We talked about business, politics, and, at times, about the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever business you have with him, make it quick. We’ll be locking down the entire Bureau within the hour.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her father would have said the shadows were about their own business tonight. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, you can be minding your own business and still find that you need to protect yourself.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Tap-Out has not only contributed to my growth as a person, but has proven to be a fantastic learning experience in business and commerce. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She looked serious, all decked out in her business suit. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Why is it your business if I don’t do my math homework? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay on your side of the island and mind your business.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Lee, anticipating a brisk business, brought a big packing case out and put it into the vegetable department. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's time we took our leave. My business here is done." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Look, it’s none of my business if you guys are smoking. But it is my business when you’re on my property. You guys need to leave. I catch you here again, I’m calling your parents.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we got to the business block, people were still just getting up off the sidewalk. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I’m really going to tell you, because it’s your business, Potter,” sneered Malfoy. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“His wife is ill, and he has closed his shop. My business dwindles daily. I have already lost one of my lads, gone with his family to Wilmington.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Aren’t they? Tsar Kazimir is working with me to turn them into a monastery. That way, we can provide a place for study and prayer, away from the business of the city.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I expect you have got wind of this almanac business?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know a lot about it because she had to drop out when she was in eighth grade to help with the family business. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I spent the next several hours going from business to business on Maxwell Street, inquiring about work. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Things had gone pretty well for a few centuries, and he’d built up quite a lucrative aboveground memorabilia business. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But if you were an Indian, you attended to business and then left, and you were never in that town after dark. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The business with Pita took all of my attention, but I did notice that the donkey had pulled the cart off the trail and stopped. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s just won a medal. If he wants to receive it without any clothes on, what the hell business is it of yours?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It was his business to stick the leaden seals on papal bulls, and, so as to preserve the Secrecy of the Pope, they used to make sure that he could not read a won! The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

One way that high school theater bears some similarity to professional theater, or any kind of show business, is that ticket sales matter. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We stop on a dead-end road for Pi to do his business, and I tell Nana about the birthday party and about math class. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father had no business trying to turn this into a joke. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although his given name was printed on the sign in his kitchen window, and on the business cards he circulated, he was called by the townspeople Soaphead Church. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They return to their smoking as if it’s serious business. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said, glad that Arul had finally agreed we needed to do more with your bead business. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

After singing and praying in front of City Hall, the demonstrators broke up into small groups and entered several segregated downtown businesses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Making alcohol from scratch was a time-consuming and messy business. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By 1850 the road was doing a tremendous volume of business. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has lost all passion for the art business and has replaced it with a religious fanaticism unlike anything they had learned as boys in Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She’d recently gone into a business arrangement to run several nursing homes, and she and her partners had already purchased and renovated six of them. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Half this stuff don’t have nothing to do with colored rights. Ain’t but day-to-day business.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But four kids sleeping in an unfinished house—that would be police business. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says this war is none of our business because the English are up to their tricks again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Along with allowing passengers to flout Prohibition and drink to their heart’s content, the “booze cruises” were the precursors of the luxury cruise business. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Her parents made the match with business and stability in mind: Johann gained a skilled, hard-working partner, while Maria gained social and financial security. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Tateh threw a counter and some shelves in there, an old cash register, tacked up a sign outside that said “Shilsky’s Grocery Store” or something to that effect, and we were in business. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But back to serious business, Mr. Pignati. You asked the name of our charity—the name of it is—” “The Lorraine and John Fund!” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Samuel, do you think why you want to go? Is it your natural incurable nosiness? Is it your black inability to mind your own business?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of Doroteo’s businesses, of their plans to build a house up north in those beautiful mountains. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lixxa knew her business, and followed when the others filed out through the gate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually he returned to Detroit and went into the family business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Anticipating this, the company had set aside Sector One as the simulation’s designated business zone and began to sell and rent millions of blocks of surreal estate there. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He would have come sooner but he was away at a conference taking care of business while Hal was taking care of his own business. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“None of your business, unless you want to come.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Gawaine, you are not to think that I am trying to get her rescued. I am the Justice of England, and. it is our business now to bum her to the death, without remorse.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw people driving around in their cars, going about their business, not aware that they just passed by a hospital that was filled with children who were ill or near death. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know, Addie, ever since you started this business of refusing to say the Pledge, I have sensed in you a rebel without a cause.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The main business of the male baboons, as far as Nhamo could tell, was to shove one another around. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The few times I asked her she said business blah-blah, and since that is something I know absolutely nothing about and have no interest in, I never probed any further. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On his return, he tried his hand at various businesses, including, in 1580, the favourite of the drunkard, running a tavern, this time in the town of Ellmendingen. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We boys had the task of convincing our parents not to do business with Jews,” said Albert. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

What is less known is that at the close of the Southern African conflict, this same general had been discreetly retired, and he had then entered business, dealing in shipments from Southern Africa. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The only steady business left downtown was the one-room brick post office, but it was closed when I got there. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“To ascend to the origin of things, and speculate on creation, is not the business of the natural philosopher,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Be that as it may, she saw him go with regret; and in this early example of what Lydia’s infamy must produce, found additional anguish as she reflected on that wretched business. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

He has a list with him of the people he has to call before the business day is over: Call rental office. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He reached in, and took out a card, only slightly larger than a business card. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

‘I am going where I please, and in my own time. I happen to be going to Bag End on business, but if you insist on going too, well that is your affair.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In fact it was high time I caught a piece of luck in this business. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“That is none of your business. Take me home!” she ordered, copying the authoritarian tone her grandfather employed with everyone he considered beneath his social station. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as my father was concerned, his brother’s business was gone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Good. He was terrible. I don't like Cohn, God knows, and I think it was a silly trick for him to go down to San Sebastian, but nobody has any business to talk like Mike." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A business card was pressed into the palm of each newcomer, encouraging a visit to the Urban League. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean, it’s not really any of my business, is it? And it’s not like I didn’t see the signs.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Lord. That is show business. Are you”—I searched for the old word—“resting now?” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, if we unload all that gear—everything but the kitchen sink, like you said—this whole business will be ruined, wasted.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

But with the financial crash, his father’s business—-exporting scrap steel to Asia—had all but evaporated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The credit crisis has left businesses large and small unable to get loans, which means they can’t buy new equipment, or hire new workers, or even make payroll for the workers they have. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Those two? No way, Parky. All business, all business.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Literacy rates climbed, and educated blacks began to populate legislatures, open schools, and initiate successful businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thirty- six years old and I can still hear my mama telling me, It ain’t nobody’s business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That must be for a business or something. But how do you tell what business if the picture doesn’t say?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Along the side is the shadow of lettering, like he bought the truck off someone who’d owned a business. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She sleeps in the cat box and does her business in the wood shavings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

One of the few healthy businesses in town was the sad trade in divorces, handled quickly and easily in cold offices that had once been noisy saloons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was on the phone with her dad, who was in London for a business deal. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now for the business at hand. May I see the key?” she asked, opening her purse. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Himself not especially susceptible to flattery except in a sentimental way, he soon learned its efficacy when plastered thick on big business men,” Sullivan wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He and a partner then took over a writing-paper business that gave every indication of making a fortune. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

His real business was far more difficult and dangerous, but the Shire-folk knew nothing about it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The owner’s brother manages his business from here,” Baraa says to Baba. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

As in every other phase of teaching, Dad knew his business as a swimming instructor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cocoon didn’t move for two whole weeks while Petey went about the slow, magical business of rearranging his parts in his sleep. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Mama clearly means business, so we all get moving. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ultimately we went out of the business altogether. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

When prices fall, the only way they can stay in business is to find a way to grow even more corn or soy. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On the downtown streets of Kilgore, people milled about on the narrow sidewalks, looking at shop displays and admiring the strands of lights that decorated the businesses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I usually carried with me six loaded plates, which allowed me only six exposures, so that clicking the shutter even once was a serious business that had to be carefully thought out before-hand. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry was none too forthcoming, with me at least, about what that business actually was. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“But anything you have to say about this horrible business can be said to me, I’m sure!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But Fabian doesn’t give a pig’s nose about my business or what I’m saying. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Two, he’s always in somebody’s business about their feelings. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I am forgetting that I am not acquainted with her. I have never seen either Mr. or Mrs. Elton. I have no business to put myself forward.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

My business habits had one other bright feature, which I called “leaving a Margin.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate your business,” the Owner told him. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was something funny about the whole business. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily he was a regular kid, minding his own business with no tinge of the crusader or fanatic about him. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then there was the business of death, the complexity of how to deposit a badly burned corpse into the ground of a National Cemetery as quickly and with as much dignity as possible. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Three times a year, scythes meet at a great assembly called a conclave. We discuss the business of gleaning, and whether or not more scythes are needed in our region.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They soon learned that for dining out, everyone in Shaker seemed to prefer Pearl of the Orient, just a few blocks away, but Lucky Palace did a good takeout business. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I haven’t seen her since before you left, when she was about to leave on a business trip to Italy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Dorothea and I know a lot of black people. There are a lot of black people in show business.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Holmes met Minnie, he was traveling on business under the alias Henry Gordon and found himself invited to a gathering at the home of one of Boston’s leading families. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In less than a year, he would have doubled his flock, and he would be able to do business with the Arabs, because he was now able to speak their strange language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It meant there was always a hand in your business, someone else’s hand, some white man who could make it rain dollars, and then came through sweeping up more than what he dropped. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before we could truly embark on this journey as small business owners, we needed investment capital to help launch the business. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“There’s the business of the horse getting stole. And we got to get Winnie home where she belongs. How we going to do that without the horse?” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father took care of his business and the community. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My brother and I were discussing business and heard the music. I told him, Now that is the most god-awful racket I’d ever heard.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I did not feel like discussing Charles’s personal business with Henry. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And true to the palm oil that flowed in her veins, she never had a visitor to whom she did not offer food before one word of conversation—business or social—began. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, don’t. And if you just go about your business as soon as you can, I won’t tell. But if you don’t, you’ll know all right, and so will the sheriff.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I say this, I am not merely drawing attention to the fact that our generation had a less snobbish attitude as regards which employers were landed gentry and which were 'business.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Farming had also become a tougher business in Malawi, thanks to the policies of a new president. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Not into the sparkles of a spirit passing on, but of a haint going on about its own business. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jackson won programs to educate newly arrived workers, selling the idea as a good way for business owners to win black allegiance. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I think this is going to be a rough business,” he added quietly to Hazel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Lumley patrols the playground with her brass bell, her face clamped against the cold, minding her own business. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end of the street, there were signs for various posh businesses: an optician, a doctor, a kitchenware boutique, a maker of ladies’ fine opera gloves. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Sneaky don’t play when it comes to his candy business and his money. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There was a woman with white hair who talked for a long time to a woman in a red business suit. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After a few days he took pains to let the community at large know that his store was to be closed for a week while he went to St. Louis on business. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Danny that I had disliked the mistake business and had never really gotten used to it, despite my having witnessed it many times. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When he said, ‘We bumped you, we’ll have it next week,’ I said, ‘What do you mean, next week? We have a deadline, you can’t do business like that.’ Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

With support from the city, as well as Birmingham’s black and white businesses, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute* opened its doors to the public in 1992. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Mama walks toward us he says, “I don’t like doing this, y’know. But this is a business, and we have to collect payment....” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

My husband started to take many business trips to the north. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh... somebody just opened a business. Somebody lost a dog. Somebody needs a companion.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“Did anything,” he said, “come up about that bank business?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can make out only the first two letters before the remaining letters get lost in curves that look like a sales chart for a business that is rising and failing regularly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed inevitable that the state would attempt to put us out of business as a legal organization as soon as it could. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rochester reached into his coat pocket and pulled out a business card. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He would paddle over to a nearby rock or the shore so he could do his business. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Although Mr. Hancock had recently bought Hancock’s Wharf, his principal place of business was on Long. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she was remarkably confident and utterly unfazed by her surroundings, and proposed that we get down to business right away. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know what Aunt Goldie contends with all by herself, and it’s none of your business to judge. Peach will grow up and he will grow out of this phase...” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He felt a twinge of guilt; he had no business staring at planes when the ones who depended on him were still waiting. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

If the little boy had gone quickly about his business, it would have been too late. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most stomach-turning odors rose up from the open latrine pits where the men—and Nate—all did their private business. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You didn’t get hurt in all that sinkhole business?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Uncle Cent and the other Goupil directors feel he would benefit from more time working at the branch in The Hague, learning still more about the business. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And the next minute I’m a financial prodigy with my own business and a bunch of people working for me and a stockbroker and a prizefighter of my very own. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What exactly do you mean by funny business, Coach?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I wonder if this business will ever expand to fictional thrills, like running away from dragons, fighting a Cyclops, and magic carpet rides. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Durham! and as if by magic, everything springs into new life, the veins and arteries of business throw off their stagnation and the bright sun of prosperity sends its radiant beams out upon the world... The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He could predict business to go through the roof. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having the troops around was good for business. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing now. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Schools aren't in the business of wondering about kids or guessing about kids. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is part of a whole block of Korean businesses lodged in converted row apartments dating from the fifties, when the population was still Italian and Irish and Jewish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The investiture and subsequent celebrations went on for almost a month, after which the young eighty-second Lord of Stormhold got on with the business of ruling. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They co-ran their luggage business, which meant they spent their days at work together and then spent their evenings at home commiserating over dissatisfied customers or certain suitcases that were damaged beyond repair. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"You know, Brother," he said, "we don't ordinarily interrupt our social gatherings with business, but with you it's necessary." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would put an end to this business. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Buttercup may come and go to do his business. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I turned down the street after it, weaving my way through the familiar sprawl of tenements and small businesses. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I got tired of reading my “fan mail,” I sorted out all the messages that were tagged as “business related” and began reading through those. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Folks complain every morning ’bout how many got to share it and people taking too long to do their business and how some folks got nasty habits. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Metaphorically speaking, of course. He owns a trucking business. Daley Trucks. ‘ The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I had an instinct for business, but at the time I knew nothing about music, which was odd for someone running a music-pirating business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I did not want to be bad for business. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He threw a fit, took the book away and assumed that would be the end of the business. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Since the numbers are chosen at random, what’s done when a business phone is reached? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pleasure doing business with you, Hiram. You going to be in Greenwood long?” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was supposed to be all up on Tiffany Watts, giving her the business because even though I was soldier-boy when I was in school, everybody knew I was nice with the moves. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For a while she was in a factory that printed business cards for people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings went inside the ornate Hall of Elders, where all government business was handled and the council kept their records and held their meetings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

On balance, however, I think it best to stay out of this business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I explained that I couldn’t ask my father because the investigation was a secret because he had told me to stay out of other people’s business. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remind myself that it’s not my business to tell Finn what to do. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As we entered, a giant man with shaved blond hair, a business suit, and a holster with a gun in it walked in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The first part of Mrs. Gardiner’s business on her arrival was to distribute her presents and describe the newest fashions. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She spent a little time trying to marry again, but nobody wanted to take her on with three children, and she simply couldn’t manage the business of keeping boyfriends. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the windows tightly sealed, it served as a sounding box and you could hear everybody’s business. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

We each went about our business as if we’d done this a hundred times before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He gave us his card, with his address in London and his club and his business address, and as we got on the bus he handed us each an envelope. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

At some point, a line in the play had led to Laura making some wisecrack about the tokens business, and we’d all laughed, Miss Lucy included. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her he planned to sell his business, return to Truman, and buy back into the retirement plan. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Dear mama, there, as soon as she got an inkling of the business, found out that it was of an immoral tendency. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their business now was to remain connected until those two weeks. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If you cannot get to doing business, I will break up the combination,” he growled. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At school, people kept asking Phoebe about her mother’s business trip to London. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

"Well, your dreams are your business. Mine's in the kitchens, apd I'd best be getting back before Gage starts to shouting and waving that big wooden spoon of his. By your leave, my prince." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Roy Lee asked, as if from one professional in the love business to another. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s been called away on urgent business,” I tell her more sharply than I meant to. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He always told me that he had provided a house for me to sleep in, and that I had no business sleeping in someone else’s house. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The wind gave it the appearance of flowing, although she knew it couldn’t be: a great mass of water flowing inexorably towards the houses and businesses of Jericho behind her. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

A giant picture of Chief Crowe in a business suit fills the back wall. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

