| 单词 | capital |
| 例句 | Every week since our release in August, Elsa had driven up from the capital to visit her elderly grandfather in La Vega. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Several hours later, when Kyril Montana walked through the front door of his comfortable home in an all-white suburban section of the capital called Pinon Knoll, his wife Marilyn greeted him with a courteous hug. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His service as wartime governor of Virginia had ended disastrously when British troops burned the capital as Jefferson galloped off and into official disgrace. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Sunday afternoon, January 17 Minerva just left for the capital to go back to school. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Prisoners and enemies of the state would be transported to Archeon, the capital, and killed in front of a Silver crowd. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z We went down to the capital in a big car provided by the Dominican Party in La Vega. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus, it’s in New York, which is basically the art capital of the United States. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Cole Cannon died, and Evan and his friend were charged with capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Months after Lee was arrested and charged with capital murder, six additional pathologists examined the body and unanimously concluded that neonatal pneumonia had killed the child—it was a classic stillbirth with very common features. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It is raining when we leave the capital, a drizzle that builds to a steady downpour by the time we hit Villa Altagracia. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was feeling dizzy, but since the capital moment of my life was coming up this dizziness only added to my sense of frightened sublimity. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A small river snaked around one side and curled toward the center like a capital letter G, emptying into a sparkling blue lake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then, while he was in an uncertain mood about the idea of leaving the warren, Captain Holly had appeared in capital time to be attacked and to provide a perfect reason for their departure. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as the sign “Goering Street” in the capital of newly independent Namibia reminded me, Africa’s past has stamped itself deeply on Africa’s present. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mama—a monogrammed suitcase from El Gallo for taking to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re a hub, which means that deliveries coming into the capital from up north are dropped off here. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It says Well Researched and Very Interesting and Excellent but at the bottom she also writes, Why are there capital letters in the middle of your sentences? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a place waiting for them in the capital, a memorial where they could stand tall and be acknowledged for what they’d been through, what they’d done for their country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z According to Mom, Yazd is pretty much the dessert capital of Iran, and had been for thousands of years. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He was almost jogging as he scribbled his stubby capital letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Leningrad, Russia’s old capital, was under attack and had been blockaded by the German army since September 8, 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I’ve hardly slept a wink, and tomorrow—or really, today, since it’s almost dawn—I’m heading back to the capital for the start of fall classes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And I wondered, if he had truly been a mighty shaman in the capital city of Cuzco, why had he left there to come to our small, unimportant llaqta? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z They were African capitals of countries not far from Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There weren’t enough of them to form recognizable letters or shapes—except for a capital “I”—so they didn’t march much at halftimes of games. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Now that the capital was at risk, the army planned a counterattack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To Vranich, the capital’s lack of resemblance to European imperial cities extends well beyond the absence of marketplaces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In Florence, the capital of Tuscany, Vincenzio became a court musician, and his family mixed with dukes and princes at the artistic and intellectual heart of reborn Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And each one thought how with some capital he could get a new start. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark! Helsinki is the capital of Finland!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Found him and jailed him. Took his government work papers. They were going to send him to the Creek Nation in Oklahoma. State capital is Oklahoma City.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Should assaulting an officer of the state be a capital offense, rendered without trial, with the officer as judge and executioner? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I woke up in the home of a relative near the capital of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She was still thinking about the pig when the teacher said: “Fern, what is the capital of Pennsylvania?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Stone cutters and sculptors finished the moldings and capitals while masons laid the stone slabs that made up the floor. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z But now that we’re in our nation’s capital, it hit me! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Despite the inflow of cash and capital assets, Lawrence kept a parsimonious grip on his kingdom. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On the streets of Windhoek, capital of newly independent Namibia, I saw black Herero people, black Ovambos, whites, and Namas, different again from both blacks and whites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Tropics had the newest capital city on Earth, and it was called simply that: “Capital City,” in the sublime confidence of youth. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The Johannesburg stock exchange plunged and capital started to flow out of the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The second flaw in the capital punishment argument is even more obvious. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He had also been charged with capital murder in the death of Ronda Morrison, and his refusal to continue cooperating with law enforcement meant that he was sent to death row, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When the Elector Primo's name comes on, we salute toward the capital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Hitler’s troops poured into Warsaw, Poland’s capital, in late September. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In capital cases, a motion for a new trial is routinely filed but rarely granted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Besides, there’s nothing happening in the capital Nelson could get into, believe me. The Jaragua’s empty. The Olympia has been showing the same movie for a month. No one goes out anymore.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I asked him how things were in the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z From the time we leave the rest stop and make it to Harrisburg, capital of Pennsylvania and crawling with criminals, I practice smiling in the face of fear. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Most of his partners, his immediate superiors and inferiors down in the capital, were Chicanos, and this had never bothered him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is putting on airs already,” said Laurie, who regarded the idea in the light of a capital joke. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He visualized the concentration of capital in the hands of a select few as the essential precondition for commercial investment and economic growth. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z When I was young, the capital of Norway was not called Oslo. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were also afraid of Ladd Devine; they did not sign; they didn’t want trouble, or not any more, anyway, “because we already got Trouble with a capital T, que no?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Madison’s preferred location for the national capital was a “wigwam place” suitable for hunting parties and hermits. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This second witness gave law enforcement officials what they needed to charge Walter McMillian with capital murder in the shooting death of Ronda Morrison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z So when the teacher called on her to name the capitals of Romania and Cuba, Laila was caught off guard. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Down in the capital, somebody had tried to assassinate the archbishop in the cathedral while he was saying mass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I circle all the capitals that start with B: Boise, Baton Rouge, Bismarck, and of course Boston. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Did Lee plan to let Richmond fall and in its stead to seize Washington—wouldn’t the exchange of capitals be worth his while? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Though there had been no military reaction, there had been a public relations uproar in many foreign capitals. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One night not long after that, Lio told them that as soon as his contact in the capital could arrange for asylum, he and several others would be going into exile. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Simple. Indianapolis, the capital of Indiana, is home to a race known as the Indy 500.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Pefta lay down his pathetic key ring, picked up the phone, and dialed headquarters in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Spies are usually shipped out to Denver, but if they’re caught in a big city like Los Angeles, we take them before the capital does. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Luis thinks it could even return this area to its former prominence as the tangerine capital of the world. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Great towers topped with rooms of glass and mirrors, they sent beams of light across the dark water, guiding ships into the smooth harbor of the capital on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Because he came from Boston and rode for the Observer, he was often questioned about the political thinking at the capital. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Alabama's capital statute requires that any murder eligible for the death penalty be intentional, but it was clear that Herbert had no intent to kill the child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Of course she did, and had a capital time. I expected to see her brought home in fragments, but she managed him perfectly, and was the life of the party.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The phone number she wrote has an area code from Quito, the capital, just a few hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The airplane set down in the capital; he took the Trail ways bus up. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We had a capital “severe tea” at Robin Hood’s Bay in a sweet little old-fashioned inn, with a bow-window right over the seaweed-covered rocks of the strand. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z On the outskirts of the capital they built a storybook cottage, two stories, fretted with eaves and little porches and window boxes, an incongruous Alpine look in the tropics. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She graduated from high school at fourteen and enrolled at West Virginia State Institute, a black college located just outside of Charleston, the state capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As Farmer and she were leaving the capital, Ophelia suddenly smelled burning tires. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It seems as though everything tied together; the Jews and a little girl, both victims of a hate crime, and now the graffiti we saw in the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Crushed by the fall of Richmond, the former rebel capital, John Wilkes Booth left New York City on April 8 and returned to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass production, cheap labor, and big capital were the watchwords of the day now. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But we persisted and continued raising reversible errors in capital cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Booth guessed that Powell, who had never learned his way around the capital city, was a lost man. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We catch up, back and forth, my children, his children; the insurance business, his practice in the capital; the old house I still live in, his new house near the old presidential palace. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He would take the tyrant Lincoln, who had freed the slaves, south to the Confederate capital of Richmond. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a typical day in the park in the Russian capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I still didn’t know where we were going, but I was sure now that we were in Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Rebels running through the streets of the capital.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By selecting the Potomac location, the Congress had implicitly decided to separate the political and financial capitals of the United States. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In France, the German Army was marching toward the capital, backed by Luftwaffe bombers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z So these sailors stayed in San Francisco, growing in number and attracting others, until the city became the gay capital, the homosexual Hauptstadt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The emperor, who sat facing south, must have been very frightened—peasants everywhere walking day and night toward the capital, toward Peiping. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At what was supposed to be my father’s last Council meeting before he took his family north, it was decided they’d make one last-ditch effort to talk to the Governors in the capital. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z During tests we were given blank maps of the thirteen colonies, and asked to fill in names, dates, capitals. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z From the American base in Japan, Horan and other members of the 3rd Recon were deployed into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z This new information led the prosecutor to drop the charges, sparing Ms. Lee a capital trial and, potentially, the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The paramount chief’s location may become the state’s capital city. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Howard officials decided to challenge the DAR’s restrictive policy, beginning a crucial battle in the campaign to end Jim Crow social practices in the nation’s capital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Why don’t we use capital letters for all nouns any more? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to be hanged inside the penitentiary, and White, though opposed to capital punishment, was given the grim task of overseeing the execution, much as his father had done in Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “An entirely too gloomy one. Chopin is a proper name. Therefore, it begins with a capital C and is followed by a lowercase h.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z And then there was the word Dust, with a capital D, as if it wasn’t ordinary dust but something special. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was his lawyer friend and also the Voice of the People editor, Sean Carter, calling from the capital with some bad news. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Russian Imperial capital of St Petersburg had, by the end of the nineteenth century, become one of the greatest musical centres in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The mamas worried about their children holed up with their husbands back in the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She led several dozen marchers on a two-week hike from New York City to Albany, the state capital. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Rembrandt canvas was No. 1 in a Gallup canvass of museumgoers. capital/capitol. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Dubbed “Project Greek Island,” in the event of an attack on Washington, DC, senators and congressional representatives were to be evacuated from the nation’s capital by railroad and delivered to the Greenbrier’s bunker. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To risk the capital, in hope I could make it to my aunt’s house? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Dad had decided it would be easier, as he put it, to accumulate the capital necessary to finance the Prospector if he hit the casinos for a while. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The jury returned a verdict of guilty on one count of capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Most faithfully yours, his mother, Patria Mercedes But Nelson found out about the letter from his little blabbermouth aunt in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court deemed the risk of racial bias in Georgia’s capital sentencing scheme “constitutionally acceptable.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We all thought Miss Fifth Avenue was self-confidence with a capital S, but her poem was all about wishing she could make herself over. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She was charged with capital murder and wrongfully imprisoned. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Still, the fact that roving gangs were free to travel on the main thoroughfare didn’t bode well for the condition of the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z As soon as they left for the capital, Dedd and Mama and Patria started in making bets about when the wedding would be. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the morning we will take our canoe and we will go over the sea and over the mountains to the capital, you and I. We will not be cheated. I am a man.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though capital punishment quadrupled within a decade, there were still only 478 executions in the entire United States during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I need to get a message to the Ravkan capital. Fast.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the disposition of capital cases in the United States, the median elapsed time between sentence and execution is approximately seventeen months. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When McBride checked in to a rooming house in the capital, he found a telegram from an associate waiting for him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He would only go to the capital to catch a flight out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I correctly answered that Tokyo was the capital of Japan, Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia, Ottawa the capital of Canada, and Bogota the capital of Colombia. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z She bade farewell to her home state and boarded a bus in Charleston, the state capital, settling in for the three-hour ride to Marion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As part of her campaign, Alice Paul wanted to organize a parade in the nation’s capital. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She took them to a secure place the UN had, and they took her and her kids to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The Confederate capital is now in Union hands. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z On April 3, 1865, Richmond, Virginia, capital city of the Confederate States of America, fell to Union forces. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The KGB had just promoted him to rezident of the KGB's London station, putting him in charge of all spying operations in the British capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The Taliban took control of the capital, and Kabul University was closed. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Dunnan said yes, he would; and Shultz then said, “Do you recall being asked whether or not you were averse to capital punishment?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Would she be able to answer correctly should her prospective employers quiz her on, say, the capital cities of midsized European nations? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I’m going to the capital, because I want to be rich and famous.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Oceania has no capital, and its titular head is a person whose whereabouts nobody knows. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Arabs who practiced Islam and spoke Arabic dominated the northern half of Sudan and the capital, Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But with all the power coming from the capital, the mines could be lit up by Mobutu’s own hand, and shut down at the first sign of popular rebellion. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jean de Satigny was looking for a partner to put up the capital, the work, and the stock houses; someone who would run all the risks and divide the profits fifty-fifty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a cardboard box, marked with a capital E in black Sharpie. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When they had left the capital in September 1949, things seemed to be moving at jet speed, but it had been weeks since they had heard an encouraging word. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is about Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and is experiencing this pain with us despite not knowing me or Khalil. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Another crime-drop explanation is often cited in tandem with imprisonment: the increased use of capital punishment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Now be quiet and listen before she makes us do state capitals or something.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The royal family lives here, although the government is based in Amsterdam, the capital. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Suppose that lawyer Bloom latched onto and publicized Kyril Montana’s previous trip to Milagro; suppose a leak developed in the capital— The helicopter was up and about, approaching from the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jaimito called us over to where he was sitting at the dining room table, reading the papers he’d bought in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah yes, Him with a capital H and I don’t mean Mr. Gable. A certain big...bad...British...wolf?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z As we headed up Route 89, Joey said, “My dad told me that this all used to be tangerine groves, as far as the eye could see. It was the tangerine capital of the world.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z From their nervous frowns I could tell that the situation in the capital was grim. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She talked about it in capital letters as if it were a feature at the grocery store. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “The capital of Hungary is Budapest!” she had recited in her mind, in time to the clickity-clack of the train wheels. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The governor himself began to get irritated with Osborne over his repeated attacks on capital punishment—the warden made a point of being out of town whenever an electrocution was scheduled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I went by train to Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Lee knew if he didn’t defend Petersburg, the road to the Confederate capital of Richmond would be wide open. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He is a powerful priest who has returned to the capital city and is treated with the utmost honor and respect for having found the Marked Girl. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Still, I can’t help pondering how my dad never—with a capital NEVER—goes out. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Four years ago he came to the capital to finish a doctorate. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The State's lawyer argued that this was a routine capital murder case and that the death penalty had been appropriately imposed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “This is a boarding school, and the boys are from the capital. Not a single parent has made it here since the attack started.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Right next to Belhaven be the downtown and the state capital. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Ptolemy returned to the capital as a conquering hero. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Until her foreign debts were paid and her credit with the Dutch bankers in Amsterdam restored, the United States would simply not be taken seriously in Europe’s capitals. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Maisels explained the serious implications of such a withdrawal and the consequences of our conducting our own defense in a capital case. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were in New York City, which remained the capital of wartime British America; the rest, including Arnold’s American Legion, were in the South. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “On a capital N. I saw his horns.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn’t ordinary dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The truth, though, is that my father got his first infusion of capital from a ggeh, a Korean “money club” in which members contributed to a pool that was given out on a rotating basis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “That you must do. But I wonder if you will find it any different in the capital. Here, you have friends and me, your brother. There, you will have no one.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z As Ophie and Mrs. Harrison boarded the Capital Express to Pittsburgh, the dead of the nation’s capital grieved. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The words Tsimtsum and Panama were printed on each side of the bow in stark, black, roman capitals. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Dixie Mafia”? I'd met Walter McMillian two weeks earlier, after spending a day on death row to begin work on five capital cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z With one side of my family coming from the dessert capital of the ancient world, I was doomed to have a sweet tooth. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Rainier National Park, it said in bold, capital letters. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Best of all, he informed them, the nation’s capital was healthy enough for Congress to meet there in December, as planned. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Islamist government in Khartoum didn’t make life easy for the Christians who moved to the capital looking for work, food, and housing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z So he surrounded his capital city with a massive wall, about six kilometers long, whose remains stand to this day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was said that he had once been a great priest in the capital city of Cuzco, that he had worked for the mighty Sapa Inca himself. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z One was a lawyer and lobbyist from the state capital of Columbus. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The Union capital would have been completely surrounded by rebel states, isolated from the rest of the North. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Paqo explained to me, “The runners deliver fish from the ocean all the way to the capital city. The emperor enjoys eating freshly caught fish at least once a day.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z From the forests and fisheries and farmlands of an Arcadian state dawned a powerful military capital, a nerve center that had welcomed residents by the hundreds of thousands since the start of the conflict. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He and Leandro were transferred back to the capital the Monday following the murder. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was terrified of that monster of strangeness they called the capital. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z That the Ptolemies maintained a public library suggests that literacy was relatively widespread in the capital, at least among the Greeks. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I knew the assassination had happened in Kinshasa, but my hope was the capital would be the first place the UN would secure and that once I was there I could try my aunt’s house. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Executive Order #13 of the Post-Flares Coalition, by recommendation of the Population Control Committee, to be considered TOP-SECRET, of the highest priority, on penalty of capital punishment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They had come on this chilly Easter Sunday to hear one of the great voices of the time and to demonstrate their support for racial justice in the nation’s capital. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z George was arrested and charged with capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Vancouver is the suicide capital of the country. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z All the rest of us had to leave Gombe and go to Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Grumpy with a capital G,” my father says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was only November, snow blanketed the capital, and temperatures were dropping fast as the long Russian winter set in. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But on Monday night the leaders were taken from their homes and sent to jail in the capital of the province with two-pound irons on their legs. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Is it the part of the police department to harass me when this city is a flagrant vice capital of the civilized world?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington is the capital of the United States of America, or 1 centimetre equals approximately 0.39 inches. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The congressional debate over Hamilton’s financial plan and the location of the national capital had produced total legislative paralysis. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At the end, as he was leaving, the president recited a poem he’d composed on the ride up from the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She should drive down to the capital on the pretense of seeing the exhibit at the Colombian embassy and refuse to leave. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In middle age he was the wealthy, respected man he had wanted to be when he was a struggling adolescent without godfathers and with no greater capital than his pride and ambition. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As early as 1682, William Penn’s colonial government experimented with incarceration as an alternative to corporal and capital punishment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 24, 1940, the Germans attacked London, the capital city of Britain. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that he had been convicted of capital murder, they were downright hostile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Once, on a winter field trip to the Oklahoma state capital, I stepped in an icy puddle. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Talk with Bruno Martinez when he comes in. Better yet, get in touch with Trucho down in the capital. Phis is his sector, isn’t it? Tell him to call me.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They worked on grid paper, using capital letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Oh my gosh, we got all this super cute stock and I am capital D dying over here. Seriously, my paycheck is, like, gone. Bills who?” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The note comes back again, this time written in pencil-grinding capital letters. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In Morocco, I lived with a Moroccan host family in the capital city of Rabat and took classes at the Center for Cross Cultural Learning situated in the old city or medina. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If what comes after the colon is a complete sentence, you may start it with a capital or a lowercase letter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Red Army had held the invasion back from the Soviet capital, but it was the wretched Russian winter that really turned the tables. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Healed in both body and soul, Pedro Tercero Garcia made his way to the capital with a bundle of clothes and a few coins the priest had taken from the poor box. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Christiania is the capital of Norway,” Penelope explained, red-faced. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “I had a capital time. Did you?” asked Jo, rumpling up her hair, and making herself comfortable. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Adams was shocked that an enemy soldier was so strongly against the war he wished he could march in the streets of North Vietnam’s capital city. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Even in the capital cities, the local masters were nothing. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And Mr. Winterbottom was playing the role of Father, with a capital F. He sat at the head of the table with his white shirt cuffs rolled back neatly. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Stagnant water and swampy spots provided the ideal breeding ground for mosquitoes, which spread malaria among the capital's residents during mild weather. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Well, thanks to the Freedom Writers, I got to go to the nation’s capital. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s the candle capital of the world!” she said. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Except I’ll make the “D” capital, so you have to, like, emphasize the second syllable, you know? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He caught a train for Chicago but quickly found that he could not work as a druggist in Illinois until he passed a licensing examination in the state capital in Springfield. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My Nelson would be in school in the capital until the very end of June, out of harm’s way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a country with a 70-percent unemployment rate, the capital offered the most opportunities for work, often as servants for the wealthy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z MDR had claimed the life of a close friend, a priest named Jack Roussin, who had been living and working in a shantytown on the outskirts of Lima, the capital of Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There the path joined up with a larger road going west, overland, toward the capital. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “This little tyrant’s torturing us/” 1957 Friday evening, July 26 The capital I have been a disaster diary keeper. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When Johnny got back with Mr. Lorne, Rab had Mr. Adams’s text in his hands, reading it as a printer reads, thinking first of spacing and capitals, not of the meaning. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeus, trying to hide his love affairs from his wife and invariably shown up, was a capital figure of fun. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Never was I so ashamed of our national capital before,” said Anna Howard Shaw. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Was it perchance some new singer, just lately arrived from a triumphant tour of the capitals of Europe?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Visiting the East Coast or the gray capitals of Europe during the long months of winter, I often meet people at deluxe hotels who comment on my complexion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Visitors in those early years who stopped to ask directions to the American capital were often astonished when told they were standing squarely in its center. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Who'll buy something crazy like that? It’s not nice at all. What happened to you down in the capital?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Five days after Lenin’s death, Petrograd, the former capital of Russia, was renamed Leningrad in his honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Oh,” said Robin, “you have made it look like poetry with red capitals!” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Yet these were only minor cities in their day, whereas London was the greatest commercial capital the world had ever seen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the night of March 2, because of both President Wilson’s inauguration on the fourth and the suffragist parade the next day, hundreds of thousands of people had gathered in the nation’s capital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It did not matter so much that the Virginia-writ-large vision was mostly an illusion; it was a deeply felt illusion that the location of the new capital somewhat appeased. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z My uncle’s daughter had married a man who worked at a bank in the capital. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I’d drive further and further out, pretending to myself that I was running away to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Saturday afternoon, April 28 The capital Honorable Rector, Professors, Fellow Qassmates, Friends, Family, I'm really very touched from the bottom of my heart— Minerva shakes her head. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had Zero write a few more upper- and lowercase A's, and then he moved on to a capital B. This was going to take a long time, he realized. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Beth’s new ‘ink bib’ was capital, and Hannah’s box of hard gingerbread will be a treasure. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m comforted that everyone I speak to is saying that as usual the capital is the safest place to be. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He was almost but not quite smiling, his eyes wide, unibrow raised in a capital M. “Where is your bird?” he asked calmly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There they cut stones and tracery, carved capitals and sculptures in preparation for the return of the masons in the spring. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z It was a typical raw, dark, wintry morning in Moabit, a drab industrial section of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I wish I could have seen Serra before all this, when it was capital of the Scholar Empire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It seems as though everyone has come to the capital to see the decorations at the palace. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I thought the small letter at the start might mean that nothing ever really began all new, with a capital, but that it just flowed on from what came before. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “After all, we have a reputation to uphold in the capital.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At all events, I think we can agree that this was an awfully big thought for a young man staring out the window of a patent office in the capital of Switzerland. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The giving and the taking on the location of the permanent national capital had been positively fierce ever since the question had come before Congress in September of 1789. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The Aztec emperor Montezuma miscalculated even more grossly when he took Cortes for a returning god and admitted him and his tiny army into the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z These sixteen dedicated souls were determined to walk all the way from New York to the nation’s capital, and that is exactly what they did, picking up many other hikers along the way. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “What do you think? It is excellent news—capital news—and about a certain person we all like!” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I also find that he has spoken on behalf of the abolition of capital punishment and contributed generously to research institutions engaged in criminal neurophysiology. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The simplest way is to use a comma and start the question with a capital letter. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Padre de Jesus and Brother Daniel had been down in the capital throughout July conferring with other clergy. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Saturday night, September 18 Tomorrow we leave for the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Failed with a bright-purple capital F. The note from my teacher is burning a hole in my back pocket, and I know I should give it to my parents. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Because the victims were black and poor, this wasn't the kind of case that would usually be prosecuted as a capital crime, but Herbert wasn't local. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Not another word about it. You know what the capital of Sierra Leone is?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I punch in the letter C. Good old Mrs. V and her capital quiz cards! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They took him to the capital, where he died four days later. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a social worker who lived in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, which is 160 miles from the state capital. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z You could always spot visitors to Deliene’s capital by their bewildered looks and crooked necks as they tried to take in all the busy sights of the city on the hill. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z We picked a UN refugee camp near Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, where many of my people have been displaced due to conflict in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Crossing the state line was a capital offense in Georgia; sometimes a master preferred an example over the return of his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the pronunciation advice below, accented syllables appear in capitals. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias put his head in his hands, imagining the havoc these low creatures were about to wreak on his country’s capital. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Like the new capital, it would become an extension of Virginia, or at least the Virginia vision of what the American Revolution meant and the American republic was therefore meant to be. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This was Albany, the capital of the state of New York. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Suppose he should really go to the capital and find no buyer for his pearl. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, prices of critical supplies such as oil, bread, and sugar had risen because of the policies of the government in the capital city of Khartoum. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He memorized the names of countries, their capitals and chief exports. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a Saturday, and Granny took me along to her other gardening job in Pretoria, the capital of apartheid, because she needed help. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z His talent didn’t necessarily reside in a wisdom for capital and markets but rather in an expert and unflinching opportunism, the hunch for the big kill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like his misguided obsession with those Potomac canals, his campaign for a national university in the capital city never bore fruit. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh and his communist allies gained control of North Vietnam, with their capital in Hanoi. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The reason is that upward mobility requires what sociologists describe as the twin pillars of success: human capital and social capital. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was almost jogging as he scribbled his stubby capital letters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z If the Wexford-Smythe paleontologists are right and our little dig turns into a major find, Dad wants to reinvent Chokecherry as the dinosaur capital of North America. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Washington was then president of the United States, and Philadelphia was the temporary capital of the young nation and the center of its federal government. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z West Baltimore was one of the intellectual capitals of the East Coast in the early twentieth century. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Alexandria was the publishing capital of the planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he died, state prosecutors changed the charges against Mr. Dill from assault to capital murder. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Without waiting for the GAC meeting to end, he packed up and left the capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Behind his gentle presentations, Walter had become fiercely opposed to capital punishment, an issue he readily admitted he had never thought about until his own experience confronting it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He'd been living with these people for a year when he overheard Mr. Hoyt tell a friend that he and his family would soon be moving to Munich, Germany, the beer capital of the world. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Luckily, the rain lets up for our drive to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hutu rebels fought for control of the capital, Bujumbura, where Generose and her family lived. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “You ask him a country and he tells you the capital.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “You can read books and tell me the capital of China, but you have no idea how the world works. God only knows how he will find it fit to punish us.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Far off, I could hear the shouts of the children playing with the big, bright beach ball their Tia Elsa had brought them from the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To underscore her authority it is likely that Cleopatra arranged a stop at Memphis—the former capital where the pharaohs of ages past resided. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The important city where lawmakers meet is a capital. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “He happens to be Joe Mondragon’s lawyer, and he also sometimes writes articles for a small monthly paper published in the capital here, The Voice of the People. Maybe you’ve read it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When she gets her bank statement, Mom won’t suspect it’s me who stole from her; Harrisburg is the capital of Pennsylvania and thus must be crawling with big-city criminals. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Ella’s family came up from the Deep South, and she makes it sound like that, like it comes with capital letters. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, we were nomads, far from the capital, Nairobi. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the majority of American law-enforcement officials, Dewey is certain that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime, and he felt that if ever the penalty had been earned, the present instance was it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomas reached in and pulled apart the curtains of ivy, then stared blankly at a square of metal riveted to the stone with words stamped across it in big capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Not so much book smart, even though he did know all forty-eight states and capitals and all the presidents from Washington to Roosevelt. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The next stop after that would be Oslo, the capital of Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1919, Chicago was regarded as the crime capital of the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A few years later, the response to a similar broadcast in Ecuador’s capital was more extreme. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A straightforward sentence that states rather than asks or exclaims something starts with a capital letter and ends with a period. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A little creative lying can draw attention, indignation, and—perhaps most important—the money and political capital to address the actual problem. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the High District there was no alarm at the first partial returns from the provinces, which favored the left, because everyone knew that it was the votes from the capital that would be decisive. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z During the drafting process in the summer of 1796, Washington kept urging Hamilton to insert a separate section on the creation of a national university in the capital city now being constructed on the Potomac. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z An assistant attorney general then presented the State's arguments—capital cases on appeal were managed by the attorney general, not the local district attorney. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Flamenco dancing had no practical application in the closed society prevailing in the capital back then, but Nicolas ran a discreet announcement in the paper offering his services as a teacher of that fiery art. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Because she was facing capital murder charges and a potential death sentence, she made a deal to accept a prison sentence of twenty years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This could only mean that Mark Antony intended to move the capital from Rome to Egypt if the Republic fell into his hands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z And a tough, strutty little man said, “I believe in capital punishment. It’s like the Bible says—an eye for an eye. And even so were two pair short!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Every name an asset, breathing capital, profit made flesh. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps the owners have come up to their country home to avoid the troubles in the capital. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The stock market required figures for profits and loss, capital and turnover. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “What’s the capital of Finland?” my mother asked me, looking at the magazine story. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A likeness pleases every body; and Miss Woodhouse’s performances must be capital. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z Then there are new islands of capital conquest: factories in the Middle West, food-processing plants, tool and die works, lumber and pulp. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z You don’t usually think a single name can have a space and two capitals in it, but mine does. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I went to our capital city HARARE, where I was working as a tea boy at a certain company. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “It is safest to be far away from the capital if war comes here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He would never have been convicted of capital murder if he had just had the money for a decent lawyer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Not a regular one either, a capital crime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It’s sweltering in the capital, and Lourdes wipes her brow repeatedly with a moist cloth she keeps on the seat beside her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Argaven was not sane; the sinister incoherence of his mind darkened the mood of his capital; he fed on fear. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “The heat’s on. Mario’s house is surrounded. My ride to the capital is stopping at the anacahuita tree at dawn. I have to hide out till then.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still called the Capitol Building, for it was once a state capital, back when there were still states—in those days before government became obsolete. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Tomorrow early, they would drive down to the capital and petition for the girls, not that it would do any good. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the state capital, Raleigh, Durham's black community was famous. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The former German capital sat deep inside the zone of Soviet occupation, in the eastern part of Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In many countries it was a capital offense for anyone but the official astrologer to read the portents in the skies: a good way to overthrow a regime was to predict its downfall. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Five capitals and five smalls. After five days I'll know them all. Except on the last day I'll have to do twelve. Six capitals and six smalls." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Whispers are rare, dangerous, and powerful, even among the Silvers, even in the capital. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z In the capitals, people shouted about government and the future. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “This is my cousin,” Mario explains, “just come from the capital to rescue ladies in distress.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The bloodshed and mayhem in the nation’s capital caused shockwaves throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, I can’t believe I’m here in our nation’s capital! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Unlike New York’s other major law firms, all of which have hundreds of attorneys scattered around the major capitals of the world, it operates only out of that single Manhattan building. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In this sense the place was like modern purpose-built political capitals, such as Washington, D.C., or Canberra, Australia, with sanctifying civic monuments to compensate for a lack of real history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Monday morning, October 14 The capital I’ve lost all interest in my studies. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in this skies-forsaken place, I can point unfailingly to where the sun rises and where it sets, to the Empire's capital in the north, Antium, and to Navium, its main port due south. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A thousand feet below lay the old Ottoman capital of Bursa, like a backgammon board spread out across the valley’s green felt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the ebb of their fortunes, this sum was their total capital; yet they laid it unhesitatingly against Matthewson’s six hundred. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z The troubadour phenomenon had been inspired by the example of professional singers in the courts of al-Andalus, Muslim Spain, which had its resplendent capital at Cordoba. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I remember so well loving Addison’s use of capital letters for nouns. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When the war started in 1861, a curfew was established around the capital and strictly enforced. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Among all the other activities, desperate and urgent as they all were, the two sides that were searching for Malcolm and Lyra made their way steadily downstream towards the capital city. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z On July 9 the House passed the Residence Bill, locating the permanent national capital on the Potomac after a ten-year residence in Philadelphia, all this decided by a vote of 32 to 29. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Most of the capital representation resource centers around the country were forced to close. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The fruit stands behind her now, Yolanda approaches a compound very like her family's in the capital. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They say he intends to remake the Austrian town of Linz into an empyrean city, the cultural capital of the world. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The sun was just rising when I got to the capital. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But as we neared the capital, Sinita got more and more quiet. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The city was home to a large laboring class, a small middle class, and even a few millionaires who regularly packed up their wives and children for the Grand Tour of European capitals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z No wonder Dedd has confused Minerva’s exercise and her poem about the falling of night with that sleepless night before their first trip to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Among the perfidious, the name of traitor is capital in itself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked around to find the quickest route within the limits of the honesty in which I had been raised, and I realized that success required godparents, advanced studies, or capital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps we can bring you down to the capital,” he says archly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the first war, Olympus and Othrys were the two rival capitals of the world. Othrys was—” She winced and held her side. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She smiled and held it up for me to see: a square piece of cardboard on which she had printed in capital letters with a jet-black marker: OUT OF ORDER. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He carefully explained that Pyongyang, located about fifty miles south of Camp 14, was the capital of North Korea, the city where all the country’s powerful people lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In April 1975, the North Vietnamese Communists swept down through South Vietnam, heading for the capital, Saigon. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After studying in the Soviet capital of Moscow, he spent much of the 1920s and 1930s traveling through Asia, organizing covert communist groups. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Cities differ from villages in their monumental public works, palaces of rulers, accumulation of capital from tribute or taxes, and concentration of people other than food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Based on that evaluation, the judge allowed the capital murder trial to proceed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A priest at Yambuku decided to try to take her to the city of Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, in order to get her better medical treatment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For all its importance as a source of capital and jobs for a people who lacked both, the Mutual was even more significant as an emblem of racial pride. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Rio de Janeiro, Brazil’s capital city at that time, was the second stop on Roosevelt’s planned tour of South America. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z This conviction is somewhat borne out in the restless movement of Texas capital. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A verdict of guilty in a capital case required a complete proof of guilt, for example the testimony of two witnesses who had seen the crime occur, or a confession. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z PIH brought in engineering teams to stabilize the capital’s badly damaged general hospital, restoring its water and electricity; when medical supplies were trucked in, twelve operating rooms were quickly up and running. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the capital, the earthquake caught Nana in her bed, and even though it was not as strong as in the South, the fright killed her just the same. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bill created dozens of new federal capital crimes, mandated life sentences for some “three-strikers,” and authorized more than $16 billion for state prison grants and expansion of state and local police forces. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The sight of it printed in capital letters on the crinkly page upsets him viscerally. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Other population centers of states outside the capital may also qualify as true cities, which are lacking in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Marina’s home city of Moscow now became the capital of a nation so new that it hadn’t even given itself an official name yet. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Although it never seemed to be part of the conscious intention of either Jefferson or Madison at the time, the isolated location and de novo character of the national capital had even deeper political implications. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When Iceland submitted a bid to host the match, Bobby flew to its capital city, Reykjavik, to inspect the site. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Patria had answered the door and told the officers that her husband and son were away in the capital, but the SIM overran the place anyway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So they took up arms again: on the battlefields, in the classrooms and voting booths, in the nation’s capital—and in the offices of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The first reports to reach the Japanese capital of Tokyo were panicked and sketchy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! then—some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to——You shall try it some day. Do your sisters play and sing?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Land, not fluid forms of capital, was their ultimate measure of wealth. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I was confusedly looking for a bus to the capital when I bumped into a passerby. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It had not been easy for him to arrive at this decision, to convince his family, and to make the long trip to the capital alone and without a centavo to speak with the patron. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No one from the TLA had stepped forward to take control, and the capital was falling apart. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It should be no surprise that now Josef Stalin was determined that his own Red Army was going to invade and capture Berlin, Hitler’s capital city in Germany. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001, and threats of terrorism and global conflict seemed to disrupt the progress toward a repeal of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Kyril Montana had also helped Bud out of one ticklish situation involving federally controlled interstate land sales in which Bud had become embroiled during his earlier days when he was based in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court began insisting that federal judges defer more to state court rulings, which tended to be more indulgent of errors and defects in capital proceedings. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He vowed to find them once again on the streets of the capital city, and next time, he would be ready. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So it wasn’t capital punishment that drove crime down, nor was it the booming economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z According to one story, he demanded that the people of the city of Canopus abandon their homes to settle in the new capital. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Brahmins urged him to go to the nation’s capital to make his mark in politics. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I sat on the carpet for a while as Radar read to me more about New York, about the Catskill Mountains, about the nation’s capital, about the concert at Woodstock in 1969. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z And even though I’d rather take the elevator by myself, it occurs to me that you can’t have a conversation about math expressions or state capitals or trombone positions with friends in books. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Within days the Taliban streamed into the city of Buner, a town just south of Swat, only sixty miles from the capital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She says why keep her promesa when Mama and Papa still won’t let her go to law school in the capital? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Slabs functions as the seasonal capital of a teeming itinerant society—a tolerant, rubber-tired culture comprising the retired, the exiled, the destitute, the perpetually unemployed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And if illegal use of Indian Creek water brought down the wrath of the gods in the state capital, so be it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Why would he go to the capital city? The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Down in the capital. He was running away from an arrest.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His name was Mr. Pirzada, and he came from Dacca, now the capital of Bangladesh, but then a part of Pakistan. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The capital of Russia, Saint Petersburg, was renamed Petrograd in 1914 because “burg” sounded too German. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She wrote slowly and neatly, knowing that Dustfinger found it easier to read capital letters. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Denver, the capital of Colorado, has a capitol with a gold- plated dome. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “What fun you’d have! I wish I could run off too,” said Jo, forgetting her part of mentor in lively visions of martial life at the capital. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, most Americans believed that if an exposition honoring the deepest roots of the nation were to be held anywhere, the site should be Washington, the capital. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Now it was confirmed: the red light from its eye cast a creepy glow on six capital letters smeared across the torso, as if they had been written with blood: WICKED. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The governor had already been forced to alert the National Guard once during his tenure in office, to deal with barrio disturbances in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Saturday night, July 21 The capital What a happy day today looked to be. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of sheets of scratchy pale yellow paper he writes out his pet name again and again, and the alphabet in capitals and lowercase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Due to the unseasonably warm weather, they’d foregone sleeping in tents—which gave her an unparalleled view of the capital. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Excited to live in a place of their own, the family loaded their belongings—including a horse named Mack—into the back of a neighbor’s catde truck and pushed off for Alabama’s capital city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z While his guilt wasn't really in question, there were persuasive reasons why this case should not have been a capital murder case, above and beyond the absence of a specific intent to kill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The first night she brought out a story about a three-year-old boy who knew the capitals of all the states and even most of the European countries. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If they say we live in the shadow of the nation’s capital, then how could one missing girl flip it inside out? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z One single bombing raid over Japan’s capital of Tokyo set off a firestorm that killed 100,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Acllahuasi in the capital city was where most of the Sun Maidens dwelled. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I knew Martin lived in Mutare—not in the capital, Harare, but still. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In this church capital dominates and I don’t mean chicken feed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I had had similar requests put to me in Eastern European capitals. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sugah,” Lillian cooed, “the reason the children know all those capitals is because you threatened to kill them if they didn’t learn them.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She tries to hum all the states and the capitals. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Eva and I regrouped and decided to start again in Montgomery, the state capital. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On an October day in 1753, Robert Dinwiddie, Royal Governor of His Majesty’s Colony of Virginia, sat in his office in Williamsburg, the capital of Virginia, reading the latest reports from the frontier. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In Montgomery, the capital of Alabama, I encountered a new atmosphere. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Grand capitals, in bright red ink, announce the beginning of each new chapter. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1794, while touring the terrain around the new national capital that would bear his name, he badly wrenched his back while riding. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At one point, some of us kids were taken to the Congolese embassy in the capital of Burundi to take final exams. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As he walked the streets of Japan’s capital, Mishima could feel the agonizing suspense in the air; he could see it in passing faces. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The German blitzkrieg drove deep into Soviet territory, capturing millions of soldiers and quickly approaching the Soviet capital of Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z If the United States backed down here, in Hitler's former capital, who would trust it to stand up to Stalin anywhere else? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Or the decision to locate the national capital on the Potomac was a backroom deal involving so many secret bargains and bribes that no one would ever unravel the full story. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1950, nearly three in five black women in Montgomery, Alabama’s capital city, worked as maids for white families, and almost three-quarters of employed black men mowed lawns and did other kinds of unskilled labor. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z There was unemployment in the North, and in the capital the effects of the distant war were still being felt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote everything out on the whiteboard, in thick, capital letters. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Instead, the truck continued on to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, passing through a hellish landscape of burned-out villages and rotting corpses along the way. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I sailed alone,” she says, “to the capital of the entire province.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We made the trip to the capital in two cars. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Back then, more than five years earlier, the capital city was mired in corruption, with crumbling roads and buildings, slums in the middle of the city. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In late December 1938, in the German capital of Berlin, a chemist named Otto Hahn set up a new experiment in his lab. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After all,with Washington as president, Jefferson as secretary of state, Edmund Randolph as attorney general—he might have added Madison as dominant presence in the Congress—Virginia's interests were hardly unrepresented in the capital. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She handed her mother an oversized tan bag covered in capital Cs all facing different directions. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “Yes, absolutely. Not like a heaven where you ride unicorns, play harps, and live in a mansion made of clouds. But yes. I believe in Something with a capital S. Always have.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Betancourt has accused the Dominican government of being involved in the attempt on his life that occurred in the capital city of Caracas, June 24. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Potomac location for the permanent capital had, in fact, already been secured. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “An audience at the court? Why the riddle-talk, my friend? Why do you not say, ‘I am going to the capital—to Songdo’?” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Despite living next to each other, people continued to speak their different languages and wear their different clothing and look for inspiration and instruction from their different capitals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps because it contains some of Japan’s best agricultural land, where super-expensive Kobe beef is raised today, and where Japan’s ancient capital was located at Kyoto until the capital’s shift to Tokyo in 1868. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time she stalked out of Dona Luz headquarters two hours later, having been badgered unmercifully and then vindicated at least partially by rent-a-car records in the capital, Abby was fuming. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to her computer and found a Web page that listed every U.S. state and capital. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The teacher's reaction led me to believe that these mistakes were capital crimes in the country of France. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I want to walk home with you and talk about US’—put ‘us’ in capitals—‘my darling. Love and kisses, Willard Hughes.’ Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Eventually Shorty said, “You don’t suppose, do you, that it might have something to do with that Secret Service baboon your friends in the capital sent up here, do you?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Knut Haukelid took a train to the capital city of Oslo. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It was risky to be out of our car at all in this part of the capital. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The police came up from the capital, The woods were crawling with coppers, But Don Jose was invisible, Even to the noisy choppers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘But the Tate Modem’s different. It’s an old power station. With a vast chimney. And Tall with a capital T.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the most beautiful night in the history of the capital. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A seventeenth- century globe as big around as a small car, with rubies to mark volcanoes, sapphires clustered at the poles, and diamonds for world capitals. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then they sealed the box again with a new label and the first thing on the following day it was taken to the capital of the province. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z And sure enough it was not only there, but also—Bernabe having checked his watch with the time-of-day recording on the free long-distance line to Sierra Bell’s castle in the capital—right on time. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was spring of the Year One in Erhenrang, capital city of Karhide, and I was in peril of my life, and did not know it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time they reached the Salcedo Fortaleza and were seen by someone in authority, they were told the young llorona with the long braid had been transferred to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His small but childish handwriting straggled up and down the page, shedding first its capital letters and finally even its full stops: April 4th, 1984. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Granted, no great capital is just the sum of her institutions and monuments. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Sincerely, Benton Ezekiel Sage Benton was able to mail his letter in Addis Ababa, the capital, and listed Rameel’s church as the return address. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I’m using my little flashlight Tía Mari gave me, as the electricity is out again all over the capital today. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z So he begged his father for bread, received two hundred dollars by return mail, and, early one morning, he clambered joyfully aboard a Trailways bus bound for the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth assumed that the day would unfold as the latest in a blur of days that had begun on April 3 when the Confederate capital, Richmond, fell to the Union. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Abraham Lincoln’s murder transformed a time of rejoicing in the capital to a time of mourning. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The mood in the nation’s capital has turned festive since the fall of Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He conquered Egypt in 331 BCE and mapped out the plan for a new capital city that would bear his name. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Besides the material on chinchillas, he also brought from the capital the popular wartime booklets that had been created to propagate the image of the heroic soldier, and sentimental novels he had bought for Blanca. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We have to get the size fixed in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They consulted Jack Neylan, who phoned his close friend Lewis Strauss to take the temperature of the capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z During the next two days, white mobs went on a rampage the likes of which had never been seen in the nation’s capital. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Tennessee and upheld the rights of states to present evidence about the character of the victim in a capital sentencing trial. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The difference, however, is that wages and rents in Bangalore are less than one-fifth what they are in those Western capitals. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Someone had pointed out the house to her the last time she was in the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In over fifty miles to the capital there were more than fifteen checkpoints and the soldiers were unmerciful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Now she snapped photographs with John's camera wherever she went, creating a visual map of the Russian capital for the CIA. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He has received orders to send Papa down to the capital for questioning. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The pictures of the mob reminded me of news footage from some besieged African capital. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We wandered about all the way to the Cotton Tree, the national symbol of Sierra Leone and the landmark of the capital. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I just will, though, for it’s capital, so shady, light, and big. It will make fun, and I don’t mind being a guy if I’m comfortable.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to drive her crazy by writing the whole thing in capital letters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A financial customer might be reasonably familiar with the world of investments and still have to puzzle over what a company brochure means by “capital changes and rights.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “My pearl is not for sale here. I will go, perhaps even to the capital.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The countries were arranged by continent, six to a page, with the capitals in boldface, followed by a short entry on the population, government, and other statistics. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Capturing Lee’s army is of the utmost importance, but both Grant and Lincoln also believe that a Confederacy without a capital is a doomsday scenario for the rebels. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, the CIA was totally unprepared to "run" an informant in the capital city of its mortal enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We are driving around in the rain in San Francisco, getting our last- minute errands done before we leave for the capital this afternoon to petition for Papa’s release. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Although a capital trial can be quite grim, our spirits were generally high. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s good to think he may have made his way south down the long leg of Italy and found human companionship in a village or small hill town, safely remote from the capital. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Minerva says everyone in the whole capital turns to it before the news. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Patria was still in the capital, and Dedd’s little one was sick, and so she was home, taking care of him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A sachet of magic powders to ward off the evil eye when I go to the capital. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They with a capital T. There’s Them and then there’s Us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “You’re a good boy. When did you return from the capital?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, as far as I’m concerned, it’s the capital of Adirondack furniture. Look at that house!” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Around the time of my tenth birthday, the Pakistani Army led a siege of a women’s madrasa in Islamabad, our nation’s capital. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Someplace else is now the tangerine capital of the world. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Aptly, it had its first performance in Baku, capital of Soviet Azerbaijan and home to the Caspian fleet. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A death-barge came down the river to the capital, since rivers were the highways of the day, and it was moored beneath the palace wall. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun hadn’t quite set when we drove into Jalalabad, capital of the state of Nangarhar, a city once renowned for its fruit and warm climate. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “It’s an odd sign, no? Have you heard about anything unusual happening in the capital?” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Which in this case, Joe figured, was tantamount to being singled out to be a human target on the state police pistol range down in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All they knew was that the NVA moved closer to the city every day, eager to take over the capital of South Vietnam and declare victory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He was a former schoolteacher from the capital who had moved to Ville Rose, as far as anyone could tell, to get drunk. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Supreme Court had grown impatient with challenges to capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Not satisfied with one,” the other rejoined in an offended voice, “but must try and make capital out of charity.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know the capital of Arkansas, and I don’t care. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z And yes, a big letter is called a capital because it’s important. chord/cord. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “She knew the Drevlians would kill him, so she acted first. She sent troops to the Drevlian capital and burned it to the ground, leaving no one alive.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z In the corner was a cursive capital W. She had studied the twins’ penmanship notebooks to make sure she got it right. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Arresting someone for coming forward with credible evidence that challenged the reliability of a capital murder conviction? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Dedd and Mama had gone to the capital to make their rounds. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I began my recitation with the high spots—Thimphu, the capital; Mongar, a town in the east— and finished the cities before naming the monasteries. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z ‘There is panic in the capital! Two nights ago, twenty-six of my loyal subjects disappeared! My whole country is in in a panic!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine black teenagers trying to integrate all-white Central High School had turned the states capital city into a military battleground. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So when Leandro moved to the capital to coordinate the cells there, I mentioned the Suarezes to him as a likely couple. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't really know anything about capital punishment and hadn't even taken a class in criminal procedure yet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I was glad to be driving sedately at twenty-five miles an hour through vast, straight-furrowed grainlands, under an even gray sky, towards a capital whose government believed in Order. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z A year later in Alabama’s capital city, Montgomery, Rosa Parks refused to surrender her seat to a white man and move to the back of a city bus. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever colored person in Jackson gets in front a whatever tee-vee set they can find, watches Martin Luther King stand in our nation’s capital and tell us he’s got a dream. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The way he said these words, I knew they had capital letters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Monday afternoon, September 27 The capital What a huge, exciting place! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a skill like being able to name all the capitals and principal products of South America or recite Scripture or walk on top of a fence. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z With every hour that passed, Philadelphia shed the appearance of a ghost city and looked more and more like the capital of the United States. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Herbert was advised to deny any culpability but ultimately argued that this was reckless murder, not capital murder, which could be punished with life imprisonment but not the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “No, we don’t believe in capital punishment for the genetically damaged.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lawrence exploited to the limit the free labor of graduate students, an important key to low-cost operation of the enormous piece of capital equipment he was erecting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Nairobi—the name of the capital city, in the south—is a Maa word that means “cold.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court prohibited jurors from hearing “victim impact” statements because they were too inflammatory and introduced arbitrariness into the capital sentencing process. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z New York was the nation’s capital of cultural and social refinement, and its leading citizens and newspapers never let Chicago forget it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or rather, since Christians are so fond of capital letters, a Story. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One newspaper editor had sagely, if cynically, observed that “the usual custom is for the capital of new empires to be selected by the whim or caprice of a despot.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The last of April, 1964, I flew to Beirut, the seaport capital of Lebanon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The geographic location of the new capital played to these pretensions by making it the physical projection of Virginia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z On Sunday, June 25, 1950, the spy George Blake sat in a church service in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z After all, Hamilton reasoned, the government would not automatically cease functioning if an enemy army captured the capital. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z When he arrived in the nation’s capital, he made his way through the noise and lights to headquarters. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z 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 So even in a death penalty advocate’s best-case scenario, capital punishment could explain only one twenty-fifth of the drop in homicides in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Believe me, that creep is trouble with a capital T.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “A major manufacturer of androids,” he said thoughtfully, “invests its surplus capital on living animals.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z When they got to the part mentioning our president, Metias stood and saluted in the direction of the capital. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I suppose he saw me glancing about the room in search of some tokens of Shipping, or capital, for he added, “In the City.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z In the capital city of Stockholm, he took warm baths and put on clean clothes and ate in brightly lit restaurants. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She could live far from Rifthold, the capital that had once been her realm. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Early on the morning of October 24, he walked the streets of the capital with Henry Wallace, the secretary of commerce. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He accumulates some capital and goes into a business venture with his sons. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Social capital usually means emotional support and encouragement from a reliable stakeholder in one’s life, an asset commonly associated with marriage that is itself a form of wealth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I use a capital when I want to be more emphatic: My advice was this: Bring only one next time. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. V then looked up the capitals of all the major countries in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “What if the Population Police stop you before you get to the capital?” he asked. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z And yet the laws and customs governing segregation in the nation’s capital weren’t nearly as strict as those in the cities of the Deep South. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I would feel this way right through, even as first-trimester fatigue left me drained, as my job stayed busy and Barack continued making his weekly treks to the state capital. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z No, it was not politeness; “I” is a capital and “you” is lower-case. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day, Mr. Lawson writes “Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol” in capital letters on the board, draws a box around it, then writes the dates of the author’s birth and death in parentheses. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Though still weak from his bout with hepatitis, he spent some time in the capital trying to share what he’d learned in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Sunday evening, December 11 The capital We just got back from marching in the opening ceremony for the World’s Fair, and my feet are really hurting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After much hardship a few of our millions had arrived together at the capital. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ethiopians had both been schooled in Cairo, and they were living in Ryadh, the political capital of Arabia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Along the spine of the Andes the empire set up a string of a dozen administrative centers that were like smaller versions of the capital. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The federation president gave Bobby a deed for more than an acre of land in Elista, his capital city. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With my big feet and pencil body, I looked like a capital L walking down the road. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, he said, you’re bound to have the cough when you live in Limerick because this is the capital city of the weak chest and the weak chest leads to the consumption. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In Iran, if you convert from Islam to Christianity or Judaism, it’s a capital crime. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He had just re-turned from a vacation in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Coach Warner, you may be interested in this information. This is from the Tangerine Times, August first: ‘Tangerine County is the lightning-strike capital of the United States. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly, he wanted John Quincy located in one of the diplomatic capitals of Europe as his own personal listening post. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And so I thought of a way for Nelson to be in the capital, under supervision so he wouldn’t be running wild with women or his rebel uncles. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Protests in the capital and in smaller cities happened almost every day. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “That is capital,” added her sister, and they both laughed heartily. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was held August 28, 1963, attracting as many as three hundred thousand people to the nations capital. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Alabama is among the growing list of states that make the murder of a person under the age of fourteen a capital offense punishable by the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I did not put capital letters in the middle of the sentences. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Regarding Europe as the world’s intellectual capital, the intrigued Lund sent most of the skeletons to a museum in his native Copenhagen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once, the city had a number of spiritualists, real and pretend, but the capital had lost its penchant for séances and the paranormal. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Although the reservation’s capital then seemed a small, squalid place—a “muddy little trading post,” as one visitor described it—it was likely the biggest settlement Mollie had ever seen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We turned onto International Drive, the tourism capital of the world. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z She had reached the capital when she was only fifteen, arriving at the house of a generous godmother who helped her for a while. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z King Pellinore dosed his eyes tight, extended his arms in both directions, and announced in capital letters, “Whoso Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Right- wise King Born of All England.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If the capital had its dangers, it had plenty of pleasures, too. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 Only in the capital could servants have done such fine work. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z It was the boldness of the capital letters more than the words that frightened her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For the Germans, the big targets were the cities of Leningrad, the old imperial capital in the north, which had been the birthplace of the Soviet Union, and the new capital in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z These dramatic questions, as much as the location of the capital on the Potomac, were the residual legacies of the dinner at Jefferson’s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I learned the capitals of all forty-eight states, and when my mother called out the name of the state, I snapped back the name of the city. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Princesse got a scholarship for college in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Even if they did freakishly decide to follow me to the capital, what would I do, parade with them down war-torn streets and hope people would be nice to us? Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead, of saying it, I write it at the top of my paper in capital letters. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When my father and I had passed through Bucharest on our way to America, the Ripper had been the talk of the capital. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Similarly, President Reagan may believe that Copenhagen is in Norway, but even though Copenhagen equals the capital of Denmark, it can’t be concluded that Reagan believes the capital of Denmark is in Norway. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned my head to the side a bit and studied the brand on my face; for the first time, studied it hard: the capital / that proclaimed my insolent manners and crimes. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The Little City was what we called the demons’ Sacramento, the provincial capital up to the north. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t appear much different to me than they did twenty years before; they looked just as tall, as venerable, the capital of my father’s life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Durham’s nervous black elites, loath to push the white power structure too far, were willing to expend considerable political capital over education. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z El Genius thought it looked classy for DeLeon to be spelled as one word, with a capital letter in the middle. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Toward the capital or, if that route looked too dangerous, wherever took me away from the soldiers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He printed a capital A, and then Zero copied it on his sheet of paper. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We decided on “F cubed”—which stood for “Finding Fun and Friends”—with a white capital F and a white superscript three on an orange background. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z In recent times the hotel had acquired a certain prestige among tourists, and people traveled from the provinces to the capital just to see it and go back and tell their friends about it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But what gets me down is never having any capital to fall back upon. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The “secesh” community—those Southern secessionist sympathizers living a secret life in the nation’s capital—is in disarray. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Figure 4.44: The major key for each key signature is shown as a capital letter; the minor key as a small letter. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Perhaps I will tell her in a future day, but presently this is dangerous knowledge, capital material, which can only serve to place her within the reach of hazard, even more than she is now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Gold leaf illumined the capitals and the delicate tracery which bordered the pages. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Sunday evening, July 28 Last night in the capital Until today, I was planning to go back to Ojo de Agua with Mama since my summer session is also over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia was alone only this once: when she was four, and her mother put her on the daybreak train bound for the capital. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe, and in the capitals of Asia and Africa, people devoured the particulars of the Little Rock crisis. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A year later British forces struck even harder, overwhelming the Cherokee and destroying their capital, Etchoe. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Bryan," he said at some point during our short flight, “capital punishment means 'them without the capital get the punishment.' We can't help people on death row without help from people like you." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The guardsmen were forced to wait outside the gate of Tres Marias until they received an order from the capital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack Neylan was concerned that the demands of Washington service would expose Berkeley’s faculty star to the no-win politics of the nation’s capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As we headed out of London by the dismal Westway, he gave me his condensed version: no property law, therefore no capital, therefore no wealth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We boarded the bus in late afternoon and rode with-out incident to Selma, where I had a long layover before taking another bus into the state capital. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out, this special person is also studying law in the capital, although he’s two years ahead of her. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hollywood was a place where kids like us were making it Big, with a capital B. Jackie Cooper. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Ambrosio said, “Come again? When are you gonna learn how to talk, cousin? Why don’t you go down to the capital and buy some wooden teeth? Say that once more.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “A woman with a mind of her own. So you want to study in the capital, eh?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He said this in boldface type, capital letters. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The king said he would not accept Walter coming to see him anywhere else but in the capital. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I imagine,” said the darkness, in a feminine voice as soft as coffin lining, “that she meant Night, with a capital N. After all, I am the only one.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “That is the capital. My brothers have taken Kinshasa. That is far away.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had a long way, over fifty miles, to get to Conakry, the capital, so I walked fast to take another bus that would get me there. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Some said he wanted to move the capital to Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z |
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