| 单词 | divide |
| 例句 | He divided the salad into two plates and said, “Eat, child.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It’s enough to tell you that we’ve divided many things like meat and fats and oils and are frying, our own potatoes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “A more conservative association was wanted. And now if we divide and Mrs. Stanton shall be deposed from the presidency you virtually degrade her.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone’s joy seemed to double it? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The first thing they did at Bush Hill was to divide the chores. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We played swimming games for a few minutes, then divided into two teams for an ambush game. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z You must, then, understand how in recent times, when the Empire began to be driven out of Italy and the Pope began to win more prestige in temporal affairs, Italy was divided into many states. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z This opulent sobriety betrayed the divided nature of the school, just as in a different way the two rivers that it straddled did. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Women who walked over the “heath” and read morocco-bound books and had two last names divided by a hyphen. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Cold War wasn’t happening just in the skies above Korea or in a Europe that was being divided into a Soviet-allied East and a US-friendly West. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Shin learned to add and subtract, but not to multiply and divide. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She divided their long hair into wisps, combed each wisp with a wet comb and wound it tightly on a bit of rag. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they stop dividing and begin to die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z All around were great big cages divided up by thick, green, iron bars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Gitl had been working in the sorting shed, where mountains of clothes and shoes, mounds of books and toys and household goods from the suitcases and bags were divided up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will all contribute equally to our new city, as it should be. The factions have divided us, but now we will be united. Now, and forever.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Members of the Loyal League divided the petitions by state, sewed the pages together, and decorated the scrolls with colored ribbons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And there was an even more serious problem, one filled with a bitter irony that exposed the class divide in black America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It’s like everyone has divided into camps, all with their own theories on what course of action to take. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The ghouls divided into two factions: there were those who felt that the vanishing of their friends was meaningless, and those who believed that something, probably the night-gaunts, was out to get them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It could divide evenly among her hundred sentinels, or shift between them in any configuration, honing in where attention was required and receding where it wasn’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Geneva Accords, which officially ended France’s eight-year war in Vietnam, temporarily divided the country into North and South. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I recalled the map I had drawn for the NKVD, and then Stalin and Hitler dividing up Europe. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Many of these homes had begun life as single-family dwellings and about half remained such, the others having been divided into doubles or triples. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her weekends home were always divided between visits with her high school friends and our cousins and other relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z That, in combination with the advent of the euro as a common currency, has created a single economic zone out of a region once divided by an Iron Curtain. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z You couldn’t divide a can of applesauce evenly among all the people in the city. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Stories are also divided into paragraphs, chapters, stanzas, scenes, or episodes, each with their own endings, to help us keep track of things and understand what is going on. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z On the basis of differences among the tools and other remains found there, scholars have divided up the “cavemen” into several groups, each named after a characteristic site. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I divided my share exactly down the middle. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We ran over to the far edge of the blacktop, where a strip of pebbles divided the ground into School and Not-School. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z One proposed that the officer simply divide the food evenly among the seventy-five inmates on the floor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I did feel different: larger, fuller, more complete, no longer divided against myself—compulsion to comply against wish to refuse. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z With all her moths divided among so few rooms, she was able to study each person from multiple vantage points and take in every detail of them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The dirty tricks of making squared infinitesimals disappear and then dividing by zero to get a derivative were no longer necessary. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There was a pale green curtain, die same color as my gown, that could be pulled across the table, dividing my upper and lower halves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The boys’ groups divided into platoons for war games, and they hunted down the “enemy.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh! It’s any number up, and zero over. It’s any number divided by zero!” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z L’Hôpital’s rule states that the value of the fraction was equal to the derivative of the top expression divided by the derivative of the bottom expression. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Europeans won military victories in New England, historians say, partly because they were divided among themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is six stories high, with wide windows arranged into a grid, divided by pillars of brick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I divided them into two layers separated by cotton. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Truman students have a strong sense of being on the wrong side of a divide even without knowing the full dimensions of it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Vertical bar lines divide the staff into short sections called measures or bars. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z "Keep the fishpaste," said his traveling companion, and he rapidly divided the remaining food into two equal piles. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 Dome was an angry and divided land, and Prince Doran’s hold on it was not as firm as it might be. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their attention was divided a good chunk of the day even within the media space. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was a cottage, although the Wart could not notice this at the time, which was divided into two bits. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z By midmorning they were within Oakwald Forest, the wood that surrounded Endovier and served as a continental divide between the “civilized” countries of the East and the uncharted lands of the West. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Mary divided the contents of each tube into two, giving them room to grow, and within twenty-four hours, they’d doubled again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A long high scream of orders, and the force divided itself into two: one to keep off the witches, the bigger part to overcome the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z With great discretion she divided up her clothing among the servants and the followers she always had, keeping only what she absolutely needed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The island, he said, is rapidly dividing into two types of people: “the haves and the have-mores.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Ice was standing near the little wall that divided one roof from the other. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Deborah and Theresa sat aside and divided the school supplies they had bought in town the day before. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The Anglicans, the most fearless and consistent critics of the new policy, had a divided policy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned the hen in the barn on my father’s workbench, cut it up into frying-size pieces, and divided it evenly into two piles, one for him, one for me. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z That genome tells cells when to grow and divide and makes sure they do their jobs, whether that’s controlling your heartbeat or helping your brain understand the words on this page. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z At last they reached a spot where the road divided. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will now divide,” Snape went on, “into pairs. One partner will attempt to jinx the other without speaking. The other will attempt to repel the jinx in equal silence. Carry on.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But he claimed that his loyalties were divided. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Northeastern Indians were appalled by the European propensity to divide themselves into social classes, with those on the lower rungs of the hierarchy compelled to defer to those on the upper. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One more street passed, and we had lost them; the Captain of the Marine company called to Corporal Craigie and demanded that we divide two lanes between us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It’s more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z A common theme in the press was that the nation—once divided by war—was now unified in hoping that Garfield recovered. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The majority of students were white, and again there was a racial divide. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They didn’t divide, because her mind would not divide. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z My mother directed the arrangement of the buckets and burners into orderly rows and divided the fuel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She may have respected Woodhull, but she also realized that tensions were rising and the debate was dividing the women’s movement and weakening the National Woman Suffrage Association. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Since beats normally get divided into halves and quarters, this is the easiest way for composers to write beats that are divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The officer doing the “split” divides incoming inmates into two contingents that line up on either side of the room’s periphery and wait their turn on the serving line. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He raised his head and our eyes met for an instant in the glass, then I lowered mine to the blazing white line that divided the highway. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The only one that is commonly used is triplets, which divide a note length into equal thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z With a half-inch yardstick we can divide the foot-long side of the square into 24 segments, each half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The second part of my chores, the enjoying part, is divided into brushing the animals, tending to their hoofs, and my favourite part, helping make ’em comforted by keeping the horseflies off of’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Rocks are divided into quite separate units known as systems, series, and stages. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Adding to the cultural divide, my fellow students were pretty well off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When you have an infinity in an expression, or when you divide by zero, all the mathematical operations—even those as simple as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division—go out the window. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Slowly it divided in the middle and swung outwards inch by inch, until both doors lay back against the wall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z For years, the beach had been divided into black and white sections. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The transition roughly coincides with the transition between dry and wet seasons—the time when the Milky Way releases life-giving water to Pacha Mama, Mother Earth—and divides the heavens into four quar- ters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For more advanced groups, try dividing into three parts, with the melody in one part and sung ostinati in the other groups. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Some tried to count flowers to determine which side was going to win, but the room seemed evenly divided between those wearing red and yellow roses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z They had divided their forces, I learned: some remained on the eastern borders, not far from the Greenway, and some invaded the Shire from the south. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z If such an enzyme existed, Kornberg reasoned, the easiest place to find it would be in an organism that was dividing rapidly—E. coli during its furious phase of growth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Chief Joyi railed against the white man, who he believed had deliberately sundered the Xhosa tribe, dividing brother from brother. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The curtain was still dividing the room and when I pult it aside, I was surprised to see Ma standing there without no clothes on. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Well, now my history is divided into two sections: BD and AD. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z For much of the last century most Mayanists believed that at its height—200 to 900 a.d., roughly speaking—the Maya realm was divided into a hugger-mugger of more or less equivalent city-states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Although Roosevelt respected Rondon, he disagreed with him, insisting that the Americans’ food rations now be divided evenly among everyone despite the fact that they were already low. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She found a game trail that meandered until it met a wide grassland divided by a stream. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We divide into two lines again, one on either side of the stage, graceful and smiling, and then disappear behind the curtains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When the watches were divided, Captain Prince stood on the quarter-deck and spoke to the crew. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Chairs lined the walls, divided evenly by magazine tables, and there was the usual rubber tree expiring in the corner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There the guests were divided into teams, then given cipher messages that told them where to seek out the next course. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The mission was well funded with a total of $172,200 divided between the two teams. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner divided the provisions right there with a bowie knife. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He placed it against the end of the kitchen sink, dividing the kitchen and dining area. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z They divided the stuff into eight loads of about 5 6 seventy pounds each, figuring it would be foolish to try to carry more over the rough terrain ahead. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The Islander, in fact, divided the fog, the bow literally peeling it open. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “That could be useful once we’re in the jungle. No doubt you’ll know how to divide and ration food properly or something.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z We were like two performers in a play, but we were divided, we were not acting with one another. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The layout was simple: The dock was divided into zones, just like a parking lot. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But Ma said they must divide it evenly. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Every time that cell divided, in the many embryological steps that went into making you, the original set of genetic instructions was duplicated with great fidelity. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Alive one moment, dead the next, because that is how my divided brain divined the world. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thalia would never get through, but the Hunters were divided. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Through the grid of steel cables, the skyscrapers divide into manageable fragments. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Readers of Montaigne are—and always have been—sharply divided between those who think his protestations of Catholic orthodoxy were genuine, and those who think they were merely concessions to the censor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I know not how she occupied herself before breakfast, but after that meal she divided her time into regular portions, and each hour had its allotted task. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z An abacus is a physical tool for carrying out complicated calculations; it enables you to add and subtract, multiply and divide. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I knew that after all the protests,” he later wrote, “American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Collins called all hands on deck to be divided into watches. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Fayu consist of about 400 hunter-gatherers, divided into four clans and wandering over a few hundred square miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The rules are simple: • Number of Players: 16, divided into 8 pairs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z I started dividing everything I saw into two groups. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “The blame must be divided,” the first judge agreed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Next I wrote down 120, then divided it by 5, that came up to 24. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The clearest evidence for this view comes from pairs of countries that divide essentially the same environment but have very different institutions and, associated with those institutions, different per-capita GNPs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They also agreed to divide Poland and the Baltic nations between them. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I grew up hearing my father's friends talk about religious divisions in the town, but I thought there must be more that unifies us than divides us. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Her prominent cheekbones divided her face in Arctic planes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This is hard to believe when she has to tell him a million times how 2,700 miles divided by sixteen equals five months, give or take. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Because BHS has some two thousand students, they have us divided into three different lunch periods. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The world seemed divided into girls with boyfriends and girls without them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, melodies don't always divide into clear, separated phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The Dauntless and the factionless have gathered between them, a narrow divide separating one group from the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Each day I divided the food evenly, and left his share on the back porch. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “I just...I’m not getting how you know what operation to use. When do you multiply and when do you divide. It’s so confusing.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Mr. Castle was on a pair of stepladders clipping his hedge that divides his front garden from ours. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Muhammad said he wanted us to try our best not to publicly counterattack the black “leaders” because one of the white man’s tricks was keeping the black race divided and fighting against each other. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Yorktown’s computer system tried to divide by zero, 80,000 horsepower instantly became worthless. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This situation was deeply disconcerting to me, for such a scandal only served to divide the movement at a time when unity was essential. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was divided into private and public spaces. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A universe divided what she had from what I had. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony worried that Stanton’s book would divide the coalition of women working for suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The wall dividing our side of the house from the bar was made from shiny sheets of fake wood panelling, but the rest of the walls were rough, splintery boards painted pale green. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “We’ll need every inch of your silk. This entrance doesn’t divide or split. It appears to be a straight path to the seal.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Would it really be that hard to divide things up some other way? The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘You see? It was a trick! They divided us so they could launch a surprise attack. Legion, cuneumformate! CHARGE!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z White mist divided into wisps of energy, but this kind of energy wasn’t scary like the blue power I’d seen from Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He told Jaime this, cautioning him not to let anybody know, so that the right would go into the elections sure of victory, as arrogant and divided as ever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On a normal night they would split up and divide the city a hundred ways between them, but not tonight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was a school that was divided by two powers, the white teachers and the Hispanic teachers. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I drew the two of them, dividing countries like children dividing toys. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He taught her to count, to add and subtract, and to multiply and divide. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The day before, Shelly and I had divided the stash of food coloring: seventeen bottles for me, seventeen for her. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Mother and Dussel and the rest of us didn’t agree with her, so now we’re dividing up the potatoes as well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The houses were surprisingly alike on either side of this crucial dividing line: small, dark, and cramped. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, they don’t do as effective a job in teaching when to add or subtract, when to multiply or divide, or how to convert from fractions to decimals or percentages. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Lore answered, “The stag will be flayed and the carcass divided up, and then we’ll head back to camp.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I divide the package in half and give the other portion to Taryn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The bride had divided the unconsumed food among the waiters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Delegates were deeply divided by the rift in the party, and the convention floor was raucous and loud. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z No one wanted to divide the work or otherwise be associated with it in any way, shape, or form. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z While 7-Building’s yard contained a running path, benches, vegetable gardens, and a great view of the Hudson River, the SHU had a bare blacktop courtyard divided in two by a chain-link fence. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So little food remained that it was hardly worth dividing. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “No, my lord. I only meant—’’ “Are your loyalties divided?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The racial divide on Robben Island was absolute: there were no black warders, and no white prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I cited our long relationship and underlined the many matters that united our two organizations rather than divided us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fracture is complete, dividing the bone into two neat pieces. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Olanna raised the dividing curtain and sat on the bed and smoothed her wrapper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The palm divides the kitchen from the living room, which has a sleek black couch and a small Japanese maple in the corner. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “My men will hunt and we will divide the catch. One part for you, to be paid in goods, and two parts for us.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero divided by zero can equal any number in the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Supreme Court overturned the award in a bitterly divided 5-4 decision. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Tipping his head toward them, the hat’s brim slashed a shadow across his face, dividing it diagonally, leaving a single crystal blue eye, half a nose, and a split grin visible. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z High marble arches circle the inside of the sanctuary, and a carved, filigreed screen divides it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sidewalls of the cookhouse have been raised to allow for a draft, but it is divided down the center by a curtain. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “The rest of us will divide into groups of mixed factionless and Dauntless,” says Tori. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “He and Professor Trelawney are dividing classes between them this year,” said Professor McGonagall, a hint of disapproval in her voice; it was common knowledge that she despised the subject of Divination. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The earthquake signaled such an important change in the life of the Trueba family that from then on they divided all events into before and after that day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was the famous Mason and Dixon line, which later took on symbolic importance as the dividing line between the slave and free states. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Unlike Presidents Wingfield and Ratcliffe before him, Captain Smith divides the rations equally with us and works right alongside us sharing the burdens, too. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Chubs and I were left to divide up the last of the food we had gathered from the gas station in Marlinton. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So he turned and started walking north on Hector, right down the middle of the street, right down the invisible chalk line that divided East End from West End. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The original idea, when we hoped we’d have 24 extra people to move and hide, was to ferry them to the opposite bank where we’d divide them into smaller groups of 2 or 3. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I worried that I had created an unbridgeable divide by rejecting them and choosing my uncle, with his elegant home in the promised land of Saratoga. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z His questions went to the heart of the issues dividing the government and the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at it, Zeitoun realized that it was not one long cage, but a series of smaller, divided cages. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z So I ran uphill and down, clambering over the stone and rail fences that divided the pastures. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nielsen’s is a large open space divided into aisles, with a pharmacy in the back, a candy section up front, clothes, books, and magazines, shampoo, milk, and produce. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He lists 121 figures, and divides them according to a taxonomy that’s highly serviceable today:* grouping them according to the type of thing they did. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Me: “I dispatched black warriors raged against unjust barriers to find the black and strong had fallen divided deceived overcome.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don’t, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark Antony and Cleopatra divided their time between discussing military plans and tactics and enjoying the merrymaking in their honor. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Buck’s restlessness came back on him, and he was haunted by recollections of the wild brother, and of the smiling land beyond the divide and the run side by side through the wide forest stretches. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Opinion at Booker T. Washington was sharply divided between those who admired Claudette’s courage and those who thought she got what she deserved for making things harder for everyone. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Then white rule used that animosity to divide and conquer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z When the goods were divided among the family, three of the brothers took land, and the youngest, my father, chose an education. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The jetty that divided the inner and outer harbors had been fortified with a long stone wall, thirty feet tall and almost a mile long, with towers every hundred yards. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Farmer sympathized with the needs of the Ministry of Health, but he still hoped that the loan could be divided fifty-fifty. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He started dividing the satyrs into groups—which ones would go to the national parks, which ones would search out the last wild places, which ones would defend the parks in big cities. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Each green was divided into playing strips about 5 yards wide and 32 yards long. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I took a piece of crumpet and divided it between the two dogs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Because their system of counting was based on the number 20, the Mayans naturally divided their year into 18 months of 20 days each, totaling 360 days. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z For example, if you cut a jellyfish in half, it might just become two jellyfish; they can divide in the same way cells do. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Cate had told me that I needed to divide my life into three acts and close the first two behind me—but how did someone do that? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The dividing line between Lacks Town and the rest of Clover was stark. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z This civil war has not only divided the nation, it has also split countless families, pitting fathers against sons, and brothers against brothers. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Its only inn is a single room, divided by a woolen blanket to separate where the innkeeper sleeps and where he keeps his one table and two benches. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It was said that on Calvary, the soldiers, not wishing to divide the garment, had cast dice for it while Jesus was dying. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In spring and summer she will return to the Northeast, dividing her time among her son, her daughter, and her close Bengali friends. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Now I know men are different and that all life is divided and that only in division is there true health. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And so it came to pass that the normal, happy event of dividing food after a hunt became a war of insults and rage and starving bellies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Cervical carcinomas are divided into two types: invasive carcinomas, which have penetrated the surface of the cervix, and noninvasive carcinomas, which haven’t. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Seven! Isn’t it bad enough to think of killing one person? And in any case...bad enough to divide the soul...but to rip it into seven pieces...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z At recess that day, all three of them managed to find an excuse to stand close to the invisible line that, by unspoken agreement, divided the girls’ side of the yard from the boys’. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z There they had built their burrows, dividing ancient houses into tiny studios. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it is also the setting for two starkly different tales about breaching those divides. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Positive divided by negative is negative. Negative divided by affirmative is negative.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All they wanted to do was to divide the cookies fairly with Carrie. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z White curtains divided the cave into different rooms with comfy pillows and woven rugs and platters of fresh fruit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z From the great plaza radiated four highways that demarcated the four asymmetrical sectors into which he divided the empire, Tawantinsuyu, “Land of the Four Quarters.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They divided the food preparation into separate tasks performed by different workers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z To sweeten the deal, they also secretly agreed to divide up parts of Poland, the Baltic States, Finland, and Romania, as if European nations were a box of candy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We can think it through: What could dividing a number into zero parts actually mean? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Our leaders at Kakuma told the UN that we should be divided into groups according to our clans and the counties we were from in Sudan. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Olivia has colored tabs dividing every class notebook in some personal system of priorities, and she plays Minecraft like a demon. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Just as multiplying by a number stretches the number line, dividing shrinks it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z If only figuring that out were as easy as dividing. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The movement was dividing into two groups—one that made voting rights for black men the priority and another that demanded that female suffrage also be considered—and this disagreement changed the relationships among advocates. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A total of 241 signs or letters was neatly divided by etched vertical lines into groups of several signs, possibly constituting words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Air, he thought, must be matter in a form so finely divided that it could not be seen. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They were divided on the subject of capitulation or resistance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “The town’s really divided over this, and it’s only made worse now that SmartMart hired Arletta Paisley as their national spokesperson.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z April went back to studying the objects in the case, but now her interest was divided. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z You’ve played some trick on the dividing of my cells so my body can never be free of the small parts of Africa it consumed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet some people felt divided on the issue of euthanasia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We were divided into four rows, about a yard-and-a-half apart, and sat cross-legged on the ground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Let’s divide the line into even smaller segments, using, say, a ruler one-sixth of an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Those Dicey cooked and shared out among them, dividing the fish and the two rolls evenly. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The class was divided into two distinct groups, with her on one side and everyone else on the other. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The circle in the diagram, divided into its little sections, reminded him of something. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z You’d think, then, that if I combined those high and low tones and played them for you all at once, you’d be able to divide them into ten categories. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottom was of a pale, creamy stone over which undulating white-edged rectangles of refracted sunlight divided and overlapped. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Indian system of numbering allowed them to use fancy tricks to add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers without using an abacus to help them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The Union attack is divided into two waves. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We were divided into gangs, each under an old railroad man. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the sacred threshing-floor, when they are winnowing, she herself, Demeter of the corn-ripe yellow hair, divides the grain and the chaff in the rush of the wind, and the heap of chaff grows white.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had ever been able to replicate Carrel’s work, and the cells seemed to defy a basic rule of biology: that normal cells can only divide a finite number of times before dying. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The merchant princes, grown vastly rich off the trade between the seas, were divided into three jealous factions: the Ancient Guild of Spicers, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Thirteen, to which Xaro belonged. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was freezing, and the sky outside the car was the deep luminescent purple that divides the dusk from the night. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z His bedroom is blue now—walls, ceiling, floor—and all the furniture has been moved to one corner so that the room is divided in two. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z While still alive they did divide Their favorites from the throng, Yet how to pick the worthy ones When they were dead and gone? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He particularly noticed one blue height that divided into two peaks at the top and decided that it must be Mount Pire. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z “I expect Basta's divided it out among Capricorn's maids. He likes to ingratiate himself with them.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The waiting area at his office was divided into two sections. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z These are the rules that we recognize today: divide two numbers and the answer is positive if the numbers’ signs are the same. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Therefore Marx says that these natural resources should belong to everyone, not divided into little pieces but used by all the people according to their ability to work. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Me: “I dispatched black warriors raged against unjust barriers to find the black and strong had fallen divided deceived overcome.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls divided up into shifts, some to stay until they were relieved by others. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of me, as far as I could see was a trail of my own footprints in the snow, drawn like a line across the fields and fences that divided them up. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That people living, say, in Boston probably enjoyed medical treatment superior to what was available to anyone born in Cange spoke to the heart of “the great epi divide.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Luma divided the boys into two groups and told them she wanted to see them play. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Prison conditions have a way of tempering polemics, and making individuals see more what unites them than what divides them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Snaking between the cars and trucks, he was racing toward the international divide, while Milton pursued, flashing his brights to get people out of the way. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Once Gaia destroys the gods, we will divide up the remnants of the mortal world!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z By killing Anna first, the mastermind made sure that her headright would not be divided between multiple heirs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The window rolls back up, dividing him from me, before I have a chance to add anything else. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I wonder,” said the man in black, “will he stay in one group or will he divide, some to search the coastline, some to follow your path on land? What do you think?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z As the school approached the sunken crab boat, it divided as cleanly as if it had been sliced by a saber. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, when we started meeting secretly for dinner, we still divided the bill. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There were assorted milk pails hanging on the barn wall; I poured the milk into two of these, dividing it evenly, and put one of them on the back porch for Mr. Loomis. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Oddly enough, when Pythagoras put the bridge at a place that did not divide the string into a simple ratio, the plucked notes did not meld well. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z When you enter a room, mentally divide it into sections no wider than your reach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage prevailed upon the government to divide the land solely among members of the tribe, thereby increasing each individual’s allotment from 160 acres to 657 acres. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was impossible for Frodo to walk, so they divided the greater part of their baggage among the four of them, and put Frodo on the pony. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But the line of people just divided around him like water around a boulder in the creek, and went on ahead to make their votes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Batting averages are determined by number of hits divided by at-bats.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Most of those channels divided islands visible from each other, but Australia itself was always invisible from even the nearest Indonesian islands, Timor and Tanimbar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Apartheid was designed to divide racial groups, and we showed that different groups could work together. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of the three powers which now divide the world is in fact unconquerable, and could only become conquerable through slow demographic changes which a government with wide powers can easily avert. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z By late July Josiah divided his time between the cattle, which were past Flower Mountain then, still heading southwest, and this woman. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z June 16, 1858: Abraham Lincoln delivered his “a house divided cannot stand” speech in Springfield, Illinois, which meant the country could not be partly for and partly against slavery. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The men had been divided up into different teams, and each team was going to land in a different spot along the East Coast of America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Mother peeled the egg and we divided it, crumbling it carefully from hand to mouth while the others watched us closely, as if expecting immediate results. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The big kitchen was divided into several parts. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z No one says it, but eight will divide up perfectly after the next death. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “Cipher divided by cipher is naught,’’ he wrote. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Another cross to the memory of Queen Eleanor stood at the dividing point, but no signpost. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Around them, the forest was divided into six pieces, like a pie. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Back when we shared a room, she was the one who'd divide up the floor with masking tape, building an invisible wall between us. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Despite the huge divide now between Johnson and King, it was a profound loss shared by the two men. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But dividing by zero destroys the entire framework of mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A speed is a distance divided by a time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The refugee officials theft divide and ration us salt, water, rice, fish, and sometimes chicken. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea is to hire a driver to take passengers around Otavalo, and then divide the profits. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a unit in a brown brick building divided into four homes, with a chain-link fence, several feet of grass out front, and three steps leading up to a small cement stoop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, they found that Durham’s views of the preceding stormy night were largely divided according to race. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The octave was named by musicians who were more interested in how octaves are divided into scales, than in how their frequencies are related. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She pressed her hand to her stomach—still as flat as ever—and imagined a single cell pulsing and dividing deep in side, like in the videos in biology class. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The red-and-yellow straw carpet covered the center of the room, and the honey-colored Formica cupboard divided the space into a living room and kitchen. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Emilika lifted a curtain that divided the front of the store from the back. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The first one is: divide four hundred and eighty by six. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z We could set up two or even three hockey leagues, divided up by month of birth. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I found that African nationalists and African Communists generally had far more uniting them than dividing them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No,” said Colonel Fitzwilliam, “that is an advantage which he must divide with me. I am joined with him in the guardianship of Miss Darcy.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z At that moment Moody had a sudden clear understanding of what had already happened that morning: his life had been divided into a before and an after, and he would always be comparing the two. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves," he might say if there were no ears to hear but mine. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Or was it just more of the same parceling out of fortunes that had brought us this far, to this place where our path would finally divide into two? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The outer villages are in rebel hands, the town divided, and the Nut is as untouchable as ever. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “You guys are divided into different cabins?” he asked. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Beneath them lay the buildings of the Golf Club—the huge Lower Caste barracks and, on the other side of a dividing wall, the smaller houses reserved for Alpha and Beta members. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the money divided in two, neither Gale nor I had held so much at one time in our lives. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It had been hung from the arched span of the bridge that divided the outer and middle wards, suspended on heavy chains, a few feet off the ground. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z We refugees divided ourselves into circles of a dozen or so. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So it got to be divided down the lines of young against old, with Anatole persuading a lot of the younger men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, well, you know you have to divide, because, um, well, you want to figure out the price per ounce...because it says so right here.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z 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 “It is not a penal statute. It cannot be said, as contended, that the act divides a natural class of persons into two.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Himalayas divided the garden down the middle at shoulder height. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Her words create a cold feeling inside me, like a streak of ice divides one side of my body from the other. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But how best to go about dividing that? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was much trouble over this until Kimki decreed that the work would again be divided—henceforth the men would hunt and the women harvest. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It was divided into chapters but Chapter 80 was unfinished, and after that were some blank leaves. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The thread — which was really now more like a thick silk rope — seemed to have divided itself into a long strange web, reinforced with bamboo stalks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps so, but then skeptics must explain why the cultural divide between Indians and Spaniards, who did deeply influence each other, was so much smaller. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even so, his mother had smiled and shown that willingness to love the man who was responsible for dividing his father up throughout eternity. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I see in him a man who divides himself into compartments and can switch between them on command. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The women divide themselves between us with trays. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A barbed-wire fence went up, dividing the two sections of the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Two hundred leagues divided Meereen from Astapor, yet it seemed to her that the sky was darker to the southwest, smudged and hazy with the smoke of the Red City’s passing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But I could tell that Lin Nai-Nai thought that the money dividing would be part of a great new China where men would stick to one wife and women wouldn’t bind their feet. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While the gods are divided, fighting each other in this mortal World War, he will send forth his armies to destroy Olympus. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Go ahead, cut my arm,” offered Deydey, “see if you can divide the white blood from the red blood.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z America will continue to be divided into a North and a South, a United States of America and a Confederate States of America. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There were shanties just as poor in Georgia, on the edge of Atlanta, where black and white divided, and that was smack in the middle of America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I raised my voice a little and saw Muthu’s shadow as he crept next to the towel dividing our tents. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In history we are divided into groups of four and told that each group will have to present a big project at the end of the marking period. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z In a cell that is about to divide, changes of the utmost importance occur, first within the nucleus, but eventually involving the entire cell. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I divided my eyes between all the streets, an insatiable spectator incapable of taking in such beauty in its entirety. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They divided up the state’s water—as nearly as was possible—in direct relationship to a region’s political clout and economic pull. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1532 King Joao III of Portugal divided the coast of Brazil into fourteen provinces and dispatched colonists to each one. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the city we were divided by faction, by age, by history, but here all those divisions fall away. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The group divided into two roughly equal factions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe then we can begin to fear less, to make fewer wrong assumptions, to let go of the biases and stereotypes that unnecessarily divide us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With that in mind, he divided the butcher’s job into close to a hundred different parts, and handed out those parts to more than a hundred different men. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The group was divided into thirty-eight departments, each focused on a different social reform. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In Tempe, segregation never seemed to be a big deal; in Greenwood things were different It wasn’t just the schools; restaurants, movie theaters, stores, even the neighborhoods were divided into white or colored. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “So the divisions,” he asked, “the cohorts, whatever— you’re divided according to who your godly parent is?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The defense team was divided on whether or not we should testify. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was Ali’s legacy that inspired me to stand up to those who try to divide us along the lines of religion. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z So far his social life had been neatly divided into two separate relationships: one with Dorothy, one with the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Identical twins—but not in piddling twos and threes as in the old vivip-arous days, when an egg would sometimes accidentally divide; actually by dozens, by scores at a time. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I dive across the great divide four times, each time sure I won’t make it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Two hundred and forty divided by three trash cans is eighty. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Don’t ask me why we divided them that way. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The curtain of heat divided the will to survive from survival itself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia came over the morning after—everything to me now was either before or after, the way that previously my life had been divided by the accident—and sobbed into my shoulder. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Grown on either sugar alone, the bacterium begins to divide rapidly, doubling in number every twenty minutes or so. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Most of my life until then had been divided between school, reading, and ball playing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The hedges dividing the fields were no problem to the Giant. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In China, families lived in compounds; a splintering in the family was called dividing the kitchen, and often meant that, literally. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the guns fell silent and the tanks went quiet and we dared to come creeping out of our hole, Przemyśl was a divided city. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The information inside the restricted area was divided into two folders: Mission Status and Threat Assessments. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I had been teetering on that boundary that divides sleep and wakefulness, imagining Papa coming to get us himself, imagining the rage in his red-tinged eyes, the burst of Igbo from his mouth. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The rest of them were all going to the stupid town square, with the plan I’m sure being to whoop and holler about our good fortune and divide up all the dead loot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But most of the workers were used in the sorting sheds, stacking the clothing and suitcases and possessions stolen from the prisoners, dividing them into piles to be sent back to Germany. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The emission or absorption of one particle by another corresponds to the dividing or joining together of strings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The shop was divided into two halves, the game room and the dining room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z When first observed by white settlers, the Zulus were divided into dozens of little chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was strange, all of us separated by walls, divided into compartments like bees in a dusty hive, so we kept our doors open. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z After a time Hazel divided them into groups, led by Silver, Bigwig and himself. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are all his people with you, or are they divided as humans are?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We were divided at the gate into male and female groups. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They would have been willing to follow a leader over the River and into the shadow of Mordor; but Frodo spoke no word, and Aragorn was still divided in his mind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The divide between this car and the next seems immense, a great span over eternity. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I fed the chickens, gathered the eggs, and divided them, too, four apiece. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Av’s zoologist brother Murdoch had already come, and he enjoyed cornering people to talk about how cells divide. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Kim and I have this theory that almost everything in the world can be divided into two groups. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most people who live close to the land, and who have neither clock nor calendar, they measured time by the sun, dividing it roughly into sunup, sunhigh, sundown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This process correlates with the age of a person: the older we are, the shorter our telomeres, and the fewer times our cells have left to divide before they die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z When Alexander died in 323 BCE, his close circle of advisers divided the empire into three regions— Macedon, Syria, and Egypt. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The road led down to the river and divided. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Our taste- buds divide food into two groups: sweet foods that are good to eat and bitter foods that might harm us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Gale and I divide our spoils, leaving two fish, a couple of loaves of good bread, greens, a quart of strawberries, salt, paraffin, and a bit of money for each. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Around this time—1834—the word scientist was first coined, beginning an era that gradually professionalized the study of the natural world, and began to divide it into ever more specialized fields. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For example, she had considered the great divide of her self’s time to be coming to America. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark, but Kaiserman was able to see the vehicle wander several times across the yellow divide, then steer back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He sectioned the orange and divided the plugs between them. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They entered a central hall that divided the house into halves of three rooms each. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That’s the part I don’t get. When do you know you have to divide? What do you need to do? How do you know?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In compound meters, each beat is divided into thirds. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Back in those days the town was pretty much divided. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On its first pages were the beginnings of a comic, the pages divided into squares and rectangles. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Beyond the cross the road turns more northerly and there is a fork where it divides. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The white curtain that divides my bed from the next patient’s whips back, and Johanna Mason stares down at me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They knew they must have no divided loyalties to weaken their resolve. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It all fit in nicely with the packers’ goal to divide and conquer. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Children are also inundated with sounds that enhance life or distract from it, dividing children’s already fragile attention and making it difficult for them to filter out unwanted noises and focus. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z And he did even knowing that the truth that would set him free would also set him adrift, untethered in a divided society that demanded to know, every day: “Which side are you on?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the Termites were into their adulthood, Terman looked at the records of 730 of the men and divided them into three groups. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They divided the people at a critical moment, and that was hard to forget. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our divided movement is pulling together, gossip and grievances cast aside. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Parts of sub-Saharan Africa were divided among small states or chiefdoms with iron tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chefs who served the wealthy began to divide meals up. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He divided everyone up into whatever their specialty was. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z There, a worker cut a strip off the edge, divided it into squares, and put each through a series of rigorous tests. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The West End, a huge building of two stories, fronted with gnarled poplars, divided the play yards called girlside and boyside. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We divide and spread through the field like spilling water. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z This meant that HeLa cells weren’t limited by space in the same way other cells were; they could simply divide until they ran out of culture medium. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He was already a man with two families, his attention divided between me and the girls and his 200,000 or so South Side constituents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The United States of America has been Balkanized, has been divided into twenty petty nations so that it will never again be a threat to world peace. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The road was already going to dust and the dust was rising, and there was nothing to see ahead but troops in the dust toiling upward toward the crest of a divide. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three would divide the yellow enormity’s slaves amongst them, like as not. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But it could not explain the copying of genes themselves: How are genes replicated when a cell divides into two cells, or when a sperm or egg is generated? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “That custody stuff must suck. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to divide myself between my mom and my dad and move to a different house every week.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The pesticide threat to fishes may be divided into three parts. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Twelve sets of cream puffs divided by twenty-three kids plus Mrs. Baker meant half a set of cream puffs for every person in that room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z His avid sons thereafter dividing up the property by lot gave me a wretched portion, a poor house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z For a person who believes that 1 newborn is worth 100 fetuses, those 1.5 million abortions would translate—dividing 1.5 million by 100—into the equivalent of a loss of 15,000 human lives. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Each sector was divided up into many different zones that varied in size and shape. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Croteau and Woolner are not the only ones aware of the class divide within the family; so are the two sets of children. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She raises a hand to touch it and it quivers, dividing into droplets and then coming back together. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The numbers flashed in Jessie's brain so fast, she didn't even need to think about what she was multiplying and dividing and adding. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z It was like a malignant cell that threatened to divide and divide again, unless I could find some way to stop it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z With the help of the Academy’s professors, they divided the school’s violinists into three groups. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Why they are so obsessive about time, and why they think it is like a cake you can divide into pieces, why? The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The kids were on one side of the room and we were on the other, and down the center was a white line that divided us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The whole Austronesian language family consists of 959 languages, divided among four subfamilies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Life at the camp continues as always while I divide my time between the field and the training lessons. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We just have to follow the main branches of the river of corn as it flows and divides through the industrial food chain. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Then the coaches divided us up by weapon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z During recess the boys would divide in two groups, chasing each other wildly around the swings and seesaws, Redcoats against the colonies. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z To figure out the volume of a barrel or the area under a parabola, mathematicians added infinite zeros together; to find out the tangent of a curve, they divided zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There were long lines of figures, added, divided, and subtracted, and little drawings. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The doors opened into an open room divided by half-wall cubicles and desks. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Not long after I left for college, my father became a judge and my parents moved up-county, out of Levittown, across the Route 1 divide—and I didn’t have many occasions to go back. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z If anything, the NACA’s response to Sputnik would only intensify the process of change, as the herculean task of safely navigating the heavens was divided into myriad smaller tasks, tests, parts, and people. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Through the portrait hole and across the common room, the girls and boys divided toward their separate staircases. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Opinion was divided among whites over whether the youths were on a training mission or were actually trying to cause damage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His neat pencil mustache divided his upper lip horizontally into half and ended exactly in line with the ends of his mouth. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “The human career,” wrote the historian Ronald Wright, “divides in two: everything before the Neolithic Revolution and everything after it.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She stood mesmerized, watching one of her mother’s cells divide in two, just as they’d done when Henrietta was an embryo in her mother’s womb. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z What you had to do was walk through the solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A prime number is a number that can only be divided by itself and one. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And besides, once I had my sad, soupy Sloppy Joe on the tray and looked out over the rest of the cafeteria, I realized it wasn’t just the basketball team divided up this way today. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A medium-sized room had been divided to make a narrow strip of a kitchen and, presumably, a bedroom next door. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z God, who made Eden, also wrecked the Tower of Babel, by dividing people. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The motive of apartheid was clear: divide and rule; pit brother against brother, sister against sister. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled a clean piece of paper towards herself and drew lines downwards to divide it into three columns. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Figure 1.66: Any common note length can be divided into an unusual number of equal-length notes and rests, for example by dividing a whole note into three instead of two 11half11 notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As to the role of religion in healing, the experts I talked with feel divided. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z When the cell divides into two, half of each goes to each of the daughter cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Durham was also the first place he had encountered a black community so clearly divided along class lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I add, subtract, multiply, divide all the numbers he throws at me. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z But they aren’t mixed together; there is still an uneasy divide between them, factionless on one side and Dauntless on the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Worst of all, if you wantonly divide by zero, you can destroy the entire foundation of logic and mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Both expert at translating the character of nuns, Ben and Mary Anne divided them into two distinct and irreconcilable categories: the Smiles and the Vampires. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This cage, like those, was a single-fenced enclosure divided into smaller ones. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z About ten hours after fertilization of the egg, the embryo divides into three broad segments, head, thorax, and abdomen, and each segment divides into further subcompartments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "Don't divide me from the class, Mrs. Stevens. Please. Don't...divide us!" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Schooldays were routinely divided by prayers said with classmates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some choose to go to France because many Vietnamese moved there when North and South divided years ago. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The victorious Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones: Russian, French, British, and American. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z The shadow of night rose, dividing the eastern sky into pale blue above and gray below, with a rosy border where the sunlight still shone on a haze of dust in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The dorms were divided by waist-high partitions into single or double cubicles. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking back over the full sweep of American history, one would be hard-pressed to discover a presidency more dominated by a single foreign policy problem and simultaneously more divided domestically over how to solve it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the ratio of anything to zero—a number divided by zero—can destroy logic. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Try again. What is two hundred divided by four?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Today, all land except Antarctica’s is so divided. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Newton’s and Leibniz’s calculus depends upon dividing by zero—and on numbers that miraculously disappear when you square them. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Caleb and I climb the stairs and, at the top, when we divide to go to our separate bedrooms, he stops me with a hand on my shoulder. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z You can add them, divide them, square them; you can do whatever you want. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Dreams of the germs of infants bubbling, dividing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was divided into quarters like a compass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Ayesha directs me down a wide main road that divides the camp into halves. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Waving the gun, he yelled an order at his men, who divided us into two groups. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Infinity divided by zero is not a number. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As he pushed us out of the house, sniffling and whining, Doña Lola took down the curtain that divided the room in two and rolled our hammocks out of the way. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She opened up the green carrying bag and put the corn on the table, dividing it into five equal shares. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z After that the whole lot of us, new prisoners and old, were divided up into squads of twelve. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I entered our house and locked the door, then put my ear to the thin wall that divided the two flats and listened. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only two parenting “philosophies,” and they divided almost perfectly along class lines. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her school skirt was tight at the waist, dividing her body into two rounded halves like the number 8. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He looked inside and saw that a wall divided the room into two sections. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Marx divided nineteenth-century societies into just two classes; Max Weber added a few more. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In all the time he lived, Rontu never left again, and the wild dogs, which for some reason divided into two packs, after that never returned to the headland. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Political scientists are divided over whether the twenty- five million people of Mexican ancestry in the United States represent an exception to the classic immigrant success story. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z More than one family has forgotten their arguments when it came time to divide the tah dig. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “He’s dividing us up for work detail,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Near the equator. The center of the planet. It’s a circle. Not a real one, but an imaginary divide between north and south. It’s superhot. Closer to the sun than the North and South Poles.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z All my numbers were divided by or multiplied by seven. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z No longer was it necessary to divide by zeros. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Hyena fell to the ground and was immediately divided into four pieces by Lion. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z "No, let's just finish it. The groosling's getting old anyway, and the last thing we need is to get sick off spoilt food," I say, dividing the food into two equal piles. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I had it all worked out and counted the pages I’d read each night, dividing that by twenty-eight days. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Adding infinities and dividing by zeros might be a part of mathematics, but it is not the way of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In New York, my grandfather developed stomach ailments, and from then on all the foods in the world were divided into those that agreed and those that did not agree with Papito. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We find them divided about the meaning of Target with Four Faces, although they agree it must have one. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The coup “culminated three months of conversation about a coup, conversation which divided the government here and in Saigon,” Kennedy said into the microphone. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z On the contrary, her face is divided into two parts, one with a somber expression, the other with a masklike appearance whose color nevertheless betrays passionate feeling. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We divided it into two smaller segments and one larger one, wrapped each in plastic, and placed them inside empty cocoa containers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Putting down the half-eaten bun, I walked to the mirror on the big wardrobe that divided the room and pressed my forehead against its cool surface. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All the other hinges had been cut, and as Tendai watched, the last one divided in two. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The year was not divided by months but by the seasons. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On his first voyage in 1492, Columbus started a colony of about forty men on the island he called Hispaniola, which is currently divided into the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At last finding the divide in his curtains, he ripped them back, and at the same moment, Dean Thomas lit his lamp. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z My brothers have already divided up my things. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We were directed to a gate that divided the camp in two. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad says—as if there were a way to divide the Comet water from the drinkable water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I divided the meal into two piles: one for me, and one for grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As of this writing, today’s disparity between rich and poor is as wide as the divide between Swift and his laborers one hundred years ago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We have five cohorts of about forty kids each. Each cohort is divided into barracks of ten—like roommates, kind of.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The Greeks were divided into numerous fractious communities, some of which were able to dominate others by threats of force, unequal alliance, or commerce. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Our cars are on either side of the electric divide, but my Corvette is flashing victoriously. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This book’s chapters are divided into four parts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Services were divided up similarly among the Lutherans and Methodists. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This left the suffragists divided over political strategy. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Ripred led them out of the tunnel into a huge cavern divided by a deep canyon. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When a cell divides, its genetic material divides within it and is partitioned to its daughters. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was obvious that it ought to be divided into three equal parts. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z This was an effort to lure Indians and Coloureds into the system, and divide them from Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I walk along the gravel path that divides the back lawn, neatly, like a hair parting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Luma noticed that when she would tell the boys to divide into groups for drills, they would split up according to ethnic backgrounds or common languages. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I have them here at my feet, bound with colored ribbons, divided according to events and not in chronological order, just as she arranged them before she left. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Throckmorton said, “Yes, Jason?” and that was when my life divided itself into Before Hangman and After Hangman. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z A broad river divided itself into two streams and on the island between them stood the city of Tashbaan, one of the wonders of the world. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Harry decided to start with a basic test, asking all applicants for the team to divide into groups of ten and fly once around the pitch. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Make a mark, say, five and a half inches from one end, dividing the foot into two unequal parts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I divided the room into sections, in my head; I allowed myself one section a day. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The children had one room, and the adults were divided between my parents’ bedroom and the sitting room. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Each barracks was divided into six units, sixteen by twenty feet, about the size of a living room, with one bare bulb hanging from the ceiling and an oil stove for heat. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I divided a can of sardines between the two remaining gunnysacks and then smeared the oil on my hands. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They also shared a privy, which was divided in half for men and women. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When Gallup tried to divide these variations into only two groups, she was seeing patterns that didn’t exist. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They lay on the far side of a great divide in time, as significant as B.C. and A.D. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 Originally the two rooms had been the master bedroom, but when they’d moved in, Papi had built a dividing wall, so that the boys and the girls each got a small bedroom. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “And then she was freaking out about her son’s fate, like she knew he’d turned into Kronos. What happened to ... to divide her like that?” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z His gallery is divided into 5 folders—bored, curious, angry, hurt, peaceful—and each has multiple black-and-white photos. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The rod in the middle helps, on account of we hang our belongings and dry towels there, and it kind of divides the room in two. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In my generation we used to distinguish between decent women and all the rest, and we also divided up the decent ones into our own and others’. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When we overseas Chinese send money, do the relatives divide it evenly among the commune? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember a real dividing line between what it was like before she died and what it was like after. They were just my parents and I didn’t worry about anything.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z When the overcoat came off, Mr. Gonzalez saw rings of fat squeezed into a tight white shirt that was vertically divided by a wide flowered tie. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After they had gone down a little, the cave divided, but the left branch was dark as pitch, so even Hodor knew to follow the moving torch to the right. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We agree on a plan, slip out through the wire and then divide and creep forward separately. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The beam dividing them was called a “reckoning bar,” and the only beads you counted were the beads touching the bar. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Before him on a tray was a large tin plate divided into three triangles. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z All of them are divided into separate sections, depending on race. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The second day of the charrette began promptly at 10 A.M., with the large group dividing into several smaller clusters to discuss in detail the issues brought up the previous day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He reached over the stone ledge which divided the arch from the stained-glass windows above and, taking a firm grip, propelled himself upwards and sideways. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Miguel divided the group into squads and kept them busy all day with such efficiency that his authority went unnoticed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next two days, North Korean soldiers charged past the dividing line, scattering South Korea's military forces. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And wouldn’t it be horrible and terrifying to discover that all of this was part of some great clever plan by the Martians to divide and conquer us, and kill us? The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We knead the dough, then divide it into little balls. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Beneath their gaze, we have dug a trench to divide our peninsula from the island, that our encampment may be more agreeably defended. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Presently he came to a place where the road divided into two. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z She whimpers, reaching across the divide to stroke my cheek with the back of her hand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Well, not full credit. We could divide it up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I divide the hundred usage issues into points of grammar, the expression of quantity and quality, word choice, and punctuation. adjectives and adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I divide the people I know into tame and wild. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In particular, a tribal big-man’s role in dividing the meat of pigs slaughtered for feasts points to the role of chiefs in collecting and redistributing food and goods—now reconstrued as tribute—in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Roughly, it could be divided into two major areas. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “One for Harry...” said Slughorn, dividing a second bottle between two mugs, “... and one for me. Well” — he raised his mug high — “to Aragog.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z For the world is divided, experience teaches, into two parts: things to be murdered, and things that would hinder the murder of things: and the Geats might reasonably be defined either way. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z My feelings became divided; in spite of myself I would dream of a locked cupboard in a near-by neighbor’s house where a gun was kept. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was from the difference between us, not from the affinities and likenesses, but from the difference, that that love came: and it was itself the bridge, the only bridge, across what divided us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Figure 1.2: The bar lines divide the staff into short sections called bars or measures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Turning and looking down from this camp one sees the glacier-flow split, divided, torn and churned by the black steaming peaks that thwart it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I divided into two, with the Ted half asking the Salim half what had happened. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Here the madness was divided up equally, and there was nothing left over for us to have our own lunatic.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And when you divide with it, all hell breaks loose. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Berkeley’s physicists, whether in the department or the Rad Lab, ended up divided into two camps. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But I was not a recluse; my ten days there were divided among ANC business, seeing old friends, and occasional jaunts as a conventional tourist. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Redding was divided into two parts—Redding Center and Redding Ridge, which was where we lived. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like squares and triangles, lines were number-shapes, so dividing a string into two parts was the same as taking a ratio of two numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a wrenching exposure of our country’s structural divides, most especially the intense, lopsided vulnerability of African Americans and poor people of all races when things got rough. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On the contrary, when the enemy approaches, divided cities are always immediately lost. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z At the time, black South Africans outnumbered white South Africans nearly five to one, yet we were divided into different tribes with different languages: Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Sotho, Venda, Ndebele, Tsonga, Pedi, and more. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Your master’s mother can’t use any medicine to divide us. Nothing can divide us.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "Someday I will take you to America, where my son lives," Mr. Luftig promised me as we sat together cleaning his pipes on his side of the blanket dividing the apartment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The Hitler Youth divided the neighborhoods into sections, to make sure no house was overlooked. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We were told to take the potatoes and onions out of their bins and knock out the dividing walls that kept them apart. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Experts remain divided over whether Mexicans can follow the same route. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Nemur screeched as the audience, divided in its aims, became a tangle of arms and legs. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Amaka would divide the rice into smaller portions to blow the chaff out afterward. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Border police were swamped, trying in vain to ease the gridlock by dividing traffic into four lanes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after being established, the original committee divided itself up into a variety of subcommittees. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z With the signing of Hope Springs’s own Arletta Paisley as the face of SmartMart, people seem to be even more divided. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Pong followed Somkit down the aisle that divided the room in two, squinting against the bright green glare. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Take any term and divide it by its previous term. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Jeanine and I divide our responsibilities according to our strengths,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Bailey nods and she shuffles the cards again, over and under, and then divides them into three piles and places them in front of him, above the card with the knight. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The world of Methodist Fentress was divided into those families who opened their presents on Christmas Eve and those who opened them on Christmas Day. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Soon she was dividing them into four tubes, then six. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “See how the spinner is divided into ten different-colored sections numbered zero to nine?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The guards divided the members of the Menagerie into three groups, while Heleen was escorted separately. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Nobody worried about dividing by zero when conveniently ignoring the rules of mathematics explained everything from the fall of an apple to the orbits of the planets in the sky. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The boy divided the money evenly, giving half to himself, the rest to his partners, and said, “Know what? I’m gonna blow me and Johnny to a good feed. Ain’t you fellows hungry?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in Clover could take all ten children, so relatives divided them up —one with this cousin, one with that aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “They didn’t have bread or anything substantial,” explained Mother as she divided the treasure amongst everyone. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The book said that the Jim Crow laws, which had been in effect since the 1880s, divided whites and blacks into two separate worlds. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z By then I had backpedaled so far I was pressed against a heavy purple velvet curtain that divided the back of the viewing room from the front. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The alphabet was divided into five rows of five letters each—A through E in the first row, F through J in the second row, and so on. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In addition to my own work, I was dividing my time between tutoring Finny in studies and being tutored by him in sports. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “The more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate at Paris,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Elowen was so close to her now; it was like they were in the same room, divided only by a painted screen. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “Can you figure out one hundred divided by ten?” asks Jennifer. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z When the crew had been divided into watches, Captain Prince came topside and stood on the quarter-deck, staring down at the men. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As I pull it free, the blade slices the air, dividing the kitchen into slivers. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The arms were divided down the middle; on one side was the crowned stag of the royal House, on the other the lion of Lannister. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then he divided the boys into three groups. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What they found was disturbing: in mission after mission, noncancerous cells grew normally in orbit, but HeLa became more powerful, dividing faster with each trip. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On the other hand, single large rugged islands were divided into many independent political units. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A narrow door divided the only two rooms of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “Have they been divided into shifts yet, sir?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Geys were determined to grow the first immortal human cells: a continuously dividing line of cells all descended from one original sample, cells that would constantly replenish themselves and never die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Jean de Satigny was looking for a partner to put up the capital, the work, and the stock houses; someone who would run all the risks and divide the profits fifty-fifty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For astronomical purposes the Greeks adopted a sexagesimal number system and even divided hours into 60 minutes, and minutes into 60 seconds. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Oppressed for centuries, divided, hopeless, corrupted, misled, they were cynical—as I had once been—and the Communist method of unity had been found historically to be the only means of achieving discipline. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My boyfriend, Ruben Florin, is Peruvian and his family, like mine, is divided over politics. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of Tarbean’s vastness is the fact that it is divided into a thousand small pieces, each with its own personality. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My family had never had a Christmas tree, but I remembered how once I had helped Papi wind colored lights around the eggplant bush that divided our land from Doña Ana’s. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She revised the note: I’m needing some space, some time, until my head-slash-heart-slash-soul—No, no, no, she didn't want to divide herself anymore, three persons in one Yo. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Others divide the Precambrian into two eras, the very ancient Archean and the more recent Proterozoic. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, dividing the kennel into four more sections, he marked five more places, essentially claiming ownership and leadership over the entire kennel: all eight romping stomping pounds of him. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z During migration season, when we hunt fowl, we’ve developed a system of dividing the birds so we don’t both target the same ones. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Most people can divide tones into only about six different categories before they begin to make mistakes and start lumping different tones in the same category. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not know what life will be like, separated from a faction—it feels disengaged, like a leaf divided from the tree that gives it sustenance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Social complexity again reached its peak in the Hawaiian Archipelago, where people of chiefly descent were divided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Captain Prince said, “Mr. Collins, have the men drilled twice a day until further orders. Have Lem and Tom divide the detail.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Christmas season approached, Durham was as bitterly divided as ever. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “All right, leaders up here and we’ll divide up the troops!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The arms were divided down the middle; on one side was the crowned stag of the royal House, on the other the lion of Lannister. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He’d used an artist’s technique called “the golden mean” to divide the picture into imaginary thirds both vertically and horizontally, like a tic-tac-toe board. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z After all, if people remain divided and closed off from different cultures, it can lead to the kind of extreme thinking that took Deborah’s life. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z While there was still a class divide in the black community, the cooperation among all levels reached an all-time high, but much of the interaction fermented behind the scenes where whites couldn’t see it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In this way I overheard all their conversation; they thought they were privately sealed behind the glass screen that divides the front seat from the back. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would tell us how his property would be divided among all of his kids if he passed away, not just given to the boys, per the tradition. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But I believed these stories were planted by the government to divide the Congress movement, and I regarded it as malicious mischief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And if not, to what extent are contemporary American conflicts over race the playing out, at least in part, of a cultural divide that came into being hundreds of years before Columbus? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Given an event P, one can divide the other events in the universe into three classes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Union leaders John Fitzpatrick and William Z. Foster were galvanized by the golden opportunity for a big union win if they could just bring all the workers together before the bosses divided them. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa and his army came to be at Cajamarca because they had just won decisive battles in a civil war that left the Incas divided and vulnerable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She spread the silk on the ground and began the process of dividing and counting, dividing and counting and setting aside, which she’d done so often as a passionate, curious teenager, and hardly ever since. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Now I realize what he meant: The Resistance is divided. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Instead of dividing by zero as Newton and Leibniz did, modern mathematicians divide by a number that they let approach zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She visualized the mother braiding it, her fingers oiling it with pomade before dividing it into sections with a wooden comb. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “United we stand; divided we fall. And all that American patriotic stuff.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The next step is to use that yardstick to divide each of the two lines into equal segments. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Although it was three or four meters away from him, he could see that the cage was divided lengthways into two compartments, and that there was some kind of creature in each. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But Jefferson was fairly typical in this regard, lamenting the chasm between long-standing colleagues while building up the barricades from his side of the divide. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It is a warfare of limited aims between combatants who are unable to destroy one another, have no material cause for fighting, and are not divided by any genuine ideological difference. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were doing an assignment together, Scott always figured out how to divide it so he had less work to do. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z The room seemed to be divided between applause and silence. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The cave was divided into sections by white silk curtains. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Marina divided the young women into pilots, navigators, and technicians. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, in an attempt to divide workers by race, professional union busters raised the issue of C.P. ’s Klan past. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He divided the catfish we had caught and gave me my share on a small string. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They also knew that there was a string of DNA at the end of each chromosome called a telomere, which shortened a tiny bit each time a cell divided, like time ticking off a clock. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But tonight he is unable to divide his attentions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Other nations in the world who are interested in the plight of our race and who would like to see the United States divided would come to our aid. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “We can meet next week at my house to divide up the work. Any day except Wednesday—that’s when I have acupuncture on my ankle.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, climbing over a wall I looked back, seeing a man hurrying after me, slipping, sliding, going over the low dividing walls of the roofs with puffing, bustling effort. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The windshield on the Bomber wasn’t like the new 1963 cars, it had a big bar running down the middle of it, dividing it in half. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The steady flow of cars and trucks divides the city of Austin in half, not just geographically, but also economically, and to some extent, racially. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I had divided Harmonee into three boroughs, or neighborhoods: the hero borough, the monster borough and the regular borough for all the regular people. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I was in the fifth grade, so my day was divided into periods, with different teachers and classrooms for each. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And they divided into four groups, two of women and two of men; and they began, woman before woman, and man before man, to wash each other’s feet. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Though there are no gates, an invisible line divides the village in two halves. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not feel disordered nor divided in the least. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was still the place where kids could add, subtract, multiply and divide, and read. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The court agreed and divided the original Lacks plantation into two plots “of equal value.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She divided it into long, slender strips, then into small squares, smaller and smaller, as small as sugar cubes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z For a moment, I’m suspicious they’re trying to divide and kill us. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “She could do math in her head, multiplying and dividing numbers that would take most people five minutes to figure out with pencil and paper. She got that from her daddy.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a huge wooden building with a great slanting roof divided up into parts. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Now even the rows of neat dormitories seemed to threaten me, the rolling lawns appearing as hostile as the gray highway with its white dividing line. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a clear dividing line here, and I had to understand where I stood. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He swiftly draws a circle and divides it into twelve wedges. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Before me the low, snow-caked walls dividing the buildings stretched hurdle-like the long length of the block to the corner, and before me empty clotheslines trembled in the wind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Peering past her, I saw that the hallway, narrow as it was, divided further: to the left was a staircase going upstairs; to the right, an even narrower passage leading deeper into the house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z We are the only faction that could divide like this. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, a single piece of string can divide into two strings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Such deeds he loves: friend at war with friend; loyalty divided in confusion of hearts.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Upstairs, they finally cut the plastic binding that tied our hands, and divided us again, sending half down to the right end of the freezing hallway and half to the left. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The main floor of the house was divided into five large rooms with high ceilings, all connected by tall double doors. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She divided the sweet syrup then used her fingernail to split the cherry into two bits for the twins to share. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Lines divide the map into smaller squares, with letters along the top and numbers down the side to form a grid. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Finally the round outlines quivered and lines appeared, dividing the cells in two. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We are pushed forward into a mass, which he is dividing into two lines. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This money was divided between the owner of the horse and the rider, and Johnny bought himself spurs, boots, and a fur-lined surtout, all second hand. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Greeks would figure out the ratio by dividing the line into tiny pieces, using, for example, a standard or yardstick half an inch long. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He goes o’er and, without as much as a “Howdy do,” pult aside the sheet that divides the cabin in two at night. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Newton’s work was based on a very shaky foundation—dividing zero by itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z What trivial thing was I doing while they divided the map beneath my feet? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z What makes them ‘perfect’ is that both have a mathematically pure ‘pitch ratio’; dividing a taut plucked string by exactly two- thirds, for instance, will produce a perfect fifth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When they reached the White House, the women divided into two groups of six and headed toward the east and west entrances. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But this was the great divide between the two genres: in pop, being new was a bonus; in classical, it had become a hurdle. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The newspapers of all the states were divided among them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no formal arrangement for dividing the money,” Mr. McDowell answered. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z If your mind is divided, the knife will break. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z His lips were cracked with long, bloody splits dividing ’em every little bit. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z ‘We must divide up into pairs, and arrange — here, hold on! Wait!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “First, the ringwall, then the outer circle. It’s divided into three sectors. Beyond that is the ice moat, then at the center of everything, the White Island.