I’d actually meant to write out something earlier, but the day had gotten away from me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But he’d looked for Dorian in his rooms, and he hadn’t been there, and he needed to tell him that things weren’t as they’d seemed when he walked in on them earlier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She shifted nervously where she sat and put her hand on the sticky disk of resin I’d knocked away from her earlier. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All three of their hearts pounded—none of them would have imagined hours earlier what kind of night this would turn out to be. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I happen to know that Amber Carson accessed the very file I'm looking for earlier today when Alicia called her. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was true, what he had earlier sensed, that Trademaster was inhuman. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

His earlier efforts to reform his eating habits were halfhearted. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This is what I saw earlier, from the rise. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jupiter is also surrounded by a ring of solid debris, discovered four months earlier by Voyager 1, which Voyager 2 had to traverse. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So once again I sat in a passenger seat and bumped across the fields toward where we’d held our picnic months earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw you watching me earlier when I was fighting with my grandma and I thought...” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Hail is a shower of irregular lumps of ice and always comes from cumulonimbus clouds, so I knew 1 was right under the cloud I’d seen forming earlier. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

My earlier break, the one I’d committed so many crimes to preserve, had been a complete bust, with no other human around but a management-level woman from accounting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Rebeca was so impatient with the approach of the wedding that she wanted to get the dress ready earlier than Amaranta had foreseen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Only a month earlier, the atmosphere surrounding Ivory had been so different. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier Thomas Edison, known widely as “the Wizard of Menlo Park,” had paid a visit to Burnham’s shanty. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Farmer had earlier gotten laughs when he said that in America there were lots of labs and no TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

With the unusual excitement, and having to go to market earlier than usual, Mrs. Popper had not yet got around to straightening the house. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here’s one from a few years earlier: Mrs. Roodveldt’s bridal portrait, her eyes lowered, a lace veil covering her hair and a small bouquet of lilacs in her hands. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Adams had written them much earlier and had described Jefferson as a duplicitous political partisan. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Now, imprisoned with the weight of my childhood ever more dismally heaped upon me, I longed for that earlier stint with the arms spread wide. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The story begins twenty-six years earlier, as World War II came to an end and the Cold War began. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“How are you? I talked to your mom earlier. I wanted to make sure you guys got home okay.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was time to bring out the plan that had hatched days earlier when I saw my face in the window. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When high winds had toppled the forty-two-foot-high National Christmas Tree a few years earlier, the garden had survived intact. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Raymie remembered the words from earlier: I’m sorry I betrayed you. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

So in 1942, Ohio native and father of one Wilson Coolidge, who'd bought the house from Ruth Weiss four years earlier, was struck by a car on the corner of American and Joy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There, the father was surrounded by visiting children, whom the goldfish man recognized as his earlier customers. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When Ivy called June earlier, June’s voice had sounded small and tired on the phone. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Alex noticed a purplish bruise on Calvin’s cheek and remembered something from earlier that day. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It seems to me like that thrust of dynamism which caused and permitted whole peoples to migrate and to conquer in earlier ages. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny’s frustration from earlier had burned away, and now she just felt guilty, even if she didn’t know what else she could have done. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Why didn't I wake up a little earlier and go to the laundromat with her? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I took a deep breath and shook my head, forcing out the sleepiness and the memories from earlier that day that kept slamming into me. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“It’s good to see you, m’hija,” he says in Spanish, still a little bewildered at my sudden appearance earlier this evening. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

While earlier Marco had determined her to be little more than mildly intriguing and fairly pretty, this revelation is something more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And yet, a little earlier in the day, she had not been able to look at it without shivering.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

"But I paid you back already with all that sprinting I gave you earlier," I groaned. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The King had been hunting the Questing Beast a few months earlier, on the south coast of Gramarye, when the animal had taken to the sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This mix of letters and pictographs caused some grief for earlier interpreters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But two features distinguish the Austronesians’ arrival there from their earlier arrival in the Philippines and Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So then I looked around and tried to remember where the sun had been when we’d first entered the field earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

We go up to the front two days earlier than usual. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do believe your earlier suggestion is spot on,” he said, and rather randomly quoted what Maddie reckoned was probably a line from Kipling. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In one case, about six years earlier, Baird had prosecuted a twenty-one-year-old man who had been driving a small Toyota pickup through Logan Canyon, along a narrow, sometimes dangerous road. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was still paint and glue stuck in his hair from when he was experimenting with fabrics earlier in the day. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The two Baldwin County deputies who had picked him up a week earlier had not been friendly on the trip from death row to the courthouse. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, they ain’t naked, but they might as well be. Little purple flimflams—” “Tutus,” prompted Gilly primly, gratefully recovering from her earlier shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The driver took this opportunity to break his silence with the brief and heartfelt outburst mentioned earlier, but it is not necessary to reprint his exact words. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

We had driven there earlier in the day, parking in the shade of a tumble- down school and some old missionary buildings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I remembered how wide-eyed I’d been on my first trip there decades earlier with Czerny, my mentor from Princeton. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was a compact gentleman, and one could easily imagine that, in his earlier years, he had been adept at springing and vaulting. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The nice part was that we could step away for a romantic evening the way we used to, years earlier, before his political life took over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Just like Saint Augustine 800 years earlier, Maimonides tried to reshape the Semitic Bible to fit into Greek doctrine: doctrine that had an unreasonable fear of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s the way I knew he was still in the lobby earlier today. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some African Americans who had been born as slaves were still alive, and could describe how they had lived sixty years earlier. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But then Muti’s call from earlier—Look, the Ugly One is here. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I don’t know. I talked to Nick for a minute earlier. I think they’re fighting.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Now, as it turned out, the Rebellion was achieved much earlier and more easily than anyone had expected. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

So earlier today—three boring weeks, three victorious meets after Patty's crazy comeback—I finally put some sound in my mile. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

For the next few games I think of what happened earlier, when I went to 13 Harrison Avenue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I’m embarrassed—no, angry at myself—for not approaching them earlier, wrongly assuming they might be unwilling to stand up to the Director. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

On an earlier trip, he had met El Brujo, one of their comrades. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But the poor judgement of men will begin something that seems good at the outset without noticing the poison concealed underneath, as I said earlier in connection with consumptive fevers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He looks over one of the forms I filled out earlier for the paralegal and gets a yellow legal pad out of his desk drawer. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well. The Belgians in general. He’s very mad about all the nice things they said earlier about King Léopold. Who was a bad egg, I’ll admit that.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the rumors she’d heard earlier were true, Sahel’s manner of death had been neither a quick nor a painless affair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps his earlier plan to embarrass her wasn’t foiled yet. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He's still wearing the formal clothes he wore to escort Mrs. Janssen to the funeral earlier today. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or even earlier, when I first laid eyes on Nathan at the tent revival. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You taught me how to do that duara thing earlier,” she said calmly. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

People wonder why I didn’t go back to school earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She texted me earlier to say she and her guardian were up all night volunteering to help those who were hurt in last night’s hybrid attacks. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Tiny details of the drawings he’d seen earlier started to come back to him. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I mean, being gay is one thing. Kids are coming out much earlier than when I was young. It won’t be easy, but we’ll deal with it. But being that kind of gay?” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The young woman he had seen earlier pushing a baby buggy stood beside him, holding her baby, swaying her head to the music. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

We’d taken the kids to visit her late that summer, and he’d gone again on his own ten days earlier, stepping off the campaign trail for a day to sit and hold her hand. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His father’s words had reawakened the awful fear from earlier in the day. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Marigold turned back to the section of the book she’d found earlier. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Too late he remembered what the mhondoro had told him earlier: it was not a hole but a mouth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The peace I’d enjoyed earlier was gone, so I picked up my pole, walked back to the truck, and headed home. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Nicolas’s interest in supernatural things had begun a few years earlier. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m hungry,” she said, although breakfast had been only an hour earlier. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

