| 单词 | capture |
| 例句 | In their view, Aristotelian forms were ghostly presences; you could never capture them, but they were always being added into the explanation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Is it like all the happiness in the world gets captured for a second and then you can’t hold it in anymore so you let it out in a big burst? King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z French officials made sure that French markings on the cannon were removed in case the British captured them in battle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I click and click and capture us the way we really are right now. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But what if Byrne, in capturing Bobby’s queen, wound up in a weakened position that left him less able to attack the rest of Bobby’s forces and less able to protect his own? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z German forces captured Norway and Denmark in April 1940, then turned against France, the Netherlands, and Belgium, forcing all three to surrender within a month. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Too bad there was no way to capture the wharf smell in a jar to take with me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “They won’t give up until they capture this village. They want our food and ammunition.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z How can you recapture it when you have never captured it to begin with? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z How I will convince them, where we will go in the dead of winter, what it will take to evade capture are unanswered questions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z His first step was to capture our interest, and he did this by fashioning a telescope from a camera tripod and a pair of binoculars. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He notified the Rosenwald Committee that he’d accept their invitation to compete for the United States Championship—the prelude, he hoped, to eventually capturing the World Championship as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps wearing a disguise, you would look around the bank and observe security guards, cameras, and other obstacles, so you could plan how to avoid capture or death during your burglary. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Once she had captured all the children, Leopard tied up their mouths and wrapped them in leaves. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Duke was captured after the battle of Richmond and spent a few months as a prisoner before being released at war’s end. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When he got near us, we captured the poor pig, slaughtered it, and then built a fire and ate roast pork underneath the stars. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That was how they managed to capture it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z It is perhaps conceivable that a planet could survive the evolution of a star into a pulsar; or a planet could be captured at a later time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra obeyed, half happy, half apprehensive, for Ma Costa had hands like bludgeons, and now she was sure: it was their boat she had captured with Roger and the other collegers. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The trial captured national attention and helped convince the public of the importance of academic freedom. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z A dream couldn’t possibly capture the intensity of this moment. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Madison’s position on slavery captured the essence of what might be called “the Virginia straddle.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s not that I hate doing anything active, but in elementary school, PE meant going out on the blacktop in your regular clothes and playing softball or capture the flag. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The British could have captured most of the American army, including General Washington! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The most popular explanation I hear is the one captured in this cartoon: Good start. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Winston Churchill, the British prime minister himself, sent warnings based on captured German codes to the Soviet government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Minos invaded the country, captured Athens and declared that he would raze it to the ground unless every nine years the people sent him a tribute of seven maidens and seven youths. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Could a fifteen-year-old girl manage to elude capture on the streets for forty-eight hours? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z But I still hope she has come to no harm and has not been eaten by ogres or captured by bandits or caught fire or fallen into bad company, as I often imagine. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My imagination is captured by the bright shining light, but I don’t understand the vastness of the sky. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys used it to jump their bikes to the other side, where they eventually captured the Queen Locust. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It was the horses that captured his attention. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Herold was a good enough navigator during the daylight, but not under cloak of darkness, and not haunted by the fear of capture. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she limped swiftly off in the direction of Redwall with the captured plans. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z At first many of the slaves working sugar plantations in the Mediterranean were Russians, or anyone captured in war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He directed her to capture smaller things: a seedling pine reaching upward from a crevice; a stone balanced on a tree stump. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds- barred approach to capturing it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But, somehow, successfully capturing the power-up has glitched me into the tournament. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Each stamp is a snapshot of a story, of one thin slice of history captured like an ant in amber. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But even though there are hundreds of photos and dozens of videos, they don’t begin to capture all the memories of our trip. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z That was all I did for three days before we left for the new base we had captured. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Lamphere's team soon turned up a document from the Gestapo—the Nazi secret police—that had been captured during the war and had fallen into the hands of the FBI. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The jails were packed to capacity.1 Reporters and photographers captured in undeniable images the confrontation between the children and the police. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “They captured Bologna during the night, sir. Is the mission canceled ?” “What are you talking about, Black?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Campbell told what the German experience with captured American enlisted men had been. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been captured and briefly detained by the captain, only to be released by him for lack of physical evidence and reliable witnesses. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “A very quick-witted agent of ours was able to deal with the murderer and capture the instrument. It’s in that box under the lamp.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The Special Branch of the police now made it their number one mission to capture members of MK, and they would spare no effort to do so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of Confederate deserters were captured by the Union forces, and they said that another Confederate general, James Longstreet, had come to Lee’s defense with massive reinforcements. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z When Davis was subsequently captured by Union forces, he was told he could go free if he revealed the name of the person who had given him the information. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge bounties are offered for information leading to our capture. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to capture whole, for they break and tatter under the touch. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When Billy came out of the shrubbery, his face wreathed in goofy good will, they menaced him with their machine pistols, as though they were capturing him then. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Thalia and Luke had gotten captured, and Annabeth had had to cut them free. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z These were the books captured on the Mars and auctioned off to Dr. Stearns! Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Not once during the three days following his capture had an image of what he had done come into his mind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Our interest arises no doubt from the remnant of a primitive belief that an image captures not merely the likeness but also the soul of a sitter. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sixteen policemen pointed him out as “the man we captured, Bigger Thomas.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z John Andre was captured while attempting to serve as a British spy in league with Benedict Arnold to produce a major strategic debacle on the Hudson River at West Point. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Those barbed legs were perfect for capturing and killing prey. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s about a Republic girl who captures a Colonies spy. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z 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 The CIA stashed rubles, gold coins, and even jewelry in the emergency kit for pilots to bargain with in case they were captured. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s not that the concepts eloquently captured by Metcalfe’s law were entirely new; networks had been developing, and their potential significance were defined in the latter half of the century. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z ‘They is always invisible until they is captured,’ the BFG told her. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to entertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As predicted, Cleopatra’s overpowering personality, incalculable wealth, and persuasive speech put Mai Antony’s fears to rest and captured his heart. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z When you have to capture a life in just eight hundred words, you have to choose those words carefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The detective raised his gun, but something shifted in the shadows beyond the chair and captured his attention. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “The idea that you could capture the second soul in a jar? Gives me the quivers.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was clear that the pursuers intended to capture them, not kill them, for a burst of gunfire just then would have finished both of them in a second. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the two hours that he had been cruising the French Quarter, he had captured no one. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Through her tears, she sang a sad song, about how a girl who lived in a cave was captured by a wicked cannibal. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He’d captured her in so much vibrant detail, even sitting here in the near-dark with just a flashlight app, that she knew: He’d been watching her even when she hadn’t noticed. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z One pound of CFCs can capture and annihilate seventy thousand pounds of atmospheric ozone. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was able to forget how much danger we were in, and how that very day we had nearly been captured by wights and devoured by a hollow, our meat-stripped bones spat off a mountainside. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Was it only reluctantly that Dumbledore set out to capture the man he was once so delighted he had met? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It wasn’t anything to do with the captured Heinkel bomber; it was just an ordinary air raid, the Luftwaffe doing their worst to try to destroy British defenses. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “They captured her and put her in a box and shipped her off and here she is. Just like they did with Stella.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The Patrol Force ambushed the gangs and hauled the captured members into police headquarters. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Communists captured Father, so why would any pilot choose their side? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z All the architects, including Sullivan, seemed to have been captured by the same spell, although Sullivan later would disavow the moment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They had been seized from thousands of captured, imprisoned, and dead men. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “This is where he and his friend were captured, right?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z If I were captured, the best I could hope for would be to die soon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “And now a giant has captured him,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Lombardy had captured the World Junior Championship by winning every game, and he was a formidable player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He has captured the sun, given a blessing to the world, a benediction of color. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A good painting would not only capture the old man’s features but also his moods and personality. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z ‘I have heard so much about the great Percy Jackson. The giants are quite obsessed with capturing you. I must say . I don’t see what the fuss is about.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly the secretary’s Lewis Powell after his capture, under , . . guard at the Washington Navy Yard. son Frederick Stands at the top of the stairs, blocking Powell’s path. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z We killed most of them and captured a few whom we brought back to base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z How will I capture learners’ attention and engage them? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “That’s all very well, but how are we going to scale the wall into the Abbey grounds? If Cluny has captured Redwall, he’s bound to have sentries posted upon the ramparts.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Now, this will be an easy village for the rebels to capture,” Jumah said, laughing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The flowers I’m trying to capture are more delicate than this. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Assuming you don’t incinerate all record of me when you’re done with it, what I’d love to capture, to trap here for eternity in amber, is how exciting it was to come here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z That could add to the danger of the mission to capture Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s a captured lad from a bomber crew going to know about a wrecked reconnaissance aircraft?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I don’t know if it will be much help to you,” said Mr. Flux, “but a camera like this is special. It will capture the best time of your life. Doesn’t that sound wonderful?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Did you, perhaps," he said "capture this demigod near the galley?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I had always known that arrest was a possibility, but even freedom fighters practice denial, and in my cell that night I realized I was not prepared for the reality of capture and confinement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The poor suffered in the squalor that Charles Dickens was capturing so well in his serialized novels. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The day before, at the decisive Battle of Five Forks, Union General Phil Sheridan and 45,000 men had captured a pivotal crossing, cutting off the main road to North Carolina. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There was, however, a second group of criminals, those who realized that capture meant, for various past performances, death, and these, without exception, resisted. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Polyneices, the one who attacked it, had the better right to it, but the younger, Eteocles, was fighting for Thebes, to save her from capture. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Their prey were seals, shellfish, nesting seabirds, and fish that could be captured by hand or with clubs and required no more elaborate technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From the 1890s onwards, Edison’s wax- cylinder recording devices were being used all over the world, capturing for ever the oral and musical culture of communities now long disappeared. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Azor Ahai captured a lion, to temper the blade by plunging it through the beast's red heart, but once more the steel shattered and split. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She said she was the mother of our host and that the people in the village had found out about us and were on their way to capture us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I have to escape, or die, because if I’m captured they will have my father, and they will make him do terrible things.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Sharks stay in constant motion. It’s hard to capture that,” she said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet even suggested capturing what was stealing the seeds by setting up a steel cage. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Seth had done his best, but he and Grandma had been captured. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She tortured herself with the idea that they might capture him alive, and invoked the spirit of her grandmother to ask her to prevent that from happening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The reporters leap forward into the crowd that surrounds Soheil, their phone cameras capturing the chaos. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Words scratched on a page trying to capture a reality that overwhelmed me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I turn in time to catch Rufus snapping a photo of me; capturing moments really is his thing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Marco pauses, looking down at the sketch, annoyed that he could not properly capture the beauty of the thing in hastily rendered drawings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m supposed to figure out how to turn the capture of the missing prince of Faerie to my advantage. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Prophecy and sight... I’d be unstoppable. I could own this city. I’d build my palace here, surrounded by food trucks. I could capture that harpy myself!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As Milligan passed through the cafeteria, the whole place erupted in applause for the Executives and Recruiters, then horrible boos and jeers for the captured spy. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Brown was captured alive, swiftly tried, and sentenced to be hanged a month hence. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Harpers Ferry itself changed hands eight times during the war, though the record in this regard belongs to Winchester, Virginia, a few miles south, which managed to be captured and recaptured seventy-five times. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He paid no attention to their sorrow, though, as he knew that he would be able to capture the snake and bring it back to the village. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She turned, her suddenly spectacular eyesight capturing every nook and nub of each tree, and she realized that there were indeed tall shadows rushing along on either side of her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But Anthony knew how to capture their attention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It lasted only an instant before vanishing into the abyss of his other captured memories. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Except it’s not the Goldengrove anymore, because the hobgoblin king and queen have captured the fairy princess whose laughter makes the sun rise. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z She’d never been to the Smithsonian with Percy....Then she recalled several years ago, when the Titan Atlas had captured her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I was captured prisoner by the blackhearted, southron, faithless King of the Dragon, and then, in spite of it that she had three beautiful daughters already whatever.