| 单词 | contained |
| 例句 | 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 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 It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationery his mother had given him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 It contained a diorama of a tramp asleep in a churchyard in front of a church door. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 Their pleats and nooks contained pockets of warm, stale air that soothed Ignatius. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She carried a box with her, made of ash wood, which contained golden apples. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He could not bring that accursed wineskin on the morrow, knowing what it contained. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z 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 We walked out onto a stage that contained only two chairs and a smoking stand. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He never would have guessed it contained $10,000 in cash. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I knew they contained the ashes of dead people. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 My environment contained nothing more alien than writing or the desire to express one’s self in writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 desk itself is messy, but it’s a contained mess. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes the letters contained only a few words or a single question like, "Do you have friends?" Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z 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 The suitcases contained the clothing the kids wore in The Sandlot. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 contained six marbles: five of them white and one of them black. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 His muscles were barely contained within his tunic. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 Smoldering the entire length of each train journey, safely contained in its iron cauldron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 contained the hidden days of my innocence and happiness. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 They are set within circular paths, contained within a circular fence. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z While I contained my frustration, he drank to drown his. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 book said that many important discoveries contained a “Eureka moment.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Her smile can barely be contained on her face. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She understood everyone’s frenzy—those bags contained literally all they owned in the world. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 This narrow room with its stripes like bars contained a history of feeling that no one could imagine. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 Each contained papers from our respective offices, which we were meant to read overnight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 As might have been expected, all of these fish contained DDT. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 He couldn’t imagine what the thousands of pages contained. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 A cranberry bog under study contained 34.5 pounds to the acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z 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 Each one contained the exact words spoken by the various guests, and they all began eating immediately with great gusto. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z And then I motioned toward the trash can, which contained puke. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z “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 The small package contained a measure of gunpowder and one lead ball. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Everything I knew about nucleic-acid chemistry indicated that phosphate groups never contained bound hydrogen atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Those fish bits still contained energy, and energy was life. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 One of them contained white clay, and the other red. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One room contained a walk-in vault, with iron walls. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It contained only four soldiers, each manning an oar. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The basket of her bike contained a camera bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 We trust you with truth, for contained herein is exactly that—the truth. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was a nameless horror of the citadel and all it contained. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The enormous barn contained just one cavernous room with a few closets around the perimeter. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He looked forlornly at the blue folder that contained his cheerful speech praising a perfect launch. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The enamel bowls contained flaky fufu and watery soup bereft of chunks of fish or meat. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 They also contained patterns of their own, intricately drawn lines and angles. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It contained a desk and two straight chairs. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 By the end of the first century of the Fourth Age there were already to be found in the Shire several libraries that contained many historical books and records. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They contained no shred of humor, no happiness, no mirth. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 They were hard and black and contained unutterable sorrow. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 One had a ricelike grain, and the smallest contained a handful of fresh greens. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It contained an ingenious theory by the theoretician F. C. Frank on how crystals grow. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 My days and nights were one long, quiet, continuously contained dream of terror, tension, and anxiety. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Maybe his notebook contained a list of his mafia jobs. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z ‘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 So far, the Third Gate had contained both. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “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 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 “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 Then he took the water and dropped it into flasks that contained living monkey cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They could have contained packed lunches for the staff of Sayle Enterprises for all he knew. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Many of the headlines and articles contained dramatic language and exaggeration. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 One sniff and I knew it had contained some of John Eye Blevins’s moonshine. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 She dropped the mush into flasks that contained living cells from the kidney of a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Poppy said every religion contained some shining ideas and plenty of foolishness, too. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Her English contained no remnant of an accent. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 My father carried on his shoulders the large blue-tin trunk which later I learned contained all of Ultima’s earthly possessions, the black dresses and shawls she wore, and the magic of her sweet smelling herbs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 This, he said, contained the essential principle of Animalism. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 One bank of cages contained two isolated monkeys. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Her personal library contained thousands of rare manuscripts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z For all its luxury, their bathroom contained no bathtub. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z His expression was the only one that contained hope. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 But the attackers had evidently thrown something inside that had contained its own fuel. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 After so much time in the wide-open, I was pleased to be contained. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z 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 A small country, forced to live by its wits, its foreign policy contained a strong pacifist element. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The reels contained pictures of thousands of classified British documents. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 They contained perhaps an undue proportion of spirituous liquor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 They lived on the grounds in bleak, single-sex barracks that contained hundreds of concrete bunks separated from each other by only a few inches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The four nucleotides were not, however, completely different, for each contained the same sugar and phosphate components. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 Barber found that its cylinder contained four spent cartridges and a single live one. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 Tom could see that they contained granules or specks. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 His eyes contained a fire that could not ignite the other frontiers of his body. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The refrigerator contained two food groups: mustard and beer. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Most of the samples that came into the Institute—and samples of blood and tissue arrived constantly from all parts of the world—contained nothing unusual, no interesting viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained a scrolled wire cage, in which sat a gorgeous parrot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now much of my writing contained remnants of too many thoughts and had too many obscure references. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z 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 vigil light no longer contained oil but was an electric bulb. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Garfield had passed urine and feces normally, and neither contained blood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 “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 “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 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 Interspersed with plundered foil bags that once contained frozen seeds, personal belonging bags hang from metal brackets like a file cabinet. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One contained nothing but a boiling grey smoke that flickered sporadically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 That pouch contained remedies for all sorts of common problems, including burns. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z 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 While the fire was being contained in the south, to the north another story was unfolding. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The Dog Boy and Walt clubbed together and sent Urn a mixture for the distemper, which contained quinine and was absolutely priceless. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Everything you need to know about Smyrna is contained in that. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 Mrs. Moss peered into the sack that contained my sleeping bag and dolls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z 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 Other graves from the same site contained far fewer goods. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A second, very small parcel contained a note. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 It contained thirty-two pages of photographs showing models wearing brassieres, corsets, garter belts, and stockings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 The man gave Luke the faintest of smiles, one that contained no happiness. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “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 Censors read all incoming and outgoing mail, to ensure it contained no secret information. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 One telegram sent to General Sherman contained a special message. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The box contained curried leftovers, bruised mangoes and a dozen or so books, which my mother said she had bought at a flea market near where she worked. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall niches that had once contained statuary were empty but for the filthy ruins of spiderwebs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They contained blooming jurda plants, and Nina guessed the cases must be heated. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was much more contained when he had clean ears and smelled like honeysuckle. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 A universe of fury seemed to spin inside Mark, an impossible feeling that he knew couldn’t last, couldn’t be contained. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 Moreover, it contained physical anomalies that couldn’t be explained. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 He could tell just from picking up a toothpaste tube whether it contained potassium nitrate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 They never elaborated about just what diseases the toilets contained, but they made it plain that the ailments were both contagious and dire. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The basket contained only hard nuts, locked tight within their shells. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Cells were filthy, bedding was unwashed, the food often contained worms and insects. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z It contained approximately 8 cubic meters of air. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 was a huaca, a special stone that contained spirit powers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 But then the time came, perhaps ten thousand years ago, when we needed to know more than could conveniently be contained in brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps his eyes contained a different luminosity and intelligence. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 She smiled, putting the lid back on a box that contained more practical-looking off-white shoes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 I scour the lab and see the standard oxygen nozzle inside the contained glovebox system. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 Some contained a few snapshots of their house and family members. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Gallup believed that Shakespeare’s First Folio contained secret messages written in this cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Nobody realized that the crate already contained a rat and a spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z 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 She gasped into the space—a whole empty, contained space—and followed me in. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z 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 The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z 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 “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 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 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 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 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 Some nests contained no eggs; others contained eggs that failed to hatch. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He seated us alphabetically around the room—our session contained people with surnames from A to F—and then gave us a mock quiz. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Every envelope contained a man’s honor and peace of mind. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 Working with his hands in the rubber gloves protruding into the cabinets, Gene Johnson took a little bit of the boy’s blood serum and dropped it into flasks that contained living cells from a monkey. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both contained thorough reports on atomic bomb design. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It contained tons of sadness and guilt, but it wasn’t absolute. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z 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 newspaper contained several items that would have been excellent for current events. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 There wasn’t anyone to answer these questions, and my head felt heavy with the images that it contained. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z 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 Our bedroom now contained two beds and a crib. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z 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 Unlike her son's, her words contained no malice. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Lying in his hand, it looked too small for the power it contained. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The safety-deposit box contained information for ten offshore bank accounts. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 They contained instruments, small, but of perfect make and enchanting tones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z 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 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 Another sphere contained a wick hanging in empty air from a silver wire, burning with a motionless white flame despite its apparent lack of fuel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I see something powerful in her eyes, powerful, but contained. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The envelope contained a card picturing a redheaded girl on the front. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The panic was only barely contained; I had no strength left to control the anger. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 I studied each chess piece, trying to absorb the power each contained. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained a small refrigerator and a microwave. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The box contained a linen sack filled with straw. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 A grace contained on a small strip, forcing you to fight. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 And the clay from the village pits contained exactly the right amount of iron to produce the exquisite gray-green color of celadon so prized by collectors. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 The truck contained, as you might expect, a big stock of toys. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The box contained a couple shirts, pants and jerseys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z At each place was a bowl made from a can that had once contained powdered milk. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 In other words, one has a singularity contained within a region of space-time known as a black hole. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The ash flow had buried a river that had contained crocodiles. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 And though there are a great many fragile objects contained within it, nothing breaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z 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 A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The basket contained victuals: bread, half a chicken, water, and a bottle of beer. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They began to unpack the boxes that contained the accoutrements of the living room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Reading through letters that probably contained personal conversations. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But some words are too big to be contained. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z 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 She shouldered the sack that contained all the dirty linen and the evil ball of hair. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 He found a plastic jug that contained sterilized pieces of liver from Monkey 053. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A bull is like a silverback, noble, contained, calm like a cobra is calm. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 It contained a desk with a telephone and a sink. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Repetition had wrung from Clement’s speech any controversy it might have once contained. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 That one word, in the way it was shouted, contained more exclamation points than anything Ben had ever said to me in his entire life. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 I was right all along: I cannot be contained. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Each jeep contained six soldiers and a vast quantity of thick rope and heavy chains. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained two banks of cages, positioned facing each other along opposite walls of the room. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another note contained directions to a small courtyard off the library. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z He found out that the president rested on two mattresses, and the bottom one contained steel wire springs. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 A man dressed in rags pushed a large cart that already contained two corpses—a child and young woman, their skin tinted a pale yellow. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Flossie opened the package—which contained about twenty huge trout heads—and burst out crying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The rooms contained double banks of monkey cages. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At least three contained what looked like various types of mushrooms. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 answer may be contained in recent laboratory experiments carried out by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second box contained more of the same. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I am trying to keep myself very small and very contained. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 When Nasser had brought it into the canoe, Zeitoun had assumed it contained clothes, a few valuables. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 On the other hand, the Constitution contained no provisions that specifically sanctioned slavery as a permanent and protected institution south of the Potomac or anywhere else. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But all they contained were thousands of randomly generated trees and the occasional bird, rabbit, or squirrel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His last email had only contained three words: “Cool!!! Good luck.” Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z 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 From the smell of them, they contained wine or ale. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z 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 Most of the fruits the bonobos ate, though, contained water. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no way of knowing which one contained the play books. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 one small room the house contained was scoured as a seashell. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 But food, by its very nature, contained flammable hydrocarbons. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell was pungent, like opening a fridge that contained a rotting animal. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z 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 The pages contained a tersely worded order from Judge Norton denying us relief. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z 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 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 The nun’s blood was precious beyond measure, since it contained the unknown hot agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 The world soul cannot die, even in one contained part of it. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The book contained a number of old black-and-white photographs: pit ponies and canaries in cages. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z 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 Instead she looked about the room, and noticed with surprise the one ornament it contained. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Reaching behind, he felt for the sack that contained his first solo haul. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The envelope contained only a single plane ticket. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 A contained way of moving; she seemed instinctively careful not to take up too much space. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained names of towns I could write myself passes to. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Some people said it contained spells for turning salt into gold and men into rats. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 Unlike the other things they’d found, this contained dignity, solemnity, beauty even. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 Near the front, it contained a crude illustration of the hill concealing the tomb. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 Every single one of them contained my avatar’s name. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 His slight frame contained every cause of an army’s defeat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Within a week, Matilda had finished Great Expectations which in that edition contained four hundred and eleven pages. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The house had many eccentricities, one of which was that none of the bedrooms contained beds. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 No doubt that is why none of the books Penelope had brought with her from Swanburne contained the information she sought. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z 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 He looked at me with the contained amusement that is considered taciturnity by non-Yankees. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 One word contained everything he felt, and explained why he was to dwell on this moment later. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z For Bobby, the building was a totemic destination since it also contained the offices of the U.S. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z These tales stimulated my childish imagination, and usually contained some moral lesson. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 “It was of incalculable value! Not to mention it contained years of my personal notes and annotations!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 other contained toilets, sinks, and showers—with not a single hot faucet in sight. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The cases also contained a variety of popular chess books and some incunabula printed in German. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Looks that contained all kinds of strange and complicated messages. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It contained half a dozen trunks, several of them secured with locks. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 box in pink ribbons contained another asparagus cooker. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z His living room contained nothing but an enormous nest made of human hair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The room contained a cot, a desk, and a small wooden cross on one wall. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z 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 The meditative, pastel yellow cube that faced the street contained the main living quarters. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 Turned low, the gas jets offered a subdued glow, their flames contained within unusual white fixtures. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 “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 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 It contained a couple of plastic tubes with screw tops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had a book around my neck, fastened by a clip to my pressure suit, which contained procedures for eighteen different types of rendezvous that I might need. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 It listed dates and events that I should be aware of, and it contained a map of Maryland. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It contained a few rows of wooden chairs. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Before long, the flames were contained and the fire began to die out. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z 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 contained two skeletons, buried head to head. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The fate of the eight is contained in his hands. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Robinson’s diplomatic letter contained one fragment of steel. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 Second, they also contained a concealed device that set a hair-trigger. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 Her words contained a confidence that made Ash feel an unexpected thrill of pride, for of course, Kaisa herself had taught her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Every point they passed was a landmark; every block contained memories. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 Her father’s newspapers contained tales of explorers, unknown lands, pygmy peoples. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The third, fourth, and fifth folders contained only papers that were unreadable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 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 The glove box contained orderly maps and tapes of Mabel Mercer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 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 slides contained slices of liver from monkeys that had died in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained about a third of all the resin we’d found. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 Wooden filing cabinets stood around the walls; from their labels, Harry could see that they contained details of every pupil Filch had ever punished. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The divorce had apparently been a drawn-out, sticky affair, but the file contained few details. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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, 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 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 She looked at it as though it contained boundless possibilities. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 That way, any disturbance that got out of hand could be contained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The frame contained a picture of a woman in profile, her head bent toward a little girl who sat in a high chair with a smudge of baby food on the side of her mouth. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 When Grandma had been alive, she had, by nagging, shouting and threats, kept my father’s junkyard contained. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 know the dinner I prepared contained little or no pesticides. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z 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 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 Each one contained two metal boxes and two paddles. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 The envelope contained the cash equivalent of $750 in Swedish krona. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a rustic seat. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 bag contained all six kinds of cookies he liked best. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 My tension returned, new, terrible, bitter, surging, almost too great to be contained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The singer's robe contained only a few tiny spots of ancient blue, faded almost to white. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton also took note of the implicit secessionist threat contained in Virginia's statement. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I saw it,” she said, her voice shaking with barely contained fury. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Do you realize this is one of the major reasons why America’s white man has so easily contained and oppressed America’s black man? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t only a notebook—it contained connections to my past. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z 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 Each of these floors contained a maze of numbered cubicles. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z How many bits of information are contained in the hereditary material of various lifeforms? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained a wealth of practical information on surviving at sea after a shipwreck. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 It contained the pearl studs that Katie had given him for a wedding present. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 It contained almost two feet of murky water. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The smoke rose in spirals from their cigarettes as they sat perfectly contained, waiting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 He opened his binder; it contained multiple documents and a legal pad. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This way, other nations could not infer from lack of openness which launches contained classified payloads. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 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 They contained more than just candles and stones. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z 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 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 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 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 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 The tub contained every single one of my hopes, everyone's hopes. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z 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 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 A shelf along the wall contained a kerosene lantern, spare wicks, matches, and oil. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z 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 Omar always wanted one of his own; he said dictionaries contained every word ever uttered. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z The hero gazes out at the pain and beauty contained in the twinkling lights of the metropolis. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z 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 |
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