God, it appeared, hadn’t wished to distract or alarm Moses with news of earlier, irrelevant extinctions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Several governors who had earlier preached a “go along” attitude now dug in their heels. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sam gets home an hour earlier than usual. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

And earlier that day, the sky had been clear. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Instead, she just reaches her hand inside her coat pocket and clutches the shard of crystal she put there earlier. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

It was a fear distantly related to the earlier panic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What was that you said earlier about having extraterrestrial powers? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But earlier in the afternoon, Riefenstahl had discovered SS officers untying both her camera and her cameraman from the railing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I guess I had known all this last year, and the year before, even earlier, but I'd just accepted it before. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I said, “Well, why didn’t they tell us that earlier!” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I had seen Chloe Marsh earlier in the day—very pretty, with a face shaped like a soft heart and with a delicate nose and lips like a contessa in a Renaissance portrait. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, as I watched in amazement, my avatar reappeared, fading back into existence in the exact same location where I’d died a few seconds earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Peoples of the Fertile Crescent domesticated local plants much earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Momma returned it earlier—hallelujah, thank you, Black Jesus. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Most of that happened earlier, when they were rounding them up, but they still unearth a few these days, dredge them up from underground, where they’ve been hiding, like moles. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glider was one of Fathers earlier models, without the rudder controls. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Robbie had used his tattoos as weapons earlier...What more could be done? Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The light is fading now and gray clouds billow over the mountains we crossed earlier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

"I've brought you dinner. It's the least I can do. I was angry earlier. Claudine provoked me. Forgive me, will you?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

According to Ms. Bethune the results of the competition had been mailed out earlier in the week, and Fadi’s nervousness was growing, despite his attempt at patience. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“I remember now. When the Titans ruled, they imprisoned Gaia and Ouranos’s earlier children— the Cyclopes and the Hekatonkheires.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Elephant Island had been named years earlier for the throngs of elephant seals that crowded its rocky shores. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Traded earlier in the week for the blue silk blouse. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He shook his head and finished his drink; he had earlier put the straw aside, sipping from the glass. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Already he was starting to suffer from a shortage of breath, just as in his earlier days his lungs had been quite unreliable. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Exclusion Guards who joined us earlier follow Jake’s lead and step up. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was hardly the promising student who had left him sixteen years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, my art seemed romantic to her. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

By coincidence, it turned out Barack and I had met Sam years earlier through a different set of friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Raymond’s foot was still raw and blistered from his accident almost a year earlier. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He ran off as fast as he could to the far end of the garden and hid himself behind that clump of dirty old laurel bushes that we mentioned earlier on. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

A decade earlier in the underground prison, Shin’s aging cellmate had dared to talk about food outside the camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

That’s an idea that came to her a week or so earlier when she’d gotten a visit from a local sheriff, Sergeant Tony Hudson. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

From where Abbey and I had been sitting earlier on the beach, the water had looked normal and safe. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The land we drove away from three and a half years earlier had not altered a bit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, she had organized her fellow black employees at a white-owned nursing home to join a voter registration march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the letter, and he pointed to the same line she had struggled with earlier: Siobhan is the key; the one who will lead you to my fortune. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Principal Hornstein had sent the school secretary to call both of them into his office fifteen minutes earlier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

But when Mom looks up, I know instantly that the mom who rubbed my back and watched Netflix with me earlier in the week is gone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The camp is quiet except for some early sounds—dishwater sloshing in pots behind the dining hall, the cry of a baby who rose earlier than his mother would have preferred. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One of his three plans had reached fruition a lot earlier than he had expected. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“You heard that scream a bit earlier on this evening?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother supervised his menu religiously, feeling guilty perhaps about earlier things she had run through his system. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Women’s suffrage—which had seemed like a radical idea when it was first proposed seventy-two years earlier in central New York—had finally become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Finally they reached a little wooden shack like the one they’d stopped at earlier, where a dim bulb glowed on a bare wire over the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

A meeting of the ANC executive took place afterward at which a few of us asked for a report of the earlier meeting with the white liberals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large, full fairy-tale moon hung in the sky now—though Hazel could have sworn it wasn’t there earlier—showing a cottage that looked like something from a movie. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

One Sunday, Roberto and I crossed the fence earlier than usual to wait for the Noon Train. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Building a soap box derby car was an apprenticeship in engineering, and the earlier a kid got started, she knew, the more likely they were to fall under its spell. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

As best he could understand it, the world had simply gotten too full of people about twenty years earlier. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

All the people that were milling around earlier are gathered by the ledge now, and the air smells potently of alcohol. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I prefer the earlier ones, with their daytime clarity, their calm arrested gestures. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But these escapades had occurred years earlier, in some cases decades earlier, when I was in my twenties and thirties. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t it bother me to slosh through the filthy water of the White River when hours earlier I’d found it intolerable to hear my stomach rumble? Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Breakfast was at seven, not a minute earlier or later. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Later, when we’d finished our own meal, we all walked by Usain’s table and apologized for disturbing him earlier, and he was super nice. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

A week earlier, that comment would have sent me flying down the dune ready to fight. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Several persons at the party were laughing among themselves, saying that at an earlier party that day, U.S. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a reference to a story he’d told earlier in the hearing about some guy he’d seen texting while driving erratically. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Louis had earlier organized a plan to capture leopards who made trouble around people’s homes and release them in one of the national parks. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Its gaze had been pointed down at the ground, where my avatar had stood a second earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Let’s now return to our earlier questions about the rise of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We are trying to eat when Dell comes down the hall earlier than usual. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, all he had on were the blue jeans he’d worn earlier when he went to work at Flat Face Pizza. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Problem Solve as to how to obtain food after the railroad lines were cut off, strategize as to earlier successes during the war. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Dr. Hamid’s words from earlier surprise me by playing through my head. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She wore some of the world’s earlier high-heeled shoes, the first ‘designer’ perfumes, and owned the first side-saddle to allow women to ride as adeptly as men. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“I know. He bought shells from me earlier. With food stamps.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So sometimes the answer to "Why is it that way?" is simply "that's what is easiest for the performer," or "they borrowed that from an earlier music tradition." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

One of the soldiers is the young captain I saw earlier, the man named Metias. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Her face had brightened when she came back; there was a smiling, even-featured prettiness, drawn out by that phone call, that Ifemelu had not earlier seen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I turn around and see the lady who was loading her dryer earlier. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I know what happened earlier was heavy stuff. The deliverance prayer can be pretty draining. But can I tell you something that might counterbalance what you heard here last night?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It took him twenty minutes to reach the top and sure enough K Unit was already there, crouching around three small tents that they must have pitched earlier in the afternoon. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Are you kidding, Ari? He gets up a half hour before he has to be in to work. He won’t get up a minute earlier.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Four years earlier, when she had wandered in from the mountains, I hid her for a day, secretly feeding her in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

