A veritable fountain of youth in our dolmades and taramasalata and even in our baklava, which didn’t commit the sin of containing refined sugar but had only honey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Killian’s committee contained a diversity of scientific opinion that had been missing from Eisenhower’s scientific councils under Strauss. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The earth’s primordial ocean, which came into existence not long after the earth was formed, about four and a half billion years ago, may well have contained microscopic life forms based on rna. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next, he suggested that a firebreak could be created to contain the flames if several houses were blown up, thus depriving the fire of fuel. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

White tried to contain the violent passions inside him as Hale greeted him and Agent Smith with the same politeness that he had demonstrated while being arrested. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Plus, since my apartment, though rented as “furnished,” contained almost no kitchen items when I moved in, I was forced to acquire my own inventory of spatula, can opener, “utility knife,” broom, etc., at Wal-Mart. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It contains the main office, the cafeteria, the library, and the sixth- grade classrooms.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass cases contained dozens of keepsakes: a ruby the size of a man’s fist, a wedge of gold shaped like a sandwich, even the Thunder Gong she’d read about in the book. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you think it might contain spells that could destroy the Bureau?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She had with her another paper bag that seemed to contain the same assortment of material and twine, aside from the stamp pad, which was sticking out of the top of the bag. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We parked the car behind the bingo hall, took out from the boot the sports bag containing Tommy’s notebooks, then set off towards the town centre. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early nineties, a scientist at Yale had used HeLa to discover that human cancer cells contain an enzyme called telomerase that rebuilds their telomeres. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

These are the best that four billion years of evolution could produce, containing the full complement of information on how to make a cell, a tree or a human work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box contained nothing but junk—a headless doll, some dirty lace, a rabbit skin. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They discussed the numbers from last year’s haul and examined the ledgers that contained the weighins from the previous September. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A tablet might contain, say, two hash marks, a box, a circle with a cross in the middle, an asterisk-like shape, and an arrangement of three triangles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the family table, this mischievous older sister handed me a plate that contained a single chicken wing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She recognized The Fountain by the courtyard in front of it containing chairs, striped umbrella tables, and—yes—a fountain spurting water from two crossed jugs into a blue pool. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a breeze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the buttons on his shirtfront could barely contain everything he had taken: two loaves of bread, twenty-four frozen waffles, and a ten-pound bag of apples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brand-new wand. Fourteen inches, willow, containing one unicorn tail-hair. And we’ve got all our books —” He pointed at a large bag under his chair. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He wore a new hat now, and a new broadcloth coat, so they knew what the portmanteau had contained. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia pauses at a tent containing a tree branch covered in candle wax. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The office area forming the “head” to the left is connected by a narrow passageway to the “shell” containing the main body of the museum. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But efforts were made to have carcasses collected for examination, and of the birds analyzed, all but one contained pesticide residues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Gallup believed that Shakespeare’s First Folio contained secret messages written in this cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Under the bed they found a bundle that contained the costumes Nana had used to frighten Clara in her years of silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that the difficulty with the bubbles not joining up could be avoided if the bubbles were so big that our region of the universe is all contained inside a single bubble. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a piece of excelsior and put it in a garbage can and then he looked at Doc where he worked labeling specimen bottles containing purple Velella. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Berries from the garden and homemade raspberry preserves,” Lena said, placing a platter on the table containing toast, butter, a pitcher of milk, a bowl of sugar, and a bowl of jam. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He also retrieved from the drawer a black plastic case containing the rifle’s scope, a box of high-powered shells, and a .357-magnum pistol in a hip holster. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a few rows of wooden chairs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

If so, one might be tempted to simply deliver a truckload of books to every home that contains a preschooler. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain their curiosity, the defenders questioned the limp, half-awake fox as they carried him across the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was far bigger than any room Id ever seen before, large enough to contain more than a hundred souls. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her personality was too big and mercurial to be contained in a frail human body. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She smiled, putting the lid back on a box that contained more practical-looking off-white shoes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then Phoebe pulled the envelope out of her pocket, the envelope containing the newest mes-sage. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

This area contained some of the city’s largest, most stately homes, but the fire treated them with the same disdain it did the humblest wooden cottages on De Koven Street. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

It contained his own notes on Spassky’s games, jotted in pencil, with comments and question marks designating poor moves, exclamation marks designating good ones. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There was silence in the Hall now, the kind of silence that presses against the eardrums, that seems too huge to be contained by walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If he had to read the names of the ministers of Japan or Zaire, or any name containing more consonants than vowels, or more vowels than consonants, he would embarrass himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton also took note of the implicit secessionist threat contained in Virginia's statement. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It contains dry clothing for the four of them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Thus I was only nominally depressed when I peered inside several damp houses known to contain student rooms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was a present he was about to give his wife, a white satin box containing a star sapphire cocktail ring. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often they are shaped like houses and contain some hidden trinket. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At the end of the year the computer would be used to help compile a rather remarkable eighty-two-page document containing a detailed examination of each of the team’s 747 defensive plays. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She understood everyone’s frenzy—those bags contained literally all they owned in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The small bathroom contained a huge, full-length mirror behind the door, and so I could not escape the reflection of my naked self as I leaned in to turn on the shower faucet. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Now that Hazel was found, the fire was contained, and the house was clearly a loss, a number of folks wearily started making their way home. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A cranberry bog under study contained 34.5 pounds to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The challenge here is that some instruments, such as the tambourine, contain more than one type of material. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Many of us, I think, both long to see this happen and are terrified of it, for though this transformation contains the hope of liberation, it also imposes a necessity for great change. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He constructed a cylinder containing a small amount of water, which he heated over a flame. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As before, it contained messages and equipment for TRIGON, as well as a roll of rubles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She came out into the hall, which was scarcely large enough to contain the three of them. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For a horrible moment, he wondered if it contained his mother’s ashes, but that was impossible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The noun phrase containing view is the subject of the third is-phrase, is not based on a lack of understanding. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And the letter is more personal than most, delving into thoughts on his own writings, observations about his Wunschtraum clock containing a level of detail that would require observing it for hours on end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I could see Half- Blood Hill ahead of us, with its giant pine tree at the crest—Thalia's tree, which contained the life force of a fallen hero. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Which goal was more important: supporting Vietnam’s right to independence, or containing the spread of communism? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yet the chemicals they contained are among those the Food and Drug Administration considers too dangerous for human consumption, even in minute quantities. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, corn grown in fields within this area contained almost twice as many of the destructive larvae of this insect as did the corn grown outside. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Morris sent two canvas bags containing “410 Spanish dollars, two English crowns, 10 shillings sixpence, and a French half crown.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect it is the property of Countess Andrenyi, since her luggage contained only a chiffon negligee so. elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing gown. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand and I gave her the note containing what felt like the two most important sentences I’d ever write. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

As might have been expected, all of these fish contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It contained two skeletons, buried head to head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first row of the grid contains an example of how to generate ideas from a musical concept. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The next room contains a few chairs, spare tattoo needles, ink, pads of paper, and framed artwork. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

As it happens, there is an instance that comes to mind which I believe illustrates rather well the real limits of whatever truth may be contained in Mr Harry Smith's views. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They need to find a way to contain the food during impact. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained names of towns I could write myself passes to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our bedroom now contained two beds and a crib. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We walked out onto a stage that contained only two chairs and a smoking stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The safety-deposit box contained information for ten offshore bank accounts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The eight were grim as they approached the boxcars containing their wards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Page after page of the minutes of the early years of the Royal contain variations on the themes of ‘Mr Hooke produced...’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She looked down a last time at the lifeless body that had once contained her mother, and considered where to go. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I saw our Brother Hinton, it was all I could do to contain myself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hal took it upon himself to send telegrams containing the doctors’ updates to relatives and friends in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He gave the stonecutter a packet that, when opened, contained stonecutting tools, and set down his lantern. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Simply, there are swamps which contain a large percentage of sulphur and other gas bubbles that burst continually into flame. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She held an envelope containing five dollars—her first week’s pay. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ground was blanketed with fresh white snow as the Witchlings and one black wagon containing one cranky toad, pulled by Thorn, wound through town toward the Bruised Apple Bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We had waited since April for the magic package containing the packets and packets of seeds we were to sell for five cents each, which would entitle us to a new bicycle. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how much I think of you, how indebted both Trudy and I are—were—to all of you. And now—” He could hardly contain himself. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another round cage, sitting on a table rather than hanging from above, contains an elaborate clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Earth’s special position at the center of the universe made it the only world capable of containing life, as Aristotle held that all objects sought out their proper place. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t possess cash, cassette players with a record function, toiletries containing alcohol, sneakers worth more than fifty dollars, or more than fourteen newspapers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each story Werner hears contains its own flaws and contradictions, as though the truth is a machine whose gears are not meshing. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the foreground, the sound effects team waits for the cue to use their equipment and discs containing prerecorded sounds. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I won't,” she said, though she could barely contain her rage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some of the most difficult kids lived in a dormitory, which also contained a padded restraining room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Racial stigma today makes collective action extremely difficult—sometimes impossible—whereas racial stigma during Jim Crow contained the seeds of revolt. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Known as "front-line winged rockets," each of these missiles contained a warhead equal in power to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Single moments contain the potential for complete failure, always. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

And unable to contain her curiosity, Minli forgot about her thirst and began to follow it. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

From our first conversations we assumed that the DNA molecule contained a very large number of nucleotides linearly linked together in a regular way. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, no. I wouldn’t read five thousand pages of something if it contained precise instructions on how to lose twenty pounds by eating Krispy Kremes and orgasming. Do you not have homework?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The state box is available, so the manager, James Ford, responds immediately, barely containing his excitement. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The report did not, however, contain any mention of the night-vision photograph, meaning we had something the cops didn’t: a timeline. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rooms contained double banks of monkey cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Second, they also contained a concealed device that set a hair-trigger. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On their way to get the powdered milk by the baking supplies, they passed a stand containing packets of seeds. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ignoring the shock by laughing, as I brushed the coins off quickly, I discovered that I could contain the electricity—a contradiction, but it works. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Here is frobscottle!’ he cried, holding the bottle up proud and high, as though it contained some rare wine. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the two sources Danny had quoted contained a biblical verse, and his father asked him who else had based a law upon this verse. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Milk samples taken from the Wallers’ purebred Guernsey cows 48 hours later contained DDT in the amount of 14 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The universe was contained in a nutshell, ensconced comfortably within the sphere of fixed stars; the cosmos was finite in extent, and entirely filled with matter. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It listed dates and events that I should be aware of, and it contained a map of Maryland. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He had an overstuffed duffel bag at his feet and a backpack stretched taut, which contained only books. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Several days after the fiasco with Bragg, the crystallographer V. Vand sent Max a letter containing a theory for the diffraction of X rays by helical molecules. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She walked through a water-shower stall that contained an ultraviolet light, a bar of soap, and some ordinary shampoo. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When they demanded to look in her tow sack, it contained nothing practical, only odd tokens she had collected, like a small wooden duck and a blue glass bottle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He placed the pouch containing his wand, his mother’s letter, the shard of Sirius’s mirror, and the old Snitch on top of his clothes, then he pointed Hermione’s wand at the ice. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It contains some yellow and red, from the Amity, and some gray, from the Abnegation, colors I rarely see side by side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The only time I was able to fall asleep that night was when the last morning breeze, the one containing the irresistible urge to sleep, saved me from my wandering mind. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

His expression was the only one that contained hope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She would betray no sign of emotion; but she read my prone form like a pamphlet that contained words to save her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I clutch the bag that contains my props, including my headscarf. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

When the coffin was pried open in the presence of the appropriate authorities, it was found to contain a bag of sand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if it contains family secrets that make me question everything I know? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

This way, other nations could not infer from lack of openness which launches contained classified payloads. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regina accompanied Bobby to the club, but as soon as he began to play she left to browse at the nearby Strand Bookstore, whose shelves contained millions of used books. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Everything I knew about nucleic-acid chemistry indicated that phosphate groups never contained bound hydrogen atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Tom brought Olive’s letter from King City, and because he knew what it contained he waited until he caught Samuel alone before he gave it to him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Danny told me later that it contained the sayings of the Ba’al Shem Tov and had been presented to his father as a gift on his fiftieth birthday by the members of his congregation. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Garfield had passed urine and feces normally, and neither contained blood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As they expanded and the matter particles got farther apart, one would be left with an expanding universe that contained hardly any particles and was still in the supercooled state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanging from it, between her breasts, was a locket containing a photograph of her alcoholic mother—a grainy thing, soot and chalk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pens contained thousands of pigs and cattle, and as Raizel and I headed deeper into the complex, the air grew muggy with their earthy animal odors. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

And so I found myself, six days later, standing at our local airport watching a tin commuter plane containing Katz touch down and taxi to a halt on the tarmac twenty yards from the terminal. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A television journalist in the Farm Belt once said this about a suspected outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease: The pasture contained several cows seen by news reporters that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Police officers lined the streets, creating a kind of wall, containing us. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Weismann had proposed a radical alternative: perhaps hereditary information was contained exclusively in sperm and egg cells, with no direct mechanism for an acquired characteristic to be transmitted into sperm or eggs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Robinson’s diplomatic letter contained one fragment of steel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She did not see how the virus could be contained unless the monkey house was set up for quarantine with an independently filtered air supply. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music that contains no dissonances can tend to seem simplistic or boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Tom could see that they contained granules or specks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She adjusted the paper’s date on her press, inserted the slug containing the name, city, and state of the newspaper and printed as many slips as there were items marked. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole could tell he was struggling to contain his emotions. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The wagon, Bear assured me, contained, “some rich lady, in search of a wayward husband.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like everything that was contained and hidden has been let loose. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Compounds containing spores of Bacillus thuringiensis are now being manufactured by several firms in the United States under various trade names. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t imagine what the thousands of pages contained. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“If you say so. No doubt you know about such things. Where do you mean to settle these wildlings? Surely Mole’s Town is not large enough to contain ... how many are they?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mae and Birdie did not seem particularly surprised to find a basket containing a baby screecher arriving at their door. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The room was small arid shabby, containing only a rectangular table and three chairs with blue plastic seats. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It also contained a tiny forward-looking camera that let IOI supervisors see whatever was directly in front of me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Similarly, suppose one starts with two boxes, one containing oxygen molecules and the other containing nitrogen molecules. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The leiter-wagons contained great, square boxes, with handles of thick rope; these were evidently empty by the ease with which the Slovaks handled them, and by their resonance as they were roughly moved. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The fourth contained a row of French windows looking out onto the spacious theater grounds below. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A call goes up through the congregation and two of the brothers do a shuffling dance down the center aisle, a wooden box containing a snake in each of their hands. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Animalculæ.—Compose a sentence containing the word "microscope." New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The report later turned up in a golf bag owned by Councilman Bruce Grandy, along with an envelope containing approximately $4,500 in cash. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reginald’s letter was newsy, and also it contained this instruction: “Malcolm, don’t eat any more pork, and don’t smoke any more cigarettes. I’ll show you how to get out of prison.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rummaging through his backpack, he discovered that he’d left behind the slip of paper containing the name of his interviewer and the company’s exact address. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pantry contained canned fruits and vegetables, unbroken jars of preserves, bread, oatmeal, cream of wheat, crackers, tuna, and lots of other stuff. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

One sweltering summer afternoon, I attended a Harlem street rally which contained a lot of these teen-agers in the crowd. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she walked through an empty bathroom, containing only a cast-iron bath, and, in the bath, a dead spider the size of a small cat. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Emma, “I was astounded, and so was Erasmus, at the bulk of my luggage, and the porters were even more so at the weight of those containing my Geological Specimens.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo couldn’t believe that they didn’t appreciate what they were looking at, but he tried to contain his irritation. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was chilly and dark, even on a sunny afternoon, with many more books than even the library at Swanburne had contained. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

His slight frame contained every cause of an army’s defeat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I cleared the Scoreboard off my display and opened up my grail diary, which had now grown into a vast mountain of data containing every scrap of information I’d collected since the contest began. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nobody realized that the crate already contained a rat and a spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

On the table there, polished now and plain, an ugly case would stand containing butterflies and moths, and another one with birds’ eggs, wrapped in cotton wool. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The village was a shabby place: a huddle of wooden buildings, with paddocks containing reindeer, and dogs that barked as he approached. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When he heard that Chuck Yeager was giving a speech at Welch High and that he’d agreed to let me interview him afterward, Dad could hardly contain his excitement. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

All of them contain links to other chunks of text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Before the year’s end the family moved away, leaving an envelope containing three hundred rupees under Bibi’s door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was their bible, containing, as it allegedly did, the history of their race and the commandments that governed their extended lives. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I am trying to keep myself very small and very contained. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I try to tamp them down, but they’re not that easy to contain. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He balled his fists tightly to contain his excitement. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a nameless horror of the citadel and all it contained. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The fifth and sixth, containing the first-class and air-conditioned passengers, telescoped into each other, killing the passengers in their sleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s imagined it containing everything from his granddad’s ashes to the bones of some beloved pet to heaps of glittering jewels. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Twisted ripples of the creature’s torment, echoes of its cry, flooded out into the air surrounding it; the man or woman, whichever it was, had become contained by its own howl. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Vaughan, blind to his friend’s machinations, had mentioned the investigation that he had been pursuing and confided the location of the hideout containing his money and evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Baking powder was never used; it was alleged to contain a chemical harmful to the body. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sunday we went out for brunch at one of those mammoth places where the menu is small and the portions are large, and every senior citizen leaves with a Styrofoam box containing leftovers. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

