单词 | country |
例句 | “What’s that phrase I heard an educated man once use about this country—the ‘Tyranny of Tolerance’?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People had been coming in all day from the country, but they were assimilated in the town and you did not notice them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z What a lot of people don’t know is that the president sees almost everything, or is at least privy to basically any available information related to the country’s well-being. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Armed men had forcefully taken most of the food in the city from shops and markets, and imports of food from outside the country and from the provinces to the city had been stopped. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “They should call the FBI in,” Nixon ordered, “and say that we wish for the country, don’t go any further into this case, period!” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Oh, at six o’clock: he keeps early hours in the country. You had better change your frock now; I will go with you and fasten it. Here is a candle.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was hoping to gain citizenship in yet another country when the time was right. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves, purple when the sun dropped and so sharply etched in the morning light the granite dazzled almost more than the bright snow lacing it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone—I can’t remember who it was—claimed after the lesson that what Miss Emily had said was that Norfolk was England’s “lost corner,” where all the lost property found in the country ended up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of copies changed hands across the United States on the first day, and countries around the world reported similar sales. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In the newly occupied countries, Jews were forced to sew yellow Stars of David on their clothes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Will you be writing about our country, history perhaps? Economics?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They had turned out, like people in small towns all over the country, to watch their young men leave. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In Europe alone, the fall of the wall opened the way for the formation of the European Union and its expansion from fifteen to twenty-five countries. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Cora figured that a new wave of immigrants would replace the Irish, fleeing a different but no less abject country, the process starting anew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I know you blacks. You leave the country and start telling Americans lies about how bad things are here. Is apartheid a bad system, boy?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A mass exodus from North Korea could substantially depopulate the country, undermine its already inadequate capacity to grow food, and weaken—or perhaps even topple—the gov-ernment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I told myself, “I will continue this journey of fighting for peace and democracy in my country.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I was in China in a city named Hankow, a dot on a crooked line that seemed to break the country right in two. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had left religion behind back in Brooklyn, or maybe even before that, back in the old country, but some things were inexcusable. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z They put a safety pin through the Queen’s nose and the entire country was up in arms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z From the upper plains, the heat and aridity radiated across the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like, thousands and thousands of kids all over the country got decked out in their new school clothes and were all excited for their first day of school. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Now she and Papi have to sleep in an uncomfortable sofa called Castro, the name of the man who stole their country from them. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Here, in the slowest country on earth, the students had a whole hour-and-a-half lunch break. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Across the country, the case hit the headlines. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I doubted he was capable of choosing one over the other, even though he talked about retiring one day in Cange so he could be just a “country doctor.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Someone who is doing what this country should have done years ago.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Beowulf went on calmly: "If you love your country—as I'm sure you do—then you'll help, not hinder us. Show us the way to the great hall Heorot." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward I received dozens of requests to speak all over the country. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He needed to be roaming free in open country and living among untamed animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing to mark that we had entered a new country. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Toby pulled himself up into the truck and didn’t look back as Lily sped across the parking lot and out onto the country highway that crossed in front of the school. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Growing up out in the country, I still miss country things. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearly four years younger than his brother, Ernest, at the age of thirty-one he looked rather the elder: his hairline receding, his face already bearing the dour expression of a country doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I’d so much like you to know this country, because there’s so very much that’s unique to be noticed by those who look at things closely.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In a population of about eleven million, the country boasted more doctors per capita than any other country in the world, and twice as many per capita as the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had orders from virtually every major rowing program in the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z An inferior child with bad genes is no use to the country. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z There’s one poem about a kid named Roland who is walking from one country to another, and he’s scared. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I did him a favor once up in the wine country.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When Bijan traveled to enemy territory to vanquish the boars, he fell in love with a princess, Manijeh, who was the daughter of his country’s greatest enemy. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z She lived in the country and couldn’t get to church every Sunday, so she made up for her absences by shouting so hard when she did make it that she shook the whole church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Work was being done at universities all over the country, he told Groves. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All over the country, speculation about the source of this historic leak began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s not like I could do anything when we were in two different countries. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The spoils of a conquest that the country had long ago forgotten, and that some conquistador had failed to tell his children about. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulled the Rambler into a country gas station, left Ben with the car still running, disappeared into the dimly lit depths of the store and returned carrying two paper sacks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What were they doing here, drinking and shouting at one o’clock in the morning in a country so far from the homes they knew; what were they so feverishly happy about? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z But in New York, she needed to settle somewhere, and since the natives were unfriendly, and the country inhospitable, she took root in the language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And Herod Sayle was going to put one in every school in the country! Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He and his companions were a muddy handful of scratchers, crouching in a narrow, drafty pit in lonely country. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Like Garfield, he taught in a country school before studying to become a lawyer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He said that he’d come from down San Antonio way with a litde bunch of cattle that he was grazing over in the Devil’s River country. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The Carter Cowboys had the best high school linebacker in the country and maybe the best defensive back, along with ten other players who were sure to be recruited by major colleges. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I come from a country where people have been arrested and tried for witchcraft—in a court of law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The truth is, as many of you have read, we have both struggled every day with what this means for our families, our countries, and our futures. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He was fed up with traveling through exotic countries selling shark-fin aphrodisiacs, ginseng to cure all ills, carved Eskimo statues, stuffed Amazonian piranhas, and chinchillas for ladies’ coats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a few years, it was the bestselling brand in the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Doctors’ Pact precipitated a series of nonracial, antigovernment campaigns around the country, which sought to bring together Africans and Indians in the freedom struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Stalin and the Communist Party nailed together a haphazard structure for a country that, in principle at least, treated men and women with equal rights. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Clara did her part as well, praising the elegance of his handwriting when Ana showed her his letters, and Lady Isobel could find no fault with his country house — or his considerable fortune. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had to look no farther than out their front windows for a daily reminder of the “country” ways that the southerners had brought with them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If they cannot join an exclusive country club, they form their own. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It is a country of far-flung, lonely farms and a few widely scattered small towns and villages, of lonely trappers’ shacks and logging camps. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just heard, Mary Willis. I been out in the country all day. I want to be sure Will’s all right.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z During the whole flight down, Bull allowed his fantasies to roam the country of his eyes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we can search your so-called teacher’s ‘country place,’ and see what we can find there.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Mary told Booth that she was riding out that afternoon to her country tavern in Surrattsville, Maryland, several miles south of Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So they passed into the northern marches of that land that Men once called Ithilien, a fair country of climbing woods and swift-falling streams. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “But those were Frenchmen and you can work out military problems clearly when you are fighting in somebody else’s country.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Across the country, legislators were grappling with whether to regulate cell phone use by drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Halfway down the hall I hear “Wait for us, country boy!” so I run faster. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z “In the midst of the resulting chaos, turmoil, and disorder,” Yutar proclaimed, “it was planned by the accused to set up a Provisional Revolutionary Government to take over the administration and control of the country.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1886 Japan had for the first time allowed its citizens to emigrate, and thousands from his district had already left the country in search of better opportunities. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have pledged billions of dollars in economic aid; we are working with your government on providing electricity and gas, but your country faces a lot of problems.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z To live equal in a country that's supposed to be the land of the free. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z France was not mentioned, but France would be the country where Franklin would find America’s best friends. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing you figure out quick is America doesn’t play when it comes to letting Mexicans sneak in their country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He is not going to be like that—if I have to move out of this whole country and go somewhere else to keep him away from it! Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The speech he is about to give is vital to the peace of the country. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The country that scores highest on the individualism end of that scale is the United States. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Most Austrians were ethnically Germanic, and this wasn’t an invasion of their country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z However, Virginia’s legacy as the birthplace of humanity’s first step into the heavens would have to compete with the notoriety it was gaining as the country’s most intransigent foe of integrated schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He hopscotched electronically around the country, hour after hour for days, browsing through the help- wanted ads on newspaper websites in dozens of American cities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Nehemia, who might someday pose a threat to the King of Adarlan’s rule over her home country when she ascended to the throne. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Across the country, people built bonfires, organized parades, fired guns, shot cannons, and sang patriotic songs. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Along these same lines, I think we should take the lead of European countries in trying to blur the sharp line that exists in our prisons between guards and other employees. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he must do as the tigers would do—run to the edge of the city and away to the unpeopled wild country to the south. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “What the hell are they teaching you in that school of yours? With the Boston Tea Party the Americans were revolting against another country that was oppressing them.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I’m going to get Grandpa, for he is the only man in the country that has authority to move the body.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If driven from their country house, there was but one safe refuge for them—behind the British lines in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That's one of the bonuses of moving to a foreign country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z My parents reasoned that in America we could find jobs and help support my sister and brother, whose lives would not be easy in a country struggling to establish itself. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Murder rates are higher there than in the rest of the country. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The trade in tobacco was suffering materially due to the unrest with the mother country and the late crisis in credit. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Living in the country, they are surrounded by nat-ural museums and concerts,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “To get out of that country, Des, I would have married a cripple.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Synthetic substitutes for the pyrethrins have recently been developed, and some of the producing countries stand ready to increase the output of the natural product as the market may require. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Out on the sidewalk I say, “Ever make you mad when people call you country?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Horrified by what the country had lost, Ellsberg returned home to California. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She needed a sandwich board that said, America is my country too. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Also it was very much a country house, surrounded by fields and rural walks. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Kim said, “Yeah, our dad gets to travel all over the country on trains for free!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He asked Regina what she was going to do to get Joan and Bobby out of the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In Iceland, naturally by its position the last northern country to be Christianized, the missionaries seem to have been gentler, or, perhaps, they had less influence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We went for a drive in the country and stopped for hot fudge sundaes on the way back. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Flipping back to the beginning of the test, Reynie read the very first question again: “The territories of the Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region are disputed by what two countries?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A white man, full of prejudice and hate, came to our country and committed a deed so foul that our whole nation now teeters on the brink of disaster. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We weren't living in the country legally, and we weren't residents of the swanky Bay Area suburb our classmates lived in. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It's wrong that a man can't get to see around his own country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z France, England, and other countries skirmished throughout the first half of the eighteenth century, and roughly a quarter century after Newton died, a full-scale war erupted. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Men have been dying for Ireland since the beginning of time and look at the state of the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I pictured all these old-time people in suits from both countries pointing down at the sand, speaking in their different languages. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Instead, their supporters promoted them by delivering speeches around the country. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z What if you weren’t wanted in the new country? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Or imagine a country where Renee’s doggedness is not the exception, but a cultural trait, embedded as deeply as the culture of honor in the Cumberland Plateau. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The new government was unable to cope with its country’s needs, and failed crops resulted in a horrific famine that lasted into 1922 and killed millions. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z With a little practice, a Libran could learn to soar and to wheel to his heart’s content, both for recreation and as a practical method of traveling across his miniature country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It lay ten feet lower than the surrounding country, with sloping banks, and the snow had been swept off it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It all so different from the rest of the country us drive through, it make us real quiet. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the old country, they had toiled as tenant farmers under the oppressive control of their English landlords. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I hate it! Nothing but grinding or skylarking. And I don’t like the way fellows do either, in this country.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z One Soviet tournament registered more than seven hundred thousand players, in cities throughout the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Detrital Wash extends for some fifty miles from Lake Mead into the mountains north of Kingman; it drains a big chunk of country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in the old country she had been honored for her wisdom and much sought out for advice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Armed patrols scouted country lanes and byways to prevent “diseased and infectious Persons from coming into this Borough.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Each one a state of possibility, with its own customs and way of doing things. Moving through them, you’ll see the breadth of the country before you reach your final stop.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I convinced Martha that moving my mother across the country would have been difficult for her. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As for history, we knew more about Italy than our own Latin American countries. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It was a poor country, in part because the United States maintained its trade embargo, and because the Soviet Union, once it collapsed in the late eighties, no longer provided financial subsidies. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Even countries that had won the war, such as Britain and France, had crippling debts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Aunt Marge lived in the country, in a house with a large garden, where she bred bulldogs. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “I know,” I say, picturing that empty leash as the town fades into country outside the car window. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The bills were repeatedly voted down for fear of interfering with the progress of science, even though other countries —including, ironically, Prussia—had enacted regulations governing human research as early as 1891. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “We would have been stuck in Pakistan without the chance for asylum. We would be a family without a country. There was no way we could go back to Afghanistan.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I wore hijab by choice, and I proudly represented my country both on and off the fencing strip, both in victory and defeat. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z How was that more courageous than escaping your country in a rickety boat with small children and risking being eaten by sharks or getting caught and sent to prison? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Here I found nearly thirty Norwegian boys from all parts of the country,” Haukelid said of Special Training School No. 3. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He carefully explained that Pyongyang, located about fifty miles south of Camp 14, was the capital of North Korea, the city where all the country’s powerful people lived. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He’s a former marine who came to the country with an occupation force years back, but once the troops left, he stayed on, marrying a rich Dominican lady and opening his successful grocery store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “Belmont Park, the country’s leading racetrack,” he said, “should be willing to at least meet that figure.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The family maintains at least eight country houses, according to books by his former chef and a former bodyguard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Get away from me, country boy,” he says, and keeps on walking. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z He won thousands, he threw thousands away, lost money, lost jewels, lost a country house, won again, lost again. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Genuine equality for black people, King reasoned, demanded a radical restructuring of society, one that would address the needs of the black and white poor throughout the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t explain to them that terrorists who commit heinous acts in the name of religion don’t understand their faith at all, including the white Christian terrorists within our own country. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z As in most small country communities, there is one family that no one likes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Until then, I had not seen the factory-outlet stores in the open country selling shoes and clothes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her parents had given her a car for graduation, so she was going to fill it with her belongings and drive across the country to her new school. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Reflecting Lawrence’s lack of conceit when it came to engineering, the machine incorporated the latest innovations of cyclotroneers across the country in designs for transformers, power transmission, the oscillator, and the ion source. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When he told his father that his job was to "hinder production," his mother scolded him, "You are here to do something against the country and here we are earning our living here." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They had to be that way to live in a country where the wolves, bobcats, panther, and bear were always after them, trying for a bait of fresh hog meat. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all over. Every school in the country uses it.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We carried tents and groundsheets and sleeping-bags and saucepans and food and axes and everything else one needs in the interior of an unmapped, uninhabitable and inhospitable country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Lifton found that many vets, like Scruggs, believed when your country asked you to serve, you had a patriotic obligation to join the military. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z As far as he could tell, she looked like a woman roaming the country trying to find some man to burden down with a lot of lip and a lot of mouths. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My father hated that bad people were in control of some parts of the country. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The country developed ways by which some could become formal citizens of this nation of laws. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The federal court hearing would be one of the most significant in history—a precedent-setting decision could be made that affected the whole country. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we heard about these sisters who were organizing a movement to bring freedom to the country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z "This was your idea, wasn't it? Turning me into some kind of fool in front of the entire country?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z When I first arrived, I thought this country flat and dull. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But you didn’t get to have your own country named after you for being a tool. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The boys would hike far out into the Martian country. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to the awards conference at Princeton University and met kids from all over the country—American Muslims, Native Americans, African Americans. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In the autumn towering brown dust storms sometimes blew in from the rolling wheat country to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All the best food served by servants from other countries. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “What kind of a country is this? No one trusts anybody!” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If someone is an engineer and is going to contribute to innovation in the United States, then shouldn’t they have priority over someone who simply has a family member who lives in the country? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They send their kids to private day schools and drive expensive 4X4s and they belong to country clubs that have no blacks and no Jews. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved my country for all the ways its story could be told. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In Pyongyang, living standards for the core class are luxurious only by the standards of a country where a third of the population is chronically hungry. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A month before, he’d rigged a Greek firebomb in the bathroom of a tour bus that was carrying a bunch of monsters across country. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The division between the countries was going to destroy everyone before the iron monsters could! Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The son of the most powerful man in the country. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In my mind, my spirit leaves my body and flies around the country, looking for Pa. I see a big group of people kneeling around a big hole. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Except in this one country, all those who lived across Ocean were exceedingly fortunate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Schools across the country dispatched social workers to “help young people cope with what they’re hearing,” but in the hallways of Shaker Heights High School, the mood was hilarity rather than trauma. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But my sense of the country was that relatively few people were ready to make the sacrifices to join the struggle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never been in mountain country before and was surprised. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Senate, winning 70 percent of the vote statewide, the largest margin in Illinois history and the biggest landslide of any Senate race in the country that year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She explained that the cooperative had begun to go downhill and that the partners had had to look for higher-paying jobs and that even Mustafa had gone back to his country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With complete control of the country in his hands, Hitler began persecuting German Jews, stripping them of their legal rights, kicking them out of universities and government jobs. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like Nazi contempt for the Occupied country taken to extremes—as though they welcome the locals to come and ransack their own heritage so no one else need bother. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Today, Third World countries are doing their best to catch up with the First World by acquiring the latter’s technological and agricultural advantages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘You look like a negrito,' she’d say, angry, sorry to be angry, frustrated almost to laughing, scorn. ‘You know how important looks are in this country. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z People hold on to their national foods, even after they move to other countries. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He always saw people back home feeding pigeons bread in the park, but pigeons might have stronger stomachs than these country birds. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z WHO, whose influence and reputation carried a lot of weight in poor countries, had gone so far as declaring Peru’s TB program the best in the developing world. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It bent to the left, curving back into its eastward line as it rounded the feet of Bree-hill, and then it began to run swiftly downwards into wooded country. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Uncle Tom had taught school in country towns for thirty years and as soon as he was under the roof he proceeded to tell me what was wrong with my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began to sing: “My country ’tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, . Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When the neighbors or students ask me my nationality, I tell them I came from a country that no longer exists. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He called it a “God-forsaken country” and referred to Icelanders as “special but only in the negative sense.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z With so few Americans having a favorable opinion of Muslims, Islam had grown to be one of the most stigmatized religions in the country. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The next picture revealed a militia group carrying machetes, marching down the road in some dusty African country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Political detainees all across the country had held a successful hunger strike, persuading the minister of law and order to release over nine hundred of them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in a remote, understaffed, and underequipped hospital, if he did his best, a simple country doctor could improve the quality of life in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Even four weeks later, Katrina was the biggest story in the country. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Unregulated by the government, it had operated without rules or oversight, almost as its own country, and it had done as it pleased. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How one snuck into America and became a citizen, and the other joined the army and died for our country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Over the next few weeks, Air Force planes made flight after flight, carrying Americans and “at risk” South Vietnamese out of the country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “War is not a normal thing for any country, for any state, for any man, and especially for a woman.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We had to sneak out of the country, but my daddy stayed behind—disappointed face, maybe not-even-all-that-surprised face. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “A girl’s got to look after her interests if she’s going to get ahead in this country,” she explained. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The Australians, the Americans at the embassy where she would sit all day to beg them to let us into their country, nobody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I was learning. I’m good enough for a country wedding and that’s about it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her brother had gone out to Montana himself and assured her this was the text any homesteader must have for farming in eastern prairie country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Everything blacks said was good for the country, whites would say was bad, and vice versa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks people here will say, ‘Go back to your country.’ Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “My exit visa was approved this morning. I was told I have seven days to leave the country or I have to stay indefinitely.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z In other areas of the country, it takes five to seven percent. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The count decorated it according to his personal taste, with a decadent, ambiguous refinement that startled Blanca, accustomed as she was to country life and her father’s classical sobriety. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days after that, I watched as protesters gathered at major airports across the country to denounce the ban on Syrian refugees and Muslims around the world. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Only when they were halfway across the country did she find out they were headed for the Southwest. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the only help my mother had was a succession of untrained maids, mostly girls from the country.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The bloodshed and mayhem in the nation’s capital caused shockwaves throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I told him I had the best in the country. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is a lovelier country even than that, where we shall go, by-and-by, when we are good enough,” answered Meg with her sweetest voice. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to need wings because you don’t need to fly away from your country? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Doctors, dentists, and pharmacists were allowed to write prescriptions for liquor for medicinal purposes, and throughout the country many spent almost as much time doing that as examining their patients. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The teacher's reaction led me to believe that these mistakes were capital crimes in the country of France. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Not a television set in this whole blessed country,” he announced to the palm trees. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country—this is my dream. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Smuts, then deputy prime minister, was campaigning around the country for South Africa to declare war on Germany while the prime minister, J. B. Hertzog, advocated neutrality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In such a manner did that rumor, that happy report of Gotama the Buddha, the wise man from the race of Sakya, travel through the country. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the end of August, when churches throughout the country held a day of prayer for him, Reyburn told Garfield about the many people praying for him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The young man was riding mournfully through the fen country—which had not been drained in those days and was probably the wildest part of England. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He had declared his country’s neutrality—had said America would not side with either country. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They drove out into the country in a taxi, and then at four-thirty they went to the dining-room at the hotel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Ours is the first university in the New World. It would be such a blow to the country!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now, she was a mathematician, an American citizen whose greatest talents had been recognized, and who was about to offer those talents in the service of her country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Jones too was dead—he had died in an inebriates’ home in another part of the country. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For of course it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The man put his hand on his shoulder and nodded toward the open country below them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I hear old Miss Walter talking and Minny say, “What you think I am? A chauffeur? I ain’t driving you to no country club in the pouring rain.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Papi says it did have gambling once, but that was in the 1930s, a long time before anybody in our family was even in this country. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He pointed past the woods, away from town, toward the country road and its endless cornfields. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z It had to be somewhere in the country. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And except for a song about bacon or eggs benedict thrown in here and there, they mostly played normal country music. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z This lodestone of longing, this certainty, drew him to lead his companions ever westward through wild and unknown country, as unerringly as a carrier pigeon released from an alien loft. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But Newfoundland, as I soon found out, was not much of a country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z At fourteen, I went away to Inmaculada Concepci6n, and all the country people around here thought I was entering the convent. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The field dropped into a shallow ravine, where a country road wound north and south. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I don’t remember a thing about the country on the way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘All that country is alive with our hunters now.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “And let me say, I think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in the newspapers.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I didn’t like traveling through this country alone, and I kept looking around all the time for galloping horsemen. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of the Populist Party in 1892, farmers and laborers formed the first mass multiracial coalition in the country’s history. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A fellow he knew rode him out in the country where he could nail them to trees and fence posts. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z But these are my people and this my country. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z —Woodrow Wilson “I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "When I was a girl, I left my country too and never went back. Never saw father or mother or sisters or brothers. I brought only this along." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “I didn’t sign up for the National Guard to shoot innocent Americans. I signed up to defend my country.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Benito, Steven’s older brother, had married the daughter of the Nigerian president because Nigeria was one of the richest countries in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the kids know I’m in this class because I’m from another country, not because I really belong there. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Soon she wouldn’t even be allowed to stay in the country. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “And where is the most important place in the country?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Upline is a Krio word mostly used in Freetown to refer to the backwardness of the inner country, its inhabitants, and their mannerisms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In January 1944, the country renounced its diplomatic ties with Germany, Japan, Italy, and their Axis allies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Below, the country was covered with early-morning mist which was beginning to clear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But in a survey from March 2002 to March 2003, the Census Bureau said that about three million people moved to another county, state, or country because employers had transferred or recruited them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z World Relief and the International Rescue Committee opened offices in Clarkston to better serve the newcomers, and resettled still more refugees—from war-ravaged African countries including Liberia, Congo, Burundi, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Accompanied by a CBS television crew that filmed the tour, she visited twelve countries, singing in concert halls, meeting heads of state, and making informal visits to schools, churches, and local organizations. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Hence, if Joe Mondragon was heading for the high country, he hadn’t had but a half-hour start on them, and they could make that up quickly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The ANC has never at any period of its history advocated a revolutionary change in the economic structure of the country, nor has it, to the best of my recollection, ever condemned capitalist society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling the country for two years, Fannie saw workers everywhere had the same troubles: long hours, low pay, and dangerous conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z When it came to her son, Dr. Jones’s country did what it does best—it forgot him. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In 1954, the country had been divided in two at the 17th parallel. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Dark and black and trackless where it crossed the open country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was a slow progress till we were out in the country. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But these countries are steadily developing their research and development capabilities to handle more and more of these phases. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z This proof of a German theory by British scientists was hailed as a great act of reconciliation between the two countries after the war. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m wearing this to protest the treatment of homeless people in this country. I’m going to ask for only spare change tonight, instead of candy, and I’m going to give it all to the homeless.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z We could tell our children and our grandchildren about the way our sacred language helped this country. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Turkey! Why didn’t you say so? Turkey’s a Muslim country. You a Muslim?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "It wouldn't be any good. I'll go if you like. But I couldn't live quietly in the country. Not with my own true love." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “How do you feel as a Muslim woman competing in these Olympics, considering what’s going on in your country?” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z One of the first things he did was to ask the country’s most prestigious medical society, the College of Physicians, to assemble on that rainy Sunday, August 25. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z To play it safe, I sent a package to both countries. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe if the whole country puts its mind to it, we can get you married before you’re thirty.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We walked for hours through the country; our Regiment stopping only once, that those of us with shoes might lend them to such of those as marched without, and thus give them some respite. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z At almost every college and university in the country there are Muslim student groups. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z In many parts of the country, hysteria took hold. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z And many Black African countries feared that an independent Biafra would trigger other secessions and so supported Nigeria. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From then on, for a period of at least two generations, philosophers had a hard time in that country. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z So what made Iceland the ideal country to stage the Fischer–Spassky match? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The country’s two hundred years old in nineteen seventy-six,” said Kevin. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z So even if I don’t win, I’ll show up to Mama’s big fancy house in the country and show her my trophy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “It very hard to be in different country from your child. I never tell him this when he leave, so he don’t feel guilty.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’d never been outside of Oklahoma City before, and I was curious to see what the rest of the country looked like. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He had the bad luck of drawing into an event that featured the best filly in the country, Myrdewood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We were supposed to write the names of countries in Europe, and I didn’t even know where to begin. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z To Kaltenbrunner the fact that the great Bobby Fischer was gracing his home—for whatever reason—was equivalent to having the president of a country stop in to pay a visit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Who had forsaken everything to come to this country, to make a better life, only to die here? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Him, stubborn about things that mattered to him, like his ranch and this country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Not only do I tend to the complaints of the nuns, but country people and villagers pay for my services, and the poorest are granted them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I said that he was exactly the kind of smart, decent president I would choose for this country, even if selfishly I’d have rather kept him closer to home all these years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’d walk into a factory like the Zeiss works in Germany or the Pierce Arrow plant in this country and announce that he could speed up production by one-fourth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She had always lived in the country and had hated every minute of her time in Tashbaan. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The country’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, had broken international treaties and built up his military force. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Some countries have more, others have not quite so many. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He set off cross country once more, and so it went on. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Katie remarked that it was a free country and ignored the note. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They pleaded with the immigration officer in charge to allow us to stay a few more days so that we could leave the country together. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The train rolled through country where the temperature was fourteen degrees below zero. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was going across the country, beginning with Hang Wood. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Saint acted as if these gifts were nothing, as if he were a rich man treating a poor country girl to things we had never seen in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's the thing to do. Live out in the country and have a little car." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But the country never made building the bomb a high priority. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z What is known is that Spicely was serving his country and was likely to be heading overseas soon. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They were large, heavy, ostentatious pieces that were built to last for generations and to withstand country life. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a fine country and every time that we went out it was fun. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The country was our own, in name and right. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He stumbled upon a magnificent ranch sprawling over seventeen thousand acres of California’s remote redwood country, 150 miles north of San Francisco, near a tiny lumber village called Willits. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Two determined explorers posed on a ridge and gazed at the mountains of the west, the mysterious country with its perils and discoveries before them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If they had, I would have had to leave the country. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The boundaries of these three countries are nothing but ten feet of fog. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He started to call to the boy where he trudged ahead and then he looked about at the gray country and the gray sky and he dropped the coin and hurried on to catch up. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The cabby makes a few other attempts to get a conversation going, but Alicia just nods or murmurs a little, so the guy gives up and punches up a country station on the radio. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Mapparium that day, all the countries had seemed close enough to touch, and Dev’s voice had bounced wildly off the glass. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A move to the country, he decided, would be just the thing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The medical literature of this and other countries contains many significant cases that support Dr. Hargraves’ belief in a cause-and-effect relation between these chemicals and leukemia and other blood disorders. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Although I felt myself to be a sophisticated young fellow, I was still a country boy who missed country pleasures. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If the same song, the same joke, the same style sweeps through all parts of the country at once, it must be that all Americans are alike in something. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Since black performers were not welcome at most of the country’s concert halls, he sang mainly at black churches and colleges. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z One might be the spark of a memory of the smell of lilacs on a country road in childhood. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, “Rise up, take to the streets! Join my comrades and me in the mountains! When you die for your country, you do not die in vain!” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s trying to take it out of the country!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Turkey’s closer to Greece, two countries away from Saudi Arabia. A separate country.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Like so many country doctors, he was a combination doctor, priest, psychiatrist to his town. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Many men, women, and children had lost limbs to land mines across the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z With the blessing of both Sargo and Argentina’s president, Hellmuth was going to seek closer ties between his country and Hitler. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Neither is a native insect but both have been in this country for many years without creating a situation calling for desperate measures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Between Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, Hanford, and other secret labs around the country, the Manhattan Project was employing more than 300,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z On May 5, 1968, he boarded a plane, took a window seat, and stared out at the lush green country he was about to leave. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Charles’s body had been moved from the country coffin to an elegant city casket draped in black velvet and sprinkled with white blossoms. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed away before I was born, but I've always wondered if he was purposely stalling so he could keep his youngest daughter in the same country with him for as long as possible. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was an age when you could throw a blanket stoppage over a whole country and the Mud People would simply think the gods were angry. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z What is it about the different organization of these various Korean industries that accounts for their differences in productivity within the same country? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not a good country for strangers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Abigail had bought Candice the globe a few weeks ago; she wanted her to get a jump start on learning the countries. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Abilene was better than six hundred miles north of the Texas hill country we lived in. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Granny said, “Oldest college in the country. Whatever made you think of Harvard?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the people of that country lived on the borders of the Wood in pine-board houses built up close to the trees, where the old magic lingered. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “The man in the top flat. Mister Bobo. Fine old circus family, I believe. Romanian or Slovenian or Livonian, or one of those countries. Bless me, I can never remember them anymore.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Here you have Flint and a sidewalk, you take one baby step, and here you have country and a dirt path. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z While I was weaving the veterans’ personal stories into the complex, divisive web of politics and protests in America, more than a million refugees poured into Europe from Middle Eastern and African countries. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest honor this country awards. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Most of the foster families live in different parts of the country and speak very little Spanish.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Mrs. V then looked up the capitals of all the major countries in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z With a disproportionate number of Hampton citizens earning a living from the liquor industry in the early days of the twentieth century, the alcohol drought that was rolling across the country was potentially devastating. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In spread-out America, though, this loose-knit country, where one could do as one pleased, a person had need of a different understanding. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is our country before the Purity War,” David says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In a country where women aren’t allowed out in public without a man, we girls traveled far and wide inside the pages of our books. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Because it was really in Poland, or, more accurately, in the Slavic countries of eastern Europe, that Danny’s soul had been born. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Their problem was that they were trapped in roles dictated by the heavy weight of their country’s cultural legacy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The news is reporting nothing today except for footage and reels about the games, each station frantically trying to outdo the next, channels in every language and country. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We loved our country as much as they; we went courageously into every action; but also we distinguished the false from true, we had suddenly learned to see. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Paintings lined the hallway, all calm country scenes. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z During the next fifteen minutes, radio listeners throughout the country heard the frightening updates. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He traveled from one end of the country to the other, attending conventions, meetings, and encampments. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After incorporating the suggestions from the forums, we traveled the country delivering our message to the people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I want to climb every last mountain, row down every last river, explore every last cave, cross every last bridge, run across every last beach, visit every last town, city, country. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z With help from the national organization, we advertised for applicants on college campuses across the country while also looking for talent closer to home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On news sites, blogs, and forums around the country, the conclusion was the same: Lock him up. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Foreigners, kid. Immigrants. People who come from another country. That’s most of the people in Manifest. The whole town is made up of immigrants who came here to work the mines.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I can give you the money you need to get back to your country, my son,” said the crystal merchant. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If opportunity is taken for granted, as something that will be there no matter what, then the country is less likely to do the hard work to make it happen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, before he got to the country, Genie had never broken a model or killed a bird before, so maybe North Hill was actually messing his smartness up. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z More than four decades have passed since the United States was defeated in Vietnam, yet the veterans I interviewed had vivid memories of their year “in country.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “We are here because we are doing a great job for the country,” he said. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Although I was not far outside my own country’s borders, I felt as though I were in an exotic land. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They all wanted to know what his problem was—didn’t he realize his country needed him? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The phone kept ringing, relatives from the old country calling with congratulations for the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As he had hoped, the case demonstrated to many around the country the need for a national, more professional, scientifically skilled force. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most major countries—about three dozen—have exhibits. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Would Kimki ever reach this far country about which nothing was known? Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was now in a country that really wanted him, and for the first time in thirteen years he felt truly safe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The kings also settled Macedonian soldiers on estates throughout the country. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “It’s a post from the Times TV critic. ‘The two new dogs, the intrepid Fred as Duke and the beyond-cute puppy Tater, just stole this country’s heart. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Perhaps the owners have come up to their country home to avoid the troubles in the capital. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And not just any college—a historically black college, one of the first in this country. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In his lonely wanderings he came into the country around Thebes and he heard what was happening there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s walking down a road somewhere in the country, with his knapsack on his back, when these two tiny little children run after him, shouting, ‘Dear little beggar! Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Upon learning that we had all fought for the so-called army, in different parts of the country, we calmed down and talked about what bases we were from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Are the migrants hiding in clumps of yellow flowers between the tracks innocents traveling north or dangerous men who are running from the law in their own countries? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When she was sixteen, Kitty Hammer was the number-one- ranked junior tennis player in the country. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Washington, D.C., and Chicago both instituted handgun bans well before crime began to fall across the country in the 1990s, and yet those two cities were laggards, not leaders, in the national reduction in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The woman, a doctor studying at Tulane, had been feeling the same way, like an exile in her own country, and they laughed at how delirious they were to see each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z In many of the countries of West and Central Africa, the people love “bushmeat. ” My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z To Las Casas, the Americas seemed so thick with people “that it looked as if God has placed all of or the greater part of the entire human race in these countries.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a country where there was little game they managed to live because of their ability to hunt, and they were hunting him. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem was that nobody agreed on who should run the country now, or on how to run it. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z No country, and certainly not one as vast and as aggressive as the new Soviet Union—nor one so close to Germany—was going to be without an air force. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "Don't say such a thing! It's still our country, no matter who leads us. We must obey the law. I hate the thought of war, too, but we must defend the Fatherland, no matter what." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The nonpartisan fellowship also gave me the chance to learn from the other fellows, an impressively diverse and talented group from all over the country. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Although we may find it hard to imagine, many cultures, such as those found in the countries of Africa or among some indigenous groups, don’t have a word for music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Of course, my grandmother had met thousands, tens of thousands, of other Indians at powwows all over the country. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Thank god for the dark and empty country roads. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Which apparently was a big deal because he was the treasurer of the country club. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Across the country students were rioting over civil rights, Vietnam, social justice, and government cover-ups involving tapping phones and secret wars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Arletta sat in an overstuffed armchair covered in a country rose pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z That afternoon, there were so many journalists, from so many different countries, I did not know whom to speak with. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her voice was carried into hamlets and farmhouses far from any concert hall, and newspapers across the country featured the concert as a front-page story. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He hoped that the Communists would prove unable to hold the country. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Amanda Werner and several other beautiful, elegant, conically breasted foreign ladies, from unspecified vaguely defined countries, plus a few bucolic so-called humorists, comprised Buster’s perpetual core of repeats. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z This country was built on immigrants, after all. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She didn’t know what her heart wanted for the strange black boy, who seemed an emissary from a different country. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Most were based in South America, in countries that were neutral. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Finally, our delegation paraded onto the field with me leading the way, a small figure in white shorts and white shirt, barely visible under the huge banner of our country. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the least provocation, she would burst out crying, lose her temper, or threaten to end up in Bellevue, the place, she had learned, where crazy people were sent in this country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was because so much intricate care was taken to weave fine rugs in countries where rags were so culturally versatile. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The effect was to convince the ruling groups of all countries that a few more atomic bombs would mean the end of organized society, and hence of their own power. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Up until the day he invaded our country, he said he would leave us alone. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The two of us together lobbied other countries’ governments to help fund programming for girls’ education while encouraging private companies and think tanks to commit to the cause. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Longstreet said, “Gentlemen, the fate of your country rests on this attack.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In a later work, he announced that the number of worms to be found in an average acre of English country soil was 53,767. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At this country dance Johnny for the first time saw Rab move suddenly into action. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a chance to change the rules across the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The country through which they march is some of the most beautiful country in the Union. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba told me there’s a lot beyond headlines we read, and so much I don’t know about this country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He say he ain’t ’bout to run from no one, ’specially not in his own country. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The same reason the CIA had such shoddy intelligence in nonwhite countries. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Walowick said that he was fighting because his country asked him to. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “What would your mother say. A young man naturally gets into scrapes, but to be arrested on foot by a country policeman. What did they think he’d done, Gerald?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He must go to the Taurian country, the Delphic priestess said, and bring away the sacred image of Artemis from her temple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They were in a green country now, with mountains and forests. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Currently, she tours as a backup singer for country music star Brent Chisholm. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “What the hell is Vietnam worth to me? What is it worth to this country?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Now that Lelia was back in the country I wondered if we would even keep the place. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My journal entry for the day: “Exchange students are ruining our country. ” Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It was a smallish bungalow, not really spacious enough for their family of eight, though it was located near a country club with a swimming pool for the children. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In countries with a very cold winter, two decidedly non-Christian elements tended to be intermingled, somewhat perplexingly, with the carol form. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Every person who was forgotten by God or country is now louder, more defiant, and more determined. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I thought not only about these two bonobos but of the stream of homeless refugees, of my dead friends in the sanctuary, of the larger and yet-unknown tragedies elsewhere in the country, in the world. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Strange to think of his voice still flying through the air, already a country away, growing weaker every mile. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The guards helped get books for Anatole, and went to a lot of trouble to get his letters posted to various countries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Unemployment rates in black communities rival those in Third World countries. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In June of 1976, we began to hear vague reports of a great uprising in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The New York City public schools of the 1940s were considered the best schools in the country,” says Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who has written widely on the city’s educational history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z So Gramps took Dad out along the empty country lanes in his pickup truck, just like he’d done with the rest of Dad’s siblings—except they’d all learned to drive when they were sixteen. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going to the Olympic Games to represent my country! Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Slaves would run away into the forest in the Guianas, to “cockpit country”—the steep canyons of Jamaica—to the swamps in North America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Ron and Hermione seemed a long way away, in a far-off country; he felt as though he had parted from them long ago. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But I didn’t know she’d been shot trying to reenter the country a few months after the war started, desperate to get back to her family. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Iceland, the westernmost and one of the smallest countries in Europe, sitting remotely in the North Atlantic just below the Arctic Circle, may have seemed a curious venue for a World Chess Championship. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like so many workers in so many different crafts and industries throughout the country, the nation’s steel workers had expected that their wages and working conditions would improve once the Great War was over. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z All across the country, those who defied on June 26 did so with courage, enthusiasm, and a sense of history. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wandering on, they climbed a hill and came to Newtown Common—a country of peat, gorse and silver birch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I got down from the car and worked up the road a way, looking for a place where I could see ahead to find a side-road we could take across country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Long tables line the walls, each representing a different country. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “He’s like Mr. America. Every Election Day, I get a big lecture on what makes this country the best in the world.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They came from all over the country, and they sometimes had to wait a long time for the nganga's attention. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only because of the great heroes I have already cited, but because of the courage of the ordinary men and women of my country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they lay under the spindle trees and sniffed in weariness and doubt at the strange, bare country round them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the fulfillment of God’s promise, and the justification for their view that South Africa should be a white man’s country forever. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In West Germany, the other three Allied countries agreed that West Germany needed to be rebuilt. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Not here, here in Shreveport, no. New Orleans. But it was still a big deal for the state. Prior to her first day in 1960, schools in this part of the country were completely segregated.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z There are endless stories from the circus related over each course, mentions of tents Bailey has never seen and countries he has never even heard of. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It shows you’re connected. It shows prestige. Do you know how powerful governors in this country are? Executive power is not a small thing,” Priye said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The next song was a country tune, and for those who knew a box step, it was slow and soft and inviting. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z My father did not want me to wake up in a strange country without my family there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Passed to keep the United States from getting entangled in another world conflict, the acts forbade Americans to help other countries that were at war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z How to talk with the confidence of a man who could do anything he wanted in this country. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He liked to shoot pool in his spare time, he played cards and dressed like a man from a much flashier part of the country. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They would dream of what it would be like to live in a country where they could forget their color and play a responsible role in the vital processes of the nation’s life. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was dreary and wearisome: Cold clammy winter still held sway in this forsaken country. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In many ways, the Green Revolution was a tremendous boon; harvests in many poor countries soared so fast that despite burgeoning populations the incidence of hunger fell dramatically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every now and then they thought they were going to get out into the open and see what sort of country lay around the enormous palace. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z At first, southern citizens saw little change in their daily lives while living in their new country. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw no limits, it was the one organization in the whole country in which I could reach the very top and I meant to get there. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z High school Gay-Straight Alliances from all over the country sent cards decorated with rainbows. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Maybe it will sink out there in the lake and go to the country of the njuzu, she thought. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a new start, a new country, their new country. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In countries that are not the British Empire, they cut out children’s tongues, especially those of boys. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Foreign countries and plans and music were in the inside room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Like many of his countrymen, the Soviet leader believed that communism had set his country on a path toward social justice and modernization; its triumph over capitalism was all but inevitable. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z All the way across the country I had absorbed myself in reaching my destination. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The theme this year is music, and out of every genre in the world, the junior class picked country. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z From gay people who hoped to be able to legally marry and from Republicans who felt he was ruining the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We had hope that the country would start to become a better place for us because of him. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was clear that violence was the number one issue in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never partake of strong spirits, but it might help, however, in this insect-infested country.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z We had so many happy days in the country that fall that from this vantage they merge into a sweet and indistinct blur. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He’d been chosen as an editor on the Harvard Law Review, a monthly student-run journal that was considered one of the top legal publications in the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He did everything slowly and carefully, but beneath his tractorlike slowness and outward gentleness was a crossbreed of quiet Indian and country black man, surefooted, hard, bold, and quick. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked about it among themselves, the four girls, as they often did now about the many puzzling things in this new country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We’d been flying west across the country, just a few hours ahead of the sunrise, so it was still dark when we landed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The roads all go along the river mouths to the sea and to cross the country you must go along the paths beside the canals. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He claimed that this medical aid was not meant to help; he said it was a ploy by Western countries to harm Muslim children. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I want you to know you’re taking the bread from the mouths of more deserving people who stayed in this country to do their bit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She rose from a secretarial position to become one of the country’s distinguished editors. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “In this country, Black people must face racism every single moment of their lives.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It’s the first time Mother has been allowed to contact anyone in the North since the country divided. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She’s got the radio on and is humming along with a country music song: Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was to ask the question, What is the native country of Pope John Paul II? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Throughout this part of the country the farms lay tranquil under the winter snow, waiting for spring and the plow and the stir of new life. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z But unlike the majority of the country, the Freedom Writers were not quick to vilify Klebold and Harris. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They used this event to launch a night of organized violence across the country. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Yet no matter how bloody the war might prove to be, he felt the obligation to join the fight "to stand by the country and sustain its authority." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But often there was truth at the heart of local legends—people who had been born with gifts that their countries didn’t understand. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the process of their work, the Curies also found two new elements–polonium, which they named after her native country, and radium. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I exhale and continue to say a few more words about Malala and her incredibly journey, her fund and efforts to promote education, and her first visit back to her country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But a discussion of “countries like Jamaica and China” which fails to identify their commonality—being similar in some way to Cuba—is bound to be incoherent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One of his fears, back when he was trying to figure out if he should marry or not, was that moving to the country would make him idle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a relief to be back in the country. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z By signing the treaty, Germany had accepted the blame for starting World War I and agreed to pay billions of dollars in reparations to other countries. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Fix himself a little place up country—like he talked of doing—and work the world his own way? Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The ban was upheld everywhere in the country. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Printer and publisher Mathew Carey watched sadly as “almost every hour in the day, carts, waggons, coaches, and chairs, were to be seen transporting families & furniture to the country in every direction.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Any serious politician will realize that under present day conditions in the country, to seek for cheap martyrdom by handing myself to the police is naive and criminal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1990, forty-five years after Germany surrendered, East and West Germany were united as one country. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Without his knowledge, and much to his delight, at the end of the broadcast he was given the tickets to Russia, with a stopover in Belgium, Sabena’s home country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Like nearly every other crew coach in the country, Ebright was by the late 1920s buying almost all his equipment from Pocock, who ran an independent business from his shop in the Washington shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Shona was the country's national language, but most people spoke English as a result of being colonized. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But the country was also formally called Persia until the government changed the name to Iran in 1935. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There are the usual farms and country roads, and numbered streets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Papi begins explaining that the Garcías have finally gotten permission to leave the country, and they’ll be taking the airplane in a few hours to go to the United States of America. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But the idea that “gifts” from Indians helped to establish and enrich the US hides that these resources were taken, often by force, as the country expanded. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Boe’s point is that we could predict precisely the order in which every country would finish in the Math Olympics without asking a single math question. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The speech was being broadcast live to schools throughout the country and it would also be shown on the evening news. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Was North Hill some kind of country version of Narnia, or something? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “We’re fighting so that you, me and every black man, woman and child in this country can lead a life of dignity.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think the lesson,” Ellsberg answered, “is that the people of this country can’t afford to let the president run the country by himself.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I will tell them all the ways I loved this country. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z She’d often spend hours making sure the designers, colors, and styles we chose paid proper respect to the people and countries we visited. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “We can’t worry about that. We have bigger problems, competing with other countries for ships.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He began to show the children the pictures, especially those of animals, and later on the maps and photographs of remote countries and famous people. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you go back to your own country?” one of them shouted. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Aside from the formal curriculum at the university, we would spend our time learning the language, learning the country, and learning more about ourselves than we ever imagined. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I was like an immigrant, putting on airs, who runs into someone from the old country. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That tickled him, and he said, “In another country I may tell you other lies. But I thought you were forbidden to teach your mind-science to...the natives, until we join the Ekumen.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z That would get him a passport and visa to leave the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Under his rule, peace came to the land of the Danes, because none of the neighbor countries dared to fight with such a giant. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z How foolish we’d been, picking him up on this lonely country road. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have also enjoyed going around the country and globe speaking to people about these stories—and then hearing back from all kinds of audiences about the Weses they’ve known, or even been themselves. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The other had read only a geography book, but had been from one end of the country to another. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought about how long it had been since I’d stood on the beach at Montauk, on the opposite side of the country, looking out at a different sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Most important, the government had imposed Muslim law on the whole country, even though we black Africans of the south weren’t Muslim. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There Levi would face off against pilots from around the country, in front of seventy-five thousand fans, on a track where the racers could dash along at speeds exceeding thirty miles per hour. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We have been trudging through deep country, far from any road, and yet there’s hardly been a moment when other people haven’t been in sight or just around the next turn in the trail. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Yes, Nigeria very corrupt. Worst corrupt country in Africa. Me, I watch the film but no, I don’t go to Nigeria!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For poor people in other countries, America’s industrial food chain is a complete disaster. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “What did we come to their country for, if you don’t like them?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Are women allowed to vote in your country?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was much harder for my parents than for me to find their way in a new country. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z She tells me that before the revolution Cuba was a pathetic place, a parody of a country. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Washburn is risking his life to help my family as well as my suffering country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The country I used to be proud of. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The working people were dressed muchly as we did out in the country, but there were a few gentry who stuck out of the crowd like peacocks wandering in the chicken pen. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Several park managers agreed that last year one in four new housing units in the whole country was a mobile home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then you could go to the city sometimes and to the country sometimes." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Piercing the quiet country morning, a rooster crows loudly and scares baby Vincent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z From there, Tenskwatawa and others traveled throughout Shawnee country, calling on Shawnees to return to their traditional religions and cultural roots. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Whiny old country music murmured out of the speakers. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "Oh, it's not a nice place, like this. This is a regular country club. Over there they've got nothing. No OT to talk of, no walks..." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t explain to them that no Iranian had yet committed an act of terror in the United States, nor had Iran invaded any other country in an unjust war. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It was like crossing the border into another country. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Finally, stuttering, I said, “I pledge to Nigeria, my country/ To be faithful, loyal, and honest. ..” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, you can ski into Italy from there, if you want. Ski both countries.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Other countries, whatever title is actually used, have only manservants. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z By then, most of my friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iran. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We fight because we must fight if we are to live in a world where every country can shape its own destiny. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It darted into his mind that he had heard long ago that there were giants in these Northern countries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “We have another situation. And it’s a bad one. Your country needs you, son. Now!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Far away in the tumble of country that lay at the foot of the mountain was the dell from which they had started to climb the pass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z India was a very big country with about a billion people in it. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z You ate from the ground and bought root beer and licorice in little country stores. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “This used to be considered the country, can you believe it? They’d have stables and carriage houses and go riding on the weekends.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was an amazing country, an enormous country. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The following day we took a three-hour bus trip to Hammanskraal, a rural ghetto outside Pretoria, there to see what my mother described as the greatest diviner in the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I made Ma promise not to tell our relatives I was coming to the country right across the border. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z More questions were asked about black life and the likely future of the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps we are in the middle of a beautiful country full of songs and music,” the Old-Green-Grasshopper said. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Every piece fit together effortlessly; not quite country and not quite rock and roll. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mr. Pignati and I went into the room with all the pigs, and I started lifting the bigger ones to see what country they were made in. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Before he was to play his first game, Bobby was rated at 2298, making him among the top ten active players in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He shifted his hips on the hard concrete and looked out through the boards at the gray country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was curious to think of carting in food and materials from all over the country. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Clean, sated, in his mother’s adopted country, he is happy. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You got to keep you top on, now. They don’t let no nekkid babies swim at the country club.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Her dream was for us to take a bus trip across the country. Stop in little towns. Visit all the tourist traps.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Even one of the bank officers had to have been in on it, passing information to Hertzoon about their customers and tipping him off to newcomers from the country opening accounts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z There was something happening in the country, in the black neighborhoods especially, that was conducive to the ascension of a brother like Marius to the corner soapbox. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You’re either for us or against your country. It’s as simple as that.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Baba greeted acquaintances from the old country and I haggled with buyers over a dollar or two. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Marines leave ’em behind a lot when they move out from this country. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Although reports on the first day of the stay-at-home suggested strong reactions in various parts of the country, the response as a whole appeared less than we had hoped. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunday, Monday, it all de same ... it like a heathen part o’ de country.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “It is a highly regarded school for individuals with special needs. They have academies all over the country.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He said that Americans had no choice but to keep fighting in Vietnam until they achieved victory or until the Communists realized that they could not force their way of life on weak countries. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Driving in convoy is not unpleasant if you are the first car and I settled back in the seat and watched the country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z It's "winner take nothing" that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had entered the country by way of Mexico, riding in a wagon drawn by a tobacco-chewing man who had turned out to be, in his spare time, the local judge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pausing dramatically, he moved the pointer to another country. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z "You are going to stay here and go to the country school. This is the right place for you. It's a good village full of good people." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Breakdancing started back in the 1970s in the South Bronx, New York, and slowly, over time, made its way across the country to Los Angeles. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z At night under my mat, and during the day when we roll up the mats, in the pocket of Tía Mari’s fur coat that she wears when she travels to cold countries. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Black people have the same opportunities as white people in this country if they’re willing to work hard enough. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Why does one have to pay to leave his own country? A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Of what tree growing in the elvish country they were made not even Legolas knew; but the wood was tough and yet strangely light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some of these “light” people, in countries of Non-American Blacks, would simply be called white. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Instead I took the LSAT, wrote my senior thesis, and dutifully reached for the next rung, applying to the best law schools in the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Mom tells him that she’s made reservations at the country club. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z If he left the country with me, he would be leaving his wife and sons in Rawalpindi, possibly at risk of attack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Too bad for the soldier that when the war broke out, curators removed The Night Watch from Het Rijksmuseum, rolling up the canvas and trucking it to a castle in the country somewhere. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z And it must be noted that the surrounding country where they were located was stark desert and not exactly crawling with wildlife. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z "You know I'm not a Nazi. But I must stand by my country," says Gerhard as he pulls the cord and makes a tight knot. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “All the same, a trip to the country sounds refreshing,” Mr. Carris said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Or what if Brekker was right and another country got there first? Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I punch on the radio, but all I get is country music and static, and I don’t know which is worse. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He knew that besides the town house on Beacon Hill there was a country seat at Milton. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the largeness of the country shown on the map, the massive forest the map showed, the river was a small thing, and he had negated it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z “Take care,” he said, “take care how you cut yourself. It is more dangerous than you think in this country.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She rode around the country with him, but she was listless. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He left me in the room, which suddenly became as foreign as another country. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Did you have a bad time? I mean, aside from the rain, no Stonehenge, no country house, no sheep? Aside from the fact that it was a day of disaster upon disaster?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They wrapped the statue up, shipped it to Athens, and invited the country’s most senior sculpture experts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The fellowships had been established by the National Research Council to support candidates from among the top 5 percent of PhDs in the country, making it an invaluable guide to a prospective candidate’s scientific ability. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By 1931 the effects of the Depression had caused crew programs across the country to go out of existence or to cut back drastically on the purchase of equipment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “A few people, I guess. It’s dangerous, with cliffs and things. Why, I’ve read there’s more unexplored country in the mountains of Monterey County than any place in the United States.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you always said that one day you would go and live in the country.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It sells the wood—tropical hard wood—to several different countries. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Boats and trains brought vast amounts of lumber, grain, and livestock into the city to be stored and processed, then shipped out to customers across the country. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z After 1919, the next large-scale unrest exploded nearly a half century later, when blacks took to the streets in cities across the country during the civil rights movement. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In those reactionary countries in which the deviates seem to be having some trouble in gaining control, we will send aid to them as rebels to help them in toppling their governments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To prove her point that she considered the trial a miscarriage of justice, Anthony had three thousand copies of the court transcript printed and distributed across the country to politicians, libraries, and suffrage groups. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Being educated in Catholic schools was, in some ways, like being educated in another country. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But Korea, like many Asian countries, is receiver oriented. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The country was starved of hope, cars stuck for days in long, sweaty petrol lines, pensioners raising wilting placards demanding their pay, lecturers gathering to announce yet one more strike. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z North Korea—Possibly the most anti-American country in the world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve met Coach K a half-dozen times,” Russ says, as if Coach K were just any old person and not the head of perhaps the best collegiate basketball program in the country. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blunkett must be sensible and make sure this country remains a refuge. People who have survived frightful wars must absolutely be allowed in!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He says we’ll be rich and all go to live in the country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuesday and Wednesday evening our beloved Queen addressed the country. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We talked about what the war had done to the country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Some were killed, though we, like the rest of the country, were kept ignorant of those bodies that washed ashore just a few miles to the east of us. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hedgerows along country roads and bordering fields provide food, cover, and nesting areas for birds and homes for many small animals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Since the beginning of the school year, newspapers around the country had bled with coverage of the crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As a result of these differences, Germany became two separate countries for forty-five years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Responded Darrow, “I now realize that this country may need a thousand cyclotrons.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But my parents decided to take any means necessary to get us safely out of the country and to the United States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I soon felt at home in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Birthday head from another country’s prince will do that. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Readers of black newspapers around the country followed the exploits of the Tuskegee airmen with an intensity that bordered on the obsessive. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Streeler is native to several African countries, though it has been successfully raised by wizards in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “As far as I know, that’s not a crime in this country. Not yet, anyway.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And schools across the country were banning trench coats, backpacks, black clothing, white makeup, Goth music, computer gaming shirts and symbols. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Manufacturing jobs were transferred by multinational corporations away from American cities to countries that lacked unions, where workers earn a small fraction of what is considered a fair wage in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And being called an enemy of your country, the feeling that you are hated—they probably felt that, too. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Before long we were waiting in an anteroom of the palace alongside other girls from schools all over the country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, brimming with confidence, he overreached by taking on both the US Army and the most popular television news anchorman in the country, Edward R. Murrow. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “China wants to control Korea again! The only way to save our country is to fight!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Early each morning the radio brought us a program called “The Day Breaker’s Club,” which played the traditional music and poetry of the Puerto Rican country dweller, the jíbaro. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The couple bought a house on Sedgewick Road, hired a maid, joined the country club; Mrs. Richardson’s grandmother found a stable for her horse, Jackson, and became a member of the Flowerpot Garden Club. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If a country offered Fischer citizenship, they specified, they’d consider deporting him to that country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It was nice to have radio like that for a while, where we could talk about what we wanted from government, what we wanted for the future of our country. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Students all over the country, unions, and professional schools are going to join us. The government may fall,” Sebastian Gomez commented. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like a tourist in my own country,” I said, taking in a goatherd leading a half-dozen emaciated goats along the side of the road. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When we sang “My country ’tis of thee,” we’d yell our heads off. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wasn’t it just before you went up into the Tahoe country?” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Greeks can’t even run their own country. Why do they need another?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Even for high-end drug crimes, most countries impose sentences that are measured in months, rather than years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Sensing imminent danger, thousands of Jewish scientists migrated to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Soon after, we pulled into one of the few functioning drive- in movie theaters in the country and all got out to get some food. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “Ah!” said he, mistaking me; “the retirement reminds you of the country. So it does me.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The document set a goal of seven thousand MK recruits in the country who would meet the initial outside force of one hundred twenty trained guerrillas. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Years before, he explained, the country’s best leaders had gone north to fight the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The Oakland Police Department has access to stuff I never knew existed. They claim that they get a lot of it from the federal government. Surplus from all our country’s military spending or something.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Four of these cups had come to this country and these he himself had owned until last August. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Traveling by instinct, they would simply go west by the most direct route—straight across country, over the Ironmouth Range.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess this is a free country,” said Katie, tossing her head. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “As you see, Lilia, it is a different country, a different color,” my father said. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z In the country of his ancestors, they made him into a man. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut up, Kim Jong Un. Why don’t you go back to your own Communist country?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The office had a telegraph connection to keep him informed of progress by Republican campaigners throughout the country. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “I just don’t want to go and live in the stupid country, that’s all.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I put on a semi-neutral, semi-angry expression as I'm introduced to the country by the grinning host of yet another eponymous news hour. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Keep in mind the Borgenichts had been in the country for only three years at this point. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset on a fine summer’s day. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only just dawning on Harry how many witches and wizards there must be in the world; he had never really thought much about those in other countries. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I understand some of the enormous hurt to families, my family, and country. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z One woman tries to throw herself overboard, screaming that without a country she cannot live. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Their partnerships were known as “white-shoe” firms — in apparent reference to the white bucks favored at the country club or a cocktail party, and they were very particular in whom they hired. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z From his room, he could reach out across the city, the country, the globe. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They had nothing in common with the two energetic, lice-infested boys who spent their summers in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the arsenic-sprayed cotton country of southern United States beekeeping as an industry has nearly died out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When she talked, it was in the prim and proper voice of someone who understands flower shows and country homes. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I went back to Aymo and told him we were going to try it across country. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z That’s a whole night of folk dancing, just like this, at colleges all over the country. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But I found myself looking down the country lane that leads to the barn, checking to make certain no one’s car blocked the path. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as it was light, Strider took Merry with him and went to survey the country from the height to the east of the pass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Vola had nailed a couple of boards together, and now he could swing over miles of rough country, quick and sure. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z His guts knotted as the truck swung around a curve and then flew down another country road. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In the country there were barns and silos stocked with grain and corn, and chicken houses full of eggs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The next day the country on either side began to change rapidly. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The criminalization of infant mortality and the persecution of poor women whose children die have taken on new dimensions in twenty-first-century America, as prisons across the country began to bear witness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Well, I’ll tell you: a half of the country has growed rich, favored by Providence, but still jealous and fearful that the other half is apt to find good fortune too. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t have left the country twice, listening to my pleas of an aging mother and fantasies of beefsteak. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s my friend Nigel’s family’s country house. He had me here in the summer as a guest, and no one is using it, and—I knew the gate code, didn’t I?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z After the overthrow of Mossadegh, public opinion in Iran was so against the Brits taking total control of the country's oil supply again that IOP was the United Kingdom's next best option. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was rather some strange country suspended in ugliness. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Farmer seemed to care less about the notion that someone should be considered innocent until proven guilty than about preserving a thin-edged calm in a jittery country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z As Momma once said, “Keeping the peace in this country isn’t that hard, as long as nobody important dies.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Trawling through gigabytes of data, he found hundreds of references to fairies from nearly every country in the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Many of these orphans were actually captured in the huge Central African country of Zaire. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z They said that I would be educated and sent to live with a family in another country. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They are good for nothing and might as well die so their food rations can go to those who contribute to rebuilding the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I read that Puerto Rico is part of the United States, but right now it feels like we’re in a totally different country. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z I’d heard it from people of all races, all backgrounds, all ages—a reminder of the goodness and generosity that existed in our country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Both countries deployed new fleets of submarines packed with nuclear missiles. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One reason was that we’d be the last five-member USA gymnastics team to go to the Olympics; starting with the 2020 Games in Tokyo, each country would send only four artistic gymnasts. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “We need to come together as Afghans now, for the sake of our country.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z We should be able to predict which countries are best at math simply by looking at which national cultures place the highest emphasis on effort and hard work. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Mr. Jelliman brought in several young workers from Sekhukhuneland, and the place soon appeared to be like any other smallholding in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I’m a country bumpkin and this is my first city party so you have to forgive me.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Located where the cold, clear Spokane River tumbled in a white froth over a series of low falls, the town was surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and open range country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But the tyrant who had seized power was jealous of anyone with education and money, and so Papito was often sent out of the country on a bogus diplomatic post. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They were speaking English, although they all seemed to be from different countries. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Zeus gave them a home in a fortunate country where the vineyards and cornlands, unplowed and unsown, bore fruits plenteously. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The country opened out and I stopped at a roadside restaurant, exhausted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Acting big down in Bilbo country. Who the hell he think he is?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He had interrupted something when he walked in, and now his selection of country music only made it worse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, after he had given up the idea of medicine, both Charles and his father thought he was going to be a country parson. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realize anything and never can. That is why we have this war.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The stone construction of the prison helped blunt the extreme heat that had settled on the city and much of the country, but nothing could keep out the humidity for which Philadelphia was notorious. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z You know, when I won the World Championship in 1972, the United States had an image of a football country, a baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Behind me I heard the rise and fall of an old-fashioned prayer such as I hadn't heard since leaving the campus; and then only when visiting country preachers were asked to pray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a one-room apartment over a garage, enjoyed doing the repairs and upkeep on the old lodge, loved being back within walking distance of untamed country, and was staying sober. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In our country’s tradition, we don’t honor people in this way while they are alive, only after they have died. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some would shake my hand and thank me for fighting for our country. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I may not have been born in that country, but I'm hiding in a truck right now because of what happened there. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She had, of course, left Madame Williams’s immediately upon the death of Richard, saying that she had found a sleep-in job in the country. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We had entered Ghana without visas, and we spent hours waiting for permission to enter that country. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He cut his teeth on Montana match races, relays on unpedigreed horses in Indian country, and contests at rough tracks with names like Chinook and Stampede. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I told them how East Lansing harassed us so much that we had to move again, this time two miles out of town, into the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z By one account, the amount of oil money had surpassed the total value of all the Old West gold rushes combined, and this fortune had drawn every breed of miscreant from across the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “He’s the first man who told me about this part of the country.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He acquired a wife from a good family and a magnificent town house as well as a large chateau in the country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “You—Aunty, do you know the stuff in that thing makes Dr. Goebbels look like a naive little country boy?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It’s always good to have a country in debt to you. Makes for friendlier negotiations.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Smiling at my irony, I would say that I had been invited to join ‘minority leaders’ on trips to distant Third World countries. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s so unfair to have to live in a country where you have to do stuff you feel bad about in order to save your life. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He had found his calling, he wrote in 1868, and told his parents he wanted to become the “greatest architect in the city or country.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They call it a Depression, but I’d say it’s a downright rut and the whole country’s in it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And me, man, I was spending my last day in the country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Emenike talked for a long time, often prefacing a story with “The thing you have to understand about this country is this.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In a different tale, the khan has an odyssey in the Azerbaijani hill country. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “It seems like every week there is some kind of terrible racist incident happening in this country. What did your mom and dad say?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Most of the men were proud that America was part of England, the most powerful country on Earth. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z You find it everywhere, from little groups like families to big ones like a town or school, to really big ones like a whole country. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He said, whole time he’s been in this country, he never heard the word ‘slave.’ The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It fell from the sky after Ethan Branson drove his truck through the doors of the Federal Building in Springfield, exploding the heart of the country. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “But what does a Ministry of Magic doV “Well, their main job is to keep it from the Muggles that there’s still witches an’ wizards up an’ down the country.