At home a week earlier, I finally confided to the imam about how panicked I was about speaking in front of a crowd. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It is possible that the invention of antibodies evolved from the earlier sensing mechanisms needed for symbiosis, perhaps designed, in part, to keep the latter from getting out of hand. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her earlier disgrace, Rosencrantz had begun to court her again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She would see me, and then she would probably waddle over to tell me that the police were here earlier. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt guilty for not trusting Valley earlier, and now, seeing how afraid Valley looked at the mention of her father, she felt even worse. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The aura that surrounded me earlier is gone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I can remember my other birthdays, later and earlier ones, but not this one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to see parallels: The Africans wanted to be free from British rule, just as colonial Americans did two hundred years earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I’d gone wandering earlier and found some willow bark to chew. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More than two decades earlier—when I was just three years old—Rogers had gone through those same White Pages. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The reasons for that are complicated, and Tony gave them flesh and blood by befriending some Mexican kitchen workers at a restaurant owned by an earlier, successful immigrant from Greece. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Hale, who had an owlish face, stiff black hair, and small, alert eyes set in shaded hollows, had settled on the reservation nearly two decades earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It was so joyful. I only wished that it had come earlier in life when I might have been able to bring more to it.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The pier had burned down years earlier, leaving tall wooden pilings that Lawrence and his friends liked to dive from. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, this long flight would be undertaken only if no harm came to the astronauts on the earlier Gemini flights, which were scheduled to stay up for four days, and then eight days. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite earlier battles, few whites in Durham—or anywhere else in the South—were prepared for the sweeping nature of Brown v. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In that case, the more distant the galaxy, the earlier in its history we are observing it, and the more likely it is that we should see it as a quasar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being so close to mainland Europe—a short sail to France—it had been a point of embarkation for British troops during the Napoleonic wars earlier in the century. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the fact was, the earlier Moving Day came, the colder the nights were likely to be. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a certain amount of excitement earlier when they had come back from dinner to find a new sign on the notice board that announced the date for their Apparition Test. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He was tall and lanky with a bronzed, sharp-boned face; his green eyes were twinkly, like he’d just gotten a joke someone had told him earlier. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The maiden test flights into nearby space a few months earlier had been successful, but because we’re now leaving so suddenly, this will be the first interstellar journey. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Said he was going to be passing and not to worry about the stove....When did he come home? I knocked earlier and he wasn’t there!” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, a police chopper with searchlights flew over the Essex community, where Wes had lived a few years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He thought these books had all been burned eight years earlier. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I told her the story as best I could without letting all the hurt and anger I felt earlier come right on back. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Right before homeroom I corner Roger by his locker and ask him if we can get earlier appointments, like for this afternoon. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

All of them had either Folsom or Clovis points, which convinced many archaeologists that the Clovis people, the earlier of the two, must have been the original Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

When it begins to get dark earlier in the day, I start feeling more depressed than usual. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I was in my office, talking to Jimmy Dill on the night of his execution, and I realized I was thinking about something that had happened nearly forty years earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

While he was shaving, he remembered a few months earlier, President Johnson had shown him the hidden safe where he stashed top secret documents. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They sat down at the head of the table, where in earlier days the mother, the father, and Gregor had eaten, unfolded their serviettes, and picked up their knives and forks. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

At half-past eight, Dicey herded everybody back into the mall, to use the bathrooms they had found earlier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peek in to see the dark-haired dude from earlier wearing a pair of flannel pajama pants and a Food Network T-shirt. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He was having a harder and harder time believing he’d been terrified of this guy just a day earlier—he seemed silly, even pathetic now. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I think the pageant is like Christmas, and we just keep trying to celebrate it earlier and earlier until it turns into a year-round event. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was massive access to new kinds of media that hadn’t existed in the mainstream just five years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The problems he’d warned of—and prioritized—over a decade earlier were persistently difficult to solve. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Blond Homecoming Queen who had come up the steps earlier with her pink shirt and her perfectly brushed hair didn’t want to think about that. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’d picked the chamomile flowers in the Berkeley hills earlier in the spring and dried them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There he saw a crude footpath he might have found earlier if he had not been so hasty. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own car was parked in town near the docks; he’d left it there earlier that same morning when he’d gone to the harbor for the launch. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The earlier tender tone in my mom’s voice dissipates. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Justice Douglas tells of attending a meeting of federal field men who were discussing protests by citizens against plans for the spraying of sagebrush that I mentioned earlier in this chapter. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The first time I saw all that velvet, eight years earlier, I thought of berries and blood. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are those things? he wondered, irritated that Alby hadn’t answered him earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As the wind freshened from the south, the red and yellow beech leaves rasped together with a brittle sound, harsher than the fluid rustle of earlier days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, Beck had undergone a radial keratotomy* to correct his vision. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, as a girl, she had helped him during plowing season, driving his tractor from afternoon until late at night. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half an hour earlier they had carried out a multiple amputation on a captain from the East Surreys—the regiment the boys in the village had joined. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Birth records are not kept in a very uniform or organized way for Africans, and Winnie found that it was not hard to modify her documents to show that Zindzi was bom a year earlier. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier, Edwin, the Tlingit elder from Drake, had built a sparse one-room wood shelter for Cole on the island. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But the biggest obstacle by far, and the one that separates newly arrived Mexicans from Greeks, Italians, and most other immigrants—including earlier generations of Mexicans—is their illegal status. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The motif had been a popular one in earlier Dutch genre scenes, where bubbles symbolized life’s brevity and, hence, the vanity of all earthly things. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at the same time, deep inside me, something selfish was saying, if you’d come earlier and found out what you needed to know, it wouldn’t be so bad now, would it? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She listens to him for a minute, then bursts out angrily, “We could have easily been at the airport an hour earlier. We could have been there at dawn!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

And part of the idea was to make sure that Redding Tories wouldn’t be able to do to the Continentals what the Minutemen had done to the British at Concord and Lexington six months earlier. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cas unzipped the side pocket of her bag and pulled out the note she’d written dozens of times over the last few months before tearing each of those earlier versions into little shreds. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

This time he didn’t feel the desperate loneliness and fear of four days earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Only two months earlier, Lourdes had been pregnant with her second child back in Cuba. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tactic had worked for Thomas earlier, and judging by the horrible screeching sound that escaped the first Griever, it had worked again. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

In a workout three days earlier, Sea- biscuit had needed 1:48 to negotiate a mile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she went to the doctor for an appointment, a month earlier, the doctor told her that she had a serious illness and that she had about three months to live, if not less. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was clear that the coaches expected black athletes to be better because of a belief that their bodies matured earlier than did those of whites. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On June 10, 1943, exactly a year after they’d flown their first combat mission, there was a special ceremony to celebrate the honor of being named the 46th Guards earlier that year. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The fear and despair they had felt a moment earlier were drowned in their rage against this vile, contemptible act. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As leftover tears from earlier in the day mix with the water I splash on my face, I regret hearing a word of their conversation. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He’d rinsed out his clothes earlier to lessen their scent and hung them from a tree to dry. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Some scientists believe the Appalachians experienced a fourth, earlier mountain-building episode, called the Grenville Orogeny, and that there may have been others earlier still. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Even though I was upset about my placement earlier today, and I love all of this..." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The satyr slid into the bush Kendra had crouched behind earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She met with her birth mother support group a few days earlier, telling them about the upcoming meeting with a voice that didn’t shake or tremble. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He had decided to throw himself at the mercy of the court, having earlier told Moss, “I’m sick and tired of all this....I want to admit exactly what I did.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, many whites during the Jim Crow era sincerely believed that African Americans were inferior, and that segregation was a sensible system for managing a society comprised of fundamentally different and unequal people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was earlier than he had used it the other times, and I wondered why. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

It resembled the same imp that had apprehended her brother earlier. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The celebration of my father’s life took place at the Fourteenth Street Baptist Church, the same church my parents had been married in six years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I had never seen my mom look like that, not even when my uncle Rumenge had died years earlier. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, a year earlier, Naheed and her sister had walked home together—nearly two full miles. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“I had a panic attack earlier. I don’t want my dad knowing I was scared when he comes home. I want him to believe I was brave all the way through.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But that had changed a few days earlier in Trapis’ basement. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The cheerful din that had filled the city earlier was gone, and the few denizens still outside shop fronts did not wave or cheer as the warriors passed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

That was the dialogue I overheard earlier, between Judith and Mina. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, on the ship sailing over from Europe, she had slipped on a staircase in rough seas and broken her ankle. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

That adrenaline and booze buzz I had earlier on would have been long gone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She's pretty spacey right now since she's on heavy-duty pain meds since it's the first day. When I spoke to her earlier, she was talking about putting beads on her fingernails." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