She handed me a neon pink bucket containing a fresh tube of toothpaste, a new toothbrush, and a small bottle of shampoo. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Omar always wanted one of his own; he said dictionaries contained every word ever uttered. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every negation requires mental homework, and when a sentence contains many of them the reader can be overwhelmed. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the letters contained only a few words or a single question like, "Do you have friends?" Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With any luck, the territory would contain flint, jasper, or chalcedony, the raw material for spear points, meat scrapers, and other hunting tools. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The words themselves must show the internal marks of long use; they must contain their own inner conversation. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, we can see that the pans actually contain nothing. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It turns out that some of the bitterest plants contain valuable nutrients, even useful medicines. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But he knew it contained letters, and he knew she read them sometimes, and cried, and it was then that she talked about his father. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing is sealed off, except for a repair garage around the corner and a part of the first floor containing men’s and women’s locker rooms and rest rooms. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Narrow but drenched with sun, the room contained a bed, a stool, a crooked table, and a rush mat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She opened her eyes and found that they’d been containing tears, and to her surprise and shame she sobbed and sobbed. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

They were stunned to see that the Twenty- fifth contained black soldiers from a new branch of the army known as the USCT—the United States Colored Troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

She shifted the goblets into order, squeezing in belladonna just before the goblet containing a lethal dose of oleander. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Even in this chaos, the children know what silver parachutes contain. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Next to that is the coat room, which contains a barely functioning microwave oven and a refrigerator that won’t stay closed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they contained the ashes of dead people. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the aging prospector understood the futility of trying to contain a torrential boy within the confines of a small town. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

One word contained everything he felt, and explained why he was to dwell on this moment later. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It is dehumanizing, for it forces one to adapt by becoming more self- contained and insulated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were also concerned that I was using George as a conduit to communicate with Oliver in Lusaka, and assumed that the written statement would contain sensitive information. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bailies had a diameter of ten inches and a concave porcelain lid on the top that could contain water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dining room contained Elvira Caruthers, a wayward daughter who cared more about gossip than chewing her food before swallowing and who had died before she could create her own branch of the family line. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They contained a lot of the same things he’d been hearing over his cockpit radio. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The room that should contain three rows of pods lined up like an egg carton is nearly empty. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It contained a desk and two straight chairs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleek wooden box contains the cell phone I’ve wanted practically my whole life. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Like Tessie, Milton’s mind was searching the bottom drawer of his desk, in particular a fat envelope containing the three fire insurance policies from separate companies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She leans forward at the waist and those glorious tits swing, so heavy, so low—a foot long, at least, wider and rounded at the ends, as though each contains a grapefruit. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

In a Massachusetts community the town officials purchased a weed killer from a zealous chemical salesman, unaware that it contained arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She put a finger to her lips, picked up the photo packet containing the negatives and went out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, it contained physical anomalies that couldn’t be explained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like the one on the first night of our turtle walks, this one also contained a hundred and seven eggs, but this time all one hundred seven turtles emerged. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He led her into the forest, Idunn holding tightly to her ash box containing the apples of immortality. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, the surgeons believed that infections came from foul air, called miasma, which contained poisons given off by rotting plant or animal material. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He makes wooden boxes with compartments, each containing a different item: three pairs of outsized ladies’ panties in fluorescent colors, a plaster hand with long false nails glued onto it, an enema bag, a toupee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They even knew now what the basket had contained because he did not have that with him now either, though doubtless at the time it merely puzzled them more than ever. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another note contained directions to a small courtyard off the library. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My guide, on the fourth tier, gestured me into a compartment that contained about fifteen people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rooms which should contain other passengers in stasis, instead hold walls of hexagon bed tubes puzzled together like a honeycomb. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Before long, the flames were contained and the fire began to die out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

This had the important consequence that a given chain could contain both purines and pyrimidines. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The next windows contain disgruntled mannequins, their pelvises thrust out, their shoulders flung this way and that, making them look like hunchbacked ax murderers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told her he was planning to write a book that would prove how the Soviet players cheated in chess, and the tapes contained his thoughts on the matter. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the mixture of ice and rocks within these outer moons must contain, as do rocks on Earth, traces of radioactive minerals, which heat their surroundings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other contained toilets, sinks, and showers—with not a single hot faucet in sight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I did this slowly and carefully, because I was pretty sure it contained a detailed description of everything I was about to face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On examining the contents of the other packs, I find the only discernible difference is that they contain both gray and white outfits. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The malt syrup it spooned at the factory contained only a few of the vitamins and minerals every Earthling needs. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He contains himself just long enough to say, “And that, my friends, is how a revolution dies.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Its theater contained more than four thousand seats, twelve hundred more than New York’s Metropolitan Opera House. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She concentrated on containing the rage that was leaping up inside of her. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

We found many of them, as many as three dozen in a day, but on being cooked, many turned out to contain dead embryos in various stages of development. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interior of the vault is enormous, and it contains a huge stack of gold bars, roughly the size of a large house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The passage originally contained a single direct quotation from Lucretius, but two more were added in 1588, and we will see in a moment that it is directly inspired by Lucretius on foedus naturae. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What the journalist should have said was: Reporters saw a pasture containing several cows that were dead, diseased, or dying. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After passing through an alcove containing a safe, a wardrobe and a big supply cupboard, you come to the small, dark, stuffy back office. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Not a whisper of disturbance could be allowed into the room containing the apparatus, so Cavendish took up a position in an adjoining room and made his observations with a telescope aimed through a peephole. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The first case I passed contained objects with hidden compartments in which inmates had stashed things—a false- bottomed Coke can, a hollow-heeled shoe, and a hollow-handled hairbrush. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the letters he'd written, he left a package for the New York Herald that contained his book, The Truth, with his suggestion that the newspaper print it. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The porous legal system seemed unable to contain him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The other word for man contains the same admonition, but turns the message around. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishermen who are the descendants of the Heike dress in hemp and black headgear and proceed to the Akama shrine which contains the mausoleum of the drowned Emperor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believed in the Aristotelian universe; the universe was contained within a giant sphere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Shortly after his arrest police discovered a tin box, marked “Property of H. H. Holmes,” containing various documents and a dozen letters from the girls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Here was a book that contained the collected knowledge of the past while giving evidence of present social conditions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Inside, Ekon was surprised to find that what he’d always assumed was just a broom closet actually contained a set of narrow, inclining stairs. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Your left hand holds a stick which contains the engine throttle, plus the control which makes the helicopter go up and down. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street floor of the building consisted of administrative offices, an auditorium, and a large synagogue, a section of which contained chairs and long tables. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cases also contained a variety of popular chess books and some incunabula printed in German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The buildings that ringed the construction site might have had few windows, thus containing the baking heat of their fires to some extent. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to read this terrible book with the boring title that does not contain stormtroopers,” he promised, and I immediately felt like I shouldn’t have told him about it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was clutching the plastic bag containing the book to her chest, her arms firmly wrapped around it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chickens poisoned by aldrin used on a neighboring farm have passed on the chemical to their eggs; hens experimentally fed DDT laid eggs containing as much as 65 parts per million. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He could tell just from picking up a toothpaste tube whether it contained potassium nitrate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Animalcules or animalculæ.—Write a sentence containing this word. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside it is lit by a line of black iron sconces along the rounded wall and contains nothing but a ring of plain wooden chairs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One can therefore make detailed models of objects that might contain black holes and compare the predictions of the models with observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And his mind could not contain the terrible stretch of time that united twelve men fishing by the shores of Galilee, and black men weeping on their knees tonight, and he, a witness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In your land, how many black people think about it that South and Central and North America contain over eighty million people of African descent?” he asked me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turned low, the gas jets offered a subdued glow, their flames contained within unusual white fixtures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each contained as many as ten thousand cells, and the cells themselves were split by the knife. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When questioned about the smoke and the smell, the director of the Hadamar killing center explained to the townspeople that his men were burning old shoes and other articles that contained petroleum. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

His file contained very little information, and no photo—just a screenshot of his avatar. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased, from the French, the Territory of Louisiana, which contained lands dominated by the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The quick trot of ponies’ feet made him look up, as one of the little carriages, containing a single young lady, came rapidly down the street. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The giant manservant unwrapped a soft Velcroed case containing a syringe gun and two vials. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

And I also needed to find the Apple Jacks box containing Sapo’s stuff. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It also contained the old man’s simple living quarters: a cot, a lamp, a work table, a folding chair, a bucket for carrying water, a plate, pots, pans, and so on. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

All casual, he told a TV reporter that the jellyfish he was holding contained enough venom to kill fifteen humans. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A bull is like a silverback, noble, contained, calm like a cobra is calm. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His only reservation related to length: “All the columns of a large Gazette would scarcely, I conceive, contain the present draft,” Washington noted, adding at the end, “I may be mistaken.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had unscrewed the chest plate of the nearest as he spoke, inserted the two-inch sphere that contained the tiny spark of atomic energy that was a robot’s life. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In her lap was the envelope containing all the money that the pawnbroker had given her. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I believe the authorities dropped the case simply to get hold of that document — which, as they discovered, contained nothing they did not already know. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greenglass gave him an envelope containing about ten pages of notes and rough sketches, and Gold handed the soldier $500 in cash. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it hit him that this, this bizarre truck that contained everything a person needs to live, this thing was now G’ma’s house? Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

However, in 1932 a colleague of Rutherford’s at Cambridge, James Chadwick, discovered that the nucleus contained another particle, called the neutron, which had almost the same mass as a proton but no electrical charge. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

D&D players could explore the labyrinth with their characters as the dungeon master read from the module and guided them through the story it contained, describing everything they saw and encountered along the way. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I looked up, unable to contain my own enthusiasm. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The man found a larger bag that had contained brochures and helped consolidate my trinkets. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Those kofun that have been excavated contain lavish burial goods, but excavation of all of the largest ones is still forbidden because they are believed to contain the ancestors of the Japanese imperial line. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And New York State today has a most impressive record of containing and suppressing the disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The basket of her bike contained a camera bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bush’s speech contained nothing newsworthy about drug policy, or Nicaragua, or the Federal Reserve, or balancing the budget, or social ills, or the homeless. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained approximately 8 cubic meters of air. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tendrils of vast gossamer gas clouds formed, colonies of great lumbering, slowly spinning things, steadily brightening, each a kind of beast eventually to contain a hundred billion shining points. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A curl that hadn’t been contained by her hood blew into her eyes, and she pushed it away. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Snape could no longer contain himself, but had jumped out from behind the bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Marketed under trade names which give no hint of their nature, many of these preparations contain such poisons as mercury, arsenic, and chlordane. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It contained thirty-two pages of photographs showing models wearing brassieres, corsets, garter belts, and stockings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if these memories were contained in a painful wound that had been nursed and ignored in equal measure. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

But of course you don’t forget playdates at a mansion that contains a golf course, a pool with an island, and five waterslides. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once dressed, the fake Harrys took rucksacks and owl cages, each containing a stuffed snowy owl, from the second sack. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He clutched his side, pushing back at the pain, trying to contain it. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

However, if one compares a given language as spoken by Pygmies with the same language as spoken by blacks, the Pygmy version seems to contain some unique words with distinctive sounds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But naturally occurring uranium also contained U-235, which was much more fissile—highly likely to split after absorbing a neutron of almost any speed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He opened his binder; it contained multiple documents and a legal pad. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Abbey gave her the grocery bag containing the bottles of coloring gel. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Katherine placed her chopsticks against the saucer containing her soy sauce and stared at him with something beyond frustration. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Another possibility is that the rocks there contain fossils of extinct animals and plants. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 8500 BC the largest settlements in the world were villages such as Jericho, which contained a few hundred individuals. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Reilly put down the paper bag she was carrying that contained her son’s scarf and cutlass, and asked, “What you want, Mr. Levy? Ignatius! Come back here and talk to this man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll even give you a clue….It’s an Atari game, released as part of a contest. It contained several puzzles, and if you solved them, you could win a prize. Sound familiar?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow, our closet seems to magically contain whatever outfit we need. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He searched floors, roads, and fields for grains of rice, beans, or cow dung that contained undigested kernels of corn. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He fished out a wad of paper that contained more black ash, which he began mixing with the other potion. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

While the yard on the immediate left contained a pink bucket-like aboveground pool and the house to the right boasted a trampoline, Petey’s yard was dense with foliage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The case contained a secret compartment, in which Ames had stashed a document describing the CIA's relationship with the spy, along with his photograph; Ames never found it again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment Lydia said that, he realized that he contained yet undiscovered spaces being flooded with it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Now they knew: Mr. Benedict’s Receiver was able to detect the “package” phrases, but not the information contained in them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

None of the mounds in any of these places cover burials or contain artifacts or show signs of use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Stoking the storm, containing Gaia, keeping himself and Piper aloft... Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Singer brought from his closet a tin box that contained a loaf of bread, some oranges, and cheese. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sure, most cars contain nothing but junk, but I manage to acquire a few unexpected assets that would otherwise go to waste. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The book contained a number of old black-and-white photographs: pit ponies and canaries in cages. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

It contained only four soldiers, each manning an oar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went from floor to ceiling, and they seemed to me to contain everything of importance that had ever been written on any subject in the world. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

And I did and in it I found an engraved document containing a short message in letters of gold. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

This institution, which contained only about one-tenth the number of volumes in the Museum, seems to have been dedicated to public use. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The Principles of Geology went through twelve editions in Lyell’s lifetime and contained notions that shaped geological thinking far into the twentieth century. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Toward the front, there's a shelf at eye level containing a half-burned candle, a comb, and a film magazine whose title I recognize. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The final page contains his own signature, a flourish of illegible C’s, carefully snipped from a piece of paper that might have been an invoice or a letter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Peeta’s sitting on a velvet sofa with his teeth clamped down on a pillow, either fighting off madness or containing a scream. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Other eggs were taken from nests left unattended as parent robins were stricken with poison; these too contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Police power had been so relentlessly and ruthlessly applied that when October rolled around the rebellion had been largely contained. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain himself, he punched the air; it was more than he had dared to hope for. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The chief part of it is a technical treatise on how to write poetry, but it also contains some prehistoric mythological material which is not in the Elder Edda. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the kitchen also contained things that weren’t mentioned in the game’s text description of this room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was contained within the rink, where it belonged. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Boundlessness.—"The microscope reveals the fact that each drop of water contains an infinity of animalculæ." New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

But food, by its very nature, contained flammable hydrocarbons. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each emblem contains a chrysanthemum twisted inside the symbol of their high house to represent their relationship to the royal family. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

They were hard and black and contained unutterable sorrow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

You could tell from the piles of luggage, the boxes containing radios and kitchen appliances, the sacks full of things like disposable diapers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I had read how these forgotten folk had been encouraged to keep their old cultures, to see in their ancient customs meanings and satisfactions as deep as those contained in supposedly superior ways of living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, two other groups dug trenches and cleared brush on the hillside, hoping to contain the fire’s spread. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

There was something almost religious about that room, as though it contained a spirit that belonged only to Mr. Pignati, and it was best left alone. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She told me that the dry contents of the bag contained a pinch of every plant she had ever gathered since she began her training as a curandera many years ago. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the way, unable to contain himself, Mohammed jumped in and swam alongside Deeb and the other contestants. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The film in his camera still contained pictures of Shoba, in the yard, when she was pregnant. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In its original conception, the book had only contained thirteen games and the working title was just that: Thirteen Games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At her Test the next day, Celaena studied the small table before her and all the goblets it contained. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At first glance it seemed as if the hamlet contained fewer dwellings than my own Stromford. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if I contained an unnamed sin that made me less than nothing in their eyes. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The investigators knew of no way to contain the contamination or halt its advance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The first house is completely empty, still waiting for a family to move in; the second contains furniture, but no sign of people. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Dalgard now knew that he had to move fast to contain the outbreak before the virus spread through the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Almanac was over a thousand pages long, but it contained few details about Halliday’s personal life or his day-to-day activities. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He never would have guessed it contained $10,000 in cash. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Fifty feet of heavy hose, containing oxygen tubes and radio wires, is quite a bundle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the burglars take great pains to steal what turns out to contain a homing device that leads the police to them, that’s ironic. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The box contained a linen sack filled with straw. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

We forget that North America also supported populous Indian societies in the most logical place, the Mississippi Valley, which contains some of our best farmland today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It contained two banks of cages, positioned facing each other along opposite walls of the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had read the note standing shamelessly in the center of the entrance hall, immediately sensing the danger contained by such crudity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It contained almost two feet of murky water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I play what is so clearly meant to be the loudest song on earth quiet enough for Mom not to come storming into my room; I wouldn’t try to contain this voice in headphones. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He exchanged a look with the other journalists, who were struggling to contain their smirks. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then suddenly, unable to contain himself longer, he burst out: ‘Your bow, Legolas! Bend it! Get ready! It is Saruman. Do not let him speak, or put a spell upon us! Shoot first!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The box contained a couple shirts, pants and jerseys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was of incalculable value! Not to mention it contained years of my personal notes and annotations!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Moving every day also keeps the cows healthier, because they can get away from their droppings, which can contain unhealthy parasites. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

No matter that he’d resisted, no matter that he’d chosen this seat precisely to avoid this situation, here he was, staring at a slip of paper that contained the key to his hopes. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to his friend Asa Gray, “Pangenesis will be called a mad dream, but at the bottom of my own mind, I think it contains a great truth.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aerodynamic equations describing transonic airflows might contain as many as thirty-five variables. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Our life here in Kinshasa contains more mercies than most can hope for. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I close my eyes, unable to contain the feeling inside me and when I open them a second later, it’s like he’s gotten hitched on a hook and I’m the hook. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The information they contained was out of date—hardly the fresh intelligence on Soviet activities that President Eisenhower clamored for. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chinese sites with the earliest evidence of crops also contained bones of domestic pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The Stormbreakers are armed and ready. And yes, you’re right, Alex. Each one contains what you might call a computer virus. But that, if you like, is my little April Fools’ joke. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

For example, music for walking or marching is in duple meter and uses steady quarter notes, running music contains eighth notes, skipping music uses dotted rhythms, jumping music contains large interval leaps, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

While the fire was being contained in the south, to the north another story was unfolding. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the pumpkins and plants, the glass structure contained a generator to power the lights and the climate control. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It certainly didn't look like the kind of place that would contain a treasure that was worth five million lire. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s easy for me to lie to everyone else, but it’s more difficult to lie to her, the only person who knew all the secrets of our Abnegation house, the violence contained within its walls. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