"Common travelers attract less notice. A father and daughter taken to the road on some family business, say." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This was probably the most dangerous part, because it was a violation of a major rule for any citizen not on official business to leave a dwelling at night. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

"It's a thankless job," my dad always said of the business. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I know, though, she got to see how it’s done fore she gone get to business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They found Negro teachers, doctors, dentists, and business owners. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But by the way he says, “I’ve got something to tell you,” it’s obvious he means business. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Agravaine whined: “But it is our business. It is at us more than anybody, and it is not right” “How dare you to say that our mother is not right?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"None of it is my business," he says, escorting me at the tail end of the group. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Something about Derek walking around all day looking for berries and nuts, carrying a briefcase like a business executive, seemed ridiculous. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This was none of your business,” my father says sternly. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, I’m feeling real good about things and minding my own business, and that’s when I notice Fin Chaser tied up to the town wharf. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t any of his business if she left to find Papa. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A guy who started new businesses all over the place. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He wore a business suit of olive green and had a round face and yellow-brown eyes that protruded. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

So most of our days are spent commuting to and from everywhere and stuck inside the small two-story house, minding our own business. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

"I don't like this boxing business one bit. Full of gangsters, and people get hurt bad." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wandered often about the four main business blocks that were brightly lighted and then through the black, deserted alleys behind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The vampire business smacked of Dark Shadows reruns, and I refused to take it seriously. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Kids get out of hand, Ana. She’s eleven. She has no business wandering down there. Certainly not with boys.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Shops and businesses were closing, and the streets became moving rivers of people pushing against one another. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I knew was this: Morrie, my old professor, wasn’t in the self-help business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Theresa? I’m really sorry to hear about what happened—” She interrupted me; her tone was all business. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that Lou had to go to jail for a while—something having to do with school business and bribe-taking. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I can take down a pack of shamblers like nobody's business. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Tiring of field and flock, in 1768 he moved to Edinburgh, where he founded a successful business producing sal ammoniac from coal soot, and busied himself with various scientific pursuits. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The cattle went about the business of feeding, while a few goats milled among them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We picked fruit off a peach tree nearby and listened to our parents talk about business. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

And what was Compeyson’s business in which we was to go pardners? Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my business transactions happen in the small cubicle located behind a shelf at the far end of the library. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

His father probably wants him to take over the family business one day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Well, Rukmani, since we have done business for a long time, and because you are a woman of spirit whom I have long admired, I will give you thirty rupees. Nobody could be fairer.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought that business went out of business.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“What is your business? If you have money, let me see it.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Though perhaps that is not unusual for someone in the business of telling other people what their future holds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Doc’s captain once said, “An officer who hunts desperate criminals has no business having a wife and family.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As Reader’s business grew, demand for cells from Tuskegee plummeted. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The girls tried to keep up their business but they went in shifts to sit with the families, and they carried pots of soup when they went. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the buildings grow dark and a kind of decay sets in; poorer people move in as the rents fall, and small fringe businesses take the place of once flowering establishments. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The company insisted that it wasn’t in the mining business, and thus did not need a lease from the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Miele’s architecture partners occasionally joked that he was not in the business for the money, which to some extent was true. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The big white two-story Seward Hotel was still in business, though it had expanded to twice its old size. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Christ, Francie, a feller is got to make a living and it comes slow in this business—a penny at a time.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I'd ever be as careful over anything as he is to keep his little shirt tail full of business from making him more than eight percent. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the business end of the rake, she snagged the man’s ooze- covered shirt and rolled him onto his back. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that he was supposed to shout, to act offended, to pretend to take his business elsewhere. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He and I could have a really beautiful relationship, so why are the old folks poking their noses into our business again? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The bailiff knocked at the door to the judge’s chambers, then opened it and said that the sheriff was present on business he wished to keep private. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each of us went about our business, with slow deliberateness, each being very careful not to stare at the other and at the same time sneaking glances, appraising, evaluating. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is police business,” he said; he held his flat pack of ID up to the screen. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Men of business fought against the use of mindspeech when it first was found to be a teachable skill; they outlawed it for decades.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even today, with Eurasian crops and with trucks and railroads to transport produce, food production in Australia remains a risky business. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their income was always unpredictable, and any time off or a lull in their business would impact how much money we had for bills and groceries each month. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She had very important clients who were involved with the government and the entertainment business. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

We grit our teeth and watch because we must and try to get back to business as soon as possible when they're over. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I ignored him and went on about my business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My father’s business is bad. I thought if I could sell it...” I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

“This coming from a Negro who runs his own business. Of course you want us to be your patrons.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Dandy and Poteet also stayed in the basement, except for quick runs to the yard to do their business. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that the business? Some of the cups smell bad.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t run the business, she would say. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“The business can be half yours, and you know it. I can’t take the strain much longer.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

In Selma’s business district, white merchants came out of their stores and watched in silence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is sad,” said Sir Mordred, “how the poor King seems to lose his grip, since all this business started.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something he said when talking about his business strategies, and how he got Gran to marry him. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

That morning similar signs appeared on Jewish-owned shops and businesses all over Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk I watch men go about their business in the towns of the Scyldings. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were guests for meals almost as often as not, particularly business friends of Dad’s, since his office was in the house. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that business about getting up early to see the first show at Radio City Music Hall depressed me. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He had quit my Aunt Mary’s by then and was working for the McCoy Publishing Company, a mail order business that supplied emblems, aprons, and books to the Masonic Order. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Downtown, storm water overwhelmed the sewers, bubbled up through manholes, and flooded the streets and businesses of the low-lying International District. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I will. But for now, I will stay to close up the business and the house,” he replied. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the South Side had become desolate as businesses shut down and families continued to move out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I have some business in town. I’m to see a Mr. Ebgard.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was a place impossible to enter except on official business, and then only by penetrating through a maze of barbed-wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Just hold the compliments, buddy—you may live to retract them. I’m still going to tell you what I don’t like about the way you’re going at this business. Qualified or not.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sorry, I’m not very good at small talk, do you mind if we skip on to the serious business? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

"Me? I'm over on the side where some stud done broke in a store and is selling cold beer out the window—Done gone into business, man," the voice laughed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. And that should lead you to consider your responsibility as a business head. You owe your employees that consideration.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He did not rush into his business the way a demon might have. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are speaking of letters of business; mine are letters of friendship.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They passed no one who appeared to be a Mexican-American until they had left the business district of still-closed offices, stores, and cafés. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She had business to take care of, artists to reassure that their work was safe. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I noticed right off that he didn’t go about it like he really meant business. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At least I can tend to my own business and let other people’s alone,” I says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care who you are, you haven’t any business in my theater.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cause I don’t need your mama hassling me about mixing you up in my business. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

She had done so much for us, but I suspected there was still unfinished business between us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Buying and selling,” he said, cackling, “which is your business, as lending is mine.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mala sprang at him, shrieking that he had no business with her property. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And would you do business with crooks? Knowingly?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or guardians would direct all of their wards’ business to certain stores and banks in return for kickbacks. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He could never do what his father had done, go out on his own after high school, start his own business, will himself into becoming an enormous success. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I discovered was a vast industry—a giant agriculture business or agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“He is all over the grounds, about all sorts of business, and Mr. Burnham & every head of Department is constantly calling for ‘Ulrich!’ The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Agnes seems kind of disorganized to be running a chicken business. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her words make me think she is maybe going into her business exec mode, but it turns out she’s got more on her mind than the No-Name Party. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Good, then down to business. My wife's having a birthday tomorrow. I thought one of your gorgeous striped candles would make a swell present." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

After having adventures in the Wild West, he got back into the family business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At the other cape, the one in Florida, business was booming. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

With a hyphenated surname, she would no longer fit into the window of a business envelope. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Dae Hyun was thirteen and still living in South Korea, his father began grooming him to take over the family’s meager crab fishing business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stood at the foot of the bridge that spanned the river, the bridge that citizens were allowed to cross only on official business. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if giving somebody a job is exploiting them, then I guess I’m an exploiter. Those jobs didn’t exist before I started the business.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His business foundered when the market collapsed. flout/flaunt. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. de Klerk, I said, echoing Mrs. Thatcher’s famous description of Mr. Gorbachev, was a man we could do business with. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Dad would return to Grandpa's and change into his business suit and leave for work. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Any business is risky business, and none more so than small b business, the one that risks the shirt on its back. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A friend suggested that she use the money to start a small business, which would help the family and also keep her busy, so she could try to get past her grief. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Penelope, in fact, had no business near Richard’s room, no matter what the hour. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When May died, Ob and me had to talk business with the funeral parlor, religion with the preacher, and make small talk with dozens of relatives and people we’d hardly ever seen before. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

To stay alive, you have to be able to hold out against equilibrium, maintain imbalance, bank against entropy, and you can only transact this business with membranes in our kind of world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 thing that most worried him about the Ptolemaic system, typified by the puzzle of the Moon, was the business of equants. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

What was a bit more shocking was the ghost of a man seated behind the desk, deeply engrossed in some business only he could know. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The technical schools offer training in a wide range of fields—pharmacy technicians, medical technologists, business accountants, cosmeticians, massage therapists, court reporters, and so on. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sauntered into the house and up the stairs like I had business there and didn’t care who knew it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“It was an awkward business, my dear, your spending the autumn at South End instead of coming here. I never had much opinion of the sea air.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

As I went about my business, I heard it crawling away. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But Burnham also created an office culture that anticipated that of businesses that would not appear for another century. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A motion was passed to move on to the next item of business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Looks like you better handle business, Janey,” Doc said, reaching for another biscuit. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“To the businesses of this community,” she said. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“That ain’t none a my business whatever’s going on in there,” I say to myself. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Why I could take his business in one year and fix him so he’d never have to work again, only he’d give it all away to the church or something. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black people somehow adapted to the blasts—the destroyed homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I longed to know my father’s business here. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. The overnight express business is just booming. Now, as I was saying—” “You have snakes on your phone.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever her mom left on business trips, Aru always cleaned the apartment from top to bottom. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I can’t imagine what it would be like not to have someone knowing all your business. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a while, that kind of talk brought Queen Marie a lot of business. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But he was going to watch his step in this business. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can be almost certain, then, given these assumptions, that two people chosen at random will be linked, as were the strangers on the business trip, by a chain of at most two intermediates. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The DVD shops that sold Bollywood films and children’s movies pulled down their shutters and went out of business. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“They boycotted my business because of my political activities,” he said. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't brought business cards, so I wrote my number down for each person and encouraged them to call my office. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We know what happened to your business in Dead Man’s Vlei. The police were there! They closed up your little shebeen and took your slaves away. You have no business, She Elephant.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

This may have been business as usual in my life, but I had short hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

“And you didn’t say anything because you’re new in town, and business is shy enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I could tell her there won't be a sheriff left when I’m done, but I doubt she’d go along with the plan if she thought it was predicated on unsavory business. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Finally, nearly all of the Harlem stores kept their doors open for business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here in the open air though, the business is entirely a pleasure. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Your family business destroyed my family business," I replied. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Later, in Philadelphia, he used his business talent to raise money for the Revolution. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she joined my dad to help manage their small business. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although he hadn’t seen Bobby in thirty-two years, Saemi phoned some political and business leaders and several from the chess community who he thought might be able to help Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It’s as though their quarrels were just as much my business as his, and yet I don’t dare bring it up anymore, because I’m afraid it makes him uncomfortable. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, if people like me are a dying breed, then what’s going to happen to your business?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The words came out as if he had been in show business all his life. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“I hear you LEP guys make up your police business just to get a look at some moonlight. That’s what I hear.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“What if we got businesses to have booths, got some restaurants to set up a few stands and sell food, and maybe some giveaways or a contest?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Well, at least throw your business card in there, Chef!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The day of the Singing was a holiday for the entire city; all the stores and other businesses were closed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“His wife died a month ago, and his business has been a wreck since. Now that he’s visiting you, can we expect a turnaround?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

"Let us handle the theory and the business of strategy," he said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half the businesses in the Garden were either intentionally burned down by rioters or were casualties of the war. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

As I see it, it’s all none of my business. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can read what’s on the back of it, just to show you I mean business.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Today’s Application has something to do with buying guppies at the pet store, and calculating how many guppies you could breed if you wanted to go into the guppie business. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

His father, a wealthy and very well-known businessman, had been forced to contribute money to the Citizens Council campaign in order to do a healthy amount of business in Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was erecting a chain-link fence around the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pilar had confided in me as we drove around looking at houses that Rudy’s business was about to collapse. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apart from it being tactically the right thing to do, this disjunction between the man and his job helped Comrade Pillai to keep his conscience clear about his own private business dealings with Chacko. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Halfpenny a head. Though by the rosy glow in your lady’s cheeks I should be charging you for a head and a half. Not that it’s any of my business, mind you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I'll spare you the details, but let it be said that people who get nauseated easily have no business riding the Tilt-A-Whirl. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Having rejected medicine, law, and business, Morrie had decided the research world would be a place where he could contribute without exploiting others. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing wrong with the whole business was that the baby was born dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you get it? This would be perfect for my mama. If we win, we could get aprons like Stephanie’s and advertise Mama’s catering business to the entire city.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

His business finished, Harris slipped from the pirate ship. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“And serve her right, too—she ain’t had no business going away from here like she did, just like a crazy woman.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was none of his business what Leslie called her parents. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A strategy that my...is none of your business. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jenkins also reminds me that I have to stop collecting money for my various business ventures. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He knows our business and will help you. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Such plants are “weeds” only to those who make a business of selling and applying chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He got out before Chapter Eleven, taking over the family business, ran it into the ground in less than five years. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had more business than they could do among clients who if they didn’t pay their bills, at least had the money to pay them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her trying to think what Diego would say about me telling a girl my business like that. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He goes away at judicious intervals, on business, giving me a chance to miss him. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Angel writes @DP, which I know is code for our business name. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to be alone. None of that country good-neighbor business, I hope. Everybody trading dinners and knowing everybody else’s business.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Street vendors push food carts piled with steamed dumplings, smoked beef teriyaki sticks, and roasted peanuts along the sidewalks and begin to set up for another day of business. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now,” he asked briskly, getting down to business, “what can I show you?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

To remember, rather, the time and the place of your business, your adventure. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This business might be a shock to them, Brain. Unexpected, you know.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“King Eiddileg commanded me to come here. A special favor to Gwydion. But I can tell you right now I’d rather be back home in the realm of the Fair Folk, minding my own business.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Better even than the Welsh ones, despite the fact that he lived in Wales and had his business there. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Should someone demand the previously agreed-upon price, he or she was accused of trying to fleece a poor immigrant woman with a small, struggling business and a child to feed. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

When you first go into business there are so many things nobody tells you. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

When the soldiers arrived at dawn to arrest the master, his business papers were all ash and the crate of “cheese” was long gone. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man would like to spank them, they are so stupid, and to take them by the arm and lead them away from here where they have no business to be. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adam said, “What I do is my own business.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They seem to think their business with me is done up and tied like a parcel from the shops. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Uncle was against any tampering with business—even those belonging to demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel like it’s none of my business. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The cruise business has totally evolved,” said Oivind Mathisen, editor of the newsletter Cruise Industry News, “and become a business that caters to moderate incomes.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So you weren’t in the church business when my daddy was here?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Being of an open, talkative disposition, she declared that I was going about the business of living wrongly, that reading books would not help me at all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in speaking on these topics from the White House, I’d be offering an implicit challenge to the behemoth corporations in the food and beverage industry and the way they’d been doing business for decades. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I went and learned the pleasures of love from Kamala and business from Kamaswami I hoarded money, I squandered money, I acquired a taste for rich food, I learned to stimulate my senses. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

In jeeps and marching in formations up and down Crenshaw, protecting the stores and businesses, I supposed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