I go to work earlier than the nurses. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He had told a reporter a few days earlier that he had never seen anything like what was happening in Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Only Momma and Wynn called me Jubi, which was only slightly better than their retired Juju Beans of my earlier years. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I could have saved myself a lot of trouble if I’d looked earlier, he thought. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had she really wondered, wistfully, a short time earlier, if this dreamer could help her? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Okay, just the dismount left, I thought as I positioned my feet against the chalk mark I’d made on the beam earlier. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“It’s just...I wish you had told me about the accident earlier in the day! Someone should have told me.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They had been briefed, earlier, on the...situation...in the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I smile and unfold a piece of paper with the words I had typed out earlier and try to ignore the trembling in my hands. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Matty obeyed, tilting into the pan the bowl of broth in which the rabbit had been boiled earlier. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On an earlier visit, Richard didn’t believe I could stay so busy through the day and not be tired and not drink coffee. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That beautiful young woman who was joking around less than a day and a half earlier was just nowhere. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Edie!” calls out one of the two girls who stared at me earlier. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I said how much earlier, and why was he convinced. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped my fingers on the desktop, preferring to fall back into my daydream of an earlier time filled with raised hands, muffled giggles, lessons yet to be learned, and lives yet to be lived. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Built four years earlier in 1915, the tank stood fifty feet high and ninety feet wide. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Genie knew Ernie was trying to distract him, and he appreciated it because his questions started to tumble downhill just as he had done earlier. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

As we discussed earlier, one would expect that at such high temperatures the strong and weak nuclear forces and the electromagnetic force would all be unified into a single force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidently, the discussion didn’t go the way the man wanted because before he rode after the others, he punched the woman in the face exactly as her husband had been punched earlier. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to have lived a generation earlier than the most famous Greek traveler, the hero of the Odyssey. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was delivered as a gift a few weeks earlier, though it had no card or note. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Unlike the happy silence we’d all enjoyed earlier that morning, we suffered instead a black kind of stillness on our route back home. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

And because it was Finny’s idea, it happened as he said, although not as easily as some of his earlier inspirations. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'm about to panic when I remember the rabbit I startled earlier today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There was bright sunshine, but it must have been raining earlier that day because I can remember how the sun was glinting on the muddy surface of the grass. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t Professor Flitwick let her in earlier this evening, at your urgent request? Perhaps she could open the door for you? Then you needn’t wake up half the castle.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My mother then transferred Granddaddy to Princeton Hospital, where my grandmother had died fourteen years earlier. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

As I’ve remarked earlier, the most effective rhetoric is often the least obviously rhetorical. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Police discovered that his license had expired a few weeks earlier, so he was taken into custody. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I mentioned earlier, my father had prepared a private dinner for the UN’s ambassador from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“I’m just realizing. All that earlier, and you haven’t gotten off yet tonight, have you?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was a true relief to see that there waren’t no one from the earlier shows still stuck up there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

His mind was still on his run-in with Ike and Felix earlier in the day. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, as well as composing for all his subsequent films, Chaplin wrote and recorded retrospective scores for his earlier silent films, continuing to do so well into the 1970s. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I did not see the lady who gave me the hate stare a few days earlier. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your little mishap earlier just gave me an idea.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Calder walked by it and was surprised to realize that it was the same book they’d seen Ms. Hussey pay for at Powell’s a couple of weeks earlier. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

There isn't a single trace of our earlier fight. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Nathan was about to open the door when he heard that strange voice from earlier. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Something Gen had said earlier echoes in my head. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Just 8 percent of undergraduates in 2004 came from families in the bottom half of the income distribution, down from 11 percent a decade earlier. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The entrapment occurs in three distinct phases, each of which has been explored earlier, but a brief review is useful here. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But there was something he felt now—here in Shalimar, and earlier in Danville—that reminded him of how he used to feel in Pilate’s house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’d have to get up an hour earlier for the school bus, and some of those kids can be tough.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Enveloped by the heat they’d left a few minutes earlier, they walked swiftly away from the house and out onto the road. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Natalie had to get up earlier, because middle school started before elementary school. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was printed out from the internet, and the date above said that the article was written almost five years earlier. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She had started out much earlier than usual this morning, thinking to make up for the day wasted yesterday by rain. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes landed on the peanut M&M’s on the table, and I remembered what I’d been wondering earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The train will be ready before dawn, though it would be better if you could come earlier than that. Leaving can get a bit...complicated.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A deputy superintendent whose office I passed on my way out told me he was staying late because two years earlier there had been a Christmas Eve homicide on M-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other words, the black-white income gap is largely a product of a black-white education gap that could have been observed many years earlier. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier Bragg had come into the lab greatly excited about an idea that came to him the previous evening, one that he and Perutz subsequently incorporated in their paper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At an earlier international TB conference, Goldfarb had made it clear that with limited funds, he wasn’t about to spend them on MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even if it wasn’t the home I’d left a couple of months earlier. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Oh, and I forgot to say: a woman was asking about you earlier. Or maybe not you. She might have been confused.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he thought that the next time the door opened he would take over the family arrangements just as he had earlier. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

You see, I have this theory about how I was a high priestess once, in an earlier reincarnation. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After finishing a few poetry books earlier in the week, I had read my first biography. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

His family had not seen him dressed in anything but his white prison uniform since the trial six years earlier, and many in the crowd gasped when he walked into the courtroom in a suit. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One night a white friend was in the studio when Malcolm X arrived a little earlier than anticipated, and they passed each other in the corridor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stock market had rebounded earlier in the year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbing an all-time record of 15.34 percent in one day on March 15 to close at 62.10. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There is none of the giddiness of the earlier kiss. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Eighteen years earlier, crossing a street in Cambridge, he had been hit by a car, and the surgically repaired leg canted out at a slight angle, making his gait a little awkward. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That is, cattle were domesticated independently in India and western Eurasia, within the last 10,000 years, starting with wild Indian and western Eurasian cattle subspecies that had diverged hundreds of thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hah! So can I!” she said, and he knew then for certain how changed this village was, for in the earlier days, girls had not been allowed to learn. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Two kids appeared at Percy’s side, the same ones Annabeth had seen him chumming around with earlier. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My mom wakes me up earlier than usual the next morning with a serious expression on her face. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I want to practice the exercise Brother Isoke was trying to teach me earlier, and I want to get it right this time. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought Erik to meet Coach Warner earlier in the summer. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some years earlier, President Kennedy was killed too right here in Dallas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seed treatment is not a wholly new thing, but in earlier years the chemicals principally used were fungicides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The person I saw in the garage earlier. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now I knew how Aunt Alice felt in the garage earlier. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt remembered how Rondon had secretly delayed finishing the canoes in order to fill in the details of their map earlier in the journey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The sun rose earlier than usual and was at its brightest in the blue, almost cloudless sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He called me to get in, and as if he had not been helplessly drunk a half hour earlier, he drove unerringly toward home. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t mention the phone call I’d made earlier at the house. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t have to pay him. He said my dad came in earlier and took care of it.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“What did you want to tell me earlier?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“It’s Riot Gear. It’s retro. It’s beat up to look like one of the big twentieth- century riots. It’s been big since earlier this week.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But no words find their way to my tongue, which is frozen like I feared it would be earlier. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It had happened in October, thirteen years earlier. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Authorities will later claim that Booth had carved the hole earlier in the day, but there is no proof of that. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I still feel a little weight in my limbs from the truth serum Cara, Caleb, and Matthew tested on me earlier, as part of our plan. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

When Lake supported using state money to fund private white schools, Hodges, who had earlier opposed the idea, crab-walked quickly to the right. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled out my small notebook and looked at the map I had sketched earlier, trying to orient myself. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

One may say that time had a beginning at the big bang, in the sense that earlier times simply would not be defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