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z People fled for East Baltimore or back to the country, and the population of Turner Station dropped by half before the end of the fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Switzerland—Although the country was politically neutral, Bobby’s anti-Semitic views were not acceptable there. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Eighteen screens of soldiers in a foreign country, walking up dusty streets with heavy guns. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Regiments are costly articles everywhere,” he explained to his secretary of war, “and more so in this country than any other under the sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The brutality with which Negroes are treated in this country simply cannot be overstated, however unwilling white men may be to hear it. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “This is my cousin Pierre. We visit your country for the first time, and we wish to see the Archduke, who started our—how you say—first Earth war.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z ‘Short cuts make long delays,' argued Pippin. ‘The country is rough round here, and there are bogs and all kinds of difficulties down in the Marish — I know the land in these parts. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “The most civilized countries are the coldest ones,” he told us many times. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z While they taught that duty to one’s country is the greatest thing, we already knew that death-throes are stronger. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood in the back door and looked out at the fields and the road beyond and the bleak country beyond the road. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z But during that year, while Liberals and Conservatives tried to make the country believe in reconciliation, he attempted seven other revolts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Instead, a group known as the Big Six—the country’s three top political and three top military leaders—met to argue and hammer out decisions. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, Forrester Research, Inc., was projecting that more than three million service and professional jobs would move out of the country by 2015. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z ‘How wide and empty and mournful all this country looks!’ said Frodo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She had no idea this beautiful green country existed so close to the dusty streets of Mtoroshanga. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z All over the country, and in Europe, too, people waited for word as they tried to guess what was happening. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z By morning they would be all over the country. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And all over the country, teens and young adults who had grown up believing they would come of age in wartime rushed to military posts and recruitment offices to volunteer to defend their Motherland. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All the village were kinsmen, and the titles shouted in loud country voices never let kinship be forgotten. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t think you understand. I don’t believe it’s sus-tainable—or ‘organic,’ if you will—to FedEx meat all around the country. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He was as burntlooking as the country, his clothing scorched and black. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were now ruling the country and of course were rejoiced to welcome Aeneas and his men. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t anywhere near finished trying to make my family and my country proud. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As I’d shuffled out, that same judge had told me that it had been a long time since the school had “seen an Oregon country girl.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I can hear her crooning a country church song called "Long Black Train" as I slump onto the couch in defeat. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Esteban Trueba lost patience and returned to his country prepared to ignore the problem of his height, since all great politicians in history had been small, from Napoleon to Hitler. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the country expanded westward, the argument intensified: When new states and territories were added to the nation, should slavery be permitted in them? Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I say “this country” because their frame of reference was totally American. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The doctor, who was leaving the country after a year of service, confided that while he loved the Haitian people, he couldn’t wait to return to the States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The majority are scattered in other parts of the state or the country, but around four thousand reside in Osage County, above the underground reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If he was speaking the truth, he had had wits enough to escape the destruction of his warren and survive a long journey through open country. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Sisulu: ‘The government is responsible for what has happened in this country. I plead not guilty.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the day of the parade they drew crowds faster than a dogfight on a country road. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And yes, adjusting to this country has been a roller coaster.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A number of years ago, a newcomer, a stranger, moved to my country near Monterey. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She reads the names of every single country. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z She needed her family, two countries, her senses, her notebooks and pencils, and her new devotion to—trade. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Here in the Brotherhood was the one place in the country where we were free and given the greatest encouragement to use our abilities, and he was trying to destroy it! Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We began to go with my mother to the Adventist meetings that were held further out in the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It’s a healthy life out in the country air. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And it's always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos are born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I got out shoes and breeches and my fur lined winter hieb, and dressed, there in the cold, dark country silence, while Siuwensin smoldered half a mile behind me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “You were recruited by the CIA and have been out of the country on a secret mission.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Their country is so wet and boggy that Stirling’s horses sank to their chests in mud; boats were a primary means of transportation until recently. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Again Salem was the proudest town in the country. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was run by the Duvaliers, a tyrannical family in power since 1957. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But he wanted to keep his country safe, so he did the work he was asked to do. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The men marched on past the defaced gates of the Lytes’ country seat, never turning to look at them or Doctor Warren’s chaise with Cilia and Johnny under the hood. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done to my sweet country of Narnia on the very day of its birth?” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Princess Noreena was from Guilder, the country that lay just across Florin Channel. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years either.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It will be the only metropolitan area in the country governed by people who don’t believe in genetic damage. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In ten minutes, or maybe twenty, he would rouse the men and they would pack up and head west, where the maps showed the country to be green and inviting. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m expecting lace doilies, like the ones my grandmother used to crochet before she had to leave her home behind and come to this country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z We eventually realized that if we ran out of safe land in Sudan we would have to go into the neighboring country of Kenya. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For almost forty years I have lived in England and I wish to make a gesture, something that will never be forgotten, to express my true feelings toward your country. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His firm — Kavesh and Gau — is the biggest in its field in southern California and one of the top financial planning firms in the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one each for about a dozen countries. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We were moved up a grade because our teachers thought that we country children would make our classmates feel inferior—and we did. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to them, country music plays on the jukebox. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z I tried my best to represent my country and my family with honor and dignity. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I want to get to my family. I am alone in my country. I have to go north.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In Wang Lung’s country a man, if he had a roll of good wheat bread and a sprig of garlic in it, had a good meal and needed no more. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The cities are large and memorably crowded in India, but when you leave them you travel through vast stretches of country where hardly a soul is to be seen. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Eleven country hits; five rock songs; three hip-hop tunes. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The Army, therefore, made it easier for me to love my country, with all its flaws, and to serve her with all of my heart. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He also released a statement saying that he “frankly and earnestly” supported the amendment “as an act of right and justice to the women of the country and of the world.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe...maybe you and your family are like, I don’t know, royalty from some other country,” Natalie said. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “It’ll never be settled until this country wakes up and builds a navy!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Mormons are taught to respect their country and its leaders, even if one disagrees with them. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He announced that the striking teamsters were receiving fifty dollars a day from abroad to keep the country at a standstill. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Catherine could not walk very far now and I loved to ride out along the country roads with her. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Wearing black leather dress shoes, pants, and white shirt, he looked nothing like a country boy from the Delta. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It was daylight and the country was wet, low and dismal looking. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Ogilvie said that everyone of fashion has fled to their country estates,” I offered. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that being selected by my peers for this final Olympic assignment was the highest honor, but I was secretly worried that I’d embarrass my country. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “We all came to this country for a better future,” she’d said earnestly. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z With its distinguished reputation, this was where other hospitals in the country sent their most difficult cases, including people dealing with cancer, serious burns, psychiatric conditions, and infectious diseases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was something patriotic about how when you die for your country, you do not die in vain. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lucrative theft of international food aid whetted the appetite of higher-ups for easy money as it helped transform private markets into the country’s primary economic engine. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A string of especially perplexing breakdowns had bedeviled the lab that year, at a time when Lawrence was struggling to fill a mounting stack of orders for radioisotopes from all over the country. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Everyone, simply everyone, has rushed out to their country retreats. It is most annoying.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The country was aromatic with late autumn, with the love of family, with the return to light and affection. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But by nine-thirty in the morning all the armed units in the country were under the command of officers sympathetic to the coup. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The statement received prominent play in newspapers around the country on the morning of the election, which Eisenhower, as expected, won in a landslide. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Deborah used hers to buy a small piece of land in Clover, so she could someday move down to the country and live near her mother’s grave. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was such a shock to see this little reminder of all that was happening in the country that for a moment he couldn’t continue. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined thousands of ordinary citizens who rallied in Moscow and around the country to support Gorbachev, and democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z As Christine read the Little Rock coverage, so did the rest of the country—and the world. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Our country outing next day was more in the nature of a rehearsal at first. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z One of the major goals of the second Five-Year Plan was to multiply the number of civil air routes across the USSR, covering extreme distances and connecting the far-flung corners of the huge country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the small town they got off the train at dusk, walked down its one dark street, and on out into the country. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had heard of the Wisconsin Dells but was not prepared for the weird country sculptured by the Ice Age, a strange, gleaming country of water and carved rock, black and green. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the country the repository of art and science was the school, and the schoolteacher shielded and carried the torch of learning and of beauty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She throws back her head and shouts, “Whole country in rebellion? Wouldn’t want anything like that!” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A call- up of soldiers had been announced, and units of the army had been mobilized and stationed in strategic areas around the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They fit the profile of the men now known to the whole country as Lincoln’s assassins. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His pride had prevented him from making contact with the armed groups in the interior of the country until the leaders of the party publicly rectified their declaration that he was a bandit. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Dad found a website that had like a hundred country western bands for hire listed on it. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z They had come to this country before she had reached puberty in Spanish, so a lot of the key words she would have been picking up in the last year, she had missed. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “You must be a country girl. You’ll have much to learn if you stay in this city.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z By the fourth century bce, years of unrest had depopulated large swaths of the country. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “I know so. You think those white teachers are going to teach all children the truth about what the Negro has contributed to this country?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Years ago, my mom made a trip back to Tehran and realized it was nothing like the country she remembered. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “I think he is safe. The war has ended, and country is starting over. I think he is safe, yet we will not tell.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z There were many more guns in the country around and the spring had come. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z And today, a hundred years after his technical emancipation, he remains—with the possible exception of the American Indian—the most despised creature in his country. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Approaching the redwood country, in southern Oregon, I kept him in the back of Rocinante, hooded as it were. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘They is going back to the misty country to join up with proper dreams.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Many false sightings across the country made the pursuit more difficult. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This time they were using the Constitution, the rule book for their country, to achieve justice. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z “I never even heard of some of those countries.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “There aren’t even that many people in the whole country,” he said, laughing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Back of the rolling country we were going through we saw the mountains we had come over from Pamplona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Here’s another case. A man has relatives in the old country but he can’t get them over here on account of a lot of red tape. Well, Tammany can fix that up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Successive waves of immigrants filled its factories, working for little above minimum wage as they cut, sewed, and hustled the garments into trucks to carry across the country. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But those average figures conceal big differences among the industries of each country, related to differences in organization—and those differences are very instructive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You will not. If they call you up, you’ll serve your country just like I did.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We had long suspected a clamp-down was coming, and the Congress decided that certain members needed to leave the country to strengthen the organization abroad in anticipation of the time it would be banned entirely. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow. She and me are driving out to like the country. She wants to go for a walk. I’m picking her up.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “How could you betray your country and your god?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A “repatriate” was someone returning to his native country, while an “expatriate” was someone withdrawing himself from his native country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The symbol was stitched on the crimson fabric, indicating their unfortunate role as caretakers of the country’s freak children. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Urban farmers were experimenting in cities across the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Natasha will be in Jamaica feeling like a stranger in the country of her birth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z By eight o’clock, the deliveries will start arriving—chains from allover the country and all around the globe. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Oh! Yes, very nice place. Very far. In the country. Lots of cows and grass. Up, up, up 78 West.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Of all the issues that hindered the peace process, none was more devastating and frustrating than the escalation of violence in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes Catherine and I went for rides out in the country in a carriage. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A few years after the drug war was declared, crack began to spread rapidly in the poor black neighborhoods of Los Angeles and later emerged in cities across the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You have just learned English since you have been in this country?” he asked. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The King even took the philosopher on a hunt, and as hunting is that people's favorite sport, all the country began to listen more seriously to the philosophers. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned about the music of the apartheid era and how it was the musicians and artists, even more than the politicians and activists, who informed the world about the country’s injustices. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z As the country became more troubled, my father stopped listening to music, and singing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Could Sputnik signal the end of the country’s global political dominance? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The physical domain of the country had its counterpart in me. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And bear and deer wandered miserably down from the high country, seeking food. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he hated the old country, he stubbornly refused to like the new country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Exalted Cyclops, a housepainter named Jack Murray, who had immigrated from West Germany, delivered long, wandering diatribes against the Jews, who, he claimed, had destroyed his first country and now were demolishing his second. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He wished they didn’t have all these troubles in their shared country. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z When she moved her head, I could see a lesion on her neck open and close like a fish mouth singing a country song. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been two days in this country when the weather turned wet. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The only reading matter was the country magazines in racks by the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A moan of disappointment and despair went up over the country. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only was he getting married, his country was having its five hundredth anniversary. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They were at a family friend’s country home, and her brothers had taken their host’s horses out for a run in the morning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It gave Hazel an impression of good feeding, of health and of a certain indolence, as though the other came from some rich, prosperous country where he himself had never been. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It is possible, in fact, to rank all the participating countries according to how many items their students answer on the questionnaire. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z These tales of Africa I remember best, because of their strangeness; but most of our Regiment have never seen the country, and remember it only as a place of legend. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The countries were arranged by continent, six to a page, with the capitals in boldface, followed by a short entry on the population, government, and other statistics. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “My duty to my country comes first. Now please everybody stop arguing with me.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “She claims it’s some medieval palm-reading guide, but I think it’s just something she bought from a traveling kabbalist back in the old country.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Under Hitler's rule, this meant ridding the country of anyone who was not of pure German blood through terrorist tactics, like intimidation and savage violence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z There is more open space in the country, more light to shine on his paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the white man came into this country, he certainly wasn’t demonstrating any “non-violence.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The concert, covered by newspapers around the country, opened the door to more engagements. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The social and organizational changes occurring at Langley were buoyed by the civil rights forces gathering momentum in the country. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh was intent on reuniting his country under Communism. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “But you must believe me, we were just friends. If I’d been in love with him, I would have left the country as he wanted me to.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mama lives in the country, so she’ll probably make me a fancy lunch like English tea and watercress sandwiches.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The other sky beyond, absolutely black and appalling, is wide-open country, irresistible for exploration. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the landlord’s disapproval, the sweltering heat, the gloomy rooms, and the cacophony of strange noises, so unfamiliar to my country ears, I felt another swell of hope. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Her face was illuminated by the lights in the dashboard, and it appeared ghostly white set against the utter blackness of country roads. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She didn’t read from her novel as she traveled across the country so much as she acted it out, playing each character with such skill that she turned her readings into performances. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe next summer we could go to the country.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He found quite soon that even if he had ten thousand acres of hill country he could not make a living on the bony soil without water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere he taught men the culture of the vine and the mysteries of his worship and everywhere they accepted him as a god until he drew near to his own country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the place chosen for the crossing the country between the river and the Carpathians. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The common story we all share, that passes from city to city, from country to country, from world to world. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He had been untouched by the economic crisis that convulsed the rest of the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would probably be a mistake, however, to conclude thereby that McCandless failed to appreciate the beauty of the country around him, that he was unmoved by the power of the landscape. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In a country of 225 million people, 1.6 million abortions per year—one for every 140 Americans—may not have seemed so dramatic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When my father was in school in my NAB country, many American Blacks could not vote or go to good schools. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “For Christ’s sake,” Henry says, “I’ve been trying to be happy my entire idiot life. My birthright is a country, not happiness.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They didn’t know the difference between any of the Middle Eastern, South Asian, or North African countries. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z If you are a woman, please do not speak your mind as you are used to doing in your country. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, but they had plenty of country. If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindisi.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She didn’t like the looks of the country around here either. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “When we told them he was taking a year off to travel the country with me, they really lost their minds,” Dawn Celeste says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Shackleton and the rest of the men on board Endurance were tortured by indecision: they were all patriotic subjects of a country heading into war, and yet they all now burned to voyage south. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They show footage of protests all over the country, not just in Garden Heights. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They came to a narrow pass: rocky country, dark gorges, heavily wooded. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The system that kept the black race at the bottom of American society was so deeply rooted in the nation’s history that it was impervious to the country’s ideals of equality. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Some folks call oil country ugly, but I say it’s got its own kind of pretty,” she’d said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The door to the storeroom stood open, and beyond it, there was another—through which she could see the open country behind the villa. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z It is illegal to export chimpanzees from most African countries, so the dealers smuggle them out in tiny boxes, often with misleading labels. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He warned, “There never has been a country on this earth that has fallen except when that point was reached...where the citizens would say, ‘We cannot get justice in our courts.’” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was self-improvement, for the sake of my country. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “One day there’s nothing and then the next day—boom, there’s a new burger place or a coffee shop or whatever? First a single store, then two, then four— exact replicas spreading across the country?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She just wants them out of her country. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He took blue pollen and yellow pollen he took tobacco and coral beads; and he walked into the open country below the mesas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Pontellier talked about her father’s Mississippi plantation and her girlhood home in the old Kentucky bluegrass country. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Jo will stay at home with her parents, and for the next two months she and Theo will be living in different cities, in different countries. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On March 25, Governor Jon Huntsman signed into law the toughest ban in the country on texting while driving. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “I can never repent it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made men the instrument of his punishment.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “The country,” states the center, “saw a resurgence of white nationalism that imperils the racial progress we’ve made.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z But the dog was weak, and highly strung, and suffered a heart attack one bright December morning in the country, leaping from the porch in happy pursuit of a squirrel. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “None of us have heard of him. I am almost forgotten, but still, they remember me a little, here and in the old country.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Instead of Johnson having the country behind him, America was more divided than it had been since the Civil War. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z In this way Thebes was founded and the country round about got the name of the heifer’s land, Boeotia. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Arcady—he had called his new country after his old—was a feeble state, he said, and could do little to help the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z So as you can see, that old country air must be doing me tons of good already. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Blacks around the country were yearning for a newspaper like the Defender that celebrated their success stories and exposed the injustices heaped upon their race. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Besides working for the Soros Foundation, he represented the Russian Ministry of Justice, which ran the country’s prisons. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Japan’s military had taken such a beating by this point, the country was nearly defenseless against American air raids. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave it, amazed, wondering what good it would do her in this country. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard had told them that a country born from the ashes of injustice would limit its practice of injustice. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And this was the country the Americans were there to help. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Greetings to you from mi pais de Espana—my beloved home country of Spain.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “The terrain was too difficult to navigate and the cities too spread out for it to be sensible to live there after the war. Now it’s wild country.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z To know that he could betray himself, betray his country again even in sleep, to know that—after everything she’d done—some sick part of him still hungered after her...it was too much. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Bailey played on the country folks’ need for diversion. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Russia bordered twelve other countries these days, and some of those countries bordered some of the world’s wealthiest. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Experts knew, however, that it was one of the finest private cryptology collections in the country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z What made the scheme novel was that for the first time it decoupled a test moratorium from all other disarmament issues, thereby removing the major cause of the deadlock between the two countries. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The Khmer Rouge believes one individual should not have what the rest of the country does not have. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d even told her how things in this country were nothing like she thought. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Most teenagers camped out for concert tickets, but I had to camp out so that I could continue to legally work in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z While students and teachers hoped their desks and basements would stand up to the power of a nuclear blast, the country’s leaders also prepared for a possible attack—in high style. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I only hoped it was a vision of what lay in the future for my own country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A bit of a country breeze to help clear her head as she continued down the highway. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Lucy liked to put on how she was all Brooklyn when her mother was as country as Big Ma. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Quang-ha is on the couch watching a TV show about a guy who drives around the country in a convertible eating bacon cheeseburgers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I know you probably worry about the number of undead out here in the East, but Baltimore County is the safest in all the country. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He didn’t know that in some places, like the country that Rahel came from, various kinds of despair competed for primacy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Durban is the principal port for the country’s main industrial area, and the highway that leads to Johannesburg runs parallel to the railway line for a great distance. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see? Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has left for something so absurd as a country.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was all open park-like country with no roads or houses in sight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The interest and enthusiasm we’d generated with the garden—the positive news coverage, the letters pouring in from around the country—only confirmed for me that I could generate buzz around a good idea. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Almost all the most important people in the country took turns living there, or at least attending the spiritualist meetings, the cultural discussions, and the social gatherings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until refugees started passing through our town that we began to see that it was actually taking place in our country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Farmer admired Castro for protecting the sick and the vulnerable, for the way he managed the country’s poverty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The truck bounces from highway to country road to dirt lane. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then I found out that there was a place called Black in every state in the country, and actually in almost every country in the world. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I can hear crickets singing, and smell the grass, so we must be in the country, and it must be night. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z P. D. had recently visited in the Geismar home; he told me of the great help Max and Anne Geismar had solicited over the country for him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The people who want to kill you and take your country away from you.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was soon to learn a lesson in country ways. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Grown-ups were constantly talking about these warlords, hoping that one of them would finally bring the country together in peace. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He reminded the audience that a country couldn’t be carved up simply into red and blue, that we were united by a common humanity, compelled to care for the whole of society. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I even think now that the land of the entire country was hostile to marigolds that year. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z "Wouldn't it be better, sir, to grab a piece of the floating wood even if it means letting go of the flag? This way, you might live to fight another day for your country." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z In order to forestall outbreaks of retaliatory violence, we arranged a week-long series of mass rallies and demonstrations throughout the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once more, they used a blitzkrieg to strike deep into other countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Dude...you don’t honestly think Texas can go blue, do you? It’s one of the most backward states in the country.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was lonely, uninhabited country, so that there were no bridges, and the river if anything became wider as they trotted along the banks. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Masks were a form of spirit pollution, spreading poison from top to bottom in the country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The guards shielded their eyes from the dreaded sight of Mwari’s country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Souls Of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois gave me a glimpse into the black people’s history before they came to this country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z No one saw Mr. Guareschi leave, still looking for a small country to be dictator of. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z These women had once shared a dream of flying in space, but were denied by their country. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The country wives would hold me in dishonor if he, with all his fortune, lay unshrouded.’ The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z This was part of the process, we understood—a test to see who had the mettle to hold up as both a leader and a symbol for the country itself. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “But perhaps not as taken with the young man as you would have the country believe,” he says. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The country should be proud of them, too, but, alas, not many people in this country even know of their existence. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A truck driver for a car factory, he drove brand-new shiny cars to dealerships around the country and could be gone weeks at a time, depending on the schedule. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Such things can be exchanged, for money, in other countries. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “When he has returned to his country, you may do to me what you would have done to him.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Most of the lords in this part of the country are for keeping their lands to themselves. But times are changing, and we have a good king.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I was too afraid of how girls who'd been born in America would judge me if I confessed that I wasn't supposed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The Negro situation is dangerous in a different way, both for the Negro qua Negro and for the country of which he forms so troubled and troubling a part. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z In the very southern tip of the country they grew oranges and lemons, which were shipped north to the Royal City during harvest season to be made into lemonade and orange punch. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If I ask her what she thinks happens, she says, “Well, Son. I think the sun goes down, goes all the way underground, and rises up on the other side of the country.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z What kind did you have when you were a girl, before you came to this country? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z With no notion of what their country is doing to his. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His message was crude and obvious: hook-nosed Jewish Communists threatened to take over the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So this is the doorway, I thought, between us and the rest of this country. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The guard had never heard of Hogwarts and when Harry couldn’t even tell him what part of the country it was in, he started to get annoyed, as though Harry was being stupid on purpose. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I don’t care if you’re the best welter in the country. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “What you can do is keep our hopes up. You’re an example, you know. The whole country looks to you.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in close to forty years, the country's prison population did not increase in 2011. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The number one country in the world for drowning, accidental or otherwise, is Russia, which has twice as many deaths as the next highest, Japan. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In our country, everyone knows about 9/11 and Osama bin Laden. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The largest and most cosmopolitan city in England, the symbol of freedom to thousands upon thousands of country youths, compelled its citizens to be off the streets at nine o'clock? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “It is—they must—how you say—serve the water of the country,” explained the sheep-faced lady. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Six were shot, but the remainder burst out, killing two hobbits, and then scattering across country in the direction of the Woody End. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And although many other tournaments in which he’d played may not have included the very top players in the country, there were enough that skirted the summit. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That sort of money could get him out of the country, let alone the state. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Yet in much of the country these forensic methods were applied even less consistently than fingerprint and ballistic techniques. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The country road was quiet, crowded on both sides by the forest canopy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Rhodesia,” she said, pointing to a teakettle-shaped country in the southern part of Africa above a place called Botswana and next to one called Mozambique. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Pippin cowered back, afraid for a moment, wondering into what dreadful country Gandalf was bearing him. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "Do you really think I can refuse to serve my country?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z In the distance he could hear the country highway that, if he ran far enough, would take him all the way down to Charlotte. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But it dawned on me to wonder, How in the world would he get American cigarettes in a country where you can’t even buy toilet paper? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We may have a problem with the way we treat GDs in this country, but it’s not going to be solved by killing a bunch of people,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lying round Bree-hill and the villages was a small country of fields and tamed woodland only a few miles broad. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z This room seemed more like the country and therefore more like home than any other part of the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Isolated in the world, without the benefit of trade and contact that would have come if other countries in the Americas or Europe had treated it as a partner, Haiti floundered. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "It starts out when I'm dying. This ghost comes in on Christmas Eve and asks me if I'm ashamed and everything. You know. For betraying my country and everything. Are you coming to it?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes it just seemed easier to blurt out what Mom calls my pie chart: half Mexican, half fill-in-the-blank with the names of a bunch of different European countries. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z More than that, though, Royal Brougham was there, getting set to broadcast the race live to fifty stations around the country on the CBS network. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He said he was sorry that he could die only one time for his country. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “I still have some influential friends in this country.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is that true?” asked Matt, who knew almost nothing about the countries bordering the Farms. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was he the dutiful and respected spy chief of a country that no longer existed? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I lay out how we are all in jeopardy, how the whole country is in jeopardy because of my trick with the berries. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z When Helgi Olafsson, a grandmaster, asked him how he liked living in the country, Bobby answered in his typical Calvin Coolidge style: “Good.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But maybe because, in a country that has come to make no sense, in a world I cannot solve, this is a small piece that I can. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z My dad and I had been in the north country recently, retracing a 1915 wilderness journey taken by my grandfather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This is not a conflict peculiar to this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I’d wanted to show her the snow on the ocean, the thing that had made my mom fall in love with this country, and I had wanted to make Maribel fall in love, too? The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I was stepping onto the stage after having been demonized as an angry black woman who didn’t love her country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Maybe it was senseless to want to be near a person so badly here in a country where bullets had shredded her own brothers to pieces. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At one point South Africa was opening more McDonald’s than any other country in the world. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Driving around the country now, I still see things that will remind me of Hailsham. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant that countries like India are now able to compete for global knowledge work as never before—and that America had better get ready for this. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The war, however, and the rhetoric that accompanied it created an urgency in the black community to call in the long overdue debt their country owed them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A borrowed jacket and tie, however, made me superficially presentable as our bus driver let us out in front of the huge country house. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I will not pay you a penny! Go! You are a disease infecting our country! We need walls against you!” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Chun and several other Seoul-based operatives told me that given enough money they could get virtually any North Korean out of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z President Truman, who had wanted to avoid getting bogged down in Korea, now faced the prospect of another major country falling to the Communists. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z That meant I was in Sunnyside Yard, the massive, sprawling labyrinth of tracks that led into different train routes and across the entire country. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z A country like the one they had before the war, one that some of them only know from stories? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The conflict arises for men of conscience, for men who think and who feel deeply in every country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a way to have a part in making the big decisions, of seeing through the mystery of how the country, the world, really operated. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of the best flyers in the country. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I said it is the country next to Pakistan.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The second point was for all Latin countries to have self- determination. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z “Remember,” he said, “this is a great country, with all its faults.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The families of most of the seamstresses had immigrated from country villages in Italy, Poland, and Russia, just as the Irish had come fifty years before, hoping for a better life in America. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Funt ended all of a sudden and I was in the country. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z At eighteen, I was in Vietnam fighting for my country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On his way back to his seat he said, “I love England in a heat wave. It’s a different country. All the rules change.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z About ten years ago I began visiting different African countries where chimpanzees still live to see what was going on and to see if I could help. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The two came from the rutted country road into the city, and they were not walking in single file, Kino ahead and Juana behind, as usual, but side by side. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “When a student from here, the US, switches places with a student from another country.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “He’s a striking man, his face is powerful. Like you, Ishmael, he served in the war. Have you forgotten that—that he fought in the war? That he risked his life for this country?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Also cobalt and copper and zinc. Everything my country has that your country wants.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It had taken a while, but I had gotten used to her beaming and grinning at Pa, calling him “old-fashioned” and “country.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I told myself that I wouldn’t want to live in such an unpleasantly cold country, where I would always have to worry about my nose, ears, and face falling off. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Beowulf lived quietly, doing country things—he took to the keeping of bees, and most days would see him tending his tawny hives in the sun. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry looked out in wonder upon this strange country, of which he had heard many tales upon their long road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was evident that the South African government didn’t want me to leave the country. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The country schools were the centers of culture then. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My old man used to make it in the old country. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Circulars were sent out to townships and villages all across the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “While I pursued my business quietly in New Orleans, short and long articles were appearing all over the country.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We spent two weeks driving across the country, camping along the way. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt comfortable to be in a country where it is so simple to make people happy. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Our Khmer soldiers today killed five hundred Youns trying invade our country! The Youns have many more soldiers, but they are stupid and are cowards! One Khmer soldier can kill ten Youns!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is precisely why I didn’t want you to see. You’re too softhearted to accept the truth, Catherine, given any other option. The majority of this country still wants the ways of old.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I wished that Andrea were with me now, but she lived out in the country and I didn’t see her often. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps she was—perhaps he’s away, gone to one of those hot countries he jets off to to save lives. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, he agreed with Walt Rostow’s assessment: “The materials are so explosive, that they could gravely damage the country, whether Mr. Nixon is elected or not.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That he was from a country not well known for its coast made his achievements all the more remarkable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z But it’s still two sides of the same country to me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z As dinner begins, Mrs. Darcy goes on and on about her foundation, where she helps women and children from impoverished countries with something called micro grants. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This year, Chiron had put the satyrs on emergency overtime and sent them all over the country, scouring schools from fourth grade through high school for possible recruits. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “I just don’t get why when it comes to guns our country is like, ‘Oh yeah, take that thing that’s used to kill people and do whatever you want with it.’” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then like country folk without any cares, we lay in the meadow, surrounded by tallgrass, and wove garlands of white daisies and purple columbines to crown each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There is no football game; it is not possible, as it is in the spring, to take bicycle trips into the surrounding country. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “People here do not have a desire to investigate....Indeed, they ridiculed me for looking at anything else in the country except sugar.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You know, as a figurehead of one of the most powerful countries in the world, I do manage to keep abreast on international politics.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She has known him since he was just a country lawyer and has shared almost half her life with him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But such measures never got far in Europe, where any country that temporarily swore off firearms would be promptly overrun by gun-toting neighboring countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the late 1980s and early 1990s, the politics of fear and anger sweeping the country and fueling mass incarceration was turning its attention to children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He drawls; each word, formed reluctantly and framed in a cattle- country accent, lasts awhile. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack overheard his father telling his mother he was worried about what could happen to Jews in Poland, and perhaps they should move to Australia, one country where Jews could still go. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Mexico isn’t as bad as places like Guatemala and Peru, where the white privilege is so much more overt, but then those countries have a much more sizable black population.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “That was a great revelation. It explained everything about the difference between both countries,” Emenike said, knowing that they would laugh, and they did. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Ellen had the most popular television show in the country and a massive global audience. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “How can one country make another change its clocks? What if everybody refuses?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “And just ranting and raving. He admired Nixon, he was very anti-communist. So he just thought it was a betrayal of the country.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They saw the sun rising over the country of the goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He read about the history of the Korean Peninsula, the reputation of the Kim family dictatorship, and his country’s status as an international pariah. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There has been much,' he continued, 'which has impli- citly or otherwise criticized - it is not so strong a word - criticized the foreign policy of my country.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Like Francie, he had brought his lunch the first day but the boys made fun of him, calling him the country boy from Brooklyn. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But for residents of Pyongyang, electricity is intermittent at best, hot water is rarely available, and travel outside the country is difficult except for diplomats and state-sponsored businessmen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As minorities across the country were gradually beginning to take on more significant roles in politics, business, and entertainment, our family had become the most prominent example. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Being wanted by the cops and trying to flee the country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z For the past four years, the two countries had committed unspeakable atrocities, not only against each other, but against innocent civilians in their path. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I knew I was in another country when I could walk through the front door and where I sat could be my own choice. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Boys ran away all the time, and even fathers left without a word to escape having to care for their families back in the old country. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Australian Aborigines, of course, stood in the way of European food production, especially because what was potentially the most productive farmland and dairy country initially supported Australia’s densest populations of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I have great respect for British political institutions, and for the country’s system of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dozens of other failures occurred around the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The humiliations, so commonplace in the United States that they barely raised eyebrows, much less the interest of the press, were the talk of the town in the envoys’ home countries. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The stars were brilliant—thousands of them, like you only see way out in the country. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I stand before you today, the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning, before a world in shock. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She was immediately allowed to leave the country on Koizumi’s airplane. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And James Abram Garfield became the twentieth president of the United States, a sprawling country of 50 million people. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We thought we were learning about the place where Miss Honeywell was, not preparing to write a report on a country we hadn’t heard of before Mr. Mwila brought us up to our classroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Great changes were taking place in the country, and his customers, like Americans everywhere, had to get together to talk things over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry in the country was different from Harry sitting on the back steps reading the newspapers and thinking about Hitler. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At last Aeneas was told in a dream that the place destined for them was a country far away to the west, Italy—in those days called Hesperia, the Western Country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of miles of country roads, rough timber lanes, overgrown tracks leading to abandoned mines, and unmapped trails snake across its length and breadth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, the O. J. Simpson trial was heading toward a conclusion, and the whole country seemed to be obsessed. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll let you in on a secret. In this country, the question to ask is: ‘So what do you do for a living.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And for so long I have wanted to escape into the Dream, to fold my country over my head like a blanket. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sir Urre of Hungary had long been carried from country to country—perhaps it was a sort of hemophilia—searching for the best knight who would be able to help him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’ve traveled a long way across dangerous country,” Emma said, “all to find someone who could help Miss Peregrine. We were quite hoping that person would be you, Miss Wren.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z It was a lovely day, not too hot, and the country was beautiful from the start. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He had chosen a country over us, as my mother had said, because it was nobler to take care of hundreds than one, or hundreds and one. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I know all about how the Americans run their country because we have to study it at school. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Chicago would rebuild itself in a way that would astound the country and the world. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “A lot of families in this country raised their children and used this book for advice or for directions on what to do.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They might live in the underground country where the thrown-away animals and people went. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At the door he stood and said: “Lord Marshal, Menelaos, send me home now to my own dear country: longing has come upon me to go home.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have a school project about world geography, and I thought I would choose one of the countries she traveled to.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Voice of America was reporting it, as was French radio, which Olanna translated: Tanzania was the first country to recognize the existence of the independent nation of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At the border and inside the country, the North Korean government has tried to crush these smuggling operations—and periodically it succeeds. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But the other two he brought away, through the enemy, past the city gates, out into the country, his father on his shoulders, his son clinging to his hand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And every spare minute he spent there he wanted to be engaged in chess, hopefully playing with the highest-rated masters in the country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But not releasing the document was, in Ellsberg’s view, another form of betrayal: a betrayal of the country he loved, and the people who were still dying in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She knew that she was walking a tightrope, supporting a cause she believed in and a man she loved, all the while spying on the country she called home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Negroes in this country—and Negroes do not, strictly or legally speaking, exist in any other—are taught really to despise themselves from the moment their eyes open on the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Isn’t it a grand country? I love the way it feels under my shoes.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The oldest federal penitentiary, it was then considered one of the country’s most dreaded places to be incarcerated. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I wonder what Maman would do: risk her arcana to help her country and queen, or refuse. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Our district is the most fertile in all Malawi, often called the “breadbasket” of the country, and Banda understood what was required to work the soil. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “I’m wearing this to protest the treatment of homeless Native Americans in this country.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Not much, it seemed to him, except be bored to death for his country. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I get up early like Dad and go on long walks into the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Genie thought it looked like a coin from a different country. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z And of course, they might just enjoy spending a little time on a farm, chatting on the porch with the Salatins, and taking a beautiful drive in the country to get here. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The same argument is made by telephone operators, who’ll place a call outside the country for you only after you specify the location in Kinshasa where you’ll leave I’enveloppe containing your bribe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In the midst of this upheaval, Pepsi began running television commercials around the country, pitting Coke head-to-head with Pepsi in what they called the Pepsi Challenge. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Teachers rarely lasted very long in the country schools. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, the struggle would for the first time take me outside the borders of my country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "America's a free country. Anyone can hold hands. And we are not ‘chicks,’ we are human beings." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z King pushed his written speech aside, gripped the lectern with both hands, and gave his country seventeen of the most memorable minutes in its history. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In two day’s time they came upon a country where firestorms had passed leaving mile on mile of burn. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Is this the country I’m supposed to go to war and die for? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This was flat country with only a few barely noticeable rolling hills to break the monotony. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z "They also want to make war when it is not necessary. As long as military men control the country you are always going to have a war." Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In the back of their minds, I know they hoped the unrest in Iran would settle down, and we might be able to return to the country before our US visitor's visas expired. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They decided that that very night they would try to slip away and steal out through the city into the open country where at last they could be together in freedom. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z This, along with the fact that bodies turned up in different parts of the state and country, suggested that this was not the work of a single killer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was an age-blacked, dungeonlike building with its own rickety little graveyard in the back, set on a rolling country lane. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the old days, spies had done what they’d done because they loved their country, because they believed in what they were doing. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Spurge gushed, “There is a gorgeous glow to my country this evening.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Like the others, they were country people, but how soon country people forget. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z People in my neighborhood would laugh to hear Max talk about other countries as if they're Disneyland. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “They say the Americans are a bunch of Yankee Doodles, country fools who don’t know how to fight.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z It was easier to turn her back on the two countries that could claim her in favor of one that had no claim whatsoever. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But if they shared Elizebeth’s Enigma decrypts with Argentina, they feared that the country’s many pro-Nazi officials might share them with the spies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z One cannot just introduce good institutions to poor countries like Paraguay and Mali and expect those countries to adopt the institutions and achieve the per-capita GNPs of the United States and Switzerland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was noted exactly which regiments were on duty in different parts of Boston and how strong were the earthworks Gage was putting up to protect his men if‘the country should rush in.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Before electricity made any of this possible, ‘A’ could be different pitches not just in different countries but also from town to town or even from instrument to instrument. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She employed one beautician, a blond girl who wore orange lipstick and lived out in the country and came into Suffolk every day to work. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And why do I know that the Philippines is an archipelagic country consisting of 7,641 islands? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Yet I would venture that the landscape of our country alone would justify the use of this lofty adjective. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z So what they must do, they agreed, was go away to one of the big countries, either to England or France, where opportunities to make good would be boundless. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z An Air Force general blessed with the surname of Power warned a shaken Senate committee that the Russians could render this country defenseless with a missile strike lasting only thirty minutes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As the Great Leader explained it: Establishing juche means, in a nutshell, being the master of revolution and reconstruction in one’s own country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home. You had yours...We did not interfere with you. We do not want your civilization!” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Or had he taken his wives and children and fled the country? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Despite America's preeminent status among developed nations, we have always struggled with high rates of infant mortality—much higher than in most developed countries. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Besides, I had known my fair share of corrupt officials both in the Levee and back in the old country. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Like an ambassador to a hostile foreign country, my Guardian ad Litem was educated, elegant, and intimidating; however, Mrs. Moss ruled her fiefdom with an iron fist. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was a separate country east of Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the head waiter at a country club near my home town, and every Sunday my grandmother drove in to bring him home for his Monday off. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I was about to become part of a country that was much more rich and interesting because it had no walls built around its perimeter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I had just seen a group of boys from a dozen war-torn countries come together as a team and play beautiful soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z On the radio they played martial music, and on television they showed only landscapes from around the country and cartoons. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes me feel unwelcome in my own birthplace, and the country of my parents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But now, as the sun began to set, he was in a different country, a stranger in a strange land, where he couldn’t even speak the language. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I spot them all over the country, standing on the far side of playing fields, little white prefab buildings with a row of windows unnaturally high up, tucked almost under the eaves. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z In Kenya the students across the country are competing against each other all the time because advancement is limited to the smartest, hardest-working students. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z That was how backward families in the country were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z During the trial the prosecutor called more than one hundred witnesses from all over the country, including the Transkei and South West Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined visiting the wicked country of Italy, where the men are taught to overcome virgins and the women know many freedoms. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Like the flag of an unknown country, seen for an instant above a curve of hill. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z If they weren’t, the Democrats or the rebel southerners would take over the country, dooming it to another war. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He wants them to move to the country, where life is healthier, children are healthier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As everyone kept saying, the country stood alone now, and it was better that way. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z These five candy bars may be anywhere—in any shop in any street in any town in any country in the world—upon any counter where Wonka’s candies are sold. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z From the loudspeaker, a children’s choir sings, We hope only to work, to work and work and work, to go to glorious work for the country. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Anything that would make me appear more like a Londoner and less like a green country woodcock, I was more than willing to adopt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z And as these new rules were put in place around the country, an extraordinary thing happened: orchestras began to hire women. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The freight trains on the siding were loaded down with men trying to get from one part of the country to another, looking for work and something to eat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He slipped back down into die cool dark and rode slowly downhill toward the silent empty country to the north. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If you think the country is quiet, you’ve never lived in it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, fierce disagreements within Russia itself over how to run the country began a bitter and bloody civil war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If there was a silver lining, it was that the earthquake brought new funding and world attention to a country that had suffered in obscurity through too many natural, political, and health disasters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z What do they say, musically, about—“God and country”? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Of course not. And it looks like beautiful country,” I said, glancing out at giant pine trees. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But Mr. Richardson grew restless with the rules constricting black life in Memphis and moved the family, including daughter Mary, whom Jones had come to love, up to free country in Alton, Illinois. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I would say that the whole life of any thinking African in this country drives him continuously to a conflict between his conscience on the one hand and the law on the other. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been reading everything I could find online about the country—story after story of poverty, starvation, and disease. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z A simple chalk mark drawn by the medical examiner on one’s clothes could have a person barred from entering his newly adopted country. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z They fought so that this could be a country where every man would be free and equal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The hosts read letters and birthday wishes from people across the country, including President Theodore Roosevelt, who offered his “hearty good wishes for the continuation of her useful and honorable life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A century later, in 1900, when sugar was used in jams, cakes, syrups, and tea, and every modern country was filled with factories, world production of sugar reached six million tons. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Every book is a different hood, a different country, a different world. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The storm that raged in him tonight could not uproot this hatred, the mightiest tree in all John’s country, all that remained tonight, in this, John’s floodtime. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “What is this country anyway?” demanded Mrs. Hubbard tearfully. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stieglitz has said before, he isn’t interested in stories about the old country. And it isn’t an article, not really. It’s just memories.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z For example, a child’s environment in a city will be vastly different than one in the country, or the soundscape of 1,000 years ago differs dramatically from a soundscape today. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Every boy in the country but me had a good hound or two. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, like she was talking to herself, “We can’t use the cart. There aren’t any roads, and the country is too rough.” Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave him limitless opportunity; Seabiscuit was one of the biggest stories in the country, so they just kept coming back for more punishment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind drove off the clouds and skimmed the sky clean and drifted the sand of the country like snow. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re from all over the country and are of all sorts of things. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In 1987, Money magazine ranked it as the fifth worst city to live in in the country out of three hundred. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had ever come to solicit their opinion on what should be done in their own country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I was on my way to compete against the best youth fencers in the country at the biggest tournament I had ever been to. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Woodsmen, white or black, all country people were free to enter a lean-to, a hunter’s shooting cabin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The world is my country,” he said, “science my religion.