According to the McDonald’s handout, the cheeseburger contains only six ingredients: a 100 percent beef patty, a bun, two American cheese slices, ketchup, mustard, pickles, onions, and “grill seasoning,” whatever that is. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They began to unpack the boxes that contained the accoutrements of the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the random sample selected contains one thousand people, the theoretical 95 percent confidence interval for estimating the percentage who favor candidate X or dog food Y is about plus or minus 3 percent. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fact that the book was published in English and written in clear, accessible prose was almost as important as what it contained. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He talked about our exhibit, saying it contained the most sophisticated rockets he’d seen this side of Cape Canaveral. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of our lives. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

An agoraphobia rose in her, speeding higher and higher, bigger and bigger; she would not be able to contain it; there would no end to fear. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what those boxes contain: 200 crates of ammunition, 164 cartons of artillery harnesses, and 96 carts to carry ammunition. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes contained a fire that could not ignite the other frontiers of his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grace contained on a small strip, forcing you to fight. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Harry had given a loud yell and leapt out of his camp bed; the package contained a large number of maggots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the Hall of Mirrors reflects her own countenance, and some contain only a shimmering blur of pale-grey gown, or the motion of the billowing ribbons as they float behind her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

We continued the training exercises we had been doing earlier in the morning, but this time we carried with us AK-47S that didn’t contain any ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Rather than a single tent with rings enclosed within, this circus contains clusters of tents like pyramids, some large and others quite small. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And then I motioned toward the trash can, which contained puke. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the white exhibits contained as many inaccuracies and contradictions as Cora’s three habitats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He was a great believer in maps, and his offices always contained many maps hung on the walls, showing locations of outbreaks of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamilton’s last days contained several other incidents of equivalent poignancy, though they were only recognizable when viewed through the knowledge of the looming duel. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

To one side of these candles were jeweled boxes, probably containing saintly relics. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The first sentence in the book did not seem to contain any. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The altar in the front contained a granite basin filled with water—but the water was cloudy and foul-smelling. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Frank saw that the paradox vanished if crystals were not as regular as suspected, but contained dislocations resulting in the perpetual presence of cozy corners into which new molecules could fit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It wasn't a code, and had nothing to do with people receiving false papers containing names different from the ones they were born with. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Today’s issue contained a statement of the actual output, from which it appeared that the forecasts were in every instance grossly wrong. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was trying not to make any sudden movements so he could contain his smell. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The second box contained more of the same. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The letter contains one name for a girl, one for a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It contained two tons of coal for the winter and a large supply of kindling wood. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The pen between my fingers is sensuous, alive almost, I can feel its power, the power of the words it contains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because it contains some of Japan’s best agricultural land, where super-expensive Kobe beef is raised today, and where Japan’s ancient capital was located at Kyoto until the capital’s shift to Tokyo in 1868. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The file also contained her home address—2206 Greenleaf Lane, Vancouver, British Columbia—along with a lot of other information, including her blood type and her school transcripts going all the way back to kindergarten. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On the day of Christmas Eve, I supervised the distribution of little holiday “gift boxes” containing useless toiletries and a few snacks, compliments of a charity. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She returned with two small paper bags, each containing half a dozen sugared almonds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ignatius shouted, unable to contain himself any longer. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The property clerk went back to a cubby, opened the plastic bag containing the hat and the money, and pulled out the hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

One of the issues I emphasized that day was the National Party’s recently introduced five-year plan, which contained the concept of “group rights.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was right all along: I cannot be contained. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of us were shackled together and put in a windowless van that contained only a sanitary bucket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They know that the school contains only women and children, and they do not care. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The room contained a cot, a desk, and a small wooden cross on one wall. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Riots had already broken out in other cities, including several in North Carolina, on the night of King’s death, and not even Howard Fuller’s admonitions could contain Hayti’s rage forever. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, within seconds, a distant rhombus of ocher light containing her outline widened, paused, then narrowed to nothing as she entered the house and the door was closed behind her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Ebola virus particle contains only seven different proteins—seven distinct types of large molecules arranged in a long braided structure that is the stringy Ebola particle. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both contained thorough reports on atomic bomb design. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope looks the wrong shape to contain photographs from an entire roll of film. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Some nests contained no eggs; others contained eggs that failed to hatch. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“A day contains many dangers,” the voice says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I knelt in the grass and organized a row of boxes that contained space suits, decontamination gear, and lights. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I investigate the glass and find it contains ice cubes and scotch. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A fire in a subbasement chemistry lab was contained before it reached the upper floors of the college building, read the breaking-news bulletin. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Many academic articles contain bewildering non sequiturs and digressions that the authors stuck in at the insistence of an anonymous reviewer who had the power to reject it from the journal if they didn’t comply. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They could attempt to stop HeLa research through a lawsuit, arguing that it’s impossible to anonymize Henrietta’s cells, which contain their DNA. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If I could get it loose, I could connect it to my Netbook upstairs and see what it contains. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Only the expanse of the indifferent, infinite starry sky could contain his ferocious, surging hurt. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I unrolled the carpet partway and immediately found something else: a flattened, empty box that had once contained twenty-four nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The entire ceiling glows with a soft yellow light allowing me to see that I'm in a room containing just my bed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Then after the brief and unexpected sickness, it had become the body of Katrina, still containing the lingering spirit. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained thousands of simulated worlds where the keys might be hidden, and it could take a gunter years to conduct a thorough search of any one of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pipeworks laborers worked below the storerooms in the deep labyrinth of tunnels that contained Embers water and sewer pipes. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Reading through letters that probably contained personal conversations. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As previously noted, poll taxes, literacy tests, and felon disenfranchisement laws were all formally race-neutral practices that were employed in order to avoid the prohibition on race discrimination in voting contained in the Fifteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I freed it and found that it contained pictures of big beautiful houses, white people’s houses. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Entering the nave, visitors passed by a chapel on the right-hand side that contained the mummified body of Francisco Pizarro, the romantic, thuggish Spaniard who conquered Peru in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They contain endless pages of glyphs and symbols, ringed in text ripped from other sources, affixed to one another and inscribed over and over. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He stooped over the metal tray containing the letterpress blocks and studied them closely, tapping to make sure that I had wedged each block firmly in place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Blanca tried to disabuse him of his error, explaining that neither she nor her work contained a drop of Indian blood, but the language barrier prevented him from understanding her point of view. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bill of Rights is contained in these ten changes that are now a permanent part of the Constitution. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

At each place was a bowl made from a can that had once contained powdered milk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although preliminary analysis by Clausen and a graduate student, Edward Treadwell, indicated the seeds contained traces of an alkaloid, subsequent, more thorough testing turned up no indication of any alkaloids whatsoever, toxic or otherwise. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see something powerful in her eyes, powerful, but contained. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For Bobby, the building was a totemic destination since it also contained the offices of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

First came the stumps of the houses that had once contained the dreams of pioneers, and then the town proper in a line of ruined structures. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Odysseus only shook his head, containing thoughts of bloody work, as he walked on, then sat, and dropped his loaded bag again upon the door sill. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But finally, in a drawer she was sure contained nothing of value, she found it, the act of sale for 3015 Dublin. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Cells were filthy, bedding was unwashed, the food often contained worms and insects. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He passed her envelopes containing reports on everything British scientists knew about atomic bomb physics, and she radioed the material to Moscow. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contains my clothes and a spare pair of shoes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The room is large and contains another screen, similar to the one outside. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

But this hard drive also contains the surveillance footage from the attack. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Packaged foods in warehouses are subjected to repeated aerosol treatments with DDT, lindane, and other insecticides, which may penetrate the packaging materials and occur in measurable quantities on the contained foods. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The bag had once contained an insecticide called parathion, one of the organic phosphates; tests established death by parathion poisoning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With insight and humor, Elizebeth and William had proved, once and for all, that Shakespeare’s plays contained no ciphers or codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The room contained an iron bedstead covered with a faded quilt of a Double Wedding Ring pattern. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

To my dismay it contained three seeds, one of wheat, one of barley, and one of oats—plus my mother’s cross of lead. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Another bag contains a wallet, crusted with dust. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

A dizzying network of chambers, interspersed with hallways containing mismatched doors. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The letters Mother wrote back, painstakingly, late at night, when she’d saved up enough money for a stamp, contained plenty of news of Matthew and Mark, but never once had mentioned Luke’s name. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting lines permit us to tell that stars millions of light-years away contain the same chemical elements as our Sun and the nearby stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For purposes of comparison, the average backyard swimming pool is slightly larger than this Ptolemaic wineskin, containing about forty thousand gallons of water. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect; a stone tablet over the door bore this inscription:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Other graves from the same site contained far fewer goods. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cockroaches in the house to which they moved, and after a few days a spray containing endrin was used. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The final bowl contains payesh, a warm rice pudding Ashima will prepare for him to eat on each of his birthdays as a child, as an adult even, alongside a slice of bakery cake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Our library,” said Dr. Gaffney, “contains only books of reference. If our young people need distraction, they can get it at the feelies. We don’t encourage them to indulge in any solitary amusements.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stepped into the bedroom and fired twice and the twin beds went up in a great simmering whisper, with more heat and passion and light than he would have supposed them to contain. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every envelope contained a man’s honor and peace of mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The basket contained only hard nuts, locked tight within their shells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The vicinity of the Hill View contains no diners, no fast-food joints or grocery stores, no commercial establishments at all except for a couple of agricultural-equipment warehouses. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The environment contained these hostile elements even before there was life; yet life arose, and over the millions of years it came to exist in infinite numbers and endless variety. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Jahrling carried some slides containing spots of his own blood serum into his closet, shut the door, turned out the light. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the crystals appeared, Reston was surrounded by farmland, and the town still contains meadows. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regulator also needs a pressure tank to contain the C02 it pulls from the air. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What indeed is more beautiful than heaven, which of course contains all things of beauty? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery or servitude, and in which poverty, want and insecurity shall be no more. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the boiled egg, her breakfast tray contained more of the thick bread and a bowl of warm cereal swimming in cream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had previously used George for such purposes, but the document in question did not contain such material. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all its luxury, their bathroom contained no bathtub. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

If the diet contains as little as Vi 0 of 1 part per million there will be measurable amounts of heptachlor in the body. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They were tiny bags, each containing a nucleus, which was a darker blob near the center. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each square contained layer upon layer of white cream and blintz-thin cake, the top adorned with crumbs and chopped nuts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He learns that one does not grate Parmesan cheese over pasta dishes containing seafood. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bruckner’s third symphony of 1873 was dedicated to Wagner and in its first version contained melodic quotations from his idol’s operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Not only did the mill grind our wheat and barley—at a cost—it contained the ovens where we villagers, by the steward’s decree, baked our bread, which required yet another fee. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy said every religion contained some shining ideas and plenty of foolishness, too. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The alleged sheep contained an oat-tropic circuit; at the sight of such cereals it would scramble up convincingly and amble over. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

A song’s range concerns all of the notes in a song from lowest to highest, while the tessitura concerns the part of the register that contains the most tones of that melody. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Fischer also followed The Lutheran Hour and Music and the Spoken Word, a performance by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir that contained inspiring messages. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was flanked by three- and four-story apartment buildings, the first floors of which contained stores where you could buy anything. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her mission is clear—monitor, contain, and control. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The five long white petals curved delicately up from the stem and around its mouth, which contained just a hint of yellow deep inside. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

If she slept more she might be able to contain herself better, she thought; she imagined rest and sleep to be like the clay flood walls villagers built in China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Admittedly there was no evidence that Rosy’s samples contained any divalent ions, and so we might be sticking our necks out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It appeared to contain an object roughly the size of the Hope diamond or an irrigation attachment. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The amebocytes of starfish were recently found to contain a material that immobilizes the macrophages of mammals, resembling a product of immune lymphocytes in higher forms. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used tongs to place the paper in the first tray, containing washing chemicals. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

If you find that the chord progression in a piece of music suddenly contains many chords that you would not expect in that key, it may be that the piece has modulated. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On the ground by his side lay a fat sack, which contained, I prayed, food. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg admired President Harry Truman’s response—a commitment to supporting democracies and containing Soviet influence from spreading further. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

All specimens sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service for analysis were found to contain insecticides in amounts sufficient to cause their death. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Nightfall came, and forced the hunters to quit—that, and lack of space, for they had amassed as many bottles as the car could contain. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it were not big enough to contain all the joy that it held. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But when she was in the little room, which contained nothing but a sink and a bucket, her courage almost failed her. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

For instance, annually, the black man spends over $3 billion for automobiles, but America contains hardly any franchised black automobile dealers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After our kiss, I am such a fool over you that I can hardly contain myself,” I tell him with as much sarcasm as I can muster. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

These tales stimulated my childish imagination, and usually contained some moral lesson. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every carnival since 1893 has included a Midway and a Ferris Wheel, and every grocery store contains products born at the exposition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their pleats and nooks contained pockets of warm, stale air that soothed Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sign proclaims something called the Ice Garden, and Celia smiles at the addendum below which contains an apology for any thermal inconvenience. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Johnson was handing her a tube containing a sample when he stopped and looked at her gloved hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of my nervousness, I couldn’t contain a chuckle. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

How can such a small measure of time contain such enormity? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The winds encased the goddess, keeping her solid, but it was all Jason could do to contain her blasts of sand and soil. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The capsule contains one or more strands of dna or rna. which are long molecules that contain the software program for making a copy of the virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked the thought that three billion bugs fly over my head in a single month in summer or that an inch of soil might contain millions of creatures from thousands of different species. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The bags also contained simple items not readily available in the Soviet Union—including toothpaste. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

They could hardly contain their excitement till they got inside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Past the equipment, there was a dusty old paisley chair with a sagging seat, a desk, and a bookshelf above the bed containing the collected works of Soren Kierkegaard. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Inside that one,” he breathed, “is another very small box. It contains the crown jewel of the Amber Room.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The roots of the cassava, a plant in Africa, contain the poison cyanide. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The files on the murders of the Osage contained history in its rawest form: bits of data vacuumed up without any chronology or narrative, like a novel whose pages were out of order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I hope the day will come when the wealthy developed countries stop buying timber from countries containing the tropical rain forests of the world. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But she did not dial; she felt too listless and ill to want anything: a burden which closed off the future and any possibilities which it might once have contained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lower shelves contain smaller boxes and open trays of fireworks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.77 contains a few very simplistic examples of how these "road map signs" will work. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X was still stiffly addressing me as “Sir!” and my notebook contained almost nothing but Black Muslim philosophy, praise of Mr. Muhammad, and the “evils” of “the white devil. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long bottles Sisi brought looked as though they contained an elegant liquid, the way they tapered like a slender, shapely woman. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The zero in the center of the painting contains an infinity of space. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, I nearly died, since that particular page contained a rather unflattering description of her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was a woman, large but well contained within the gown of cobalt and peach that marked her as one of the servants of the royal household. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We went; following the superintendent’s guidance, we had to thread some intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment; it contained a good fire, and looked cheerful. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mami stood in the middle of the room, her dress bunched on her hips, hands holding fast a long-line brassiere that didn’t want to contain her. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Close on the heels of the marching men was an old chaise containing their commanding officer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Allow me to give you a brief primer. I think you’ll find the answers to most of your questions contained herein.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

When Grandma had been alive, she had, by nagging, shouting and threats, kept my father’s junkyard contained. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Inside was a waxed paper parcel containing a thick roast beef sandwich. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Darwin imagined that the cells of all organisms produce minute particles containing hereditary information—gemmules, he called them. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They contained small boxes of Japanese candy, packets of biscuits, cans of stew, as well as lots of pamphlets written in Japanese. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

News of the failed crop came in, and sitting in the coffeehouse, the boys had watched the prices on the chalkboard rise, trying to contain their glee. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The lady in the scarlet kirtle stood up then and placed the bowl which had contained her portion of hare into the fire. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He held a black jumbo that sagged at the bottom, containing something heavy, something powerful. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The shelves of plumbing equip-ment, and there seem to be acres of them, contain not a single item I can name, which gives me an idea of what it feels like to be aphasic. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By refusing to work in the prison’s basket-weaving shop, Osborne got himself sentenced to a night in the “jail”—a barely lit room between Auburn’s Death Row and its generator that contained eight metal cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, various contemporaries of Newton had raised the problem, and the Olbers article was not even the first to contain plausible arguments against it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Part Three contains the central chapters of this book. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When José Arcadio Buendía and the four men of his expedition managed to take the armor apart, they found inside a calcified skeleton with a copper locket containing a woman’s hair around its neck. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Matt sat back in the dirt and breathed deeply to contain his shock. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The affectionately titled “Local Group” contains only two large galaxies of any size, both spirals: the Milky Way and M31. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later the soil still contained heptachlor, and scientists were unable to predict how long it would remain poisonous, or to recommend any procedure for correcting the condition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In these examples, look at the phrase containing the mg word and look at whodunit. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On examination his fat was found to contain stored dieldrin, which had been metabolized as he lost weight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When I was a boy, the solar system was thought to contain thirty moons. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were obsolete, last year’s weather, but Cora adored the old almanacs for containing the entire world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This was the decision that caused Hamilton to repeat his earlier characterizations of Burr as the unprincipled American Catiline, which in turn generated the newspaper reports containing the offensive word “despicable.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The grinning uppers and lowers lay by my right shoe, looking empty and at the same time appearing to contain all the emptiness in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thialfi ran as he had never run before, moving so fast that the world seemed to contain only himself and Hugi. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.47: When multiple simultaneous rhythms are written on the same staff, rests may be used to clarify individual rhythms, even if another rhythm contains notes at that point. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Lost and bewildered though I was I could contain myself no longer and I said sharply there was not too little care but too many thieves, and saw them nodding in facile agreement. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any tank built to safely contain that load would have needed to be an engineering marvel of its time. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Admittedly, it contains only fifty-five square feet of living space. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It contains the names of the men chosen by the Virginia Company to be our leaders, and directions for us from the Virginia Company. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Clarice could hardly contain herself for excitement, and I, too, began to get party fever as the great day approached. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The only used drawer in the bureau contained a jar of Vick’s Vaporub, Kleenex, an electric heating pad, a number of white nightgowns, and white cotton socks. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if, she thought, it contained something too fragile and too valuable to let go of; he wanted to keep it perpetually in his hands. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Zero conflicted with the fundamental philosophical beliefs of the West, for contained within zero are two ideas that were poisonous to Western doctrine. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I guess she was trying to contain herself in front of the other girls who may not be as lucky. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then I realized that the phosphate groups in Linus’ model were not ionized, but that each group contained a bound hydrogen atom and so had no net charge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He opened die trap on die raft to pull out the water keg and die tin containing the biscuits, the chocolate squares, and dry matches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of these latter drawings contained a detail he found in none of the others, either a truncated passage or a small room in a location which seemed either senseless or mistaken. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was a large room bright with sunshine and yellow paint, and containing twenty beds, all occupied. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pile was growing there: a Polaroid camera, a transistor radio, an elaborate electric train set—and several sealed envelopes containing cash. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