"She needs to wake up a little earlier and try to decide whether she wants to look like Farrah Fawcett or Rick James." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Hazel was still seething from his blackmail threats earlier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The dark skin of his face, which had been oddly pale just a minute earlier, had turned purple, his eyes rolled up so far in their sockets they looked like glowing white marbles. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Three weeks earlier, I would have leapt at the chance to go to one of Erin Wheeler’s parties. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

They also helped establish a truce with the Nauset of Cape Cod after Bradford promised to pay back the losses caused by their earlier grave robbing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know anything about a phone,” I tell him, wishing that Anna had mentioned this earlier. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead it would strongly suggest that one chain in each molecule had at some earlier stage served as the template for the synthesis of the other chain. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She swatted at the air like she did earlier. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Y’all wanna know something? I dropped a box full of shiny new textbooks to Mountain View School earlier this morning. But they didn’t give me the royal warm-up treatment like you all. No sirree!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As they walked, Mark tried not to think about the fact that they were going exactly where Deedee had pointed earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

At this key moment, as analysts scrutinized the U-2 photographs of Soviet bases in Cuba, one of the secret documents handed over by Penkovsky earlier that year took on a special significance. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was postmarked Boston, four days earlier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Most of all, Woody thought about Wes, who had stopped going to school two years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Magdalys could tell that just having a task to do made all his earlier worries seem to fade away. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The flimsy partition that Southside had built for us years earlier came down. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I had made him promise earlier to teach me how to dry and smoke meat so we could keep it longer when the hunt wasn’t so good. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It is a grey Saturday morning, and Bailey is up earlier than the rest of the family, which is not unusual. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was the cold presence Hazel had felt earlier—like a vast deposit of obsidian, so heavy that Hazel couldn’t possibly move it, powerful and indestructible and completely devoid of emotion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. White gave his friend his car keys, because the friend wanted to borrow his car, and the friend gave Mr. White some money, which Mr. White had lent him earlier. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

A wave of noise hits me—the gurgling and hissing sound that Tess heard earlier. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He said he would not make the same choice his father did twenty-seven years earlier. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

This was Germany’s first defeat on the ground since the outbreak of war over two years earlier. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Violet gave me a blow-out earlier, so my hair is the silkiest it’s ever been and falls in loose layers that frame my face. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

A couple of days earlier, Michael and Sasha had digitally scanned the full stack of index cards for posterity. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I should've known it earlier. She’s in the Fields of Asphodel, standing before the judges right now, being evaluated. I can feel it.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The long list of its major technological firsts includes cast iron, the compass, gunpowder, paper, printing, and many others mentioned earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Especially considering what you were thinking earlier, that annoying voice tried to interject. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

A couple of years earlier, I had been invited to Brazil to talk about punishment and the unjust treatment of disfavored people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In keeping with tradition, Barack had gone out to play basketball earlier in the day and had since settled into his office to put finishing touches on his remarks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I’d seen her picture not five minutes earlier, and in it she looked much the same as she did now, even cradling the same strange light between her hands. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning I get up earlier than normal and walk around town with the Doorman and a street directory, finding each house. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, studies suggest that most Americans violate drug laws in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Earlier that morning, when I was certain no one was looking, I did something I had done twenty-six years earlier: I planted a fist­ful of crumpled money under a mattress. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan had told her, some months earlier, in a voice filled with hauteur, that he did not read any fiction published after 1930. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I wait for her secretary to come on the line, wishing I’d done this earlier. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Across the stage, the tall Tribal boy from earlier is dancing with a dainty Tribeswoman who has a smile like lightning. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The First Murderer came earlier than 1:15, the Second Murderer came after 1:15. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Van stood there waiting for the fifth-period kids to finish filing in, he flashed on a moment from nearly two Januaries earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What makes the Maori-Moriori collision grimly illuminating is that both groups had diverged from a common origin less than a millennium earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She tell me Saturday she gone help you. She try to call Aibileen but couldn’t get her. I’d a tole you earlier but...” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Inside, they opened the suitcase they’d delivered earlier and took out tools: camera and film, spotlights, rope, and a roll of black plastic. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Since the Family Code passed earlier this year, more and more people are turning to the courts with their problems. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It corroborates what Marietta and I found out earlier,” Louis said. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She hands a large pistol to the big guy from earlier and tells him something out of earshot. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I walked back to my room, trying to hold on to some of the determination I’d felt earlier. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

James’s floorboards had creaked earlier, so she knew he was home, but there was no way she’d ask for his help now. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

More than once he stopped, trying to find the direction from which he had come earlier in the day. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

On her way out of his bedroom, she grabbed a stack of books off one of his shelves and put them into the empty moving box she had left in his room earlier that day. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I was a scholarship boy who belonged to an earlier time. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since her arrival at the Hatchery over a year earlier, she had felt different from them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had made arrangements with the cockerel to call him three-quarters of an hour earlier in the mornings instead of half an hour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had managed some of our earlier preliminary hearings in a suit, but today he was in his robe, gavel firmly in hand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were banded together at one end by an iron chain as thick as my leg, or as thick as my leg was before I got onto the boat two weeks earlier. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We try to keep each other from going crazy,” says Agueda Navarro, thirty-four, who left behind her children, fourteen and four, a few weeks earlier. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had been preparing for this season the moment the last one had ended eight months earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had also sent the sketch to Asa Gray, the American botanist, about a year earlier “so that I could most truly say & prove that I take nothing from Wallace.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad backed away when I let myself in earlier and he got a glimpse of my face, so I have a bit of respite. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

But...Styx’s words from earlier floated back to me. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Look, I’m sorry for not being totally straight with you earlier,” X-Ray said. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He had spent earlier parts of it in Auburn, Clinton, and Attica. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d been inside the White House just once before, a couple of years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If a solar flare hadn’t shifted the comet off course a week earlier, we’d be watching Fire Snake harmlessly pass Earth in a few days like it had since the beginning of time. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The apartment was quiet when I let myself in earlier, and I could tell Muhammad wasn’t home by his big shoes missing from the mat. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier she had refused to accept a segregated seating pattern at a meeting of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe Parker had been a teacher there earlier in the fifties. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was still amused, but earlier, when he and Guitar had sat handcuffed on a wooden bench, his neck skin had crawled with fear. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The jaunty bow tie she had tied around his neck earlier had vanished. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

When Cara and Joey left the room earlier to go use the computer, hadn’t he known that their “project” would have something to do with Cara’s newspaper? The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was only two years earlier, in January of 1962, that Birmingham’s Bull Connor had refused to desegregate the city’s public facilities. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It must just be wafting off me from earlier. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had died a day or so earlier at Nairobi Hospital with a combination of extreme symptoms that suggested an unidentified Level 4 virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somebody had found a cache of coffee beans about two months earlier, and they had sent to Saigon for a coffee grinder. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, while Roosevelt was on the campaign trail and getting ready to make a speech, John Schrank, a thirty-six-year-old bartender from New York, shot him at point-blank range in the chest. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Students were supposed to arrive at the auditorium an hour before the ceremony started, but we got there even earlier, so we sat in the car and waited. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Conditioned by the earlier hard days, refreshed by the days at the park, both their muscles and spirits were in good tone. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were actually being denied the right to participate in the field trip because we were not wearing ties by that same teacher that had talked to us a day earlier. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The turkey’s going to be done earlier than the chart says. I’ll bet that bird doesn’t weigh eighteen pounds.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier, Brian and I had dragged an old mattress up there because we were thinking of camping out. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pill-taking in the community began at about Twelve—or for some children, earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Remember, Sputnik had been launched only two years earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There are cars at the curb, the van we saw earlier, and more Exclusion Guards. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The sun came up earlier and stayed out a little longer each day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Will you forgive me for being such a jerk earlier?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Weeks earlier, we’d used shovels and hoes to prepare the soil. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He was fourteen and he was still feeling the physical and psychological effects of a football injury two years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that she and Pearl had gone to Davenport earlier than expected. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

