| 单词 | collection |
| 例句 | I move closer to peer at the collection. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In fact, Travis had a respectable collection of steamy medieval romance novels under his bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In our conversation, he used the phrase “the world’s largest collection of black Santas” four times, and I laughed each time. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z On all sides the cliffs were alive with this evil collection of crawling, looming, creeping, lurching shapes. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Jus is sure this house could win the world record for largest collection of ancient Egyptian paraphernalia. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She owns a successful business and has a massive collection of power tools. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Oliver, alarmed by the prospect of Hyacinth crying again, suggested that they go downstairs so she could show him her collection of buttons. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The neighbors took up a collection because Pilate and Reba had spent everything getting Hagar the things needed to fix herself up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels so surreal to be in my room, with my stuffed animals and my books and my collection of poisons. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Bail out, dress the dead, pay the rent, find new rooms, start a school, storm an office, take up collections, rout the block and keep their eyes on all the children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The original Sesame Street was anti-narrative: it was, by design, an unconnected collection of sketches. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Then just pass around the collection plate come Sunday.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z With one swipe of my hand, I sent my whole Matchbox car collection flying from the top of my bookcase. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There has never been a collection of hotels of comparable grandeur anywhere, certainly not in a mountain setting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z She pored over specimens of huge azure butterflies that van Sommelsdijk had shipped home for his own collection. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the papyrology collection of the Sackler Library at the University of Oxford is the world’s oldest surviving Christian hymn, featuring a form of now undecipherable notation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She would gather the pennies and put them in the collection plate. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mama went about gathering herbs from Babulya’s collection along the walls. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I needed to find a collection of trophies in Sector Seven. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Always carrying his gun, he went on grueling horseback rides and punishing hikes through the woods and fields, keeping a lookout for wildlife specimens to add to his collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He even lets me borrow some from his personal collection and gives me a list of schools he thinks I should apply to, which is why he’s my favorite teacher. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Of this group Michael-Mary Graham was the queen, for her poetry had been published—first in 1938, in a volume called Seasons of My Soul; there was a second collection in 1941, called Farther Shores. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of his personal treasure chest, which is full of his action figures, Lego sets, and collection of obsolete computer parts Dad has given him, there’s a fancy-looking high-backed chair and ottoman. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z It was emptier than the other, holding a collection of almost two dozen tomes that matched in size and color. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z A second-grade girl sat next to Hazel on the bus and started showing her her sticker collection. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “I have a paper clip in my collection. I’ll give that a shot.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I see a rolled-up newspaper, a collection of picture books I read when I was little, a bin filled with Christmas lights in tangled clusters. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I was still stuck in my own world of sunshine, ponies, and my race car collection. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It turned out he had a dusty collection of punk-rock records under his bed. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes haven't left my face, not once, and I get the feeling I'm being cataloged, like a butterfly in a collection. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z How many would've had to do without to scrape up a coin to put in the collection for this one loaf? The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “An anthropologist friend of mine tells me that they’ve got several others in the collection, as well as the ones on display. Some of them are very old indeed. Neanderthal, you know.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A collection of charred bodies had been stacked on a comer, not fully covered by a blanket. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z For these dances the boys send corsages, which I press afterward and keep in my bureau drawer: squashed carnations and brown-edged rosebuds, wads of dead vegetation, like a collection of floral shrunken heads. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s on his computer, and Mom is nervously rearranging our yarmulke collection. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Some are bought for zoos, particularly by wealthy Arabs who like to keep private collections of wild animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The glossy pages of succeeding months blossom around it: landscapes of fluted mountains for 1964; a curious collection of Irish setters and pugs in 1969; twelve varieties of jasmine for each month of 1973. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It took them a while to be sure of this, for she had many hiding places, having always guarded her collection most jealously. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z No matter that my weekly collection goes to convert them, feed them, smarten them up. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The scheme was to present a collection for poor kids in China, just so we could see their reaction to me standing there beside Jennifer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Silly things like my pink pillowcases, my record collection, my award for being the best speller in sixth grade. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Siobhan: “No duh. But we found an entire bag of beets in the collection closet. They must have come from you.” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “I am doing. This one's the first in my collection.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “The whole kitchen clean as a collection plate. What you talkin’ about?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a really nice collection of jazz records, and they kept playing them all through lunch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I noticed, when the woman paid, she took out a stack of fabric scraps and said, “For your collection.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “You know, Mountain Goat, I still feel bad about making you leave your rock collection back in Battle Mountain,” he said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A motley collection of evil-looking implements was framed by the cloudless sky as wild cries rang out from the newly-inducted recruits. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I was watching a collection of vintage ’80s cereal commercials when I paused to wonder why cereal manufacturers no longer included toy prizes inside every box. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Emily had left her binder, The Gold-Bug, and the Poe short story collection on the table when they went to chat with Raven, so now she closed those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z They had just passed the collection plates, and after they had gathered and counted the funds donated, the preacher—a short man with a rosy face and a mustache—seemed disappointed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “She seemed well enough. She did display some interest in the gossamer-winged butterflies. I wish she had shown more interest in the carrion beetle collection, though. They are, after all, exceptionally fine specimens.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The congregation wanted to show its appreciation, so one Sunday morning the pastor, the Reverend Wesley Parks, took up a special collection for her after the regular collection. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z It is perhaps the most incredible collection of what East calls “assdom” in the South. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “You and Dill can take up collection,” said Jem. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She has a collection of spiky cactuses, mint-green succulents, and orchids. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “And added my eyeballs to your eyeball collection, no doubt.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z My little group of friends—only they’re not even my friends anymore—buffered by this new collection of girls who like me because I’m depressed and teachers who are sympathizing and the suddenly nice principal. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This creature, man...this creature was a collection of rot on four legs. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The enormous aquarium reaches all the way to the ceiling, the collections of rocks and coral that once were a part of the aquatic ecosystem still intact. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I ducked a particularly nasty collection of thorns dangling from the ceiling. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Freedom Bay was a collection of one thousand brick homes designed by an architect with a passion for duplication. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The otogar is a collection of little huts and low buildings on the side of two wide sets of train tracks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z After seeing other tycoons grow bored with their lavish art collections and swanky mansions, Fabyan had invested his own millions in a private brain trust. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I kept my rock collection behind the house, next to Mom’s piano, which was getting a little weathered. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The fugitive bulletins made them a requirement in his line of work—Homer maintained a thorough collection—and current affairs generally upheld his theories about society and the human animal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I’d color-coded our collection of maps with tags made of free paint chips from the hardware store, a practical bit of flair learned from season 4, episode 11: “Neat for Next to Nothing.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Its constituents are men and women and children of all ages, folks on the dodge from collection agencies, relationships gone sour, the law or the IRS, Ohio winters, the middle- class grind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The collection included “The Gold-Bug” as well as several other short stories, like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and another one called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He was buying equipment to make his collection of cars simpler, but he wasn’t generating the kind of revenue necessary to support the costs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I went on missions to inspect fallen trees that needed removing, talked to neighborhood pastors who were upset about traffic or garbage collection, and often represented the mayor’s office at community functions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The heart of the library was its collection of books. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost inevitably, he became the leading authority on coprolites–fossilized feces–and had a table made entirely out of his collection of specimens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She stacked them with the Poe collection of stories on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Other pieces may even dispense with the idea that music has to consist of notes; compositions may be collections of sounds and silences. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z One lunch period she gave me a flat, brown-speckled shell from her collection. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Grandma sat by my bed, took out my stamp collection, and tried to get me to take an interest in it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Her small, neatly folded collection of clothes sits next to the bed on a pallet of its own. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The tar is an extremely rich collection of complex organic molecules, including the constituent parts of proteins and nucleic acids. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here at great expense,” he moaned to Oppenheimer, “the government has assembled the world’s largest collection of crackpots.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead she stayed put and kept indexing the collection, determined to preserve William’s place in history. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Each dorm had a different collection of banners out front displaying Roman numerals and various animals—eagle, bear, wolf, horse, and something that looked like a hamster. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She keeps a whole collection of the stuff she confiscates, and I don’t want my phone to be part of it. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z My sketchbook is a collection of imprints from my soul. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He asked other scientists to send him their barnacle collections, and over the next days, weeks, and months he pulled down more bottles of barnacles from his shelves. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I've already seen Lewis's entire collection, but I didn't have much else to do. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a collection of some personal items, arrived at slowly, from a distance. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Bongo flipped a penny she kept in her collection of treasures, and we arrived at our helper: the smallest baby opossum, Flashlight. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Dill said, “It’s time to take up collection,” and hit her for the two nickels she had in her pocket. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In this way she gained seventy-eight cents in coins previously designated for the church collection plate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Then I remember the little collection of stones I’d found that morning. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The second and third floors had a collection of random businesses, but the entire bottom floor used to be a library. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Behind him stood a collection of ruined emblems, tattered banners, and a large golden eagle on a staff of iron. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Bo's collection of plastic fans was lined up neatly at the top end. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Baker keeps a collection of coastal survey maps in his office. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z On one of the shelves, Mariam saw a collection of identical wooden dolls, arranged in a line in order of decreasing size. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z This marked the beginning of Roosevelt’s collection of wildlife specimens. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The exit ramp lowers, and I gather my collection bag as well. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps her presence made the NSA hold back from examining the collection that day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Dead rabbits, muskrats, opossums, and fish were also found in numbers, and one of the local schools made the collection of insecticide-poisoned birds a science project. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The only religious book I had in my collection was the Landmark biography Jesus of Nazareth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She’d taken to always carrying The Gold-Bug and the Poe collection of stories with her, too, but because her backpack was so bulky she almost removed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The rest of the week trots by—a collection of card games, work, and hanging around with the Doorman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z At Howard University, one of the greatest collections of books could be found in the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, where your grandfather once worked. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Of course, these stories were just that, a collection of myths and folktales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z His father was head deacon in this church—there were only two, the other a round, black man named Deacon Braithwaite—and he took up the collection, and sometimes he preached. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The vanity held a collection of hair relaxers, skin bright- eners, oils, and flattening irons. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Before me a gathering of people were almost blocking the walk, while above them a short squat man shouted angrily from a ladder to which were attached a collection of small American flags. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z His collection rate was about 95 percent; he attributed the underpayment to oversight, not fraud. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It was not long before we had a collection of animals. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They had taken up a collection and bought a white cake with chocolate icing that read success forever! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He’d had a button and a pennant collection, a thousand pennies in a large mason jar, a fishbowl, and a model tin lizzie hung from a strand of wire in one corner. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t have a big coonskin to add to my collection. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this, it’s unclear to me why a collection of intimate profiles or personal stories is so frequently termed a poll. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Could it be true that the journal was actually a magical collection of the Spider’s stories? Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Bonnie wasn't much of a shopper, but after a pronounced bout of whining, she decided she wouldn't mind adding to her lifelong angel collection. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But he had more of his collections to distribute to experts, and he had to urge them, coax them, to tell him what they thought. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z With scrap lumber from Endurance and a small and precious collection of used nails, he began raising the sides of the boats to make them more seaworthy. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “You, Mountain Goat, can put together a rock collection the likes of which has never been seen,” Dad told me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z During those first few weeks, warders from other sections and even other prisons came to stare at us as if we were a collection of rare caged animals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I hand them their six pizzas and they take a drunken collection for cash, but can’t count it. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Weary’s father, who was a plumber, actually did collect such things, and his collection was insured for four thousand dollars. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked through the book he had given me; it was a collection of old tales in English, so far as I could discern. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Regardless, Grody stresses that questions of consent should apply only to the collection of future samples, not the millions already stored, including HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I slipped out a thin collection of poems and short stories. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z There might be a neat pop-up book, or a dinosaur diorama that I could add to my collection. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “So, this is where your Nali’s been stashing her rug collection,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z One bed had a collection of staffs leaning against the wall just under it. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z She disappeared back into the crowd, a wonderful collection of gently moving curves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Nathan factored into his data collection the fact that the modern corn in the square shape had two more weeks to grow than the traditional corn in the circular shape. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I watch the sun rise, burning its collection of memories, and I draw strength for another day. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The new Nigerian upper class is a collection of illiterates who read nothing and eat food they dislike at overpriced Lebanese restaurants and have social conversations around one subject: ‘How’s the new car behaving?’” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He was a rambler out of South Carolina and found his way to slave catching after a hardscrabble sequence: dockhand, collection agent, gravedigger. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And behind them, in close pursuit, came a motley collection of fliers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And years later, just before the accident, there had been a small electrical fire that took out the bookshelves where all the photo albums and my uncle’s record collection had been. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The collection would later include Elizebeth’s books and papers as well as his, and the transfer had her full backing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In this and other ways the Ptolemies were able, in just a few decades, to amass the largest collection of books in the Greek world. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z He pulled the sheet away, revealing a collection of levers and knobs almost as complicated-looking as Leo’s control panel on the Argo II. “This button?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Another secret to add to the collection in our household. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Theo now has works by Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Seurat in his private collection—in addition to all his brother’s paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The store had a chess collection—at prices lower than Buschke’s—combined with a specialization in Caribbean and radical literature. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She heard sausages hissing in the kitchen, saw her brother’s collection of sports magazines on the livingroom table, smelled the bittersweet odor of Calpurnia’s hairdressing. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z My brother is bringing Danny, whose nose runs all the time, who wears knitted vests in diamond patterns, who has a stamp collection. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a collection of sports bloopers, and guess who they saved for last. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I place my collection bag over my shoulder and stand tall and straight at the front of the line. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He was a collection of hard lines and tailored edges—sharp jaw, lean build, wool coat snug across his shoulders. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Do you know it wasn’t supposed to be in his personal collection when you found it? Do you have confirmation of that? Or are you making an assumption?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She says, Do you want to make your collection? and I tell her I don’t care. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The bus let off two men, who frowned at the collection of tramps in their suburb. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I move closer to peer at the collection. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It’s a collection of the artist’s drawings, paintings, and tips on how to draw manga. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Gerald was showing her all of the secrets of his backyard, while she obliged him by being genuinely impressed with his rock collection, his “fighting sticks,” and even his treasure box. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z At Independence in 1960, Nigeria was a collection of fragments held in a fragile clasp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was that he didn’t think of his people collection as a business strategy. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side of the hallway, Ma picked out gold necklaces and bracelets from her collection for us to wear. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside are the toaster, the stereo, a bunch of Sam’s music collection, my Sony boom box. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah, get this: you know the guy in Pittsburgh with the world’s second-largest collection of black Santas?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I loved my collection, even though I knew I should not. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I found another collection of stones, off by themselves, but so arranged that they could not have been accidental. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no magazines in the waiting room, no television, only a collection of matching wing chairs lined up against the walls and a water fountain at one end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the lobby was an intriguing jumble of mahogany and moth-eaten velvet, interspersed with deer heads, calendars from filling stations, and a large collection of Bicentennial commemorative trivets, mounted and hung upon the wall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They depart Christmas Day, driving with their massive collection of luggage to Logan when they should be home opening gifts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He emerged to the forlorn collection of grooms but offered no verdict. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s usually the number of buttons in her collection or shoes in my mother’s closet or spools of thread in the drawer. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured he could use Uncle Chester’s Zane Grey collection to help him learn to read English. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Although he was pleased to have such an extensive collection, Charles was thinking about something bigger when he looked at his fossils. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull out my growing collection of her notes. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z While some remain single letters, content with their onetime replies, others evolve into longer exchanges, collections of ongoing conversations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She kept this collection on shelves of pale, honey-colored wood. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Churchill By the end of his career, the story of Churchill’s oratory—as set out in David Cannadine’s introduction to a collection of Churchill’s speeches1—can be told in statistics and lists. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I hadn’t meant to play the tape, but since I was there all by myself, an impulse made me get the cassette out of my collection box and put it into the player. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Out here stars were perforations revealing the bleached skeleton of the universe through a collection of tiny holes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The woman did not even give the collection of bones a cursory glance. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Anatole has set out in front of the school a collection of big clay bowls and next to each one the knife, the bottle, or the matches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “So that’s where they come from,” said Milo, looking in awe at the glittering collection of numbers. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the key groups that spread these teachings was founded in the 1530s: the Jesuit order, a collection of highly trained intellectuals well suited to attack Protestantism. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I touched Gran’s collection of fabrics, the shiny bright buttons, the colored threads. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The Marshall Library wanted them to catalogue the collection before they turned it over. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I take out the journal and slip it right into the hollow of Kalinda’s desk, next to her collection of erasers and used staples. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "I found a great addition to our collection!" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, one of the books found in the bus with his remains was a collection of stories that included Tolstoy’s "The Kreutzer Sonata,” in which the nobleman-turned-ascetic denounces "the demands of the flesh.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z First, we had to play that Bible Detective game again, and Howard added to his collection of Bible bucks. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I looked toward Momma, across that square of stained boards, over the collection table, hoping that a look from her would root me safely to my sanity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She had her collection of antique Indian jewelry, which she kept in a self-storage locker. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Too much research in the social sciences, in fact, is a mindless collection of such meaningless data. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In school, they had taken up a collection of donated clothes for him and his family. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved words and had a small collection of his most favorite books. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As she grew older the group, the herd, which is any collection of children, began to sense what adults felt, that there was something foreign about Cathy. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I penciled the date and time of collection on it as instructed, but I didn’t know what to put for the location. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Against my skin, I have a collection of knives. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The world of Packingtown was tough and poor, a collection of shanties and shops in the shadow of the Yard. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now I have lots of teachers—a whole collection of people who somehow know me less. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z ‘I is galloping off now,’ he said, ‘to catch some more whoppsy-whiffling dreams for my collection. I is doing this every day without missing. Is you wishing to come with me?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Jennifer had found a tool kit with a hammer and a collection of mismatched nails and was ready to go. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The forest had changed from a collection of trees to a dark, formless mass. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He continued to read Beetle Bailey and to cut out the strips, but he no longer mounted them in his collection. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Watching my father read that book was another clue in my collection. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z But he remembered the hours leading up to it—his grandmother coming out into the backyard to find him shooting arrows at her porcelain collection. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, it was where the Kuhani kept historic documents and books for his special collection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Garbage bags lined the curb waiting for collection and the concrete was uneven in places, but she moved right down the center of the sidewalk, never taking her eyes off me. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The L.L.Bean duffel bags are splayed wide, and Molly’s small collection of books, including Anne of Green Gables, is piled on the floor. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Friedmans’ valuable collection had gone to the Marshall Library as a gift, and Elizebeth had to pinch pennies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Some of the specimens were new to science, and it was considered one of the most important collections given to the New York City museum. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z We had a small collection of books in our class, but it was no secret that the boys’ school had a much bigger library to choose from. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z When you come across old students from Hailsham, you always find them, sooner or later, getting nostalgic about their collections. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a young museum, eager to build a world-class collection, and the kouros was such an extraordinary find that its experts were blinded to their instincts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Charles the Fifth had no less than nine hundred and ten volumes, so that his personal collection was about as big as the Everyman Library is today. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, how I envied Clyde’s collection of books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “You put your collection out with the rubbish?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That an institution of learning should keep a library was not as obvious then as it is now—Plato, for all the reasons we have already discussed, kept no such collection at his Academy. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I studied a collection of metal boxes with locks and keys. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There are sheets of paper taped to the door, a collection of finger-painting projects. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Plus, I don’t think Uncle Wood would mind if you added this one to your collection. As a matter of fact”—Grandma grinned wide—“I think he’d be honored.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Written poems exist on a page, at first glance, as a mere collection of words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she transplanted clumps of wildflowers and clovers and berries and shrubs and herbs until the Nest was surrounded by a scraggly collection of plants. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Multiple bookshelves with not just books but collections. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I find my own bag and pull out my jeans and T-shirt, cramming them into my collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A list of all the films in Halliday’s collection at the time of his death was included in the appendices of Anorak's Almanac. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The crooked collection of mud-brick huts in the beastkeepers’ quarters seemed so much smaller in the daytime. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A bond grew between the two women, and Block hired Maria and Johanna to help create a painted record of her botanical collection. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was extra meaning in the event for Terryl because her real father, and his wife, joined the group, marking the first time the whole collection of them had been together. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z From the collection of atomizers on die dresser, I chose one and squeezed die bulb, but no perfume came out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel like playing the tambourine, or spoiling Buckminster, or arranging my collections, or looking through Stuff That Happened to Me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Our eating habits are mediated by a mind-boggling collection of such items, from spoons and glasses to genetic engineering labs and gigantic ocean-going ships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, he had robbed the community of food: a very serious crime, even though what he had taken was leftovers, set out on the dwelling doorsteps for collection. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He points a shaky hand to the collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d got a video player in the billiards room a couple of years earlier, and by that spring had built up quite a good collection of movies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point in the past, she’d inhaled a collection of ancient prophecies that had supposedly been destroyed around the fall of Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This little collection of debutantes represents over four billion dollars of America’s wealth and over fifty of America’s leading families. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Frank helped his father with a collection of letters that he wanted to publish, and with an autobiography that Charles was preparing for his children and grandchildren. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Or consider a collection of toy blocks which vary between one and five inches on a side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The paint was peeling off the doors and the windows were crammed with years’ and years’ collection of knickknacks. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the afternoon was largely consumed by the collection of facts and figures. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z These were likely just selected copies from the scholars’ collection. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z This was the first definitive film stock collection of the life of Malcolm X and it traveled extensively throughout the nation’s university circuit as well as to civil rights and Afro-American nationalist events. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A stained armchair and an old- fashioned desk peek from behind a collection of mops and brooms. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z She had her own pink record player and a collection of albums. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z His collection was vast: classical, jazz, a ton of rock, five albums that featured Tuvinian throat singers. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “There’s a whole collection of old Prophets up there. Well, I’m going to find out more about Eileen Prince if I can.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z It looked like a collection of matching houses, built with maroon-colored bricks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The collection of shreds, of space in her case, time in mine. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z On each table there was a different classic home computer or videogame system, accompanied by tiered racks that appeared to hold a complete collection of its peripherals, controllers, software, and games. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And how even the most organized trailer with nice curtains and a nice lamp and an alphabetized DVD collection is worth nothing if... The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The collection of presents was growing and the guest list, if there had been one, was a little like a census. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Giant tapestries and a huge collection of fantasy artwork covered the walls, while gargoyle statues and suits of armor lined the hallways. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z So what does Spencer have that’s worthy of adding to my collection? Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “But,” he says, enunciating very slowly, “what about the collections that are not on public display?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was filled with unusual pieces of sculpture and pretty collections in glass jars: buttons, marbles, and rhinestones displayed on shelves so they caught the light. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The little collection of fruit- bearers growing by the river was his attempt to contrive, rain or no, a patch of the paradise, the green, apple-scented Eden, he envisioned. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When radio broadcasts of recorded music began from 1920 onwards, public interest in having one’s own record collection accelerated; what had been a trickle turned into a flood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “My dad’s collection of first editions,” he said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then she sat scanning the collection of gauges and instruments. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z While the mass of men went on leading thoroughly unexamined lives of monstrous consumption, Augustus Waters examined the collection of the Rijksmuseum from afar. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z And he had amassed a collection of nearly fifty ties by the time he got into junior high, ties he wore to school every single day. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z But collections also provided more serious scholars with specimens that helped them formulate theories on the natural order of life. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He returned with a rare blue-footed booby and a collection of other animals, which he donated to a zoo. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at the collection up close, taking my time to notice every detail. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We moved to a completely dark area behind a collection of bushes to regroup. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z It is a collection of men from many different places who have seen much defeat and many commanders. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to use Hush Puppies in his spring collection. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Luna sat among a collection of Star Children—all different ages—one infant, some toddlers, and moving upward to the oldest, who was an impressively old man. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Inside the bag was a beautiful collection of jewel-toned beads, as well as some neatly knotted bundles of twine. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He remembered second aunt with her cactus collection, fifth uncle with his beard, eighth uncle with that opium addict, socialite wife. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere in the middle of New Jersey, a collection of drool has pooled so impressively onto my shirt that a child in another row wakes me with his phone’s camera flash. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z My excuse is that in this era of planned obsolescence, when a thing breaks down I can usually find something in my collection to repair it—a toilet, or a motor, or a lawn mower. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the corner of the Palace they built a wire cage and in it their collection of angry tom cats grew with every night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The dank, dingy rooms housed an eclectic collection of students, both male and female. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Then, after the sturdy White Stag, come the breezy, revealing Faded Glory, No Boundaries, and Jordache collections, designed for the younger and thinner crowd. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It's where they keep a collection about Chicago's music. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I understand what she's feeling, is a collection of photographs the same as what I'm doing? Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z David, who was always my pal, ceremoniously plucked a few letters from his collection and then set down his letters and spelled “S-P-E-R-M.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Alabama charges a 30 percent collection fee, and Florida allows private debt collectors to tack on a 40 percent surcharge to the underlying debt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I explain to Alice that the project is a collection of true stories about maids and their experiences waiting on white families. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We couldn’t pay in money, of course, or put it on the Compucount: we used other things, some jewelry that was my grandmother’s, a stamp collection Luke inherited from his uncle. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I did four pastel drawings from the permanent collection—a Chagall, a Franz Marc, and two Picassos. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some of these at least survive–notably the bones of an Anchisaurus, which are in the collection of the Peabody Museum at Yale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In his youth he’d been a devoted scholar of foreign languages, the owner of an impressive collection of dictionaries. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He didn’t even yell at the twins for lagging behind to pick up interesting-looking rocks for their growing collection. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “I told you, and you didn’t listen. Now your precious hideout is burning, and I’m gonna hunt down all your little friends and put all their miserable hides with the rest of my collection.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I went to our room to add it to my collection. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Beneath this was a collection of yellow newspaper cuttings, all stuck together to make a ragged collage. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Cool Papa had promised the collection to Clayton, even though Clayton didn’t have the right player for the large black discs. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Their value for science comes from being part of a larger collection. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There are only symptoms and catchphrases for various collections of symptoms. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A collection of lunatics who made wine and sang in the streets “like common street women! Just like common street women!” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The average toy block in this collection, we might assume, is three inches on a side. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But then they encountered a sight that she had not anticipated: a growing collection of tents pitched on the barren fields on either side of the road. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Army Airborne School is a collection of soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, Coast Guardsmen, cadets, and anyone else who has received the funding and possesses the will to become Airborne-qualified. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I turn to my rule collection and add: Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The cabins were the weirdest collection of buildings you’ve ever seen. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Immie’s collection of rings, eight of them in animal shapes, were on top of the dresser. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They ranged in age from sixteen to sixty and were carrying a motley collection of muskets and swords and pistols. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was food in the wagon, and wine—and a camera, and a stamp collection, and a stuffed owl, and a mantel clock that ran on changes of barometric pressure. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Basket of Hands,” the collection of pages that he was finally confident could become a book, was gone. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I look through the old record collection my dad gave me. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “We would be honored to show you the collections, Sergeant Major,” breathes the assistant director. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her voice was softer than usual when she replied to Midge: “I haven’t got it here. I keep it in my collection chest.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z While the rest of the household sleeps, he and Sonia fight over the Walkman, over the melting collection of tapes Gogol recorded back in his room at home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “I just need a few things. A lady has to be prepared,” she said before disappearing into Tiara’s hut and coming out with a strange collection of beauty products. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Hugo also remembered that sometimes at night, Father would read to him from amazing adventure stories byjules Verne and a collection of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales, which were Hugo’s favorites. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z His bird collection grew even bigger and his observations in his notebook grew longer, especially the following summer when his family took a trip down the Nile River. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z There were poems in the collection, too, including one called “The Raven.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I swallowed and said to Peach, “I’ve got a...bottle cap collection. I can show it to you after dinner, if you want.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z However, while every one of Dobby’s strange collection of garments was so clean and well cared for that it looked brand- new, Winky was plainly not taking care of her clothes at all. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The collections always covered the rally expenses, and anything beyond that helped to continue building the Nation of Islam. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was younger, that collection of features looked strange, but now it suits him. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Wilfred then said that I was welcome to listen to his vast collection of classical composers, mostly German, in his living room whenever I wanted to. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There are several collections of wise sayings which not only do not reflect heroism at all, but give a view of life which dispenses with it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Studying the recipe collection that May clipped from magazines and kept taped on the refrigerator. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She had quite a collection of these picture calendars, and we got through most of the counties this way. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a whole collection of newly purchased murder weapons and dead UPS men in her basement and/or attic. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “I mean...we could use your help in sample collection...for the Collective,” I say, realizing my mistake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “May I ask you something?” he says as she looks at a collection of detailed figurines waiting patiently amongst curls of wood to be housed in their proper clocks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Brimming bowls and colanders lined the countertop, spices and pastes were measured and blended, and eventually a collection of broths simmered over periwinkle flames on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Dense collections of villages thronged the bluffs that line the shore, with their people fishing in the river and farming the floodplains and sections of the uplands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I got my own VCR and two tapes to add to my collection: Swamp Thing and Sports Bloopers. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z This request, too, the lawyers refused, much to the regret of Milton Greeman, curator of Wistar’s renowned collection of medical specimens. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’d even started a figurine collection and was always on the lookout for new turtles to add to it whenever we traveled. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Zalmay had offered to show him his collection of video games, but he wasn’t interested. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Beyond that milled a tribe of two-headed men dressed in rags and blankets like homeless guys, armed with a haphazard collection of slings, clubs and metal pipes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I can remember one or two students not bothering much with their collections, but most of us took enormous care, bringing things out to display, putting other things away carefully. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent the first night of our trek in the hamlet of Phakding, a collection of a half dozen homes and lodges crowded onto a shelf of level ground on a slope above the river. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Remora, you might manage his personal collection, but you have no business here. Now, please, don’t make me call security.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Throw in a bottle cap collection, and your day is made!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z My collection bags filled with red-rimmed leaves, the ground cover, and even the huge leaf samples hang on a rod in a glass refrigerator. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Ignoring Mom, I pick up my sketchbook and turn to my rule collection. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled a javelin from his collection and took aim at me. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z From the moment Cherrie first set foot in Brazil, he had already added one thousand birds to the museum collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The walls were painted colors, not rental white, and covered with art, photographs, and a collection of paper fans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I watched more singing on television and added being a singing star to my daydream collection. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The other artists in his collection are much farther along than Vincent; their work is already selling. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Your collection. In the jars. I was sorry to see them all escape like that.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The NSA’s newest director was eager to offer their collection a home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “My ensemble is from the tropical collection, ‘Essence of a Sandy Parrot.’ Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The frontispiece makes clear that the orbis is a globe, but the plural terrae implies a collection of maps of different countries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He left town without picking up his check, which had been ready for collection for over two days before his departure. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On the stage Luba Luft sang, and he found himself surprised at the quality of her voice; it rated with that of the best, even that of notables in his collection of historic tapes. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z More — much more — would follow as cities throughout the United States organized collections of blankets, bedding, clothing, food, and cash. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I said to him, “I never showed you my bottle cap collection.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was in the dorm one night, just before lights-out, and was rummaging through my collection chest to pass the time until the others came back from the bathroom. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Curving off to their starboard side was the town of Mykonos - a collection of white stucco buildings with blue roofs, blue windows and blue doors. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "Hi, it's me. Sharon's boy, David. I was just in the kitchen admiring your collection of ceramic toads." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The only thing keeping him from imploding right now is his collection of deadly toys. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He intended to spend time with his books—he owned a thousand volumes, a vast collection. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Roll it away and add it to that nasty collection of yours.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “And anyway, it’s not the entire rock collection. Just the best ones.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z "But, you know, you did a good job— the way you approached that data collection. Good clear thinking, Bobby." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z What remained of Mantell’s collection after his death passed on to his children, and much of it was taken to New Zealand by his son Walter, who emigrated there in 1840. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The glossy pictures had all been torn from magazines, a collection of pale, blond, hipless women with aquiline noses, bony legs, blank eyes, and thin, wan smiles. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Amsterdam was home to fantastic collections of animals and insects from all over the world, and to gardens and hothouses full of exotic plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Everything, he said, is a collection of atoms, intricately assembled. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She brings him the cigarette and tells Mam the guards in the barracks have taken up a collection to pay our train fares to Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “There are pieces in other rooms but this is the majority of the collection.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A chipped enamelware pail by the stove held a fat collection of juniper kindling. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z His father pushed him into the hutch where Travis’s mother kept the china and her doll collection. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z In another was a collection of little clips and fasteners of various sizes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Cool? This is fan-freaking-tastic! My mom would flip out. She loves Buddha statues, especially laughing Buddhas. She has, like, this whole collection in the puja room at our house.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There were various collections of Poe’s work on the table, along with other mysteries and scary stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z There were various collections of Poe’s work on the table, along with other mysteries and scary stories. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the day it was due, the collection agency showed up at my door trying to get the money and I didn’t make it to school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He told us that he was taking up a collection among the miners to put us on a train back to the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “How much does your grandpa pay to have you play for us? Can’t he buy off some place of higher education? I’ll chip in, get a collection going.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z "I thought if you were taking up a collection," I told her, "I could make a small contribution. You could keep the money for when you do take up a collection." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The motel forms a toilet-seat shape around the parking lot, and I can see an inexplicable collection. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I also have the largest collection of captive sea monsters in the world!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z While he chose a suit, he thought to himself: Quite astounding that she should also have a collection of false beards. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z When the collection was taken up and the last hymn given to the praise of God, the evangelist asked that everyone in his presence rededicate his soul to God and his life’s work to Charity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mind not being stylish, but I am obviously wearing an odd collection of cast-offs, and if I am seen, people will wonder. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The cover says it’s an anthology and when I asked Mrs. Robins what an anthology is, she said it means a collection. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z It’s a collection of nasty underarm sweat, beer breath, missing teeth, and three-day growth. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Wow! I love your graphic novel collection. Can I borrow a few?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He cut out Beetle Bailey comics for his collection. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z So crowded is our stock of figurative language that every profession—legal, corporate, fashion, artistic, literary, and so on—seems to have a collection all its own. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a splendid collection of swords and cutlery. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She took herself and her china collection to live with her daughter. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He has already sensed what people in Nuevo Laredo know: when it comes to migrants, Padre Leo’s heart is bigger than his collections. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Inside the Hole were the usual collection of inebriated men bent over foamy pint glasses and the battered tables and dingy decor I’d come to know as my home away from home. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Sam made Oksi comfortable inside the tree, then took the trail to Mrs. Strawberry’s farm and her collection of pipes and lumber and wheels and scraps of metal. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He is building up a great art collection for the gallery and for himself. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She stacked them with the Poe collection of stories on top. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z For a start, they were our only means, aside from the Sales—the Sales were something else, which I’ll come to later—of building up a collection of personal possessions. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m right next to one of the biggest private libraries in the world,” said Billy, meaning Eliot Rosewater’s collection of science fiction. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Underneath is a collection of Wordsworth poems, a Bible, and a book of plays by Oscar Wilde. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z My father loves jazz and has an extensive collection of records and reel-to-reel tapes he used to enjoy after returning home from work. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Any college library would have been lucky to get that collection. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Historians necessarily rely on the evidence which has survived from the past: in that sense their vantage point is a collection of material remains which exist in the present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We could’ve left him with a smile on his face and one less motor in his collection. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Since he was limited to his record and tape collection, it became his dream that his family might fill the musical void by someday forming a jazz combo. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Their book collection was vast, ranging from their college textbooks to the latest scholarship on cryptography. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But Nick reminded James that his two-year-old daughter would grow up and go to college someday—and besides, hadn’t James once given Nick his whole baseball card collection? Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The message of the book is that the Iks have transformed themselves into an irreversibly disagreeable collection of unattached, brutish creatures, totally selfish and loveless, in response to the dismantling of their traditional culture. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I met people who owned entire collections of houses and spent more on one restaurant meal than my family had paid for 93 Little Hobart Street. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s got frizzy red hair and an impressive collection of freckles, and she keeps her eyes on her shoes as she walks. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Just as the period’s architects designed buildings from the same limited collection of motifs and shapes, Haydn and his contemporaries were designing music from a similarly limited catalogue. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A collection of grotesque wooden masks rested on a shelf. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She has a collection on her windowsill, always sparkling with light. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They named the property Marianna Farm, combining Marian’s name and her mother’s, and stocked the place with a collection of farm animals that included horses and cows, chickens, pigs, and sheep. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z But in your collection is exactly where other people found it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He heads directly over to my clock collection on the far wall. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z One collection of coincidences too unlikely to be dismissed in this way is provided by the case of the proverbial monkey accidentally typing out Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z After they left, I started getting sorry that I'd only given them ten bucks for their collection. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z There were poems in the collection, too, including one called “The Raven.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Nailer paused in his collections and watched as it carved across the blue water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I mentally flip through her large, strange collection of fears, fears that make her break out in a sweat, make her moan about feeling suffocated. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The man’s body was a bony shell inside rumpled clothing that hung on him like a disorderly collection of sacks. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was always there in my collection, in one of my little piles next to the skirting board. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I round up her crystal collection, which has done nothing but gather dust for six years, and I box it up and take it to the attic. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z His skull is no longer with the rest of the skeleton in the Museum's collection, and its location is a mystery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It’s getting toward “that time of year,” and my father sits at the kitchen table with his laptop, stressed and distracted by the new tax code, and some client’s haphazard collection of receipts. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z And even though he was just a mismatched collection of memories, he still disagreed with me—over everything. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He stood there, staring at the blurry collection of lights. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The immense collection of people and animals began to travel faster. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know it wasn’t supposed to be in his personal collection when you found it? Do you have confirmation of that? Or are you making an assumption?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Central to Gilbert’s enterprise was the claim that you could reproduce his experiments and confirm his results: his book was, in effect, a collection of experimental recipes. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z France is built on its own dream, on its collection of bodies, and recall that your very name is drawn from a man who opposed France and its national project of theft by colonization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z A noun can be double trouble if it stands for a collection of things. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z One Friday after school, Carl invited me to his home to see his coin collection. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In Amsterdam, Maria would have seen butterfly collections such as this one, showing specimens from all over the world. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He makes a collection of the boat funnels from the lake freighters, checking them through binoculars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Cora moved to one part of the collection and touched a metal loop with spikes radiating toward its center. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He sent me a collection of Nova videos.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He was as proud of the gift as I. It was a soft-leather- bound copy of a collection of poems by Edgar Allan Poe, or, as Bailey and I called him, “Eap.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then—I wasn’t trying to lead onto anything, or make any kind of point—I just happened to say to her: “You never had a collection after Hailsham, did you?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hizdahr’s fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He picks up my collection bag with all our belongings and hides it in his room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She remembered what her mother said the day Johnny, husband #3, moved the rest of his guitar collection into the rented U-Haul and drove it away to live with a Hooters waitress named Fragile. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z This woman, as I said, was the last: but there were plenty of empty chairs beyond her, as if the room had been intended for a much larger collection of images. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Mam says she’d better take me home and put me to bed and my pals look surprised that anyone can go to bed when there’s a collection to be made. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There were dog photos tacked behind his computer, and some of the same editing books Emily recognized from her dad’s shelves sat next to a bobblehead collection. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She has a collection of them that she keeps in a box and I’ve seen her take one out when she gets nervous. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z Sedgwick declared his collection “above all praise” and said that Charles would have “a great name among the Naturalists of Europe.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I look around at the perfectly aligned end tables and the alphabetized collection of DVDs, but instead of feeling good, all I feel is Lenny. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I struggle to pull myself and the full collection bag back through his cell. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even in the Langley Technical Library, which was arguably the worlds best collection of information on powered flight, engineers were hard-pressed to find books on spaceflight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z It was a collection of sheds and tents and a grandstand for the harness racing. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In Latin silva is a wood but also the collection of raw materials needed for a building. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Although Cherrie was left with just the clothes on his back, he held on to his collection of bird specimens for the museum. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Maybe there was a separate collection for people in guesthouses. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “We all know that the existence of God is a matter of speculation. The Bible is nothing but a collection of stories by whites.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And he was uncertain how impressive the moth collection might really be. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “You’re supposed to leave a dollar or something in the collection box and light a candle in memory of someone. And, I guess, say a prayer if you want.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Luke tried to remember if there were any history books among his family’s collection in the attic. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z No amount of money can buy you entry into these collections. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “And...if you die before me,” said Peach in a thoughtful voice, “can I have your bottle cap collection that Uncle Edisto willed to you?” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Word spread of her insect collections, and interest grew. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And you never found it, so it did not belong in your collection. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Hassan was already sitting at the oak table with a collection of papers in front of him. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z They came to a collection of huts set around a neat courtyard. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z And of course, we had our “collections” to think of. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z This inspiration came to me as I picked out six turtles from my figurine collection to bring with me to Worlds. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was the collection of Greek myths she had borrowed from Monsieur Labisse. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z A collection of white shopping bags lie at the base of her stool. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Before I can ask what a Night Brother is, Elsie holds up the sneakandle to show me her collection of magazine covers, centered around a small Mexican flag, stretching up to the ceiling. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The collection of centennial quarters Toby’s mom had given him before she split. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Television was restricted, but they had a large collection of approved videos. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “You know Mr. Peale. He always does things in a unique way. You’ve heard of the collection of animals he has?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a huge bed and flowing white curtains—and, oddly, a small antique rocking horse and a collection of old weather vanes arranged on a large wooden desk. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Teeth Man, however, hadn’t had the same luck with his collection. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It would be like her bringing her entire book collection. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At some point, either then or later, the agency quietly removed items from the collection. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Moorland held archives, papers, collections, and virtually any book ever written by or about black people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Two lines near the end of the most important of the collections show wisdom:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z After that Anna showed me the rest of her books and her rock collection. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z His long-promised games collection, My 60 Memorable Games, was published by Simon & Schuster, and it made an immediate and indelible impression on the chess public. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They are only a collection of days, less than half a year, and then who knows where I go and what I do? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There were little white boys with complete collections of football cards, and their only want was a popular girlfriend and their only worry was poison oak. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I’d heard Radar say “the world’s largest collection of black Santas” perhaps a thousand times in my life, and it never became any less funny to me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Service starts and after a few announcements and some hymns, the collection plate is passed around. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z That night I went out and bought Chinese food and a collection of Poe stories. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I stayed outside with the collection of neighbors who had come to see what was going on. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z A vast collection of troops, tanks, weapons, and vehicles surrounded the castle on all sides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As we passed by Main Street School, I reached underneath the front seat and pulled out my penny collection, which I kept in a small, white cardboard box. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, the point is, there was a gap in Miss Emily’s calendar collection: none of them had a single picture of Norfolk. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And even Mason Darlington Burgess didn’t have a Talent like that in his collection. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It turned out that the Black Panthers at the People’s Center had taken up a collection for Cecile to fly down here. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “She collected marbles when she was young, and she has willed her entire collection to me.” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the rules in my collection are easy and always: Say excuse me.' after you burp. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When William died, the Friedmans were still cataloguing their library collection. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Oh, they were only a collection of fiends, of course. The whole tower turned up-so-down and vanished immediately, and it turned out that they had been fiends all the time, including the priest.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like a collection of moss held together by some small sticks. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She had brought a collection of poems in case she had time to read, and her writing notebook, and her small troll with rhinestone eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I take the journal and wrap it carefully in the best wrapping paper I can find, in the bedroom with the Christmas decorations and my mother’s collection of cards. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Papa would of stayed with her, except he had to take up collection. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The world’s most amazing and thoughtfully collected collection of bottle caps in the South!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I have a collection of math and engineering textbooks on the top shelf of my desk. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Ma had a huge collection of these Pez containers in our apartment. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But although Royal in name, the London-based society was a collection of private individuals with no official source of funding and no obligations to the government. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “In these collections, I saw countless other insects, but in a manner that lack both their origin and how they reproduced, that is to say how they changed from caterpillars to chrysalises and so on.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And Pastor Patton’s salary came from the collection basket, which usually only gathered a few coins each Sunday, supplemented by the goodness of others who occasionally brought him fresh chickens or eggs or bread. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The collection of tables and chairs had been rearranged into a basic U shape around the room, and multiple colleges had set up their displays on them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The tiendita holds a collection of most beautifully disorganized items, both necessaries and “splurges for the soul,” as Abue puts it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a collection of Norwegian fairy tales, and I read the first one. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I plunged after her, I dove under the wrecked hull of a yacht, wove through a collection of floating metal balls on chains that I realized afterward were mines. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Three years after graduation, I was still at it, having published my first novel, The Wanderers, a collection of linked stories about a gang of Bronx teenagers in the pre-Beades sixties. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Hollister said it was unusual to see a book with only one of Poe’s stories. Maybe there’s another collection by that name. Maybe this is a coincidence,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “This is a small collection of work from the artist Mickalene Thomas,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Numerous researchers had appealed to HEW, asking that collection of blood and tissues be exempt from the new law. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z And yet the hope that we could start our own little fix-it shop and qualify as merchants steadily grew with the collection of coins in the tin can. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The living quarters and dining rooms of the tenured scholars would have been in the very same building, affording easy access to the collections. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She's gathered quite a collection of roots, nuts, greens, and even some berries. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “I have a huge movie collection at home.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Beowulf found a collection of the speeches of Cicero and offered them proudly. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “If I don’t come back, you have my permission to add my moonstone badge to your VanQuish collection. Think about the bragging rights you’ll have at the next convention.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z On Ash Wednesday in February or March and the Day of the Migrant in September, all of the churches take up a collection. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Carmen picked up a frame next to her dad’s CD collection and stared. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A gallery in New York exhibited a collection of 2 million live army ants, on loan from Central America, in a one-colony show entitled “Patterns and Structures.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They created others live using their collection of paraphernalia. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Looking now at the magnificent robe, she knew that her sparse collection, a few leftover colored threads that her mother had allowed her to use for her own, was not adequate at all. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could have stretched out a foot and kicked them under the bench or behind the collection table. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Some things had gone: the Master’s valuable collection of silver had been looted; some college servants had vanished. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The agony in her voice cuts through Marco like every blade in Chandresh’s collection combined, but he keeps his attention on the contortionist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We walked across the expanse of what we considered our yard, then through a thin collection of birch to the tool shed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The bus had to veer sharply to avoid a collection of diplomatic limos. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I flip to my rule collection and add: if you want to get away with something, don t announce it first. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Experts knew, however, that it was one of the finest private cryptology collections in the country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The museum had been a courthouse long ago and was now home to a vast and extraordinary collection of Mardi Gras artifacts and memorabilia. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He was writing another article, on a passage in Avodah Zarah, which, he said, he was only now beginning to understand, and he needed one of the journal collections. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He did come across a collection called Mysterious Words from the Past, which he read for a while. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The collection was housed in a series of rooms. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z On May 17, 1954, Chief Justice Earl Warren read the Court’s unanimous decision in a collection of school segregation cases brought by the NAACP. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A collection of moans and gasps rose up. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The Chinese bakery downstairs from our flat displayed my growing collection of trophies in its window, amidst the dust-covered cakes that were never picked up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the rack of maps and brochures, there was a collection of postcards that were so ugly the visitor center should have been giving them away. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Next to it was Aaron’s father’s record collection, shelved in the bookshelf, of old vinyl records. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z “Your fingers are covered with very nasty acids, young lady. You’ll rot away these magazines if you’re not careful. Before you go nosing around in the collection, you come to me!” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I remember his wooden swords with the orange blood, his comic book collection. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the back of his mind, evidently, he had anticipated such a collection; it was not surprise that he felt but more a sort of yearning. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A sculpture of a man’s head sat in front of the expansive windows, and thanks to the small illustration on the cover of the short story collection Hollister had given Emily, she recognized it immediately. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Like Darwin, he collected beetles, but he lacked his cousin’s plodding, taxonomic mind and soon gave up his collection for more ambitious pursuits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There were collections of sheep T-shirts; large tubs of lanolin cream; and wooly coats, socks, and hats with ram’s horns. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But she began receiving menacing phone calls from a collection agency about an old bill her health insurance had not covered. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There are two characteristic forms that natural philosophy takes in the Middle Ages: one is the commentary on Aristotle; the other is the collection of quaestiones, of problems to which there is no agreed solution. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I put together a collection of photographs of Middle Eastern farms and farming. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z The vials and collection tools would’ve intimidated me before the hundreds of years of downloads. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She had a collection of them, the “Rubrum,” the “Honeymoon,” and a host of Japanese varieties. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “But we shouldn’t have to copy another school. Why can’t we come up with our own collection—something that represents our town?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Or that so-and-so has a collection of antique marbles. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I scanned my room for inspiration and spotted my collection of sports trophies won over the years, usually for good sportsmanship, as I was never the best player, or even very athletic. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “My dad loves jazz CDs,” she said, shuffling through the collection. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Behind her back, the NSA secretly took charge, overseeing the pickup and delivery of the collection on December 17, 1970. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The kouros, the records stated, had been in the private collection of a Swiss physician named Lauffenberger since the 1930s, and he in turn had acquired it from a well-known Greek art dealer named Roussos. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Should your collection of people be organized into a single group, or broken down into a small or large number of groups? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I’d been taking some of my favorite turtles to gymnastics meets for years, and everywhere I traveled I’d shop for a new turtle figurine to add to my collection. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Mostly it looked like a collection of notes or letters, some folded like the one she and James got caught passing in Mr. Quisling’s class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The collection included “The Gold-Bug” as well as several other short stories, like “The Tell-Tale Heart” and another one called “The Black Cat.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Wherever their collection went, they wanted it to be kept together in good condition. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Even Babulya created tenuous friendships with the collection of grandmothers whose sole purpose seemed to be creating warm garments for any child who got too close to them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Our end-of-semester English project was supposed to be a giant collection of stories from our childhood. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z In this way, the brothers are building a great art collection. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “I am at a loss what to think or say’’ He got over it fairly quickly, though, preoccupied with his adventures and his collections. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting on my bed looking at my bookcase one night during the second week, I see my thick Sherlock Holmes collection. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked that Margot had decided, reflecting on the small collection of times she had “known” me, that I would have been appealing to my grandfather. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z He was proud of every item in his collection. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z From time to time he came to Burnham for money, although whether he sought outright loans or sold Burnham artwork from his personal collection is unclear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Besides, they wanted their collection in a place where ordinary citizens could consult it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘Could I please bring back here in the bellypoppers all my collection of dreams? They is taking me years and years to collect and I is not wanting to lose them.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Unless,” said Poirot, smiling, “we can fit them into our little collection as—shall we say?—housekeeper and cook in the Armstrong household.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The liquid there heated and changed state, rising as vapor through the fractionating column to catch in the condenser and trickle in droplets into the collection flask. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At the very top of the bookshelves stood Nali’s collection of ye’ii figures, which were carved out of twisted branches of cottonwood. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I’m willing your bottle cap collection to Peach,” I said out loud. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The originals were retained in a special section of the Great Library called “the ships’ collection.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She lay under the faded bedding like a rag doll losing its stuffing, her hair a wild collection of snakes on the pillow, her cornflower blue eyes poisoned with streaks of yellow and red. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The result is that each raga is a collection of melodic scales, phrases, motifs, and ornaments, that may be used together to construct music in that raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The collection of maps provides a complete description of the surface. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Roosevelt, who had a growing collection of birds, wanted to learn how to do taxidermy so he could stuff and preserve his specimens himself. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Sarah's collection of shells sat on the windowsill. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z The bottom shelf of her record collection included some books—middle school yearbooks, a beat-up copy of The Outsiders—and some back issues of teen magazines. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He crouches beside our collection bucket; he murmurs a few words of thanks to the clam, for feeding his family. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Of course I’d long known that I was playing host to a massive collection of parasitic organisms, but I didn’t much like being reminded of it. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Through millions of years of isolation, a unique collection of animals evolved there. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The upper town was a rambling extension of the city below, a sprawling collection of shops, markets, and inns that served the guards and staff who worked at the Ice Court as well as visitors. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He yanked out a second case from the collection to see if perhaps it was in slightly better shape. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Between the two of us, we’d amassed an impressive collection of books written by twentieth century Black female authors. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In fact, one may describe the whole universe in terms of a collection of overlapping patches. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, dear. Layers upon layers of history here, but it’s nothing compared to Greece. Athens was old when Rome was a collection of mud huts. You’ll see, if you survive.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On a visit there, Elizebeth was shocked to find an important collection of papers “scattered higgledy-piggledy over those iron shelves....I went home and told my husband. We sort of cried on each other's shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She adds her umbrella to the collection gathering in the stands by the door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She had taken a picture of Melissa from Joaquin’s collection, and when she put it on the table between her and her parents, their anger died away and they looked at the photo, silent. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z This collection is worth a great deal of money.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Jefferson regretted to inform Adams that the story was untrue; he had not compiled a collection of the libels against himself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s adding more nature shots to his photo collection on ArtBoom. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I haven’t done a blessed thing this whole morning. You’ve been the Amen Corner, you sang a solo, and you took up collection. It’s my time, now.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Multiple bookshelves with not just books but collections. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He mounted some Beetle Bailey comics in his collection book. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The nurse shooed Emmett and his brothers out of the ward to the room designated for colored blood collection, where they’d donate eight pints of blood. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z These days we call the collection of lines a stave or staff. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Only one person stands between you and this collection of audiotapes: Mr. Porter. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “There will be a collection point,” he says, “somewhere they’re gathering refugees,” though he’s not sure he says it correctly. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ruth shook her head, and for the next few moments seemed to be going through in her mind all the different items in her collection. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Good point. I’d prefer not to be bitten, personally. Look at this old musket! Ashton’s got quite a collection here.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z She makes a sharp left into a lab where her nanomaterial collection bags are already stacked on her lab table. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I was in the fifth grade when my friend Carl invited me to his home to see his coin collection. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Her classroom had big sunny windows, a collection of baby dolls to play with, and a giant cardboard playhouse in the back. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Or with his father, who wanted to field foul balls or show Clayton his baseball card collection. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z She couldn’t put any thoughts into a coherent collection in her head. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “I think I have you in my scythe card collection,” Ben went on. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She gathered them together, dated them as best she could, and in 1914, two years after her second husband died, she published a collection of Vincent’s letters to Theo, in Dutch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Ryan must have told someone—proud that his collection made it into the curriculum. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z She saw dreary wigs, pots of rouge, empty flasks, and an unruly collection of impossible objects scattered everywhere. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in New England books contained only a dreary collection of sermons, or at most some pious religious poetry. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He told her about his collection of drawings and the worm he was currently observing. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And they were without doubt the most bizarre collection of buildings I’d ever seen. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Mom had a collection of turquoise and silver Indian jewelry that she kept at Grandma’s house so Dad wouldn’t pawn it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I think Ma expected me to take over her collection eventually, but I’m not interested. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z At home that night, Mom cleaned out a suitcase she’d used for her collection of dancing shoes, and I filled it with my clothes and my bound copies of The Maroon Wave. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z So the next day, the moment the bell rang, Fatima's data collection began. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Like the lion in Africa, the jaguar is the king of the South American jungle, and the American Museum of Natural History wanted one for its collection. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The local city library’s collection of African-American books was limited to a few dog-eared copies of Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery and a few other equally innocuous works. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Oliver spent a dreadfully boring twenty-three minutes looking through Hyacinth’s button collection. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was all too easy to fudge a successful series of atomic contacts so that, while each looked almost acceptable, the whole collection was energetically impossible. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And what I see is that most of the pictures are already hung, part of a permanent collection, that this room has always been a kind of family chapel to their son. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z A teetering collection of weathered horse carts was tucked beyond the brush, a sober portrait of the trek toward freedom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was a long trip for her, but she knew that the collection was valuable, and she wanted to ensure that it reached Lexington without any trouble. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But these are not harmless collection drones, or rescue ones in search of a missing child. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He pulled out the two quilts and carried them over to Lily, who had a collection of food in her arms. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I think of Esme’s collection of spoons and her wall of teacups and how she lets me choose whatever cup I want when she has me over for tea. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The inside smelled like vanilla or roses—I couldn’t tell which, maybe both—and her music collection included every terrible power ballad in existence. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z We were high up in the foothills, at least five hundred feet, and down below a valley spread out, filled with a tumbled collection of red mesas and boulders and spires of stone. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I open the zippered compartment at the front of my backpack to reveal a sample from Mom’s makeup collection, most of it acquired recently. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Although Cherrie usually went hunting each morning and had added about a dozen more birds to the collection, he and Roosevelt didn’t see much wildlife as they canoed down the river. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z After losing his wife, his children, his medical practice, and most of his fossil collection, Mantell moved to London. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z There was Samar, looking up at him, surrounded by an odd collection of baby animals. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s a thick collection of tales from the Mahabharata with gold lettering on the cover and bright colorful pictures inside. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Dad has his collection of books and articles spread out on a card table within easy reach. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Mal, she learned, was a poet, had published several collections of poems. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I stray from Brenda and Jasmine and walk through the photograph collection. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z ‘You obviously don’t have exactly that dream in your collection.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At least one source records that Demetrius was an intimate of the king, and had influence over policy, possibly including the seizure and copying of all incoming manuscripts for the “ships’ collection.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Even though the music’s blaring from a laptop connected to some speakers, she’s over by the CD collection, thumbing through cases. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The peephole was a collection of circles getting smaller and smaller, converging on a dark round circle in the middle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I’ve already seen the movie—it’s an anthology, a little collection of vignettes about life in Paris, each taking place in a different quarter of the city. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Eventually he was forced to sell most of his collection to pay off his debts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He was then working at Howard University as a research librarian in the Moorland- Spingarn Research Center, one of the largest collections of Africana in the world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z By the end of the week the mantel had still not been dusted; it had, however, come to serve as the display shelf for a sizable collection of Christian paraphernalia. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I have a homework desk with a gooseneck lamp; a collection of cute, pastel-colored pens from Japan; and a tiny potted cactus. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He watched her lay out and arrange the pieces of jagged metal from a tin: her shrapnel collection. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He knew it was now impossible to add to the collection, since it would just add weight to their loads. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z When his meal was over, he’d pull a book from his vest, a collection of Keats poems. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Was that when she had begun this...collection? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z On the clifftop, a collection of ruined temples and modern cranes gleamed silver in the moonlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He soon would start to ask whether “the collection of secret intelligence” could be reconciled “with the democratic ideals of a free and open society.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For decades, civil rights leaders have been saying things like “we all want a colorblind society, we just disagree how to get there” in defense of race-conscious programs like affirmative action or racial data collection. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Paula looked down at the little collection of condiments and said, “No, honey, it’s all yours.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Today she stewed the fish with potatoes, onions, and leeks, plus a handful of random herbs from Babulya’s collection. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Even if I’d had the money for a new hard drive, it had taken me years to amass the music collection. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Grayson had brought over a record player a week before, along with his entire music collection: thirty-one polka records. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Among her collection of wooden ye’iis were eight large glass jars filled with seeds of different colors and shapes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The city of Lkossa was a collection of neatly ordered sections, but the temple’s district was different. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Some continue to have roaring, stadium-sized collections of critics and naysayers who will shout I told you so at every little misstep or mistake. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z At the end are two big windows and a collection of couches. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z And then, impulsively, he takes out the remaining contents of his pockets and adds them to the collection in the cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I unzip a compartment of my collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Mostly, pottery is owned by sedentary societies: what nomad wants to carry a collection of heavy pots, as well as weapons and the baby, every time he or she shifts camp? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to Father—who brought my entire postcard and movie-star collection here beforehand—and to a brush and a pot of glue, I was able to plaster the walls with pictures. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It appears to be a collection of her mother’s jewelry and some crystals she grew in a fridge with salt and food coloring. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “And I wish my collection were larger for your benefit and my own credit; but I am an idle fellow, and though I have not many, I have more than I ever looked into.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z We’d make our last collections, go over our CD stock, balance our accounts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Annie pointed to Luke’s plate, which was just a collection of carrots and apple slices. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Lana had taken some time to assemble the little collection of props. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls were painted colors, not rental white, and covered with art, photographs, and a collection of paper fans. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z As Jean Louise listened, her year’s collection of revolting information fell into a fresh crystal design; as Calpurnia’s husky voice drove out her year’s accumulation of terror, Jean Louise felt life return. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then she smiled and said: “You were different. I remember. You were never embarrassed about your collection and you kept it. I wish now I’d done that too.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried a single volume for the journey, a hardbound collection of short stories by Nikolai Gogol, which his grandfather had given him when he’d graduated from class twelve. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Through barter and the generosity of a few friends, he soon owned a ragged collection of old stringed instruments—a mandolin, several guitars, an old ukulele, and two banjos. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He sat down and turned his attention to a collection of black-and-white photographs tacked onto a corkboard. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “It’s like a neighborhood. Or a collection of neighborhoods.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The front wall was blown out, but by some freaky coincidence, her carved wooden dresser full of her antique china collection was left perfectly intact. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s like reading a seemingly random collection of words before the sentence becomes clear. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Because, Piper, Twelve Mile is a mall. Winterset is a collection. That means it’s fancier than a mall. More expensive, too.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z He imagined the giant taking that coin she carried and adding it to his collection. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sayle gestured at a glass display case and Alex noticed three harpoon guns and a collection of knives resting in velvet slots. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He also loves the art and starts his own collection. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A small girl, too young to be out past eleven, came out of a hallway and peered around a mail collection box. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Only the collection she’d been assembling on the windowsill, of rocks, shells, dried flowers, and seedpods. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z And there was Suzanne, with her Nigerian birth certificate and her collection of beloved aunties in Jamaica. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Cory tells us you have an impressive collection. Can we see it?” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “I have one in my collection in the library. We can let this one go.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “Well, my mom won’t know either. David is bringing the DVD over from his brother’s slasher collection.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But after things settled down a bit, and I had dinner while listening to Johanssen's Beatles music collection, I got depressed again. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A collection of classical records is not the kind of thing you advertise. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In his third dream there was a big book, a collection of poems. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But the library had a good collection for such a small town, and I was not sorry that Miss Maggie had gone looking. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I know that he gave me a gift, a collection of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z For a boy who had worn the same rumpled sweater to rowing practice for a year, this was an astonishing collection of sartorial treasure. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Am I on a boat?” he said, looking around at the collection of wreckage that Osh had turned into our home. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Okay then. Promise to do exactly what I say, and for the time being, you’re just here to assist us in sample collection.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And then I settled on the books, staring at them stacked on their sides, spines out, the haphazard collection of literature that was Alaska. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Their collection boxes, decorated with peace signs, stood unattended. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z What would happen to their collection when they were gone? The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Just as a human being, a collection of 100 trillion cells, is typically in a steady state between synthesis and decay and is more than the sum of its parts, so also is a galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He also had this awesome collection of Roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I usually don’t share my rule collection with anyone but David, but Jason’s different. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course a diverse collection of guns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Diana took up a collection for the hospital fees, but Lyddie had no money on her person. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There were dog photos tacked behind his computer, and some of the same editing books Emily recognized from her dad’s shelves sat next to a bobblehead collection. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I got up and rifled through my shoebox of CDs until I found a collection of Chopin’s nocturnes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It was a collection of over five hundred individual stacks, all connected to each other by a makeshift network of recycled pipes, girders, support beams, and footbridges. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That meant that even if some of William’s papers were later reclassified, the collection could be kept together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We had a collection of pressed flowers and many shells, not only the local kinds from the Bournemouth beach but exotic ones collected by my adventurous great-grandfather during his travels to Australia and such places. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The children turned their tambourines upside down and took the collection. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a small collection of books that came with me to Forks, the shabbiest volume being a compilation of the works of Jane Austen. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Hannah rolls her eyes because I forgot to say “collection” again. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z After her death in 1982, their value skyrocketed, with MoMA paying nearly two million to add one to its permanent collection. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I went back to my room and sulked a little bit as I looked over my collection of obituaries. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A highly polished collection of chains and manacles hung on the wall behind Filch’s desk. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A sculpture of a man’s head sat in front of the expansive windows, and thanks to the small illustration on the cover of the short story collection Hollister had given Emily, she recognized it immediately. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Hollister said it was unusual to see a book with only one of Poe’s stories. Maybe there’s another collection by that name. Maybe this is a coincidence,” he said. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I hurried down and posted it before the final mail collection, suddenly seized with the dizzy conviction that it would bring results. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For relaxation, I read eighty pages of Agatha Christie's Evil Under the Sun courtesy of Johanssen's digital book collection. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “How will we pay for trash collections?” others said. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z It had once been the garage of the old house, but now was lined with the scythe’s extensive weapons collection. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sometimes all I want is to be a few inches taller so the world does not look like a dense collection of torsos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z After thinking of possible excuses, I finally said, “I live too far. I’ll bring my collection to school. It’s not much, just a few Lincoln Head pennies.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if you had “collections” where you were. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he noticed something between Nico’s feet—a small collection of glistening objects no bigger than baby teeth. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sitting in the middle of the living room, Hyacinth rummaged through her ribbon collection as she tried to think of something to make for the Beiderman. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The Virgo cluster is already the richest collection of galaxies known, replete with spirals and ellipticals and irregulars, a jewel box in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She had one hand on a big camera strung around her neck, another on top of a collection can. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Though she hunted through scores of insect collections and handled innumerable specimens, no one could give her the answers she sought. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “And batteries. Got a very large collection of batteries. My wife thinks I’m mad, but there you are.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He told them about his father’s collection of guns and swords and torture instruments and leg irons and so on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And it also doesn't buy a colorful collection of Doc Martens. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I had a small collection, actually, that I’d gotten from an old friend from four moves ago; she’d brought them back for me from Japan and I was mildly obsessed. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z From that altitude the streets and lanes of the city were mere lines on a page, the houses and factories a child’s collection of boxes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But from afar, a galaxy reminds me more of a collection of lovely found objects—seashells, perhaps, or corals, the productions of Nature laboring for aeons in the cosmic ocean. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The synagogue served as a collection point for Berlin Jews, holding one thousand at a time. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Very few girls I knew played marbles, let alone had a special marble collection like I did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The great philosopher kept a collection of books at his school in Athens, the Lyceum. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In all her collection, these were the only letters of this kind. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Motley collections of stray animals have always populated racetracks, and being the social creatures they are, horses usually befriend them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu’s mother began to sing a church song—“the Lord has given me victory, I will lift him higher’’—which was often sung at collection time. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Porter was a tenant and tomorrow was collection day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She started to hum a funky tune that sounded like something from Dad’s music collection. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Data collection for police and prosecutors should be mandated nationwide in order to monitor and challenge selective enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She’d thought she’d find something based on her divine parent, but she didn’t see anything like Lord Indra’s thunderbolt in this collection. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Back when he first came, he had going this collection of potato chip bags. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z I started making zines earlier this year when I discovered Dad’s collection of punk music zines from his high school days. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It’s still hidden in the laundry bag beneath my “anonymously” donated new collection of underclothes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A collection of imposing metal instruments lay on a nearby tray. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “My beautiful Fleece. Prize of my collection. Take it, cruel human. Take it and go in peace.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I unzip my sample collection bag and scoop straws into the bag until I have enough to filter water for our entire lives. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The town of Buford itself was a collection of portable metal sheds - six or seven, which was probably also the town’s population. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We were passing a collection of shacks and log cabins now, bleached white and warped by the weather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn't it a bigger crime to have such an amazing library collection going unread? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She let her eyes linger on the green ribbon, already mourning the loss of that piece from her collection. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Madam sent a note to her friend Jane Drinkwater, who agreed to bring her collection of necklaces and the latest gossip to tea. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Let me get my collection of grenades and I’ll meet you guys on deck!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The only things that were really mine were my stuffed-rabbit collection from when I was a little kid and my canopy bed. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I searched for some logic, some binding motif the collection had in common, but I found nothing in my hasty examination. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Some are insignificant, paltry collections of a few dozen galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This does not mean that the political history of the early republic can be understood as a polite forensic exercise conducted by a marvelously well-behaved collection of demigods. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I went to look at his mind-boggling music collection. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The sample collection wasn't packed up yet, and he really didn't feel particularly fresh and active. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z The vuvv compound rises out of suburbia, a collection of towers, buttresses, and bulbs of green metal. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The altar wobbled and threatened to overturn and the collection table sat at a rakish angle. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there is behavioral residue, which is defined as the inadvertent clues we leave behind: dirty laundry on the floor, for instance, or an alphabetized CD collection. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z We wind up raiding Jupiter’s dad’s collection of Disney VHS tapes and watching The Lion King on Courtney’s dinosaur...I mean VCR. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Its eye was black and bigger than any marble in my collection. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I pull it out and slip it into my collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Emily had left her binder, The Gold-Bug, and the Poe short story collection on the table when they went to chat with Raven, so now she closed those. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She held it stiffly out in front of her like a church collection. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We shared girly things too, like our collection of soft fabric dolls that we would dress with outfits we concocted from cloth remnants. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Not a public library, but a private library; that is, a large collection of books belonging to Justice Strauss. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I hurry to my room to retrieve my collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I set the collection bag on the ground. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I can feel when I’ve found one. Then I have to snap the stem, brush off the dirt, and toss it in the collection bin. Pero tan rápido. We have quotas to make.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z An official collection song had this line: “We collect bones, scrap metal, rags, false teeth, and paper bags.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I do not offer it for Miss Smith’s collection,” said he. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z The whole collection of different formulations could be regarded as a complete unified theory, though one that could not be expressed in terms of a single set of postulates. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Dull gray in color, she'd been abandoned by a spooky alcoholic with long fingernails and a large collection of kimonos. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She borrowed nearly every book on magical objects from the library and even brought a few from Director Fokus’s personal collection, but hardly any of them mention the Black Book. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The museum is considering displaying a certain gemstone, a jewel more valuable than anything else in all the collections. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s a collection of root beer bottle caps. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Nuh-uh. Stuff from other companies. Some of it goes way back to the 1890s. I think it’s Mr. Lemoncello’s personal collection. It’s like a museum up there.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Anyway, my point is that whenever one of these magazines turned up, people would claim it was a left-over from “Steve’s collection.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Putting the two assumptions together, we conclude that the average toy block in this collection has the interesting property of having three inches to a side and a volume of sixty-three cubic inches! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “One epidemic in the collection,” he used to say, “and we’ll end up in a road crew breaking up stones.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the Junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and suchlike activities. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Why don’tcha drop a quarter in his collection box? 5TH JUROR: NOW wait a minute. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A paper screen is set up, splitting the front of the room right down the middle, surrounded by a collection of round tables and chairs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z All she cared about was her stupid collection. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Eventually, the biggest and best collections, often owned by royalty, became what we now know as museums, which were not open to the public until nearly a hundred years later. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I stand up and pick up my collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “The Hall of Man is quite spectacular. And our zoological collection is beyond—” “I would like to see the minerals you do not reveal to the public. One in particular.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Such a large collection would obviously be unusable without some means of locating particular titles. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “It’s like a neighborhood. Or a collection of neighborhoods.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She insisted that her collection be dusted regularly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On the way back to school to catch my bus, Carl said, “When can I come to your house and see your collection?” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For the sound of traditional Western folk music, look for collections of folk music from England or Australia, sea shanties, or American cowboy songs. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They simply looked into her mind, pulling thoughts from her head and examining them like a collection of old photos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We parked among a motley collection of farm wagons and gigs and dogcarts pulled up higgledy-piggledy on the grassy field adjoining the many tents. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Feathers brushes mud off a metallic rock with her gloved hand and places it in a collection bag. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We sometimes look through our collection nostalgically, the way other families look through old photos. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I shuffled through a stack of his CDs, some from Gran’s garage and a few I’d snuck from his collection at home. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Mostly it looked like a collection of notes or letters, some folded like the one she and James got caught passing in Mr. Quisling’s class. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The lead scythe pulled back a fold of his robe to display an entire collection of weapons neatly concealed beneath. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I pick up my sample collection bag, hoping it will also help me look official. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He had passed one collection plate down the pew behind her, and while waiting for its mate to return via the row she was sitting on, he winked openly and solemnly at her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a book prepared for publication—but seems rather to have been a collection of notes for the lectures Aristotle gave his students, or notes taken by those students at the lectures. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z My collection of candy wrappers had fallen out of their notebook and were crumpled under my stamp album. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, one has to have a collection of gluons whose colors add up to white. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The halls of Clairmont used to be decorated floor to ceiling with black-and-white family photographs, paintings of dogs, bookshelves, and Granddad’s collection of New Yorker cartoons. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I hadn't read Jane Bowles's work but knew her husband's book The Delicate Prey, which was just about my favorite collection of stories in the world. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It was as if the universe had wanted her to be able to store her collection safely. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z I think that clowns are freaky, but Brandy loves them and always tells me about her collection back home. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z But George knew they were needed here, to guard her most prized and secret collection. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z As Elizebeth worked with the collection, she kept adding notes to it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When at last he did succeed in getting to the surface, tired and smelly, he observed that the truck was not making any more collections but was rumbling rapidly along. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Cahokia, however, was a huge collection of farmers packed cheek by jowl. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Rick was perpetually shirtless, because he liked to show off his impressive collection of prison tattoos. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Sam collected pieces of historic automobiles and he was convinced that some day his collection, after making him very rich, would repose on black velvet in the best museums. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull Javier’s book out of my collection bag and clutch it in my hands. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I remember that at the end of service, the congregation took up a collection for Mrs. Duncan. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And almost 150 years later, Charles Darwin used his own extensive collections from his voyage aboard the HMS Beagle to verify his ideas about evolution. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z You can also try simply searching for "heterophony" at YouTube or other sites with large collections of recordings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I had more than one hundred pairs—a collection of big hoops and long dangly beads and small studs shaped either like hearts or daisies or baby animals. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The album was a collection of construction photographs taken by Charles Dudley Arnold, a photographer from Buffalo, New York, whom Burnham had hired as the fair’s official photographer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Just below the Scoreboard was an icon that looked like a small leather-bound book, which linked to a free downloadable copy of Anorak's Almanac, a collection of hundreds of Halliday’s undated journal entries. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z That year the small group of town children were swamped temporarily by a collection of elderly pupils shipped in from Old Sarum because somebody had set fire to the school there. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It’s where the library stores its collection of research material,” said Sierra, who was two stairs behind Akimi. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z There were no fruit trees, no planters of jasmine, only long rows of hyacinths and a collection of huge pots filled with different herbs. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “You think Howard will take a collection of poems in place of an essay?” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He points to a collection of essays, mine, out of place among Papa's foreign dictionaries. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “You have a little boy and he shows you his butterfly collection, including his killing jar.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I opened my eyes, and she passed me the collection basket. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d taken to always carrying The Gold-Bug and the Poe collection of stories with her, too, but because her backpack was so bulky she almost removed them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z At the police station, he is strip-searched, and an unlikely collection of items, including cash, a compass, a pocket- knife, and a newspaper clipping of Lincoln’s second inaugural address, are found in his pockets. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z |
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