His file also contained a school photo, showing a thin, stoic boy with a shaved head. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The human genome contains about between twenty-one and twenty-three thousand genes that provide the master instructions to build, repair, and maintain humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Each time the woman left Dad could hardly contain his excitement, so that finally, succumbing to either the woman’s desperation or to Dad’s elation, or to both, Mother gave way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“What a coincidence! It’s also where I'm strongest. This tank is specially designed to contain demigods. Now, have fun, you two. I’ll see you at feeding time!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They contained no shred of humor, no happiness, no mirth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

He pulls open a drawer of the desk and after searching for a moment he takes out a business card that contains only a single name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The observers were looking at the students’ most personal belongings, and our personal belongings contain a wealth of very telling information. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If the whole structure were radically shrunk, the uninitiated might perceive a vaguely agricultural purpose; the cages might be thought to contain chickens, or mink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Timbre is caused by the fact that each note from a musical instrument is a complex wave containing more than one frequency. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It contained spinning wheels, moving targets, and racetracks that curved from the floor to the ceiling. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Only in front of the cage containing his prisoners did he slow his pace to examine each of the three with a small, satisfied glance. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the secret he was keeping became more than he could contain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a journal of some sort containing long lists of what looked like herbs or plants. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The entrance hall contained a few last-minute stragglers, all leaving the Great Hall after breakfast and heading through the double oak doors to watch the second task. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The other thing is this bag, which contains a representative sample of two hundred years of Rusty-era visual culture. Priceless and irreplaceable artifacts. So which do you want?” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Those records are sealed, but whatever they contained led her to give him a sentence of only fifteen years out of a possible thirty. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I am barely able to contain my happiness. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew which rooms contained monsters, and where all of the weapons and treasure were hidden. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Trying to contain a liquid with only vapors seemed like a really bad idea...and judging from the way the whole thing kept quivering, it looked like it was ready to burst at any moment. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

All I have is a small knapsack containing my vial of nutrients, but I go ahead and walk to the other end of the room to put it away. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The ceremony contained the full funeral liturgy, omitting only the final portion where the congregation is asked to give the deceased a final kiss. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is free of pitch or sap, but its fibers contain chemicals called thujaplicins that act as natural preservatives, making it highly resistant to rot while at the same time lending it its lovely scent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We ran tests to determine whether the soil had enough nutrients and didn’t contain any toxic elements like lead or mercury. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No wonder she couldn't contain her smugness before the Trials began. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

As the delight grew, she had to stop in the street, hold her thighs together to contain it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I suspect that opinion is very convenient for my mother, because as long as we’re all contained, she’s in charge. The second we leave, she loses her hold.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t contain his grin, and I hugged him, clapping his back. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“They claim it contains matter which I am not allowed to see,” he said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t contain myself,” I tell Max as we work together in my living room on a school project. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

By systematically depleting nearly all the nutrients from the broth, Beadle found that the mold strains could still grow on a minimal broth containing nothing more than a sugar and a vitamin called biotin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In one grave they found the skeleton of a fifty-year-old man, covered with strings of mammoth ivory beads, containing about 3,000 beads in total. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only a small dirty bag containing a few clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I peeled off the Post-it note containing my list and stuck it on the wall in front of my desk, and then, as my mother had commanded, I thought again. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we reach one of Drake’s outer streets and I climb into the backseat of our waiting military jeep, Metias can barely contain his anger. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

My mother began to bump into things, into table edges as if she forgot her stomach contained a baby, as if she were headed for trouble instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I held on to a hope that Sasha and Malia’s bubble might be different, that they could remain safe but not contained, that their range would be greater than ours. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I knew that the envelope contained everything about my brother’s life. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Everyone’s coven had to be sealed by a magical contract, to contain the magic and the witches in their own circles. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before the thirty minutes were up, the file containing every symbol in the Fairy Book was sitting safely in the Fowl server. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As far as Nhamo knew, it contained no animals larger than mice, and the shore was too steep for hippos to invade. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each filovirus strain contains seven proteins, four of which are completely unknown. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she brought over a paper bag containing his clothes. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Tobias and I walk through it and enter a plain office that contains just a desk, a computer, and two empty chairs. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

What would be even more valuable would be a sample containing live virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leaving his family behind to pack up his library, White grabbed a birdcage “containing a talented green parrot” and drove toward a friend’s house where he hoped to store his possessions. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the central chamber was a pen containing many cattle and a few goats. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only three shabbily-dressed women lingered near her, and because she could not contain her eagerness, Kit smiled and would have spoken, but she was abruptly repulsed by their sharply curious eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was a huaca, a special stone that contained spirit powers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

As he put it: “Character contains almost the strongest proof of all.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

A table stood in the center of Dr. Finch’s kitchen, and on the table was a saucer containing a cracker upon which rested a solitary sardine. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

All the letters contained brochures about the school, an application form and a personal letter from the tennis coach. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that he could not breathe, that his body could not contain this passion, that he would be, before their eyes, dispersed into the waiting air. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He got up, put on a pair of gloves, and walked over to the tray that contained the rings. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

The nucleus of an atom is tiny–only one millionth of a billionth of the full volume of the atom–but fantastically dense, since it contains virtually all the atom’s mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I cannot say whether it contain wisdom or folly; nor what moral lies therein. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

For most of its existence a small and contained operation, the NACA’s flagship laboratory was now a many-layered bureaucracy flush with new faces. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Huckleberry Finn they saved for me until the third grade, tantalizingly holding it back as if it contained the very secrets of life. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was the coauthor of the then latest edition of the modern bible of chess, Modern Chess Openings, which contained thousands of variations, positions, analyses, and recommendations. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each jeep contained six soldiers and a vast quantity of thick rope and heavy chains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were lined with bookshelves containing badly preserved volumes with the bindings crumbling and flaking, or distorted with damp. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these floors contained a maze of numbered cubicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

On a side table under a naphtha lamp lay a battered wooden box, certainly the right size to contain the instrument she knew. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Diego buzzed with energy, like the physical confines of his body couldn’t contain him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When corn, oats, or sorghum containing large amounts of nitrates are ensiled they release poisonous nitrogen oxide gases, creating a deadly hazard to anyone entering the silo. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The box she meant was a wooden thing of the sort that might have contained apples. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The bag contained all six kinds of cookies he liked best. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I know the dinner I prepared contained little or no pesticides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It contained half a dozen trunks, several of them secured with locks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I scour the lab and see the standard oxygen nozzle inside the contained glovebox system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you already know what the Snitch contains?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A sphere two hundred light-years in radius contains 200,000 suns and perhaps a comparable number of worlds suitable for colonization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are clear, straightforward, comprehensible; they contain nothing strange, wild or laughable. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the three shops it contained was for rent and another was an all-night restaurant approached by a trail of ashes; the third was a garage--Repairs. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I do, yes,” says August, making no effort to contain his mirth. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

It contained her new driver’s license, social security card, work permit, and all the cash she had. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Similarly, a musical answer should also contain part of the question, plus have a sense of closure or finality. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

For more about words containing^/ and full, see page 146. sprightly. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pages contained a tersely worded order from Judge Norton denying us relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She just needed somewhere to contain the hurricane inside her chest when it eventually burst out of her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Both the mayor and the governor wanted to confront and contain the disease as quickly as possible. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The foul magick contained on the following pages is not for the faint of heart. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“You vile woman,” I yell, unable to contain myself. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, of all the models that were roughly like the real universe, only Friedmann’s would contain a big bang singularity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel a welling inside him that he couldn’t contain much longer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time containing my hallelujah shouts as I started to leave the room. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stole two cashboxes containing 40 guilders, blank checkbooks and, worst of all, coupons for 330 pounds of sugar, our entire allotment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Indian classical music, for example, does not contain harmony, but only the three textures of a melody, rhythm, and a drone. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She is the only woman in a jail containing no provisions for women, and this makes her imprisonment simply torture. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Tuesday morning's newspaper articles contained reports of angry cries to drag Guiteau from his cell and hang him on the spot. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It appeared to contain an archive of the Oology Division’s status reports, intended for the Sixers’ top brass. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

We shall see, however, that it contains a simple error. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

One of the JV boats—the one Bobby Moch was steering, the one that now and then left the all-sophomore boat in its wake—also contained a couple of promising surprises, also sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The legends are very hazy and contain contradictory stories about the betrayal and ultimate fate of Hippasus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sweet potatoes grown on California fields where BHC had been used two years earlier contained residues and had to be rejected. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s the terrain where two different ecosystems meet. In an ecotone, the landscape will contain elements of the two different ecosystems. It’s like a natural borderlands.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Under her arm Desdemona also carried her silkworm box containing a few hundred silkworm eggs wrapped in a white cloth. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Thain’s Book was thus the first copy made of the Red Book and contained much that was later omitted or lost. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the standard mixture a gram of dust contains 100 million spores. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It contained a paperback entitled The Rebel Knight On the cover was a chiseled, grim-looking man with long, black hair; a five o’clock shadow; and a tunic open to reveal bronzed pecs. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She said to him, “I have a gut feeling they’re not going to be able to contain the virus in that one room.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Woundwort would give them tasks—to search for hlessil in a certain direction or to find out whether a particular ditch or barn contained rats which could later be attacked in force and driven out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper contained several items that would have been excellent for current events. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fish from the lakes were also found to contain insecticides; so did samples of plankton. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain himself, Matthias sent his staff ripping through the middle of the articles. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At TRIGON's request, while he was still in Colombia, the CIA had assembled a second pen, containing a breakable vial of cyanide poison. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It smelled dusty and alive, a strange combination of sweat and wood and candles and electricity, as if the air still contained the essence of everyone who’d ever walked through the building. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The great libraries of the world contain millions of volumes, the equivalent of about 1014 bits of information in words, and perhaps 1015 bits in pictures. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next to it was a five-gallon specimen bottle of thick glass containing the strangest beast I had ever seen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A small country, forced to live by its wits, its foreign policy contained a strong pacifist element. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward the apartment was suddenly too small to contain her. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took Ignatius over to the mantelpiece and showed him a bud vase containing one red, one white, and one blue rose. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Paul’s plan involved having a continual lineup of women stand directly in front of the White House, holding placards containing messages demanding the vote—for President Wilson to see. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The lyrics to these songs contain literary and social references, and are rife for inclusion in the interdisciplinary classroom. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t envision her insides as a vast computer code, all Is and Os, an infinity of sequences, any one of which might contain a bug. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe his notebook contained a list of his mafia jobs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The Vietnamese geek and the American geek are the same breed, containing the same amount of personality quirks you outlined in your articles. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish dart away, bumping their noses against the invisible barrier that contains their world. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

By October, KGB officers in Moscow were able to produce a complete report on plutonium bomb design, containing detailed descriptions of each component of the weapon and specific materials needed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of terror, tension, and anxiety. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian thought it must contain hot dogs and chips and mustard and he could think only of the food. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europe might contain all the cultural capitals and current world powers, but in terms of America's national interest, it was a mere sideshow and distraction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Luckily, grand unified theories may provide an explanation of why the universe should now contain more quarks than antiquarks, even if it started out with equal numbers of each. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained the pearl studs that Katie had given him for a wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder now what my parents’ silence contains. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They contained a number-shape that was the ultimate symbol of the Pythagorean view of the universe: the golden ratio. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And he kept the cell, which contained a toilet, a shower stall, a cot, a chair, a table, as neat as his person. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But also like me, she couldn’t contain herself. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He tried to contain his rising temper; the court of the Sparra King was no place to have tantrums. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My night bag, which contained only a flashlight, a few changes of clothes, and a granola bar, sat under my bunk bed, packed and ready to go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He carried two suitcases, the first one containing clothes and gifts, the second empty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

This narrow room with its stripes like bars contained a history of feeling that no one could imagine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was interesting that such a slight frame could contain so large a person. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every surface was polished and clean, and a mahogany cabinet against the wall contained dainty porcelain figures. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four nucleotides were not, however, completely different, for each contained the same sugar and phosphate components. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I think back on the first day and the hold containing a shuttle and supplies. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There were the regulars, like the old couple who arrived every morning, each holding a loop of the shopping bag which contained all their notes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything you need to know about Smyrna is contained in that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There was nothing at all on the storeroom shelves except empty crocks and baskets, and a dish containing the crumbs of last night’s loaf. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Before such things are done, one hopes that the computers will contain every least bit of relevant information about the way of the world. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rigid frame held a skin of oiled silk in place to contain the hydrogen, and although this was tough enough to withstand minor scratches, a hundredweight of blazing rock was too much for it. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Through a doorway ahead of me a second room appeared to contain more of the same. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was always the possibility that mail with a Northern postmark might contain Abolitionist propaganda, and when it was addressed to a free Negro, it was almost certain to contain objectionable material. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maria Isabel takes the backpack, which contains a change of clothes and one picture of her daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And what’s more, the something seemed to be pulsing—as though it contained intricate clockwork. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The dictionary, quite reasonably, contained an entry in which people could learn about the word, including, of course, the fact that many speakers disapprove of it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Crooked between the trunk and a branch, a sort of gray paper cyclone contained a circular hole about an inch in diameter. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

The door worked to keep him contained only half the time, but hopefully he would forget about the sukkah and eat something else. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The smoke rose in spirals from their cigarettes as they sat perfectly contained, waiting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mine was the floor of B-block containing galleries R and W, and I was to assist the officer on duty there. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach into my pocket and take out the hard drive that contains the simulation data. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The set consists of the future, which will be sparsely furnished, but will contain a good many cylindrical black columns and several austere flights of stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The best ones contain enough truth to seem plausible. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s just the road by the anacahuita tree. We don’t name them,” Ded6 says, driven to doodling to contain her impatience. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farmers using arsenic dusts over long periods have been afflicted with chronic arsenic poisoning; livestock have been poisoned by crop sprays or weed killers containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A check of 461 samples of such products in i960 showed that a third contained residues, a situation which the Food and Drug Administration characterized as “far from encouraging.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The truth is that Williams and his firemen did everything they could possibly do to contain the fire and had followed established fire-fighting procedures as well. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor for her part believed that the text the students used, Adventures in English Literature, which contained selected works by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Daniel Defoe among others, was too hard for them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looks that contained all kinds of strange and complicated messages. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

They contained something that I’d never seen anywhere before: the secret testimony of the grand jury that in 1926 investigated the murders of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Proto-Malayo-Polynesian contains words for many tropical crops like taro, breadfruit, bananas, yams, and coconuts, for which no word can be reconstructed in Proto-Austronesian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was unable to contain my anger and hurt, which spilled out uncontrollably. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He looked suddenly tired and small, standing there in his splayed, stockinged feet, and his eyes contained a panic I had never seen before. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Another article, by Tom Oliphant, contained a message from the country’s most famous fugitive. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it contains more than the simulation data.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

New York and New Jersey, which contained the largest slave populations north of the Chesapeake, proved more recalcitrant for that very reason. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the time I was back in Copenhagen, the journal containing Linus’ article had arrived from the States. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They moved off, trying to contain the disturbance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In that case, the Court concluded that the police could take a person’s Mexican appearance into account when developing reasonable suspicion that a vehicle may contain undocumented immigrants. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The bun and the ketchup both contain HFCS. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He looked forlornly at the blue folder that contained his cheerful speech praising a perfect launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would use sticks and iron rods to dig, but often we had to use our hands, especially on Mondays and Tuesdays when the garbage contained perishables like half-eaten sandwiches and cold cuts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of your hundred trillion cells contains a complete library of instructions on how to make every part of you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did the music you were listening to contain the line Here comes the fun...wait for the sound of the gun?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s the eleven-letter word for the bubble in space that contains our solar system.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

The panic was only barely contained; I had no strength left to control the anger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He failed to stop his opponents from ripping apart most of the bags containing anti- North Korean leaflets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It contained a large room where many girls slept two by two on grass mats upon the floor. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t quite a lie—though she had hoped for all of them to contain something about Wyrdmarks, or what they meant beside a corpse. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing that disappointed him was that the series didn’t contain a book by Ayn Rand. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The man Jack made a small noise then, a grunt that contained in it both frustration and also satisfaction. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“There, again!” said I, stopping before Herbert, with my open hands held out, as if they contained the desperation of the case. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The Devon School record books contained a mistake, a lie, and nobody knew it but Finny and me. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her personal library contained thousands of rare manuscripts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Another is a space-time that contains two cosmic strings moving past each other at high speed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the wife’s insistence Haldar even moved her camp cot up there, along with a tin trunk that contained her belongings. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

You can always tell skillful spellers by the way they handle full-bodied words—the kind that contain ful or full. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Earth contains a great deal of iron and rather little yttrium. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so excited I could barely contain myself. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

For from this almost Nothing I have very nearly recreated the entire universe, which contains everything! The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