If I have one saving grace, it's that I'm lucky enough to have found someone willing to handle the ugly business of day-to-day living. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Big Ma said, “If Elijah Lucas wants to put in plumbing and add a room or two onto your house, that’s his business.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Fischer, dressed in a white shirt and blue business suit, sped to the table; the two opponents shook hands while Fischer kept his eyes on the board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said our sister would be back, so we’d just as well go on about our business because she was just looking for the attention. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The truth is that he really was a heretic and was burned for his religious beliefs; it was just unfortunate that the Copernican model got tangled up in the whole business. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I reckon you’ll never be a slave to any business,” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yet surely you have time for a little business with me?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The business never got going, so the truck has been sitting in our back alley for many months. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A week later, he told Lefty, “Get ready. We have business tonight.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But, I realize, if God is ready to take Reverend Hunt up to heaven, it is not my business to try to stop Him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The Dreamers accept this as the cost of doing business, accept our bodies as currency, because it is their tradition. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And he brings up some business: Theo had asked him to help choose which of his paintings to submit for the fifth Exhibition of the Independents coming up that autumn. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You start to wonder about people in the bedroom, before you know it you’re all wrapped up in their business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder what happened, of course, but it's always better to mind your own business. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I guess you’ll be going into business pretty soon,” he said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“How come you always got to have business with my man?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

A real mix, it seemed, of people with loud, noisy kids on vacation, and quiet, well-dressed business types. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

As always, Barack was absorbing every bit of news carefully, going about his regular business while quietly developing his own thoughts about it all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

However, in reality, women and girls like Maria often learned—and performed—much of the work required of their family businesses in addition to their household duties. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They seemed to go about their business as quickly and seriously as possible. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Summer was the busiest time for the business, with so many people leaving, fleeing the swamp heat, wanting these rooms or that porch painted while they were away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, they think the whole chair is ugly, and if there is one thing you know from years and years in the business, it is that people don’t buy chairs they think are ugly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Well, there was this whole business about the stab wound and how it was made, the downward angle of it, you know? 3RD JUROR: Don’t tell me we’re gonna start with that. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could expand my business. Make more cakes and macarons...or something,” Mama said, her mind already working out how to manufacture more hours in her day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

How could they proceed with business as usual? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun used that as a bedrock and constant guide in the way he and Kathy did business, and the workers took note. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Burnham’s older brother had forged checks and wounded their father’s wholesale drug business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of your business,” Conor snapped again and picked up his pace. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

He tells her shut up and mind her own business and she goes quiet by the fire. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

She was trying to find a way to keep her business going, although her customers had no money. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

People from other countries could come to learn how to speak English and get the knowledge they needed to manage their businesses. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He makes up a set of books, for the business end of my painting: what has sold, and for how much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had been a strange business indeed, and Reynie had a suspicion it was to grow stranger still. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

My parents had raised us to handle our own business, which meant that I had to trust him to handle his, even if he could, at that point, barely put on his shoes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It will be a good way for your village to know that Hassan’s is back in business.” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

They were not yet in the business of slaughtering buffalo, pigs, and other dangerous prey. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Any other business owner would be more concerned with the employees cutting themselves, not the stupid cans. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

For three days, stores, restaurants, businesses, and schools are closed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crossing the moor in the dark would be a risky business, but we were able to navigate our way just fine and in no time came up along the opposite shore. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But we had different business that day, and it took us to a big brick building I recognized, immediately, as a jail. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

It’s not my business or my concern if she’s a lazy, drunk fool. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She finished her business and picked out a fugitive bulletin from the stack of paper to wipe herself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I had so far been successful in hiding my thoughts and feelings from them, but I knew that I would create hostility if I went about this business of reading in a clumsy way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But on the whole Mr. Malloy did a steady small business and was happy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are ladies here who have come hundreds of miles to attend a business meeting of the Loyal League of the North,” she said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With his dark brown suit, he looked like he might be going to a business meeting. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s really none of your business but it’s Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words,” Mary Anne said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strutted boldly, those pigeons, going about their business, pecking here, pecking there. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“The animals sense this bad business and stay clear of it—just as we have stayed clear of those evil rocks.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond that, Dumbledore refused to speak of the sad business, though many attempted to make him do so. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

María is all business, but I can tell how much she loves her dad. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“And I’m sorry about making such a fuss about those Atabrine tablets on the way over. If you want to catch malaria, I guess it’s your business, isn’t it?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Rush recalled that the comment “procured a transient smile, but it was soon succeeded by the solemnity with which the whole business was conducted.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the beer business, as in other businesses, production costs decrease greatly with scale. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Liam’s next order of business upon returning to the minivan wasn’t to answer any of the number of questions Chubs threw his way about where we were going. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“It would be a bloody business, and for what? These people have done us no harm. We’ll shelter in the houses, but I’ll have no stealing. We have our own provisions.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But literature was very serious business for a guy like Dante. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were advantages to Zeitoun and Kathy running a business together—so many blessings, too many to name—but then again, the drawbacks were distinct and growing. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

As the men sailed off to war, the business owners who manned the home front were in a pickle. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not that I have ever felt 100 percent competent in the writing business, where one day’s success augurs nothing at all for the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Scared all my customers away.... It’s very bad for business, Minister.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Will and George were doing well in business, and Joe was writing letters home in rhymed verse and making as smart an attack on all the accepted verities as was healthful. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Tell him to mind his own business, Hwin," said the girl. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

People in show business, of course, were less inhibited by social and racial taboos. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A whole dimension of drudgery—the tedious, mad, really quite pointless business of stepping over every inch of rocky ground between Georgia and Maine—had been removed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I suppose these smart pills might put a few of our top colleges and universities out of business.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Anytime a stranger commented that she looked exactly like Michelle Obama’s mother, she’d just give a polite shrug and say, “Yeah, I get that a lot,” before carrying on with her business. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The father only came to the Clinic twice, citing business obligations, but from those two meetings it is apparent that he is a dominating presence, a “self-made” man and former naval officer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m waiting for Grandfather to finish his business in the necessary. He said I could go with him to the newspaper office.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, the chief business of the people of Hampton Roads was the war. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m going very fast, and he’s getting dearer every minute,” added Jo to herself, then with a mental shake she entered into the business with an energy that was pleasant to behold. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed his business acumen by selling the compasses relatively cheaply and charging a healthy tuition fee to anyone who wanted to know how to use it. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

When Chris was twelve, he printed up a stack of flyers and started a neighborhood copy business, Chris’s Fast Copies, offering free pickup and delivery. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kelton and I will be leaving in about twenty minutes, when my dad gets back, because he’s driving us—but knowing him, he’ll be late, what with all the new business. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father and my mother were also Norwegian, but because my father had a business in England, I had been born there and had lived there and had started going to an English school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“After all this is over, you two should go into business together. Mr. Gadget and Kid Gadget!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The dance school was in a huge warehouse-type building that also housed other businesses. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“All right, we’re going to check in, drop off our stuff, grab some dinner, and then go straight to bed. No funny business tonight. Got it?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

We don’t want anyone to know our business, and if you don’t believe me, google the Dakota and read about us for yourself. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

He invited them in to complete their business transaction and, before they were done, they found themselves eating a hearty noon dinner with the family. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would not discuss his own business and journeys, and seemed chiefly interested in small news about Frodo’s health and doings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s a vegetable. It’s round and green and has no business being in any dish, ever.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Pretending to be in a trance, Woodhull passed along inside information to Vanderbilt about the business plans of his rivals, based on gossip she had heard from Mansfield. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t even begun to think about school, about clothes—they’d only packed for two days—or about what they would do for money while the business was at a standstill. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I get to my locker and carefully place my business binder inside. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She hands each of us a business card. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the year, Nick remembered the letter that Mrs. Granger had asked him to sign on the back when the frindle business was just getting started. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Freckles says, leading me back “home,” past dumpsters and a pizza place and a few business guys. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Besides, wasn't there a saying that the first person of the day to enter a business would get a bargain? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a white man in a business suit and tie playing with some little device in his hands, one of those PalmPilot things, tapping the screen with a skinny pen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

That was because The Cottage is fairly out-of-bounds, even to people landing at the big airfield on legitimate business. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

No business went out to center field the first inning. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you go about your business? If I need something I can find you.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

My mom took the flute, and the other business owners watched carefully. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of your business. And I’ll thank you,” she added angrily to Ron, who had just appeared at George’s elbow, laden with merchandise, “not to tell tales about me to these two!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Isa cradled the business card as if it were a priceless gift. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like so many Issei, he had, for better or worse, run his own businesses, been his own man for too long to tolerate the idea of working for someone else. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He really needed them now because his business boomed suddenly in that spring of 1916. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their circle, it was held to be no disgrace to import goods illegally, but rather sharp practice was accounted a sign of canny business acumen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After my dad had to quit construction work, he started a handyman business. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She must be only twenty-five, and I remember Dennis bragging about how he recruited her outside a downtown temp agency with the promise of working in a multinational business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They think I can help out with the family business, prepping pounds of veggies, mixing all the spices, packing hundreds of foil trays before a big party. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

No one should be afraid to increase his property for fear that it will be taken away from him, while no one should shrink from undertaking any business through fear of taxes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They came and went about their business without disturbing Longridge, and there was complete accord among them all. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after we opened for business, every chair in the front room was filled, the air thick again with arguments, tobacco smoke, and the smell of fresh coffee and cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he made business errors, but even these he turned to advantage in good will if in no other way. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Pulling it free, he read the newest souvenir—a business card they’d be adding to their bedroom shelves. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I just want him to mind his own business. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, I knew right off the bat that Arnold, my stockbroker, and Pasqual, my lawn-mowing business partner, were good guys. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hogs were the first order of business, chopped on the long pine table and covered in dipney sauce. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And a note, clipped to a business card: Anita will sell these for you when you need money. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

During the Great Depression, which began in late 1929, businesses across the United States closed down, putting millions of people out of work. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Then Father said, “I’ll be talking business with Mr. Bogardus for a while. Have a look around, but don’t stray too far.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I fear for you two hotheads, mixing yourselves up with dangerous business. What if these men catch you spying on them? It would go hard with you.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

His business was keeping the field hands in line. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He felt that it was more dignified to lose oneself in business, as he intended to do, than in alcohol, as Tom was probably doing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some weren’t, just as not every business titan in the United States was born in the mid-1830s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I took a slow turn around the shop, admiring the shelves heavy with books, business forms, proclamations from Parliament and General Howe, slates, thick paper, quills, and sealing wax. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how much ‘group work’ counts in our business,” he wrote to her. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The following days held a thriving business for Jinx and Ned. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Teachers don’t go for you knowing their personal business. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘But do not give up hope! Gandalf is greater than you Shire-folk know — as a rule you can only see his jokes and toys. But this business of ours will be his greatest task.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I finished my business and walked into the house. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come to say he’s sorry for all the sun flare business.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"You saw her beauty, but not the iron underneath. She would have told you that you have no business in the melee." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“For your information, I happen to know that that little book she carried all around the whole house with her yesterday is at the whole root of this whole business.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

How they had opened a business, a restaurant, and taught their daughter that with hard work, she could be anything she wanted to be. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Look, I had to make a business decision,” X-Ray said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t enough to keep the Stork Club in business, but there were a few quarts of beer and some wine. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

John Jaax had been having difficulties with his partner in the plastic business, a man named John Weaver, and Kansas City Homicide looked at the partner as a suspect. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is the nature of your business?” he asked. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going into the Renaissance, artificial memory continued as big business. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I exaggerate, perhaps. The American, Hardman, and the German maid—yes, they have added something to our knowledge. That is to say, they have made the whole business more unintelligible than it was.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a single, early week of senate business in Springfield, Barack had introduced seventeen new bills—possibly a record, and at the very least a measure of his eagerness to get something done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Pm in the business. I might be able to help you out. You a tranny?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As the sleeping Muslims woke up, when dawn had broken, they almost instantly became aware of me, and we watched each other while they went about their business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cowboy Charlie” Irwin ran two businesses: a raucous Wild West show in summer and an even more raucous racing stable in winter. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If he’s a spy, he’s a clumsy one. If he’s after you we don’t need to worry. My business will be quickly done. You’ll stay here and keep out of sight. Then we’ll go.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

At closing time, there’s plenty of business to be had up in my office. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flame of a giant sun had given way to the soft blackness of space but external variations mean little in the business of checking the workings of experimental robots. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“Shall we start a taster’s club in here when business gets slow?” he said. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I tolerate just about any kind of good times my guests wish to have, since that’s how we keep our heads above the water in this business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me put my clothes on wrong, and scramble the service, and eat incorrectly— third priest: Lunatic priests are bad business. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This greatly distressed Mrs. Pocket, who burst into tears on receiving the note, and said that it was an extraordinary thing that the neighbours couldn’t mind their own business. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Down the slope from our encampment lay Lake Champlain, where I vowed I should learn to swim before we finished our business with the planet Venus and returned to the city. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The fire had obliterated the heart of the city, its very center of business and culture, then had gone on to wipe out the residences of its wealthiest and most powerful citizens. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The Sherpas we’ve hired are the best in the business,” he told us. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You come back tomorrow, Mr. Dacus. You have no business here tonight. The trusty will show you how to get out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can look out our door and know when the butcher marché is open for business, if the big kapok tree down there is filled with black buzzards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps on climbing, mindless, mechanical, because it is the business of goats to climb. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a friend of his son’s. I have his business card.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Michael Kittredge, who began his candle-making business at age sixteen in his mother’s kitchen and says he was raised in a “lower-class to lower-middle-class” home, holds attitudes typical of many of the newcomers. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I’d been raised to handle my own business, but now that seemed almost impossible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Okay, this had never been spelt out exactly, but it was definitely, as I say, an understanding, and until the afternoon of the Daniel Deronda business, neither of us had come anywhere near breaching it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole business was so forced and stupid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Only a fool would dream of going in unless he had been sent there on very special business. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

For many, it also meant giving up their shops, their businesses, their pensions, and their life savings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She has the right to choose who she wants to marry. That’s none of our business.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

We all had Cokes in the living room while Margot talked a little about Berlin, about the various business things she was doing while back in the U.S. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

That butchery business was long ago; surely by now the sharks would be out of the habit of congregating here. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was owned and operated by my uncles, but when they moved on to start a home-appraisal business, my dad bought them out. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And now it’s back to business as usual. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t like that kind of business,” he said. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I was on the verge of yelling, even if it lost my mother business. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I asked, “Well, what about our family? Will we open a new business?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They cursed Parliament roundly for interference in their business. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her efforts to conceal herself were oddly provocative, far more so than if she’d simply gone about the business naked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

James had many business partners on paper, some of whom he had met in person, but he had few friends. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

All he said was that business about my being a "very, very strange boy" again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“These are standards about how we do business work together.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We introduced ourselves, ready to get down to business. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Matt knew all about laudanum, having studied the opium business as part of his regular homework. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch, business would die down, and that’s when we’d get our lunch, usually the cheapest thing we could afford, like a smiley with some maize meal. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

And then just four hours later she was announcing an unexpected business trip. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I bet they make us wait all day. They’ll keep telling us Laura Friendly is busy. And then at like five o’clock, they’ll say she left town for some important business in Tokyo or something.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

How the world—the business of Times Square—can feel like it’s falling away when you’re with the right person. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

In Lockhart, after conducting our business, Harry loitered on the corner so he could admire the figures of the ladies strolling by, exhibiting the latest finery from the local milliner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When he held inspections, the colonel’s business was posture and cleanliness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sick of this whole ugly business, and just wanted it to end. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

By the looks of it, their business was booming. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Special or extraordinary methods and procedures used when a business is in danger of failing. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was a thin man who could have been any age, dressed in a drab and tattered business suit, and he was holding a pencil and a sheaf of papers held together with a clip. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Who tries to start a business without having a phone?” my mom blurts out. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“I had a few routine matters to deal with during business hours today. The usual. If you c-c-could let me in—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Shucks! What kind of business you got on a cold night like this?" she said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew what she meant; he understood the business the Rosen Association wanted to transact. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the next issue Arthur reminded island businesses to extinguish display lights promptly at dusk; it was Christmas and the temptation was to leave them on. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even if business had been normal the Bureau couldn’t have handled it because the workers began to go. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked her if Redwood Farm Supply would be there, she told me they’d gone out of business years ago. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The black girl with the flute is staring at us now, having finished the polishing business and begun nibbling celery. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Every time they passed Seabiscuit’s stall, the horse lunged at them, mouth wide open, ears flat back, eyes in a sinister pinch, and he meant business. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zizmo’s shadowy business associates made visits, as well as people from the speakeasies he supplied and a few of Lina’s friends. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was to create a new identity. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, don’t you be mindin’ white folks’ business, you hear me, gal? Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, I’m told, the businesses of Route 128 are much more secretive and insulated from one another, like Japanese milk-producing companies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, despite the dead light and everything falling apart, the day in the Glade appeared to be proceeding business as usual—farming, gardening, cleaning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