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He wants to make more portraits again; he decides he’s most passionate about capturing people. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My fear is mixed oddly with excitement at the thought that I will get to see Lio if he, too, has been captured. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He captures snowflakes, tadpoles, hibernating frogs; he coaxes bread from bakers with none to sell; he regularly appears in the kitchen with fresh milk for the babies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then we could have ordered the Inca army to capture the gold-crazed conquistadors and saved the Inca civilization, and history would have been different. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They would be safe for the night in the captured warren and the following day he himself and Vervain would be able to return to Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Inca Empire also had a centralized political organization, but that actually worked to its disadvantage, because Pizarro seized the Inca chain of command intact by capturing Atahuallpa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If he captures you, he will beat you too, all naked.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It captured the hopes and dreams of the people and acted as a blueprint for the liberation struggle and the future of the nation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In another was a cyanide tablet, in case he needed to kill himself before being captured. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z These methods varied by nation, but historians note that, in general, Indigenous peoples fought to capture rather than kill their enemies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She pressed her eye to the spy hole, shifting around to capture the entire view. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps she was captured by some slaver as a child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Back home, he had been tailed by the secret police for months and the family had only narrowly escaped capture their last day on the Island. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Surrounding the main drawing are detailed sketches of twisting branches, capturing several different angles. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I needed texture to capture the man’s hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The day after the fire, they captured a schoolteacher, name of Nathan Hale, up island near the Dove Tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z First they hated the infantrymen on the mainland because they had failed to capture Bologna. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The men who had captured her group had killed all of the children—she had supposed because they were too much trouble to take care of. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Horse-mounted couriers and telegraph wires were alive all day with instructions to troops to enlist the help of fishermen and others on the river to capture the fugitives. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One defined the acceleration of computer processing power, which allowed not just speed, but so many capabilities, including, at its core, interactivity; the other captured the rapid expansion of the communications network and its value. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Later on, the Yao captured and traded us to the Portuguese in exchange for guns, gold, and salt. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The Brazen Beasts had taken dozens of the Harpy’s Sons, and those who had survived their capture had yielded names when questioned sharply ... too many names, it seemed to her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There is another insidious way in which the power of our devices to capture attention could be impacting daily life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Perched here on top of this raging beast, she captures who Beast Riders are. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The thing to do was to be calm and not get shot or captured. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z While it is charming to imagine the scene, the fact is the cameras that existed during Mudgett’s boyhood made candid moments almost impossible to capture, especially when the subject was a child. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It captured the light and refined it and gave it back in silver incandescence. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z And as he lay there, consciousness slipping away from him, he prayed that Master Artemis hadn’t managed to capture the moment on video. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z "Ten, Khaleesi, because you are so lovely. Use it for a looking glass. Only brass this fine could capture such beauty." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Headquarters was also pleased and decided to award a medal to the officer who captured the city. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Madam commanded that a supper be thrown to celebrate the capture of Fort Washington, complete with turtle soup. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that the Unicom was as swift and timid as the Antalop, and could only be captured in one way. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z About half an hour later I came to the hemlock grove and the place along the road where they’d captured Father. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, if another cabin captures one, what do you do— repaint the flag?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Billy found himself paired as a digger with a Maori, who had been captured at Tobruk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, it really captures the whole surviving-a-storm thing, you know? With the messy paper and the ripped corners, and you standing in your empty yard looking all tough and confident. It’s awesome.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z ‘Now, go check on those two dwarfs you captured. I want them properly terrified before I interrogate them again and dispatch them to Tartarus.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Her parents must have been captured, once, held in iron cages above seething fire pits while their enemies gibbered around them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I make sure to capture them on film. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Although Bobby’s life now revolved around the Manhattan, there were other pawns to capture. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No. I want to watch you capturing someone’s emotion. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She described how she stormed into Nazi headquarters and tried to bribe Gestapo agents to let her friends go after they were captured. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Nazi spies had been captured on American soil in 1938, and people were worried that more spies were lurking undercover now that World War II had started in Europe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were not dry stills from another era; they captured movement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I knew capturing the criminals wouldn’t bring back my friends, but it certainly would get the murderers off our streets. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She was amazed at the thoroughness of their captors, how they had managed to capture so many of them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture symbolizes the European conquest of the Americas, because the same mix of proximate factors that caused it was also responsible for European conquests of other Native American societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When he’d realized he was going to be captured, he turned to make it look like he was going the other way. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I don’t think I’ll ever be able to capture something like this. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Close-ups capture different hands gripped around tools, and sawdust flying like confetti. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The camera glides over the cities of my past, capturing their energetic skylines just before they're destroyed by the terrorist's bomb or advancing alien warship. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I will capture that beauty on canvas, someday, when I am good enough. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z With man’s instinct to capture anything running, flying, swimming or crawling, they gave chase, throwing their ragged caps at it in advance of their coming. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Washkar's forces seized the initial advantage, invading Ecuador and actually capturing Atawallpa, almost tearing off one of his ears in the process. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even though I hadn’t earned the merit individually as of yet, the team had captured the state championship title two years in a row. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z If he had been fighting in France, he might already be captured. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thus, Atahuallpa’s capture interests us specifically as marking the decisive moment in the greatest collision of modern history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Trade instead alternated with war for the purposes of head-hunting and capturing women to become wives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The picture captures precisely the reality the painter witnessed in Clara’s house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Such subterranean tunnelers as shrews and moles capture them in some numbers, and then perhaps pass on the poison to predators such as screech owls and barn owls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia began retreating from Petersburg, Grant had ordered part of his army to head north -9 8 K- and capture Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The gala is being held to celebrate the capture of a dangerous criminal, and to reward us all for bringing him to justice. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Gwydion and I saw them before we were captured. Now, if Gurgi speaks the truth, they have gathered reinforcements.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Maybe it had just been taken, after she was captured—or maybe it was altered. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the sunlight filtering in, but there was a strange beauty captured in them, a special care. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Many people step on landmines and die on the way or are captured by the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s been a lot of tea about lately. They’ve captured India, or something,” she said vaguely. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When old King Edrick Stark had grown too feeble to defend his realm, the Wolf’s Den was captured by slavers from the Stepstones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I now held the pot for him when he urinated—he who, in my childhood, had been called upon to capture and weigh my water and faeces. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Kabul Radio, the ministries of Communication and the Interior, and the Foreign Ministry building had also been captured. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I gathered up my captured men and began setting up the board for another game. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Hess had commandeered a fighter plane and landed in Glasgow, Scotland, where he was captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Fifteen,” replied the burnished gold boy who had captured her. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The capture of Troy is the subject of the second book of the Aeneid, and it is one of the best, if not the best, story Virgil ever told—concise, pointed, vivid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 By varying the consistency of his pigments, the artist was able to capture the texture of Danaë’s flesh with uncanny accuracy, while distinguishing it clearly from bed sheets and covers. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d had some pretty bad experiences with defense on capture the flag. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z After Vladimir's death, the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs was tasked with protecting the Black Book from Moreau and those magician apprentices who avoided capture. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The whole incident was captured on tape by a woman who happened to have a video camera with her. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Reynard, be a good lad and tell S.Q. you wish to surrender. This will be the most efficient course. You are soon to be captured, regardless.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Cowrie shells were counted and passed from the trader with the willowy body to the men who had captured them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The FBI had been quick to claim full credit in the newspapers for capturing South America’s spies, as well as for breaking the Doll Woman’s codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z None of the kids cried out, which hopefully meant they hadn’t been hit, but the others had been captured. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I try to capture the calm demeanor my mother assumes when handling particularly bad cases. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Tendai had planned to reject food, the way heroes did in stories when they were captured by enemies, but the sauce smelled delicious. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Then I hesitate a moment, thinking of another day in this woods, when Gale and I watched a hovercraft appear out of thin air and capture two escapees from the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There were large photos of downed planes and captured pilots. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For a long time they meant nothing to him except abduction: being captured and forced onto his back, his inability to fight, helplessness, pain. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “They were designed to hold captured wights, hardened criminals, and the dangerously insane,” Millard explained. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I made a little silver for the capture at any rate, and returned another boy to its master along the way. Profit in the end.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z To capture this apparent paradox, Granovetter coined a marvelous phrase: the strength of weak ties. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going to capture animals, smother them, then carry their dead bodies. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Succinct, yet magisterial, this formula captured the essence of the interactions between heredity, chance, environment, variation, and evolution in determining the form and fate of an organism. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Company E was directed to capture the summit. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He went into exile in Nigeria, was indicted for war crimes by the United Nations, and was eventually captured in an SUV stashed with cash and heroin on the Nigeria-Cameroon border. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z She looked down dumbly, remembering that they’d handcuffed her first when she was captured, then again in front of Dr. Cable, before taking her to look for the pendant. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Surely the Yanks looked in every hole and cranny of every Nazi they captured and still Hermann wiped their eye.There you are. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But when the camera below the surface captured footage of her plunging into the water, I stopped thinking about dark things. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Lizzie, for instance, had been hiding out at East River for close to two years, having narrowly escaped capture by PSFs who had pulled her parents’ car over in Maryland. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Slipping off the last petal of the last flower, my hand sinks, fingers dragging through the background of stars, each pinpoint of light that Abby drew a separate attempt to capture infinity. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Hercules captured the city, killed the King, and gave the maiden to his friend, Telamon of Salamis, who had helped him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sciron, for instance, who had made those he captured kneel to wash his feet and then kicked them down into the sea, Theseus hurled over a precipice. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Then back in my cell I would sit on the edge of my bunk with my journal spread open across my knees and try to capture their stories with my own words. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Although the Spaniards’ superior weapons would have assured an ultimate Spanish victory in any case, the capture made the conquest quicker and infinitely easier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This didn't sit well with Hoover, who had his own plan on the best way to capture the other saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He knew that they were afraid, and yet he knew that it would soon be over, one way or another: they would either capture or kill him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mendel, perhaps, was the original “anatomist” of the gene: in capturing the movement of information across generations of peas, he had described the essential structure of the gene as an indivisible corpuscle of information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once the moon rose, she would be able to capture at least a little bit of its magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Arnold got the report on the capture of Anderson and the “suspicious papers” before Washington arrived. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was hardly any less in the dark, and I was in Bulungu, the very village where Lumumba had been captured. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You saw his face on the walls of restaurants, large-format color pictures of him standing arm in arm with the owners, the captured mood always joyous, celebratory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he had them put aboard the fishing ketch that they had captured, cut her loose, and had her set afire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Officer Delinko’s role in the capture of the fleeing criminal was conveniently minimized. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Which is perhaps why the mystery of Weep captured him so completely. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z An eighth-grade girl named Sam said I “capture the soul of my subjects” in my photos. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The mobile unit pulls up beside us, and the crew scrambles for cameras and equipment to capture this beehive of activity. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Poaching and capturing a book are Book Scavenger terms. Doesn’t everyone in San Francisco play?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z This tall South African who now captured my attention wore his manhood as a sign of accomplishment, a badge of honor. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I felt giddy with importance that my words'd captured the attention of this exotic woman. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And he knew that the rat, once he captured the Pea, would never let her go. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z Nearly half of the Allied soldiers who were captured by the Japanese during the war died in those camps. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them was a paper showing that Gates was sending 8,000 men to help Washington capture Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After the dramatic capture of the sympathizers and the runaway, his appearance nudged the night into the realm of the fantastical. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Her lilting accent never fails to capture the music of the language. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z She might be lost, or captured by the Amazons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z That was one thing that would be different if she had made Caesar her lover: They might have been captured together. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I thought about telling him how close I had been to capturing that trout, but I hated to admit defeat. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is hard to explain to the children that the birds have been killed off, when they have learned in school that a Federal law protects the birds from killing or capture. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But while he paints, capturing the beauty of nature on the canvas, trying to give to the world what he once wanted to give through preaching, he worries about Theo's money. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The photo actually captured a very happy moment in my life and froze it forever. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To capture Hellmuth, the Allies needed the name of the ship he would sail on. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Yet through 1947, Lawrence’s attempts to capture an artificially produced meson on photographic film were unavailing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He was captured on Route 1 an hour south of the city by moped. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She was playing the returning hunter, and I was the captured prey. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A few seedy giants of the Strong Arm, who had been captured by the Orkney faction, turned up and said their homage, but the Lancelot contingent was a spate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept his finger on his queen, in danger of being captured by his opponents pawn. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to catalog the moment, capture it in words and pictures. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Surely, the honor of capturing Lincoln’s assassin was worth the risk of a few casualties? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Linguists capture their regularities in “descriptive rules”—that is, rules that describe how people speak and understand. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “With all due respect, ma’am,” the man said with a smile, “the rebels would first have to capture a prisoner. Given their blunders, it is an unlikely prospect.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He decided that the safest procedure would be to go into the room and capture the monkey with the net. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Big is right. It’ll be like capturing a wild elephant. Them people better have them a great big net,” Santa said eagerly. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The dog's growth was monitored on a daily basis and every small accomplishment was captured on film. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Though he requests a sketchbook, his instructor insists it will be better for him to capture the images in his memory. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Chess—that criminal who was captured in the alternate world—what if that’s actually Mom? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As with the fruit and vegetables on Tía Darma’s farm, the photos can’t fully capture the colors that emerge when the final rays of the sun hit the water. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A cool blue spotlight captures swirling dust like visible chords. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z With the danger of capture by the Soviets imminent, Schindler knew he had to flee. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The last time he was stopped here, he jumped down, grabbed two fistfuls of rocks, and barely eluded capture. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z "He's in his element. We'll have to truss him up and carry him back to the city like a captured deer." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I had captured his curled lip and the surly expression he always wore. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z These practices Julius not only continued but also increased, and he planned to capture Bologna, to wipe out the Venetians, and to drive the French out of Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I want to keep the sweetness of this moment captured in my memory for ever. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z If eight of the hundred we capture are marked, then a reasonable estimate of the fraction of marked fish in the whole lake is 8 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing Sammy had been able to say to Ben since their capture was that “Red and Junior are third cousins.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I study the waterline’s ripple of distortion, wanting to capture it in my sketchbook. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z So when the news that Biafra had captured the midwest and Biafran troops were marching to Lagos came over the radio, he felt a strange mix of relief and disappointment. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t find out until later that a visitor had brought him word of Alice and Isaac’s capture. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Things had been such a haze when she’d been captured—in two weeks, she’d lost Sam and her own freedom, and lost something of herself in those blurry days, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Modern Asians who want work elephants find it much cheaper to capture them in the wild and tame them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are the captured prisoners, three or four abreast, filing into the theater. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z When he was originally arrested, Zeitoun had not been sure his country of origin had anything to do with his capture. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They captured the five and sent them to groups victimized by European kidnappers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As for the King, the Duke learned his intentions when the Duke invaded Tuscany after the capture of the Duchy of Urbino: the King forced him to abandon that campaign. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Reyna and the coach experienced his journey through Tartarus, his capture by the giants, his days wasting away inside that bronze jar. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And if she might have been better off dying that night she’d been betrayed and captured, too. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He'd captured easterly Rock and put everyone to the sword, or he was besieging the Golden Tooth . . . but something had happened, that much was certain. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “So after I joined you on the island, I searched every night under cover of darkness. Even then I was lucky—I only found the entrance the night before I was captured.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Incredibly, hunters in the countryside captured tens of thousands of pigeons in nets and sent the living birds to urban hunting clubs for target practice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “How they made it all the way here from Wales without being captured is beyond me,” said the clown. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As quickly as I can, I trace the letter, trying to capture the precise hand in which it was written. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We also attacked civilian villages to capture recruits and whatever else we could find. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He captures my hand and turns his face in to my palm and kisses the center. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They strummed as a captured fly tried to wiggle free. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the latter half of the century, as technology moved from the military and corporate settings into our businesses and homes, the devices grew masterful at capturing our attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The Gum Wall has captured her full attention. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Seems like half of Cincinnati was walking around near Graeter’s on Saturday, and apparently, they all captured it on their phones! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z An article written exclusively for the Saturday Evening Post after the bombing captured the president’s reaction this way: “President Kennedy, echoing the national temper, said he felt a ‘deep sense of outrage and grief.’” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish’s navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My attention was captured by the word they used: Hurt. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Several people saw him, and reported back to Caesar’s messengers, who were ranging over and around the city offering rewards to anyone who could catch the beast or give information leading to his capture. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z There was the white rock with the golden ropes tied tightly to it in order to capture the sun and hold him firmly to the world. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She began carting out her mama’s food, but once the boys were back, they plunked the chairs down and organized a massive game of capture the flag. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “I am not strong enough to fight Fedu if he captures me, do you understand?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Who was given away? What can you tell us about this place? What about a virus? Do you know anything about two women and a little girl, maybe captured outside?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Oh, he hadn’t captured Father or thrown him in prison or given him cholera or anything like that. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Shetani, the creature our people have hunted for nearly a century, has been captured, and he goes to pray?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And embryogenesis attempts to capture the future: How does a single cell create a living thing that will eventually acquire its particular form? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z On slave ships, newly captured Africans were forcibly shaved in a profound act of dehumanization, an act that effectively severed the link between hair and cultural identity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z While I was careful to clean up his droppings, it was difficult to capture the seed casings that he scattered across the floor. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z The Jefferson-Madison collaboration was not just committed to capturing the federal government for the Republicans. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was no officer who had captured the city, so they gave the medal to General Peckem instead, because General Peckem was the only officer with suffident initiative to ask for it. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A mere half-hour window remained to capture the image before him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z ‘The demigod ship sails around the Peloponnese. Already they have destroyed the ghosts at Ithaca and captured the goddess Nike in Olympia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Maybe a little capture the flag would do them all good. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z In August, Admiral Farragut had led his fleet in the torpedo-infested waters of Mobile Bay to capture the Confederate Tennessee, said to be one of the most powerful warships afloat. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Spaniards who captured him were equally surprised at their success. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The camera. Mr. Flux said it was supposed to capture the best time of our lives. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When the Greeks captured Troy, he was able with his mother’s help to escape from the city with his father and his little son, and to sail away to a new home. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of Americans had been killed and captured already. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z I remembered the swirling green trident that had appeared above my head the night of capture the flag, when Poseidon had claimed me as his son. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On some I tried to capture his voice, using the symbols of music. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about? A poacher? And what do you mean, ‘capture a book’?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The laboratory also possessed the best flight research engineers, who worked closely with test pilots, sometimes as passengers in the vehicle itself, to capture data from planes in free flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “A poacher? I suppose you’ll want to go capture the book for me now, too?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Their separate stares, captured forever in distorted laughter, met and locked at the point of the hall where the vicious cold centered. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z My eyes strain to capture one last image of beauty to take with me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Later, our hosts informed us that Sudani had been a legendary soldier, and had even reputedly captured an entire French unit single-handedly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Had the Soviets captured him, they would have seen him only as a Nazi and would have killed him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In seeing the success of their unified fellows here, perverts around the world will also band together to capture the military in their respective countries. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Every few days he’d go play capture the flag or football with Bobby and Tyler and the other boys to keep them from getting sulky. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The Japanese government propaganda frightened those poor people so much that they didn’t allow themselves to be captured. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He had made a screen capture and emailed it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Winning capture the flag is a matter of pride, and pride is important to the Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I would have to watch her carefully to capture the essence of her loneliness and pain. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You ask them questions,” he said, “and they are in no shape to tell you anything else. They know that we’ve captured their buddies. They know they have to tell the truth.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Our adversaries...attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday we fairly captured it....I now request the band to favor me with its performance.” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Uriah . . . you know, the Dauntless-born who was on our capture the flag team?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They’ve only ever managed a capture once that I can remember. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And when he wasn’t hanging out at the scene of the crime, Genie was down at Tess’s, using her Internet, obsessively looking up other ways to capture birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Go on. Tell the sheriff you’ve captured the notorious outlaw who sells fake elixir. He’ll laugh in your face. Besides, by the time you get back to town, I’ll be halfway to who knows where.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the world’s largest kelpie continues to evade capture in Loch Ness and appears to have developed a positive thirst for publicity. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We know from Sumerian and later depictions that onagers were regularly hunted, as well as captured and hybridized with donkeys and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Amari watched Tidbit bobble in the water, for the first time since she had been captured, she felt angry enough to lash out and kill. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Eden probably isn't in Batalla Hall anymore, but I remember quite clearly what June said to me on the first day of my capture. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Two hundred miles of train routes, four hundred stations, and millions of people of camouflage—this is our best chance at avoiding capture. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My purpose was to capture a physical state or movement that carried a strong subjective impression, an accomplishment which seemed supremely worth struggling for. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The cops from the precinct, in memory of the capture of the murderer, sent a cross of red roses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I offer the Schieffer-Ardolino and Financial Times cases as just two examples of how the flattening of the world has happened faster and changed rules, roles, and relationships more quickly than social science can capture. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Aristotle was wrong in his partitioning of male and female contributions into “material” and “message,” but abstractly, he had captured one of the essential truths about the nature of heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “The Royal Fleet is fast approaching and is eager for battle and spoils. If you sailed now, you’d likely be captured and sold to the islands.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the dome was a painting of an angel, his great white wings spread out across a dazzling sky, as if captured midflight. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z If they did, they would attack without ceasing, because any soldier who captured Lee would become a legend. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As a youth, he claimed, he had served as a privateer, after which he was captured and enslaved by the Turks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Everything that can be captured and held down is sealed in clear plastic. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Louis had earlier organized a plan to capture leopards who made trouble around people’s homes and release them in one of the national parks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “But until we figure it out, I suggest we all try to avoid getting captured.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Cardan’s clothes are disarranged, from crawling under tables or being captured and tied, and his infamous tail is showing under the white lawn of his shirt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z How did Pizarro come to be there to capture him, instead of Atahuallpa’s coming to Spain to capture King Charles I? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When his mistake became known, Linus would not stop until he had captured the right structure. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And this one, he was certain, would result in the capture of thousands, not hundreds, of those he suspected of being Reds. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In 1917, Charles S. Johnson, a black sociologist and later the first black president of Fisk University, captured some of their stories in interviews with Mississippi migrants about their move to Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I imagined capturing several rebels at once, locking them inside a house, sprinkling gasoline on it, and tossing a match. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They might already be captured, or eating at the snack bar, completely unaware that we were being surrounded. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “We say, we say. Be careful of say. Words say, ‘You have labeled this abstract, this concept, therefore you have captured it.’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It was so the emissary would see how Min’s vessels captured the elusive green and blue and gray hues of the waves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It was an early recording device, patented in 1857 by a Frenchman, that captured sound and then, through a mechanical arm, transcribed it onto a piece of paper. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Dylan’s eyes go wide and he stumbles over his words before he’s finally able to say, “For how long? Was he ever even captured?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z In the end, Hillary Clinton won nearly three million more votes than her opponent, but Trump had captured the Electoral College thanks to fewer than eighty thousand votes spread across Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I lost myself, too, as the music captured me in the way that only great music can. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I became absorbed with capturing the folds of the blanket perfectly, softly. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Minya collected her captured piece with a look of smug satisfaction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He had not thought of Bessie but once since his capture. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The judge is saying that what Mr. Gui has captured in his fabulous sculpture is the love between a parent and a parent’s spawn, something no one understands better than the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They would not abandon the government, but capture it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Every time a breeze made the grass rustle, Frank thought about the grain spirits who’d captured Hazel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Miss Kuckenbacker’s pupils have informed the editor that the mouse exhibited in her classroom was not captured as reported but was instead a pet of Ryan Bramble, a member of the class.’” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z But true freaks, the “women lovers,” captured yet strained my imagination. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could almost see it capture their imaginations and curiosity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z To this was added even his own army, for while besieging Aquileia and finding the capture difficult, disgusted by his cruelty and fearing him less, seeing that Maximinus had many enemies, the soldiers murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z A fugitive didn't evade capture for four years by making stupid mistakes like that. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It is what allows our attention to be captured instantly, without our control, say, by the sound of our name, or a bird flying by, or the ring of the phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There was tremendous media interest about Skylab falling to Earth, certainly enough to capture the attention of a boy who was about to turn seven and had already started dreaming about the stars. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z They wanted to capture as many Smokies as possible in a single stroke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Adiah may have been captured, but she wasn’t the one responsible for the attacks; something else was, something that was still out there, perhaps even at this moment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I am not strong enough to fight Fedu if he captures me, do you understand? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I can tell he likes the picture, although he says I didn’t quite capture his distinguished nose. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Emerging from a stupor for the first time since his capture last Monday night, the black killer sat cowed and fearful as hundreds sought to get a glimpse of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As he felt at present, they would have to drag him to the chair, as they had dragged him down the steps the night they captured him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “He avoids leaving the cages indoors overnight. His captured fairies spend at least part of every night outdoors.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “You did not, you’re just trying to make this difficult” I teased, trying to capture his bright blue eyes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Since our first moment here, my parents have been painfully cognizant of the camera in the common room of our Mercury Home that captures every second of our lives. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “I guess a privateer would be a pirate in peacetime. But this is war. We only capture English ships.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To their number the fleet had added nine new prizes taken on the seas, so the sum was fifty-four... but the captured ships were cogs and fishing boats, merchantmen and slavers, not warships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If the Mayor’s men had a captured escapee hidden away for a boy’s thirteenth, then fine. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But I insist that yesterday we fairly captured it.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The flying saucer creatures who capture Trout’s hero ask him about Darwin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Two weeks later Arnold returned for another photograph and captured a very different scene—one of devastation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Even if a Japanese soldier was captured and his rifle taken from him, he would still try to attack his captors with a hidden knife. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z On the wall hung a huge tinted photograph of Samuel, which had captured a cold and aloof dignity, a scrubbed and dressed remoteness, which did not belong to him living. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Recognizing Bobby’s greater need for money than the capture of a title, however prestigious, Bisguier noted: “Evidently, his mature judgment is not solely confined to the chessboard.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "They don't know about the rest of us. If we hide, they'll go away, you know they will. It's not our fault Gendry's captured." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Marines had captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima in some of the bloodiest fighting in the history of the American military. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had us move to the side of the picture window so the photo would capture the roasted duck with its head dangling from a juice-covered rope. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a wonder in fact that I wasn’t captured sooner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I made sloppy moves, I overlooked traps, I let myself be cornered and captured. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z They have to do with attention capture, and attention theory. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Whenever they ventured outdoors they faced the possibility of being captured by the Gestapo. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z For Saturn as for Jupiter, the magnetic field captures and accelerates the charged particles of the solar wind. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he spoke of Darin, he captured my brother perfectly—his drawings, the way he thinks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I don’t know how far the mic can go with capturing sound, but I hope it gets most of my ranting. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Even worms coiled back and forth to escape capture and death. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The photographer wanted something more lively, though, a picture of an actual capture. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I captured this little lady in an oasis deep in the Gobi Desert. I’ve only seen one other of her kind. Could we dim the lights?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z When they captured Jerusalem, they were less hospitable: Christian pilgrims entering Jerusalem could expect to be killed, tortured, or sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Miss Nesbitt made us see that we had a history, too—that our story didn’t begin by being captured and chained and thrown onto a boat. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z A chemist seeking to understand the gene has no more opportune moment to capture the chemical nature of the gene. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The Blue Team carries the vote with capture the flag. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A rosy-cheeked boy on the second step, with one fleeting motion, captured a fly and held it imprisoned against his knees. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Maybe I will be in time, but right until the night of our capture, I had the happiest life imaginable. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z From a distance it will look like a big painting you might see in a museum, but museums can’t capture the sound. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Furthermore, since chiefs required menial servants as well as specialized craftspeople, chiefdoms differed from tribes in having many jobs that could be filled by slaves, typically obtained by capture in raids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They killed or captured near a thousand rebels and sent the rest scurrying away. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think their captured English airman might be Verity?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I heard an announcement over the police radio of my capture and the order to fold up the roadblocks to and from Natal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which is that the possessor of the wand must capture it from its previous owner, if he is to be truly master of it,” said Xenophilius. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Moctezuma, captured by the legend of the return of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl as a white-skinned man arriving across the Eastern sea, promptly executed his astrologers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In 711 the Muslims captured Spain, and they advanced as far as France. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Grant’s telegram states that Sheridan has ridden over the battlefield, counting Confederate dead and captured, particularly the many top Confederate generals now in Union custody. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Too bad there was no way to capture the wharf smell in a jar to take with me. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He blinked, forgetting Jon for a moment as he noticed how the photographer had captured a bright orange and black clown fish nestled in a pale sea anemone. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was Booth’s closest brush with capture since he galloped down the alley behind Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse, we would be hunted— and even more intensely than we had already been, now that nearly all the other ymbrynes had been captured. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “The giants said you were captured. What happened?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We capture one hundred of them, mark them, and then let them go. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In itself the capture of Mobile might not have been a matter of such rejoicing had not other good news arrived upon the heels of it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Has Captain Smith been captured by the Indians as well? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He had to investigate the assassination, capture the conspirators, and organize a military tribunal to try them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He lifted the spigot at the base of the oak barrel and captured a few ounces of amber liquid in a glass jelly jar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “And the boys said there was a criminal who’d been trapped and captured because of some kidnapped kids!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t know who it was that captured me, ’cause they didn’t keep me very long, but they did things...mean, rotten things...and to this day I still can’t figure out why. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then she would capture the delivery man, and kill him with the very object he delivered. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Wild animals that are captured when they are fully mature are another example of escape-prone animals; often they are too set in their ways to reconstruct their subjective worlds and adapt to a new environment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cape Coast Castle. It is a prison for our people. We will be held here until they have captured enough of us, then we will be sold and sent into the sea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The blimps drop new screens that capture her image. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “I am hurt, too, and captured here,” he replied. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Two hours after Mount Suribachi was captured, an Associated Press photographer named Joe Rosenthal decided to go up to the top of the mountain, even though everyone told him he was too late. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He has sixty-four knights in prison, whom he has captured in single combat, and he spends the time beating them with thorns. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Good People had captured him with the Dog Boy and Cavall.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the Germans captured the Volga River and destroyed the Soviet Union’s defenses, they could head north to get at Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z After Luna, his radio expert, was captured, Sargo’s reach was even further diminished. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Each step along the way is risky, because the enemy’s counterintelligence officers often notice some little slip that leads to capture. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was an infantry colonel captured at Dunkirk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been Stalin’s The National and Colonial Question that had captured my interest. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, then. Are you going to capture my king?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “It would spoil our fun to have them captured too soon. Are your preparations made?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Success would be measured by body count: the more captured or killed, the closer the Americans and the South Vietnamese were to victory. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The captured chess pieces, knights and pawns and bishops, line up on the outskirts of the board. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z How were they supposed to capture that sound sorcerer—the Nightingale, apparently—without getting themselves killed? Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “American troops are pushing into German soil. The Russians have captured back all of Romania. Only yesterday the Greeks in the Eighth Army captured Rimini. The Germans are on the defensive everywhere!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Fadi read that Clive’s trademark photography style was “capturing the essence of human diversity, cultures, struggles, and joy.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He’s something of a whiz with snares, rigging them to bent saplings so they pull the kill out of the reach of predators, balancing logs on delicate stick triggers, weaving inescapable baskets to capture fish. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He was catching flies and eating them, and was keeping note of his capture by making nail-marks on the edge of the door between the ridges of padding. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Ashish even kept the video running when they had stopped dancing to talk about the steps, to “capture this crazy experience,” as he put it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Basking in the applause of his German hosts, he exulted: “No nation since ancient Greece has captured the true Olympic spirit as has Germany.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By late fall 1941, they overran the Ukraine and captured much Soviet territory. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The term chronic pain captures nothing of the grinding, constant, ceaseless, inescapable hurt. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The shock felt by White and other citizens when they learned the Tribune was a gutted skeleton was captured perfectly by Charles Mackintosh. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z If they did not kill him on the spot at Mudd’s farm, then they would escort their captured prey back to Washington for a hanging. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he paints quickly and spontaneously, capturing what he sees on the spot, it is not as if he paints in a fever, he tells Theo. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hannibal’s elephants were, and Asian work elephants are, just wild elephants that were captured and tamed; they were not bred in captivity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It has to do with our desires and efforts to capture other people’s attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, Green; why don’t you hit her up for a chat and tea next time she comes around to capture us?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Everyone she knew, she had always known—except for captured ghosts, who weren’t exactly keen on pleasantries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They saw many migrants injured as they tried to escape capture by the police. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “It’s about Nkrumah’s journal. You said he captured notes about all the creatures and plants that live in this jungle.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z While the giants were being captured, a tremendous bustle and hustle was going on back home in England. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On hot days we swam in Elsinore's river where it meandered through a nearby wood, and we captured frogs and salamanders on its grassy banks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “I need you two to stay up here. Coordinate with the locals. LeVisqueux is wanted in fourteen states. His capture remains a federal matter.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Only a few other rudimentary hints were offered, such as that white should move first, and the object of the game was to checkmate, but not actually capture, the king. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And mutants in the very first steps of embryogenesis were nearly impossible to capture alive since the embryos, with scrambled heads and tails, died instantly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Chief Opechancanough was captured and killed, and the Powhatan empire crumbled. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Schrödinger was trying to conjure up a chemical that would capture the divergent, contradictory qualities of heredity—a molecule to satisfy Aristotle. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Just as I didn’t when he was captured. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I wished only to be left to my book, which was a deliciously scary one about some children who had been captured by a bunch of pirates in the West Indies. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I never knew girls like that and wondered what they might do to me if I was lucky enough to be captured by them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z After my morning of capturing bees, I spent the afternoon in the peach stand out on the highway, selling T. Ray’s peaches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But outside my monster could keep growing, as I never had a way to capture it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The initial danger of landing on the enemy's shore and being captured or shot was behind them. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A day later, another member of the crew was captured. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When his health has improved even more, he goes outside to paint, capturing the garden of the asylum and, beyond that, olive trees and landscapes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Rather than present himself as eager for the “entire strangers” to be captured, he is vague and contrary. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Harry, the time for Disarming is past! These people are trying to capture and kill you! At least Stun if you aren’t prepared to kill!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “Somehow, I don’t think Mr. Thirsty has quite captured the spirit of Christmas,” remarked Ear. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On the Distracter test, it scores higher than its rival in capturing children’s attention. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them flying back to the red barn each time a new Pokémon is captured so that they can make a pretend record of their battle. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “They will find out what it is to run a comb through tangled hair,’” Elsa quoted Trujillo’s reaction to the young rebels’ capture. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They thought the thing that had menaced the city for years had been captured, that all would be well from hereon. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z If he was found guilty of capturing a Sun Maiden’s heart, he would be hung from his feet until the blood rushing to his head made it burst from the pressure.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Even worse, Werfel had collected some of the airy art of elfinkind, captured generations ago in some raid—paintings of heroes riding griffins and kings playing chess. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “No, nor felt such thorns,” returned Laurie, with his thumb in his mouth, after a vain attempt to capture a solitary scarlet flower that grew just beyond his reach. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus Pizarro’s capture of Atahuallpa illustrates the set of proximate factors that resulted in Europeans’ colonizing the New World instead of Native Americans’ colonizing Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One moment Grandma was confidently offering assurance; the next, Hugo was destroyed and Seth and Grandma were captured. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I wanted to have meaningful conversations with my grandma and aunts that captured my sassy humor and penchant for sarcasm, but I couldn't communicate much beyond the usual Farsi phrases: "Delam yekzareh shodeh." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Did he, in fact, capture you when you were sailing for the Carolinas?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The man greeted Fletcher and gave the shopkeeper an update on the posses and their search—the murderers had been captured! The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The rebels captured him and demanded to know what parts of the forest people were hiding in, but the imam refused to tell them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I remember spending nearly three whole days trying to capture Wind Turning a Leaf. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The whole Cotentin Peninsula has been captured just three weeks after the invasion! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I knew I’d never see my family if I were captured; we wouldn’t be reunited at the school. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As the subjects used the video game, the researchers studied their performance with behavioral tests, and used eye scanners and captured the electrical activity in their brain with EEG. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At last, it was time for capture the flag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z In about fifteen minutes, puffing on his pipe, Pavey captured Bobby’s queen, thereby ending the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If he’d been alive when she was captured, he would have had her out of the royal dungeons before the king even got word of her imprisonment. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her mom captured all of this, laughing along with them, and with every click of the camera, Emily’s nerves eased. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Levi’s captured that split second before her eyes fill. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Rats were every-where—the records from one plantation in Jamaica report three thousand of them captured in just six months. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “A German prisoner,” reported Pash, “confirmed the fact that we had captured the Nazi uranium ‘machine’ as the Germans called it-—actually an atomic pile.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I send you to capture a child of the three elder gods, and you bring me a scrawny daughter of Athena.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The first group to capture all the members of the other group would win. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “How has the emperor captured the Black Tortoise of Winter?” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his government have not been captured. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Still, the broadcasters knew—everyone in the audience knew—that even with twenty-six manned flights under NASA’s belt, this was different, and they struggled to come up with superlatives to capture the moment. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was far too clever to be captured by the likes of Mr. Poe. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The elders agreed that this was a very good way of choosing a new chief, although they doubted if anybody would be brave enough to try to capture that great snake. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z By that time German officers and soldiers were fleeing, doing their utmost to avoid capture by the rapidly approaching Soviet army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z After the Egyptians crushed cut cane and captured the juice, they boiled and strained the liquid, let it settle, then strained it again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "Your brother Jaime would never have meekly submitted to capture at the hands of a woman." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In my painting of the dining room, I try to capture how empty it is. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Searching for an exit meant they’d be out in the open and just waiting for capture if they didn’t find one, but hiding would only delay being found. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I suddenly understood how he had known so much about her—this was the same woman who had captured him before. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “A poacher? I suppose you’ll want to go capture the book for me now, too?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was mere luck that Uncle Son didn’t go on the mission where Father was captured. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “The whole military situation has been going to hell ever since we captured Paris. I knew it would happen.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Refers to the Bible story in which Samson captured foxes, tied torches to their tails, and let them burn the fields of the Philistines. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Filming is the way I see things. Really see them. I can capture what is important to me at a particular moment. That way, I keep it forever.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z It lay around her in ruins, burning and captured. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As the kindergarten class led the singing of carols, Shirley captured the scene for her memories. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The Ngoni were led by Chief Nawambe, whose plan was to capture the Rock of the Edible Flies and all the land visible from its peak. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Dr. Sussman was also an amateur photographer, and he captured some portraits of Bobby that worked their way into the Fischer oeuvre years later. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In her novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison captures this distant relationship between the black working class and the Mutual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I made the rounds, telling everybody about capture the flag. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Riefenstahl had already captured good footage of the gold medal race, both from boats and from shore, but she wanted close-ups from the points of view of the victorious coxswain and the stroke. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Davis and the Confederate government must abandon the city or risk capture. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He had spent the last four nights at his cousin’s place, not moved to flee by the great risk of capture he faced. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If he were captured, he was to swallow the ball. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “You and Brer were trying to figure out how to build a Story Box when the monsters came. They were attracted by the stories you had won from Nyame, and they captured Brer.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Adolf Eichmann, the SS official responsible for the deportation of Jews to concentration camps, escaped to Argentina, but, fifteen years later, Israeli agents tracked him down, captured him, and flew him to Israel for trial. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The image of a burly policeman traipsing across the stage with an empty plastic bag, attempting to “capture” the air, was the stuff of Chaplinesque comedy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It generally avoids human contact, is more likely to allow a witch to approach it than a wizard, and is so fleet of foot that it is very difficult to capture. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Papa insisted we call it the host because “host” came close to capturing the essence, the sacredness, of Christ’s body. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As more and more children become “lions,” it gets harder and harder for the remaining children to avoid getting captured. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He captures the small force and sets the rebel guns ablaze. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z When these ‘Amazons” wanted to reproduce, Carvajal explained, they captured males. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My only regret is that I didn’t have a camera during the whole trip to capture this once in a lifetime opportunity. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m testing you. Real artists must be able to capture the moment,” he said. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He dug miniature graves, put live captured caterpillars into little match boxes, buried them with informal ceremony and erected little pebble headstones over the tiny earth mounds. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z However, he was certain now that if they did not capture the pig, they would never get home. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only five weeks later, during the July 4 weekend, he captured the United States Junior Championship at a tournament held at the Franklin Mercantile Chess Club in Philadelphia. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Will you capture the book first, or will a poacher? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In 1944, he was captured by the Gestapo, but he escaped prison, thanks to his metalworking experience, which taught him how to make keys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z It felt great to finally contribute to our wins and help the team capture the coveted state championship title. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He did not think now of how much strength was needed to climb and run; the fear of capture made him forget even the cold, forget even that he had no strength left. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Returning to the streets under these conditions guarantees our capture or death. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Why had it allowed itself to be captured by such a large, dumb land creature? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Theon had captured the castle by stealth, sending his best men to scale the walls and swim the moat under the cover of darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the old boiling house, heat escaped; now it is captured and used. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Imponderables are ponderable, but answerable, no. Ask a philosopher, but be cautious. If you hear, ‘Eureka!,’ if you think, ‘His answer has captured my question!,’ then here is proof he is a counterfeit. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The magic of this land only imperfectly captured the magic of the dragons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z After I left his command he attacked a German E-boat and held his fire trying to take it whole since none had ever been captured, and in the process he got himself sunk. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That night after dinner, Quintus had us suit up in combat armor like we were getting ready for capture the flag, but the mood among the campers was a lot more serious. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it’s possible for a camera to capture every color on these fruits. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Our structures had been discovered and uprooted; those who were not captured were scrambling to stay one step ahead of the enemy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to say something to capture the glory of its passing, but I had no words that were adequate. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The capture of Richmond by Union troops would be a powerful symbolic victory, telling everyone that the end of the Confederacy was near. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Even though I knocked you down in capture the flag?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z If Booth was captured, the army would have to protect him from Lincoln’s avengers—rampaging mobs of vigilantes who might storm the Old Capitol Prison—if they discovered Booth was jailed there. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I suppose I’d better say hello to all you brats. Well, hello. Our activities director, Chiron, says the next capture the flag is Friday. Cabin five presendy holds the laurels.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, sir, Longstreet’s attack was virtually over before Early got into action. But Early made no progress and called off the attack very soon. General Johnson managed to capture some trenches. Casualties were, ah, light.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “About two hundred yards down the street. Tyree captured this about five minutes ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z If we had gone back to base to get the rest of the squad, we would have missed capturing their supply of food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z For days they had been insulated from the outside world and the reporting on their capture. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The result was that Cortes captured Montezuma, then went on to conquer Tenochtitlan and the Aztec Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One boy destroyed four tanks at close range with his Panzerfaust and captured a fifth tank with only a pistol. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z All of us hated the rebels, and we were more than determined to stop them from capturing the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They captured ships and stole everything they could. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z She did not take to the idea of capture. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z We captured eight of their men, tied their hands and legs, and left them in the rain. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “My witch is captured. Our companions have been driven away! I am lost!” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the whole Damask Circuit is on edge, afraid that Julie’s capture will betray them. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Me, Abby, Mom, and Dad, goofy smiles on all our faces as the camera captures the moment. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z If she had not led to the death of my mother and my capture, if I did not wish she were dead, I would find her absolutely breathtaking. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z After further bickering, they decided to take me with them, hoping to capture additional people or animals on the road to eat along with me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The capture and confession of Klaus Fuchs were like a dam breaking in Lamphere's and Gardner's years-long accumulation of clues, leads, and evidence of an active Soviet espionage ring in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She captured both butterflies and moths, studying their differences. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Charlie has captured the attention of some people nearby, and soon they start dancing around my brother. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Earlier in the week, he had sent the president a message, asking him to come to City Point to witness the capture of Petersburg. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Predators captured in the moment they went in for the kill. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then, with one click you could capture an amazing image. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z She simply wanted to capture these small communities of insects and plants interacting with one another, just as she had witnessed them. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The event was reported quickly with drums, across our province and beyond, and some of our neighbors even ran there on foot to try to help their captured leader. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you say that you don’t capture it? That you just make it miserable?” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Then when the wind blew the paper off the wall, reporters would capture that image, too. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it is captured by wicked men and thrown into tiny jails. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But there is another and more ominous side to the enterprise: it was built in part by slaves in chains, many captured by the pirate ships of Polycrates. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you could capture the animus, the soul in another form . . . Well, you’ve told me about your automatons, Uncle. Bulls, eagles, dragons, horses of bronze. Why not a bronze form for a man?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She captured it all in words and sketches—each chewed leaf, each plump caterpillar, each shed skin, each cocoon. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Many of his sketches were done in pen and ink, a medium that captured his most intimate thoughts with admirable directness. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Most people get bitten when they try to get a closer look, or capture it. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z There Oliverotto too was captured, a year after he committed his parricide, and together with Vittellozzo, who had been his teacher in his virtues and wickedness, he was strangled. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z If not for her, the slave catcher wouldn’t have obsessed so over Cora’s capture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One set of images captures this overlapping of interests better than any other. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Instead, the government celebrated his capture as the first major break in the manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, as in those ancient times, the sharp-eyed dragonflies capture mosquitoes in the air, scooping them in with basket-shaped legs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This landscape cries out to be captured in a quilt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The usual way of looking at them is as enslaved creatures, captured to supply ATP for cells unable to respire on their own, or to provide carbohydrate and oxygen for cells unequipped for photosynthesis. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Passion pours from him, as if the world he’s trying to capture is inside him, bursting to come out. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For the first time since his capture, Bigger felt that he wanted someone near him, something physical to cling to. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “They captured emotionally what I felt memorials should be,” she said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z This is for security reasons in the event of capture. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Squatting down, the Met Bongs look us in our eyes and tell us the Youns have already infiltrated our towns and villages to try to capture us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Josh carried the professional video camera to capture every “precious” moment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The fur captured her warm breath, held it against her face, and she became her own radiant stove. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And just to complicate matters perfecdy, I was starting to feel responsible for their safety and happiness and got panicked at the idea of them being captured or corrupted by the outside world. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes, cupped his ears, and opened his mouth, as if to swallow the sound upon capturing it. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Some works had a religious theme, others were portraits, and others simply captured the elusive light of daily life with a vibrancy that was missing in post-mortal art. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In addition, it’s caught all of the data and code running in the dome at the moment of capture. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Unless the point of his capture wasn’t to stop his attacks. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “What United States Navy ship was once captured by the North Koreans?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The fourth labor was to capture a great boar which had its lair on Mount Erymanthus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In one more verse, surely they will have captured the melody, as it’s simple and repeats four times with little variation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z "We did not capture enough horses. A few, but . . . well, I'll make do with what I have, I suppose. Fewer men means more glory." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shiny as a new crab pot, all set to capture the world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After she became pregnant, he captured a mare as his gift to her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had captured all the critical ingredients of evolution. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I’ve been taking in the surroundings, sort of forgetting Phil for a moment while I imagine how to capture the light around the cottage. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Yet when the United States captured its first Nazi spy in 1938, the FBI bungled the case. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And then, after about fifteen minutes, Harry heard the deafening roar that could mean only one thing: Cedric had gotten past his dragon and captured the golden egg. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They were designed to capture antelopes, but I’d seen bonobos at the sanctuary with hands or feet missing from snares like those. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The stakes were huge: Whoever won ten games first would capture the lion’s share of the prize money and secure the “championship.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Could she capture some of it to drink? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He writes to Theo about art, and color, and how he is trying to capture it all, to give something of himself to the world, to their family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Instead, he agreed to let me assist him in the next few captures and see how I liked it. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z When I tilt my head to capture her gaze, she looks away. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He locks the flat door, and then hears a different story: about German planes destroyed by the Russians, sunken transport ships, and soldiers killed or captured. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I had qualified for my first Pan American Games in 2011, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, and captured the gold medal along with my teammates. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z These banners were powerful symbols for each side, so much so that during the war soldiers willingly risked their lives to capture an enemy’s flag or prevent their own flag from being taken. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z If they captured him they could learn from him what they should do. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The end of the Greenwich Road was lined with British soldiers, relaxed and laughing as their prisoners—captured American soldiers— walked three to a row between their enemies through the doors of the Bridewell Prison. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It had eluded capture, and they had not shot it, not knowing whether it was good or ill, and it had vanished down the Silverlode southward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He saw a man raise a captured battle flag, blue flag of Virginia, and he turned from the sight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I add the last sentence because caught could mean she was merely captured. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Their next course of action had seemed like a no-brainer—find and capture Mr. Flux, possibly the stranger from the portal, too. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The secret message helped lead to the bank robber’s capture. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After a page-long digression on pacifism, Christianity, and the Roman Empire, Keegan returns to what is wrong with Clausewitz’s dictum and with the modern understanding of war it captures. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Her eyes had read meaning into what was random body posture captured in a single moment of time. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z As surprising to us today as Atahuallpa’s behavior leading to his capture is his behavior thereafter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her mom captured all of this, laughing along with them, and with every click of the camera, Emily’s nerves eased. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Somebody must have captured a screenshot of my picture before I untagged myself. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z In it, Captain Picard gets captured by Cardassians at the end of Part I, and spends most of Part II getting interrogated and tortured. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It had a room you could go into that would capture your shadow and a mirror that made you look upside down. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Today he had managed to capture two unicorn foals. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But the reasons we’re so swept up, researchers began to understand, is because personal communications devices are unprecedented at capturing both our top-down and bottom- up attention systems, even without our awareness. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The return of the little bird was as uneventful as her capture was frenzied. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The villages that we captured and turned into our bases as we went along and the forests that we slept in became my home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I could remotely conceive surprising him once, for an instant, the way his mother had been when she was captured— but to surprise him long enough to give him six consecutive injections? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Burr’s facile shift in his allegiance, the first in what would be several similarly agile switches during his career, captured Hamilton’s attention and produced his first recorded anti-Burr remarks, questioning Burr’s lack of political principle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z None of us wanted to give up the village to the other, but in the end we killed most of the rebels and captured a few more. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If she took the Greenwich Road or the Post Road, she’d likely be captured by one in need of a slave or in need of the reward paid for a healthy runaway. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Elena tried to escape the country with $1 billion, but they were captured, given a crude trial, and, on Christmas Day, executed by firing squad. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The finish photo captured the scene: a dense cluster of horses stretched out for the wire, ears flat and lips peeled back in extreme effort. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Both the British and the Americans frequently used horseback riders to carry messages, and both sides tried to capture the riders and get the messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He collected an army, captured the King’s city and put him to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We watched Mr. Morrison win the game by capturing Lissa’s last king. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Crocodiles lurked on the banks—could one have captured the cub in its powerful jaws? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I’m a bounty hunter, one of many in Manhattan, and I’m fighting to capture Martin Hamer before another hunter can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z No doubt the sound of the pistol shots made them think that he was shot, captured, or dead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is one of your fools, Your Majesty. He came here to find and capture the Nightingale.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I shall not submit to capture,” I said simply. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was well known that the ten-year-old prince was rotten and spoiled, inside and out, and she remembered the scandal that had erupted a few months before her capture. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mama captured both my hands in hers and squeezed them. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z What mattered to Mozart was that his music should be enjoyed, not that he should be worshipped or revered, and it is this quality of treasured delight that captures his age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the 1930s, reporters spread out across the American South to capture the voices of history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Aloud, Rick said, “I’m going down by elevator with an android I’ve captured. And suddenly someone kills it, without warning.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He’d captured the afternoon light streaming into the room, the way the shadows fell on the chair and gave it depth and made it appear as if it was something more than an inanimate object. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z If the Web was devastatingly efficient at displaying maps on a screen, it needed some fine-tuning when it came to capturing the scale and feel of a place. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So she must capture the tree with the noose of her rope and use it to get across the wide expanse of vertical rock. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z For the first time since the Interzonal and Candidates’ tournaments began as eliminating contests for the World’s Championship in 1948, the Soviet grandmasters failed to capture first prize. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Draw from the outside in. Untouched forest first. Then capture the scarred terrain.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Officer Delinko, you’re back on the road, effective immediately. In addition, the sergeant has written a letter commending the outstanding job you did in capturing our suspect. This will become part of your permanent file.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Great Comet of 1466—yet another return of Hailey’s Comet— panicked Christian Europe; the Christians feared that God, who sends comets, might be on the side of the Turks, who had just captured Constantinople. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But what if the Allies could capture Hellmuth before he reached Germany? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He sensed vulnerability, sensed it the way another man might capture the trace of a woman’s perfume. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Louis hoped the leopard would follow the trail, enter the trap, and thus be captured. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Karl agreed, and he was sent to Czechoslovakia, where he was captured by the Soviet Russians and shipped to a prisoner-of-war camp in Siberia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “We were captured,” Hugh said proudly, “but the wights who took us didn’t live to tell about it.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Many of these orphans were actually captured in the huge Central African country of Zaire. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t captured it or taken any special care beyond naming it after an incorrect storybook animal, namely a mouse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If Powell chose to fight, he could certainly do great harm to a few of the soldiers before being captured or before being shot in the confusion. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gaea’s forces must have captured him somehow. But we don’t know exactly where they’re holding him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Two score of her bravest had risked themselves trying to capture him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And, as it turned out, the Soviet codebook first captured in Finland finally found its way to the United States—to the desk of Meredith Gardner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you talking about? A poacher? And what do you mean, ‘capture a book’?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z In the rush of the moment, it seemed that Jason had been unable to get Little Jason inside his boxers, and so there it was, hanging out, digitally captured for posterity. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Amari thought back to the night she was captured and the journey to this place. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He took obsessive zeal in recording captured goods and would defend them at all costs. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He captures it from different perspectives, from many points of view: up close, far away, in the center, just part of the scene. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If our friends have really been captured by—by the Good People —and if Queen Morgan the Fay is really the queen of than, we have one advantage on our side. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Marti had brought a duplicate copy of the asphalt rock and offered riveting details of her capture. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z If you show people pictures of a smiling face or a frowning face, they’ll smile or frown back, although perhaps only in muscular changes so fleeting that they can only be captured with electronic sensors. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Killing the enemy is no more illegal than capturing him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “I think we need to capture Mr. Flux. He’ll probably know how to fix this.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Still alive, he was captured by the Russians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Before the aromas of the delicacies were captured in our most ornate box, they floated in the air, causing all the neighborhood animals to whine at our door. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z When she tilted her head, she seemed to break into three different people again...misty afterimages blurring together, like a photograph of someone moving too fast to capture. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z What if he allowed Byrne to capture his queen, the most powerful piece on the board? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The shining eyes of the listeners told him he had utterly captured their attention. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In an effort to capture some phase of Bigger’s life that would not come to me readily, I’d jot down as much of it as I could. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, he is from my village. We were captured on the same day.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That odd and misplaced sense of curiosity at their behavior winked out finally, replaced by the horrific thump of realization that he was about to be captured for the second time in so many days. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Until I was captured, I had no idea I was even Jewish. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This is what allows her to elude capture. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Depew’s oratory on the fair quickly grew tiresome, but the man had a way of capturing with wit and brevity the true character of a situation. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He watches these rebels escape, scheming to find a way to capture even more. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There are seats, but all of them are unoccupied, and a sparkling chandelier captures Bailey’s attention for a moment before he notices the curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Reporters had been kept at a distance from the action, but their telephoto lenses had captured almost the entire attack—“the flailing clubs, the stampeding horses, the jeering crowd and the stricken, fleeing blacks.” Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t know whether he’d seen her being captured—if he had, he would be wondering if she’d been locked into the Prison Room. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was like when she tried to tell a dream—the words never really captured how it felt. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His idea was just to capture as many pieces as possible. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until December 23 that the Japanese finally seized Wake and captured the men on it. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z When Papa-Nnukwu rose and stretched, his entire body, like the bark of the gnarled gmelina tree in our yard, captured the gold shadows from the lamp flame in its many furrows and ridges. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The anti-apartheid struggle as a whole had captured the attention of the world; in 1984, Bishop Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea for a spy plane that could strike deep into Soviet territory had captured the imaginations of CIA planners since the beginning of the Cold War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z In Rome, Italy, he joined the pope’s army and eluded capture for a year. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As he spoke, Spoon Man whistled like the wind and burbled thunder from his lips, flailing his arms to capture the fury of the tempest. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There I’d used some of the brown gingham to capture this broad prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Shortly after midnight, a courier approaches the marching soldiers and hands Lee a captured Union message from Grant to his generals, giving orders to attack at first light. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Boys captured and forced to fight each other. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They had been taught since childhood that retreating, surrendering, or being captured in war was a great shame to your nation and family. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z André refused, for he was well aware that if he disguised himself, he could be hanged as a spy; if he was captured in uniform, he would live as a prisoner of war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z If she’d learned one thing from watching him at the Night Zoo all these years, it was how to tell a story, how to capture an audience with embellished words and dramatic pauses. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “The Navy captured a rebel ship off the coast of New Haven, filled with sheep and beeves.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Nothing could capture your personality. The English language is too limited.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was three days from now, and I was even farther from the giants than I had been when the ogres had captured me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Throwing a cast net was the customary method of capture. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Rosaleen and I sat in the rocking chairs in the parlor, while he stood before us holding a small notebook, ready to capture every word. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the war ends it is found that his Second Corps captured more prisoners, more colors, and suffered more casualties than the entire rest of the Army of the Potomac. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We will all be faster than Eric’s team, which will probably be good for capture the flag—I haven’t played before, but I know it’s a game of speed rather than brute force. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z He’d captured her so perfectly in just a few strokes—her oversize square glasses, her wild hair, the furrow in her brow. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The excitement of being at the epicenter of that kind of intense experience captured Riddick and never released him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The capture of the dormice would prove an even more devious avenue to the conquest of Redwall, provided he played his cards right. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Also, my breathing turned some oxygen into carbon dioxide, which was captured by the suit's C02 filters. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, had just come into effect, and the window on the trading of captured wild animals had slammed shut. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The Special who had captured Tally took her to the end farthest from the gate, where a handful of Smokies with bloody noses and black eyes were clustered. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Two other captured conspirators, Michael O’Laughlen and Sam Arnold, had already confessed everything they knew about the plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A spy’s fate awaits Nathan Hale, who was captured by the British and hanged as a spy. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s funny. He always said he wouldn’t mind getting captured. Something about a face-lift.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She did not know how it would look, if it could capture the cruel mix of emotions she felt, the desire to cry and slap him and steel herself all at once. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I told her to tell the children the truth of my capture, and how I would be away for a long time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The quotation, commonly attributed to Nietzsche, that “there is no immaculate perception,” perfectly captures how cognitive schemas—thought structures—influence what we notice and how the things we notice get interpreted. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The riding knight who had captured him was a man of enormous stature, and Lancelot recognized him by his blazon as Sir Carados. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Pages and pages of observations, recounting his experiences, mostly so he will not forget them but also to capture something of the circus on paper, something he can hold on to. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They knew they’d have to capture the gulch, and they knew that one man with a rifle could hold them off for a long time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He came home at three o’clock or so and was captured by two detectives in the hallway of his house. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the American soldiers took the captured boys to Dachau, a liberated concentration camp located just twelve miles outside Munich. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Golden Snidget gains a X X X X rating not because it is dangerous but because severe penalties are attached to its capture or injury. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Though somewhat grey-haired and wrinkled by the time I came to know her well, from the stories I heard of her youth she could have captured the heart of any man she wanted. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Camera in hand, I take photos as we walk, capturing the boats on the water. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “He did. His ship Revenge captured the ship I was on, The Queen’s Pride, and we were all to be put to death.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Only Chet didn’t want to share the spotlight when he captured the real snake. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z For now, his plan is to capture the Confederates, not to kill them. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Everyone wants to capture the mysterious and powerful reactions we have to the world around us. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “If you have no smile for me, tell me how you captured Winterfell. Abel will put it in a song, and you will live forever.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To halt the campaign while it was still on the offensive would be a shrewd move that would capture the headlines. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Somewhere inside, the First and Second Cohorts are keeping their banners. Our job is to get inside and capture them without getting slaughtered. We do that, we win.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In 1880 Dr. Carlos Finlay of Havana, Cuba, captured mosquitoes and let them ingest the blood of patients suffering from yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t his maneuverings that had captured the interest of the Captain of the Guard tonight. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The Mecca is a machine, crafted to capture and concentrate the dark energy of all African peoples and inject it directly into the student body. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Leave this town, which we have just captured?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I pour them out on the page and don’t stop until the last sentence has captured every emotion I’ve been struggling to express. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Nearly captured by his foes, he was forced to walk like a plebe back to his new palace. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could have used a drinking glass and a notecard to capture it, get it outside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Had the old enchanter ordered him to capture a full-grown gwythaint, Taran would gladly have set out after one of the vicious winged creatures. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Taken by surprise, the bats broke out of their formation and zoomed down, only to find themselves with no one to capture. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And yet it was known everywhere what the Taurians did to the Greeks they captured. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For the Americas, in particular, the 1492 snapshot captures the end of the independent trajectory of Native Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was chased to Egypt, captured, and in 1867 brought back to America for trial. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I toss the ball high in the air and capture it in my feet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z A hovercraft appears out of thin air, just like the one did in the woods the day I saw the redheaded Avox girl captured, and a ladder drops down. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z As soon as I try to capture one in my head, it’s gone and morphed into another shape. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z With the help of King Herod of Judea, Octavian’s troops captured Pelusium and took control of the Egyptian frontier. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Shetani’s murderous reputation was frightening enough, but it was the fact that the monster had evaded capture for so many years that set her on edge. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Terrance continued to advertise for her capture, filling the classifieds in far-off states with her description and details of her crime. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Jefferson genuinely believed, and Madison reinforced the belief, that the Federalists had captured the government from the American people. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Mount Suribachi was just the southern tip of Iwo Jima, but capturing it meant that we were on our way to winning. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Richard Bissell, pilots were "exhorted but not ordered" to use the pin if they were ever captured on Soviet soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Look at the way you’ve captured this little girl. You can almost see right down into her soul.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Spoken right before you captured me and stuffed me in a cage. Was that the time for speaking truths?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The picture, almost like a selfie of Frank, only, the point wasn’t ever to capture his smile, it was to capture his Byrd and his Axel in the place he loved most of all. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Among them were two men, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, former British Airmen who had both been shot down and captured during the Great War. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Time to use imaginary Poké Balls to capture as many as they can. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I stand a little apart so I can capture a medium shot. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He clutched it to his chest and hurried towards the shelves on which stood the thousands and thousands of smaller jars containing the captured dreams. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Kendra could envision nothing but certain capture if she were to return. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Within days, he had remedied the experimental shortcomings that had prevented Lawrence from producing mesons, and before the end of the month had captured tracks of the first artificial mesons ever seen. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “If a captured fairy is kept indoors from sunset to sunrise, it changes into an imp.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The tracking stations captured the signals with their sixty-four-foot receiving dishes, then relayed this data plus voice communications through a jumble of submarine cables, landlines, and radio waves to the computer center at Goddard. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Artists often use croquis for subjects who won’t or can’t stay still—like a feral cat or a small child, someone whose whole being cannot be captured on paper in one steady view. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The beauty of my rendition was that it captured both the joy and the sorrow of a visit to Ellisburg's or J. C. Penney. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z How to capture that profile in wood, preserve her grace and strength—he didn’t trust himself not to botch it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He explained that if they wore civilian clothes and were captured, they risked being executed as spies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The children’s eyes grew round when she told them about the escape from Nimh, and even rounder when she described her own capture and escape from the birdcage. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t really expect to capture either brother on a permanent basis, but I thought if I could hook one temporarily I might be able to work the relationship into something more lasting. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In the movies, you can achieve slow motion in two ways, first, by overcranking, basically capturing each frame at a much faster rate with your camera than it will be played back on a projector. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I liked the idea of capturing her life outside of work, when she wasn’t under the eye of Elizabeth Leefolt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I am still tight with fear of capture and also with excitement—to be at last in the United States. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that the Rosenwald overlapped with the great Hastings Christmas Congress in England, the annual international tournament that, over the years, had seen some of the greatest chess legends capture first prize. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The Parthians put the captured legionnaires to work, since they were pretty good fighters. Except then Parthia got invaded again from the other direction—” “By the Chinese,” Frank guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One thing after another in my life was captured and stitched to be saved. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z British warships nearly captured the Rhode Island vessel, which returned empty. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z As a child, the boy had always been frightened to death that he would be captured by Gypsies, and this childhood fear returned when the old woman took his hands in hers. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shorter than Minnie’s letters had led Anna to expect, and not as handsome, but there was something about him that even Minnie’s glowing letters had not captured. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Soon he was lost in capturing images of carefree children playing on the jungle gym or pumping their legs on the swings. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It couldn’t be true, but it was: Lyra was gone, Lyra was captured, Lyra was lost. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z One of their main reasons for choosing to walk to the parade site was their belief that it would capture considerable publicity for the suffragists’ cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Inspired by the capture of the narrowboat the year before, she intended this time to make a proper voyage before being turned out. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I felt a grin capture my face, wolfish. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Though I expect Satao did not capture as much in his notes.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Everyone looks solemn, waiting for the photographer to capture the shot. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Being small, I was easily captured and made to stand in the circle that was called hell, until I could catch someone else and be freed or until Laertes took pity on me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It’s not outside of you. It’s a part of who you are, not an object you can film and capture in different kinds of light. It’s love. If it wasn’t real, it wouldn’t hurt.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “By contrast, see how humanely the Germans deal with captured agents? See how I am doing translation work, neutrally occupying myself while I await trial?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z They could remember and repeat long passages of human speech, so they were sent into rebel areas to capture our words and return them to the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of capturing Flux in the camera’s flash, Sheed caught that Clock Watcher, who froze, still airborne in her tackling pose. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z If something captured my undisciplined imagination, I pursued it with a zeal bordering on obsession, and from the age of seventeen until my late twenties that something was mountain climbing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What strikes me now is how time is captured. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A captured spy in enemy territory, plotting her spectacular escape. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At about 12:30 A.M., the Sixteenth New York Cavalry headed for Garrett’s farm and, they hoped, the capture of Lincoln’s assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It stated that anyone who surrendered or was captured by the enemy would be considered a traitor to the Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By i860 the rewards offered for her capture totaled sixty thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the part about Sammy—that was still too painful to say out loud—but she told them about Gaea’s offer of a fake life, and the goddess’ claim that she’d captured her brother Nico. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She leaned back into me and her flesh captured in my arms shook and yielded. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The thorns had captured Father’s gleaming new rickshaw, bushes closing around it like a trap. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “I like it. It captures my unique personality.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our troops have lost all the captured territory in the midwest and the march to Lagos is over. Nigeria now says this is war, no longer a police action.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Although the CLA has been responsible for many contemptible activities in its support of American imperialism, I cannot lay my capture at their door. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa’s capture was decisive for the European conquest of the Inca Empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I can be sacrificed, but I cannot be captured. To be captured would be the end of the game.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z The wight in the passenger seat nodded to the one who’d captured us and gave a little salute—Nice going!—then turned to us and stared. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z On December 30, however, when results from Virginia and South Carolina revealed that Adams had captured one electoral vote in each of these southern states, Adams ceased erupting and started celebrating. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Ridgeway was in the vicinity to visit a neighboring planter, offering as proof of capture the heads of two runaways in a leather sack. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On the way back to their ship, the militia beheaded a man they had captured when Percy criticized them for not having killed him outright. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It also had beautiful illustrations and captions that tried to capture what it meant to be a Pepette. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If they made it through the wire, the Americans would all be killed or captured. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My eyes wander over to a small chest sitting under my desk, flail of the 200,000 Notes I received for capturing Day. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A man stood up and said, “Lord Faa, do you know why they captured them kids?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I sketch, adding contours to capture the sloping land, trees, no trees, some rocks and boulders, collapsed logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z During his second year in medical school, he rigged a microscope with a time-lapse motion picture camera to capture live cells on film. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In the middle of one night in 1975, some African rebels from Zaire crossed the lake in a motorboat and captured four of the students who were working at Gombe. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z And he told her horrendous tales of what happened to crews that were captured by the Barbary pirates—men put in chains—sold as slaves. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Jason could feel his captured air spirit rippling around him, as if it were being tickled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He wanted to help the FBI capture the other saboteurs. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Lunar-orbit insertion was the process of slowing down enough to be captured by the moon’s gravity, but not slow enough to crash into it. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I'd get captured, interrogated, skinned alive, and Mr. Kempsey'd still make me read a passage from Plain Prayers for a Complicated World. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “If you would consent, uncle, to go away for the night, we should get together an armed band and capture Lancelot in the Queen’s room. You would have to be away or he wouldn’t go.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “But when I saw this specimen of Physalia physalia, I knew I had to capture it and keep it. You see, it reminds me of myself.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His eyes catch me off guard, capturing me completely in some kind of net. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I should have captured him, teased him, tormented him, made a fool of him. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z John Kikulski was particularly effective, speaking in Polish and Lithuanian to capture the hearts of the eastern European workers. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If he had captured Pisa, no one would deny that the Florentines would have had to become his ally. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I film Phil as he swims, capturing his grace, how his smooth strokes barely ripple the surface. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Ten thousand francs reward for captured Allied flight crew or parachutists, “more under certain circumstances.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Success was measured not in territory captured, but in numbers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Three of them were some of the very same Ashanti warriors who had helped to capture the people from her village. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Shadow turned, slowly, streaming images of himself as he moved, frozen moments, each him captured in a fraction of a second, every tiny movement lasting for an infinite period. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “The capture of this material,” Groves reported, “would seem to remove definitely any possibility of the Germans making any use of an atomic bomb in this war.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With each visit, he risked capture, arrest, or worse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the blonde ladies with shingled hair capture her? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They arrived to find one brother marching against their city, resolved to capture it, and the other determined to defend it to the end. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Those ten, the ten who would remain, did not face certain death, nor certain capture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The reward offered for her capture was twelve thousand dollars. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Adding twenty or more captured Indians thus meant that the ship was sailing with at least twice its normal complement. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Among Africans, the PAC had captured the spotlight at Sharpeville in a way that far exceeded their influence as an organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Powhatan later captured John Smith, Chaplin notes, Smith broke his pistol rather than reveal to his captors “the awful truth that it could not shoot as far as an arrow could fly.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He turned his head and was shocked to see that the young witch they’d captured on the southern coast of the Wandering Isle had hold of him and was muttering to herself in Ravkan. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z With his guards, he hastened to capture the artist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was the stage for her capture, a second bandstand for the town’s amusement as she lay on the planks at the feet of four regulators in their white and black uniforms. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But then, the girl pictured in bra and slip, the girl with a name that looked like a misprint—Sche-hera-zade, I sounded it out—this girl and her sister were captured by the sultan. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z About a third of the Runners got captured and turned into Bulldogs for the next pass. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z But I capture and cherish those moments in time, replaying them in my mind's eye, feeling grateful for human interaction and contact. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hamilton was there because he could not honestly deny Burr’s charges, which he sincerely believed captured the essence of the man’s character. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For the first time since her capture in Africa, Amari relaxed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If only I could whip out my phone camera right now to capture Edna’s mouth hanging open. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She wondered how they planned to capture her. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Slaves carried the practice over with them from Africa as a way to capture and dispose of any haints wandering around.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “Because they captured Bologna, sir. Isn’t the mission canceled ?” “Of course the mission is canceled. Do you think we’re bombing our own troops now ?” “What are you waking me up for?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Of course we need to capture Mr. Flux! Maybe that stranger, too.