For example, the statements “UFOs contain extraterrestrial visitors” and “UFOs are unidentified flying objects” are two entirely different assertions. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The church contained a single, open space where we villagers knelt on the rush-strewn floor to face our priest and altar during mass. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Newport’s ship is again loaded with rocks that we hope contain gold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In his own dwelling, there were the necessary reference volumes that each household contained: a dictionary, and the thick community volume which contained descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

At his feet are a duffel bag containing clothes, a shopping bag from Macy’s with gifts bought earlier that morning, before catching his train at Penn Station. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ma, look!” he calls to her, barely able to contain his glee. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have so much excitement to share with my relatives that I can hardly contain myself. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It contained the same cluster of small dwellings along a single rough road with but one or two structures larger than the rest. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

This had nothing to do with anything I was, or contained, or could become; my fate had been sealed forever, from the beginning of time. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Celia searches the cardboard box containing the few articles Felicia left behind and finds her daughter’s black bathing suit. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Castleman peered through round tortoiseshell spectacles over the glass case containing the breads and pastries, her gaze just barely skimming the top. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Kansas City Star printed a lengthy account of the Clutter funeral, but the edition containing the article was two days old before Perry, lying abed in a hotel room, got around to reading it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were times when this longing dissolved all my defenses until all that was left were tears that couldn’t be contained. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We know that pesticides contained in runoff from farms and forests are now being carried to the sea in the waters of many and perhaps all of the major rivers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On the floor of his mother’s bedroom, as the aggrieved thirteen- year-old struggled to contain his fear, Shin’s camp-bred instincts took over: he had to tell a guard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When they neared the porch, I couldn’t contain myself. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Abby received her degree and moved off to another university, while Mrs. Linden was, in the end, fired when Eliot’s mother discovered that Mrs. Linden’s thermos contained more whiskey than coffee. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I tried to contain my excitement, but was not able to. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

If a boiler happened to overheat, my dad claimed to be one of only a few workers with enough experience to swiftly and ably contain a disaster. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She isn't dressed immodestly; she just has the kind of stunning figure that cannot easily be contained. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The glove box contained orderly maps and tapes of Mabel Mercer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The bundle was large and contained everything that Dr. Trefusis and I would need to establish him as a gentleman and me as his servant. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then, with a gasp I can’t contain, I shift my hand forward, and my blood sizzles on the coals. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Despite this, I had a bet with Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology that in fact Cygnus X-l does not contain a black hole! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Mom wakes me up for evening prayers, I’m clutching an old Franklin Covey agenda, one that contains a series of arguments to prove Caliban’s depravity. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Every single one of them contained my avatar’s name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Where there are fewer, the deficiency may be remedied by collecting and distributing the baglike cocoons containing the eggs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And he says that is no problem, because Berlin contains many nice boarding schools, to which he will be glad to recommend her. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He soon discovered the second drum containing a mussel stew bubbling over the fire. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capitol for the third time, I worked to contain my emotions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She gave him a little horn cup containing a hot potion whose bitterness was moderated by honey, and presently he lay back and fell deeply asleep. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the mush into flasks that contained living cells from the kidney of a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Germany required all civilians to legally register and carry documentation that contained our name, photograph, nationality, race, birth, and family details. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They contain rows and rows of large dark desks, more like tables than desks, with high stools to sit on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As much as every cell in my body longed for the few sips it contained, I crouched over Amil. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had entrusted a sealed envelope to a friend and fellow actor, who was to see that the letter it contained was published tomorrow in the newspaper. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bundle I carried, for all that it contained so little, grew heavier with each step; my neck was stiff with the effort of holding my head steady, for the bundle was poised on top. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a case of canvas with a tough wooden frame, lined with kapok, containing various instruments; and there was a pistol in a holster. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Initially her mood was bright, for the parcel contained an early Christmas present she planned to give to her friends the Lawrences, but as she neared the corner of Sixty-third and Wallace, her spirits dimmed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Garland was so simple—seven acres of land containing exactly one house, one barn, a vegetable garden, fruit trees, a pickup truck, and only one other person. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

At least three contained what looked like various types of mushrooms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Milky Way contains some 400 billion stars of all sorts moving with a complex and orderly grace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were three or four glass-fronted cabinets containing antique scientific instruments—brass microscopes, telescopes covered in green leather, sextants, compasses; it was clear why he wanted the alethiometer. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a four-man team to guard the lowliest politician, but he was expected to contain this impossible situation on his own. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In his right hand, and very carefully, as though it contained something infinitely precious, he carried the giant glove. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is undefended, and contains no war industries or troop concentrations of any importance.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

When the animal feeds on vegetation containing an abnormally high level of nitrates, the microorganisms in the rumen act on the nitrates to change them into highly toxic nitrites. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Twig had drawn a whole stack of egg drop designs and had started an Operation Egg binder, which contained all her notes and was covered in beetle stickers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

In mid-August she had gone into her basement with an aerosol spray containing DDT and petroleum distillate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The T-shirt inside had the word “Freddie” above the box from the periodic table that contains the atomic symbol Hg. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

When the performance was done and I went to the lectern to speak, I could barely contain my emotion. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She read through every page of every book her gran owned, but none of them contained advice on how to reverse a witch’s curse. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Progress was made during our private talks, and Chief Buthelezi and I signed an agreement that contained a code of conduct covering the behavior of our two organizations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second, very small parcel contained a note. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I was drawn to the Pythagorean theorem and its promise of a universal—the ability to predict the nature of any three points containing a right angle, anywhere, always. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On one side of me was a canvas tote bag containing a pair of pants, a blouse, underclothing, a sweater, shoes, and the biggest switchblade knife I had ever seen. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the hallway, a huge book, bigger than a dictionary, contained the names of the 103,000 dead from the Netherlands in the Holocaust. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Each contract contained a tight deadline for completion, with a financial penalty for every day beyond. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

This jar is not empty but contains a small amount of white sand which shifts on the bottom. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There the ways of civilization prevailed, and the meals in this hospital were found to contain as much DDT as those in the most populous city. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t need her raised eyebrows, her soft voice, to coax an emotion from me that I would prefer to contain. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The discard box was large, and it was quickly filled with toiletries that contained alcohol; clothing colored blue, black, gray, or orange; packages of food that hadn’t been factory-sealed; and . . . cigarettes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several carriages containing bundled-up ladies and serious-looking officers passed along the street, pulled by shaggy-coated horses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He carried the diamond knife and the plug of plastic containing the toast crumb of cells into the cutting room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contains nitrogen he can return to the land along with carbon he’s harvested from the woodlot. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

An octopus that contains enough venom to kill twenty-six humans. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Even though her body language was serene, Nali’s eyes contained a lake of fire, and he didn’t dare disobey. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Islands contain 20 to 200 private rooms; meals are communal; some are run as hotels, others as cooperative communes, others combine these types. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The decisions of the assembly were enacted by an executive body called the Boule, or council of five hundred, which contained the closest thing ancient Athens had to members of congress. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Behind him he left unlocked the office of the Review—three rooms that had once housed a book and magazine shop and still contained its many wall shelves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Oversize volumes contained maps of lands Cora had never heard of, the outlines of the unconquered world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer may be contained in recent laboratory experiments carried out by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

This was primary source material, research papers based on direct experimental data, involved theoretical constructions utilizing a complex vocabulary and containing a wealth of original ideas—and he was breaking his head on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The center of their attention was a scythe in royal blue whose robe contained what appeared to be diamonds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

There were also a clothes brush, a brush and comb, and a jug and basin—the latter containing dirty water which was reddened as if with blood. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Also, organic cows, like Rosie the organic chicken, are never fed corn that contains residues of atrazine, the herbicide commonly sprayed on American cornfields. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They contained seven years of research and every hint and tidbit that was to be found about Weep and its pair of mysteries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It starts with the bonfire but...bigger and there’s nothing containing it. Like the whole courtyard is on fire, there’s a loud noise and this heat and...” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It contained a wealth of practical information on surviving at sea after a shipwreck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The stack containing my aunt’s trailer had collapsed into a fiery, smoking ruin, along with all of the stacks adjacent to it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In Cordoba Province in Argentina, however, chronic arsenic poisoning, accompanied by arsenical skin cancers, is endemic because of the contamination of drinking water derived from rock formations containing arsenic. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

When visions invaded her sleep - as they always did with demigods - she could contain them by imagining they were reflections in the garden’s fountain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The house had many eccentricities, one of which was that none of the bedrooms contained beds. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On its website, a history of the company makes no mention of lead–or indeed of Thomas Midgley–but simply refers to the original product as containing "a certain combination of chemicals." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It's not finite and contained, like dealing in black market goods or finding Mirjam. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The lyrics contain many references to animals, foods, perfumed oils, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

This chess magazine contained theoretical articles and reports on the latest games from around the world, mostly games involving players from the Soviet Union. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The vigil light no longer contained oil but was an electric bulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Emotionally, I was withdrawn from the objective world; my desires floated loosely within the walls of my consciousness, contained and controlled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie says, bouncing up and down, hardly able to contain himself. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I have my laptop and a suitcase containing T-shirts, jeans, and khakis, three long-sleeve shirts, one pair of shorts, vitamins, and an assortment of toiletries. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Mqhayi sat on the stage next to Dr. Wellington, we were barely able to contain our excitement. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same argument is made by telephone operators, who’ll place a call outside the country for you only after you specify the location in Kinshasa where you’ll leave I’enveloppe containing your bribe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clear my throat, and then I’m unable to contain my happiness. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He moved on, until quite suddenly the tunnel opened out, and he found himself at the top of a vast cavern: a vault immense enough to contain a dozen cathedrals. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I stopped by the Inspection Office on my way down the corridor, and I being the guard none stopped me from entering and looking till I found the wall-panel that contained the alarms and switches. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The third, fourth, and fifth folders contained only papers that were unreadable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Corporal Grub took a breath, possibly to utter a sentence containing the word Mommy. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The detective division of the Las Vegas City Jail contains two interrogation rooms—fluorescent- lighted chambers measuring ten by twelve, with walls and ceilings of celotex. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “The average human body contains enough iron to make a one-inch nail.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that the universe is so uniform and homogeneous on a large scale, it contains local irregularities, such as stars and galaxies. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s even bigger than the one I showed you last time. It contains just about every movie ever released. Actors, directors, cinematographers, sound tracks, musical scores, the lot.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Every Christmas since, she sent my parents a gift box containing hot sauce, a flowering cactus, and a photograph of Mrs. Watson and herself in front of some national monument. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As a bomber, of course, it also contained bombing gear and bombsights, and all of this needed maintenance and loading. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

In the diet of the average home, meats and any products derived from animal fats contain the heaviest residues of chlorinated hydrocarbons. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Given the firepower contained behind the Ice Court’s walls, she supposed they should count themselves lucky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He flipped open—that way they do, to shock you—his little folded black leather case containing his identification. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lobby was very small and contained only a desk at which a female Attendant sat working on some papers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Constitution contained no provision that committed the newly created federal government to a policy of gradual emancipation, or in any clear sense placed slavery on the road to ultimate extinction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

There was no way of knowing which one contained the play books. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Everybody, Jane? Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It contained a diorama of a tramp asleep in a churchyard in front of a church door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

On October 4, 1957, they made good on their promise: The Soviet Union launched a rocket into space containing Sputnik, a 185-pound satellite capable of orbiting the earth. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The point here was that the Declaration of Independence contained the phrase “all men are created equal, ” whereas the American Constitution itself, albeit in weasel words, expressly allowed slavery. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The skin that hung down from their bodies still contained fresh blood. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She shouldered the sack that contained all the dirty linen and the evil ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

On it was a plate containing two bread loaves, half an onion, and the scanty remnants of a salted fish, the leavings from Gebu’s breakfast. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It lay there, a huge leatherbound missal that contained the readings for all three cycles of the church year. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss peered into the sack that contained my sleeping bag and dolls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But then Moss’s heart dropped—a thick band of students clogged up just feet from the entrance that contained the metal detectors. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He delivers a heart-wrenching speech, so distraught he can barely contain himself. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Compose a sentence containing the word "insubordination."—Give the opposite of "insubordination"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

All this was contained in a cityscape of carved honey stone and gilded domes, the streets radiating out from an ancient amphitheater filled with colorful market stalls. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These pages contain every detail—well, most details. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Vastly bigger than any river in Europe or Asia, the Amazon contains a fifth of the earth’s above-ground fresh water. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Others came to fish the streams, which flowed clear and cold out of the hills and contained shady pools where trout lay. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

At another moment the voice stretches out the words—the heart cannot contain!—and the voice moves toward pure sound. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the envelope also contained a second, sealed, envelope labeled, “Read this in a private place.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The commercial product usually contains combinations of several chemicals, suspended in a petroleum distillate plus some dispersing agent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Walter Noel’s red blood cells and liver cells contained the same genetic information—but gene regulation ensured that the hemoglobin protein was only present in red blood cells, and not in the liver. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I refused to call it tea when it did not contain any actual tea leaves. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There was only Esther, who contained in her narrow body all mystery and all passion, and who answered all his need. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

These contained thousands of Chinese characters, with a unique four-digit number assigned to each one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Stimela” is not a political song, but in the context, it became one, for the implication was that the train contained guerrillas coming down to fight the South African army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a tattered old volume containing all the plays and sonnets. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tame by our standards, and as Coach said, it wasn’t likely to incite a religious war or anything since it contained a moral lesson. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She was entirely in their power; she would have to think faster than they could think; she would have to contain her fear and her hatred, and find out what could be done. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Repetition had wrung from Clement’s speech any controversy it might have once contained. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They contained perhaps an undue proportion of spirituous liquor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

One, in the middle, was neatly done up with turf, and is supposed to contain the remains of the late Lord of Gosport. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

So far, the Third Gate had contained both. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

X-Ray laughed, then handed Armpit the envelope containing the two remaining tickets. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had reached the same conclusion as Baliani: the space contained a vacuum, and the weight of the mercury was balanced by the weight of the air. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The year before he was looked after by a university student named Abby, a slim, freckled girl who read books without pictures on their covers, and refused to prepare any food for Eliot containing meat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

His muscles were barely contained within his tunic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The Zimbabwean game song “Sorida” contains a melody accompanied by body percussion and hand clapping in pairs of partners. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t care what they are about, only that they contain English. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We were both looking out at the seal tank, but it contained no seals, just an unoccupied island with rocky outcroppings made of plastic. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t jump to conclusions about people, Mr. Gideon. I contain multitudes.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The jail contains six cells; the sixth, the one reserved for female prisoners, is actually an isolated unit situated inside the Sheriff’s Residence—indeed, it adjoins the Meiers’ kitchen. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have seen some that cost $20,000 and contained all the thousand appliances we live by—dishwashers, automatic clothes washers and driers, refrigerators and deep freezes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room contained nothing but a bed and a chest of drawers on which a number of bricks lay carefully arranged side by side, all of them covered with soot. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

A short brunette girl named Aspen Matthews is the first to be called onstage to shake hands with the Chief Director, who hands her a smooth wooden box containing her badge. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

This place has to contain an answer to my questions about the arcana. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This flag was white, with a red field in the upper left-hand corner containing a blue cross bordered in white and thirteen stars. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I spread the clothing out on my bed and found my wallet, which had contained my meager savings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, from what you have just heard, that no white money finances The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his program—to ‘advise’ him and ‘contain’ him! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After months with his mother, he can no longer contain it. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They contained in their close- written pages much that was imagined and everything that was known. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The enamel bowls contained flaky fufu and watery soup bereft of chunks of fish or meat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The environment, rigorously shaping and directing the life it supported, contained elements that were hostile as well as supporting. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Censors read all incoming and outgoing mail, to ensure it contained no secret information. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within an hour I know it contains an unknown parasite similar to cryptosporidium, but no heavy metals. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Room 133 contains a bed, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a TV fastened to the wall. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He fell asleep murmuring “Sanity is not statistical,” with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

This star, in turn, contains an even smaller pentagon, which contains a tinier star with its tiny pentagon, and so forth. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

His pass was scanned and found to contain an out-of-work stamp; he was taken in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cannot be delivered with a wooden box containing my cold, stiff body. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The marked papers were collected and brought to the printer who had a hand press containing an adjustable date apparatus, and racks of slugs before her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to give him a grave in order to contain him. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Peck envisioned enclosing this gigantic theater within a still larger shell that would contain a hotel, banquet room, and offices. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Many of the headlines and articles contained dramatic language and exaggeration. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tendai saw that while each large bowl contained sad^a, not all the relishes were the same. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We are, after all, a planet where the rain contains vitamin B12! The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back wall, which should contain a hundred lifetimes of food, is empty. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His original draft of the Declaration contained a “vehement philippic against Negro slavery.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In this room, because it contains more high-caste workers than any other in the Centre. I have told him to meet me here at half-past two.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One package, yes, but one package may contain many things, do you see? Now clean up these paper scraps—I despise a messy floor.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even though every cell contains the same set of genes—an identical genome—the selective activation or repression of particular subsets of genes allows an individual cell to respond to its environments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

These are mas-sive human warehouses, two of the largest prison housing units in the world, containing over a thousand inmates between them. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The files contained personal information, making life dangerous for these young people. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It reached into its dark body and pulled forth the pouch containing the moon sands. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the vantage point of your loved ones, a hint of cruelty. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

According to the handout, McNuggets also contain several completely synthetic ingredients, items that come not from a corn or soybean field but from a petroleum refinery or chemical plant. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The envelope contains the notebook she sent him forty years before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

This seemed a very long time to Julius, who used the interval to dismiss the four slaves who were now needed to manhandle the large cage containing the full-grown tiger. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He took a long pull of the lemonade, which, thankfully, contained sugar, when he saw the movement, or rather, the lack of movement. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then he told us about the time a friend of his found a bag containing twenty thousand dollars. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds contained a swimming pool and polo fields and a golf course and five lakes with islands. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“These boots,” he said in a low, purring voice as he tapped the plastic bin containing all of my finished work. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“This is a whitewashed simulation containing miniature worlds all condensed into one.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I could barely contain my excitement as I walked up the steps to the house, sprinting across the living room to the kitchen. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