By the time he stopped talking, Charles and Henry had completed whatever business they’d been discussing and Charles had gone to the closet for his overcoat. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You must get these people quiet. We must bring them to order. There is crucial business at hand.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leave him alone to his business, throw the phone on my mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

For J. T., violence was a distraction from the business at hand; he would have preferred that his members never fired a single gunshot. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Not long after that, Nazi entrepreneurs arrived on the scene in the hope of making their fortune off the misery of Jewish factory owners who were no longer permitted to own a business. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I nibble on a carrot stick as Emily talks about how her dad owns his own construction business and Soojin shares her parents’ challenges running their deli. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Screw the app business, she needs to become a detective. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The head on a boat is basically a glorified closet, with ' barely enough room to sit and do your business. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t it be nice if you had an actual label with a logo for your business?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

"Not now. No business now. Tell her to come back in the morning." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“None of your business. Just go back to whatever you were doing, okay?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I had quit my job at the automobile company, and went into the garage business for myself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm glad it's you, I thought, this will be business without tears. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I declare,’ she said one day, ‘no business can be run with just a feeble old man and three of the most worthless boys in Boston—eating their heads off.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cap’n’s knowed to be mad as a hatter, but even someone crazy as him has to know all Pap’s business here on earth is through. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Noticing this brisk trade in “fire relics,” some adults joined the business. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Leave. Camellia and I have business to attend to." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I knows best than to put my nose in growed folks’ business.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

He wanted to say it wasn’t Cupid’s business, but he realized this was exactly Cupid’s business. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The boy watched her go and then with infinite relief went back to his gang and his business, knowing that he too had played the game. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not that it’s any of our business. She made that perfectly clear.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But it was not the normal buzz of usual business. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Now let’s get to business,” Mrs. Parker says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After I've been at the crèche only a few minutes, Judith calls to discuss business with Mina. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He shouldn’t think about them, he knew; it was no business of his. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward the bomb shelter and the sharpness in his voice and the stiffness of his jabbing pointer finger told me he meant business. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

People whispered that a boy like that had no business being an Elder-in-Training. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As we walk, I collect business cards for escort services from sleazy guys handing them out to anyone who will take them. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

This “gambling” method of remuneration was practiced by some of the burial companies because of the tremendous “turnover” in policyholders, and the companies had to have a constant stream of new business to keep afloat. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small bakery, its windows filled with decorated cakes and layered pastries, also did business in the second part of the shopping center. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someday he would have an army of them, but getting the bloodlines perfect was a slow business. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have plans, but the dismal state of my social life was none of her business. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The business of the witch doctor had somehow seemed unwholesome. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone said the vuvv hole meant big business was coming to town. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. Maybe some people. But I don’t have the right family name with a big business to inherit. My mother wanted to retire here.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Milton was so convinced that everything was going to be okay that on Tuesday morning he flew down to Florida on business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A court record noted that Burt had run a loan business targeting the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Fortunetellers were in great demand, and saloons did a roaring business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To Milkman’s father, college was time spent in idleness, far away from the business of life, which was learning to own things. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was amazing to me that everybody, even Quentin, knew my business. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was highly popular, and I found that he took the familiar department of Mr. Jaggers’s business; though something of the state of Mr. Jaggers hung about him too, forbidding approach beyond certain limits. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But men have made the same mistake more than once—left the whole business out of account, or been content to trust to luck and the fortune of war. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not long in Kamaswami’s house, when he was already taking a part in his master’s business. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony’s business interests are diverse: waste management, luxury auto exports, pharmaceuticals, etc. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not my business. I’m a surgeon. Go on. Make room for the others!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His business must be something to do with the stranded ship. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To Catherine, Mr. Edwards was as cold a business proposition as his units were to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s with this clown, Link? It says he’s from New York City. What’s it his business what goes on around here?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

By 1913, there were approximately sixteen thousand separate companies in New York City’s garment business, many just like the Borgenichts’ shop on Sheriff Street. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I studied business and met a lovely woman who became my wife. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Tough business,” Freckles says, stepping back, wiping his hands on a bar towel tucked into his little waist; no adult man where I’m from has a waist so trim. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sound was muffled, not loud and earth shattering like the bombs I had heard so many times when Klan members dynamited black homes and businesses throughout the city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If she was an odd vision in their midst, one look from Ridgeway made the patrons return to their own business. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But Wang Lung, although he had no answer for her, felt his gorge rise at this thievery of his sons, and he did not blame the elder when' he was slow at the business. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Shebeens were considered illegal by authorities, for they took business away from government-run beer halls. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the whole scientific enterprise must be arranged so that the separate imaginations in different human minds can be pooled, and this is more a kind of game than a systematic business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Phone book. I called every name. His cousins, his business partners, people I’d never heard of. He’d written to everyone. Every single person. Some let me see their letters. Others didn’t.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

She went about the business of gathering breakfast items, her lips pressed together against saying anything. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

They would answer him that they had been many years without a priest, arranging the business of their souls directly with God, and that they had lost the evil of original sin. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Somehow I know without asking that Mr. Wallace isn’t going to go tellin’ folks about it, because people around here tend to keep quiet out of someone else’s business. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had invented his business—the circuit route through the small towns, the short stay of each girl, the discipline, the percentages. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’m coming in with you. No monkey business.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Father doesn’t always ask her opinion—about the business, about other matters, about people, about all kinds of things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Usually it would be about show business or stars in the movies or television. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Because these tools are delivered over the Internet and written in standard Web formats, they are accessible to anyone who has an Internet connection and are easily interoperable with any business. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Though bent almost double, she stared up at me with black eyes that seemed to know my past, while Elnora stated her business. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Only the sounds of insects determined on their late spring business, and birdsong resuming after a decent pause. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"We've had other entries in other years that described businesses," said Jack Petrocini, president of the local chapter of the Rotary Club. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He dug his hand inside and pulled out the first business card. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

You don’t think your ol’ man knows how to handle his business? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

“Junie, we won’t share your private business. It’s up to you whether or not you want to tell Grandma and Grandpa.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

That business in the note about “misleading and perverting the young” had been badly misunderstood and misinterpreted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has the skills to get her hands on a nice weapon like that—which means she might be in the same line of business as Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I put my hands on my hips to show I meant business. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The keeper would not enter on what he called “business” until the supper was over, and we were all satisfied. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Forgive me! Of course you need to know the terms. I am utterly hopeless with numbers, but Lord Ashton drew this up for your perusal before he left for business this morning.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

When he was settled she looked at him and said, “Don’t you think this ‘frindle’ business has gone far enough? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Man, I was around here doing some business, so I figured I'd pop in. Your mother ain't here, is she?" he asked, peeking around. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“We can find a trader who wants to do business,” Mambu assured the boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s friendly enough, but it still means business. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone else goes about their business without even realizing the subtle, significant shift in the NeuroLink that can now control their lives. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The first order of business is for us to agree what it is that we’re celebrating. It's been my birthday twice already this month." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And so she grimly answered her own question: “He is doing monkey business with someone else.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for me it was simply loose, terrible business. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could get to Watsonville, do her business, and get back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they looked at him suspiciously, he said that he had to meet with the warship’s captain because of “particular business from Washington.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I do know is that this business about professions and studies and salaries and so on—it makes me sick, it is and always was disgusting. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably this orphanage business was just careless talk on Lady Constance’s part. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

A very basic security flaw, and one that would have to be remedied once this business was over. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His hands were trembling slightly, and he seemed to be overcome by the whole business. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she could hear her good friends the beavers going about their business beneath the ice, and she wondered when she would see them again. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, you wouldn’t want to meet one, Ellie. And Tally, if you do the right thing now, you probably won’t ever meet one again. That sort of business is something we can all do without.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“This is my bull. That makes it my business.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Services, Incorporated, the auto-repair business she owns with her husband, Chris Fish, in the hope of making her first million at an early age. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope things get back to normal quickly, Senator. We don’t like this. It’s a dirty business.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver pushed through Mr. Rochester’s business card last. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Was that really a business trip, or had he snuck off to Myrtle Beach with one of the Strivides twins? Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Mind your own business," I say, and curl up to look at my photographs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

First order of business in this room is easy: retrieve Valentina. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I asked, eager to get that resolved while we were still in the business of sorting things out. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

My father was retired, but the dog had business. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And we animals, who are ultimately parasites on the plants, steal the carbohydrates so we can go about our business. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that arcane business about planets ascendant in this or that solar or lunar “house” or the “Age of Aquarius” comes from Ptolemy, who codified the Babylonian astrological tradition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person in town who would do business with a gang of kids was Ernesto Barbarossa. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“So I was thinking. What if I was your business partner?” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“This is supposed to be our business,” I say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sign above the business, which was one of the dozen or so boxes of storefronts along Old Mill Boulevard, was an enormous, perfectly round pizza with a grinning face painted on it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“First you appearing so suddenly and then, on top of that, the business of Vizzini. It was too much for me.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the goddess with grey eyes had other business: disguised as Telemakhos, she roamed the town taking each likely man aside and telling him: “Meet us at nightfall at the ship!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was good for the tourist business coming through in the summertime on Highway 66. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before they could continue on their escape south, the fugitives had business at the tavern. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why think of business on such a day, I ask? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Identifying these surprising and provocative themes was a breakthrough, but the Times is not in the dissertation business. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Ellen is checking me out and I tell her to mind her business. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s my business to have my fingers curled around the heart of your business,” he told me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He thought about his actions and his adventures, and about the journey ahead of him, and it seemed to Tristran that the whole business was suddenly very small and very straightforward. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He has no business being here today. What does he want to do? Ruin that poor girl’s day?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He drifted back into the singing-waiter business and from that time on never worked at any other job. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he rarely saw a young man in this business who had an eye to the future. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I suppose a little fresher-up wouldn’t hurt. But something tells me you’re not in the business of giving away arctic glacial water for free.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And I’m not sure why Spares are even allowed in businesses. My Drascal will be bringing it up in the next town meeting,” she sniffed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’d spend the week after that in Moscow on TB business, with a stop in Paris en route. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As a result, they could use them for both a delicate task like milking a grazer and the rough business of tearing and shaping branches. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“All citizens have been ordered to their homes. State your business!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The problem of olfactory sensing shares some of the current puzzles and confusions of immunology, apart from the business of telling self from non-self. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Jack hunted around for the perfect tree and finally did his business, though it felt like he was taking forever. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Cut this tea party talk and get down to business!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

His father was in the ladies’ undergarment business with his brothers, on the sixth floor of what is now a fancy loft at Broadway and Spring Street in S0H0. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Jobs came of age breathing the air of the very business he would later dominate. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Giving blue ribbon winners free rides hadn’t stimulated much business. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see . . . five to ten business days. Or maybe a little longer.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Tonight her son, John, was not home—he was out of the city on rebel business. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the day Rufus and Nigel took the wagon into town to mail my letter and take care of some business of their own. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Las Vegas—not like it’s any of your business.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He accumulates some capital and goes into a business venture with his sons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My dad glanced at my mom and for one delirious second I thought I was off the hook, that somehow I’d exonerated myself, and that we could all just go back to business as usual. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Alby told the Runners to hurry about their business— he wanted them back out in twenty minutes. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

After the gym, Jule swam a mile in the Playa Grande pool and spent the rest of the morning as she often did, sitting in the business lounge, watching Spanish instruction videos. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Much against her will, Jo at length consented to sacrifice a day to Mrs. Grundy, and help her sister through what she regarded as ‘a nonsensical business’. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my way back to Texas, I suddenly remembered that during my two weeks in Scotland, the World Champions Centre had opened for business. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She was far too pretty for his business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And not until he had returned to Pianosa, his business in Rome completed, did he seek medical attention for his wound. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“He’s a good for nothing. Un vago. But that’s none of my business—flour from a different sack, as far as I’m concerned.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She was a bane for business, he told her, a liability and a loss. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her business card was stapled to the Rolodex card. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But I recalled the driver’s statement: “We’ll do business with you people.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She barely had time for caterpillar collecting, and it did not contribute to the family business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’m working on pictures of cupcakes that talk for an ad campaign for Keisha’s business. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

A pile of wafer-thin bronze business cards lay on the nearest table. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Matron knew this and she relished the whole business. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his dark business suits, he looked nice but easily forgettable, like somebody’s nephew at a funeral. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Settling in Georgia, he established his own machinery business, married, and had five children. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Everyone, go about your own business,” the white one says. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Then the galactic astronomers are out of business, the stars cool and die, matter itself decays and the universe becomes a thin cold haze of elementary particles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the dogs do their business and Safer cleans up after them, I don’t watch. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My first order of business was a careful inventory of the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had thick-palmed, capable hands and many business interests; she traveled to Dubai to buy gold, to China to buy women’s clothing, and lately, she had become a distributor for a frozen chicken company. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During the warm days when the men went about their business on the floe, the softening ice frequently gave way underfoot, plunging them into cold water up to their waists. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I thanked him and he said, “Let’s get down to business.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Boy,” he cried, “ain’t you got good sense? Don’t you know you ain’t got no business to be out here, walking around like this?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It shows them that I care enough to make sure they do their tasks correctly. That’s what my father always taught me. And what business is it of yours, anyway?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sir and lord, I am come on a little business, not to disturb your lordship, but to talk a little business with the agent who serves your honor.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t think Father has a very nice business. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He had been fairly happy back in the singing-waiter business and he worked pretty often, was steady, didn’t drink too much and brought home most of his money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of your business. Get talking, Van Eck.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Half an hour later the crowd had dispersed and gone about their business. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The article was about several of the town’s businesses embracing the recent tourism boom brought to Lily by the sighting of the bird. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

His marriage was a business deal for him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I forbid it. And stay out of our business.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would easily put that woman in Rising Sun Bar out of business.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because of beliefs in Germany at the time—that women were physically and intellectually incapable of undertaking responsibilities outside the household realm—women could not formally train in a profession or manage a business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I, meanwhile, was wholly, mindlessly, very contentedly absorbed with the business of just pushing forward. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

These hidebound trustees were determined to run the Research Corporation as conservatively as they ran their own businesses—that is, accumulating a large capital cushion before starting to give it away. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Let her go, Mother. It’s none of our business,” said the young woman. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Arion crashed through the main doors into the plaza and scattered a bunch of guys in business suits. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The vacuum cleaner business was so brisk, in fact, that the company that made them opened a branch factory in the town. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

And everybody knows Jordie’s family runs the only roofing business in town. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Mind your own business, Elias, part of me says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although he no longer ran a freighting business full-time, he still moved some goods and welcomed my assistance. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Saunders gives me a hard look and goes on about how important it is for a teacher to not have her personal business out among students. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I suppose I could read what you get. God knows, the book business could use some rattling.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In an attempt to reestablish the lines that separated black and white communities and to intimidate black residents who crossed over into white neighborhoods, they bombed black homes, businesses, and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, that seemed to have been the entire business which had come to a head when the vigilance committee followed him to Mr Coldfield’s gate that day two months before. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

The badger shouted mockingly, “Don’t forget to call again, rat. I’d be delighted to see you. We’ve got some unfinished business that I’m looking forward to settling. Just you and me, Redtooth!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I say, “Mrs. Drinker, it’s not my business. But I’m sorry. About the troubles.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“Actually,” said Dr. Zinchenko, “Mr. Chiltington is the one in the construction business. Together, they were hoping to rewrite the history that didn’t fit their family myth.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Then he starts being a regular duke again, and he forgets all about the homey babe that has the publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Stanton’s present business cannot be regarded as a business for life,” Judge Cady said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers in the business. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

After all it is not our business to take these stretcher-bearers' jobs away from them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was trying to attract businesses to its new Research Triangle Park and the civil rights pioneers figured that local stores, wanting to avoid any bad publicity, would be “pushovers.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They stopped daydreaming and swiftly got down to business, giving orders. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

With their hands free, they took up tools and beat from the bush their own food and shelter and their own fine business of right and wrong. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other days he had carried them around with him during boring wanderings through the business district and the Quarter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It all had to do with that mall business. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

In the weeks to come, he’d go about his regular business while I went in for daily ultrasounds to monitor my eggs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Don’t talk like that! I’m here to do business.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

What he could do was speak to the grocers in his next address before their business association. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This business about being watched isn’t real. You’ve built it up in your mind.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We'll just go back to business as usual and pretend there isn't anything wrong. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"I will leave you to discuss your business," Captain Moreo said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Good thing we had the ladies there to take care of business,” he continued, turning to Chubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Mirren was the business- minded one, the heir to all Granddad stood for. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