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “But the way you captured the light is amazing. Did you use real golden thread for the sunbeams?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Percy knew it was a horrible wish, but he almost regretted that they hadn’t been captured at sea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then it would fire its engine and slow down enough to be captured by the moon’s gravity. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just for him and Emma to capture the essence of their child on paper. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Two older children discovered Mudgett’s fear and one day captured him and dragged him “struggling and shrieking” into the doctor’s office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A prison administrator dealing with captured American enlisted men for the first time should be warned: Expect no brotherly love, even between brothers. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Shu government had been capturing and experimenting on Grisha for years in an attempt to locate the source of their power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Pizarro’s ship easily ran down and captured such a raft on his first voyage toward Peru. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bram went underground while out on bail and was captured in 1965, and sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to commit sabotage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For they are fortified in such a manner that everyone considers their capture to be a tedious and difficult affair. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In a psychological blow, Mutal captured the effigy of a Kaan patron deity—an enormous supernatural jaguar—that its army carried into battle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the movie, the young girl who's run away from the palace has been captured, and now she's on her knees before the king, waiting for her death sentence. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an awkward arrangement, but it would allow Riefenstahl to do what she was always driven to do—to capture the perfect shot, the ideal shot. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shortly after his return to the United States in 1790, Jefferson began to harbor the foreboding sense that the American Revolution, as he understood it, had been captured by alien forces. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So the capture of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry served as quite a neat overture for all that followed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mother figured that once Sam realized that his own side had captured or maybe even killed his father he’d come home and help manage things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Not knowing of Brutus’s victory, Cassius committed suicide rather than face capture. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Those portraits hadn’t captured his dark eyes, and they certainly hadn’t been able to predict how striking he’d turn out to be as he aged. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Powers thought of the silver dollar in his pocket, and it suddenly occurred to him that if he were captured, "it was one of the first things they would take." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The engineers subjected the airplanes to tests, capturing and analyzing the numbers, recommending improvements, some slight, others significant. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He’d always had a kind smile or a joke for Sierra, and whoever had painted his memorial portrait had captured that warmth perfectly. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z They were under orders to grab important papers from German labs and capture top German physicists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After they captured my sister and me, they put us in a cramped, dark crate that smelled of urine and fear. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Nor was she merely an “enthusiast”—one who captured, pinned, and collected insects as trophies. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I tried to capture some of her enthusiasm, bottle it up, and carry it with me on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z He also didn't want the Nazis to know how they were able to capture the saboteurs so quickly. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I pan the camera from left to right, capturing the entire class as they mill around and start to pile into the buses. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z With a few of my colleagues in the league, I even went so far as breaking up CP meetings by storming the stage, tearing up signs, and capturing the microphone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “I’m thinking,” she said, “that I want you on my team for capture the flag.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He can’t quite capture on paper what he has in his head, but he’s learning. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The mobile companies concentrated their cell phone sites along highways, hoping to capture business from bored motorists. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the comment was as close as he could come to capturing what was in his heart. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He swung the skimmer again, and the nimble fairy evaded capture a second time, soaring well out of range. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It started with an echo turned inside out, and a small yell like a man captured. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The first unit that captured him was ordered to carry the sentence out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Auggie was captured, but I had a key to let him out. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Though he claims that by justice the bird is his, by the law of the land it belongs to Simon’s father, since it was captured on his land. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z I blink the sleep away, trying to remember the dream, capture it all before it slips away—before I realize what woke me up. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He says somehow the Youns have captured a Khmer Rouge soldier and are holding him there. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Booth weighed the risk of capture against his desire for food and rest. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Morgant’s riders had been slain or captured as Gwydion’s voice rose in command to cease the combat. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z To get so close and then be captured! Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “These amber locks, the nets that captured my heart.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z After that, land forces had captured three forts guarding the city of Mobile, which meant that the Confederacy had lost its most essential port on the Gulf of Mexico. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The word that captured the essence of the Virginians’ political mentality was consolidation, as in “the dreaded consolidation that was denied by the friends of the new government, when it was under consideration.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So that they could capture her gift: her skill with the threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His enemies once captured him and kept him a prisoner in a little cell. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone was at the clearing, dressed in full battle armor, but this time it wasn’t for capture the flag. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “I expected you to be in the worship hall celebrating the Shetani's capture, with your new brothers.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He’d been willing, even eager to risk capture and execution as a thief and hired gun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One of us had a brave and fearful thought: to capture the flame, feed it a little, and make it our friend. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen captured his heart and set fire to his imagination. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, Pizarro captured Atahuallpa within a few minutes after the two leaders first set eyes on each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Before the Maafa, whatever that is, captures us with the bone ships,” I finished. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Conger has promised them all an equal share of the more than $200,000 in reward money to be paid for the capture of Booth. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1904, a single image captured under a microscope provided a unifying cause for all these seemingly disparate symptoms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Once his will was captured by the power of the Stone, then they would let the shadow into the walls, for a gebbeth was a better slave even than a man. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z His dark eyes looked at us like a captured animal. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The news of his capture was announced in Macondo with a special proclamation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Oh, sure. They’ve been doing that for thousands of years. In the Tunguska campaign we captured five Tartars alive, and three of them had holes in their skulls. One of them had two.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The Arabs from Zanzibar convinced them to become Muslim, then recruited them to capture our Chewa people and put us into bondage. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Before he was captured, he had been in love with a goose girl. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Belle Plain, Virginia, in 1864 with Union troops on their way to capture Richmond, Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He wondered what he would name it after its capture. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He missed his friends on the Continent and Asia, but he didn’t dare leave his ocean-bound haven for fear that he might be captured and extradited. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The image is a 3-D capture, one that I can rotate from its point of origin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Of course as soon as they reached the movie theater, he was wide-awake again, so they let him capture the Conte's messenger pigeon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I was dubbed the Black Pimpernel, a somewhat derogatory adaptation of Baroness Orczy’s fictional character the Scarlet Pimpernel, who daringly evaded capture during the French Revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even the human who had captured him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z However, it might not be Miss Granger’s doubtful natural charms that have captured these unfortunate boys’ interest. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The camera at the front entrance had captured two groundskeepers driving away at 5:40 p.m. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z According to police, the reptiles were captured unharmed and later released into a nearby canal. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was through, he felt more lost and undone than when he was captured. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A short time after the trial and conviction, one of Ames's disillusioned CIA colleagues reflected on the larger meaning of his capture and sentencing. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She was coming to capture Lancelot from Guenever, an expedition of which everybody except herself could feel the pathos. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Years later he would paint under the hot sun day after day for hours and hours to capture fields, flowers, the sun itself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She could capture it and end its life if she chose to. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z From these emerge her children — strange, bristled larvae called aphis lions, which live by preying on aphids, scales, or mites, which they capture and suck dry of fluid. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z This can reinforce our goals —alerting us to important information—but also capture our attention even when we don’t want it to, even when it’s dangerous, like when we’re behind the wheel. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Seward survived the attack, and Powell was later captured. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z At that moment in young Cassius’ career, he had captured the imagination and the support of the entire dark world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was clear that a way had to be found to capture the profits of laboratory discoveries without undermining academic standards or constraining scientific inquiry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The North Koreans captured it, so the Americans must be here to help us win it back.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A rhythm that, if I tried to capture it, would disappear. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If it had been up to him, the demigod version of the Adams-Jefferson dialogue would have captured its essence and ultimate meaning as a staged performance for posterity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Its capture boom, a long metal triangle, entered the port's funnel, scraping slightly along the edge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Over our own territory we could get down quite easily, and over the German lines we felt that it was much better to burn up than to be captured by the Germans.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It looked pretty much standard issue—the same kind of round shield we always used in capture the flag. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “But now Thanatos has been captured, chained up.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Maybe they have him captured for a good reason.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It seemed like ships had most captured his imagination, so for Christmas I gave him a book about their history and design. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In 1532 Pizarro and fewer than two hundred men captured Atahualpa, the Inca chief, who had an army of fifty thousand soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On one of these raids, we had captured a few rebels after a long gunfight and a lot of civilian casualties. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He hid overnight in some grass, then was captured and put on the bus back to Guatemala. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t want to pressure you, Potter, but if we ever need an early capture of the Snitch it’s now. Finish the game before Snape can favor Hufflepuff too much.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It hurts too much to keep screaming, but it feels good to thrash about like a captured lizard. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z You killed my mother, who had a lion’s heart, and my sister, who laughed like the rain, and my father, who captured truth with a few strokes of a pen. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z No phones appear to capture the moment in pictures and selfies. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z In Chicago Myrta saw at once that the stories Holmes had told of the city had only barely captured its glamour and dangerous energy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You can’t entrust your voice to the Chinese, either; they want to capture your voice for their own use. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But that still didn’t keep him from sticking them in his pockets along with everything else he’d captured that day. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine men received smaller rewards for their part in the capture of George Atzerodt, ten for their roles in the arrest of Lewis Powell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A part of me wishes I could capture this moment on film, a memory of something good and true in my life. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Florence, Red, Ernie, Bones, Horse, and all the rest also tried to flee, but they were captured and put in chains. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They could capture it and leave the jungle, well before Father Olufemi’s hunting party came. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She could not see her own hand in front of her but saw Caesar’s capture many times. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I would have ignored anything and anyone to get Otto free, but if I were captured, there would be nothing I could do to help him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It seemed like the smartest thing to do would be to capture the city and keep it for yourself. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You helped him with the next few captures,” Buttercup said. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And now, Violet had tried to rescue Sunny and found herself captured as well. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z There was a collective feeling of relief that they hadn't been captured during the landing. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was still determined to capture Benedict Arnold, whose Loyalists were on a rampage in Virginia, looting Richmond and raiding communities where Patriot supplies were stored. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He captured the stage and its scenery as it was at the time of the assassination, the exterior of the president’s box, the approach to the box, and the outer door leading to the vestibule. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Amari watched him and remembered how he once had captured a small bird and copied its movements, flapping his arms like wings, telling her, with much laughter, that he intended to learn how to fly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish I’d had a camera to capture the expression on his face when I suggested we trade spots. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z On Sunday, June 28, the news of the Nazi saboteurs and their capture was broadcast on American radio. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The story goes that the German fighter pilot she’d shot down was captured on the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Science never captured the imagination of the multitude. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know who had captured him, or why. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Poaching and capturing a book are Book Scavenger terms. Doesn’t everyone in San Francisco play?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “He’s been through a lot. Getting captured in Tartarus, being held prisoner in that bronze jar, watching Percy and Annabeth fall...” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z When she described how the Gestapo captured Anne and would not allow Miep to say good-bye, it made all of us emotional. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In 1917 they were tempted to imagine they were capturing messages destined for warships or submarines at sea. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “He used potent magic to transform the captured fairy into an imp, unwittingly opening the door for magical retribution.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Melita especially liked the sports, when the girls’ groups competed against neighboring girls’ leagues, playing games such as “capture the flag.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z That night after dinner, I was seriously ready to beat the Hunters at capture the flag. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z A history of modern science without progress fails to capture science’s unique feature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These charged particles are ejected from the Sun in the solar wind and captured and accelerated by Jupiter’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We can identify the chain of proximate factors that enabled Pizarro to capture Atahuallpa, and that operated in European conquests of other Native American societies as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the season, we captured the bronze medal at the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z His lieutenant told them one time not to get captured. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was only curious at first, but the boy captured him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z ‘Not unless you really want to. But we might have to ban you from capture the flag. I have a feeling you could go against the entire camp solo and still beat us.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Chalcuchima’s miscalculation marked a turning point in the collapse of Inca resistance, a moment almost as significant as the capture of Atahuallpa himself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Will you capture the book first, or will a poacher? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z |
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