So stern the night Cora emerged from the mine, it now contained a quality of tenderness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The spray was a 25 per cent DDT concentrate suspended in a solvent containing methylated naphthalenes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There is some hint that the Virgo cluster contains tens of thousands of galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw was curious, he had been trying to imagine what the glass cases might contain. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The glass jar containing the one and only good dream they had caught that day stood between them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They contained the hidden days of my innocence and happiness. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Most of the material that you were dealing with had no connection with anything in the real world, not even the kind of connection that is contained in a direct lie. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Others carried heavy residues; a sample of peas analyzed at Cornell University’s Agricultural Experiment Station contained 14 to 20 parts per million of DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The third line of the cycle contains an X and numbers 2, 0, and 3, which are also guides to counting the cycle. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

One is the all-metal interior, containing the inmates; it’s painted gray and looks as though it could have been welded in a shipyard. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later, the pass took the form of a booklet or “reference book,” as it was known, containing detailed information that had to be signed by one’s employer every month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pink in the face, barely able to contain herself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

A large body, such as the earth or the sun, contains nearly equal numbers of positive and negative charges. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a blanket, a sleeping bag, several old throw pillows, and one unmarked Mason jar filled with some sort of liquid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It contains your new Nimbus Two Thousand, but I don’t want everybody knowing you’ve got a broomstick or they’ll all want one. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two bedrooms, the larger of which Dad claimed, and a room that tripled as a kitchen, dining room, and living room, meaning that it contained one table, one moth-eaten sofa, and one hotplate. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The world contains a lot of dead people. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

And I would take tumblers of milk behind a convenient door and drain them in a swallow, as though they contained water. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both liked to go horseback riding in the middle of the morning, with a picnic basket and an array of canvas and leather bags containing Jean’s belongings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Genes reside on chromosomes—long, filamentous structures buried within cells that contain tens of thousands of genes linked together in chains.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But the children, listening, could hardly contain themselves, and when he’d finished, they burst forth with questions: How had he come here? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was interrogated for almost two hours by a white man who had in front of him a dossier containing every fact of my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the gas station Shadow bought a Clean-U-Up Kit, which contained a razor, a packet of shaving cream, a comb, and a disposable toothbrush packed with a tiny tube of toothpaste. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One bank of cages contained two isolated monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Black powder. It contains potassium nitrate—saltpeter, you know—and charcoal and sulfur.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

To learn that they contain chlordane or dieldrin one must read exceedingly fine print placed on the least conspicuous part of the sack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Within a week, Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred and eleven pages. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even though the water has not been proven to contain any special properties, it was used in the elixir that seems to have helped many people overcome the sickness still plaguing so many outside Manifest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Refrigerators that usually contain soda, energy drinks, and water are empty, as expected. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“It does feel like the internet already contains plenty of information,” Davis allowed. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In it were contained all the old poetry and stern cadences of what the Marine Corps embodied and embraced. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it collapsed, everything on the surface above it collapsed, too—in this case, the area of the field that contained Portables 16 through 21. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natural harmonics are ‘hidden’ notes, usually quite high in pitch, which are found within any given sound, like the additional colours of the spectrum that are contained within white light. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Open boxes contain stacks of paper from old dot matrix printers, detailing the expenses and income of the Martin-Gale Mortgage Corp. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It also contains the article about the crowds going to see the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The singer's robe contained only a few tiny spots of ancient blue, faded almost to white. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The version that my mom cooks for me contains only white beans cooked in chicken broth. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is due to the fact that their core identities, particularly Orff and Dalcroze, contain elements of drama, movement, sound, and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I ripped off the pages of the desk calendar I’d been using, and I took down the map, too, which I’d had up there ever since I saw that it contained Agloe. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Beside me was a little wooden stand containing a battered old pocket knife, several marbles, and a lighted candle in a metal holder. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there trying to contain it as they brought Tod Clifton's coffin into the tower and slowly up the spiral stairs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sissy reluctantly let them have it after explaining that the box contained cigarettes and was only to hold and to look at and not under any circumstances to be opened. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra opened the door and found herself in a room lit by one torch, and empty but for a cabinet of mahogany containing some tarnished silver ornaments. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But when he instructed his staff to give the injections without telling patients they contained cancer cells, three young Jewish doctors refused, saying they wouldn’t conduct research on patients without their consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Like the master score of a bewitchingly complex symphonic work, the genome contains the instructions for the development and maintenance of organisms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The storm quieted, and there was a murmur of excitement when the man-hoist winch creaked and the lift came up, but it contained only a few men of the rock-dust crew. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A recent review of the subject contained references to 215 papers reporting or discussing unfavorable upsets in the balance of insect populations caused by pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She even convinced herself that it contained flight, but did not fly, because it did not want to show anyone what it really was. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He unfastened the makeshift saddle pack he’d made, which contained his tool kit and a couple of other things he'd salvaged from the Birmingham wreck. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most do not contain enough observable mass to support the gravitational forces necessary to hold them together. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Clearly hoping to contain her tenuous hair situation, she plants one hand on her head as she crosses to the ball that contains the boys' names and grabs the first slip she encounters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There were cages large enough to contain pools built into the floor, and beings with silvery scales instead of skin swam beneath the surface. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I make sure to veer into a car that does not contain Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Smoldering the entire length of each train journey, safely contained in its iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Nose tombs” in Japan still contain the noses cut off of 20,000 Koreans and brought to Japan as trophies of a 16th-century Japanese invasion of that country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Soon every student found a message slid under his door, containing an appeal from Harvard’s president, Abbott Lowell, for men to volunteer to help ease the crisis brought about by the police strike. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, she couldn’t contain herself any longer and squealed, “Isn’t it beautiful?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Barely containing his appetite, he inched forward, making a little squeaky crying sound. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The pages of a recently finished story seemed to vibrate in her hand with all the life they contained. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The tropical rain forests are the deep reservoirs of life on the planet, containing most of the world’s plant and animal species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Ratchett certainly received one letter of a very different character—the one containing a reference to the Armstrong baby, a fragment of which we found in his compartment. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now Ernest launched a crash program to convert it into a gigantic mass spectrograph containing several calutrons, each with multiple ion sources and collectors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They contained instruments, small, but of perfect make and enchanting tones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In order to contain the epidemic, authorities sealed off the area. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Raw fish can contain bacteria, and wasabi kills bacteria. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Our apartment feels too small to contain the three of us. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Those plastic bags wouldn’t have been more precious to me had they contained gold, sapphires, rubies and dia­monds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she contained to exist. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Every morning, to retain his virility, he drinks a tea containing rhinoceros horn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The child pretended to be frightened, but she knew her uncle was a doctor and that the bag contained the tools of his profession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each contained a message of only one or two lines, in the abbreviated jargon—not actually Newspeak, but consisting largely of Newspeak words—which was used in the Ministry for internal purposes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In such a narrowed world, in order to survive, you learn to contain your rage and your despair, and you try to re-create, as well as you can, your normality, some sense of things continuing. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A contained way of moving; she seemed instinctively careful not to take up too much space. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them contained white clay, and the other red. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

If the key contains flats, the name of the key signature is the name of the second-to-last flat in the key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

For a second that contained an hour, I stared at my brother, watching the blood trickle out of his temple and down his right cheek, pouring over his ear and onto his white T-shirt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“No, I cannot stay; I have only brought you a little parcel my sisters left for you. I think it contains a colour-box, pencils, and paper.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each charge also contained a hate-crime clause that would increase Richard’s sentence by an additional one to three years in state prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There are some forty-five thousand items in the average American supermarket and more than a quarter of them now contain corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He had come to Hong Kong with a stack of flash drives containing classified NSA documents—documents that detailed a vast system of surveillance the American public had no idea existed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The one he gives you will contain a copy of Goldstein’s book. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The locket is gold, shaped like a heart, probably containing a photograph of an apple-faced German girl who has promised to remain faithful back in Berlin. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The IV bag contained a solution of lactose; such a procedure was a common method of replenishing depleted body fluids. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scientists analyzed over 700 samples, each containing an average of over 500 identifiable seeds belonging to over 70 plant species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She reminded him that parts of the city had been built on landfills containing arsenic, lead, mercury, barium, and other carcinogens. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

All the molecules that make up our cells—carbohydrates, proteins, and fats—contain the element carbon. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

By the time an extreme amplification peaks out. an eyedropper of the victim’s blood may contain a hundred million particles of virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The model is a miniature of the city she kneels within, and contains scale replicas of the hundreds of houses and shops and hotels within its walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Antarctic contains ninety percent of the world’s snow and ice, and there are more than eighty kinds of it. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Glass cabinets contain beauty-scopes—tiny brass kaleidoscopes clustered by season and year—featuring images of the kingdom's best and brightest courtiers, taken by the Orléans press corps. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Flossie opened the package—which contained about twenty huge trout heads—and burst out crying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A typical surgeon’s kit from the period contained a variety of knives and bone saws, thus inspiring the slang term for doctors “sawbones.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

We have inherited this structure and the history it contains, and we need to take care of it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She carried a small bottle with drops for seasickness and a notebook written by Father Angel in his own hand containing six prayers to be used against storms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Though, Otto supposed, the flip side was someone like Leen Ellison, who failed to keep her inventions contained anywhere, usually resulting in mayhem. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Researchers had long believed that human cells contained forty- eight chromosomes, the threads of DNA inside cells that contain all of our genetic information. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

She had no idea whether her body would contain the explosion, whether her cloak could smother the flames, but it was her best chance to save her friends and her mission. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it is too much, too much to contain. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It contained six marbles: five of them white and one of them black. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My tension returned, new, terrible, bitter, surging, almost too great to be contained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained the cash equivalent of $750 in Swedish krona. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked deserted, containing no sense of light of life. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained only a single plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

When Robin is sure that the danger is contained, he comes back in, plops down in his bed and falls asleep. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The trench, the CIA learned, contained special communications cables to carry the latest intelligence about the Soviets' nuclear weapons program. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then he took the water and dropped it into flasks that contained living monkey cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Potato soils have been found to contain up to 15 pounds of DDT per acre, corn soils up to 19. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There were huge boxes attached to the windows, which contained make-believe stars and spacecraft, so that when we looked out the windows we would see what we would see in flight. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two sisters bend over, trying to contain their hilarity. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Its air is thin, containing mostly carbon dioxide but also some molecular nitrogen and argon and very small quantities of water vapor, oxygen and ozone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A one-time pad contained randomly generated sets of numbers, organized in groups of five, that were added mathematically to the encoded, numbered messages. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We are going on a mission to drop a bomb different from any you have ever seen or heard about. This bomb contains a destructive force equivalent to twenty thousand tons of TNT.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nice thing about the finished ticket was that it all sounded worse than it was, containing words such as assault, unhygienic act, threats, etc. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The robin sings flexible songs, containing a variety of motifs that he rearranges to his liking; the notes in each motif constitute the syntax, and the possibilities for variation produce a considerable repertoire. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tub contained every single one of my hopes, everyone's hopes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Victor followed Ida to a small room on the ground floor that contained nothing but two enormous walk-in wardrobes. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

From the car’s glove compartment Perry fetched a pint bottle containing a ready-mixed compound of orange flavoring and vodka. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handkerchief also contained an address in Lisbon, Portugal, that they could use if they needed to contact Walter Kappe. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Unlike her son's, her words contained no malice. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Tyler said they contained his pencil shavings from the past five years, which he had collected to make fire starters for our “head for the hills” bags. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The melody is very simple, containing only four pitches and a fair amount of repetition. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Battered relics of past ages,” Herschel wrote, “contain...indelible records capable of intelligible interpretation.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“They contain egg yolk and bread crumbs. And so are lamb chops.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The very small living room incredibly contained—aside from things to sit on—an organ, a piano, a garden of flowering flowerpots, and usually a darting little dog and a large, drowsy cat. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sucking the blood it absorbs also the germs which are contained in it, and thus is infected. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Judith’s salad contains cheese and eggs from corn- fed animals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I shove the rest of the doughnut in my mouth to contain my emotions, jam squishing out the sides. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Each of the two bedrooms contained two single beds, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a clothes closet. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

It’s sour tasting and contains bits of maize that settle at the bottom, requiring you to shake it up before enjoying, hence the name. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were also classrooms on the fifth floor, as well as a psychology laboratory, which contained rats, mazes, screens, and a variety of instruments for the measuring of auditory and visual responses. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Along with her Georgia Aquarium polo shirt, she wore dark slacks and black sneakers, and she bounced on the balls of her feet like she simply couldn’t contain her energy. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And there,” cried Gareth, unable to contain himself, “the king pight many pavilions, and there was great war made on both parties, and much people slain!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a scale, a raga contains a certain set of pitches or notes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

To separate the facts from the hearsay contained in the bureau’s case files, White settled upon a simple but elegant approach: he would methodically try to corroborate each suspect’s alibi. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Today the world contains about a billion sheep, a billion pigs, more than a billion cattle, and more than 25 billion chickens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though White encouraged efforts at rehabilitation, he had few illusions about many of the men contained in the Hot House. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Possibly, he was worried that that a letter might contain poison or that a package could contain an explosive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Strabo’s terse description of “a public walk and a place furnished with seats, and a large hall” can be interpreted to suggest some sort of ambulatory with alcoves to the side, containing the scrolls. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying to get you fired up, Ben. There’s people come to watch you, son. You ought to go for about forty big ones tonight,” Colonel Meecham said, unable to contain his ecstasy. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inej saw guards emerge with little piles of brooches, porcupine quills, even sashes that Inej assumed must contain metal or wire. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The statute does contain an opt-out provision, but as of 2010 only thirteen states and the District of Columbia had opted out entirely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The Street in Cairo exhibit alone employed nearly two hundred Egyptians and contained twenty-five distinct buildings, including a fifteen-hundred-seat theater that introduced America to a new and scandalous form of entertainment. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It contained pictures of the strangest of insects: beetles with horns, beetles with proboscises—one even had a proper nose. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The bundle contained a whip as well—a nasty piece of old leather with a handle of brass and bone, stout enough to peel the hide off an ox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I looked up, unable to contain my surprise. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

On my first day of school Phil handed me a lunch box containing cheese sandwiches and pickles. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“Positronic brains were constructed that contained the positive aspect only of the Law, which in them reads: ‘No robot may harm a human being.' I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The box contained a new doll with matching clothes and a Chutes and Ladders board game. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The study showed that the organic fruits and vegetables contained higher levels of vitamin C. They also had a wider range of natural chemicals called polyphenols. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I return to the stock car with my dukey box, which contains a ham sandwich, apple, and two bottles of sarsaparilla. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

That pouch contained remedies for all sorts of common problems, including burns. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Matt saw that what he’d taken for an empty armchair actually contained a man. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not have believed that the world contained as much brick as there was in a single building here. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

One had a ricelike grain, and the smallest contained a handful of fresh greens. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fate of the eight is contained in his hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My face flushes with anger, but I contain myself. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, fearful yet unable to contain my curiosity. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, children are exposed to a family’s musical heritage, which may contain music unfamiliar to those in their dominant culture. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Ones containing a virus on them that will sweep through to every active NeuroLink user. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I squinted, trying to focus on the papers I held, the ones that would contain the mysteries of Julia Bishop. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Waiting on August to open a box containing the new shipment of Black Madonna labels, I studied a piece of honeycomb. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door in the hallway that led into the synagogue was open, but the synagogue was empty—except for the echoes it contained. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom lean share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later the next issue of the journal arrived, this time containing seven more Pauling articles. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The slides contained slices of liver from monkeys that had died in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Nixon’s “Checkers” speech, mentioned above in the section about pathos, contains a nicely clean instance of division. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It contained an ingenious theory by the theoretician F. C. Frank on how crystals grow. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Although a few nests were found in the treated area, a few with eggs, none contained young birds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings—always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father’s name. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained a card picturing a redheaded girl on the front. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The reels contained pictures of thousands of classified British documents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

These were the books containing powerful Dark Magic never taught at Hogwarts, and only read by older students studying advanced Defense Against the Dark Arts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I took off my old pants, which contained the rap cassettes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Brother Leon studied him, looking at him as if he were a specimen under a microscope, as if the specimen contained the germ of some deadly disease. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It means the heart of George Buckman is large. It is capable of containing much joy and much sorrow.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

One side contains my exuberant cheerfulness, my flippancy, my joy in life and, above all, my ability to appreciate the lighter side of things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In fact, my AIM profile currently contained a list of songs I was listening to on repeat last week— A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He cannot recall if there was a lock on the desk when it was placed here, years ago, when the office contained only the desk and a single cabinet and seemed almost spacious. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The truck contained, as you might expect, a big stock of toys. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most contained something like two hundred times the levels of lead that would normally be expected to occur. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was so amazing that he couldn’t contain himself from blurting it all out at the fire, in everyone’s presence. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Each one contained two metal boxes and two paddles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

My growing hate of the preacher finally became more important than God or religion and I could no longer contain myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

One agent complained that “information contained in reports immediately gets into the possession of unauthorized and unscrupulous persons.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He took out of it the glass jar containing the terrible nightmarish trogglehumper. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained information, carefully coded, about everyone at Trinity, the kind of stuff that couldn’t be found in official records. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

After so much time in the wide-open, I was pleased to be contained. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

And both of these last statements are undeniable facts, related facts, containing the gravest implications for us all. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

This second one, which also contained a nearly complete copy of the Pentagon Papers, he put in the trunk. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She desperately hoped that the crib with his name on it would not contain a wailing, sleepless little boy who would toss his hippo to the floor and thump his feet rhythmically against the mattress. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Another reason is that children’s songs are uniquely structured to make them easy to memorize while containing basic musical and cultural material; language and codes that we come to recognize in all of our songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Acorns containing secret messages, perhaps, but they hadn’t mentioned anything like that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

