| 单词 | central |
| 例句 | I sit by the central elevator, where they set up Santa’s Workshop after Halloween. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It was the central thing; it was the way you understood yourself; if it never happened to you, not ever, you would be like a mutant, a creature from outer space. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z With great effort they transferred the heavy coffin to the cemetery’s central vault, where two Pinkerton detectives guarded the body overnight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As Adams explained it, the French philosophes had invented the word, which became a central part of their utopian style of thinking and a major tenet in their school of folly.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At three o’clock, about the time Harrison was giving his speech, Prendergast walked into the Unity Building in central Chicago where Governor John P. Altgeld had an office. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Alec rushed his efforts even more, focusing on the central panel of the controls, holding his finger above a bright green button on the screen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z But eventually the river narrowed and deepened again, and soon ahead of them began to rise the mountains of the great central Asian plateau. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Teotihuacan fell in the eighth century for reasons yet unknown, but left an enduring mark in central Mexico. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The central limit theorem states that under a wide variety of circumstances this will always be the case—averages and sums of nonnormally distributed quantities will nevertheless themselves have a normal distribution. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The central issue was: Did an election in which only whites could participate make any difference to Africans? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was this structure, of all structures, chosen as the central repository of all biological information? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Above all, experimentation began to engage directly with central claims made by Aristotle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Jenkin’s central problem with Darwin was this: if hereditary traits kept “blending” with each other in every generation, then what would keep any variation from being diluted out immediately by interbreeding? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These coalitions play a central part not only during overt struggles for the alpha position, but in almost all day-to-day activities. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The wood was stacked as high as a man could reach, in orderly piles on either side of a central aisle. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “We needed a central laboratory devoted wholly to this purpose, where people could talk freely with each other.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As these lay dying, biting the central floor, their friends gave way and broke for the inner wall. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This was due in part to the fact that half of the central committee was composed of women who, along with the men, developed strategies and carried guns. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In the eleventh century, Palestine was invaded by Turks from central Asia. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Upon entering, she was not directed toward either the orchestra or the central staircase leading to the balcony. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z To her right, the guiamala—now abandoned—trotted in nervous circles until it knocked down the tent’s central pole and the whole structure gave an ominous shudder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Clausewitz’s central thesis, that war was a continuation of diplomacy by other means, dovetailed with my own instincts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We wait as the massive main gates of the west entrance are opened for us, and then pass into the city, the carriage letting us off at a central stop. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z When I tried to lift the central panel assembly, it didn't budge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With a capital A. My hometown, like a lot of the central valley of California, has a desert climate and is flat and dry and very hot for over half of the year. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In 1811 and 1812 the largest earthquakes in U.S. history abruptly lifted or lowered much of the central Mississippi Valley by as much as twelve feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The thing is to come closer to central London. You’re too far away from things, in Essex,” Wale said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It crossed the Potomac River into central Washington. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Columned porticoes faced the central atrium, which had a huge fountain and bronze braziers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Many issues raised at Lawrence’s briefings resulted from the decision to begin construction of Y-12 before the central technology was perfected. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Half don’t make it past central Virginia, less than a third of the way. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She’s supposed to be the central link in this operation, the informer, the German-speaking translator moving between the town hall and the Gestapo HQ. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, central Indonesian islands between Bali and Australia remained surrounded and separated by deepwater channels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The shortest way to the central keep where her father lay dying was through the godswood, with its grass and wildflowers and thick stands of elm and redwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A major lesson is the central place of maize, usually represented by a vertical ear with two leaves falling to the side, a talismanic symbol reminiscent of a fleur-de-lys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Zero clashed with one of the central tenets of Western philosophy, a dictum whose roots were in the number-philosophy of Pythagoras and whose importance came from the paradoxes of Zeno. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dad finally shelled out for central air-conditioning, now that he worked at home, and it was too easy to stay inside and comfortable rather than go and help Charlie wire the tree house. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In the central river valleys of North America, people had a way of life without known analogue. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ten years ago, I would have argued strenuously against the central claim made here—namely, that something akin to a racial caste system currently exists in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If the gene was the central currency of biological information, then major characteristics of the living world—not just heredity—should be explicable in terms of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The central staircase is wider than ours, with a curved banister on either side. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than create a central political body to direct all the various movements, they agreed to cooperate on matters of common interest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The central belief of liberation theology—to provide “a preferential option for the poor”—seemed like a worthy life’s goal to Farmer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By early afternoon the central prison had been opened and the prisoners set free. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The official temperature is often much less relevant than the absence of central heating. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The dam stopped up Haiti’s largest river, the Artibonite, and flooded some of the most fertile farmland in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Sometime in the distant past, a line of ancestral creatures must have developed this structure and found it worked, just as generations of long-ago crawling things in Mary’s world had developed the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A central tenet of the Kodály approach is that music belongs to everyone—that an education in music is the right of every human being and cannot be left to chance. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As they rode toward the smoke, the sunsets inspired Jasper to share a suite of hymns whose central theme was the wrath of God and the mortifications awaiting the wicked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He have the only car on the batey except for the central boss’s and the trucks. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most conspicuously, in virtually the central spot of the otherwise empty and highly polished floor, lay the dustpan Miss Kenton had alluded to. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z When Hoover became the bureau’s acting director, he created the Identification Division, a central repository for the fingerprints of arrested criminals from around the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was the central moment of Alaska’s life. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The central star has shed its outer atmosphere, producing a multicolored slowly expanding shell of glowing gas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing in a ruined village, among the remains of houses and a central tower and a wall that perhaps was a place of worship. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z For immigration agents, squeezing cash from migrants is central to day-to-day operations, helping underpaid agents buy big houses and nice cars. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was on Snowdrop’s advice, too, that Woundwort at length ordered that the warren was not to extend further, on account of the risk of detection and the weakening of central control. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I am, for example, a materialist largely because I was brought up to believe in the central mystery of the Church—the redemptive Incarnation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At his desk, Ellsberg read cables from General Westmoreland warning that communist forces were close to cutting the country in two along the central highlands. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He theorized that the organization of the central nervous system and neural networks were involved with and impacted attention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z School recessed for the year and the sun set about baking central Alabama. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The central quality in Elijah’s face is pain, and his smile is a witness to it—pain so old and deep and black that it becomes personal and particular only when he smiles. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Agriculture reached down into Argentina and central Chile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two of them go to the central bank of stairwells and begin the ten-story trip down to the fifth floor. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Like many sprawling residential towns, Alpharetta has no central gathering spot. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z All three of these elements also spread rapidly through central Europe in the centuries before 5000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A central concern of the history of ideas, of which the history of science forms part, has to be linguistic change. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Music was still used for great occasions of state and it was still central to religious ritual - but now it was also addressing people’s intimate emotional exchanges. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The man with the beard, who I saw rocking in the dining room when I first came in, is pacing the central hall, staring at me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z There was a scattered trail of cookie crumbs to follow for a while, but it disappeared at the foot of the great central staircase. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The central quest of the study of heredity seemed like an object perceived only through its shadows, tantalizingly invisible to science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was succeeded and perhaps taken over by a state called Chimor, which oversaw an empire that sprawled over central Peru until it, too, was absorbed by the Inka. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Only in the very central part of their range are they found today in quite large numbers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z After a final flash of imperial splendor, the city joined Kaan and most central Maya cities in obscurity and ruin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pong counted six stories, each one open to the central hall on the ground floor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Moushumi feels sick at the thought of it, of a death so sudden, of a woman so marginal and yet so central to her world. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Their economy is based on reciprocal exchanges between individuals or families, rather than on a redistribution of tribute paid to some central authority. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It violated the central premise of the revolutionary legacy—namely, that the people at large were the sovereign source of all political authority. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And, of course, in many practical ways, the Romans were much more advanced than the Elizabethans—better roads, central heating, proper baths. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A central part of Hitler's plan was to marginalize Jews, to make us "the other." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Crowes waited as long as they could, but at ten o’clock they set out to catch a train for central Chicago, where they planned to visit friends. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the early nineteenth century, and even today, the Chewa people were the rulers of the central plains. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z They were all built by the same contractor at the height of apartheid—separate nodes in the central nervous system of a police state. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The hunters gathered in a semicircle facing what was now a central avenue leading toward the grand pavilion, and Prince Aidan and Kaisa went forward to meet the King and Queen, bowing deeply to them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The clinic provides its patients with state-of-the-art medical technology, including a blood bank that serves much of the central plateau, and a sophisticated lab. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He returned to the central question: how could he have completely forgotten dumping her? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z This was open, and was the home’s central and primary room, used for cooking, dining, gathering. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The men already knew each other from Farmer’s work in the central plateau, and their friendship only strengthened after they met again at St. Jean Bosco. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Anything that impaired or deflected that central mission was to be avoided at all costs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The great buildings of central Mishnory, government offices, schools, Yomesh temples, were so blurred by rain in the liquid glare of the high streetlights that they looked as if they were melting. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The great bowl of the Olympic Stadium, its floor forty-two feet below ground level, had been excavated and leveled, its central field sown with grass that was already lush and green. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes I slept until four, the whir of the central air under my window blocking out the sounds of the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The wake go all night, till the sun come up, and when it is over, I not even allowed to go with Donay’s body to the burial ground, which is outside the central. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From our vantage the only visual testament to Calakmul’s past majesty was its two great central pyramids, each wrapped to the shoulders in vegetation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The first period of hegemony was that of Chavin, which from about 700 b.c. to the dawn of the Christian era controlled the central coast of Peru and the adjacent mountains. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One day the power failed at the central electric plant in Buna. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that Julio is telling me how to escape the central. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor is dark brown tile, and each shower stall has wooden walls and a plastic curtain separating it from the central aisle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The MacGregors ruled the land near San Diego, and the Alacrans had a vast empire stretching from central California all across Arizona and into New Mexico. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Get too much of it and you can irreparably damage the brain and central nervous system. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In time, as with Newtonian mechanics, the “central dogma” of genetics would be vastly refined, modified, and reformulated. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Dalian has become for Japan what Bangalore has become for America and the other English- speaking countries: outsourcing central. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z She could sense when she was drawing near to the central hunting camp, for the tents became larger, and the people moving around them walked more briskly, as if they were on a schedule. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Daenerys and her dragons, Dome was central to their hopes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The central task of such an epistemology is not to explain why we have been successful in our pursuit of scientific knowledge; there is no good answer to that question. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The church became a central meeting place for Civil Rights leaders to get together and discuss the issues of the day and to plan freedom strategies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She hurried toward the central plaza through the crowds of people leaving their workplaces. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is it. The Virgin’s sanctuary, her home,” I said, taking in the beauty of the ancient cement building with its stained-glass windows and tall central tower. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Broadside on, the punt struck gently against two of the piers and stopped, pinned squarely across the mouth of one of the central culverts. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a tall building, not far from the central market,” said Tendai as the squad car came in low. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Djo,” says Donay, shaking his head as he does when he knows I hope too much, “you and I cannot leave the central. Unless they do send us out.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As the handbook Ad Herennium—which, attributed to Cicero, had a central role in medieval and Renaissance rhetoric— warns, “That is faulty which is said against the convictions of the judge or of the audience.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Dikoris were from the Nuba Mountains of central Sudan, an area the size of South Carolina, with more than a million people. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It didn’t take a huge amount of imagination to read backwards from this and realize that it must therefore have started from some central point. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Here and there parts of it almost float away from the central tower, drifting off into space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As befitted the central player in the Constitutional Convention, Madison emphasized the various legal obligations imposed by the compact of 1787. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yet within the park fire was central to the construction process. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Our dormitory had forty beds in it, twenty' on either side of a central passageway. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But this year Christmas was not the central day to Jody. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 1890 and 1900, even as questions and concerns about human heredity and its manipulation became central to policy makers in America and Europe, Mendel’s name and his work were lost to the world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He said that the central air force headquarters had already received more than a hundred letters from young women begging to be admitted to military schools. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The central question, then, is how exactly does a formally colorblind criminal justice system achieve such racially discriminatory results? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Japanese forest composition varies with latitude and altitude: evergreen leafy forest in the south at low altitude, deciduous leafy forest in central Japan, and coniferous forest in the north and at high altitude. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In one camp, instead of food being served in a central outside location, the soup was carried from barracks to barracks in a large kettle. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Twelve enormous thrones made a U around a central hearth, just like the placement of the cabins at camp. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Through the window of the train he watched the passing landscape of the central valley. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty Angels enter, newly returned from the fronts, newly decorated, accompanied by their honor guard, marching one-two one-two into the central open space. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, the world was full of miserable places just like the central plateau, all of them hopeless. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Whereas Hamilton’s central charge against Jefferson was that he was a utopian visionary with a misguided set of political principles, hiscore criticism of Burr was that he was wholly devoid of any principles at all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The six grandest buildings of the exposition towered over the central court with an effect more dramatic and imposing than even he had imagined. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Logically speaking, the central building should be the most important one. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z When she reached the path that led to the central hunting camp, dusk was falling and shadows lay thick upon the ground. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The store is empty, but the man behind the central counter with a ring of keys has been watching him since he walked in. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The more distant circles of the hall kept up their convulsions, but the central one had altogether frozen. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z For instance, the West African state of Maradi had a central administration with over 130 titled offices. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Gathering Hall occupied one entire side of Harken Square, which was the city’s central plaza. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Jim and a knot of his pals had already grabbed their sleds and headed to Coalwood central to test the road between the church and the Club House. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He does not sense when police stop their train in the middle of the central Mexican desert. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I walked back to the central yard and glanced down at the purple-inked paper. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z She gnawed on her bottom lip, unease rising as she watched its crimson folds flutter in the breeze, noting the violating way its central pole impaled the maiden night sky like a gilded spear. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z They wore handcuffs and iron collars with chains connecting the collars to a central chain that ran between the two lines. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He was my teacher, mentor, and friend, and he was central to what I would become. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Already you lose too much work,” says the central boss. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I ride the escalator down to the central fountain, where today’s entertainment is face-painting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Your father called central command and said you were here.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But he was in command of the library, the largest of the buildings in the settlement’s central square. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It felt like all the tubes led to one central place in which something evil sat, stewing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His central role as priest—intermediary between congregation and God—is diminished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The central jade green lake mirrored the arching tiled roofs of the pavilions and the rough beauty of large weathered rock sculptures. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He said that guilt—at least the kind some rich people felt toward the poor—allowed money to flow to the clinics and schools in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z By four thirty that morning, they were stumbling through central Berlin, singing “Bow Down to Washington,” their arms draped over one another’s shoulders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Supernovae are significant to us in one other decidedly central way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They both have fiery orange eyes with a central dark spot and reddish feet that look like lizard skin. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We headed back to the central prison office. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Yet he was never going to level the playing field by working only in the central plateau, or in Tomsk, or in Lima. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He walked nine miles to a small mountain town called Maengsan, where traders told him that a truck would show up near the central market. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In short, at the international level, the fundamental conditions essential for resolving the central problem of the Adams presidency did not exist. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z So we must imagine the Queen as a woman who had been robbed of her central attribute. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z And they recommended that the NIH establish a reference collection of cells: a central bank where all cultures would be tested, cataloged, and stored under maximum security, using state-of-the-art sterile techniques. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I raced to find David, and together we sprinted into the central city to the forbidding building. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He walked the length of the leaf to the massive central shoot of the enormous river reed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Alex pushed open the heavy swing door and went into a room with a tiled chessboard floor and about fifty shelves fanning out from a central reception area. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z To the east, the ancient church spires and peaked rooflines of central Berlin rose above a sea of trees turned red and gold in the crisp autumn air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The place was palatial, with a large central structure topped with a golden dome, and walls of the native honey stone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The stairs swung left and right and pulled down into a tight spiral into the edge of the central room of the prison floor. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A fire was kindled in the center of the dance lodge, and its fragrant smoke rose through the central opening in the roof. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The temperature and humidity inside the army facility were so intense that slipping outdoors into the 100-plus degrees of the central Virginia June summer invited relief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They were so far away, it took Annabeth a moment to realize she was looking at an army—thousands, maybe tens of thousands of monsters, gathered around a central pinpoint of darkness. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Today, many of Terman’s ideas remain central to the way we think about success. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z When Ophelia returned to the central plateau to work with Farmer in the summer of 1985, she noticed changes in him. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He too had wanted to manage the first impressions of visitors by having a central entry point. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Some lucky chance in our worlds long ago must have meant that creatures with backbones had it a bit easier, so all kinds of other shapes developed, all based on the central spine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z A globe-shaped lantern hung from a hook on the central pole, and the floor of the tent was covered with a simple canvas cloth on which a red-and-brown rug had been laid. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “In central Lake now. I’m going dark for a bit.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Several hundred bats and humans sat on elevated bleachers that rose up around a central stage. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In a rush of fluttering hands and laughter, the Maidens and I went outside to the central area of the city. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z You cannot get it done by instructing each mind to make this or that piece, for central committees to fit with the pieces made by other instructed minds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If they’re not waving penlights in your eyes or reading the printouts that come tumbling out from the bedside printers, then they are watching your vitals from a central computer screen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z During the rainy season from July to October, heavy rains fall in the central African highlands. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z We have now followed the initial stages of the Austronesian expansion for 2,500 miles from the South China coast, through Taiwan and the Philippines, to western and central Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In my opinion, the central events and achievements of the revolutionary era and the early republic were political. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But Ekon was grateful for it; he relished its burn on his bare arms and face as he and Koffi wove through the lunch crowds of the city’s central market. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The more complicated adventures undertaken by composers with notation, orchestras, opera singers, conductors, musicological analysis and the rest are still vital parts of music’s main body, but they are not in truth its central purpose. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I hurl myself through a gaping hole punched in the wall of what used to be the central library. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The Ice, as Estraven had said, tends to hold a high-pressure zone above its central area, where thousands of square miles of white reflect the sunlight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The Pa-Ja-Mo paper laid a central question of genetics to bed: How can an organism have a fixed set of genes, yet respond so acutely to changes in the environment? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She focused her mind on the central skull and asked: What sort of person did this skull belong to, and why did they have those holes made in it? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m very interested in Igbo-Ukwu art, and I want to make that a central part of the book,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It means that the flaw is central and brings the entire hypothesis into question. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The first deck had one central corridor with crew cabins on either side. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It is a central part of what it means to be human. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The great hooves of his horse beat a tattoo on the bad roads and forest trails of central Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Hideo rolls his eyes and lets out an annoyed sigh as they reached the park’s central clearing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Virginia, in short, was being asked to trust its fate to the collective wisdom and virtue of the central government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z From those two spots, the cases radiate outward along the two central roadways that happen to cut through both neighborhoods. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The central theme of the report was the rejection of the idea of integration between the races in favor of a policy of separate de-velopment of black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Haas was standing midway up a sixty-foot hummock in a valley along the central coast of Peru, about 130 miles north of Lima. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was adjacent to the central bus station, where I had started working every weekend carrying luggage for tips in order to make pocket money to keep up my correspondence with Caitlin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z In the central area of the ship there was a locked storage facility that required passwords and retinal scans to open. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The central theme of Aeschylus’s Eumenides is the trial of Orestes, the prince of Argos, for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The front hall floor is white and black squares; there’s a graceful central staircase. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He concentrated on the fair’s central lagoon, which his dredges soon would begin carving from the Jackson Park shore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Many have outer walls that look down on the central area, suggesting that they were not used for defense. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even with year-round air-conditioning and central heating one could never be sure. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite being an urban black girl, she dressed like a preppy out of central casting, wearing saddle shoes and pink sweaters and somehow managing to pull off the look. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Through the central arch I could see them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z All living things on our planet are constructed of organic molecules—complex microscopic architectures in which the car- bon atom plays a central role. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to a central academy in Boston—Claire told me—but even before she confirmed it, I knew. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z And something told me we were coming to what was, for Chrissie and Rodney, the central purpose of this whole expedition. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Doris Day and Greyhound Scenicruisers, whenever they came to mind, created an even more rapid expansion of his central region. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the universities, as opposed to the schoolrooms, humanist scholarship was not the central concern. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’m a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z To my admittedly biased eye, the book’s central message has survived well, and the most interesting developments since its publication have involved four extensions of the story to the modern world and to recent history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It soon was apparent to me that reading was the classroom’s central activity. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z What is certain is that they are central to the character of the Smokies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z There may be those who live on a planet that orbits a central star in one of Shapley’s globular clusters, or one located in the core. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She turned onto the main stretch of road and walked to the northwest, away from the river, with the central plaza spread out on her left. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z But the narrative form, psychologists now believe, is absolutely central to them. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After taking the reins of state, Pachakuti spent the next twenty-five years expanding the empire from central highland Peru to Lake Titicaca and beyond. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With my contacts on, I can see enormous holographic screens lining the edge of the central arena. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he set about the laborious task of transcribing it into code and addressed it in an ordinary envelope to an insignificant part of central London. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His route takes him through the streets of south London up to the Thames, along the river until he crosses it to get into central London and to Goupil’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Women’s suffrage—which had seemed like a radical idea when it was first proposed seventy-two years earlier in central New York—had finally become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monkeys, some of which were carrying unusual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Often, as he struggled to get through central and northern Mexico, Enrique came close to getting caught and deported. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In consequence, the AT is essentially just the central part of a very long, taxing haul connecting the South and New England. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The remains of a central building and a well and the jagged foundations of several houses, like broken teeth in neat, tidy squares. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Then in 1985, the whole of the central part of the park subsided by eight inches. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the central chamber was a pen containing many cattle and a few goats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s just like the rest of central Indiana: hot in the summer, cold in the winter, and the only way to know the weather other times of the year is to walk outside. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But unlike those ancient structures, the symbol at the apex of the central steeple was not a cross, but a two-pronged tuning fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There are two letters from Madoc, but they just seem to be about which knights will be at the coronation and in what pattern around the central dais. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The most plausible hypothesis for the TMV structure was a central RNA core surrounded by a large number of identical small protein subunits. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z A grandstand had been erected in the central square and Oliver and I sat off to the side, away from the main podium. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here,” he said, pointing with a dirty fingernail at a spot in central Siberia, a long way east of the Urals. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The central problem, however, was simple: How could one look through a powerful telescope at a tiny, distant object and make reliable observations while on a ship bouncing about on the waves? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The probe was on the central panel of the unfolded tetrahedron. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony had joined the Daughters of Temperance in Canajoharie, the central New York town where she was a school headmistress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Maize was a high-status food there even though Andean cultures had developed their own agricultural system, with potatoes occupying the central role. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The course of this central relationship is one that is hard to tease out of official investigations and even prisoner memoirs, but my sense is that it has evolved little, if at all. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There’d been signs and rumors that some kind of central government was organizing itself, but no news that was even close to reliable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Finally the central chandelier flicked on and Father Mike, like a life-size puppet, sprang through the icon screen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He struck me as very articulate, even professorial, and I felt a supreme confidence, as if Alaska had found the best male stripper in central Alabama and led us right to him. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He suggested that maybe the electrons were not able to orbit at just any distance from the central nucleus but only at certain specified distances. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “This contest will include an immediate elimination factor,” announced Dr. Zinchenko from her swivel stool behind the central librarian’s desk. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z She could hear noise coming from the central plaza below. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the central place, and it was cold, bitter cold; nothing could ever warm the little room. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z By the time Red Duncan got downstairs with a shotgun Tam was screaming into the wall telephone at the King City central. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z No one can reach the other—everyone is separated by a good fifty feet of space in the central gap. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I heard the whirr of the central heating. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The charette- man will come by with an oxcart; then we will all load; then the charette-man will take the cane to the weigher, at the central. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the disorder of the past year, when the central command fell apart and the revolution degenerated into a bloody rivalry of leaders, it was impossible to determine any responsibility. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Trekkers visiting the Siberian tundra, the deserts of central Australia and the Amazonian rainforest believe that they have entered pristine landscapes, virtually untouched by human hands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z From 1644 on, the use and status of hypotheses became a central issue. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Okay, two of them can go back in. Your centrals, or as you know them, your two front teeth,” Dr. Maris declared, looking pleased. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z There was even a shower in the head, and the walls and floor of the tiny space sloped down, following the curve of the hull, to a central drain. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle, various stone buildings clustered around a central yard with a platform in the middle: the hanging gibbet. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Mataoka lived in the central town of the Powhatan alliance, a small empire in tidewater Virginia; she was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the emperor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The result was the Stone Gate, three arches of Lemont limestone roofed in copper and displaying over the central arch the carved bust—Root’s touch, no doubt—of John Sherman’s favorite bull, Sherman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z If you assume that there is no major change without controversy, then your central assumption is never tested. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “We need to find a central spot, and then we’ll go over rules.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The zippy whir of the trashman's small orb motor rose in pitch as he steered the boat out into the central channel of the river. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Twenty or thirty thousand in the central city is more likely, according to Nicole Couture, a University of Chicago archaeologist who helped edit the definitive publication of Kolata's work in 2003. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Social rank is central to how it leads its life. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It was located in Hwaseong, a city of about five hundred thousand people in the low plains of the central Korean Peninsula, near the Yellow Sea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The central dome three stories high over the main lobby and clusters of classrooms all looking out into the sunlit space. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z J. T., the college-educated leader of his franchise, reported to a central leadership of about twenty men that was called, without irony, the board of directors. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z These go round and round a central column, and this column is pierced with holes for shooting arrows. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It comes out looking less like a city and more like a necklace with a central band and tons of bunched-up jewels hanging off. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Gaines and the other Permian coaches were all too aware of the role that high school football occupied in Odessa, how it had become central to the psyche of thousands who lived there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The manner in which the Farewell Address was actually composed, as it turned out, served as a nearly perfect illustration of its central message—the need to subordinate narrow interests to the larger cause. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Next morning one light-skinned central boss lines us up and looks us over. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Tacked to one of the central posts is a yellowing poster for Palmolive soap. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The chilly new charge nurse eyes me from the central nurses’ station, wondering if my raised voice is a problem. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The fire broke out in the cupola at the top of the central tower but was controlled quickly and caused only a hundred dollars in damage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Farid drove past the buildings and stone houses of the city’s central district. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z James’s religious beliefs were central to his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We would dispute the state’s central contention that we had embarked on guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To Farmer, it wasn’t unlike the fate of Haitian peasants who left the central plateau and migrated to the slums of Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But it also suggested a solution to the central question in embryogenesis: How can thousands of cell types arise from an embryo out of the same set of genes? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z That sunny morning a crowd of us was going up the central staircase to be examined by her, while another lot she’d just finished with was on its way down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing pad in the central chamber was rotating open once again. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The ceremony continued for some time, with more perambulations and exchanges of secret passwords and hand signs, more invocations and singing, until C.P. found himself at last standing before the large central altar. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He worried out loud that he might have to join the homeless at the central train station in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The plane took off in weather that was surprisingly cool for central Bolivia and flew east, toward the Brazilian border. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One kind of monetary policy, which involves the central bank buying private assets, is chunked as quantitative easing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On the right were neat beds of vegetables and herbs, arranged like spokes around a big sparkling fountain where bronze satyrs spewed water into a central bowl. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In central Java so many were killed that the price of a cat more than doubled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But it would be two strategies in particular that Alice Paul made central to the NWP’s agenda, which made the campaign so powerful and ultimately so successful. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The central message that readers were bound to take away from such texts is that human beings have a mistaken sense of their own importance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Ti Jean was a muscular man in his thirties, a local farmer’s son who had witnessed what Farmer had accomplished in the central plateau over the last twenty years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The National Hurricane Center had issued a watch for central Louisiana and warned that the hurricane could become a Category 5 by the time it made landfall. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The central question is mobility, said Bruce R. Bartlett, an advocate of lower taxes who served in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She and her husband, Donald, were schoolteachers in a tiny village called Harewood, in the central Jamaican parish of Saint Catherine’s. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I tried four times; finally an exasperated central told me the wire was being kept open for long distance from Detroit. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Adolf Hitler left the chancellery in central Berlin, standing upright in his Mercedes limousine, his right arm lifted in the Nazi salute. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Even in 1350 they were still an unimportant part of the political scene in the central Andes, and newcomers at that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Wide steps swooped up past a line of pillars and up to the central doors. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Lindane, according to medical findings, is stored in significant amounts in the brain and functioning liver tissue and may induce “profound and long lasting effects on the central nervous system.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She steals into our food “locker,” she swipes our underwear from the central rod when we aren’t looking, and she has been known to report us for wall tapping with Cell # 60. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I know from experience that beneath every peripheral girl is a central truth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z We climb to the little barrel atop the central mast. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The Earth was still regarded as the central object in the Universe, but everything else revolved around the equant points, not around the Earth itself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Then I hoisted the central panel assembly up and carried it confidently to the rover! The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I flicked the television on and off a couple times, then went over and gave it a smack, hoping to jump-start the entire central Michigan cable network with a well-delivered blow, but it wasn’t happening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z There is a central kitchen, and a separate mess hall for each of the three cellblocks; the busy crossroads between them all is known as Times Square. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am sorry, as well, to present such a sketchy and disappointing exegesis of what is in fact the central part of my story. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her navel, the central point of the design, is a natural cavity in the stone. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z English visitors did not find this arrangement peculiar; chimneys were just coming into use in Britain, and most homes there, including those of the wealthy, were still heated by fires beneath central roof holes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I look over my shoulder to see if anyone is near me, but they’ve all moved on from this central hallway. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Just after dark, Kyle and his teammates put on their opening ceremonies costumes and headed out to the motel’s central courtyard. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z What the program needed was some frame of reference, some central point on which to build. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z For Darwin, Lyell’s central idea—of the slow heave of natural forces shaping and reshaping the earth, sculpting nature—would prove to be a potent intellectual spur. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She walked in the opposite direction that he had gone and turned off the central aisle as quickly as she could, making her way past seated couples and boxes of rosebushes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Just after World War II, beginning in the Baltic port city of Danzig and spreading through central Europe, there was an epidemic of PCP that claimed the lives of thousands of small children. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Salvador refused to gasp at his first view of Tijuana’s central district, but Lupita stood awestruck. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Yet he could have breasted all these things in some way, if the central tenet of his heart had not been ravaged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z This meant that the irregular warfare waged by militias against Indigenous peoples in the colonial period would continue, approved by the central government and assured by the Second Amendment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They show only fragments of ideas: a ring of tents, a central promenade. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He and I realize simultaneously: the central voice of the show is shot. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z On its way to the Mississippi, the combined river then wanders, quite conveniently, within two hundred yards of the central plaza. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She stood, leaning against the central pillar, smoking and watching her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “For sure. But this is where he spent most of his childhood, in what is now central and north central Wyoming. It wasn’t Wyoming then, of course.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Red velvet ribbons were tied in prettily drooping bows around the balusters of the central staircase and great urns of scarlet poinsettia flanked the doorways. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z In this book on human population movements since the end of the Ice Ages, the Austronesian expansion occupies a central place, as one of the most important phenomena to be explained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their cosmology developed over time, but was notable for positing a perfectly spherical earth either in the center of the universe, or rotating around an ideal central fire. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z That has continued to be the central complaint against rhetoric ever since: that it gives the plausible ignoramus or the self- interested dissembler—the knave or the fool—power over the good and the wise. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It is a knob in the backbone of central Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z An important principle in composition is that the amount of verbiage one devotes to a point should not be too far out of line with how central it is to the argument. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Aerial views of the ruins are now spectacular; archaeologists have cleared most of the central city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Jomon people lived at some of the highest population densities ever estimated for hunter-gatherers, especially in central and northern Japan with its nut-rich forests, salmon runs, and productive seas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I noticed was that every single person had drawn a central shape—a heart, circle, square, or triangle. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Mews had a circular central hub with eight wings radiating in each direction so it looked like a compass rose. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There were few places in England with central heating in those days. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The idea that geometrical order reveals an underlying intelligence was central to Kepler’s life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he began with the small central box, then the curved ones, then— Someone shouted. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Mop’s parents eventually pick him up, and they drive off to Withlacoochee River Wildlife Exploration Summer Camp, somewhere in central Florida. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He lifted our kite, red with yellow borders, and, just beneath where the central and cross spars met, marked with Saifo’s unmistakable signature. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But Haas argues that these peoples knew of the existence of hierarchical, structured societies with strong central leaders, and could pattern their societies after them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We waited for Mr. Lias at the drug store because Cold Sassy’s post office was in there, a big pigeonhole desk over where the telephone central switchboard used to be. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z It was all a question of the angle and radii at which the DNA strands twisted about the central axis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Even as I wondered if he was alive, I spied some movement by the central doors at the lower level. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z We finally arrived back at the central chamber, which was in chaos. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He was the central clown in an unconscious travesty of that famous oil painting, “The Spirit of ’76.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The central character, known only as the Man in the Chair, is a finicky, brilliant middle-aged man, a lover of the theater and of language. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was true, I couldn’t imagine it not being a central part of my life. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z For the first time in my life I was faced with the notion that I would have to deal with the idea of race as a central part of my life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Music, as a diverse human practice, is central to the constitution of cultural and individual identities. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z A maid began opening the upper windows of his house, appeared momentarily in each, and, leaning from a large central bay, spat meditatively into the garden. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The cities back East had been built in the railway era, with central business districts linked to outlying suburbs by commuter train and trolley. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Already in control of most of central Mexico, Teotihuacan was looking for new lands to dominate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Farmer feared that PIH would be reduced to a tiny private charity, struggling to support its original project in the central plateau of Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They hacked down trees in widening rings around their central halls and blistered the land with peasant huts and pigpen fences till the forest looked like an old dog dying of mange. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Hitler admitted that his system of education was harsh, but it was central to his goal. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The hostess pushed open a wood-and-paper sliding screen to the private room, and inside there was a low Korean-style table and sitting mats and a central ceiling vent for the grill smoke. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The issue of replication is central to a topic of foremost importance for any understanding of the Scientific Revolution: the demise of alchemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But as it happened, a central tenet of life in the Klan—and of terrorism in general—is that most of the threatened violence never goes beyond the threat stage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They entered a central hall that divided the house into halves of three rooms each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The delayed recognition of the gene as the answer to the central problem of biology had a strange consequence: genetics had to be reconciled with other major fields of biology as an afterthought. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The central doctrine of liberation theology was that the Catholic Church had an obligation to provide a “preferential option for the poor.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The trail had petered out in the forests and savannas of central Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can see its worm heart, which isn’t the shape of a heart, its central artery pumping worm blood, its digestive system, which is full of mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z These questions are central to the self-image of the Japanese, and to how they are viewed by other peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The real Romani of nineteenth-century central Europe, whose fundamental ethnic origins were Indian, kept their own music to themselves. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Now,” he said, considering the doorways opposite, two smaller doors flanking the great central double door; “Now,” he said, and selected the nearest. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z The bridge spans the Appomattox River, separating central and western Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even though this place is called the Gardens of Glen- wood, there are nothing but weeds and the dusty pumice rock in the central open area. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, DuPont began work on the next stage of the manufacturing cycle: a full-scale production plant located on a bend of the Columbia River in central Washington State, near the little town of Hanford. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then he noticed that each page had one thing in common—a central section. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Part Three contains the central chapters of this book. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z By the time we reach her room, the silence feels rabid, like any second it'll attack and fry my central nervous system and I won’t be able to speak. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The first two were essentially responsible for the northern Appalachians, the third for the central and southern Appalachians. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Donay tells the central guard I will sicken if he does not give me cardboard. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I love Nick to pieces, but this is cringe central. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Just like the other three panels, the central panel had deflated balloons underneath it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “My brothers told me that our new neighborhood is really loud. Good thing we have central air to keep out all that noise,” Georgia says in between spoonfuls of her chili. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Through a grand arch lay a grander chamber beneath the central dome—a rotunda where hundreds of scythes greeted one another, engaging in casual conversation around an elaborate breakfast spread in the center. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z What is clear, is that no alarm was recorded at the central alarm office in the Courthouse at the point when the fire was still containable. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The central building was a round, low tower with curved windows looking outward, like eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Not wanting to get to the central yard and meet one of the bulls, I joined them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To propitiate the North, they fixed the pre-Independence elections in favor of the North and wrote a new constitution that gave the North control of the central government. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Farmer moved on, to the town of Mirebalais in Haiti’s central plateau, where he would eventually meet the Haitian Anglican priest Father Lafontant and discover just how poor the poor could be. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She punched a string of numbers on the key pad, and the building’s central computer noticed that Jaax Nancy was attempting entry. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to taking slaves and booty, wartime victors in central Mexico often burned their enemies’ codices, the hand-painted picture-texts in which priests recorded their people’s histories. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Francis Crick called this flow of information the “central dogma” of biological information. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Stopping for coffee and two burritos with green chili in a cafe near the central plaza, he leafed swiftly through all twenty magazines, marking the stories that carried a Charley Bloom by-line. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I prefer central heating, and I’m probably not the only one. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Metias doesn’t say another word as we make our way down the corridors, past the manicured lawns of the central quad and the glorious Elector’s statue, and finally through one of the indoor gyms. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The supernatural link between aesthetics, ratios, and the universe became one of the central and long-lasting tenets of Western civilization. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Otherwise, Ezzo warns, sleep deprivation might “negatively impact an infant’s developing central nervous system” and lead to learning disabilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They passed through a series of anterooms, into the high central chamber under the onion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I selected an episode of Family Ties, an ’80s sitcom about a middle-class family living in central Ohio. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This being shutting-up time, there were few vans there now, but a knot of youths stood smoking and talking by the central gate opposite the high stone wall of St. Michael’s College. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z In the outskirts of the central Amazonian city of Manaus, a researcher let me whack at a big Brazil nut tree with a locally made replica of a traditional stone ax. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His central theme was that no new African nation, trying to decolonize itself, needed any political system that would permit division and bickering. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That fall, she attended her first women’s rights convention, finally embracing the central importance of suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He spent years traveling across central Africa in search of the reservoirs of Ebola and Marburg viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After inevitable bureaucratic infighting and logistics problems, the Global Fund money—$1+ million for the central plateau, spread over five years—became available. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “And Donay,” I say, hardly able to speak, “what is a central?” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes-there was no doubt about it, they were huddled into a tight knot of bodies in the central grass. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z There are still a few houses scattered around—all of them modest, narrow, wood-framed structures stabilized with brick buttresses—and a couple of buildings in what was once the central business district. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Grouped termites keep touching each other incessantly with their antennae, and this appears to be the central governing mechanism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So another method was perfected by evolution; it works superbly well and is central to any understanding of the whales: the sense of sound. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Poplar Springs is a small suburb in central Maryland, halfway between Baltimore and Washington, D.C. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Og set the dance floor’s gravity on a counterclockwise spin, making all of our avatars slowly rotate around the club’s invisible central axis, like motes of dust floating inside a snow globe. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I started in the small, central living space, opening and closing the pale cabinet doors. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The central players in the drama were not the marginal or peripheral figures, whose lives are more typical, but rather the political leaders at the center of the national story who wielded power. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As Kuhn pointed out over and over again, one of the central purposes of an education in the sciences is to hide this basic truth from the next generation of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just as the Grand Court was to be the architectural heart of the fair, so the central lagoon and Wooded Island were to constitute its landscape centerpiece. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z During the day, guards allowed Cole to go into the central group area with other juveniles if he wanted to. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The central plateau was his roots as an epidemiologist and a clinician, and a model of how a committed staff on a limited budget could raise the standard of health in the third world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Atoms have a central core, or nucleus, made up of protons and neutrons packed tightly together. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The central question for racial justice advocates is this: are we serious about ending this system of control, or not? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She carries Jasmin in her arms to the city’s central plaza, where children beg with outstretched arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He dropped it on the table, walked again to the central fireplace, almost into it, and kicked the flaming logs and beat down the sparks with his hands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The circumstances had been so different then, when she entered the cavernous room and limped alone down its central aisle hungry, lonely, and fearful for her life. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We were not in this central zone, however, but at best on the edge of it, between it and the zone of turbulent, deflected, precipitation-laden storms that it sends continually to torment the subglacial lands. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But the supernatural beliefs of bands and tribes did not serve to justify central authority, justify transfer of wealth, or maintain peace between unrelated individuals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The island’s central river had crested its banks and spilled into the nearby fields and forests. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It would be a few months before Farmer encountered Jon Carroll, the army captain, in the central plateau, and I got my first glimpse of the American doctor and his thoughts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The disaster was as much cultural as demographic; the Maya continued to exist by the million, but their central cities did not. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We cross the central strip of the town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Off in the distance, the Hindenburg, trailing an Olympic flag, droned over central Berlin in a lazy loop, then turned and slowly began to approach the stadium. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The king sat by the central fireplace, hunched up on a carven stool by the table. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For the other eight months he returned to the central plateau of Haiti, doctoring impoverished patients, many of whom had lost their land to a government hydroelectric dam project. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Out of sight, Francis Gary Powers languished in a small cell measuring eight by fifteen feet, deep inside Lubyanka Prison in central Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The sense of upward mobility was central to the ideal of Levittown. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Lazlo they regarded with curiosity, and the rest of the strangers as well, once their camels had been brought through the gates into the central plaza of the fortress. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They wanted to know in detail how Olmsted felt about the sites selected for the fair, in particular about a central feature called the Wooded Island. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z More important than any of this, I continue to believe the central tenets of the Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She took me through the dormitory, the laundry, the supply rooms, and the dining hall—now set and waiting for the food to be delivered from the central commissary. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The economy now can be thought of as an entity which responds to actions by central banks; we call that monetary policy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z We turn and walk together past the large houses, towards the central part of town. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The wild duck rests there and the Canada goose, for this is a fringe of the central migratory flyway. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Moon controlled the tides, the life cycles of many animals, and perhaps the human menstrual' period—of central importance for a passionate species devoted to having children. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She crossed to a slender set of doors and stepped onto a balcony that overlooked the central courtyard of the Exchange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They had journeyed together in a truck expedition across central Africa, looking for Ebola virus, and a lot of tension had built up between the two men by the end of the trip. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z From thence I went on to Carter Paterson’s central office, where I met with the utmost courtesy. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The sun pours into this central atrium from a pyramid-shaped glass ceiling, flooding the place with light. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The types of tests that Hartshorne and May used are quite central to their conclusion, so I’ll identify a number of them in some detail. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When those in the central plateau staged a rebellion—refusing to be treated as slaves—their insurrection was put down violently by Marine-supervised Haitian police, not unlike the French masters had done to their ancestors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Scythe Volta led Rowan to the central chamber of the cellar, where Goddard and the other scythes waited. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Octavian retreated to central Italy to command his troops. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z This house belonged in Hollywood, not central Indiana. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z At its heart lies one supreme government: the Lutheran hymn-chorale, with its simple, memorable tunes for the congregation - another of the central pillars of Pietist doctrine. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After the general superintendent was through with me, I tried to bike out of town central, but Mr. Dubonnet caught me outside the union hall. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The floor beyond the opening sloped down to a central chamber. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning a little more than two thousand years ago, the central and lower Amazon were rocked by extreme cultural change. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Inside, Jeremie, be a cap such as the central guards wear. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her clothing was distributed and laundered by the central clothing supply. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z That was the central lesson conveyed through the experience of memorizing hundreds of questions and answers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early sixteenth century a high civilization flourished in central Mexico. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They had surrounded the central, older Tower like sentinels, and the castle had wrapped around the whole of it like a snake eating its tail. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Central Mutal was ringed by a chain of seven reservoirs, with another central reservoir reserved for royalty. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The central cavity of the massive room is so stark and white, I blink hard, thinking I must be in the wrong place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What happens next is not completely clear, but it seems likely that the central regions of the star would collapse to a very dense state, such as a neutron star or black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z A car came down the road from the Welch direction and turned right, toward town central. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z And I think, Surely there is a way to escape from this central, from this Dominicanie. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the window, a central air-conditioning unit put out a steady rumble. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The University School was built around a central courtyard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It turned out they had been trapped at locations all over central Uganda. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z First, Europeans have for thousands of years been living in densely populated societies with central governments, police, and judiciaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We passed the central pond, then the fallen tree where Otto and I had spent our first night. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Is there a greater pursuit than the search for truth? It’s a central pillar of philosophy.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Nor could food production spring up spontaneously in deserts remote from sources of water for irrigation, such as central Australia and parts of the western United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1994 Michael Heckenberger, of the University of Florida in Gainesville, and James B. Petersen, of the University of Vermont in Burlington, decided to look for potential archaeological sites in the central Amazon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Origin stories are central to a people’s sense of a unifying identity. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I raced toward the commons area, where the twelve cabins—one for each Olympian god—made a U around the central green. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was almost unavoidable, though, given how central it was—within sight of the Home Depot. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Competing images of the poor as “deserving” and “undeserving” became central components of the debate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Before he could influence global policy, however, he knew he’d have to demonstrate his approach to effective public health care in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The serpent keeps recurring through the earliest cycles of mythology, always as a central symbol for the life of the universe and the continuity of creation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, the holistic educator places music and the arts in a central position in a child’s education, emphasizing the artistic and aesthetic experiences that only the arts can bring. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In Germany, the effects of Marburg virus on the brain were particularly frightening, and resembled the effects of rabies: the virus somehow damaged the central nervous system and could destroy the brain, as does rabies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Donay tells me that at the end of the last zafra, the central boss did tell all of the workers who were old or sick they must return to Haiti. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If only we had had the right kind of research station in central Africa during the nineteen-seventies ... we might have seen it hatching from the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This sedentary lifestyle was made possible by the diversity of resource-rich habitats available to Jomon people within a short distance of one central site: inland forests, rivers, seashores, bays, and open oceans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The roof, gray slate, slanted down in four directions from a central peak. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The role of Olivia—an important role, central to the play—was never mine. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z An enormous fire crackled in the central hearth pit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z During the next four centuries its realm steadily expanded until it ruled directly over much of central Mexico and indirectly, through puppet governments, as far south as Guatemala. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The university doesn't have a central location; its buildings are scattered through the city. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z To art historians the study of styles is of central importance. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z What irked Geyer most was that the central question was still unanswered: Where were the children now? The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Combine the long-range and short-range perspectives and the result becomes the central paradox of the revolutionary era, which was also the apparently intractable dilemma facing the revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I obeyed, taking the right-hand chair by the central hearth. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z That was how things got changed for the better in the central plateau, one small but crucial decision at a time. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z With the bases facing outside, there had been no trouble fitting them: they had simply circled around the central backbone, like a spiral rosette. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The silence was interrupted seconds later by the grind of a motor, and then the Berg was moving on the tracks, jerking back to the central chamber. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The pyramid’s main gates fronted on Meereen’s central plaza, but the Domishmen made their way to a side entrance opening on an alley. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The captain was stationed with eight American soldiers in Haiti’s rural central plateau, charged with keeping the peace for 150,000 Haitians, mostly peasants, spread over a thousand square miles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z How central Helen felt then, how naturally indispensable! Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three sides were each attached to the central panel with a metal hinge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Without closing the locker door, he ran out onto Canal Street and jogged metallically toward the central business district, looking over his shoulder for the beard and monocle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At one end of the central section was a cage of live birds in a little park of plastic trees and shrubs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The latest outbreak was allegedly the result of human waste contaminating a local water supply in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Mary and her family had spent the years after the Riots in a house on McCulloh Street, one of the central arteries in West Baltimore. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Adoption of food production may have been rapid and wholesale in southeastern and central Europe because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle there was less productive and less competitive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The central hub where the Director and Assistant Director oversee the missions carried out by our agents around the globe. We have outposts on every continent.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The central plaza was paved in white and gray stone, decorated with statues, fountains, and gilded columns. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In the larger, central panel, a man is falling from the sky. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z At Adolf-Hitler-Platz, concentric rings of tall masts flying Olympic flags surrounded a central tower, sixty-two feet high, draped with twenty swastika flags, forming a dramatic, blood-red cylinder in the middle of the grassy square. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The ruins themselves weren’t that impressive: a few stone walls, a weed-choked central courtyard, a dead-end stairwell chiselled into the rock. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Heredity cannot be a peripheral question in biology; it must rank among its central questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z God had a mission for us when he put us here long before you blacks ever reached here from central Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In a parody of Aaron Montgomery Ward’s fast-growing empire in central Chicago, Holmes had begun selling sham drugs that he guaranteed would cure alcoholism and baldness. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The ghoul made his way to the central fountain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then we are across the training field, up the hill, and inside the central courtyard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z A central fire burned in a bronze brazier the size of a bathtub. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The hippos were still floating in the central channel. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His room was just like hers, though on this, the opposite side of the corridor, his window view was to the wide central square. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancient Kongo used to stretch across all of central Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the central fountain, the little statue of Bacchus spouted water into the basin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Watson, however, later simplified the diagram to indicate information flow from DNA to RNA to protein that was later called the “central dogma.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z As Adams saw it, he had been prepared, by both experience and training, to perform a central role in the unfolding drama of winning and securing the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Mom had calculated that we could leave at 6:00 A.M. central daylight time, stop three times at twenty minutes per stop, and still arrive at our destination at 9:00 P.M. eastern daylight time. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Père Lafontant—père is the French word for “father” or “priest”—was a small but imposing man with a forceful manner, especially when he spoke of life in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It is a splash in the galactic pond, a temporary configuration of disrupted stars, a galaxy with a central piece torn out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This one was four stories tall, many-windowed, and had several wings radiating out from a central hub. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And all these thieves in the central, are they not ashamed? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This central part of the city was reserved, archaeologists believe, for clerics and rulers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He takes for granted a central issue that was resolved only by the discovery of the phases: that planets shine by reflected light. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Some conservative political strategists admitted that appealing to racial fears and antagonisms was central to this strategy, though it had to be done surreptitiously. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The building, clean and white except for various edges painted green, was an open construction unfolding around an empty central room. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As the horses pulled them closer, Hannah could distinguish a central open market with stalls, surrounded by stores. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He noticed that the big Columbia Fountain at the western end of the central basin still was not finished, even though it was to be a key feature of the opening ceremony. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At night, Shin again followed the homeless to semisheltered sleeping places they had found near buildings with central heating systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Alcante had such a beautiful presence that he seemed like the guardian angel of the pavilion, but Farmer worried about what would happen when he returned to his home in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He’s big and bulky, all wrapped up in a tattered jacket even though the central heating is on full blast. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I then summarized our complaints, beginning with the central and most important one, that we were political prisoners, not criminals, and that we should be treated as such. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He made every effort to understand Seoul’s culture and to fit in, believing that ethnic identity was the central problem of his life. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The central tower leaned precariously to one side. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z By 1984, the whole central region of the park–several dozen square miles–was more than three feet higher than it had been in 1924, when the park was last formally surveyed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One day on course due west, off central Krete, the ship caught a fresh norther, and we ran southward before the wind while Zeus piled ruin ahead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In early March, General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Vietnam, requested that two battalions of marines be sent to Vietnam to help guard the American airfield at Da Nang in central Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Health care, education, and food security are sometimes nonexistent in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I once visited Santarem, in the central Amazon, during the river’s annual flood, when it wells over its banks and creeps inland for miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The muddy river distorted and widened, kept us helpless in the groove of its central channel, pulling and pulling. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The hydroelectric dam began a tragic turn of events for all the peasants, but especially for the women of the central plateau, Farmer said from the podium. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If he did get away from the central, then why did he come bade? Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Executives led them across the rock garden onto the large central plaza, which lay fronted and flanked by the Institute’s massive stone buildings. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Once, in reference to winters in central Florida, she solemnly informed me, “We usually get frosts once or twice a winter, but this year we had ’em a couple of times.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The theory was eventually called spermism, highlighting the central role of the sperm in determining all the features of a fetus. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally, there is Hamilton’s enshrinement of the urban elite—the merchants, bankers, and business leaders—as the central figures in the emergent American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z |
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