So far, no one had talked about earlier jobs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what it means, but it’s gotta be better than that fake skydive earlier.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was too nervous to eat; I kept remembering how sad Joey had been when he’d talked about the fight earlier that day. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soft boiled foods could be fed to small children, permitting the kids to be weaned earlier and their mothers to produce babies at shorter birth intervals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing people tended to notice about Phillips was that they hadn’t noticed him earlier. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The days were darkening earlier now, but down Parker Head he could still make out Mrs. Hurd’s house—or what had been Mrs. Hurd’s house. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“So. You were saying how the cyclorama wasn’t actually about the cyclorama? I thought that whole conversation we had earlier didn’t seem like you. So what’s going on? What’s the cyclorama about?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Even if the angler fish had been trying to eat him moments earlier, it was wrong to let something die so slowly and painfully. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We even stayed in the same campground in the Bighorn Wilderness that I remembered from more than thirty years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"We would have been here much earlier, but Erish insisted on taking her chariot, rather than mine." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the Agriculture Building a giant pane of glass fell from the roof and shattered the table at which, just a few seconds earlier, a young woman had been selling candy. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier, Samira had thrown herself a massive eighteenth birthday-slash-graduation party, and someone had left behind a backpack at our house, containing a bong and a bag of weed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Some of my friends had told me earlier that they dreaded being called on for that passage; they hadn’t been able to make any sense at all out of it and the commentaries were impossible. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was given a yellow Amity shirt and black Candor pants earlier as a result of that particular edict. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The people who had given their speeches earlier today had treated the election as if it was a big joke, which of course it was. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My red shoes are off, my legs tucked up underneath me on the chair, surrounded by a buttress of red skirt, true, but tucked nonetheless, as at a campfire, of earlier and more picnic days. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A decade earlier, on May 17, 1954, in the Brown v. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The next elimination was in four days, and though training had resumed as usual, she had started waking up a little earlier than normal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I would be startled to catch myself thinking in a remote way of my earlier self as another person. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Donavan. In the midst of the mayhem, earlier today, the governor had this to say.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

If not for the evening’s earlier rain, the town would already be ablaze instead of just a few scattered buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The Frey boy was as jumpy as those rabbits he'd flushed earlier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once she left home ten minutes earlier to have more time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the end, though, we found ourselves talking about Ruth, who Laura had run into at a clinic a few years earlier, when Ruth was still a carer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now this was a daring thing, almost enough to make up for his earlier lapse of nerve. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lead earlier and score a direct hit on the point plane, blasting a hole in its belly. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He started forgetting things he had done just a few hours earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Laila pictured him as he must have been an hour, or maybe minutes, earlier, rushing from one room to another, slamming doors, furious and incredulous, cursing under his breath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons’s side of the family had moved to America way earlier, but Grace still called him “Uncle Charley.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The air around her was empty where hundreds of shadowy souls had frenzied just seconds earlier. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Why didn’t I think of it earlier? she wondered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one would talk about it much, but I gathered that earlier, abortive attempts to include Marion in the activities of the group had ended in disaster. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But it had taken many centuries to figure out, and there was a great deal more to do, especially in the decipherment of the hieroglyphs of much earlier times. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas said it in a matter-of-fact tone, as a resigned repeat of what Minho had said a moment earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was just happy that the fight we’d had earlier seemed to be forgotten. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Kabuo had done what he could in these circumstances to assist the friend he had known since childhood, a boy he’d fished with years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Amati’s family workshop was subsequently imitated by two other now legendary violin-making families of Cremona, the Stradivari and the Guarneri, in whose hands the town swiftly eclipsed the earlier reputation of Brescia. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was a tumultuous time in American politics—sixteen months earlier, the Ohio National Guard had killed four students at an antiwar rally at Kent State University. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the sunset earlier that day and how a squirrel scurried across the grass when I left for school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Maskelyne and Mason had become friends eleven years earlier while engaged in a project to measure an astronomical event of great importance: the passage of the planet Venus across the face of the Sun. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

None of the patrons recognize Celia without her top hat and black-and-white gown, even those who watched her perform earlier in the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And just like what Mong said to the store worker earlier, I had nothing left to lose. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, a few minutes earlier, when he had combed his hair, he had done so with the very minimum amount of help from the mirror. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Five years earlier, on a Monday afternoon in the fall of 1929, Strub had sat down in his lucky chair at his barber’s and settled in for a shave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were at a house where two months earlier they’d installed a sprinkler system. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was earlier than I thought, not yet four. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Greek mythology begins with Homer, generally believed to be not earlier than a thousand years before Christ. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the racial realities of our time. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The world’s greatest biological thinkers, having pored over the problem of heredity, had scarcely advanced the field beyond the cryptic musings of two men who had lived on two Greek islands two thousand years earlier. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Less than a year earlier, he’d died suddenly—word was of poisoned alcohol. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The man was wedged between two rocks, flung there by the tide earlier in the day. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The California supreme court agreed and overturned the earlier guilty verdict. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's getting dark earlier these days, and there's bound to be some traffic heading back into the city. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The three dockworkers we'd seen earlier now stood in the doorway. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

When I leaned her against the windowsill earlier, I had arranged her new dress so the little pleats lay flat in neat rows, the way Mama had pressed them. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Art Sussman, the lawyer at the University of Chicago who’d met with me a few years earlier, called to let me know about a position that had just been created there. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Six weeks earlier, Jule arrived in London for the first time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Dad, who had fixed someone’s transmission earlier that day and used the money he’d made to buy a bottle of tequila, said she probably lost track somewhere. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

John gave the one-ring signal about eleven o’clock, which was much earlier than I had expected because I thought he’d still be unconscious. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Wasn’t there just a gleaning on your floor earlier this year? I didn’t think it was allowed to hit the same building so soon.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m in the exact spot where I was earlier. The exact spot.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I had noticed a lot of rabbit tracks earlier, and followed them over the muddy earth as best I could. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Father and I crossed the lonely field and made for our house I couldn’t help but think about that earlier night and the welcome feast, all the tastes and sounds of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older young, those hatched a year or more earlier, fared only slightly better. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I glance out the window at the street dusted with snow and Mr. Sorenson’s dark green truck that I somehow hadn’t noticed earlier parked in front of the house. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Added to the two pennies Maybeth and James had picked up earlier, Dicey figured that they were only twenty-one cents out of pocket for food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miri and Zoe were whispering earlier about how cute he was, but I didn’t think so. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The current was not fast—as he had guessed earlier it was about the speed of a person walking—but it was steady and strong. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I suspect that here, as in Dauntless, there is a limit to her climb through the ranks, and she is reaching it earlier than she would like to. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

One hundred years earlier, Heine had warned, “Where one burns books, one will, in the end, burn people.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The returning midwife, angry at Alyce for ignoring her earlier, set her to do all the least pleasant chores: roasting frogs’ livers, boiling snails into jelly, stripping the thorns from dogberry roses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is essential to do this, as was discussed at length earlier. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of those peoples who did develop it, why did some do so much earlier than others? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hardheaded, I rush to the refrigerator and grab the pitcher of cherry Kool-Aid I made earlier. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I cannot see their bodies, but earlier two villagers had brought out two small bundles wrapped in old black clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No. It was whatever Dvorah had spoken earlier: half Hebrew, half something else. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I reached for the glass of water the nurse had brought earlier. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Three days earlier, he'd given a eulogy for a friend from law school who'd worked for him in the White House. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The fury and fear that’d coursed through her earlier had simmered to a dull headache. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