However, one can increase one’s chances of detecting a decay by observing a large amount of matter containing a very large number of protons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Assuming this represented a single layer of atoms, Halley calculated that a cube of gold with a side one-hundredth of an inch long would contain more than 2.433 million atoms. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A strong container, however, would contain the pressure until it reached true destructive potential. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watches her measure wine and tomato paste into the pan containing the chicken. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When they finally got home, Grandma had no sooner sent Ernie upstairs—with the beer bottle containing the half tooth—to lie down with a double dose of pain reliever when the phone rang. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Worse, the agreed ages for the Earth couldn’t comfortably support the numbers of eons and ages and epochs that the past obviously contained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The world soul cannot die, even in one contained part of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They could have contained packed lunches for the staff of Sayle Enterprises for all he knew. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Moreover, its encyclopedic Yearbook for 1952, which was devoted to insects, contained only one short paragraph on the fire ant out of its half-million words of text. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It contained a kind of underground city comprised entirely of pizza joints, bowling alleys, convenience stores, and, of course, video arcades. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But above all they contain a bottomless reserve of cheap labor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It contains a few facts I’m concerned about,” said Nels, pulling a pen from his coat pocket. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Unless the message from the pediatrician’s office about Finn’s eight-year-old checkup had a hidden meaning, the phone contained nothing new, nothing helpful. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

We made our way to the TV room, which according to Chip contained the only cable TV on campus. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She gasped into the space—a whole empty, contained space—and followed me in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“The sweet milk Madam made up? I figure it contained a sleep potion, knocked you out cold so they could spirit her away. I am dreadful, powerful sorry, but they sold her away from you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could not bring that accursed wineskin on the morrow, knowing what it contained. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Up until he went to Permian, he had been placed mostly in self- contained classes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The genetic library contains everything your body knows how to do on its own. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made him feel stupid, as if the world contained hidden wonders he could not anticipate, or see. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

My heart is beating so fast that I'm worried I won't be able to contain my excitement. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A spiral stairway wound around the exterior, mounting to the summit where an inner sanctuary contained an elaborately adorned couch and gold table. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

This was a victory, but as always, each new privilege contained within it a catch. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used three adoption studies, two American and one British, each of them containing in-depth data about the adopted children, their adoptive parents, and their biological parents. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Who was I, after all, but some comic Queequeg, holding close to my breast a reliquary containing the white powder of a dead European civilization? Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One contains dozens of blank notebooks and unopened jars of ink. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Or, rather, they passed by a chapel that was thought to contain the conqueror’s mummified body; the actual remains turned up years later, stashed inside two metal boxes beneath the main altar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The yellow Whitman’s Sampler box that held my colored pencils, stickers, and scraps of paper still smelled of chocolate but no longer contained a delicious assortment of candy. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

He had got up late and was in a state of barely contained outrage because all the hot water in the downstairs tank was gone. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The desk itself is messy, but it’s a contained mess. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The one small room the house contained was scoured as a seashell. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The ‘pure’ blood of Christ, the Holy Grail containing it, and the sacrificial significance of Good Friday are all presented as both real and miraculous. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She smiled and bit her lip, as if to contain it. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Tupperware containing various candies are laid out at two, four, eight, and ten o’clock. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Most of the fruits the bonobos ate, though, contained water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The nun’s blood was precious beyond measure, since it contained the unknown hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the gated community at Alexandria, then, Hellenistic Egypt was a stewpot of roiling antagonisms, contained only by an elaborate system of regulations, appeasement, and, if necessary, military force. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The man gave Luke the faintest of smiles, one that contained no happiness. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a bookcase: I soon possessed myself of a volume, taking care that it should be one stored with pictures. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He clutched it to his chest and hurried towards the shelves on which stood the thousands and thousands of smaller jars containing the captured dreams. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lavatories were in a rickety wooden outhouse at the back of the hotel and each cubicle contained nothing more than a round hole cut in a piece of wood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Getting up again, he crossed the street, took out his keys, and opened the lone parking meter which—Que milagro!—contained a single dime. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Leon had stopped checking the totals on a daily basis, almost as if he anticipated the bad news the figures contained and wanted to avoid finding out about it definitely. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this, Momly couldn't contain herself and let out a belly laugh. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

A handful of sand contains about 10,000 grains, more than the number of stars we can see with the naked eye on a clear night. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t been able to contain her contempt. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They contained more than just candles and stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The sixty-foot main cylinder would contain the largest vacuum ever produced thus far, an enormous engineering challenge in itself. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Misfortune, oh, say, like opening up a box that you think contains forty-eight water bottles, only to find that it’s full of ÁguaViva independent multi-tiered distributor brochures instead. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The officer got up, went to a cubby, and returned with a plastic bag containing the book bag and the blues harp, which he placed on the desk. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The spellbooks had vanished; this time it contained an assortment of broken Sneakoscopes, some parchment and quills, and what looked like a silvery Invisibility Cloak. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The room was small and contained a few lockers along one wall, some shelves, and a mirror over a sink. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I find myself wondering once again when I started to think my days would contain actual events. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The smell was pungent, like opening a fridge that contained a rotting animal. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

That union of Austronesians and East Africans lives on today in Madagascar’s basically Austronesian language, which contains loan words from coastal Kenyan Bantu languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The shelves are lined with apothecary bottles that twinkle like jewels, as well as clear jars and magnificent flasks containing resins, balms, waxes, and oils made from flowers, plant secretions, and extracts. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But he read the titles here and there, and knew that they contained all of the knowledge of centuries, and that one day they would belong to him. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kira had just gone into the small room lined with drawers and slid open the one containing the Singer’s robe. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the twirling hologram lies an entire wall of seed vault drawers containing Earth’s plant life. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I shut the closet to conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour—nine o’clock—gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now much of my writing contained remnants of too many thoughts and had too many obscure references. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The first contains three gorgeous pieces of beryl: pink, fat, hexagonal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was trying for the twentieth time to reach his shoe, which contained a few useful tools for emergencies hidden in its heel, when the door behind him opened. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

This song contains multiplication and can be used as an extension activity for math. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The room contained two narrow beds, and a thick layer of dust covered everything as per usual in Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Xan tried encasing Luna in a protective bubble, telling her it was a fun game they were playing, just to keep all that surging power contained. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

But she could not contain her desperation, her sense of being adrift once again. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman looked at Will, and Will, containing his anger, shrugged as if to say, “She’s right, we’re lost, isn’t it silly.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the thought had built and built in Rishi’s mind until he couldn’t contain it anymore. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Seeing my expression, he added, not unkindly, “You didn’t really think they let any of the kids like us live, did you? Not Oranges. Yellows, yes, because their threat can be contained, but not Oranges.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Services in black churches frequently contain a strong mixture of concern for the less fortunate and a call to personal responsibility. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Such materials, present as contaminants in water that also contains chemicals, may actually change the nature of the chemicals by the impact of ionizing radiation, rearranging their atoms in unpredictable ways to create new chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Even a phonograph record that she says contains her grandfather’s voice, lessons in science for children. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They knew that his defection was real, and they worked around the clock to contain the fallout. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could barely contain herself as she struggled to get her double buggy through the door. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys followed with the food: a large plastic bowl full of steaming rice and smaller ceramic bowls containing helpings of warm cassava, beans, potatoes, and stewed greens. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Each box contained the name of a university, its address and phone number, and the name of its head football coach. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hero gazes out at the pain and beauty contained in the twinkling lights of the metropolis. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He excitedly showed each of us the bed that was going to be ours and lockers that contained soap, toothpaste, toothbrush, a towel, a clean shirt, and T-shirts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He does not feel confined, only separate, as though he and Celia are overlapping the circus, rather than contained within it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Because the letters contained an admission of guilt, he felt he couldn’t send them until the case was resolved. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

At the Academy, prison had been likened to a village—a self- contained world with its own school, workshops, hospital, and so forth. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash was simultaneously overjoyed and worried — her stepmother would never give her permission — and her hands flew up to cover her mouth, but she could not contain her smile. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His mouth twitched with laughter that he struggled to contain. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Adding to the complexity and jealousy, according to Alex, the Soros Foundation itself contained competing factions with different points of view about Russia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The advertisements contain no suggestion that lindane is dangerous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Part of me thinks it would be a good idea to destroy it, but I know it contains the only record of my parents’ deaths, so I’ll settle for keeping it hidden. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The Kodály Song Web contains hundreds of American and other folk songs from around the world, as well as musical information on every song to help teachers learn and teach them. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

My mother told me the other bag contained the most ridiculous clothes, all new: bright California- style beachwear, baseball caps, cotton pants with elastic waists, bomber jackets, Stanford sweatshirts, crew socks. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Here she kept a cash-box containing various treasures, and a story she was writing and usually a few apples. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We trust you with truth, for contained herein is exactly that—the truth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It contained a thin strong rope, a padded grappling hook, a vial of oil, some lockpicks and a dagger: Shadow’s usual burgling kit. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cells in a drop of blood contain a different sort of molecular factory, the mitochondrion, which combines food with oxygen to extract useful energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some fruit rots while still containing perfectly good seeds, and gets thrown out uneaten into the garbage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There are videos about the importance and difference of treble and bass clefs; there is a list of music terms and what they mean, and the site even contains videos entailing the transposition of music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Even so, the ability to create music filled him with a joy too large to contain. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it said, This bottle contains five hundred doses. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

When it’s a criminal case, the plan contains measurable benchmarks. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t help but wonder how much blood could actually be contained by the 160-pound sack of skin I walked around in. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Each one landed at a spot geologists thought looked interesting, where the rock formations might contain new information about the structure of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From his studies, the big-head scientist knew that black men contained two germs, black and brown. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a fairly large box, containing two cases. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier, Samira had thrown herself a massive eighteenth birthday-slash-graduation party, and someone had left behind a backpack at our house, containing a bong and a bag of weed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I wanted to know all the secrets that were contained there. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The entries in McCandless’s journal contain few abstractions about wilderness or, for that matter, few ruminations of any kind. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this way each new cell will contain a complete set of chromosomes, and all the genetic information encoded within them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It contains active definitions for musical terms; music lessons regarding the meanings of musical notation; and exercises designed to further understanding of musical notes, chords, and many other musical aspects. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

A shelf held an African sculpture of a human hand holding an egg on the tips of its fingers, as if the egg contained something interesting about to hatch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each package contained the sender’s right index finger. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had told Alba that he worked as a jewelry thief and that the dreadful bag contained his picklocks and brass knuckles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each was housed in a large rectangular wooden box containing a cathode picture tube with a set of crude game controls mounted in front of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only other items in the room were eight trunks, just like the one containing the knives in the weapons basement. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Supermarkets look like they contain a huge variety of food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the same time, the U.S. government banned the import of wigs that contained hair from China. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The forbidding complex of twenty buildings employed 7,000 people; by some estimates, the Stasi archives contained more than one billion documents describing the vast network of spies and informers cultivated over four decades. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a scrolled wire cage, in which sat a gorgeous parrot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A proton contains two up quarks and one down quark; a neutron contains two down and one up. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the floor beside the cot, her inventory ledger, open to a fresh page, contained a list of names. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Did not the statement, “You do not exist,” contain a logical absurdity? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Her father’s newspapers contained tales of explorers, unknown lands, pygmy peoples. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Stateroom 3 is glorious as well as a misnomer—it constitutes half the car, and contains at least one additional room, which is cordoned off with a thick velvet curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I know nothing of this gold, and if you do, you had best pretend otherwise. As for the wineskins, they contain date wine and you will bring them to me as before.” The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The chest of toys contained nursery-rhyme booklets, Monopoly and word-association games, building blocks, Snakes-’n’-ladders, jigsaw puzzles and many other kinds of games no black child ever dreamed of having. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That one book contains the definitions of more than four-hundred fifty thousand words. Now, wasn’t I right, Nicholas? All this will mean so much more since you learned about it on your own.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, fields of alfalfa are dusted with DDT; meal is later prepared from the alfalfa and fed to hens; the hens lay eggs which contain DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sacks containing chemicals designed to rid the lawn of such despised vegetation have become almost a status symbol. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

"Use the passages. I've left trunks for you that contain all you need." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Slowly he shook his head from side to side, containing murderous thoughts. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But there is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw that the little band contained children as well, some riding in the carts, some walking beside them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have their breakfast in aluminum take-out trays that contain eggs, sausages, and potatoes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their garage, like every other, contains shovels and pruning shears and a sled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one building left standing contains the very library where Anatole, as a young household servant, taught himself to read and write English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He strolled over to the boxes that had contained the books that were now burnt to ashes, and reached into one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She handed the girl the parcel containing Brigid’s old primer and Oliver Twist. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sperm, this theory argued, already contained a minihuman—a tiny fetus, fully formed, shrunken and curled into a minuscule package and waiting to be progressively inflated into a baby. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The wheelbarrow in front of me contains a dead body wrapped in white bedsheets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The bag contained a pair of white cotton gloves stained the Sue Monk, Kidd color of age. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cable contained the results of the initial interview conducted by David Shorer with the most important KGB defector in a generation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He bit into his sandwich, which contained some kind of meat-and-cheese mixture that came in a can. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Those fish bits still contained energy, and energy was life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

They also contained patterns of their own, intricately drawn lines and angles. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Accurate numbers are difficult to estimate, but it seems probable that the Library contained half a million volumes, each a handwritten papyrus scroll. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carry loads of clapboard and sassafras root, and barrels of shiny rocks that we hope contain gold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The shelves in this room were stacked with cages containing live animals. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He painted a scenario: Chemical agents were released into a mess hall containing unruly inmates, and officers too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her English contained no remnant of an accent. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

And instead of just containing her thoughts and impressions, they are all written to someone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

It was accompanied by a decanter containing half a gallon of the best brandy in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t only a notebook—it contained connections to my past. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Harry looked around for a sign of the ruby-encrusted hilt, but Scrimgeour did not pull the sword from the leather pouch, which in any case looked much too small to contain it. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He straightened up his desk, shut down his computer, and removed a floppy disk that contained his daily diary, his “Chronology of Events.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His appearance didn’t help, untidy as he was and carrying a soiled shopping bag containing a juicer and a number of hate books. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Veteran hearts at this contained their dread while at your side the daughters of the ancient seagod wailed and wrapped ambrosial shrouding around you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was getting furious, but I tried to contain myself, because I knew I couldn’t afford to lose my temper. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Fang was smirking, a sad, knowing smirk, his big pointy teeth refusing to be contained. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Carl Sagan in Cosmos raised the possibility that if you traveled downward into an electron, you might find that it contained a universe of its own, recalling all those science fiction stories of the fifties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The tall niches that had once contained statuary were empty but for the filthy ruins of spiderwebs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He sounded as if there were a fire in his chest and he was doing everything possible to contain it. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

What she needs to do is try to contain it, get it into the form of the black dog. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Every point they passed was a landmark; every block contained memories. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or the hay, containing residues of 7 to 8 parts per million, may be fed to cows. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And what they termed ‘ ‘the true knowledge of the black man’ ’ that was possessed by the followers of The Honorable Elijah Muhammad was given shape for me in their lengthy letters, sometimes containing printed literature. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reached swiftly between the mattress and box spring to grab the knotted old sock that contained my secret cash hoard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

By now he’s laughing so hard, he can barely contain himself. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

No longer was the earth comfortably ensconced in the center of the universe; there was no shell containing the cosmos. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Isobel only barely manages to contain her involuntary intake of breath as she lays Le Bateleur over the already placed cards. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The obscuring lanes of dust contain organic molecules; some of them contain stars in the earliest stages of formation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the sun dips low in the sky, Taryn and I unpack our baskets from home, which contain bread, butter, cheese, and plums. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bestiaries do not contain, as a rule, totally novel creatures of the imagination made up of parts that we have never seen before. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Today, the old banqueting hall no longer contains a table and that spacious room, with its high and magnificent ceiling, serves Mr Farraday well as a sort of gallery. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He got up, put a hand into his pocket, found the box containing the ring in there. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fourth box contained dynamite, which was disguised to look like lumps of coal, incendiary pencils, timing devices, fuses, primers, wire, screws, and sulfuric acid. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

I, too, said a silent goodbye, to a place that had changed me forever—and the place that, more than any graveyard, would forever contain the memory, and the mystery, of my grandfather. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Uric the Oddball is known to have slept in a room containing no fewer than fifty pet Augureys. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lying in his hand, it looked too small for the power it contained. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It contained only classrooms and so at this hour was perfectly empty, which made us stealthier than ever. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt exuberant and full of energy I couldn’t contain. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At either end of it an empty bottle of blue glass that once contained poison was fixed in the ground. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One room contained a walk-in vault, with iron walls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

One, lined with fur torn from her own belly, contained Clover and the pile of grass and leaves, covered over with earth, in which her newborn litter were sleeping. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The awkward truth became apparent that the correct DNA model must contain at least ten times more water than was found in our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The only problem now was it was older than the universe that contained it. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines, and had been inscribed on the surface of an emerald. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is probably hollow. It must have contained whatever that blue stuff in your arm is. What happened after you were shot?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They fused HeLa cells with mouse cells and created the first human-animal hybrids —cells that contained equal amounts of DNA from Henrietta and a mouse. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It contained tons of sadness and guilt, but it wasn’t absolute. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

While I contained my frustration, he drank to drown his. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

How it contains thousands of lakes, filled with fish of all kinds—walleye, for one thing, catfish, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, perch, and pike. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Some stars, the supernovae, are as bright as the entire galaxy that contains them; others, the black holes, are invisible from a few kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The archaeologists are a decent crew, keen to get to work, containing their impatience with Nelson and his balloons. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Made-up stories don’t interest her unless they contain a lot of real things: toasters, ironing boards, the wardrobes of movie stars. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This mechanism opened or closed shutters on a box containing the pipes, thus allowing organ sounds to get progressively louder or softer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Along with the shoebox containing the picture of her parents, the book of poems, and the sketchbook. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

On a normal day, a few hours can contain long stretches of watch-checking, of empty time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Clustered at the mouth of the cave were clay pots that probably contained the muteyo. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“This one contains the color of the sky after a summer rainstorm. I’ll take it from here and plant it in another place, a canyon where it hasn’t rained for a while.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The book said that many important discoveries contained a “Eureka moment.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I have more trouble with the Klein bottle than the Mobius strip, probably because it’s a bottle, and I can’t think of a bottle that isn’t intended to contain something. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The dream was still vivid in his mind, especially the enveloping, protecting gesture of the arm in which its whole meaning seemed to be contained. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