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

He helped build the North Carolina Mutual into a national business giant. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gentlemen like our good host still believe it's their business to meddle in matters they don't understand. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a Wish?” he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Charles is very fond of you. You know that. Besides, the police don’t know who you are. I don’t think they’ll be likely to associate you with that other business.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Grandma said it was meant to keep downtown Fry pretty, so people didn’t have to look at just buildings and businesses all the time. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“That’s the problem. Everybody loves to shop there. All the local businesses will get shut out.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“Tell them thanks, but I’m not in the rocket business anymore.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What business you got? Hey—where can I get some peanuts?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Successful family businesses usually face a crisis when they grow larger and hire more personnel. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the Depression started, he was newly married and had just bought his big car, moved to Queens, and made his great gamble on the writing-paper business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

In Luce’s office two men in business suits were waiting. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“All our people are in business suits. Why?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Teams from the church go door-to-door, asking businesses to give. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The ice cream business is a flop just as Dede predicted privately to me some time back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of his childhood, there was never any doubt in Dae Hyun’s mind that he would eventually take over the business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Turning the job discrimination they experienced on its head, Irish business owners lived by the rule “Only Irish Need Apply.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I'm about to stop Layla from embarrassing herself further when Marisol interrupts her first, ready to initiate one of her business transactions. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It is a listing of names and addresses, names and ages of children, occupation, name and address of business or businesses, estimated yearly income, nationality, year-to-date dollar figures, percentage changes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruins of older buildings dot the lake, buildings abandoned by business owners and residents when the floodwaters rose. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The cops had hurricane business to worry about. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

It had happened at last, the business of going away. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I came to the conclusion that the whole business at twenty-three minutes to one was a comedy played for my benefit! Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. We ain’t hiding this behind no closed doors. I want this thing out in the open. Right is right, so let’s handle our business here,” Juju says. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Ziggy finishes doing his business and looks up at us, like he’s both proud of what he’s done and confused by how we’re behaving. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But when rioters burned down the business, my father moved us up to upstate New York. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Davis estimated that Holmes made $200,000 through his drugstore and other business ventures, most of which were fraudulent. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people’s business.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The verb is the business end of a sentence, the sentences reason for being. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After one of the blasts, the lab’s business manager ran down the hall to York’s office with the news, shouting, “We’re still in business!” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“My Aunt Rose says that the reason spirits don’t pass on to the afterlife is because they’ve got unfinished business. I think yours is finding out who killed you, and why.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His stepfather stayed entirely out of his business, and his mother was preoccupied with too many other things to give much attention to his troubles. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

At the time, Mom and her partners in the nursing homes were negotiating to sell the business, which was thriving. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Modern data encryption uses a mix of the two techniques, allowing us to send messages and do business safely on our phones and computers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And so they went a-courting, reaching out to members of the black Refined and also to white business leaders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A girl the riders called One Wing Annie did a brisk business despite missing one arm. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father had just returned from a business trip, bringing her back this latest present. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His trip to Chicago was primarily a business trip with some traditional pleasures thrown in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She does just about everything, and she’s keeping half the tutors in town in business. She pushes herself pretty hard.” Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I just might be getting the hang of this writing business. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Surely no silversmith would have carried out his craft in what are probably Revere’s best business clothes. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things nobody tells you is that when you buy a business you buy its debt. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow this Halloween business will be over and you’ll be happy to be the only child in your school without a stomachache from eating all that candy.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Plenty of time to take care of business. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

After that I will be about on my business. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Wait, this kid created businesses related to school regulations? That’s pretty clever,” Stephen’s dad says, nodding. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The tall businesses of downtown Oakland morphed first into blocks of condos and apartment buildings, then into the quaint, small-town feel of Piedmont. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The new boss doesn’t think it’s a good idea to mix business with—you know—charity.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

A Belgian and an American, let’s say, two old friends with a hunger in common, a hand in the diamond business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of your concern. Oye, your free food is taking away our business.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t that personal? Isn’t that private? Why is that everybody’s business?” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Michelangelo cleared his throat and said, “That is nothing to do with us. It is none of our business, Jeanne.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nearly every business proposition in the county came sooner or later to Will Hamilton’s attention. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew the inside and outside of that business.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is dressed in a gray business suit. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was a bad business this time,” he said, shaking his head. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Why is it that when they were laughing in the house or smiling at the picnic table, that they couldn’t tell him about this whole “coming back” business, whatever it means? A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“That poor shell of a woman must forever hold her torch aloft while the world does its business around her,” Calliope says sadly. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He was broad- shouldered, grave, and he wore a gray business suit. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought you were in the fish-packing business. You saw guts.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In those days, the ironbam did not work mines; that was labor for the captives brought back from the hostings, and so too the sorry business of farming and tending goats and sheep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And yet Grandmother had said the whole business had been settled years ago. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a newcomer, a black man in what was historically a white man’s business, surfacing from obscurity with a weird name and odd backstory, hoping to strike a chord with the common Democrat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Police and ambulance sirens are blasting, and the firefighters are handling business on the burning gym, but it’s too late for mad people. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

While the country as a whole had endured a torturous depression during the early 1890s, Durham’s businesses were so solid that the town experienced merely a slowing down in its normally frantic activity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He missed Pippin, and felt that he was only a burden, while everybody was making plans for speed in a business that he did not fully understand. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was before the twins were born, before Mama started her catering business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Four bells—the third was resonating now—meant that the day’s business could end. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. van Daan used to be in the meat, sausage and spice business. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Has he some message of your father’s coming, or business of his own, asking a favor? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charley had forgiven me in a nauseatingly superior way, but now he had settled down to business also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“None of your business,” I tell him, but I soften the words with a smile. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then one night, as the whole district was on the brink of starvation, came the order to return to business as usual. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

"First, we must take care of some important business, and quickly, too," said Mark. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Ivy is all business, and I reluctantly accept that I'm not going to get any information about Amber. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And after the hug business in the band room, maybe I just didn’t want to risk another weird conversation. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Praise the Lord, hallelujah, my friends! for Jesus will make you itch like nobody’s business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Certainly. When a pig is to be butchered, everybody helps. I’m an old sheep and I see the same thing, same old business, year after year. Arable arrives with his .22, shoots the...” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He felt in control but not in control, the business being his but not his. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had me a business once too,” he said. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I walk under ladders like it’s no one’s business.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But all I could do was wait for the chipmunk and Cletus to take care of their business so we might just go on home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Box officers always acted as though their business was urgent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father had some of his business partners over,” Scipio defended himself. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I missed my mother's funeral because I was on business in Japan, and I didn't think she would want me there after the letter she sent after Dad's funeral. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

They are a nocturnal amalgam of social event and business meeting. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Seven throws blows like nobody’s business, knocking Remy upside his head with several good hooks and jabs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

A minimum of five years in the business is mandatory for such a job. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s because I handle the entire business and accept the risk.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“And once you get the reputation for doing that kind of work, the business comes to you first.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Walter was at the head of the defiers; his presence was evidence that we meant business. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing at the sink to handle my business is fine by me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought this was a business establishment,” Mr. Robert said. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Big-hoofed gray horses spackled like wolves, that rolled their eyes and whinnied at my footfall, leagued with men as if strapped to their business by harness I could not see. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night when Papa came home from doing his man’s business about the farm, Mama took him to her room and closed the door. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ironic for someone in the Mud People Possession Liberation business. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This way, the Jews were forced to pay for the repair and restoration of their own businesses, synagogues, and other buildings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And whereas before, her mother’s and Jaimito’s mother’s hints were the intrusion of elders into what was none of their business, now it seems the old people were perceiving destiny. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Morris was simply bringing to the world of politics the very same notions that guide the business world. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

While luxury stores, miraculous finance companies, exotic restaurants, and import business were flourishing, the unemployed lined up outside factory gates waiting for a chance to work at the minimum wage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After that terrorist business, you can’t even search for recipes online without the PSFs snooping and breaking down your door. All they need is one whiff of trouble.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some of his child geniuses had grown up to publish books and scholarly articles and thrive in business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“If you remember anything about Saturday night, anything that might be helpful to us, would you please call me?” he said, handing me a business card. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis is wide awake and wearing his favorite-slash-only bathrobe, like he’s some kingpin whose business makes him stacks on stacks of money instead of a technician spending the little he makes on us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I went, both to the brook and to the store, and it was a bad business, but I could not help it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“They were aiming for white-owned businesses that sell inferior goods at inflated prices. There’s a study out about how the poor actually pay more for the basic necessities.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The next question is, “What department are you in?” followed by, “How long have you worked here?”— from which it’s an obvious segue to the business at hand. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is at work. The construction business is light-years behind the rest of society.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The reason was that black firms were generally undercapitalized and managed by individuals who lacked a formal education and who had no business network to back them up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember that business about the lantern?” said Ishmael. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Actually, I'm here for work,” he said, reaching into his shirt pocket and taking out a business card, which he handed to Mr. Rowan. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Thanks," I said, repressing an impulse to call him down about the "brother" business. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She never called me “young man” unless she meant business. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rainfall, at any time of the day or night, stopped all other business; for as long as it fell, I held up the rain catchers and was feverishly occupied storing their catch. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This naming is no simple business, I see.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Candace brushed it off, then went back to business, rubbing her palm on Gregory's forehead, polishing it. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Without the terrible service and business practices, of course.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Margaret was so serious about that soap, when she heard a rumor that the company might go out of business, she bought an entire boxcar full of it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Within another few years he changed his mind and did enter business to sell phonographs—but for use as office dictating machines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was in the business that she showed this illness most plainly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

What she really needs to be doing is getting down to the business of having kids and ‘being happy,’ as he put it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My father has always stressed the importance of diversification, and I like to think that I’ve acquired a diversified portfolio from my hydration business—a portfolio I plan to turn for a profit on eBay. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Reek only prayed the archer knew his business, so death would be quick and clean. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I will admit to a slight curiosity. No more than proper. I’m not one to pry into anyone’s business.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He went about his business, buying supplies, greeting friends and neighbors he passed in the streets. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If anyone was ever minding his business, it was I,” Ignatius breathed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The butterflies would dance their merry jig across the lawns, and spiders spin foggy webs, and small startled rabbits who had no business to come trespassing poke their faces through the crowded shrubs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“What kind of business might you be in, son?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

She says, “Ruth May, sugar, you don’t have a speck of business with the Jeune Mou-Pro, so when you see them, why, you run on into the house.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered his display of logic and continued about its business. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Yes, Mary," I said, "but I've got to go out now. I forgot to take care of some business." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know what’s going on with your family is none of my business,” Chris said, “but you know how it is. You hear things. Your father, he’s not in New York, is he.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Is this business, now? Are we negotiating a deal?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They had been forced to lay off drivers and shut down several bus routes just to stay in business. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” Ashe continued briskly, putting away his pencil, “I’ve got to wait for my vacation. It’s only two weeks off, but this Herbie business has everything up in the air.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

With a G.I. business loan, he had die bar remodeled into a diner counter and had a small kitchen installed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately he had been too drunk to quarrel, so the whole business would have to erupt this morning. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

This feat seemed to amuse the Ents very much, to judge by the tone of their murmurs, and the flicker of their eyes; but they soon turned back to their own business. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Father said, “I told you to keep your nose out of other people’s business.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Vacancies were rare; a Griffin address was a great boon to a business’s reputation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

You could tell by looking at him he had gone into this litde business for the love of money, not for the love of freedom. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fair enough, straight to business. How much do you need?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

To most people in Manson the biggest thing ever to happen was a tornado that rolled up Main Street in 1979, tearing apart the business district. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

White Citizens’ Councils were formed in almost every Southern city and backwater town, comprised primarily of middle- to upper-middle-class whites in business and the clergy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I see,” and then he added, after a moment or two: “That cottage is supposed to be locked, the door has no business to be open.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Well, it’s probably the same in your business—right? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t I tell you I wanted everything to go smoothly? No incidents? No funny business?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I chew on some fries for courage, and whisper, “I’ve got some great ideas for your business. You might like them.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

All over Winter, even in frozen barbarian Perunter, it is considered execrably vulgar to talk business while eating. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Almost all businesses in the Black Belt were owned by Jews, Italians, and Greeks. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Working closely with a former business editor, Glenn Kramon, David labored for months to create a financial portrait of the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This correspondence concerned the following broad question: what is the best way to organize human groups, organizations, and businesses so as to maximize productivity, creativity, innovation, and wealth? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Take the business about Ruth’s office: Chrissie would never herself have talked about working in any office, never mind one like that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

All along the way, Mark Antony took the opportunity to collect gifts, tributes, and revenues and happily mixed business with pleasure. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“And what business have you here?” she continued. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

And now I recognize a familiar expression on my father’s face, the expression he wore so often at the dinner table, the faraway look of a man who could never stop thinking about business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Our landlord kicked us out, we were not good for business.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Enjoy the market. I will rejoin you when my business is concluded." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Drawing on his business, writing, and directing experience, Houseman became a skillful theatre producer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Blandon did so much business with the budding crack dealers of South Central Los Angeles that he came to be known as the Johnny Appleseed of Crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

A pretty young lady, looking for business, was drinking a highball in the second booth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike her first two teachers, Mr. Hill ignored Grace and got down to business, which she appreciated. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And what they saw—it’s not any of your stupid business. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But this business of dropping Selena off at her house after tennis and then getting stuck—every single time—for the whole cab fare was getting on Ginnie’s nerves. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s not a comfortable idea, but the She Elephant is in the business of selling children. The people who buy must want them very much.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Keisha steps up to Shay and says, "Why don’t you mind your own business for once?" Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, the suitcase isn’t for sale. I’m in the business of utensils.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When I was really drunk, I started that stupid business with the bullet in my guts again. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Aurelia tilted her chin proudly and replied out of the side of her mouth, “He’s here because I asked for him to be, so mind your own business!” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Rick said, “I’m getting out of this business.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She made it her business to read that poem so she did and I’d be well advised to tell the priest in confession. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He chuckles, as if sleeping in kitchens is just another one of the eccentricities you have to put up with in the landlord business. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He did not let anyone know of the trip beforehand, but on leaving he tacked a note to his door saying that he would be absent for several days because of business. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If Mother wanted to disagree, that was her business. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our whole life, Papi has stressed the importance of minding your own business: “If people want you to know, they will tell you, Cuatro.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Then why do business with them in the first place?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

For a few seconds, I’m disoriented by the businesses stacked high on top of each other with Korean signage until I remember that we’re in Koreatown. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No worries, never mind. It’s not my business.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She had some business in the Washington, D.C., area, and we met for coffee. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“It might hurt a business deal, right? So he won’t help the Son Who Is Going to Inherit Hoodhood and Associates.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

A black-market economy rose up, with every type of business being run out of someone’s house: auto mechanics, day care, guys selling refurbished tires. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

We were to do a story together on Atlanta’s Negro business and civic leaders, and perhaps some others. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gay men have commandeered the business of creating theater for so long that being gay could actually be considered a career move.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

People were hurrying to and fro, on their way to class, everything business as usual. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was something dangerous about this whole business, and the Oompa-Loompas knew it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

He claims he’s gotten back involved with the diamond business in the Congo and has many foreign partners, but you still have to remind him to take a bath on any given day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then sanctuary business consumed her, and I saw her only occasionally throughout the day. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But have them come quickly. I leave tomorrow evening. I have pressing business to the south.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"It's when you do something nice in business and it ends up paying you back with money." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“If he tells you to mind your own business—what then?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thrush, too, went about his business, and two stout little wag-tails, following one another, and a little cluster of twittering sparrows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Mind your business. And my name is not baby,” I tell him, and turn to Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was his own business and he never told: certainly not one pie was ever lost. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a Xerox machine they could use after business hours. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