You might even think to focus your activity toward the end of the test, where the questions tend to be harder than the earlier questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She left a little earlier for work to have time to mail the letter from the Thirty-fourth Street post office. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you he was crying earlier,” said Maria. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalys was staring at the cobblestones, which still glistened from the rain showers earlier. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So I’m guessing you still blame yourself for my situation, despite my earlier e-mail asking you not to. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a few weeks, my father—who years earlier had not been able to guess my age within half a decade—knew about my classes, my boyfriend, my summer job. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The rain has turned to a downpour, sending streams of water through our ceiling where earlier there had been only drips. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Hugo’s arm still ached from where he had been grabbed earlier. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I was eight months old when my parents took me to America. I keep telling my mom that she should have gone earlier and had me there!” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He scarcely wondered about the fact that recently he had had so little consideration for the others; earlier this consideration had been something he was proud of. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could have stood there like Darwin at the Galapagos and known that if he had come a thousand years earlier, everything would have been the same. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

While Hertzog had, three years earlier, led the drive to remove the last African voters from the common voters roll in the Cape, I found Smuts a sympathetic figure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plan is to head to school earlier and miss the drama of dismantling Mom’s room. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I had just had my photos taken earlier that fall. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Upstairs,” she said, letting him in, wondering how all that cheeriness could have existed earlier in his body. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Weeks earlier, before the inauguration, the conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh baldly announced, “I hope Obama fails.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the three had left the stage, the hot-tempered boy remained, just as Scythe Faraday had said earlier in the day. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Those are our footprints. We searched there earlier, remember?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yule was a subdued affair, for the King and his eldest son were away on a military campaign far in the south, and because of the harsh weather the hunting season ended earlier than usual. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had already heard similar sentiments a few moments earlier, but Mr Morgan actually said: 'It's a privilege to have a gentleman like yourself here in Mos- combe, sir.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Just hours earlier, he had convinced himself that he was bound for prison. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And before he can ask for details, I say with a wink, “So, Lucho, I saw that cute gringuita making eyes at you earlier.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were simply an imitation of his earlier manner, and curiously lifeless and unconvincing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She passed the Auditorium, which stood at the end of the plaza; earlier in the day the community had gathered in throngs on its steps, and they would be there again in the morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had a vague memory of his uncle bringing him pills earlier and helping him downstairs to the lavatory, which was hidden behind the panelling in the cellar. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“What’s up, Albert?” said the same balding wizard who had followed Harry out of the fireplace earlier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I know I haven't been in this part of the woods before, there were no sizable rocks like the one I'm sheltering against on my earlier travels. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Vivian tends to pick up discussions they started a few days earlier right where they left off, as if it’s perfectly natural to do so. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, after talking with Beck I even took the time to find a spent oxygen canister that I’d stashed in the snow on the way up some ten hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

As he rapidly read its contents Francis became furious, for he noticed that part of the argument depended upon a theoretical idea he had propounded some nine months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Like I said earlier, some people, like the Ainsleys of this world, are meant to shine. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t tell you earlier to spare you the worrying. “ A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m not saying this very well. I’m sorry for earlier. I wasn’t thinking straight.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So I said, like I’d just remembered: “By the way, what was that you were saying earlier on? About Miss Lucy telling you something?” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Buckland speculated on the antiquity of an Ichthyosaurus skeleton he could do no better than suggest that it had lived somewhere between "ten thousand, or more than ten thousand times ten thousand" years earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Poor Spangler had nothing to do with the assassination or the earlier kidnapping plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

An old German man had pulled me aside a few days earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If she had walked in two minutes earlier, she would have caught me reading a book. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

And like I said, I felt like kicking myself I hadn’t found out from him earlier. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manchee barks from a corner, not getting up from the mutton bone Tam gave him earlier. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Look, I didn’t mean to insult you earlier,” she said. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It sank in that she was seeing a vision of the murders she had averted, and whatever shame she might have felt at Minya’s tirade earlier, she didn’t feel it anymore. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“If you had only told me about your studies earlier it might have made a great difference, Lee.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The jingle-jangle of his tags makes a better alarm than the one Axel heard earlier. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Einstein posed simple questions that could have been asked centuries earlier. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days earlier, according to the logbook, Morales had told his guard that the only way out was to kill himself. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had asked earlier if any of us were Saidu’s family began to read suras. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Or had been when the letter was written—she checked the date—three weeks earlier. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

SD-03 transmitted its equipment requisition order to them—an order that I myself had submitted on the Sixer intranet two days earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His face is the opposite of how it looked in the sky earlier today. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He was the son of well-known astronomer William Herschel, who earlier had proposed that Mars could support intelligent life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He said it must have given her some peace to hear President Kennedy’s speech earlier this summer, on the radio. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Despite earlier promises to cease this practice, Hamilton had persisted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then, at the mortuary, they put her through the same paces as they had Leila, just an hour earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“We had breakfast and opened our presents earlier. She had to go do the Christmas thing with her boyfriend’s family.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

A century earlier, God was the king of Creation and all nature reflected his power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“We would have done, earlier. But his task was over once he’d led us to you.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Summoning the storm earlier had taken too much out of him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, working earlier than we usually did, we even worked houses that we hadn’t cased. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aileen had been arrested in Belize a few weeks earlier, but the money was never recovered. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Watching Mercy this morning, she thought again, soberly, of the words that Mercy had spoken earlier in the summer. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Now, she and Doc had to get up earlier and cook, then clean up the kitchen before going off to work. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was nice enough to the girls, offering us water from a different canteen than the one the girls had emptied earlier. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

This was the same spot he had been at a thousand strokes earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Ugwu thought Master would stay home from work the next day, but he took a bath earlier than he usually did. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I saw it moving earlier!” the conductor said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Moment of panic, then, about being caught out in our earlier lie—then I’m lashed with guilt, because of course I am a friend of Mr. Reilly’s. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With the exception of the story of Prometheus’ punishment, told by Aeschylus in the fifth century, I have taken the material of this chapter chiefly from Hesiod, who lived at least three hundred years earlier. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want my father to be just my father, the way he has always been, not a separate person with an earlier, mythological life of his own. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

New Age, the successor to earlier banned left- wing publications, was a friend of the ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But none of the jars were broken, except the one which had broken earlier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

That was the signal she and James had agreed on when they made up their secret language earlier that day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The grove had been sprayed with parathion some two and a half weeks earlier; the residues that reduced them to retching, half-blind, semiconscious misery were sixteen to nineteen days old. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The apple trees we had planted years earlier were bigger now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having already given her address at the ferry, she was asked again when she returned, and refused, saying she had done so earlier. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks earlier they had installed listening devices on two phones, and one device wasn’t working. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Her expression grew distant at times, the same thinking expression she had worn earlier while she was working. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Warthog mask, perhaps weakened by Kuda’s earlier assault, came off. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The radio had stopped working consistently a year earlier; it would come to life only if I hit a pothole or stopped suddenly enough to violently shake the car and spark a connection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One by one, following the tracks I’d made fifteen or twenty minutes earlier, Beidleman and the remainder of Fischer’s clients filed down through the worsening blizzard. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Compared to the diffident, incoherent speaker I had seen six months earlier in Southern California, he was unrecognizable. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

As it happened, Trip and Moody had arrived home earlier—Moody right after school, and unexpectedly, Trip a short while later. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Having watched Chester undo the lock on Bunnicula’s cage and having participated in that unfortunate steak episode some days earlier, I knew I would have no problem getting Bunnicula out. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

A boy named Frankie won a few of the earlier challenges, so everyone expected him to win the whole competition. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It seemed urgent to me not only to reiterate my earlier lies—about my kinship with Daumier, about my deceased wife, about my small estate in the South of France—but to elaborate on them. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