From his deck, Evans supposes he can see between 50,000 and 100,000 galaxies, each containing tens of billions of stars. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

They stood side by side at the table, and slowly, Brangwain Spurge lifted up the casket that contained the gemstone found beneath the Elf King’s wading pool. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Folds within folds, corners and edges both containing and being contained: its inside was everywhere and its outside was everywhere else. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“The next official step is negotiation. And finally, when the eight-hour time limit is about to run out, and if no solution can be reached, a bio-bomb is detonated, contained by the time-field.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Pur: that one word contains for me the secret, the bright, terrible clarity of ancient Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Tayo nodded; he looked at the medicine pouches hanging from the ceiling and tried to imagine the objects they contained. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cassiopeia cried, no longer able to contain her excitement. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his eyes contained a different luminosity and intelligence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The meditative, pastel yellow cube that faced the street contained the main living quarters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In words belonging to chemistry derivatives in -ic denote the acid containing most oxygen, when more than one is formed: as nitric acid. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letters not only provided irrefutable proof that the children had been with Holmes but contained geographic references that allowed Geyer to plot the broad contours of the route Holmes and the children had followed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the bottom was an oilcloth sack containing a large gummy mass of black denner resin, at least four times as much as Denna and I had already scraped together. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But not for long, because Will turned to face the crowd, and stood cold-eyed, contained, and perfectly still, until the laughter stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She stopped trying to contain my natural friendliness, and over time the rest of the team relaxed a bit more as well. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It contained about a third of all the resin we’d found. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There was no way firefighters from two engines could contain a wind-driven fire with such a wide front. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the homes on the way to the quarries were built from huge blocks of granite, containing quartz, feldspar, and mica, all visible to the naked eye, as Fred once showed me. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In our state society, for instance, school principals are likely to know all their students by name if the school contains a few hundred children, but not if it contains a few thousand children. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to contain the excitement and be cool, and I could tell Noodles was trying just as hard. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The only new result we were likely to pick up before Christmas was the divalent metal content of the DNA- containing phage T4. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Tobias walks with me away from the fire smell, away from the metal furnace, into the cement-walled room that contains it. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, they’d gone to see about the ring that could contain her curse. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I pick out the line of black-clad soldiers struggling to contain the crowd near the front. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“I saw it,” she said, her voice shaking with barely contained fury. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

A computer memory is basically a device containing elements that can exist in either of two states. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each bush contained a few sleeping bags; you chose whichever one happened to be empty when you wanted to sleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

That night, squinting at the book in the candlelight, Ash saw that it contained what appeared to be recipes for medicines — or possibly spells. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harder still to believe that it contains the origins of the solar system. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Near the front, it contained a crude illustration of the hill concealing the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The pair of Witchlings devolved into laughter, the excitement of the ceremony too much to contain. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders heaved; she could barely contain her grief and her anger. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Fernandez started a photo album for me containing the pathetically few pictures I had managed to accumulate over the past nine years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Wooden stalls contained under a thatched roof stretched for several yards in every direction, full of the temple’s varying livestock. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The house seemed to contain three tiny rooms. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The singing filled his ears; it was complete, self- contained, and it mocked his fear and loneliness, his deep yearning for a sense of wholeness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Nasser had brought it into the canoe, Zeitoun had assumed it contained clothes, a few valuables. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She could hardly contain her joy as I quietly appeared beside her and slid my hand into hers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He can reveal the nugget of sorrow that happiness contains. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tjaden especially can hardly contain himself; he takes the largest of the rings in his hand and every now and then puts his legs through it to show how much slack there is. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

One contains bloodroot, a flower with white petals and a yellow center. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

This system contains two neutron stars orbiting each other, and the energy they are losing by the emission of gravitational waves is causing them to spiral in toward each other. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like gifts to the lonely boy; he read them over again and again, and then placed them carefully in the big envelope containing the President’s letter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within Lydia’s taxonomy of crushes are innumerable subspecies, most of which contain no romantic element whatsoever. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery his mother had given him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As I peered into the sack, I quickly fingered the remaining presents, testing their weight, imagining what they contained. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted the CIA to pass him instructions for how to give them a large package, containing information on every known missile or rocket inside the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

His last email had only contained three words: “Cool!!! Good luck.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It is extremely unlikely that any natural physical process could transmit radio messages containing prime numbers only. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gluck led the way to a building that he thought might contain the kitchen, and he opened the sliding door in its side. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the smell of them, they contained wine or ale. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Did that material contain a plea for ‘unity of whites and blacks’?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The one thing Efifi did not contain was children, and there were almost no women. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farmer had treated about 60 acres of land with a dust containing DDT and benzene hexachloride. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It had spread with astonishing speed.The human beings could not contain their rage when they heard this song, though they pretended to think it merely ridiculous. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As Jack and Moniek worked, each managed to make a few peels extra thick, so they contained some potato, and then slip these into their pockets to eat later. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the dying light, only its stark silhouette was visible; what it contained within was veiled in shadow. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Unable to contain my anger, I recalled the encounter which had transpired by the officers’ pavilions. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bennet deigned not to make any reply; but, unable to contain herself, began scolding one of her daughters. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The enormous barn contained just one cavernous room with a few closets around the perimeter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The car contained badly decomposed bodies packed so tightly they were still standing, one body supporting the next. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the pontoons, which were sewn of specially treated red silk and contained ulola gas, there was another bladder, this one under the craft, filled with air by means of a foot-pedal bellows. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of the African areas were municipal townships containing matchbox houses for which the residents paid rent to the Johannesburg City Council. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We'd spent an hour in Forever 21 trying on dresses for Ben's party and now we had matching bags, each containing a dress identical but for the color. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“The tip contains a pressurized dart. One shot only. You tap the knuckle with your thumb and someone goes beddie-bye.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The statements made by Department witnesses seeking appropriations were not in accord with those contained in key publications of the Agriculture Department. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Hardly “feisty” or “emotional,” as Claudette was rumored to be, Rosa Parks struck almost everyone she met as a contained, pleasant, committed, and levelheaded individual. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She looked at it as though it contained boundless possibilities. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He constructed elaborate fountains, with grottos containing mechanical singing birds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Fiona dragged her hands along the wall, searching for crevices that might contain soil from which she could grow a vine or something else we could climb. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Jaime closed his eyes and inhaled with difficulty, forcing himself to contain the wild feelings that made him want to kill his brother, to run and marry Amanda himself, to weep in impotence and disappointment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen floor is littered with boxes containing our dishes and pots, but the tile counters and cabinets smell of Windex and bleach. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The ash flow had buried a river that had contained crocodiles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Iliad and the Odyssey are, or rather contain, the oldest Greek writings we have. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a boxy structure with a row of large windows fanged with broken glass and a single cupola that probably contained a bell. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He meanders toward the back of the store, which contains an open door that I believe may in some way be related to "Tokens." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Graham also brought to the courtroom the wart Holmes had removed from Benjamin Pitezel’s corpse and a wooden box containing Pitezel’s skull. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Each contained ten gallons of fresh, clear, sweet Northwest water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He tacked up a piece of cross-section graph paper, which was a thousand lines long and a thousand lines wide, and thus contained exactly a million little squares. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She unlocked another shed and tossed the sack containing my dolls on top of a pile of unmarked boxes and then added the bag with the fancy dresses. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Adjoining the den was a furnace room, which contained a tool-littered table piled with some of his other works-in- progress—an amplifying unit, an elderly wind-up Victrola that he was restoring to service. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's going: "Hey you, Doofus! Yeah, you with the hairy face, take it easy with that box. That box contains a computer, you know what a computer is?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

On their way to the rooms containing Greek vases, they again observed the enormous crowd passing by the statue. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, with Mrs. Frisby’s help, he forced open Brutus’s mouth and poured in just a few drops of the smokey liquid the bottle contained. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

From the bag he’d brought back from the hospital, he saves his father’s wallet, containing forty dollars, three credit cards, a wad of receipts, photographs of Gogol and Sonia when they were babies. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had plenty of time to be by myself and to think and feel the magic these events contained. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He takes a card from his pocket that contains only the letter M and an address. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Reaching behind, he felt for the sack that contained his first solo haul. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The room contained a twin bed under a sloping ceiling, a brown oval rug, a basin with an exposed pipe, and a chest of drawers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The helix contains two intertwined strands of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The envelope contained a letter from his father, the letter Bobby had requested, listing the addresses of the relatives he hoped to visit in Europe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

At her summons, a woman appeared sheathed in a black satin dress that was far too tight and could barely contain her exuberant femininity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lamar got a leather case containing a steel protractor, a ruler, and a compass. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

We shaded our faces green with a broken eye shadow that belonged to Dora’s mother, and my mother gave us two burlap sacks that had once contained basmati rice, for collecting candy. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just inside the entrance to the Permian field house, the wall contained the framed pictures of sixty-one players, each of whom had been All-State. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

We return to camp to join the others about an hour later—and though Garrett and I didn’t find any washer reservoirs that contained water, some of the others did. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The box also contained white stockings, white leather shoes, and an enormous white hair bow, already shaped and ready to be fastened on with two loose ties. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adena tobacco, a different species from the tobacco in cigarettes today, contains several hallucinogens and five to ten times as much nicotine— enough, all told, to make it psychoactive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The packages containing the cake mix were mildewed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

So, okay, he’d just downed a brownie that might potentially contain something illegal. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When he had parked his truck on the roof of the Van Ness Pet Hospital, he quickly carried the plastic cage containing the inert false cat downstairs to Hannibal Sloat’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

All their repugnance was contained in the neat balance of the triangles—a balance that soothed him, transferred some of its equilibrium to him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Next, I carried in a garbage bag containing my stuffed animals. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Some contained a few snapshots of their house and family members. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In addition, the file contained a report called “The Power and Aims of International Jewry.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was said that this stone contained a smaller stone and that the smaller stone contained a smaller stone which contained a yet smaller stone and so on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A doubtful future, containing only one certainty: that I would become a mother, a role for which I had no earthly preparation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

At the front of the hall loomed the wooden ark containing the Torah, its velvet curtain adorned with ornate goldwork. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

One sniff and I knew it had contained some of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a wizened witch flit out of the frame of her picture and into the one next to it, which contained a wizard with a walrus mustache. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His next present also contained candy — a large box of Chocolate Frogs from Hermione. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I imagined the Augustus Waters analysis of that comment: If I am playing basketball in heaven, does that imply a physical location of a heaven containing physical basketballs? The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stand just yards away from the building that contains what’s left of my family. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I studied each chess piece, trying to absorb the power each contained. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

An object his mother used as a paperweight stood beside the inkwell: a small glass sphere, on a black plastic pedestal, containing a snowman wearing a stovepipe hat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is suppressed and high-pitched and contains an element of disbelief. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

They had no idea of the astonishing acts of heroism, the blinding light, contained within his outward, humdrum disguise. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It contained perhaps forty gravestones and was surrounded by a knee-high stone wall covered in slippery moss. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

We learn “Scots Wha’ Hae,” and a poem about a mouse, which causes some snickering as it contains the word breast. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I try to contain my excitement, to not fidget or bounce too much. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped into a low bow, barely able to contain her joy. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Several windows still contained patterned glass of deep reds and golds, amazing things, for knowledge of the way of making such remarkable glass had been lost. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some people said it contained spells for turning salt into gold and men into rats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The discs contained records from Verizon Wireless, the results of the subpoena. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The CIA determined that Blake had passed over 4,000 documents to the Soviets, many of them containing highly classified information about British and American spies. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If it is different from all the numbers on the list, it can’t be on the list—but we already assumed our list contains all real numbers; after all, it was a perfect seating list. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the same time, Natnael had found a way to contain his anger and to find a place for himself on the team he, Mandela, and Kanue had worked to preserve. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

For example, this scale would contain the same notes whether you start it on C or E. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He pays for his cup, the steaming concoction contained in black-and-white marbled swirls, and wonders for a moment before his first sip if it won’t taste as good as he remembers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They walked into a small office with a receptionist's desk, which contained no receptionist, so then they left and made their way around the side of the warehouse. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

There were only two saucepans in the refrigerator, both containing some orange broth, and a copper kettle on the stove. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Deep inside herself Lina felt an answering call, as if she, too, contained a drop of the same power. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lake Cabora Bassa was so huge, it could contain a place this large and still give no hint of where the shore might be. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, a sample of drinking water from an orchard area in Pennsylvania, when tested on fish in a laboratory, contained enough insecticide to kill all of the test fish in only four hours. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you know that some native peoples believe fog contains the restless spirits of the dead?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The voice throbbed with icy authority and I quieted and tried to contain the pain. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers used to solve the square ended up being the combination for a lock on a hidden box that contained Shakespeare’s Secret. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was listening to the same genial, slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the second floor there are corridors leading into other corridors, lined with shelves that contain jars full of dead lizards or pickled ox eyeballs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A chess-playing friend, Karl Burger, ten years older, who went on to become a medical doctor and an international master, first told Bobby about the tome, feeding the boy’s imagination about the wisdom it contained. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The king gestured at Kaltain, who obediently picked up a silver tray containing two goblets. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The small package contained a measure of gunpowder and one lead ball. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

The bucket contained about a gallon of seawater, and Fred set the moon snail at the bottom while he grabbed his tools. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was stained with red paint and contained a single word printed in enormous letters: Djakarta. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the sideline, he unzipped his backpack carefully, as though it contained something fragile and precious, which in a way it did: a single black oversized sneaker. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A chorten is a religious monument, usually made of rock and often containing sacred relics; it is also called a stupa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The suitcases contained the clothing the kids wore in The Sandlot. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She even came up with a strange strip of cloth with two bags at the front to contain Nhamo’s growing breasts. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the real information, Bateson argued, was not contained in the features, but in the combination of genes that determined them—i.e., in the genotype. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others in itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So this box contains every detail of my journey—every challenge, failure, triumph, and success. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

When the crates were opened, they were found to contain loose bits of wood, metal, and painted cloth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t honestly believe he’d contain her if she tried to escape! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Although the plants had been sprayed before the flowers were formed, the nectar later produced contained the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“For a trip down Bob Ogden’s memory lane,” said Dumbledore, pulling from his pocket a crystal bottle containing a swirling silvery-white substance. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Every day or so after that, Dad would leave a piece of paper, containing a Morse code message, on the dining room table. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

That way, any disturbance that got out of hand could be contained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The scientist took the little envelope containing Lyra’s hair and bowed nervously as he left. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ushers often came to the Treaty Room a few times over the course of an evening to deliver more folders, containing more papers, freshly generated by staffers who were working late in the offices downstairs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He is sorting through a chest that contains— believe it or not—more toys, when I see them: two old-fashioned wooden stick horses, one black, one gray, that sit forgotten in a corner. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A can of a mothproofing material containing DDD, for example, carries in very fine print the warning that its contents are under pressure and that it may burst if exposed to heat or open flame. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

One telegram sent to General Sherman contained a special message. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It contained a desk with a telephone and a sink. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From it he removed and handed to my father several small pouches filled with roots, ointments and bottles containing drops of the grey, misty brew—medicines for all his problems. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Danny explained that the third floor contained his room, his father’s study, and a conference room. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Theorem rests upon the validity of my long-standing argument that the world contains precisely two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Then a telephone buzzed, and while the nurse answered it, Lyra stooped quickly to recover the other tin, the one containing the spy-fly, and put it in the pouch with file alethiometer. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I had learned to live with hunger, but now that my body knew there was fresh baked bread to be had, it could barely contain itself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two crates of ammunition were set out, one containing loaded magazines, the other loose bullets. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Capricorn’s church contained no pews of the kind Meggie had seen in other churches, just two long wooden tables with benches, one on each side of the nave. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

These contain an incredible variety of chemical additives and medicinal agents in addition to the basic foodstuffs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Because willow bark contains salicylic acid, a pain reliever. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

They contain only the notes in the minor key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“The Vigils will help,” Archie said, unable to contain himself any longer. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I had learned to master a great deal of tension now; I had developed, slowly and painfully, a capacity to contain it within myself without betraying it in any way. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They produced two identical solutions: The letter, addressed to General Gage, contained reports on Washington’s military plans and on the strength of the Continental Army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nailer could barely contain his fear and frustration. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as I returned to Cambridge, I beelined out to the library containing the journals to which Joshua had sent his recent work. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

For his part, Fraser doubts the daughter library contained copies because “duplicates are hardly likely to have been subject to a careful count.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He was about the size of a mature buck, with fur that contained all the colors of the rainbow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Patterns etched into the top and sides flared with light every so often, as if it held energy too powerful to be contained. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

That order had apparently not yet been conveyed to the clinic’s kitchen, for the breakfast tray contained scrambled eggs, three rashers of bacon, and several pieces of buttered toast. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A shelf along the wall contained a kerosene lantern, spare wicks, matches, and oil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

These fairs often contained “Mendel booths,” where the principles of genetics and the laws of inheritance were demonstrated using puppets. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, Monsieur, do you not wish to see what my valises contain?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the attackers had evidently thrown something inside that had contained its own fuel. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps no aspect of the HUD regulatory regime has been as controversial, however, as the “no-fault” clause contained in every public housing lease. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Between the pillars, the dead sat on their stone thrones against the walls, backs against the sepulchres that contained their mortal re-mains. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One contained nothing but a boiling grey smoke that flickered sporadically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Sector Seven contained hundreds of planets, moons, and other worlds, and the Jade Key could have been hidden on any one of them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“No: In Scotland there exists at least one field, containing at least one sheep, at least one side of which is black.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I confessed that I was a bit low, and instantly an aide came back with an envelope containing four hundred dollars in cash. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To these four volumes there was added in Westmarch a fifth containing commentaries, genealogies, and various other matter concerning the hobbit members of the Fellowship. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z