portsmouth had been seized and His Majesty’s military stores stolen by the rebellious Americans. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I think I should remind you that my family is long-established in rather the upper echelons of the British aristocracy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I buy only British clothes for my baby because American ones fade after one wash,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z L. F. Richardson was a British meteorologist interested in war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “We weren’t run well at all in the Congo. We were under the command of a British colonel.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I found myself in the British Museum, at first content, reading English Renaissance literature. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But the British had to preserve Nigeria as it was, their prized creation, their large market, their thorn in France's eye. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Newport, in my home state of Rhode Island, fell to the British too. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British and the French have already declared war on him,” my father said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1900, at age twenty-six, he had risen in the ranks of the merchant service, carrying mail and cargo around the British Empire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Ernest disclosed that he had received a visit from Arthur P. M. Fleming, research director of the British industrial giant Metropolitan-Vickers, and persuaded him to put up the money for a Liverpool cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The British believed the device was unbreakable, and they wanted to use it on the front lines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As Toussaint neared the last British stronghold, he said, “We are fighting that liberty—that most precious of all earthly posses-sions—may not perish.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mrs. Bessie braided his hair for him and tied it tightly as the British regulars wore theirs. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were successful in protecting their grain stores and, for a time, kept the British from moving beyond the Jamestown fort. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Removing slavery, however, was not like removing British officials or revising constitutions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Tallmadge had been born on Long Island, which, like New York City, was occupied by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British column was disappearing around the bend, but a couple of dozen troops had stayed behind. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hard to read, like all those dry British comedians her father liked. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the early 1920s, Griffith, a medical officer at the British Ministry of Health, began to investigate a bacterium named Streptococcus pneumoniae or pneumococcus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Washington did not have enough soldiers or time to stop the British from sailing to Newport. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in New York he seems to have spied for the British while claiming to be a Son of Liberty. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z British racism said, “If the monkey can walk like a man and talk like a man, then perhaps he is a man.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Still, the British bow remained out in front of the American bow with 150 meters to go. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He helped on the battlefield by starting a propaganda campaign aimed at Hessians “and other foreigners” hired to fight for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Nico watched, paralysed, as the grave spewed forth more dead British soldiers - five, ten, twenty, multiplying so quickly that Reyna and her metal dogs were surrounded before Nico even thought to raise his sword. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Laurie, who went by Ran, was perhaps the best British stroke of his generation—188 pounds of power, grace, and keen intelligence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On one occasion, they joined a group touring the British Museum. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Just got going when the British took us on again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The next day at school when we rose to sing the British national anthem, everyone stared at me, but as soon as I opened my mouth, the class lost interest. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British act on their promises,” insisted the bald man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after the first issue was printed, the Revolution’s benefactor, George Francis Train, went to England and ended up in a British jail with a one-year sentence for speaking out in favor of Irish rebels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But Marks recommended that the British wait before pouncing on the Americans until he could get even more information. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the officers who left Philadelphia when the British pulled out of the city in June 1778 was Major André. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I rang the British Council in Enugu and I can’t believe our people there are still going off to play water polo and have cocktails at the Hotel Presidential! There’s a bloody war going on.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But Lady Seymour was the wealthy, elderly widow of a British lord, incapable of social error, so all pretended she had not said a word. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Indoors he was rigidly a British officer and a ‘gentleman’ and Johnny an inferior. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The British boat and the Husky Clipper, for a horrific moment, sat motionless at the line, dead in the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z This proof of a German theory by British scientists was hailed as a great act of reconciliation between the two countries after the war. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Two British doctors happened to be in nearby Rawalpindi, and the army brought them in to consult. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As Great Britain’s self-confidence grew, its people began more and more to identify with God’s chosen people, the Israelites of the Old Testament, whose destiny the British were more than happy to appropriate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The other guests arrived now and at my mother’s nod, I made the rounds, dropping a British School curtsy to each one. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British were in Africa, along with the Germans and French. The Dutch were in Asia, and nobody was in South America,” because most of its nations were independent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a long bitter winter for the British Expeditionary Force in northern France. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most Americans, however, like the British, still objected to the idea of women flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Project Daedalus is a recent design of the British Interplanetary Society. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After the appendicitis scare, the British Broadcasting Corporation invited him to London to appear on a show called Chess Treasury of the Air, and he spent about ten days in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even with her posh British accent, I was pretty sure that was sarcasm. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He was British, and his name was Hamilton. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “We keep intercepting British accents on their radio messages too.