At last we were going to get to the bottom of this business. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And on a cold Friday night in February of 1924, he opened for business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So we started up a specialty business of children’s christening gowns. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This business of friendship was a curious thing, I thought, almost as difficult to learn as the business of acting. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, I want to be up bright and early, before the Dewey decimal doors reopen. We have more clues to find. See you guys tomorrow. Unless we have more team business to discuss?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Most of our exchanges are innocent, strictly business, but sometimes—when our chats happen late at night—I feel the tug that reminds me of the moment during our dinner when he’d leaned close. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But now there were more and more “free” workers—those who had moved off the estates and lived in their own houses, splitting their time between sugar work and their own businesses. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I was glad that she hadn’t overworked herself to get some fancy business school degree. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But as his words went on, I realized too how hazardous this business truly was, nothing less than rebellion against the realm of England. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Why not put some newspaper on the floor and do my business like a puppy? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The girls were married, all except Dessie, and she had a successful dressmaking business in Salinas. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t tell anybody else about being in Geneva Eggers’s house. She has sort of a business going there. Some of the bachelor miners—she’s sort of their girlfriend.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

"So, where do you think Ishtar's money came from? Daddy an oil sheikh? Maybe an arms dealer? War's good business." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“You walk on my land! That is my business!” my father shouted. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

We weren’t poor—Mother’s business was doing well and Dad was still scrapping—but we’d spent everything on supplies. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I live in luxury with AC, a door that bolts, a large window protected by an intact screen—just like a tourist or a business traveler. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He got red horn the neck up and shuffled his papers: “You had no business with white girls!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh. Well...wait. You’re kidding now, right? Because we don’t really need to have people manage the people who manage the people who manage the business. That would be just silly.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every happening in the neighborhood, no matter how trivial, became my business. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the hard times of the bust had come and the gross of the business had been cut in half. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if your boy, Eddie, here sinks his foul shot, maybe he’ll use the million dollars to set you up in a business of your own!” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, sweetie, something like this could cause a lot of business and such to come to town. Lily could use all the people it can get, ya know?” her mother replied. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

And here she’d always berated him for his failures in business when the greater bankruptcy had been on her part. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others cater to more specific tastes: ChristianSingles.com, JDate.com, Latin Matcher.com, BlackSinglesConnection.com, CountryWestern Singles.com, USMilitarySingles.com, OverweightDate.com, and Dating websites are the most successful subscription- based business on the Internet. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it's none of your business anymore, I tell myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But the little ones—” “That’s none of my bloody business,” the policeman cut in sharply. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was when I dealt with the tedious business of cleaning and exercising my physical body. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The chamber of commerce is also sponsoring a quilt competition with a grand prize of five hundred dollars contributed by local businesses. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Standing under the scoreboard with Celia, her back to me, was a woman in a sharp business suit, her blond hair waving down to the middle of her back. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In business, education, science, and so forth, most productivity is determined by an evaluation of employees or students, and funding is often allocated based on that assessment. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

So I get on with the business of finding a towel. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just my luck that I’ve come on the day of some business conference. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

If it were, crockery manufacturers would go out of business. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we have to travel for business, but we often take our children with us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Not just about the perpetual problem of finding money but about the whole crew business. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She started a small business selling clothes and brought us money when she could. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“He runs the family jewelry business. He has meetings all the time.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

‘But, if you’ll excuse me, my immediate business is with Perseus Jackson. I tracked him all the way across Tartarus. Now, here in his father’s ruins, I mean to crush him once and for all.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Because of her long sharp nose, which she was always sticking into the business of the other women, she was called the Shrew. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Merrick had been secretary of the Royal Knights since 1883 and insurance seemed like a good business opportunity for several reasons, most importantly because there was no white competition. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, you could just find another job. One where you don’t have to deal with that Connor always poking his nose into our business.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“You mean you were doing monkey business with someone else?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Same as it isn’t any of your business why I ran away.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

The next time Valentine went east on business, a broadsheet promoting an antislavery meeting stopped him in his tracks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But once I went there I might find it hard to return to Karhide, and I had unfinished business here. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bush had then moved to Midland, where he got into the independent oil business, and lived there for about ten years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, they fell in love right away, on account of they're both so nuts about Charles Dickens and all, and he helps her run her publishing business. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Samuel should have been rich from his well rig and his threshing machine and his shop, but he had no gift for business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“On the contrary. He was seen in the yard, where he had no business to be, and when the chowkidars caught him they found he had stolen a calfskin.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier, at the breakfast table, our mother had mentioned the business with the long showers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As long as I minded my own business, they never bothered me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who knows how many people I might save by driving Finkle out of business and getting Finkles off the market? The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, another hiker called and requested a helicopter because he was a day behind schedule and was afraid he would miss an important business meeting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the mitochondria in their flight muscles go out of business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The reason I’m asking,” X-Ray said, “the reason I’m asking is I got a business proposition for you. How would you like to double your money in less than two weeks?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Lana had an idea that would help business and hurt Jones. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father, her Deydey, was in the fur trade business, which meant that he was often gone, paddling the great canoes for the fur company or sometimes trapping animals himself. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

"It's not our business; there's nothing we can do." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

During the wake, the men wandered through the sitting rooms and hallways of the house, speaking softly of business. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the animals went outside, it was business as usual. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

My father, thinking that it might be good for business, urged me to show them how well I spoke English, to make a display of it, to casually recite “some Shakespeare words.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her mother she learned the business of running the house—how to sew neat, tiny stitches, how to spin rough wool into yarn, how to keep crowded chambers clean and orderly. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

His business in shambles, he decided he had nothing to lose by following his dream of a full-time writing career. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The glass factory prospered, and the owner decided to expand the business by moving it to Kraków, a thriving city about three hundred fifty miles southwest of Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And the business of the evening had started so promisingly—three people down before any of them had even had a chance to cry out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He ended with an almost Shakespearean ellipsis: “Our business now is north.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She has an easy Southern smile, calculating eyes, and usually dresses like she’s on her way to a business meeting. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was hardly the same as going off on a business trip and then setting up an automatic text to arrive a week later saying she was never coming back. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The vuvv don’t wear translators—they say it’s up to us to speak their language, if we want to do business with them. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had trouble keeping a straight face when he called for new business. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't see how this is any of your business." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In fact, she says it’s none of her business, which is perfect, because I don’t feel like explaining. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

We stop talking for a minute and I wonder when the Skeeze is going to get down to business and tell me the purpose of his visit. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

One second after entering the atmosphere, the meteorite would slam into the Earth’s surface, where the people of Manson had a moment before been going about their business. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The house where they spent Christmas and Sunday dinners and where Ophie slept and argued and cried and did all the messy business of growing up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had the clerk instant-print him two sets of ten business cards. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

I walked into the butterfly garden while Tilly went off to do her business, and spied a big toad making his way down the brick pathway in the moonlight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

He said he was a merchant with business in Boston, New York, and Charleston, and complained about how much the Boston uprising cost him. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have business to take care of,” I told him. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others in the business keep clients in rented houses or hotel rooms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

With prices like that, how can Naylor and the other corn farmers stay in business? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It has the orderly, stepwise look of a well thought-out business. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Take care of business and work and stop using your brain. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They said that the reason they couldn’t get admitted to business school or the reason their fellowship application had been rejected was the minorities. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the money wasn't as much as we would have liked, it did allow Walter to restart his logging business. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Howard’s business side was still not convinced. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly the teacher would have remembered her selection as Birthmother, and clearly a Birthmother had no business in the school, or in fact anywhere in the day-to-day geography of the community. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Barbershops, shoe stores, and other businesses lined the street. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Summerland is a city on a hill, a place where people can raise their families without worrying about any of this nasty shambler business.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Madam Claire is always fussing about money, and wanting to compete with the other teahouses for the most business. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

For minutes at a time, I forget about Papa and the whole sad business. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s none of your business, little man. Now go up to your room and stay there until your mother gets home.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Not at all suitable. Take it away. And you, young man, go home. This is none of your business.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He had fifty minutes to take care of his business. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Not really, but I always liked to pretend the business was a front for the Persian mafia. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Just some papers to renew your health insurance. None ’ya business,” Daddy says. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Without any business ties to hold her in Maine, she moved to Andover, Massachusetts, so that the girls could attend Abbott Academy. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘None of your business,’ he kept saying over and over. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Alec twisted and pulled the Transvice up so that its business end— that strange little spout coming from the long bubble—was pointing straight at him. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

They tend to be rather secretive as their business is semilegal at best. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A concession stand in the corner did a brisk business in hats and T-shirts and jackets and flags. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black market is doing a booming business. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But guiding Everest is a very loosely regulated business, administered by byzantine Third World bureaucracies spectacularly ill-equipped to assess qualifications of guides or clients. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

You complained, took sensible precautions, and got on with the business of living your life. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As the rest of the city went about its business, fireman Dorsey was racing through the streets to the closest signal box, which happened to be at Goll’s drugstore. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Since Mighty Mechanics was now a family business, and I was family, I also had to work. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What is this business of letting someone in off the street to run a nursing home, or at least a vital chunk of a nursing home, for a day? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Her husband did business with my father. She’s known me since I was a little girl.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It would cost a lot of money, he said—about twenty signs had been made, not to mention all the business cards and stationery—and besides, all the new clients were paying their bills. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ogden Morrow eventually became Halliday’s business partner, collaborator, and best friend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had learnt as a practical business that fundamental statements like this had to be said at least twice, before everyone understood them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told her about his dead and dying patients, and about the neighbors who had abandoned their homes and businesses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

And that was to say nothing of the property-management aspect of the business. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“That’s none of your business. And don’t try to pry details from me about it,” he added as she opened her mouth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His muted instruments flashed nothing but sun, until a gaggle of noisy kids showed up and he got back to minding his own business. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We knew he meant business, and we knew better than to question him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bazaar had been full of running children and men shout-ing, but elsewhere she had seen only a few eunuchs going about their business. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The more he thought about it the more puzzled he was...He didn't understand this revolver business. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

With this in mind, we spent weeks and weeks quietly holding meetings with business and advocacy groups as well as members of Congress. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If you can’t stand being around suffering people, then you have no business in the low-wage work world, as a journalist or anything else. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returned to her business of stabbing the earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s probably not a virgin, but I don’t ask because it’s not my business. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He can’t come. He has to stay here and take care of business,” I said, turning to give them a look like the one Mamá gives us when we’re being bad. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After that business is done, he meets with Lincoln at the White House. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you butt in when it was none of your business?” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Many people were about, walking quickly and intent on their business: we did not find it easy to stop and ask them the way. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Selling cows and running businesses were considered jobs for men, but she did her own thing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I ask if this is their business and they somehow understand and gesture for me to come down and take a look. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What business do you have here? Off with you!” the woman shouted. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t mentioned to a soul anything about the Sales Register business, but I suppose Ruth wasn’t to know that. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Willemse is a direct fellow and we got down to business immediately. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her home, which at one time was open to the greats in the worlds of art, business, and politics, is now closed to all but her staff, her advisors, and a few close friends. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going over the whole business from the beginning, methodically, painstakingly, as he had been wont to do in his police officer days. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

All the Dukes were involved in the family business in varying degrees, but the real force behind the company was clearly the youngest son, James Buchanan Duke, known to intimates as “Buck.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the computer, the Internet, and the fortunate gift of a CD writer from a friend, I was in business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Cement houses with wrought iron porch railings and flowery gardens were clustered behind the businesses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Captain Reed had not said he was going to let them stay on the ship, but there was a funeral to attend to, and some other business the captain and the mate would not discuss. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A cat passed on the far side going about its business and the old man watched it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went about their business, scolding children or adding up expenses or picking stones out of the evening rice. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

All around the Commons folks went on their business, soldiers rubbing the cold out of their fingers, women wrapped in long cloaks and thick shawls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some would surely make it out alive, but others would perish in their own homes and businesses as the flames spread. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And just like he didn’t want that fishy smell all in his clothes, he also didn’t want his mom all in our business, which she was always trying to be in. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You will be applying for a position to work for this man,” he says without greeting, taking a faded business card from his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Miss Wren knows her business,” came a Russian-accented voice from behind us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day he was busy with the Congress, the club, playing golf, his business, and his political meetings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he was gone, Rowan picked up the flamethrower and got down to business. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All kinds of businesses from hotels to laundries to humor magazines were using the horse’s likeness in their ads. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is official business,” Sass would say, taking it from the postman, “and nothing for you to bother about.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The point of all of this is to answer two simple questions that lie at the heart of what we would all like to accomplish as educators, parents, marketers, business people, and policymakers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The news people said that the cold front was now moving out of our area, but it had left a lot of damage behind, and it had “put some area growers out of business.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Going to school, playing a little ball, taking care of business,” I said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Probably a new part of her baking business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We usually look for our names on the local school sport report, but this swastika business is getting bigger than everything right now. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It seemed to Theresa that Helen could leave if she wanted to, that it was Ralph to whom Grover needed to speak, about business. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All you do is yap, yap, yap! You keep sticking your nose into things that are none of your business!” he tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Other shops were opened that served tea in crystal, but they weren’t at the top of a hill, and they had little business. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means La Cocina de la Isla isn’t the only business that wants to build on the lot next to the restaurant.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of your business,” Chubs said, and left it at that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I did not know how to conduct any business at all. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I must tell you this amusing story, the wife of an important business associate gave her an Old German bisque Doll dressed in a Hulu Grass skirt... The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In the lethargy of her pregnancy, Amaranta Úrsula tried to set up a business in necklaces made out of the backbones of fish. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“That’s none of your business, Sergeant McShane. You can see that I work hard and we don’t need anything from nobody.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright advertisement posters for Beach Blanket Babylon, Teatro ZinZanni, and other San Francisco businesses were framed and hanging along the walls and on columns. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Crummys never even said thank you, but the sign got them some business that usually went to the boarding houses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

While he sometimes flew to California or overseas on business, he was never gone for more than a few days. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I shouldn’t have pushed you. It’s none of my business, really. I know what it’s like to have secrets.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You keep your big mouth out of my business!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

With every bang the animals jumped and looked alarmed, but they were not to be distracted from their main business of roaring in each others faces. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beauty sleep hardly seems important for someone who filters the holy hell out of her photos, but what Harriett does for the ’gram is her business—literally. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“If he goes on like this,” said Henry, “he won’t have to. They’ll come right to us. Reasoning with him does no good. He just doesn’t grasp what a serious business this is.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

While we crewmen do our business, pacing back and forth on deck with no seeming point to the endeavor, the captain stands above us at the helm. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Once, I coat my brush with red and think of Elizabeth’s advice about using a warm color for Mama’s business flyer. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

An awful lot like most American businesses, actually, though perhaps none more so than McDonald’s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

So Mom went on a business trip and she didn’t take her business computer with her? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Samantha didn’t know, and even if she did, she would die before she would discuss my parents’ private business. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

She had arrived in Macondo in the middle of the war with a chance husband who lived off raffles, and when the man died she kept up the business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She asked him if he’s still writing to Dawn Celeste, but he only says, “Do I ask you your business? You mind your own, I mind my own.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

But they were still trussed up and now came the tricky business of releasing them from their bonds. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammy, who was from Kentucky, was a cool, collected expert in his business, and his business was women. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was congratulating me on the success with my rockets, suggesting that I continue my education and perhaps I might one day find a job in the space business! October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I need to open the door for you? I’m new to the chauffeur business.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Next time he would do better; he had let Britten trap him on that Communist business. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the big honey flow was over, the bees were still out there sucking nectar, going about their business. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nearby city of Ceuta had grown faster than Tangier, and business had fallen off. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had a little business baking cookies for restaurants in the French Quarter, the fancy neighborhood across the canal. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

I entered the dressing room and changed my clothing, going about my business briskly, even when someone tried to block my way. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plant uses the carbohydrates it makes as an energy source to go about its planty business. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would soon see Lucretia, and his vacation meant a break from the tedious business of politics and office seekers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Only on the Road would travellers be found, most often dwarves, hurrying along on business of their own, and with no help and few words to spare for strangers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“It’s your stomach. If you want to make a slave of yourself to your business, it’s all right with me.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The expansion will be approved, Cari. There’s no way the city would reject a good business decision like this.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A few weeks before, our neighbor had had to travel for business, and he’d asked our parents if Adria and I would feed, walk, and play with Bo while he was gone. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At the same time he knew Root had little interest in the business side of architecture and in sowing the relationships at the Chicago Club and Union League that eventually led to commissions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, we came as graduate students. I applied to Emory University business school and Grandma applied to Georgia Tech for a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They were followed by thousands of women marching in groups representing college students, doctors, nurses, lawyers, business leaders, artists, educators, librarians, actresses, and musicians. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m afraid that when it’s over, it will be over and it will be back to business as usual, and that would be a tragedy.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly thinking of my art assignment, how I have to make a flyer for a local business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Apart from this business of him falling, I mean.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