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z O yes I knew it was somewhere in the country. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference is that one will be splurging and then play on a public course while the other will not blink at the price and tee off at a private country club. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The new country and its language have helped to push the past a little further behind. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It turns out that countries in regions with long histories of state societies or agriculture have higher per-capita GNP than countries with short histories, even after other variables have been controlled. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her parents are out of town at one of their French country homes, and she said she thought her living room would be the perfect setting for the scene we were doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z People like my mom even break rules to stay in the country. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “That certainly should throw light upon the matter. An extraordinary country America.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Martial law was in effect in the whole country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But journeying to Robben Island was like going to another country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people let their countries become their religions and that didn’t work either. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “The level of material comfort in this country is numbing,” said Paul Bellew, executive director for market and industry analysis at General Motors. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z This dramatic change in the roster of nations making up the new America is yet another stage in the saga of this country as a melting pot of cultures and experience. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Besides this, in the rush of his travels he had forgotten a detail, just one detail, which could keep him from his treasure for a long time: only Arabic was spoken in this country. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He used each treatment to regale me with his personal theory about how to rid the country—and if possible, the world—of Communism. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Founded in 1931, the university had once been the finest in Asia, the intellectual heart of the country. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It was a poor country, according to Celia, and yet her face lit up when she spoke of it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Hour after hour, mile after mile, lurching back and forth in the wagon, Mollie crossed the wild, empty landscape, not yet carved into a country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We have lots of architecture in my country,” he said. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z First, given the rarity with which executions are carried out in this country and the long delays in doing so, no reasonable criminal should be deterred by the threat of execution. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We arrived in Dar es Salaam the next day and I met with Julius Nyerere, the newly independent country’s first president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not for a minute forget that I have sneaked into this country. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z The country, he said portentously, was sitting on top of a volcano. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gee, there sure are a lot of countries! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Followers of communism could be found in nearly every country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I had an uneasy feeling, meeting the queen of the country that had once colonized my own country in Africa. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z After all, my teacher said it's in a whole other country. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A wave of germs was unleashed, causing all sorts of epidemics across the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone must have wondered about a woman who could have kept a man from living in his own country till now. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Many of these young people had left the country to join our own military movement, and then smuggled themselves back home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I must point out that the move I have taken provides you with the opportunity to overcome the current deadlock, and to normalize the country’s political situation. I hope you will seize it without delay.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone made a big batch of bad jake—put plasticizers in it or something. It went out all over the country. One bad bottle, and you’re done for.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The Pinkerton National Detective Agency was the more dangerous entity, but its operatives of late seemed to be spending most of their energy battling strikers at coalfields and steel mills around the country. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I listened silently to the charges: inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without valid travel documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By that time, however, stories about the dead hiker, including excerpts from his diary, had been given prominent play in newspapers across the country. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “To the other side of the country,” she said miserably. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They were dressed in black, silent and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of grief. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Evenings in that part of the country must have been a kind of sad relief. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Organizers invited an exhilarating mix of performers: there would be rock and roll, rhythm and blues, folk and country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He’d told me that they had to bury her quickly, because it gets hot in the plains, especially in this part of the country. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z These devices have been imported from foreign countries and thus are contaminated. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I made sure I said her name good and country like her mama would. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I told the Court that the United States is the only country in the world that imposes life imprisonment without parole sentences on children. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z During the rule of the junta, he had been expelled from the country for his political views. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The story had gone round that Old Man Pritchard had killed a man somewhere in Missouri before moving to our part of the country. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When they caught a glimpse of the country westward the distant Forest seemed to be smoking, as if the fallen rain was steaming up again from leaf and root and mould. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “There’s going to be a revolution in this country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z During a quiet moment it struck me that Congo was an easier country to survive in than most during a time of war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Mami went on telling about how the movement spread all over the country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z "There is a Secret Society of Witches in every country." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z So he decided to take a holiday and travel back to his own country, Norway, and who knows, he might if he was lucky find himself a lovely new bride in his own country. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "And I said I wanted to live in the country and in the city both?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Why had they come to this country in the first place? How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Me: It’s a conundrum: white people hold most positions of authority in this country. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Now I discovered that there was inequality and prejudice in this country that I had already come to love. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Next moment the country dropped away beneath them, and whirled round as Fledge, like a huge pigeon, circled once or twice before setting off on his long westward flight. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Thank God! this is the country where bribery can do anything, and we are well supplied with money. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Field tests are being made in several countries: in France and Germany against larvae of the cabbage butterfly, in Yugoslavia against the fall webworm, in the Soviet Union against a tent caterpillar. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z ‘We are not used to footpads in this country, but we know how to deal with them.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z But being a specialized group, leading special lives, associating only with their own kind, they would have made it possible for me to cross the country without talking to a local town-bound man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But as people there and across the country awoke to headlines and newspaper stories about Garfield's death, most felt sorrow and gloom. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a remarkable achievement that Japan, unlike so many other non-European countries, preserved its political independence and culture while emerging from isolation and creating an industrialized society in the late 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1856 Charles was breeding his own pigeons—Squire, the other pigeon fanciers nicknamed him, referring to the country gentleman that he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No one my age in my country has a bank account or even dreams of having one, much less property to declare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “At least he can go back and forth to his country. Not like us; we can’t ever go to Cuba again. Isn’t that sad?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He was determined to have a hand in moving the country’s technical establishment into the forefront of wartime planning. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He carried a country mark on his face, three straight lines that had been cut into his right cheek when he became a man in Africa. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z So it was no cause and no country he fought for, no ideal and no justice. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The music started playing, but it was the song of a different generation, of a different country. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z There was kindness running beneath all of it, a genuine love of country that I will always appreciate and admire. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z My father’s father—my grandfather—had been an architect in Iran, responsible for designing some of the country’s most beautiful buildings, and I could see that same kind of brain in my dad. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He said he was looking forward to his trial, because it would raise issues the country needed to confront. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “But this country fears you,” he tells me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Clarkston High School became home to students from more than fifty countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I wish this was Virginia again, my own green country, my own black soil. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew how much I needed it—to be a part of such a beautiful school and be taught by some of the greatest art teachers in the country. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z As if to underline the association, the British Parliament passed a Jewish Naturalisation Act in 1753, which was not to be emulated in any other European country for half a century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was typical at the time for soldiers to kidnap boys—they would seize kids and brainwash them, training them to do unthinkable things, then send them out to different regions of the country. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Howard and Smith were besieged with telegrams and calls from jockeys all over the country. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Some have escaped from countries as far away as Estonia. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Soon this family was known throughout that part of the country for their good pumpkins. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z They would fight everything Barack did, I realized, whether it was good for the country or not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In these respects the United States is a thoroughly “normal” country. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Here Strider turned aside, and soon they were lost in a sombre country of dark trees winding among the feet of sullen hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He means our country beginning to prosper, Free Zones going up everywhere, the coast a clutter of clubs and resorts. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every earth-digger and mechanical contrivance in the country had been mobilized to dig the colossal hole in which the nine giants were to be permanently imprisoned. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hard to tell what kind of folks he had or what part of the country he was from. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “First time I climb mountain in twenty year. Mountain special place to Japanese. Our whole country mountain everywhere.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Soon, however, we were motoring down the village high street, and then the shops had gone and we found ourselves in open country. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Little countries no one ever heard of have their Washington lobbies, representing their special interests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a big deal. The Thornton Institute is one of the biggest think tanks in the country.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “In this country,” said Brave Orchid, “many people make their daughters their heirs. If you don’t go see him, he’ll give everything to the second wife’s children.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Confirming the radio listeners’ worst fears, a downcast voice lamented, “They wrecked the greatest country in the world.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z One of Chicago’s founding fathers, William B. Ogden, argued strenuously for expatriation-sending the freed slaves far, far away to countries in Central and South America. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Over at the country club, or in enormous corner offices with picture windows that seemed to deserve something more than wide-angle views of scrub brush and mesquite, they confused luck with business acumen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was afraid of the country and all the dangers he couldn’t understand, just like me in the city. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They spent a miserable day in this lonely and unpleasant country. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were obviously playing some kind of silly little country game. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He would show up under different names farther and farther away from his own country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I paced the floor, knowing that all I possessed were words and dim knowledge that my country had shown me no examples of how to live a human life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t live in this country twenty-five years and not have some of it rub off on me,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z On weekends I flew cross country to say—through a microphone—that I was not a minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We ate the sandwiches and drank the Chablis and watched the country out of the window. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z With whole regions of the country’s interior seemingly on the edge of revolt throughout Ptolemaic history, it is likely that Greekspeaking travelers faced similar risks in Eratosthenes’ time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Rainbow flags waved on street corners around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z According to the papers, the whole country was shocked and disappointed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It was accompanied by a decanter containing half a gallon of the best brandy in the country. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is the hittin’est woman in this country,” her son said, shaking the reins. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point earlier, Barack had received the authorization codes that would allow him to access the country’s nuclear arsenal and a briefing on the protocols for using them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I came to this country forty years ago,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He tells of the history of Panem, the country that rose up out of the ashes of a place that was once called North America. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z So few people of Asian ancestry had settled there, it was like heading for a neutral country. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1939, the United States and other foreign countries closed their doors to Jewish refugees. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z However, she read the papers, and it wasn’t hard for an intelligent person to see what was going on in the politics of her country. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the absence of a shimmering skyline, the Odessas of the country had all found something similar in which to place their faith. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Whatever you want. In the country of my camper, everyone decides for themselves. We’ll be here when you’re done. Let me find you some shorts and a T-shirt.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z How can you live in that country? they asked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until after his father died, in his last year of college, that the country began to interest him, and he studied its history from course books as if it were any other subject. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z For almost as long as black folks have been in this country, they’ve had a complicated relationship with law enforcement—and vice versa. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Across the country, turf writers began agitating for the match. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Having no idea where to find El Dorado, he blundered randomly for months about the eastern foothills of the Andes, then as now a country of deep forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Holly tuned the radio to a country station, and we worked. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Maybe she didn’t see Papi because he went ahead, preparing our way in a country he is already familiar with? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I’m careful to paint a picture of myself as gente de close, a middle-class mestizo girl from a nice family with a rustic home in the country. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ll be giving that nasty cold of yours to about a million people all over the country!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The country had waited expectantly that summer to hear of a decisive victory by its hero-commander, Grant. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They turn onto a bumpy road off the highway, which grows bumpier and bumpier as it climbs up into wilder, more desolate country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “Of course, many other countries want to recognize us but they won’t because of America. America is the stumbling block!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Pa says there will be a generation of children completely missing from our country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We parked near the country club, which was down a bit, and hiked the quarter-mile silently, in the mud. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z They are straggled together, maybe from an orphanage in another country. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The Coloureds, too, were oppressed, but unlike the Indians had no mother country except Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If Mamá tried to leave the country to come get us, she could get in trouble with the police, and that’s something I couldn’t live with. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z First came a huge delegation of women from countries that had already granted women the right to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She refuses to be so far from the place where her husband made his life, the country in which he died. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We too will have to shoulder our bundles and move on, away from this beautiful country, which once so kindly took us in and now turns its back on us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The class cracked up, part from his country style of talking and part from laughing at me. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She sits all day by the window and plays the Spanish radio show and sings all the homesick songs about her country in a voice that sounds like a seagull. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z That may not be a very scientific method for finding the east-west middle of the country, but it will do. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a good day for a walk in the country, because there were these big occasional Clouds™, but mostly blue. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to watch him tell the country. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They sailed around for awhile and traipsed through various countries till they stopped in Cologne where the chief of the Huns asked Ursula to marry him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Your country doesn’t need your help any more,” Yossarian reasoned with antagonism. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He would know what I had done for his country. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z One stated, “In developing countries, people with multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis usually die, because effective treatment is often impossible in poor countries.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “When we returned to Afghanistan, the Taliban asked me to help get rid of the country’s vast poppy fields that were used to make drugs.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The greatest movie star in history was sweeping the country at that time, a girl younger than Mary Alice named Shirley Temple Shirley could sing and act, and she was a tap-dancing demon. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I dont see how a city no bigger than New York can hold enough people to take the money away from us country suckers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The man with the impeccable timing was choosing to make the anomaly of slavery the last piece of advice he would offer his country. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Then he marched south with a group of replacements, and he enjoyed that too—seeing the country and stealing chickens and chasing rebel girls up into the haystacks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, if it isn’t the world’s biggest country music fans,” Laura Friendly yelled out to them. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks, she and William would become the most important code-breaking team in the country—just as the United States went to war. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But leaving the poverty of Nicaragua to go to the richest country in the world didn’t take much convincing. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Young Jonah wanted to serve his country and go fight the emeny enemy, whoever that was. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But now GEO TV, the biggest channel in our country, wanted to interview a girl about the peace treaty. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The phenomenon has been largely overlooked in the glare of positive news about the country’s gains in education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes Liyana felt she had passed her own country already and it was an age, not a place. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z But the possibility that the team might break up into cliques based on country or tribe or language was always there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Against the top library nerds in the country? Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “Yeah, Errol and Clem. They always on me too. They say my overalls is country, and the way I talk. Today he punched me when I told him to leave me alone.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z She was gone, and no matter where I went—another town, another country, Fairyland, or Gnome Caverns—I wouldn’t find her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z To acknowledge these horrors means turning away from the brightly rendered version of your country as it has always declared itself and turning toward something murkier and unknown. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z And in the two weeks between that interview and Ellsberg’s start date at the Pentagon, violence in Vietnam pushed the country closer to open war. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was always a tremendous occasion if Julian accepted an invitation to dinner in the country. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z How long would the Soviets occupy our country? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It would dramatically worsen poverty in China’s three northeast provinces, which have largely missed out on the wealth generated by the country’s economic boom. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Most of the country’s top engineering schools didn’t accept women. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Finally, we entered hill country, climbing higher and deeper into the Appalachian Mountains, stopping from time to time to let the Oldsmobile catch its breath on the steep, twisting roads. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “How often have the cops killed someone in our city? In this country?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “You don’t look like you from the country.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those books, set in countries he had never seen, reminded him only of his confinement. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Many resigned out of disgust and moved to foreign countries. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Italy’s a cool subject, especially since Mr. Gardner said we could choose any aspect of the country. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In the early 1960s, Henry F. Dobyns, a young anthropologist working on a rural-aid project in Peru, dispatched assistants to storehouses of old records throughout the country. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After school, Jenna and I ride our bikes down the bumpy road to the country store to get decorations for her party. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I shall not return, and if you want to see your country again, you’ll need all your courage, all your craft, all your luck. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep my mind off my troubles I began trying to name all the countries in the world, which I was supposed to know because I’d learned them in geography. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I shall set up a mighty country under the control of the Organization of Colored Leaders and Scholars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He’d just spent a whole year of his life fighting for his country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Not far from Kigoma is a refugee camp where people have fled from the violence in the little neighboring country of Rwanda. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know, the same way I didn’t know what lay ahead for us in the White House, nor what lay ahead for the country or for any of these sweet children surrounding me. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z And amazingly, in those countries where people pick their foods based on custom and taste, the people are actually healthier than we are. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Gibb Street became the line between the blacks and the whites, like a border between countries. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll bet there’s all sorts of good things running wild in this country. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In other words, anyone who was from a country that was part of the Axis, Germany's allies. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “But at least in the country, they don’t leave dead bodies lying around everywhere,” James said with a shudder. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The dates and places were correct; his description of his boyhood as a typical country idyll was most certainly a fabrication. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He nudges me, and points to a low country boat passing the ferry. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He talks about being treated poorly overseas, despite the fact that he enlisted to prove he cared about his country. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z What if among the Central Americans there were dangerous criminals fleeing prosecution in their own countries? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “And was that—Honour!—the only time you worked out, in this part of the country?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath, said: “America wasn’t even the first country, Rondo. Most countries are way older than us.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Our circle was so large the shouts we heard from the other side seemed to come from another country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell him, boy. Tell him your country fought a war so you wouldn’t have to answer to kings and queens.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The color of police chiefs across the country has changed, but the role of the police in our society has not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Those are some good detective skills, Nancy Drew, but, unfortunately, those signs pretty much mean nothing in this part of the country,” Liam said. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Sudan is the largest country in Africa, and there are hundreds of groups, or tribes, and many languages spoken throughout it. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z What, Lourdes asks herself, does the boy have to look forward to in this country? Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, Nichols was head of CBS Radio’s sound effects department and the only woman in the country working in the field. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They jumped into the pit and were swept off to the underground country. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What if his country needed him to prevent some other armed conflict? The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The country was stripped and plundered years ago and they found nothing in the houses and buildings by the roadside. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z A week after he had sworn on her death certificate that she died of another stroke, a relative alerted the police that Friedgood was about to leave the country for London. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, in other developed countries around the world, a first-time drug offense would merit no more than six months in jail, if jail time is imposed at all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z And I acknowledged the stark choice now being put before the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z According to the Independent Electoral Commission, there would be ten thousand polling stations around the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We cannot know yet which direction our country will take,” Jiichan said. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But as thirteen-and fifteen-year-old girls, with no mother and father to watch over us, our bodies were like poor countries—there was always a dictator trying to rule over us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Ramu is in our class because he’s also from a different country. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I know all the countries of the world and their capital cities and every prime number up to 7,057. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Poppy would pass through the house lifting his nose to the air, saying, “There it is, there’s my country.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He said the government had turned the country upside down to find the man who shot me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z An artist is a tawdry, lazy sort of thing to be, as most people in this country will tell you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It helped we were competing in a Muslim country surrounded by people who looked like me, so I didn’t have to worry about how I would be received. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Of course when my father explained, I realized I’d seen silos all over the country; I just hadn’t known what they were called. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It travels from centre to centre, right the way across the country in a matter of days, and suddenly every donor’s talking about it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They both began to look forward to the calm, quiet life that the country would bring them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what it’s going to take for this country to live up to its promise,” Mr. Franklin says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “Francis’s great-aunt has an apartment on Marlborough Street. Just a few doors from the Public Garden. She goes to the country in the summer and Francis said if I wanted to stay there, I could.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I want to know how they died. I want my children to hear this. I want my country to hear this. I want the United States to hear this.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Emasculated by dams and diversion canals, the lower Colorado burbles indolently from reservoir to reservoir through some of the hottest, starkest country on the continent. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In American Lit class once, we discussed America as a metaphor tying it into how the country is represented in books, movies, songs. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “My gratitude is to you,” Tío Pepe bowed, “and to your children, who sacrificed a husband and a father to liberate our country.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z My comparison of the histories of China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe in the epilogue of GGS suggested an answer to this question as applied to technological innovation in whole countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘In some different country than this one—in a foreign place?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “What will happen, do you think, if we lose? Do you think the country will ever get back together again?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Protestant churches in the towns were fighting for their existence in a country where they were newcomers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was clear the North Vietnamese would continue their relentless efforts to unify the country under Communist rule, and the situation was deteriorating rapidly. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “But like about a zillion other soldiers who never knew each other, we fought on the same side—the winning side—of the greatest country in the world. And I’m proud of it.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Your brother worked all over the country. What was he doing?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “A country saying. I was a country girl, you know.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We passed the country club golf course, the biggest spread of green grass until the next golf course in the next town. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Their employment represented an expansion of the very idea of who had the right to enlist in the country’s scientific workforce. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Both sides made vows, swore the duty of peace, and so winter came, in its time, to the country of the Jutes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Gentlemen,” he said, “1893 will be the third great date in our country’s history. On the two others, 1776 and 1861, all true Americans served, and so now I ask you to serve again!” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Out in the country- side, the forms and coloring of the dead are strange; these are the wild creatures. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Go back to the days when people camped out overnight for tickets with huge smiles on their faces, as if they were performing an important service for their country. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It still may not permit this adoption. In fact, even the more moderate Muslim nations are hesitant with adoptions because in many of those countries, Islamic law, Shari a, doesn’t recognize adoption.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In Colombia, Lidia tells us about the country’s perpetual summer, and we’re tempted to grab a drink from the juice vendors. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z During that visit to the Mount, Charles had also received the promise of a loan from his father to buy a house in the country. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I could be all the way across the country in California and I’d still be white, cops and everyone else would still see me as just a “regular kid,” an “All-American” boy. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I wanted to know what kids my age were like in this faraway country. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Isatu’s not our child. Do you know how complicated it would be to take someone else’s child to a foreign country?” my father asked. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z His memorial would even provide a place for reconciliation for the whole divided country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Trusted and talented members of the elite are periodically allowed outside the country, where they serve as diplomats and traders for state-owned companies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was already a military officer as well as a national hero who’d been awarded the country’s highest honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Speaking on the floor of the Senate, he declared the Boston Police Strike was “one of the most dastardly acts of infamy that has ever occurred in this country since the act of Benedict Arnold.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z "Listen, Robert, going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to that." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Go out in the country and have a nice picnic together.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She lived on Long Island then, after roaming all over the country, in a small house with a Shinnecock sailor who doted on her to excess. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “She leaps about like a goat. How unseemly! It would be better to put bells on her feet and have her dance at a country festival.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The epidemic spread through Boston and across the country—and the world. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, I was once again chosen for the national team and selected to compete on behalf of my country at the World Championships, which would be held in Nanning, China, in October. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Some of them did: Across the country, hundreds of suffragists tried to register to vote, but most were turned away. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She could hitchhike across the country to California. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z The way I feel on the roads is how I’ve felt in general since we arrived in this country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It was at this point that Bobby saw himself not just as a chess player, but as a Cold War warrior in defense of his country. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But my saving human connection—my oxytocin receptor, as it were—is George, the nineteen-year-old Czech dishwasher who has been in this country exactly one week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going on and on and making the country watch and comment and predict and scratch their heads—as far as I could see. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The country is in mourning and we must behave respectfully, announces the mayor. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One hundred and fifty years ago, the monster began, this country had become a place of industry. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Mom told me I should tell them there was nothing wrong with being poor, that Abraham Lincoln, the greatest president this country had ever seen, came from a dirt-poor family. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He had an afternoon to himself, alone in this magnificent high country, on top of the wilderness world. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I worried that if people from other countries passed as Puerto Ricans in order to cheat the government, it reflected badly on us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “I think I’m going to go to the country, maybe to Tres Marias.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Tomorrow it is going to be two months since my cousin was murdered and my parents left the country. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He spoke in the serious, hushed voice he had used with Mami those last few days in the old country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It was a connection, he said, that was more powerful than the one he felt to his Fugees teammates from other countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The snow lay over all the country, down almost to Montreux. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He sacrificed for the good of our country. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Even though he entered the country illegally, he was soon hired as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "You only get them in big countries, like Africa, or India." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Powerful grassroots political movements were being formed inside the country that had firm links to the ANC, the principal one being the United Democratic Front, of which I was named a patron. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You’d have to be a sad case not to be able to get a job in a country that’s at war especially with Yanks pouring in and spending money right and left. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was eleven years old, and it was like I was seeing my country for the first time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The subjects were chosen from across the country to represent an accurate cross section of American schoolchildren. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I’ve thought of getting a house, but I’m on the move so much it wouldn’t hardly pay. I’m all over the country most of the time.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We take to a country road, where posters advertising the Roxbury Country Fair are nailed to every telephone pole. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He leads a prayer and asks God to help migrants safely arrive at their destinations, find work, and be able to return to their countries someday. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Pictures of people’s living conditions or of some bodily harm that they suffered because they got jumped just for being brown in this country. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When she was barely old enough to see over the windshield, Noah gave Christine driving lessons on quiet country roads. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I smile at people, especially black people and the ones from different countries. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And now you’re dealing illegal arms to a country we’ve levied sanctions against and you plan to murder us and frame them for it so you can go to war and take over their resources? Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The country around the lake was moderately hilly, but the hills were small— almost hummocks—and there were very few rocks except to his left. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z John huffed in disbelief, then spoke as if reciting, “Can’t take the city out of the boy to put the country in.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z But neither of us can stand country music. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Leave and stay in the country for a few days! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dobby has traveled the country for two whole years, sir, trying to find work!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Pained by what he saw as his country's decline, Gordievsky believed that his country's only hope for survival was to lose out to the West and to open itself up to democratic ideas. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On April 28 Pollard completed his long drive across the country. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to be alone. None of that country good-neighbor business, I hope. Everybody trading dinners and knowing everybody else’s business.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z A country woman watched Miss Love and spent her egg money on a dust veil. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z However, as Mr. Clutter often remarked, “an inch more of rain and this country would be paradise—Eden on earth.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-five years after its inception, Public Allies is still going strong, with chapters in Chicago and two dozen other cities and thousands of alumni around the country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I came to this place thinking I’d find some big home in the country, with a mother who’d welcome me with open arms and rescue me from Daddy. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Redcaps and dining-car attendants who wouldn’t think of moving out of the City sometimes go on at great length about country skies they have seen from the windows of trains. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “So he didn’t like his stuff. Free country.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z So, I knew there were people like that in the world, vicious in their hatred and willing to act on their desires to rid our country of anyone who didn’t fit into their neo-fascist ideals. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Next day they went on into northern Dunland, where no men now dwelt, though it was a green and pleasant country. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Packed your bags for a trip to the country?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a Christian country in a Christian civilization. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The chief says by all of us working hard to grow rice, we will soon be able to feed the country. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Khomeini came to power, he founded the Islamic Republic of Iran and introduced Islamic law to the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “How many of you have been watching on TV or reading about the school protests happening around the country?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z From time to time the Chief of Staff, the President, and so on, dressed in sequins and feathers, will entertain the leaders, i.e., the perverts, of all the other countries at balls and parties. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after days of danger, they saw land, but they had better have stayed on the stormy sea for it was the country of the Laestrygons, a people of gigantic size and cannibals too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Uh-uh. You get to drop me off and then you make yourselves scarce till you pick me up in two hours and then we tell Hollis that we spent the afternoon running around the country.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “I am cooking any type of European food, anything my master is eating in his country.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Many more people have arrived by the boatload to our camp while others leave for other countries. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Say she gone find another maid. But who gone work for that lady? Some nappy-headed country maid already living out there, won’t know squat about serving from the left, clearing from the right.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “A grim mood has gripped the country,” the opponent had concluded, barely concealing his own broad grin. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The walls of the room facing the theater were covered with a parade of young people in medieval costumes dancing, playing, and talking with one another in an idyllic country setting. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Does he want to know how we entered the country? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When a disgruntled servant informed Dona Zaida about the changes in her country house, she descended on the ranch in a fury and restored the villa to its former state. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Diphtheria, polio, typhus lurked everywhere, and we had no weapons against them, although living in the country instead of Austin gave us some protection. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They left the pike and took a narrow road through the country and came at last upon a bridge and a dry creek and they crawled down the bank and huddled underneath. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "Why are Americans so stupid? So trusting? They let anybody in this country! Even people who hate them!" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But though his reasons were selfish, it made things much more comfortable for all the smaller countries round Calormen. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z ‘There’s not any place. Except that country club pool.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “Willing to sell out your own country just to save your life.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “You’re a few years away from a trip to the altar, Mattie, and you are too soft to live in the country,” she said. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This banner and two similar ones were particularly provocative because the country was at war with Germany. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z That said, while the country was deprived of my mom's shampoo-commercial-quality tresses, there were also benefits to the Islamic Revolution. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z They drove past the capitol dome of Madison, another perfect snowglobe scene in the falling snow, and then they were off the interstate, and driving down country roads. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He had always had mixed feelings about this, but he had come to accept it as the price of keeping his country safe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The pine woods rustle and the wind cries over open country that is like Dartmoor. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean, leave? Why do we have to run away from our own country? Why can’t we fix it?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I missed my studies with Dr. Trefusis inveterately; for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family; and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “If some action is not taken, the citizens of this country will have to agitate for complete control of all radio broadcasting by the Federal Government.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He was planning to take the money out of the country. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then he hopped down the steps working an imaginary fiddle under his chin to match the country tune that was playing. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “This society is unforgiving, relentless, and the competition is constant,” Andrew Eungi Kim, a sociology professor at Korea University, one of the country’s most elite schools, told me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Given the magnitude—the sheer scale—of the New Jim Crow, one would expect that the War on Drugs would be the top priority of every civil rights organization in the country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He let the whip fall, and the restive mares broke forward at a canter through the town into the open country. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you saw the entire country,” Royal said, “from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the great Niagara Falls and the Rio Grande, would you make a home here, in the woods of Indiana?” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z What happened in Flint Creek, flowing through 50 miles of Alabama cotton country before emptying into Wheeler Reservoir, was typical of the region. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The mediocre American aircraft industry of the 1930s rose to preeminence because of the challenge of World War II. What would it take for the country to prevail against this latest threat? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I was from the Bronx, after all, maybe these country jokers were intimidated. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z She took them through the woods, and then along a road, heavy woods on each side of it, more like a country lane than a road. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This priest must be from the country and if he is he’s opening up new worlds to me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Henry D., whose real name is Henry Dilkes, is a quiet country boy, always polite. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved the friendliness of it and the small-town feel of it, the way she knew everyone out at the country club or at the store, the way the gossip made an easy circle. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To a ten-year-old country boy it was the most beautiful place in the whole wide world, and I took advantage of it all. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “My God, you don’t suppose there is a plot, do you? It’s a perfect time; the country celebrates; if Guilder were about to be five hundred years old, I know I’d attack them.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I chose the blast-off of the Explorer, the satellite that put our country into the space race. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As if a hostage crisis and an Iranian revolution weren't complicated enough, by 1980 the country also found itself at war with Iraq. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Now the long, the silent avenue stretched before them like some gray country of the dead. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “My husband wanted us to move to America but I refused, because the education system is so bad. An international agency rated it the lowest in the developed countries, you know.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “In this country a man may have just one wife.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the shah and his family, now in exile, were desperately looking for a country to take them in. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That summer, just before motoring across country to take up his new post, he stopped in Washington to see Merle Tuve. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Almost every other major city in this country leads the same double life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Mr. Guareschi’s long ambition had been to become dictator of a small country. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It hardly even seems like a foreign country here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I also was trying to learn from the Americans I was meeting around the country, holding roundtables designed to focus on work-family balance, an issue in which I had a keen interest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What did this war mean for “Americas tenth man,” the one in ten citizens who were part of the country’s largest minority group? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That this was a terrorist attack on this country’s best and brightest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I’ve heard too many stories of young girls destroyed by what passes as tourism in this country. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Why were women treated so poorly in our country? Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The holes certainly were rough—“Just right for a lot of vagabonds* like us,” said Bigwig—but the exhausted and those who wander in strange country are not particular about their quarters. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of people from all over the country had flocked to Selma, eager to take part in the second march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z After passing the bar exam, he was all set to take over a country law practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Another sort of statistic often presented nakedly takes this form: the top X percent of the country owns Y percent of its wealth, where X is shockingly small and Y is shockingly big. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lena thinks Saint saved me from the poor country village that I said I was from. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was why God had brought her here, all the way across the country. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I explained to Flaca what happened when me and Rondell finally made it down to Mexico, how once I was actually standing there, looking into the country, I couldn’t go across. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t suppose you remember coming downstairs one night in the country, about three in the morning,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,1939, and launched the start of World War II, Dasch decided his duty was to his native country. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z So German agents funneled money to Indian immigrants in the United States, who used it to fund a revolt in their home country. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This was Cuba, of course, a third-world country that was trying to give its citizens the very things Farmer talked about. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The drive to Bechuanaland was trying, as I was nervous both about the police and the fact that I had never crossed the boundaries of my country before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the country was already waging an undeclared war against French privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “This girl,” I asked, “is she from some country where they persecute Pentecostals or something?” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I still have a copy of that tape and until recently I’d listen to it occasionally driving out in the open country on a drizzly day. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a low level country and under the rain it is even flatter. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Because all four team members lived and trained in different parts of the country, we arrived to the World Championships, held in Paris, France, separately. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The Soviet Union believed that Germany should pay for starting the war and for causing such horrific damage to other countries. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He urged everyone in the Soviet Union to “defend with their lives their freedom, their honour and their country in this patriotic war against German fascism.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But he thought that living in the country might make him lazy, which would be terrible for his work. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tokyo stands on the boundary of three tectonic plates in a country already well known for its seismic instability. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Its report said hunger-caused intellectual disabilities among the young were likely to cripple economic growth even if the country opened to the outside world or united with the South. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Newspapers across the country started carrying a series of articles and profiles on the nine of us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He answered, “They’re all over the country, this here is the Flint version.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z While the rest of Manhattan was out on the town, he'd stayed home to peel apples and listen to country music. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “They are sneaking around, trying to rally and protest something that is perfectly within my right to do. Apparently, your abuela and abuelo didn’t learn that in this country, people are free to buy property.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And he told her about lost sons that couldn’t be helped, and country music, and the confusion of a kind man not knowing which way was right. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A cold wind blowing up from the country below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As a young reporter, he went to many corners of the country, following a story or, in many cases, following a job. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z This mysterious man drove us to the Congolese border, which was jammed with crowds of people trying to get out of the country and head into Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He had acquired the concessions for other mines, was exporting fruit to foreign countries, had founded a construction firm, and Tres Marias, which had greatly expanded, was now the best hacienda in the area. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Go ahead. I wish I had a road atlas for you. The roads in it wouldn’t exist in those days but it might show you the easiest way through the country.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The country is excellent and very rich in gold and copper. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z When did your people come to the country? and What do you think makes Gutshot special? An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Despite the deep divisions in the country, Nixon moved forward with military operations in Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The difficulty of shifting so much established work clear across the country could not have been lost on someone whose habitual preference was to stay put. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For most immigrants, moving to the new country is an act of faith. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Of course, something told me that Farmer was more than a simple country doctor. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “People came from all over the country to visit it.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Alex should probably blame some of his queasiness on nerves but chooses to blame it all on this morning’s appalling breakfast spread—what kind of garbage country eats bland beans on white toast for breakfast? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We pour out into a throng of people from all over the country, and everybody is jabbering about how it’s their first time off the surface. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war,” Rankin said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Vermont is Volvos and antique shops and country inns with cutely contrived names like Quail Hollow Lodge and Fiddlehead Farm Inn. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder,” said he, at the next opportunity of speaking, “whether he is likely to be in this country much longer.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z When a certain leader of the free world tried to impose a ban on Muslims entering the country, I thought of my own family immigrating here, but I also thought a lot about Mamani. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z At the time, I did not know much about my country’s history. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Only by becoming self-reliant will the country be master of its own fate. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Enlistees from Allied countries, like Chinese medical officers and the first Caribbean Regiment, presented themselves to the port’s commanding officers before shipping out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Phnom Penh city wakes early to take advantage of the cool morning breeze before the sun breaks through the haze and invades the country with sweltering heat. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If there’s one thing our immigrant class would like to contribute to this country, it’s fancier dresses and more dancing at your receptions. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z People from all over the country sent the postcards to President Woodrow Wilson, asking him to free Fannie. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Relatives flew in from every corner of the country, but nobody smiled much. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And gradually the idea took root that magic was merely an old country superstition. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It has islands the size of countries and masses of floating vegetation the size of islands. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The spelling of my country estate is a little difficult for those unacquainted with the language.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The Apennine Mountains ran down the middle of the boot-shaped country. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In barely a decade membership grew to four hundred–still all gentlemen, of course–and the Geological was threatening to eclipse the Royal as the premier scientific society in the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I tried not to resent the fact that my friends were all allowed to live in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The country was on its way to building the atomic bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dark though it was, Sophie could see that they were in a country of green fields with neat hedges in between the fields. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It happened at the same time that we were representing children sentenced to life without parole all over the country. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He knew the whole country was watching the trial that was finally under way. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You can tell she wasn’t born in this country,” she said. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z About seven-thirty we had dinner and watched the country through the open window in the diner. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z This, now, looked like a country ready to enter the Ekumenical Age. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Whenever the newscaster mentioned a country with a particularly musical name, he’d repeat it or make a rhyme of it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Now we are wondering whether nuclear weapons will proliferate around the world by the same often-violent process, from the eight countries that presently possess them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While I was trying to think up an excuse to leave, Dad leaned forward and predicted, “Dwight David Eisenhower will be the last good president this country will have for a very, very long time.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When he had left Hobbiton he had wandered off aimlessly, along the Road or in the country on either side; but somehow he had steered all the time towards Rivendell. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The girl was shy and did not look at him, but he could tell that she was beyond doubt the most beautiful girl in that part of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Even better, maybe I’d just send her to a different country, a different continent. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Kennedy assured the press that his goal was “to bring Americans home” and “permit the South Vietnamese to maintain themselves as a free and independent country.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z After all, our dictator was running a free country. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And maybe the dawns will be less harrowing in that country for which I shortly depart. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z According to tradition they were: “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tahlequah was a small country town with a population of about eight hundred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Any attempt to set off across country at once would only make matters worse: half the inhabitants would follow them, to see what they were up to, and to prevent them from trespassing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z With those heavy words, I bade farewell to Horatio, to the country of my birth, and lately the place of love and its companion, loss. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Maybe people voted in other parts of the country too, but it couldn’t be the way it was in Brooklyn, thought Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s against the law to have two wives in this country,” said Moon Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He drinks his tea in the morning, signs for the dole at the Labour Exchange, reads the papers at the Carnegie Library, goes for his long walks far into the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I was hearing about progress being made across the country for my people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I kind of can’t stop thinking about you all sunburned and pretty sitting out there in the country. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “She’s just interested in a connection with someone from her own country.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We were walking one evening down a winding country road. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Myron says he spent his life traveling around the country too busy to see it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His “bums” comment made newspaper headlines across the country and brought angry crowds onto streets and campuses in protest. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Again, such a country would have to be put together piece by piece, and its location would have to be chosen with care. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And few places in the country were as chaotic as Osage County, where the unwritten codes of the West, the traditions that bound communities, had unraveled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Did you know there’s a country with officially designated ‘enchanted places’?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z What have my people done to this country to deserve this? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was very interested in the diet of these countries. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I had been in the country four months. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Taliban had risen from eastern Afghanistan and had marched through the country, slowly gaining control. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He was all the way on the other side of the country, but he kept calling me. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The elimination of judicial discretion through mandatory sentencing laws has forced judges to impose sentences for drug crimes that are often longer than those imposed for violent crimes in many countries around the world. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Proud that I lived in a country that would go this far to bring justice to a Little Rock girl like me, but sad that they had to go to such great lengths. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z President Washington was trying to keep America at peace with both countries. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mister, did you catch the frogs from the ponds in the country or do you raise them? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see myself hanging around Wilmington working at a 7-Eleven, gigging in a pop band that played the VEW and other seedy country joints, which is what I was doing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Charles,” said Francis, jingling his car keys nervously, “we stopped by because we’re driving out to the country. Thought it might be nice to get away for a while. Do you want to come?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Not everyone agreed with her father’s thoughts on how to keep the country safe. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The coffeehouse and the house on Zelverstraat had been nothing more than stage sets, used to fleece fools from the country. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Back in the 1940s, there were over a hundred thousand kilometers of road in the country. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t bear to have it simply chopped up for firewood, so he had part of the timber made into a wardrobe, which ho put in his big house in the country. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Many of those friends were arrested. Some, like Tío Carlos, left the country. Some were killed.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z If everyone felt that way, we would have stayed in our home, a whole country, safe and truly free. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I know going into another country is wrong. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. He didn’t live in this country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed this with a speedy trip around the world, covering twenty-five countries in thirty-eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither had a license to practice in Peru, and at one point both Jim and Farmer had been threatened with expulsion from the country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Like all educated people in Protestant countries, he believes that the Earth goes round the sun. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In fact, Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Since Leper hadn’t been overseas the enemy must have been in this country. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In order for that to happen, she would have to be one of the top four saber fencers in the country at the end of the season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I asked my father this, and he told me that life was even worse for women in Afghanistan, where a group called the Taliban had taken over the country. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Exactly a year before, the Soviets had begun moving troops over the borders into the country. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I prayed Mr. Kennel would ring the bell, so I could walk across the yard without everyone staring at me like they were watching a two-headed pig at the country fair. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Traveling for months, Fannie spoke at union halls across the country. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To raise more money, Bennett has followed a grapevine of affluent evangelicals around the country, winding up even in places where evangelicals would have been a rarity just a few decades ago. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He was convinced that a period of dictatorship was necessary to bring the country back into the fold it never should have left. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia tries to shake off her doubts, but all she sees is a country living on slogans and agitation, a people always on the brink of war. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve traveled to other black cities in black countries all over the black continent. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “This is terrible ghost country, where a human being works her life away,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z No way out; the country rang with talk of it. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Tortoise had become a farmer, and had done nothing but grow crops; Snail, by contrast, had become a trader, and had many trading posts in all parts of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Almost two years had passed since we had arrived in the U.S., and I was still marveling at the size of this country, its vastness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So the point is that Iran is not the same country as Iraq. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “If it were merely a fine house richly furnished,” said she, “I should not care about it myself; but the grounds are delightful. They have some of the finest woods in the country.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The third night, the blue ticks were tied by two black and tan hounds from the bayou country of Louisiana. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no question about it: for the sort of country we lived in, a good dog around the place was sometimes worth more than two or three men. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until they were well through the village and out into the open country did they stop to rest and consider what they should do. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “It keeps her out of the poor farm, and it gives me a quiet day in the country. That’s a fair swap.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z In a country that preaches the virtues of democracy, one could reasonably assume that being stripped of basic political rights would be treated by judges and court personnel as a serious matter indeed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In 1904, Bigheart sent a zealous young lawyer named John Palmer across the country “to keep his finger on the Washington pulse.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Teller produced the first draft and brought it to Lawrence’s home on the Sunday before Election Day, just as Ernest was bidding farewell to guests with whom he had shared a liquor-fueled country club outing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “And there has never been a country big enough to hold the elephant that Hand Clap has seen,” Lefty laughed. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I wrapped, logged, and put the postage on packages of jewelry, which went to stores throughout the country. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Throughout its history, however, the country’s majority population has struggled with how to accept different cultures and cultural perspectives of different minority populations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The structure and organization of early African societies in this country fascinated me very much and greatly influenced the evolution of my political outlook. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Such pleas, inevitably, were ignored, and members of Congress would gather in wood-paneled committee rooms and spend hours examining in minute detail the Osage’s expenditures, as if the country’s security were at stake. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "Couldn't we go off in the country for a while?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z "But she loves this country, even after all that. It took her in. When you move here from a refugee camp, you see things differently, I guess." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The boys on the Under Fifteens felt the conflict between the two worlds more strongly than their younger siblings, if only because they had spent more time in their home countries. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The majority of imported goods were brought into the country through New York City's port. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The army had moved all day in enemy country and they had not even known what was around the next bend. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were African capitals of countries not far from Zimbabwe. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z But then, as the moment of introduction grew nearer, from across the country the people came. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One general theory for the origin of aids goes at, during the late nineteen-sixties, a new and crative business grew up in Africa, the export of primates to industrialized countries for use in medical research. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A black man beat a white man to death? Where, in this country?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have raised us in our own country to the best of her ability. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "We must support our country, especially now, in time of war, and that means supporting our leaders." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z When he was breathing almost normally, he began to wonder what he was doing sitting in the middle of a woods in Blue Ridge country. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was culture shock in my own country. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z When they reached the last of the countries in Africa, Rohin said he wanted to watch cartoons, telling Miranda to watch them with him. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z He wants to be in his old country as it turns into a better country. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s the room where FDR once recorded his fireside chats, and Alex is going to walk in there and make a speech and hope the country doesn’t hate him for the truth. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Not one mouth uttered a sound as the realization came home that their own country had deserted them, that Smyrna now had no government, that there was nothing between them and the advancing Turks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Your sister said he was a good poker player. I guess he travels to all the Indian casinos in the country.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z More than fifty years had passed since blacks around the country joined John Jones and his abolitionist friends in celebrating the end of slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She told him where he was and that the people of the country were kind to luckless wanderers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time, when something provoked him to exclaim, “These Uncle Toms make me think about how the Prophet Jesus was criticized in his own country!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so afraid of the Youns taking over our country that she was paranoid the Youns would populate Cambodia and in a few years the country would become no more than a Youn colony. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she went straight through the town and turned left at its farthest end, along a tree-lined walk that turned into a country road farther on and passed the cemetery, Beechnut Park. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “You are hungry and honest, that is very rare in this country. Is that not so?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Democratic Party’s strongest asset lay in the weariness of war throughout the country. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon afterward, Markus Wolf retreated to his country home, far away from the angry crowds in East Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “To get the word male out of the Constitution cost the women of the country...years of pauseless campaigning,” she later wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Tell me, why is it that your race is driven from every country whose shores you land on? Why can you never find a place that will take you?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Once this proved successful and churches across the country were preaching the ASL’s message, the organization turned its main efforts to getting politicians elected to support its cause. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They generally appear both poorer and kindlier; the women are wearing country dresses and the men seem uncomfortable in their Sunday clothes. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In college, she was afraid and scornful when dark-skinned foreign students from countries like Turkey and India found her attractive. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What about all these other kids?” said Sierra, gesturing to the tables filled with the country’s top young bibliophiles. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a few days earlier, across the country, there was another tragic example of the stakes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z From the woodlot the whole country looked white, as if it had been painted to match the church and the houses around it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Forget this. I shoulda known you weren’t up for it. Just a couple country boys, right? You like everything straight and simple.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I can no longer be your president but I will never leave my people or our country. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But in such a huge country, a millimeter could mean days of travel. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They'd probably want nothing to do with me once they learned I technically wasn't allowed to be living in the country. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If we made up the perfect country Minerva keeps planning, I would fit in perfectly. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to discuss a trouble spot of increasing concern to the United States: a mountainous, heavily forested country winding more than a thousand miles along the coast of Southeast Asia. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was still trying to convince my mom that the move away from the country of our birth, away from all our friends and family, would be worth it in the end. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In many countries it was a capital offense for anyone but the official astrologer to read the portents in the skies: a good way to overthrow a regime was to predict its downfall. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We did not close down African schools throughout the country nor did we rid ourselves of the Bantu Education Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He said to remember that my father and my uncle were heroes who had liberated our country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z How could we really be safe if we were alone, in a strange country? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z When the first handful of Norwegians showed up on the shores of Iceland in the ninth century, the papar decided the country had become too crowded—even though it was still all but uninhabited. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z People across the country were horrified by the violence and charged the government with complicity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember thinking about the strangeness of this country: it is very cold outside and extremely hot inside. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z While Senator Trueba attempted to alter his country’s destiny, his wife sailed masterfully through the agitated seas of social life and the other, more surprising ones of her spiritual voyage. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Was he going to continue stumbling all around the country, hesitating, bumbling, waiting week after week with an army mired down in disease-infested marshes? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Never did I seriously consider the possibility that a new racial caste system was operating in this country. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I need to know that you understand that Nigeria is a high-risk country. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Not far from there was the country of the warrior women, the Amazons—the daughters, strangely enough, of that most peace-loving nymph, sweet Harmony. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When my mom and dad had left behind their entire country to give me a better life, they didn't write angsty poetry on the walls before they made their departure. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Matthias put his head in his hands, imagining the havoc these low creatures were about to wreak on his country’s capital. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It is impossible to be in this high spinal country without giving thought to the first men who crossed it, the French explorers, the Lewis and Clark men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not true. Things are changing in villages all over the country, even here.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Would they be taken to a refugee camp somewhere, maybe in a different country? Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I warned him that if he failed to call the con-vention we would stage the country’s most massive three-day strike ever, beginning on May 29. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The country he had left thirty years ago had been a realistic place. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z And anyway, when you join the army or navy in any country, you're paid to risk your life. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Matt also learned that the country of Opium was called Dreamland here. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, the Nazi regime was encouraging Germans living outside of the country to return to their homeland. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Even the air she is breathing into her lungs is unmistakably crisp country air, with not a hint of London smog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And then on that day when the cousin had commended the country wife and laughed at the city wife, that had passed which could not be forgiven. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z In cities and towns all over the country, more than two million people gathered for marches and demonstrations. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The massacre at Sharpeville created a new situation in the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, Met Bong describes the Youns as savages who are bent on taking over our country and our people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked like they were returning from nothing more serious than an afternoon’s drive in the country. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Family, friends, classmates, school, city, state, country. Seven circles.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Everyone had read of the symptoms that were not supposed to cause any concern—the same symptoms that were spreading from town to town throughout the country. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This “next year country” makes for many sleepless nights for this particular farmer. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Everything looked...well, it looked like the country. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “You know there’s some bad feeling in this country toward Muslims, and all this negative news these days.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In fact, so-called differential pricing was standard in the world of large drug companies; Americans paid more for their products than people in any other country. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Burger replied, "I understand he gave his life for his country." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was breathing heavily, since principals and dictators of small countries aren’t used to running. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And he appointed one of the laborers and his wife and children to live in the country house and to care for the two old opium dreamers. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z This looks like the kind of place the royal family of another country might stay if they were visiting America. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It was such a pipe that made South Africa the most productive diamond mining country in the world, but there may be others even bigger that we don’t know about. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z During a radio interview in Fort Lauderdale, one caller told him, referring to the boats of Haitian refugees fleeing the violence and poverty, “We can’t have Haitians coming into our country.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After the vehicles were registered in the name of state entities, private drivers were hired, and wanderers like Shin were offered low-cost, no-questions- asked transport around much of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z To say that some place is the worst motel in the country is, of course, to set oneself up for considerable challenge. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “If the track is fast like it was today for next Saturday’s big race, we’ll win as far as a country boy can throw an apple,” he said. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A month ago, I’d never dreamed of driving across the country to look at colleges without even being invited. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “America is the reason many other countries will not recognize us; America is the stumbling block,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Blanca stayed behind in the country with her parents for a few more days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The first tremor of the earthquake lasted nearly a minute and was the strongest that had ever been recorded in that country of catastrophes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I drew the two of them, dividing countries like children dividing toys. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z ‘I is not galloping to any human bean country,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt the heat, the foul stink from Ball’s Wharf, and the country’s refusal to join with France were discussed and argued over at length. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “I keep thinking what an experience it would be to stay in it—go West and watch the building of the country, see how much of the Old West mythology is true.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “If there is one chance in ten that he’ll be one of the top physicists in the country, I’ll take that chance,” he declared in approving Lawrence’s promotion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By the 1800s, hundreds of thousands of saloons had sprung up throughout the country. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I asked Dr. Tamba why it was dark so early in this country. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But there is increasing recognition that this good-institutions view is incomplete—not wrong, just incomplete—and that other important factors need addressing if poor countries are to become rich. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was the excitement of fishing in muddy country creeks with my grandpa on cloudy days. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be pleasant to be able to say of my travels with Charley, “I went out to find the truth about my country and I found it.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Both presidents were great patriots and signers of the Declaration of Independence, and it is a majestic coincidence that they would both die on the day all Americans celebrate as the birth of this country. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But Nass’s life was changed by a fatal accident that took place in Utah, when his brother, traveling across country, was killed by a drunk driver. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z So many of my people today are languishing in refugee camps, belonging to no country, always in limbo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There was every size from a variety of countries—America, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, and others. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Well, people in this country are too wasteful. It’s my way of recycling.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The morning was passing towards noon, and still the Company wandered and scrambled in a barren country of red stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We later heard that the boy was taken out of the country for surgery and that his eye was to be replaced by a cat s eye or something. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z If I was going to become a politician and work for my country, I told God, I would have to at least be able to see over the podium. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was at home, with the country convulsing in turmoil and protest. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I had forgotten how rich and beautiful is the countryside—the deep topsoil, the wealth of great trees, the lake country of Michigan handsome as a well- made woman, and dressed and jeweled. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She didn’t have a gnat’s chance after Loma stormed into the store and gave her daddy down the country, blessing him out right in front of Papa, Uncle Camp, me, and two customers. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Its per capita rate of violent crime made it the second most dangerous city in America, but its citizens still paid some of the highest rents in the country. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “It’s a free country. White people can have colored friends.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z But it ain’t the country home with yellow shutters and white picket fence that I pictured. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A year later he became director of WHO’s HIV/AIDS department, focusing on initiatives to help poor countries scale up their treatment, prevention, and care programs. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z You’ll be people without a country, without a home, because the U.S. will never truly accept you. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z While he cooked, Lawrence talked about life down in the country. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Without intending to do so, wealthy donor countries injected a kind of adrenaline rush into the grubby world of North Korean street trading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I was born in Nicaragua, a country where a communist regime was implanted, after Somoza lost his presidency. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Bebe had been in the country only two years by the time her baby was born, and in Cleveland for barely one. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Tallmadge tells about “a country girl,” sent into Philadelphia supposedly to sell eggs but told to “obtain some information respecting the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In my father's study there was a large globe with all the countries of the world running around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes crosses into the United States in one of the largest immigrant waves in the country’s history. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Can’t one cousin visit another cousin? It’s a lonely country. Maybe I missed the sight of your monkey’s face.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z All the noble aspects of the sacrificial animals had gone, with their deaths, into Mwan s country. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Scientists speak out against the use of certain neonicotinoids, and some countries limit or ban their use on crops, but the rate of collapse remains unchanged. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As the countries scrolled by, they crossed mountains, wonders of the world, going faster and faster until monsters appeared far below them. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Coarse country people looking for a field hand. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He took her for rides in an old gray Oldsmobile—to the country, to drive-in movies—and they sat over bad coffee in certain dime stores where they were not likely to be recognized. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Believe me, we had a very long time to listen to the four-wheel-drive transmission and every bump in the road for the full length of two entire countries. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it okay for them to be in a country that is being embargoed? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In this country, for example, we have a multiparty system at present, but so far as the non-Europeans are concerned this is the most vicious despotism that you could think of. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I can visit the World Travel Arena downtown, where Deckers and guests can experience the cultures and environments of different countries and cities. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But these men were struggling to keep their departments functioning and had little spare time to gather information or write reports, even for the leader of the country. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Riding in open country about ten miles south of Washington, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold would soon reach their own safe house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z However, World Bank members, who came from many countries to meet in Moscow, were divided about the allocation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The country to the south was empty and silent,” Calloway wrote. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Zanesville syndicate looked at all the best natural qualities of the country and decided to attribute them to Odessa whether they were there or not. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d chosen not to escape a country heading into civil war. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She tried to imagine the inhabitants of the ruined house in their new country, but she knew too little about it. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fairbain asked, "What is the native country of Pope John Paul Eye Eye?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The narrow country roads were getting jammed, and they didn’t want to get stuck in traffic. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Ash was momentarily astonished, for the huntress had never done that before, though it was the customary farewell practiced by the people in that country, and her cheeks burned. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We walked country roads all the way home. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I want to get out to the country,” she said. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and strong, and simple, and seem full of nice qualities. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She left her family, her country, her father, for Stephen Kellner. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It took most of her savings, but a bus across the country would take days. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some Green Police don't speak it at all, and they're annoyed when we’re not fluent in German, as if we should have been preparing our entire lives for the day when they invaded our country. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z A visitor’s visa grants you entry into the country for a temporary period of time. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Having grown up in a country ruled by others, she found it all familiar. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On one occasion on the eve of the elections, Don Apolinar Moscote returned from one of his frequent trips worried about the political situation in the country. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He reminded us that Dwayne Slater had made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, had died for all of us, before the white-gloved soldiers stepped forward to fold the Stars and Stripes covering the casket. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The article was inspiring and many teachers throughout the country responded by inviting us to speak at their schools. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “My family has a big turkey dinner. At my grandma’s house. Out in the country.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The rains were heavy again that year and there was much growth throughout the country, but in Snail’s fields only weeds grew. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “We have no relatives in this country,” Ashima informs the guidance counselor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To clothe the migrants, he circumvents Mexican Customs, which inspects cars and confiscates used clothing coming into the country, in what Padre Leo believes is an attempt to protect Mexican clothing manufacturers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “The whole country was lighted by a searing light with the intensity many times that of the midday sun,” recalled General Farrell. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hoover became the bureau’s acting director, he created the Identification Division, a central repository for the fingerprints of arrested criminals from around the country. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The trouble was that there was nowhere to hide in the gardens of the comfortable houses along this road, and there was still no sign of open country. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Councilman Hoede lost a great deal of blood, but he’s in the same state as these men. He’s been removed to the country with his family and the staff from his house.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z How can a country like that continue to wage war against England? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I think of the day we sang together, and what she said about wanting to help her country. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Big Tony’s truck rumbled up a two-lane country road. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I, meanwhile, reached out to the country’s most powerful CEOs, generating commitments to hire a significant number of veterans and military spouses. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Such an honor to meet you, sir. It is my pleasure, Elector, to do what I can for our country.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A web search for classical music from a particular country may turn up some sound clips. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The country was divided up into seven regions: Midwest, Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Southwest, Mountain, and Pacific. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z At sunup on any given day, it seems as uninhabited as a country graveyard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But Adolf Hitler was hell-bent on rearming his country despite the Treaty of Versailles. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes a group of countries disapproves of what another country is doing, and they refuse to trade or do business with that country until the situation improves. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Everyone else seemed to want him for our country. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "Well," he said casually, "perhaps you're not such a bad sort after all, for a country wight." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Besides, roads change, increase, are widened or abandoned so often in our country that one must buy road maps like daily newspapers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z That child’s name was David Lacks, but everyone called him Day, because in the Lacks country drawl, house sounds like byse, and David sounds like Day. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They’ll be shipped across the country at the end of this month, and on April first there’s to be a special ceremony at the Science Museum in London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He shifted the pack higher on his shoulders and looked out over the wasted country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Edward Snowden is a coward, he is a traitor, and he has betrayed his country.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ford worried about how many he could get out of the country. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Fischer, in effect, had honored the country of Iceland by playing there in 1972, and now he was in trouble. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I can't imagine that there are many oyster shells in Afghanistan either, since the country doesn't touch the ocean. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We had eaten our picnic standing at a plank table in a country churchyard. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A few days before the conference was to begin, fifty- two leaders around the country were banned from attending any meetings or gatherings for six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In Not Without My Daughter, Sally Field plays an American woman trapped in Iran with a psycho husband who won’t allow her to leave the country with their young daughter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Where the hell I put that.. . You know other countries be buying her for twenty-five dollars, sometimes fifty? Her family didn’t get no money out of it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There's an international treaty saying no country can lay claim to anything that's not on Earth. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z "But you're from another country, so it's different for you. I bet you eat different foods and speak a different language and all that. You're not plain old American." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Now that she had run away and seen a bit of the country, Cora wasn’t sure the document described anything real at all. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now, what I want to know is if you guys think there is liberty and justice for all in this country. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s on a satellite country station, which somehow seems obscene. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Representing the marriage of old-world traditions with the apple-pie aspirations of the new country, she took crown after crown. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She snorts and says that it’s out of the kindness of her heart that she lives in this backwater town and helps these country people and that one day she’ll reap her just reward. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The doorbell rings a long bing-bong, fine and fancy for this big mansion out in the country. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Look sister, we know the facts: you spent the first twenty-one years of your life in the lynching country, in a county whose population is two-thirds agricultural Negro. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z With due respect for the fine work of other papers, I’m confident the reporting represented in these pages takes the discussion of class in our country to a new level. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She liked seeing the young, important Kennedy families, and in her way, she liked the sadness of the country weeping for them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Outside Syria, lots of different countries are involved: Russia and the UK, Saudi Arabia and France, Iran, the United States. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z If the crew made mistakes, we would make not only ourselves look ridiculous, but also our whole country. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now there is a country lout for you, pigtail and all!” he called out to the bystanders. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z We walked eighteen miles to Front Royal, where my wife was to pick us up in two days if she managed to find her way by car from New Hampshire in an unfamiliar country. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These townsmen enjoyed a degree of freedom that was unknown to their country cousins. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z Even if we change the probability to one in a million for such a predictive dream, we’ll still get huge numbers of them by chance alone in a country the size of the United States. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s steel country, anthracite country, a place full of holes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z How they taught her to honor where she was from but to love and embrace the customs of the new country. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Chaos continued to rule in our country when, two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and killed Oswald as police led him through the basement of the Dallas jail. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She claims it, this beautiful country with its beautiful mountains and splendid beaches—all the copy we read in the tourist brochures. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “These kids think everything is perfect here. What do they know about emigrating from your home and trying to manage in a new country?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Took him sixteen years to get that farm to where it was paying. It’s all dairy country up there now. Then it wasn’t. Then it was . . . nice.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was so beautifully dressed...there was no country informality about his attire at all.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As if the place wasn’t smelly enough already with all those country gnomes lumbering around the place. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They don’t ship their vegetables and meat across the country or across the globe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z "The camp is full of ears. Besides, I want to ride out and taste this country of yours." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He was very famous in my country,” Qendrim explained as he thumbed through the book one afternoon. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “Who is Mr. Kirwin? Why am I to give an account of myself? Is not this a free country?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked about imploringly for help in defending his country’s future against the obnoxious calumnies of this sly and sinful assailant. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Everyone in the whole country is listening in, even though it’s illegal to do so. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z We were living in New York State, out in the country, and the dogs were free to race through the forest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “But there has never been a publication like this in the history of the country,” Judge Murray Gurfein, a recent Nixon appointee, pointed out. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The two began kicking around the country together. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And everywhere people asked him why he was walking through the country. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The country that Bobby had in mind to go to was the Philippines, although other than Torre he told no one of his intended destination. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I’ve traveled across the country doing interviews about my experience, and the surprising thing—compared to other book publicity I’ve done—is that I don’t get tired of it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The lights hanging slack overhead, the soft ground underneath and the canvas wall that faintly blew in and out, like cheeks puffed with air, made for the feeling of a country fair. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyone who left the country could not come back and be respected by his friends, his family, his fellow villagers, unless he went through a special ceremony. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Since his arrival in the country, he had made various public statements that infuriated many black people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In a few hours the country had split into two irreconcilable groups, a division that began to spread within every family in the land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The point is that we have a country here where the past cannot keep a good man in chains, and that's the nature of the war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the morning following our arrival, I went downstairs to the cafeteria, where fifty-seven children from twenty-three countries were waiting to have breakfast and to begin the United Nations First International Children’s Parliament. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z In fact, most jurisdictions in the country had no mechanism for reporting whether a driver had been on a phone, even talking, let alone texting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z MK had been slowly infiltrating men back into the country with forged identity documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandand Rice, the preeminent sports- writer in the country, accused him of gross overconfidence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows that there are Jesuit missionaries in the country who are said to be performing miracles, but he suspects they are frauds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I think about Constantine, after living fifty years in the country, sitting in a tiny apartment in Chicago. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z It was all sandy pine country full of heather. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z But this was a poor point, low ground; there was brush country ahead and he could not see clearly. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As a country, we’d endured the shock and tragedy of the terror attacks of 9/11. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Auntie Alice and I have grown pretty close, for two people who live on opposite sides of the country. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But this wasn’t about security; it was about profitability, the country as corporation. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z American women still didn’t have any way to serve their country in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Its failure was a precursor to the falls that would later inevitably take place all over the country, on Wall Street in New York and State Street in Boston. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Here I am in my zoot suit, thinking how country everybody looks compared to me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Buffon’s observations found surprisingly eager support among other writers, especially those whose conclusions were not complicated by actual familiarity with the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When he’s not looking for work Dad goes for long walks, miles into the country. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In the touchy atmosphere of a country under embargo, you have to be careful not to step on any toes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Across the street a crowd of reporters, photographers and TV cameramen from all over the country watched the tense scene as they stood clustered behind a police barrier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we would be blown off course and land in a country without New York or people who bought and sold children. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Visit any neighborhood where there are immigrants, and you’ll see shops that sell food from the home country—pastas from Italy, kielbasa sausages from Poland, curry spices from India. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They may have had a hard row of it, but even those kids from other countries knew more about the history of our nation than I did. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In Naima’s village, on International Mother Language Day, when the whole country celebrated the beauty of their Bangla language, the leaders gave a prize to the girl who painted the best alpanas. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this is a free country only for Americans? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A popular song across the country in the late 1950’s was Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons,” where he sang about a miner owing his soul to the company store. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Do not worry, ships from all countries are out looking for us. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The comments about him depicted a man who would not simply take the country in a different direction but would threaten its very sanctity, its very core. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Your credentials from your home country don’t matter. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A lot of names for such a little boy—the surnames of the country's three liberators! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad visited the Muslim countries, and upon his return he directed that we would begin calling our temples “mosques.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But we were standing then in a different area of the house, the frozen-in-time, museum-like part of the place, where symbolism lived and mattered, where the country's old bones were on display. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The country was extremely backward: people used wooden plows and lived on a very simple diet supplemented by home-brewed beer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You may be assured that your sacrifice has been a boon and a solace to your country. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She wondered how many other statues around the country were secretly automatons, waiting to be triggered. 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