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “One of those white wigs that British barristers plop on top of their heads when they are trying a case.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan had been to none of them, American or British held. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z I went to a British school and every morning we sang “God Save the King.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z British crewmen had been spotted scurrying about in the boats tethered beneath the HMS Somerset and the HMS Boyne in Boston Harbor. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The stories say Townsend was in love with Agent 355 and was expecting British counterintelligence officers to arrest them both. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He served secretly as a Patriot agent in France, in the midst of French and British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Another was Samuel Smith’s Negro slave, Ned—the same one who’d first come running to report that the British were coming. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Yankee boys threw bad words and oyster shells at him because he worked for the British. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been told by the British game ranger in charge of Gombe not to travel about the mountains by myself—except near camp. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In Britain and the British Empire the Gregorian calendar, the calendar we use now, was introduced by law in 1752. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The descendants of maroons who evaded the British still live in Jamaica to this day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They shot down a British bomber this week. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z There was a commotion in the British ranks, and a quick fusillade of shots. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While I abhorred the notion of British imperialism, I never rejected the trappings of British style and manners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The international prestige of Handel was unmatched among British composers until Lennon and McCartney in the 1960s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The British SoundBeam system translates body movement into digitally generated sound and image. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The eager young Sherpa wasn’t chosen that year, but he remained in India and was hired by Shipton for the 1935 British Everest expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I was glad he used a terrible British accent that time. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Miss Lyte had Gods plenty of friends among the British officers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1947, India became the first British colony since the United States to break free from foreign rule. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I pat my mouth with a napkin, like a polite British lady. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Consulate in Georgetown, British Guiana, was marched on by pickets accusing “American imperialists.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Jaja of Opobo was no saint, anyway. He sold his people into slavery, and besides, the British won in the end. So much for the defiance.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Though a few ATA women managed to make careers in aviation, British flying jobs went almost exclusively to men. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To invade and overwhelm the indigenous Irish in Ulster, the British Crown called upon recruits from Scotland, which Britain had already invaded and colonized. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Later, during their war for independence from Britain, the separatists relied on militias to fight the British and their Indigenous allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Tisquantum had learned English because British sailors had kidnapped him seven years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They remind me of the kids in Ghana who used to play outside the gates of the British High Commission club. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Around 300, an explorer named Pytheas sailed a ship through the Straits of Gibraltar, turned north, and circumnavigated the British Isles. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It was the longest prison sentence in modern British history. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of British troops had landed on Brooklyn, just across the East River from New York City. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z For his services, the wizard was paid three British pounds. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z A false message carried by an American courier hoodwinks the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British have begun their all-out attack on Cherbourg. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The only hospital in the camp was a six-bed affair in the British compound itself. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiery Samuel Adams, backed by the Massachusetts House of Representatives, called on all the Colonies to disobey British tax laws. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z All these things—the flags, the pitch pipe songs, the British Empire and the princesses, the war orphans, even the strappings —are superimposed against the ominous navy-blue background of Miss Lumley’s invisible bloomers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Captured in March 1777 after a desperate manhunt, Aitken denied his crimes, but later admitted setting the fires to a British agent posing as a friendly American. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They insulted the British and called the Hessians foul names Nate would never repeat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Attended a British international school, I remind myself feverishly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By dawn, the advancing soldiers could see figures all around them in the half-light, armed men running through the surrounding fields, outpacing the British in their rush to get to Lexington. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the British deserter did not show up in his blue smock and false hair to ride out of town with Rab’s uncle. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier, he had been told of an unusual number of British officers gathered on Boston’s Long Wharf, talking in low tones. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell in love with her British accent, and at first he couldn’t stop talking about her. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone, possibly an American officer spying for the British, told Marks enough details about the operation for Marks to be able to seize Brewster, Austin Roe, and two other Patriots working with Roe. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow, the British will still be watching for us, but we’ll be gone. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then came the cannon explosions. British warships had sailed into the river below us, and were blasting us nonstop with cannonballs.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When they added new rotors to some Enigmas, the British were locked out for months on end. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But when the tide of war turned against the British, the Continental Congress was able to focus on an offensive to annihilate the Shawnee Nation in the Ohio Country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They dared not go to bed with over a thousand British soldiers suddenly camped upon them—defeated soldiers whose mood might turn ugly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British have confined all American officers to their lodging houses today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Because British municipal governments had invested heavily in gas lighting and placed regulatory obstacles in the way of the competing electric light companies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Michael Fish said the area of low pressure moving over the British Isles is coming from the Urals. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Did you also know that Jamaica is still a ceremonial member of the British Commonwealth?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the British Museum, a year in the silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Hobbes had worried about a state of nature that was “poor, nasty, brutish and short”; Galton was concerned about a future state overrun by genetic inferiors: poor, nasty, British—and short. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It's British, but not quite white people British. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Afghanistan has been invaded so many times. By the Persians, Greeks, Arabs, Turks, Mongols, British, and then the Soviets...” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z That was when the first battle broke out between British and American troops, in and around the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “Some days I’d rather face the British again than listen to the sound of my dear daughter-in-law,” Grandfather said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z British producers from the BBC came calling, and she appeared on television, sharing tales from her rumrunner days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Bechu made good use of his knowledge of English by writing to the elite newspapers in British Guiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I guess all British people are experts on acting and accents and scene-work and dramatic structure, or something. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Ship ashore!” and a few moments later, “She flies the British flag!” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z When the Redcoats marched into Philadelphia, the Patriots despised Stansbury even more, because he went to work for the British, doing various jobs for General Howe. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If it's anything other than a British ship, we're all right. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Several times during the war Washington arranged for fake documents to fall into the hands of known British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘They did. Seven hundred against seventy. It wasn’t a battle. It was .. .just target practice ... for them. Some of our men were killed and the British huzzaed and took the road to Concord.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But along the Hudson there were also many enemies of the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one who was in the United States as I chanced to be…” wrote a British journalist, “will forget the feverish condition of the public mind at the time.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Nate hoped that meant that the British had not made it that far. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The next morning, word came that the British were on the move. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z When he was only two years old, his father had been killed in a battle against the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Samoset had walked unaccompanied and unarmed into the circle of rude huts in which the British were living on March 17, 1621. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He was married to a British woman, lived in a British home, worked at a British job, traveled on a British passport, said “exercise” to refer to a mental rather than a physical activity. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In April of 1944, I was among some sixty American enlisted men who took a rather specialized pre-invasion training course, directed by British Intelligence, in Devon, England. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Woodall’s numerous deceits became an international scandal, reported on the front pages of newspapers throughout the British Commonwealth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And he got what he wanted, from an unexpected source: Sir James Jay, a British doctor who lived in London and dabbled in chemistry. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A British reporter covering the trial marveled at "this crew-cut, diffident, simple, rather polite man, surrounded by the entire apparatus of Soviet law." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Johnny eats cheese with his fingers and watches British TV comedies. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1944, reports were circulating that the war had swung in favor of the Allies, mainly the Americans and the British to the west and the Soviets in the east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z They doubted that American listeners would find the British story engaging, despite the updates. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z My favorite plane was the British Spitfire, which was a beautiful, graceful-looking airplane with a slender fuselage and a curved, elliptical-shaped wing. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1939, South Africa, a member of the British Commonwealth, had declared war on Nazi Germany. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave them the details and told them about the British commandos who’d be coming in by plane. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The man that Churchill called ‘a naked little fakir,’ refusing food in a British jail? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to call it George, after the British monarch, but was overruled. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Patriots had somehow managed to intercept the real letter, in which Wright had warned that the rebels were threatening British rule. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles watched as in drawing rooms and scientific clubs all over the British Empire, in newspapers and journals around the English-speaking world, people argued about the book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The case for a social capacity has been made, most persuasively, by the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said every kind of bad word imaginable about officers, gentlemen, the war, the British, and the Congress, and he cursed himself for leaving his wife and farm in Maryland. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘If they catch you, Johnny, they will shoot you for impersonating a British soldier in wartime.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was riding in the first car and as we passed the entry to the British hospital I told the driver to stop. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z British have finally rolled up their sleeves and gotten down to work. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Van Zandt reported to the British Secret Service that Deane “strutted about” and acted like “a Child with a new plaything.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In that first exchange, the British got the best of the colonists, gunning down seven militiamen in a brief flurry of gunshots on the common. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On October 21 Dinwiddie received the king’s answer: Order the French to leave British territory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though they weren’t flying combat missions, the air work that British women were doing was so impressive that the Americans decided they needed to check it out. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Auma had ebony skin and brilliant white teeth and spoke with a strong British accent. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Johnny, from sheer high spirits, jumped the now deserted breastwork the British had thrown up so hastily the night before. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned over the words like puzzle pieces in my head, wondering how they were supposed to fit together: Pakistan, Jinnah, independence, Nehru, India, British, Lord Mountbatten, Gandhi, partition. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was a rumor going around that the British were forming up in New York City and were going to raid towns on Long Island. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, it invaded Burma; a few days later, British Borneo. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “The French school is not bad, but I prefer Sidcot Hall. They teach the complete British curriculum,” said another woman, whose name Obinze had forgotten. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I know the name of every owner of every British moor, yes—and their tenants, too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The British had no way of knowing it, but the candles and the soap were made from the fat of rendered Jews and Gypsies and fairies and communists, and other enemies of the State. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When General Gates had asked the committee to send him someone who would go behind British lines, Bryan had been picked as “the best qualified to undertake the hazardous enterprise.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Whoever passed on the virus, its effects were still visible a decade later in 1792, when the British navigator George Vancouver led the first European expedition to survey Puget Sound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Twelve of the thirteen colonies voted in favor of severing all ties to the British throne. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z So the next morning someone notified the British authorities, who still controlled our country. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Though most speak English as their mother tongue, there are some, newer fetched from their country, who spake two languages or three before ever they heard our British speech. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z To put that in perspective—World War II ended eleven years before the first female pilot for British Airways was born. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Things are more British than they were last year. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z As it happens, there is no such thing as a Long Range Mountain Reconnaissance Unit in the British army, and Woodall never served as an instructor at Sandhurst. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z You know, it sounds like an almost ‘duh’ sound—not crisp and clear like the British. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z A brass plaque on the door said, “This ambulance is a gift of the British residents of Brazil.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I know that we have British furniture in our bungalow, like the upholstered wooden chairs in the sitting room and our large oval dining table and English china. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And the names of any the British arrest. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A week later, the Americans battled the British in Princeton, New Jersey—and won. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I plug some headphones into the family laptop, select the angel food cake episode of The Great British Baking Show, and turn up the sound so I can’t hear them arguing. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He would also show it a few years later in the South Pacific when, against orders, he stayed behind with wounded British soldiers as Japanese troops surrounded them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A blockade of British ships stood between the Astrea and the harbor of Cadiz. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets of Los Angeles were full of uniformed men and women—not just American, but also British, Canadian, and French. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z While at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre, she heard a speech by Christabel Pankhurst, the British suffragette, and she was invited to participate in suffrage protests, but she didn’t jump into radical politics easily. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They were waiting for Hagop and Atom from Liyana’s class to appear so they could go see a French movie at the British library. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z After Independence, when the British left, his designation was changed from Imperial Entomologist to Joint Director, Entomology. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The British had built their own hangman’s platform at the opposite end of the Commons. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z During the 1740s the British War Office and Parliament commissioned two companies of colonial rangers and authorized more than a hundred men to serve in the Highland Rangers in Georgia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z We, as a nation, are as hungry for history as was England when Geoffrey of Monmouth concocted his History of British Kings, many of whom he manufactured to meet a growing demand. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All his life he’d been hearing stories about the British navy. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The British agent reported he found nothing of value. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only were they eminently respectable, these were figures who held real influence in British life: politicians, diplomats, military men, clergy. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Some sort of humiliation for both Sayle and the British government? Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Unaware that Salomon was a Son of Liberty, the British hired him to translate for officers handling Hessian troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew he would need more than this to beat the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The British army could occupy Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and it did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Among them were several British intelligence officers who appreciated the Friedmans’ warm welcome and friendly wit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z From my crawling days, Grandfather had taught me all the tricks of the American and the British armies, and quite a few from the French. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The British had come with three ambulances and they had two men on each ambulance. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The British troops rose, their bayonets flashing at the ends of their muskets. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He went to the British Council Library and looked up her father in the business journals. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In Europe, Hitler had driven the British and their allies into the sea at Dunkirk. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘You were right, you tall, dark boy, for even as we shoot down the British soldiers we are fighting for rights such as they will be enjoying a hundred years from now. ‘ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Two British planes loaded with firebombs landed right on top of the German Officers’ Club. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Spies reported that there were now more than 430 British ships anchored off nearby Staten Island, and at least forty thousand soldiers. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z "The Nazis have succeeded in one of the heaviest series of blows yet claimed against British shipping." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They made haste tucking into their dinners, playing cards, paging newspapers, and arguing loud about the British soldiers and their navy and taxes and a war. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington had spent his young manhood fighting with the British to expel the French from North America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In response, the British governor of Massachusetts closed down the legislature, and Gage ordered more troops from England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Announcements blared from speakers in crisp British accents. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Over in that room - and I don't need you to confirm it - there is gathered at this moment the British Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary and the German Ambassador. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Mother called me to help figure the bills and exchange the many kinds of money: pence from Massachusetts, shillings from Virginia, British pounds, and French francs. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Believing that the letter was somehow involved in British spying, they turned it over to another Patriot. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hope that’s not active,” she said in a slightly British Indian—inflected voice. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The Redcoats, a British officer later wrote, were suddenly under “heavy fire from all sides, from Walls, Fences, Houses, Trees, Barns, etc.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And—this is top secret, by the way—Mr. Sayle is to be rewarded with British citizenship, which is something he has apparently always wanted.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z On the balcony of the boathouse next door, Al Ulbrickson saw the Husky Clipper coming down the outside lane alongside the British boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z There were some British batteries up with the third army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z "I thought we'd have been released by now. I think the British are in over their heads." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But when he heard yells and shouts from the market-place and the rattle of British drums calling up reserves, he tore over to Dock Square. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Within days, the North Koreans discovered Blake and took him prisoner along with a group of British diplomats and civilians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z British intelligence soon learned that German commanders had assigned extra soldiers to guard Vemork, night and day. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Earned two German medals for running a British blockade. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z At his sentencing for treason in a London courtroom, George Blake was given one year in prison for each of the British agents he was known to have betrayed to the Soviet Union: forty-two. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And his loyalty was good for business now that the British were in control of the area. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Becky brought back tales of sea monsters chasing the British fleet and a two-headed calf born outside Philadelphia that portended all manner of disaster. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after the British settlement of Sydney in 1788, the first of the epidemics that decimated Aboriginal Australians began. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They shout to us in English, with British accents, I think, muffled through the rags they hold over their noses and mouths. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The paper had been written by one of the British scientists working with Oppenheimer. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Another show I was given was a British comedy from the 1970s. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The British navy could blockade and bombard American seaports with impunity, and it did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Smallpox also ruined the British plan to raise an army of slaves and indentured servants by promising them freedom after the war—the disease killed off most of the “Ethiopian regiment” even as it assembled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After Mom came home from England, a big box covered in British stamps arrived on our doorstep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “They want to impress him so he will bring in the British army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was also actively engaged in gathering information about the British. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He slipped through the British lines and found his way to Arnold’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early days of the British Museum, prospective visitors had to make a written application and undergo a brief interview to determine if they were fit to be admitted at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And as more Enigma messages kept coming in, they soon became as fast as the British themselves. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z George Blake's assignment from MI6 was to recruit Soviets to become double agents for the British. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z During her time in England, Alice Paul had learned the British suffragists’ political approach to their cause, which involved holding the party in power responsible for not passing the suffrage amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z When the British finally evacuated Boston, Thompson fled to England, leaving his wife and small daughter behind. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States rushed weapons to the British, but stayed out of the fighting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I thanked the assembled nations for exerting pressure on South Africa, citing in particular Ghana, Nigeria, and Tanganyika, who spearheaded the successful drive to oust South Africa from the British Commonwealth. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They have seen the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking societies they encountered in the Northeast as too different from British societies to have exerted lasting changes on them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If the Americans had one, the Soviets had to have one, and then the British, the French, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistanis ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The book was eventually published in 1862 with the title On the Various Contrivances by which British and Foreign Orchids Are Fertilized by Insects, and on the Good Effects of Intercrossing. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is Black British. I don’t know where her people came from.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He said something about a British airborne division seizing bridgeheads and two American airborne divisions stopping enemy troops from moving into the Cotentin Peninsula. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Suddenly, British customers were giving the laundries in Philadelphia rush orders to deliver clothing “finished or unfinished.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In a panel of the oak wall, between crossed British flags, hung a dramatic arresting photograph of Major Sir Milo Minderbinder in the dress uniform of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the town there were more guns, there were some new hospitals, you met British men and sometimes women, on the street, and a few more houses had been hit by shell fire. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z One of the officers he got to know was Major John André, the chief British intelligence officer in New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They decided they had to warn the communities surrounding Boston that the British were on their way, so that local militia could be roused to meet them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Bosun’s mate, take a bight of the flying-jib sheet, and start this villain if he doesn’t confess his sins double quick,’ said the British captain. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “But The Zed doesn’t fly British Airways, so he wouldn’t know,” Ahmed said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He gave it to a British intelligence officer, telling him that he had found the pouch lying on the road. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The sonnet form allowed me to make my poems look and feel like real poetry without being as distant as some of the other British poetry I had read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Thank God I did not become involved with the British.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He sided with British settlers who wanted land in the Ohio Country. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If the editors were told that a British article was of above-average interest, they would try to publish the manuscript almost immediately. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z One of the most famous speeches of modern times was the one made—apparently extempore—by a British army officer on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z One after another, towns were set ablaze until the Cherokees organized a resistance strong enough to lay siege to British forts. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The truce was signed on Friday, September 3, the day the British landed in Italy. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In short, Enigma was so complex that it could not be solved once and for all, even by the British experts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Two days after Hickey was hanged, British troops landed on Staten Island, in New York Bay, a few miles from Washington’s headquarters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She would not have said that if he had been talking to one of the British women, even though some of them had helped write the Nigerian constitution. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His twelve years of British schooling had failed to give him spleen, which was considered a gentleman’s most attractive trait. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, because of their historical and rhetorical association with the successful war against British imperialism, they were the most potent forces in the entire political culture. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Boris, according to Blake, was the "feather in his cap," earning him accolades inside the British spy agency and deflecting any remote suspicion that Blake might be working for the enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When British radio technicians on the ground spotted incoming swarms of German aircraft, they were able to tell their pilots where to find the enemy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z ‘No, not many. They stood up—just a handful. The British fired on them. It was dawn.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z So when Daymon told him about the stranger, Franklin wondered if he were a British spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As they passed the Iron Duke, the British military service band started into a waltz. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Jam,” I say with a fake British accent. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z "Their one donation paid for this whole remodel. The plants and the air in here remind me of the British Club in Ghana." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By and by Rosellini left academia, departed Seattle, and drifted north up the coast through British Columbia and the Alaska panhandle. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But McLane also failed because, at the last minute, British warships unexpectedly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried paying attention to Mr. Gunthrie’s lecture on British literature, but the side of Miles’s face had turned chalky white and was morphing into sickly green. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The tavern had been taken over bodily by British officers, chief among whom was Colonel Francis Smith. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I let myself imagine it—taking classes like Politicized Geography and Nineteenth-Century British Women in Literature in small classrooms, everyone seated in a circle. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then Marks would land with a boatload of British agents, go to the place on the coastal road where the first rider picked up the messages from Brewster, and ambush him. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a tinkling sound: it was the sound of the most beautiful girl in the whole of the British Isles laughing with delight and amusement. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Will history remember me for my MBE, my British Empire honor for“chivalry,” or for my cooperation with the Gestapo? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The British, impressed by the deserter’s bravery, took him before General Henry Clinton. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z At a meeting of the British Commonwealth in Nassau in October 1985, the leaders could not reach agreement on whether to participate in international sanctions against South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And anyway I thought the two sides were supposed to be us and the British. Why are we fighting each other?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My mother is British, but she probably thinks a Victoria sponge is a cleaning product, not an airy cake filled with jam. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Not so many years before, the French monarch, Louis XVI, had sent money, ships, and soldiers to aid the struggling Continental Army’s fight against the British. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z According to the German news, British paratroopers have landed on the coast of France. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They hear British news reports they cannot understand; they hear a Berlin woman pontificating about the proper makeup for a cocktail party. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z British soldiers looted a burning house, running out with arms full of silver, and forks and spoons sticking out of their pockets. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The key to a healthy plant or animal community lies in what the British ecologist Charles Elton calls “the conservation of variety.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Outside, the British Colonies of America detached themselves with infinite lumbering care, while within our enclave I thought on nothing that day but my mother. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After Ugwu brought the glasses, Special Julius said, “Have you heard that Harold Wilson is in Lagos? He is bringing the British army to finish us off. They say he came with two battalions.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Not that I cared which side we sold them to, but the British were the ones who had money—they had the whole English exchequer behind them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty-five thousand international fans in the stands—a good portion of them Americans—rose and cheered them as their bow knifed across the line a full twenty feet ahead of the British shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On a foggy night in England in February 1941, twenty-two British bomber aircraft crashed after returning from a combat mission. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “That’s from Nazi shrapnel! I was a war correspondent and ended up attaching myself to a British tank corps going up the Rhine! We were ambushed one afternoon, toward the end of ’44! Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I wish that I was with the British. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In June i860 there was a weeklong conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of the glider disaster, the British and Americans were still determined to destroy the Vemork heavy water plant in Norway. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The village was run by maroons whom the British had been unable to defeat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I’m only half British. When we visit England, everyone calls us Yanks. But Americans hear my mom’s accent and assume I was born in England. Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong in either place.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But, from a report Sackett later wrote, we know the most important facts she learned: The British were building many flat-bottomed boats and were planning to invade Philadelphia and “subdue that city.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “She rather cleverly taped some British pounds into the inner lining of a card. Quite impressive. She sent one for Olanna too.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z If driven from their country house, there was but one safe refuge for them—behind the British lines in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Morgan managed to talk directly to Cornwallis and to convince him that Lafayette had enough boats to cross the river in pursuit of the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By all accounts, Andre was a model British officer with impeccable manners, who had the misfortune to be caught doing his duty. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At dinner I ate very quickly and left for the villa where the British had their hospital. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z French officials made sure that French markings on the cannon were removed in case the British captured them in battle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She says this in a fake British accent. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z If the British took Brooklyn, they would put their cannons on Brooklyn Heights. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Georgia Militia—a militia organized under the British that fought the Union during the Civil War. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z British planes fly over Germany, littering cities with leaflets. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The greatest British warship of them all were called men-of-war—floating cities that could hold a thousand men and almost a hundred big cannons. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The Argentine Naval Band played the British and Argentine national anthems with an accompaniment of barking, growling, snarling, and howling from the dogs as Endurance set sail on the next leg of the voyage. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In February, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan visited South Africa and gave a speech before Parliament in which he talked of “winds of change” sweeping Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the other side of the coin is that the British Air Force is operating around the clock. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Sackett told her to go into the city, complain about the loss of her grain, and demand a hearing with General Sir William Howe, commander of British forces. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Anna Howard Shaw, for example, said she would never march “under the suffragette flag” of the British protesters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I fan myself with the issue of British Pop Stars someone gave me as a goodbye present. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had a great many boats rounded up so that British agents could see preparations for the invasion of Manhattan from Staten Island. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z British colonists’ ships set out directly from New York and New England carrying the food and timber that the islands needed, trading them for sugar, which the merchants brought back up the coast. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “It has something to do with India being free from the British soon,” he said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z From the time settlers first squatted on Indigenous land in the Southeast, rangers were in the forefront of genocide, clearing the region for British settlement as they had in New England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The site where the British chose to build Jamestown in 1607 was located on Powhatan territory in what the British called the Colony of Virginia. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “And the British are such strangers to colonialism and bland food?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His skills were recognized by none other than Major George Beckwith, the head of British intelligence operations in America at the end of the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They supplied Becker with a partner—but no training—and then gave him explosives to attack British ships in Argentina’s harbors. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So anyway, we all chanted, "British Bulldogs one two THREE!" and charged like last time but this time I had no chance. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The British took it badly and burned down the White House which caused First Lady Dolley Madison to save the famous portrait of George Washington. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mission completed, Morgan returned, in a Redcoat uniform, accompanied by six British soldiers—all true deserters, won over to the American army by Morgan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, the newcomers accepted the practicality of deerskin robes as opposed to, say, fitted British suits. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z During all that time, however, Washington constantly received information about British activities in New York, thanks to Patriot spy networks in New York City and on Long Island. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, British lords used to dress in their white linens in the jungle and look at how long they ruled the world. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The British guards know me; they know I will come back. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The British tightly control who leaves and where they relocate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Except for the British, the leaders were all moving into the lee of the southern shore, where the water was nearly flat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Slavery had been outlawed in Britain in 1807, but it still caused contention among some of the British upper class. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That bit of information did not help very much—until afterward, when Washington and others realized that the “secret expedition” was the seizing of West Point by the British as soon as Arnold betrayed it. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He let Johnny have his rig and also wrote him a pass which would prevent any molestation from the Whig mobs and told Cilia to get a similar pass from the British soldiers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the prospects that anyone on the British side of the Atlantic would crack DNA looked dim as the Christmas holidays drew near. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I thought it was very interesting, how Sohrab used the British version of math. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z |
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