What the hell business did he have dickin’ around a white school?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told you we could do business, Leo Valdez. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He would wait until after the marriage, until the business side of their relationship was finished. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s when wealthy people come into a neighborhood to redevelop it to increase its value. It usually pushes out people and businesses that have been around for a long time.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hal- lam knew nothing about it, and Mr. Edwards never appeared publicly in his business capacity. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know men. And the last thing that man has on his mind is police business.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

All around town, folks went about their business, unconcerned. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I am not offended. I should have explained to him my business here in Afghanistan. I am not here to sell property. I’m going to Kabul to find a boy.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“And how do you know he doesn’t do business with the Gestapo?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Picking up the big white hat off the daybed, she handed it to Mr. McAllister and said, nervous as a witch, “He was just leaving when you came, Mr. Blakeslee. He’s got business in Atlanta.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The image flickers and the citoyens drink their beer or go on about their business. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You had no business being with white women,” the lawyer answers. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some had businesses, and some owned plantations that were worked by enslaved Africans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Granny’s Uncle Lige Toy, who used to have a restaurant business feeding county prisoners, was in charge of Grandpa’s cotton warehouse, one of the biggest in north Georgia, and also the store’s cotton seed business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The nature of the business demanded that customers be able to find him easily and quickly; if he hid from the other gang, he couldn’t sell his crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“That's my business where I keep my money. Your business is to help me get it back.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one was about; businesses were closed and houses shuttered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I believe if we knew who Baker was we’d be getting to the bottom of the whole business,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Karim was a people smuggler—it was a pretty lucrative business then, driving people out of Sfoorawt-occupied Kabul to the relative safety of Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you thought, Herbert, that you could, without doing any injury to your business, leave the question open for a little while—” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

‘Course the letter is only three days due. But he got no business to worry me like this. He not that kind of a boy. And I got this queer feeling.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She hated it when her mother was about to leave on a business trip. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

He was planning to open an office in Paris which would handle his business directly with the big companies, on the spot, and he wanted to know how I felt about going there. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The tunnels then are storm-sewers, and the spaces between buildings become canals or lakes, on which the people of Rer boat to their business, fending off small ice-floes with the oars. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, she was sending me on errands to the market square, where the real business was done, and it was there that I saw my first fight. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

There are white schools and black schools, white churches and black churches, white businesses and black businesses, white graveyards and black graveyards, and, for all I know, a white God and a black God. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the arches of the peddler’s colonnade the scribes and money changers had set up for business, along with a hedge wizard, an herb woman, and a very bad juggler. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Setting aside the business of the country, Barack and I never lacked for things to discuss. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

‘We are going to revitalize, as it were, your business.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undead sailors calmly went about their business on the spar deck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Best thing about having your own business is that you don’t have to work Saturdays if you don’t want to.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. He’s got some kind of business thing he’s working on, a sporting goods store or something, trying to get it off the ground.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had just landed his big-time business job doing whatever he does with numbers and money and ROI, and was going to help my mother open up her own therapy office. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

‘And how are you getting on with your business now?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My first order of business was to get some privacy. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I get back into Angry Birds and mind my business. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Always business with you, Little Wood. I love that,” Grandpop said, starting his next set of crunches. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"And what business is it of yours if I am only a girl?" snapped the stranger. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

She had a lucrative side business as a Tailor, seeing to the wrinkles and jowls of the wealthy Kerch, but her chief source of income came from altering moods. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A tourist happened upon him, the stench was bad for business, and that was that. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One storekeeper did admit to me that he had to do business with both sides and could not permit himself the luxury of an opinion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it was going well, until Abel started to feel like she was running his business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Once Abel’s debts and his terrible business decisions started impacting my mother’s credit and her ability to support her sons, she wanted out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She looked like she came to dance and take care of business. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

One afternoon, on a break from work, she pulled Joseph Ryan’s business card—the one he’d given her that first day—from her pocket and headed to the subway. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Time to tie up this last piece of unfinished business. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

He made it sound like a business proposition, but a solid one, and after thinking it over, I agreed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s business, innit. If I don’t get what we agree on, I will report you.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If our recipe won that TV spot, it would have meant tons of orders for her mom’s catering business. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Your old man would love that. Only natural for a father to want his son to walk his walk. He always said he thought you’d be great at the paper business.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“Then I get a call one day from Puerto Rico. It was your father halfheartedly saying I should join him once he got his new business up and running.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

But then I figured, Hey wait a minute, what law is there that says you have to be the token puritan of the movie business? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

But he was uncomfortable with it, the business of being in control over an adult—or anybody, for that matter. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her uncle had owned a sign store once, but it had gone out of business. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Under the great business that is much simpler than complicated patching. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Funny, it was for all the local businesses in the neighborhood. I’ll have my assistant look into it.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

And all the time the business at the Bear Flag was booming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A project,” I say at the same time Angel says, “Our business.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

White insurance companies didn’t consider blacks a good business risk. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

With no children around and not much to do, this neighbor spends her time exploring other people's business. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our relatives regularly went to him for advice on their businesses, rocky marriages, or dysfunctional relationships with their children. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Savo will be all right, young man. Now you just go about your own business and let Mr. Savo be.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But when we were halfway across the bay he told me he wanted to go to Penikese instead. Said he had some business here, which made me laugh. ‘What business?’ Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“The fever will pass and these new customers will go back to the wharves. If we do save some money, we’ll keep it for a time when business lags.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter slides down from her stool, and in the same move slides a business card across the counter. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I’ll finish off this business, and then we’ll stroll across Capricorn’s square and walk away like an innocent pair of lovers.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I could feel Mrs. Baylor's eyes following me around as I went about the business of getting the Oreos and a napkin to wrap them in. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. and Mrs. Bacon had limb disabilities themselves—he with a missing arm and she without a left foot—and so were well suited for their business. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

With a single glance Clara realized that Getulio Armando was going to swindle her father in the business of the Australian sheep, because she read it in the color of his aura. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, I’m guessing you didn’t schlep all the way out here just to listen to me talk business. What are you doing here?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had a wide smile and was taller and thinner than I’d imagined he’d be—a man who was clearly not much of an eater, who also looked fully unaccustomed to wearing business clothes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Everybody was going about their normal business, but they looked tense. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s none of your business! If they want to enjoy their little secrets you should just feel superior and let them get on with it. Hiding and spying is for silly children.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the business had been going on some time. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

From the chair Millard replied, “I’m sorry, but it says right here in plain calligraphy: The Land of Serendip. The peculiar cartographers who made this were not in the business of making things up!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Like it was all a game and Derek was approaching this whole business that way. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad that the Shadow hadn’t taken them all, but they were none of his business anymore. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“So this town is a family business, then? Good to know.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There were club flyers, the week’s lunch menu, even an ad for a student’s dog-walking business. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“This business has been a shock to me, you know,” he said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

R.C. ain’t no saint, not by a long shot, but my boy’s white, and the law got no business worrying him ’bout some black boy floated up in the Tallahatchie.’ Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The council then moved on to the people’s business. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He expanded quickly from the little neighborhood business, the street- front store, for he had mastered enough language to deal with non-Korean suppliers and distributors in other cities and Europe. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

From this height the people didn’t look like poor, overworked Chinese; they seemed to be toy people going happily about their business. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stuffed their pipes—except Baba always called it “fattening the pipe”—and dis­cussed their favorite three topics: politics, business, soccer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three weeks into the semester, Paul dropped out, and my father, convinced that his son's lawn-mowing skills bordered on genius, set him up in the landscaping business. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Pray excuse me, my lords. Other business calls." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” I replied; and “such is often done by men of business, who do not like the whole of their affairs to be known by any one person.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Then maybe I shouldn’t have brought it up. I should have known you’d see what was happening. It’s not my business really.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are outsiders, in to help with the business: fully formed, perfect spirochetes that have attached themselves at regularly spaced intervals all over the surface of the protozoan. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is our business to find out how the trick is done.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Schools are in the business of knowing, and when a school wants to find something out, the school takes steps. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the raffling of the mule, Petra Cotes and he bought some more animals with which they managed to set up a primitive lottery business. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know your mom had a name for her catering business!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

First, they'd been instructed to buy a farm or a business, which was to be used as a "front" to cover up their illegal activities and as a place to hide the explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Someone suggested that Arlington Park officials would demand that Smith work Seabiscuit in their presence before his next scheduled race, the July 4 Stars and Stripes Handicap, to see that there was no “monkey business.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Milton had had the business appraised and was met with a shock: the Zebra Room was worth less than when Lefty had acquired it in 1933. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Selling falcons to Arabian sheiks,” the librarian goes on, “has always been a big business, even when Jesus lived.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If any text appeared which needed solution, it was our business to solve it if possible,” she later said. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Too civilized, they said, and downright unnatural, too, since no town the size of Blythe had any business existing out in the Mojave Desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Anywhere you may want to get off, look at the white man’s apartments, businesses! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, let’s apply these lessons to comparing different industrial belts or businesses within the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The interview’s tomorrow afternoon at this woman’s home— she runs her business from one of those office sheds in the back garden—which just happens to be in Witney. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept them all on for my business.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He made his notes with a manner as unconcerned as if he were sitting in his own office writing a business letter.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And what is—oh my God!—a man doing his business in the street! Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As I came to know Alexandria in my brief time there, I saw that something more important—the business of life—has not disappeared from the city. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

His mother couldn’t have meant his father, who’d missed one monthly visit because of a business trip. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Holmes promised to pay the money back as soon as his business affairs allowed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Yet they try to make men believe that they’re capable of conducting a business. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dessie decided to sell her business and go back to the ranch to live with Tom. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A moment later she rushed out into the dusk, waving her hands and shouting; before he could move from his door the business was over. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The danger was gone, they said, so let’s forget about it completely and get back to business and life as it was before yellow fever’s visit. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The common perception had always been that Burnham managed the business side of the firm, while Root did all the designs. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Or was that said only of Jewish business? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He gives her business advice and tells her who’s stealing from her at the bakery. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up what looked like a small, heavy chrome drill with a medallion-sized round saw blade at the business end. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The three Dominicans, a husband and wife and their business partner, agreed because Bodega had twice helped them make their rent. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

She goes digging in her purse, and Angel says, “Oh, we don’t charge, ma’am. We are a donation-based business.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Settlers who came to what is currently known as North America wanted land for homes, farms, and businesses that they could not have in their home countries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Finnick and I try to station ourselves in Command, where surely first word of the rescue will come, but we are barred because serious war business is being carried out. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The rotund Ogden Morrow was naturally charismatic, and he handled all of the company’s business affairs and public relations. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I believe the black business executive who says that, although he drives an expensive foreign car, he must be especially wary when a policeman stops him for speeding. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black minstrelsy was the first large-scale opportunity for African Americans to enter show business. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

People who noticed the man Jack when he was about his business—and he did not like to be noticed—were troubled, or made uncomfortable, or found themselves unaccountably scared. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

In the cities, the majority of workers stayed home and black businesses did not open. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thriving thoroughfare, but if white strangers doing business came along the road during daylight, we were warned not to speak to them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Umbrellas, too, were bad business, as were broken mirrors and the gift of a pair of scissors. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This is way I learn business, this is way they learn business.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Mamá always says, nobody needs to know all of our business. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And a dog that loves you like nobody’s business.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Blushing, I stammered out that it was none of my business and please forget I asked. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Jule printed it out at the business office of the hotel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s head of the Transkeian Consulate. You know the whole homeland business. This man and his family are allowed to live in the posh all-white section of Cape Town.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, Uncle Q. He owns Q over there on West Chicago. That’s his club, practically his block. That’s where he runs his business. And that’s where I first fell in love.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Dad’s new promotion meant that he was always on a business trip. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our people were close-knit, and everyone knew everyone’s business: If you ever skipped services on a Sunday, people would ask, “Why weren’t you in church?” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I was glad to give her a sufficient sum to set her up in a good line of business, and so get decently rid of her. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

My father felt terribly nervous about handing him the family business, but he wanted no trouble from chiefs or relatives. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Butler had been an engineer with the company and then quit to open up a realty business in Myrtle Beach. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Father said it was important to look like I meant business, especially now that I’d be standing at the front with him. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Because my mom was a secretary and I spent hours at her office every day after school, I’d learned a great deal about business correspondence. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She figured that would be a good business deal: skates, mitt, doll and all the other things for fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to tell each crew that there might be a slight disruption of business while we got some financial details ironed out. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it also makes it hard for the average farmer to stay in business, even with government payments. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But eventually I started to see why the business was hemorrhaging money. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The woman at Allstate had tried to convince him to insure his life for more than a million dollars, given that he had four children, and how much the business relied on him. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She sprinkled the whole business with holy water that was supposed to have come from a well in Jerusalem from which it was said that Jesus had once quenched His thirst. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So do you think it’s your business to beat innocent children and turn them out to starve in the woods, Mr. Zielinski?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Carmel was mildly startling after Centralia—a busy little town, nicely old-fashioned, with traffic on Main Street and sidewalks full of shoppers and other townsfolk going about their business. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, though, there are big differences between the productivity and wealth of different business sectors even within the same country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a right smart load as it is,” said one of them; “and it’s not me should tell you your business, but I wouldn’t tote that tent along if I was you.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Elizebeth was all business as she explained that it meant she was an expert in breaking secret code and cipher systems. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If only the rest of the business were so simply mastered! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is a friend of a business acquaintance of your father’s. He’s a Pashtun, from Kandahar originally, but he lives in Kabul, in the Deh-Mazang district, in a two-story house that he owns.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Police business, sir. Now, if you could just excuse me.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t slept much since doing business with the Turk. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had families to feed, night schools to attend, businesses to run, and other things to do to improve their lives and themselves. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a business card. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We sit in the styling chairs and watch it when business is slow, which isn't really that often. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And what am I to do on the occasion? It seems an hopeless business.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She gave up her money, her business, the good life that she had, but most important she had to risk leaving her three-year-old daughter and her six-year-old son behind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was getting into business with a girl who drank in school, but did I have any choice? Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

In the mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon, gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed to dine with him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That’s why he claims to “do business with Chinese pirates all the time.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

All her encounters with Negroes who had established themselves in businesses or trades in those small midwestem towns had been unpleasant. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Learning the business, I see,” John finally said, affably. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The award-winning poster included ten tips for running a successful lemonade stand, a profit-and-loss statement, business definitions, and a chart that tracked franchise profits. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Me, too. Maybe that will hold him until Ripper finds a way to be back in business,” says Peeta. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He likes it here because there are Wall Street moguls everywhere and wherever he goes he can talk business. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The London dialect became the standard of education, government, and business, and it was also the dialect of better-educated and more affluent speakers throughout the Anglosphere. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And what houses of business they were to which he drew men he did not know, since when he was paid it was all he knew. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

But even in the middle of all this business with the swastikas, Chokecherry doesn’t feel like a racist place. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

We girls stick together like birds of a feather, and thank goodness for that, because the men are always off on one kind of business or another. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guy in a business suit turned around. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nurse Duckett had decided to marry a doctor—any doctor, because they all did so well in business— and would not take chances in the vicinity of the man who might someday be her husband. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, most times, it’s the ones minding their own business who suffer. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Bus parks right on Main Street, in front of a storefront station that’s in line with all the shops and businesses. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that as soon as his B and B opened for business, he would become a regular customer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Please state your business and be done with it.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The pinnacle of German invention, can be kept in business by twelve little African boys and some elephant grass.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s how they work it in polite society over there, at least they used to in the old days, and quite a business it was. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the septa could not have known that today's court would be anything but the usual tedious business of hearing petitions, settling disputes between rival holdfasts, and adjudicating the placement of boundary stones. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

For months my father had been away on the king’s business, and Laertes was studying in France. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All sorts of traps as Compeyson could set with his head, and keep his own legs out of and get the profits from and let another man in for, was Compeyson’s business. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I guess my candy business is stupid, too. You can find your own hustle.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

She presses the hundred back into my mother’s hand, pocketing the business card and looking past my mother to meet my eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It is the business of goats to climb. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In business, you always learn about your clients, who they are, what makes them tick. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“No,” I told him, even though I don’t have dreams of running the family jewelry business anymore. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Crabtrees thought she was real nice, but she didn’t tell her business to them or anybody, and didn’t have close friends. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