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Przemyśl taught me long ago not to divide people by their country, their religion, or even their preferences in politics. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z 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 Corelli’s typical concerto grosso was divided into three sections of contrasting speeds - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - after the fashion of the earlier consort suites or setts. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They signaled the dividing line between the turbulence of the town and its sins and the quiet peace of the hills of the llano. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent some time in the beginning sketching out the history of the ANC and then explaining our positions on the primary issues that divided the organization from the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dreams of the germs of infants bubbling, dividing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And while he has done cruel, evil things, our society is not divided into “good” and “bad.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Part of the effort to divide black people was to make sure we were separated not just physically but by language as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Old filing cabinets divided the room into several small cubicles, in each of which was a desk painted with a peculiar orange varnish. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The world of thought is divided roughly into two hemispheres. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When the assembled mourners bowed their heads in prayer, I was divided from them because I believed that the void would not answer back. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Immediately, the guards divided our group by gender. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z See, a trap is divided into two “rooms.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Finally, he straps a sheath divided into three cylinders of arrows to my back. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Then the next watch is the dog watch; it’s divided into two watches; four to six and six to eight. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He also knew that many people living on the wrong side of the “great epi divide” had brown or black skin and were female. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Because of Ashoke’s passion for this particular book, the spine had recently split, threatening to divide the pages into two sections. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That the Career Tributes who survive the bloodbath will divide up most of these life-sustaining spoils. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Along I-20, a superhighway that divides Atlanta into north and south, cars whizzed past at frightening speeds. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Another misconception is that there is necessarily a sharp divide between nomadic hunter-gatherers and sedentary food producers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Das untangled Tina’s hair with her brush and divided it into two little ponytails. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Brahmagupta, an Indian mathematician of the seventh century, gave rules for dividing numbers by each other, and he included the negatives. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had figured out fifty-three divided by three. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z We get out of the trucks at the divide between our world and theirs—whoever “they” are. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Since completing my Ph.D. in 1961, I have divided my scientific research efforts between two fields: molecular physiology on the one hand, evolutionary biology and biogeography on the other hand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Chubs sat in one of the middle seats, dividing his time between the book in his lap and the world of trees just outside the tinted car window. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The history of Egypt is divided into dynasties of rulers, in accordance with ancient Egyptian practice, beginning with the First Dynasty shortly after 3000 B.C. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This was convenient for the planters—who were skilled at the game of divide and rule. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Standing next to him on the step was exactly one half of a small child who had been divided neatly from top to bottom. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z "For the purpose of convenience,” he began pompously, "I have divided my talk tonight into thirty main headings and one hundred and seventeen sub-headings. I will commence with the first main heading...” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I footed a line in the dirt, dividing our stall in half. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z They divided in the corridor to the right and left. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It’s like the day when he put up the curtain to divide the room for Roli and me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The Mess is also divided by blocks—small cardboard table tents are labeled with block numbers so we know where to go. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It was not enough for him to have made the Church powerful and to have alienated his allies, for since he coveted the Kingdom of Naples, he divided it with the King of Spain. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, the Hulls seemed to talk together about anything, not as if conversation were divided into Adult subjects and You’re-Not-Old-Enough-to-Understand subjects. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He stands in front of a tabletop divided into compartments, placing tiny rectangular prisms of leaden letterforms into a bracket in his hand. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A ton of the pictures on his phone were of leafless branches dividing up the sky, like the view I had as we floated under that sycamore. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The Marxists worked from within the communal divides, never challenging them, never appearing not to. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, it was divided into football, basketball, and baseball seasons. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Most such animals have a digestive system of extraordinary complexity, including a stomach divided into four chambers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Because atoms are indivisible, there is a point Beyond which things could not be divided. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She was dividing one chicken so it stretched into three full meals by using the back and wings in her lemon-rice soup. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lieu-tenant arrived and told us to lock the two middle gates, which effectively divided the group in half. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So, first you want to divide the numbers to figure out what the cost per ounce is, then you want...” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “The whole country is divided into two camps,” wrote Dave Boone in the San Francisco Chronicle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But I can see he's surprised when I divide the rest of the stew and rice and hand a heaping plate to him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I just scrape the mold off the cheese and divide up the food among the rest of us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Kraals were swept, the topsoil was conserved, fields were neatly divided. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He uncorked the bottle of Chablis, divided the peaches and the cheese and the bean curd. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “We shall begin today. We shall divide the days into teaching thy mind and teaching thy hands, then weariness shall not give thee excuse for discouragement.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z This is the easiest way to write beats that are evenly divided into three rather than two. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They passed long brick walls dividing the compounds of Seatown’s wealthy traders from the common folk who did the work of the city. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Each page of the book was divided lengthwise down the center. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Neel slipped behind the long sari that divided the room diagonally. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z On March 2nd, the Senate passed the Kansas-Ne- braska Bill which repealed the Missouri Compromise restriction and divided the Nebraska Territory into two territories: Kansas and Nebraska. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He did a nice job today reviewing how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide exponents. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Originally, geological history was divided into four spans of time: primary, secondary, tertiary, and quaternary. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He did not know what to do, so he continued dividing the food. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The ballroom was divided in half by a large curtain. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “There are so few children in Faerie that I’ve never seen one of us twinned. Is it like being doubled or more like being divided in half?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The barn was divided into twelve smaller pens, each with a thick layer of fresh straw for them to bed in. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You count the number of chirps in a minute, divide by four, and add forty. They’re very intelligent.” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z When it came time to divide the women into separate regiments, knowing how close these friends were, Marina assigned them all to the same squadron. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z We drove to the bridge that divided the east bank of the Jordan River from its west bank, where hills and valleys curved like the laps of a thousand mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z By now, soldiers have found a partition usually used to divide the state box. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Specific impulse is defined as the thrust in pounds of a given propellant divided by its consumption rate.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z We divided the sausage and ate it in one bite each. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Ben did not understand why his mother, his sister, and his friends had to bleed, hurt, and cramp; the separateness was an abyss, a continental divide that kept them apart. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the areas of the cross sections of the supporting wires are equal, the stresses in the wire, force divided by cross-sectional area, vary as the lengths of the wires. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It usually took half an hour to find all the books, then we would divide them up and go into separate rooms to “do school.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The apartment is one room, with a giant wooden wardrobe dividing the living room from the bedroom. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Positive divided by positive, or negative by negative, is affirmative,” he wrote. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z An island of the archipelago in the South Atlantic between North and South America, enclosing the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: divided into the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Bahama Islands. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was divided among plates and seven people ate from each plate. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Beale divided the little ones’ room into two sections with a panel of plywood, and Amanda moved her stuff into the back part. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z All the money in the country would be gathered up and divided equally so that there would no longer be rich people and poor people. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Watching HeLa cells divide on a screen, Davidson wrote, “was like a glimpse at immortality.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The land is divided between bare mountain slopes and fertile valleys that support both grazing and farming. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The UN workers tried to be fair in dividing up food and clothes among so many of us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Until now the animals had been about equally divided in their sympathies, but in a moment Snowball’s eloquence had carried them away. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “So how long did these negotiations last? To divide the world?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And so, by the end of the day, the little family was divided. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But it divided them; Isaac could live with the consequences and Edmond couldn’t. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Handlers and spies were divided into groups called circuits, with each circuit using its own ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Accounting thus became the basis for rational investment choices and made it possible to decide how to divide up the profits of a partnership. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Not every Abnegation family is religious, but my father says we should try not to see those differences because they will only divide us. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z That case set no precedent because it settled out of court, with rights to the cells being divided between the parties involved in the lawsuit, which didn’t include the cell “donor.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Tariq stands behind her, and I notice that the fighters have divided into two groups. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Dad had enough gall to be divided into three parts, and the ability and poise to backstop the front he placed before the world. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘My point,’ Jason said, ‘is that blaming each other isn’t going solve anything. That’s how the Romans and Greeks got divided in the first place.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “If you know what clue words to look for in the word problem,” Auggie explained, “you know what operation to use. Like ‘per’ or ‘each’ or ‘equally’ means you have to divide. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z In effect, the society was divided into hereditary chief and commoner classes, with Hawaiian chiefs themselves subdivided into eight hierarchically ranked lineages, each concentrating its marriages within its own lineage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m dividing it into three installments,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s got steps up the middle, which divides it into two sections, one for home, one for away. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z When it closes behind you, the distance feels greater than a few steps divided by a striped curtain. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Are there so many cars that America must be divided into places with and places without them? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Chapter Summary: This chapter is divided into two parts. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The group that gained the most from having a divided black community, of course, was the ruling class of Durham’s leading white families. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A gravel driveway divided the Finch yard from Miss Rachel’s. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually all the children slept on the second floor, and a maid, and later a governess, Dorus and Anna putting up walls to divide already small rooms into smaller ones. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We’d watch the spring with binoculars and see how much thrust was produced and then divide the answer by the pounds of propellant burned and how long it took. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The mystery was in the instant before it moved, the dividing moment between not moving and moving, when her intention took effect. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even the Richardson children found themselves divided on this thorny subject. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A shaggy beard covered his cheeks and neck, but the hair would not grow over the scar, so a shiny seam of puckered, twisted flesh divided his face like a crevasse through a snowfield. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now imagine that line divided into a thousand equal widths. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z When two partners divide up the profits of a business between them they assign a notional book value to the stock in hand. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The racial divide widened, and the anger boiled. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z My life during those months was as divided as my body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z There are the plasticized wooden counters I remember, the board divided into squares, the little holders for setting the letters in. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In a simple meter, each beat is basically divided into halves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Back at the women’s camp, they divided up the bread. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Time would darken the half-moon wound into Roy’s dark skin, but nothing would bring together again the so violently divided eyebrow. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Mama divided up what food there was in the cupboard and called it rations and when the children were still hungry after a meal, she’d say, Courage, my men, help will come soon.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, the universe is divided between a supralunary zone, where nothing changes and movement is always in circles, and a sublunary zone. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Everyone in your family is very powerful. Your brother and you divide the world between you. Your mother come back to life to break your bowls. ” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z All through math I wonder if the United Nations is permanently divided. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Multiply by two and you stretch the number line by a factor of two; divide by two and you relax the rubber band by a factor of two, undoing the multiplication. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z These four eras are further divided into anywhere from a dozen to twenty subgroups, usually called periods though sometimes known as systems. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z For the Two against Three rhythm, divide the class into two groups and assign the Two-beat rhythm line to one half and the Three-beat rhythm line to the other half. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We’d even divided the cleanup duties as we waited for the machine to ding. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z When I sat down, I noticed that the courtroom was divided. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The room was divided into three sections by two large grates that ran the length of the room. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z They divide only a finite number of times, then stop growing and begin to die. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By this time, I had divided my classmates into three groups. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A regiment was usually divided into three squadrons of ten planes, with a squadron leader and deputy assigned to each. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Like the rest of us, they felt a scandal would further divide the city. They offered to make a sizable donation in order to preserve the peace.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Mouse turned suddenly, staring toward Cuttyhunk, and there came Mr. Johnson, the postmaster, hurrying down the path to the bass stands and waving at us from across the shallow divide. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “Every night when I get the tobacco I will first divide it into two portions and then I will let you choose which one you want.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Arabic numerals are tools which enable me to add and subtract, multiply and divide on a piece of paper far more fluently than I could with Roman numerals. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Since the speed of the light is just the distance it has traveled divided by the time it has taken, different observers would measure different speeds for the light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas’ cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The cops tried to crack down and one night caught four of us dividing up cases of the stolen wine on a dead-end street. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Biber’s ‘Guardian Angel’ is an especially interesting piece because it is constructed in a format known as a ‘Passacaglia’, which divided moral opinion in the seventeenth century but continues to influence music today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then she divided the group into two teams and told them she planned simply to watch them play. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z From that point forward, there was a great divide between Stanton, Anthony, and others who backed educated suffrage, and those who supported working for African American suffrage first and female suffrage afterward. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There will be great heat and unbearable light—the hell within hell— but I don’t look at the light, only at the flower, «nmulti- plying, ««dividing itself back from the many toward one. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Turtle felt the fingers dividing the hair into strands. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while Kreisel held forth on a way to make a financial killing by shifting money between the politically divided parts of Europe. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Since the Battle of Fort Sumter took place in South Carolina in April 1861, the United States has been a “house divided,” locked in a civil war between the free North and the slaveholding South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I looks out on the porch and whispers to the other side of the curtain that divides the room, “Ma? You sleeping? It’s the sheriff!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Dividing a number by zero yields infinity; dividing a number by infinity yields zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They divided into groups of seventeen, and each group climbed into a glider. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A square hedge divides Tyler’s front yard from the next. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z Strictly speaking, it might be said that Cleopatra lost ground, because now her empire was divided between her and her children, and Judea remained out of her reach. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The field would be divided into two groups of three for a preliminary elimination heat on July 4. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “And so you actually put this piece of court-plaister by for his sake!” said Emma, recovering from her state of shame and feeling divided between wonder and amusement. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z First, we divided the treasure into two piles, one bigger and heavier than the other. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The national government itself was in part to blame for this reversal after it showed it was divided on the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Our group seemed evenly divided between stealing the ambulance or going on foot, so we put it to a vote. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z After the Rupture, her people—the Gedes—had been dwindled down by war and poverty, easy to divide and regulate. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I mean, who really cares about dividing decimals or contrasting the parts of plants, animals, and one-celled organisms when you’ve had the kind of morning I have? The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z It is the infinite that lies at the heart of Zeno’s paradox: Zeno had taken continuous motion and divided it into an infinite number of tiny steps. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The beer parlors are divided into two sections. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I found that I liked this class arrangement very much; it divided my work neatly and made it easy for me to concentrate separately upon Talmud and college subjects. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z We hang blankets and woven rugs from the top pole to divide the remaining space, so each family has some privacy. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The Cherokees were originally divided into 30 or 40 independent chiefdoms, each consisting of a village of about 400 people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Obsidian Kings end up winning, and the tally over the White Sharks disappears, divided and paid proportionally among the winning gamblers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Fifty divided by two is twenty-five, I think. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z After the group divided up into several subcommittees, each one responsible for a different component of the charrette, they came to the task of selecting chairmen to guide the charrette. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the language divide, she probably has no idea what questions to ask me about my life. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z High schools were divided into four general categories: vocational, commercial, general, and academic. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “We’ve divided most of them already but can reshuffle if you want.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Another day she sat prying the pimpled yellow fat off chicken parts, then dividing them between thigh and leg. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Soon afterward Hazel, limping ahead with Fiver near him, found himself on a narrow green path that divided the wilderness from the riverbank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I divided the kids up into either heroes or monsters. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z They have tried different ways of dividing the bills, at one point splitting the $1,475 rent and sharing the utilities, at another point, one paying the rent and the other the utilities. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “You listen to me, Isaiah Thornton. I hate that we have to split our child in half like the continental divide.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z If I only got partial credit for three then I would have to divide 65 by 3. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “What a horrible idea! No, the officers decide where to assign recruits. If we were divided according to god, the cohorts would be all uneven. I’d be alone.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I spent the summer with my time divided between playing basketball and reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Cultural anthropologists attempting to describe the diversity of human societies often divide them into as many as half a dozen categories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The sandpaper was divided into exactly equal halves, and the twins fell to work with an eerie concentration that excluded everything else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When they got to the hills, divided by a steep path thick with trees, Mrs. Das refused to get out of the car. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, and others were divided between Hitler and Stalin. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z So Cook and Mr. Henry divided the bottles among twenty champagne flutes, and poured a measure of a bottle of Coca-Cola for the household staff, since there was no champagne left. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z We had the second practice on a Monday at lunchtime and the coach divided us up into a “Red” team and a “Blue” team. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z At first, my mom and I operate on our own schedules and in the evenings it’s like someone’s come in and divided the house with red tape. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Heqet flung himself down and began to divide his food as he talked. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I remembered something like that, or maybe it was divide them all by the same number. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z So we each take five, leaving seven, which will never divide equally. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It means that some of the molecules in his cells are destroyed, so that the cells no longer work normally and cannot grow and divide. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z It divided Cleopatra’s lands and prevented her from gaining authority over the entire region. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z As in the ghetto, we divided the room into sections, using ropes with blankets draped over them. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The other half of the hut was divided into two piles of dry grass. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I reached Covey’s about nine o’clock; and just as I was getting over the fence that divided Mrs. Kemp’s fields from ours, out ran Covey with his cowskin, to give me another whipping. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Market Street was the main street of the city and ran diagonally across it, dividing the city in half. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A major study from 1999, backed by the MacArthur Foundation, tracked outcomes for large cohorts of high school students, divided between children who received extensive arts education and those who did not. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The rest of the picture was divided neatly into little farm plots, each with its mud hut, each with its creaking well. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The ratio of zero to anything—zero divided by a number—is always zero; the other number is completely consumed by the zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “This walkway divides the palace garden in half—in kind of a twisty way, of course—but still, in two.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Even history profs have to know how to multiply and divide, Emmakins.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z There are two rivers at Devon, divided by a small dam. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Their normal life was like this: both worked, Mrs. Dewey as an office secretary, and they divided between them the household chores, taking turns at the stove and the sink. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It then begins dividing, replicating itself into a new colony of identical cells, all labeled with the same receptor, primed with the same question. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Korea was divided before the war. I’ve told you about when Korea was occupied by Japan and we almost lost our culture and our language.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Cartesianism, by making an unambiguous divide between the material and the immaterial, left it unclear how angels and demons might be present in the world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had wisely divided his regular animals from his man-eating sheep, putting each group on either side of the huge crevice that divided the island. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The second hand on Fenoglio's kitchen clock was dividing time into painfully small segments. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Until that moment there had been a dividing line on one side of which stood the solemn poor and on the other people like himself, among whom he had classed Amanda. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Heqet and the Ancient mechanically performed the usual ritual of dividing what food there was, but their attention was riveted on Ranofer. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The door opens, and Tobias steps halfway in, the door dividing his body in half. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z From Cicero onward, it has been conventional to divide up the business of oratory into five basic parts—sometimes known as the “canons of rhetoric.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z She would wait until all the akpu was eaten and then divide the fish so that each child had a piece, and she would keep the biggest for herself, as he had always done. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Scrupulously he divided the food in half, taking pains even with the crumbs. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z At the committee’s first meeting, they divided up the most important responsibilities. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Yes, I can add, and subtract and multiply and divide. Cain’t do much more than that, though. You need somebody to do more math than that back there sorting out the celery and the onions?” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The others sorted out the goods, making a pile of all that could be left behind, and dividing up the rest. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Many black people are confused—and the black community itself is divided—about how best to understand and respond to mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As in many neighborhoods throughout the nation, North Enders were divided in their support of what now seemed to be the inevitable development. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He relishes the camaraderie: how riders take care of one another, pass along what they know, divide what they have. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He asked knowledgeable and relevant questions — questions that reflected a familiarity with the issues that divided the government and the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first task was to divide up what space we had for sleeping. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The custom is to divide the meat in thirds, one for the family, one for friends, and one for the poor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now this one when he came talked of the land and of the harvest and of the summer drought which would this year divide the harvest by three. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The world is divided into morning people and afternoon people and night people?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z And I said, “Is it a long cake with a square cross section which is divided into equally sized, alternately colored squares?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z These indivisible lines and planes are like atoms of area and volume; they can’t be divided any further. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A typical choral arrangement divides women into higher and lower voices and men into higher or lower voices. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z During the weeks to follow, the divide between members of the College would grow wider and the arguments more heated and personal. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A long while later they divided the prisoners into groups, according to their guilt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “People are just divided by different things, fighting different wars.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Huang Ha, a most perceptive, and also most militant man, focused upon the efforts of the West to divide Africans from the peoples of African heritage elsewhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Once started, he went on and on—boomingly. “. . . five hundred and sixty thousand square Kilometers, divided into four distinct Sub-Reservations, each surrounded by a high-tension wire fence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Every morning at seven, my father gathered his sons, divided them into teams and sent them out to tackle the tasks of the day. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The last two were one shed, really, with a thin dividing wall. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Yet dividing by zero destroys the fabric of mathematics and the framework of logic—and threatens to undermine the very basis of science. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a simple matter of walking straight through the apparently solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His contemporaries are divided on the question, and his own notes are contradictory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Still, unlike the invaluable headrights involved in the slaying of Mollie’s family members—or the $25,000 life-insurance policy in Roan’s death—none of these sums, especially if divided, represented a significant incentive for murder. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z |
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