He owed him a thrashing for the business of the horse, and for the treachery of the trap-door. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My aunt Nancy, Joseph’s mother, the large woman who had run a bakery on the Lower East Side, now had a marriage brokerage business. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“We aren’t a business. By the way, what does your dad do?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was five p.m., but business was brisk. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I could see that Father was angry with me, so I said, “I know you told me not to get involved in other people’s business but Mrs. Shears is a friend of ours.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father, and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even Vesalius, the first great anatomist of the Renaissance, was not in the business of claiming priority, which is why, for all his originality, there are no parts of the body named after him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When business was good, he yelled at the employees as usual. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Astronauts were big business, particularly since American Alan Shepard had been launched into space on May 5, 1961, three weeks after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But it’s never me. I’m just there, close by. It’s a risky business, but...seems like I seen a lot of that.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The boulder, roughly the size of a pickup truck, tumbled off into the fog like it had important business elsewhere. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter who your father or mother is, or who your grandfather was, or what business your family is in. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Whatever brought Crow and Otis Amber to these lower depths was none of his business. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the far side of the road, right on the corner, was a shoe shop open for business. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even if I wasn’t actually what was called ‘ ‘hot, ’ ’ I was now going to be under surveillance—and the Small brothers had to protect their business. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went about their business as if the elements did not exist. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now she was a Muslim married to a Syrian American, managing a sprawling painting and contracting business. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“You can lug this Duke out of here. You, however, Other Duke, you should stick around. We have some old business to discuss.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Shocking business...shocking . .. miracle none of them died...never heard the like...by thunder, it was lucky you were there, Snape....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He passed a business card through the crack in the doorway. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you have her power of attorney. And I know she still believes that thousand dollars is in this business.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could fly to Santa Fe, do all the business he had to do, and be in Malpais again long before she woke up. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll make it my personal business to see that he gets the best there is. Don’t worry about the money.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On nights when my mother and father talked about their life back home, sometimes they mentioned an “outcast table” whose business they still seemed to be settling, their voices tight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be quick about your business, no dawdling, understand?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in this subdued family din I was presumed to have been minding my own business for many hours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days had passed, and we were doing a bad job of going about “business as usual.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But one of the boys asked Petey her name and where she lived, and grinned when she mentioned her mother's honey business. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Dad found a cheap upright when a saloon in the next town over went out of business, and he borrowed a neighbor’s pickup to bring it home. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then again, how many business or law students ever visit their old professors once they leave? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was on account of her that he tried to get his own landscaping business going. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s radio chatter and routine business, and then the flight engineer cries out, “Flameout on engine number four!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He was going to college and had decided to study business. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

My old professor had even coaxed compassion out of the television business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It's the agent, not these gentlemen. He's the one; He says it's the bank, but you know he's the one. We've done business with him for over twenty years." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad and Uncle Robert started discussing business and I wandered away, trying to get a better angle on watching the continuous miner and the shuttle go through their choreographed dance of mining coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason I just didn't feel like I had the right to step that far into family business, because family business is family business. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Business before pleasure is always a good rule, whoever you are. Some day the rule shall be business with pleasure, for the joy of labor shall have been restored. Sit down." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When business was settled, one of the Frenchmen said, “Did you hear about Captain Blanchard, monsieur?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is none of your business,” Sigurd said to the man. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Because you’re going to find a way to magically lower the rent? And why are you even here? This isn’t your business.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

When my father’s business had failed, we had traded our comfortable house in the center of the Jewish quarter for a wattle-and-daub cottage on our neighborhood’s outskirts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Doc,” he said, “on a business deal like this, would you advance two or three bucks for gasoline? I know Lee Chong won’t give us gas.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered how police would be able to prove what someone was doing on their phone—texting, talking, emailing, what?—without being intrusive into the motorist’s personal business. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She told him to mind his own business. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Rise and fall—this was the doctor’s business, and it was literatures too. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it’s not your business, I remind myself. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“And if you know about haints, then you know as well as I do that secrets never stay buried, especially when the dead have unfinished business.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

‘Our names and our business are our own, and this does not seem a good place to discuss them,’ said Frodo, not liking the look of the man or the tone of his voice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He takes care of business, keeps up with homework. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

At one garden party, he had an unexpected encounter with Robert Oppenheimer, who was in Geneva on other business. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Maybe it would attract more business for the store. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Normally, each fraternal order would gather in their own hall and discuss their own business. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Speaking is an autonomic business; you may search for words as you go along, but they are found for you by agents in your brain over which you exercise no direct control. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With millions in profits, the gangsters who ran Conexco could afford the best cryptography in the business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she finds what she is seeking, she hands it to you, and you take the business card from her black-gloved hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He knew that Elizebeth’s instincts were the finest in the business. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“That’s none of your business,” Blossom replied in a rude tone. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were staying with some business associates of the Courters, so they could not continue to berate me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“That’s the way I do business. When those tax fellows come poking around, canceled checks are your best friend.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. No police characters. Not in a business like this. I got an investment to watch.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just to make sure, she went out twice as far as usuaL When she was sure there was no one near, she skinned down her breeches and squatted to do her business. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

My father lost his appetite for the business. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He was always charming and cordial, but there were times when even these traits failed to put his business associates at ease. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem like it would be a great spot—it was right by the river and not especially close to any houses or businesses. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

After four such loans were made, the white lending agencies called and said: “Don’t take all that business away from us. How about letting us handle a few of those loans?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On weekends he worked for his family’s moving business, the Franklin Transfer Company, hoisting sofas and bed sets and pianos in and out of homes all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, there were hardly any Oriental people in Iowa, and the store went out of business shortly after Lynn and I first counted the money under the refrigerator. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not my business to save lives,” Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“People say it’s not my business, but I would deny that. It’s everybody’s business.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the thing of it was, that Charles and Henry had to appear together in court in less than a week, because of the business with Henry’s car. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Lots of folks said they’d sure like to own one, but it was after five o’clock before anybody actually talked business. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And once she got her bearings and they’d dealt with Wick, she could see what all this being the shining center of the shadowshapers business was about. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Oh, my father had a watch store in the business district,” Jinjoo said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I like how you think. Now, you need to convince your other cousins to mind their own business.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If I’m going into business with her, I guess I should learn how to say things like that. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Something happened that took my mind off Lily’s business. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

He declares not for the first time that theirs should be only a business relationship; whatever he makes officially belongs to Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We know it’s supposed to be serious business, but the whole thing feels a little ridiculous. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I could see people who knew me finding business elsewhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s estimated that South Korean businesses control between sixty and eighty percent of that market, including distribution, retail, and, increasingly, manufacturing. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Mayor. Now I’d like to take my winnings and donate them to the Downtown Revitalization Fund. And I’d like to thank my business partner, Jubilee Johnson, for all her help and inspiring ideas.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“What do you know about Chinese business?” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far worse, gang warfare was bad for business. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s just good business. And how are ordinary people supposed to move up in the world without a little extra help?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A close parallel exists between the two, for most of the business leaders are connected with the schools of higher learning, either as teachers or directors. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So...wait...I’m still making money from the lawn care business and now there’s going to be more money from the snowplow business and I own a resort?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I was in the drug business and then I was in the oil business. But I'm not in either one now." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Put the book to good use, child. Magic is a living thing—it does a dead woman no good. Shall we get down to business?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Tell them that in México you owned a construction business.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s no business of mine,” he said, extracting one crooked cigarette and crushing the empty pack in his hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You are right to get straight to our business,” he says. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The weather was good for the farmers so there was plenty of food to eat, and business was good for the city’s merchants. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z

She used to have an office downtown, but David got kicked out of day care, so now she runs her tax- preparation business from our spare bedroom. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The owner of Microbiological Associates —a military man named Samuel Reader—knew nothing about science, but his business partner, Monroe Vincent, was a researcher who understood the potential market for cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a man turned and looked after her and then nervously went about his business. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Bring you, I was told. You are brought. Now I return to our god's business." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He poured some whisky into a glass, drank it in one gulp, and said something in Igbo to which Kainene replied, in cold clear English, “My choice of lovers is none of your business, Udodi.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I just think it might be best to mind your business." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

If a spat with Delly can reduce him to arguing with himself, he’s got no business learning how to assemble a gun. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

One day in the summer recently, when he was visiting the United States to tend to some business, I met him in a coffee shop in a shopping mall not far from his home. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elnora hesitated, considering whether to indulge me or send me on some fresh business. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I snapped at him, told him to mind his own business. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

From the beginning, Feldman kept rigorous data on his bagel business. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

One of the first orders of business was to prevent Fischer’s deportation to the United States. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Over at the country club, or in enormous corner offices with picture windows that seemed to deserve something more than wide-angle views of scrub brush and mesquite, they confused luck with business acumen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fed her and held the teacup to her lips and wiped her chin when she dribbled and helped her with the chamber pot business. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop looking so superior!” my father sometimes used to shout at me when I was eating, watching television, or otherwise minding my own business. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Yet once the project was finished, the press of business kept him from visiting his refurbished vacation home for more than a few weekend days at a time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But this Egyptian business was something else again. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had assumed that Ned understood at least that much about business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Does his business card have an address on it?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I’ve made it my business. Maybe I think you’re unstable and the best thing would be for you to back away from Immie and get some help for your mental problems.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If we had lost on synthetics,” Gene Kahn told me, “we’d be out of business.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even though the situation is hopeless, just hearing her say it’s my business now gives me some hope. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

To scar so much high-value breast meat would be bad business. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Watching the soles of their sneakers running away, I push my hands into my pockets, touching my pencil, the business card, and the flat-topped buttons of Jason’s mother’s cell phone. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matilda said, "I am very sorry I asked you those questions, Miss Honey. It is not any of my business." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I know some people my dad did business with, they might be able to help,” Curt said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I kept asking Amá where she was going to find the money to pay for it, but she insisted it was none of my business. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“In that case,” the sheriff says with a tight smile, “please leave us to conduct our business.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It made sense they told each other, to set up their shipbroking business in one of the great coaling ports of Europe. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the hallway, Chase is on the line with his agent, the speakerphone blaring his personal business to anyone who cares. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

There another steam-engine pump lifted the water into huge wood reservoirs, from where it was fed by gravity to households and businesses around the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The evil Clyde has in vengeance given me a route that is a “White Elephant,” a term which he once applied to me during the course of one of our business conferences. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, my dear,” said he, “poor Miss Taylor—It is a grievous business.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I was excited for this opportunity because this firm did a lot of international business in the Middle East and Europe. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Chacko lived in Canada now, and ran an unsuccessful antiques business. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy had started the business and made it a success, but now he couldn’t be bothered. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Alex had almost managed to persuade himself that this whole business was just some sort of crazy adventure...a game. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The wig business naturally evolved to the more general black hair care business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! poor Miss Taylor! ’Tis a sad business.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They have only ever traveled business class to Europe but have jobs that can’t even afford them a regular flight ticket. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If you persuaded the conductor you were a fellow employee who had to go home on some family business, he just did the favor for you without a second thought. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Mommy had some important business to take care of this morning, muffin. I’m sure she’ll take you shopping as soon as she possibly can. Where’s Delilah?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lorena never talks about her dad, and I never ask about him, because it’s really none of my business. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It was walk constantly until you could catch a bus, but keep on the move unless you have business somewhere. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because Abel had started running an unlicensed business in a residential area, one of the neighbors filed a petition to get rid of us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“But that’s not anything you need to study about, that’s not any of your concern. Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Oh, Jacob—oh, goodness. I’m making an awful mess of this. It’s none of my business. Really. Please forgive me.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Old Mrs. Burgess was a real fan of pink. She singlehandedly kept me in business my first year.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“If that were the case,” Tocco said, “you wouldn’t have been able to sell a cemetery plot in this town, let alone a house or a business.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I suppose we could rent the spaces, but then we’d have to worry about finding businesses and what kind of businesses should be allowed to rent here.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Not only for the Byrnes but for a lot of people. And—well, their business has been affected.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I tried calculating how much money we could make if we switched to the bead business. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Papadimitriou said, “On the face of it, that does present a problem. But books are easier to duplicate than alethiometers. I shall make it my business to find as many as you need.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He gave his old business partner un abrazo, addressing him as compadre even though neither one was godparent to the other’s children. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m housebroken. I play the harmonica. I’m a barrel of laughs. Come into the back so we can talk business.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Pa bought the truck to use for deliveries for the import/export business he had briefly gone into with friends. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small gathering settled down to business at a home in Ann’s neighborhood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What Cloke told us. About the drug business in New York.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Cottages were the remains of a farm that had gone out of business years before. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Transformation is a tricky business, even for one as skilled as Xan. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Whyn’tcha come on out ta the rig, meet everyone, get some grub, and we can talk business?” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

You called in a midwife, a neighbor woman, or your mother, and you got through the business secretively and behind closed doors and kept the men out. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dog breeding business doesn’t pay much, and Dad wanted us to sell the Burlington house so he could take half. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

At the age of forty- one he started attending Fordham full-time for his law and business degrees. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why, these Philadelphia citizens probably decided, smudge the city’s reputation even further—and possibly drive away future business—with detailed written accounts of looting and violence? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“I would have said you should come and help me in my business, but no, you are too soft, you speak too much English. I need somebody with gra-gra,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the aftermath of the riots, most business owners on Springfield Avenue, the key commercial thoroughfare, didn’t bother to rebuild and left their stores abandoned and boarded up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

India’s business schools, it adds, produce around eighty-nine thousand MBAs per year. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Considering the design of this new system of control, it is astonishing that so many people labeled criminals still manage to care for and feed their children, hold together marriages, obtain employment, and start businesses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was affectionate in ways she rarely encountered in men, and he was adept at business. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Get all up in her business like she’s up in mine. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

We’d moved to Highlands North when my stepfather’s garage went out of business, and he moved his workshop to the house. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It is the only business left to us. The only business once the shipyards fail—as they will within a year. Write the letter.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “I’m leaving right now to postpone the business I had in Chatham. If you have everything together, I can get going by this very afternoon, early evening at the latest.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

In time, his daughter Barbara married another optometrist, and Billy set him up in business. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Math was my specialty—you spend enough time at the cash register and you learn to love numbers, because each and every one means dollars and cents, and enough of those mean business is booming. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

There was one more order of business before Luma could wrap up her day. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The six other women’s heads all dropped soon’s they seent we didn’t have no business with them. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“My father is starting a new business. He works seventy hours a week. Sometimes more.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

As long as you’re in the food business, why not make candy? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Especially with this horrible swastika business going on.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Uniformed police stood or sat on every side, conducting their routine business of the day; none of them glanced up or paid any attention as Phil Resch led Rick across the lobby to the elevator. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

From a business standpoint, there was tremendous pressure on him to be successful. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas Volpe owned his own small business, a tavern called the Rex Café. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I heard when I was out there doing my business,” I said, feigning surprise. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We casually spoke of ourselves as business people. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder they were giving up on the whole business. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t want Josiah to know that the old horse had won, because Josiah always said that if they couldn’t make the horse behave, then they had no business riding it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have never got over the fright — though I daresay the beasts knew their business and would not really have touched me.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But most of the men began to ease away, as if they’d suddenly found other business in town. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

My family is all freaking business when it comes to The Bachelorette. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

NOW, why were you rubbing your nose? 4TH JUROR: Well, if it’s any of your business, I was rubbing it because it bothers me a little. 9TH JUROR: I’m sorry. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s another one about starting your own business and another about fruits and vegetables. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Chinese cooking. I have a cousin in Chinatown, and he told me how. My cousin is in the firecracker and fan-tan business.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stressed that a mutually agreed-upon cease-fire to end hostilities ought to be the first order of business, for without that, no business could be conducted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tess said her mother always told her that “a watched pot don’t boil,” so the best thing to do would be to leave it alone and go on about their business. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You see why boys have no business in the kitchen? You cannot even slice ugu well.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You came in my daddy’s business, so I am minding my business.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He tried to work out some method which was business and not philanthropy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon some Japanese leased small plots of land and entered into business for themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He knew that as a girl, Maria could not be legally apprenticed, or inherit his business. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Jackson, before he got kicked out, said he got caught selling coke and weed to business dudes up in San Francisco—which I’m pretty sure is true. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He had so much unfinished business here in France that it seemed to him sensible to delay his departure for England, even though his bags were packed, his strange, heavy bags. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z