He had met her several years earlier during a stay in Boston and had considered acquiring her even then, but the distance was too great, the timing awkward. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Somehow it was the most heart-stopping thing I have ever done, touching my own lips with this cigarette that had touched Anna Engel’s lips a second earlier. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then Phoebe told her mother about the potential lunatic who had come to the house earlier. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He’s brought with him to the hospital books on drawing perspective and a few novels by Charles Dickens, including The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which Dickens had left unfinished when he died twelve years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In New York City, the early 1930s cohort was so small that class sizes were at least half of what they had been twenty-five years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Nathan felt like this was the time to say sorry for his attitude earlier. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

One whispered something to the other, as if to prove Lydia’s earlier point about whispers and stares. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

In good times females reach puberty earlier, and their chances of getting pregnant are a bit higher. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Margie had earlier laid flowers around the graves, and she bent down and straightened one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, our friends on the earlier flights had tried out as many of them as possible. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father already went in his bedroom, way way earlier. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the really relevant date was seven or eight years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Still—it was better than the dull void he’d experienced earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Two months earlier, the long, tragic Great War ended and hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were at last coming home from the battlefields of Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, I recognized Mrs. Huckaby, Central High’s vice-principal for girls, who had been present at several of our earlier meetings with the school board. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as he approached the living room, he heard his father talking about what had happened earlier that day with Halmoni and Doha’s mother. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

But I realise now just how much of what occurred later came out of our time at Hailsham, and that’s why I want first to go over these earlier memories quite carefully. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was actually the acceleration of a process begun years earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t turned it back on after shutting it down a few minutes earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I had told Rich earlier that I would tell my mother first and let her break the news to my father. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember Cora, earlier in the spring, staggering around even though she had the flu, holding on to the door frames when she thought no one was looking, being careful not to cough. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ran down the steps out to the circle we’d laid earlier to protect us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

David had discovered a new railroad track a year or so earlier. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The old man they’d passed earlier lay on the muddy street, surrounded by the women who had been carrying him. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Although Wells had complained earlier about the way his novel was altered for the Mercury broadcast, the resulting publicity increased sales of his books. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that just hours earlier this night was going to be a happy one. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We’d helped her plant tomatoes in her yard earlier that summer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Like the earlier system, Jim Crow seemed “natural,” and it became difficult to remember that alternative paths were not only available at one time, but nearly embraced. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Representative Thetus Sims of Tennessee had broken his arm and shoulder by slipping on ice several days earlier, but he refused to seek medical care until he cast his vote in favor of the amendment. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The two of them had met only a handful of times, beginning six years earlier when Auma had visited Chicago, but they had a close bond. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kerling and his team had left earlier on a U-boat headed to Florida. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

My edges still need help, but I laid them as best as I could earlier. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Calvin says, “I get that. And you know what else is a drag? Having to be home earlier and earlier. To make it in before dark.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The news about DNA and the genetic code did not displace an earlier dogma; there was nothing much there to be moved aside. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You asked about my knee earlier, and I didn’t say a whole lot, but after all of those stairs, my sit-down timer is ticking. And we got one more set to get up.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“We’ll never get there by nightfall at this rate! I told you we should have left earlier. I don't want to be caught in the country in the darkness.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Being back at the courthouse where his fate had seemingly been sealed four years earlier had shaken him as well, but he forced himself to smile when I walked in. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As I settled into a chair, I thought about all the earlier times when we had gone together to the wrestling matches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had met a year earlier, in the library at school. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was their second move in just a few months, and this time, Jesse and Eric were actually moving to the Chicago they’d thought they were heading for six months earlier. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I hung up the phone, I felt bad for having ragged on him earlier. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s so nice of them. Wait—why didn’t you tell me this earlier?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He’d been a dairy farmer for years, he said, before switching to corrections thirteen years earlier, succumbing to economic inevitability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma says it’s totally normal for a Black girl to start earlier with stuff like developing and getting her period and having “grown-up bumps.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Don, who moments earlier had vomited in the corner of the locker room because of the mucus flooding his throat, nodded slowly that he wanted to. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been born twenty years earlier, Jesse would have probably suffered the traditional geeks’ fate in school, then slunk home to read comics and watch some bad TV. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt exactly as he had years earlier when he held his sister’s telegram informing him of Rosa’s death. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of one visit, I showed Deborah how to get online with an old computer someone had given her years earlier, then taught her to use Google. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I’d spied an empty shampoo bottle of Mom’s in the bathroom a few days earlier. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

You will use arguments of analogy and probability and induction, as discussed earlier. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“You know,’’ Tommy said, “when Ruth said what she did earlier on, and I saw how upset you looked...” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had encouraged me to learn how to cook and to knit months earlier when Mother had thrust those chores upon me. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Those earlier forms of life that were not well adapted died. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But really, it's fatal much earlier than that. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, she had stumbled going up the stairs and almost fell on Paganini and squashed him, and Laney did not want that to happen again. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My employer was referring, I realized, to a pair of gypsies gathering unwanted iron who had passed by earlier making their customary calls. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

This development was a huge bonus, with music of the eighteenth, seventeenth and sixteenth centuries first in line for resuscitation, followed by music from even earlier periods. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I am pretty sure we reach the pond same way Calvin and I did earlier this day. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And I think how I used to wake up mad and sad earlier this summer. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“No,” she said, “he went off to a museum earlier.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three years earlier, President Lyndon B. Johnson had sent troops to aid the South Vietnamese government in its fight against the Communist North Vietnamese. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The place was just as amazing as when Rishi had come here earlier in the week to scope it out. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Two girls jumped up and tried to remember a routine they’d performed years earlier, doing the moves right there on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Burnham and Millet had lobbied strongly for Henry Bacon of New York, and Burnham believed that his earlier talk to the Lincoln Commission had been persuasive. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Their movement was direct and purposeful, quite unlike the earlier, haphazard approach of those who were now gathered in the ditch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first thought was that he must’ve gotten up earlier than usual, that dawn was still an hour away. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I inch my way up to the boulder Ayesha and I came to earlier; that’s where I was when I spied that burrow, that hole by the fence. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I dig in my pockets for the money she gave me earlier. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The students were not about to squander their momentum, however, which had overnight grown greater than at any time since the lunch-counter movement had commenced over three years earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw this drawing we cannot be sure: an earlier entry was written in 1701, which gives us an approximate date. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Three years earlier, when Chapter Eleven was fourteen and I was eight, my brother had played a trick on me. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Through the open window he could hear the waves breaking on the rocks—a little louder now than earlier in the evening. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Sergeant Michael Rafferty was guarding Checkpoint Charlie, the precise spot where US and Soviet tanks had faced off three decades earlier when the Wall first went up. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That was a pretty boneheaded move you pulled earlier,” I hear her tell Adam. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also recruited into service the worn-out alphabet blocks my mother had used years earlier to teach us our letters. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Could you make it a little earlier in the business day, Bill?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Justin lived a few train stops away from me, and taking the train home after dark was a different journey than the one we’d made earlier in the day. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The tree still swayed a bit in the last of the big wind, and I felt the fear I’d pretended earlier. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, it must be remembered that my father was a butler of an earlier generation who began his career at a time when such attributes were not considered proper, let alone desirable in a butler. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

HUNTER’S EYE When I was alone, and could hear Angelo’s footsteps no more, I fell into that state of extreme alertness I described earlier. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It had not occurred to any of the rabbits that they were floating beside the path up which they had come earlier that evening before the storm broke. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe next time they’ll assign me earlier, so I get to hang for more than just the last day.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Just a few minutes earlier he had thought, nonchalant, that he could catch Sarai’s terrors like fireflies in a jar. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The mechanist-pilot was asleep in her bed, her head on her husband’s shoulder, and though the earlier chaos flared through her dreams—and his, in smaller measure—the rest of the outsiders were untroubled. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I can manage that,” Maddie said confidently and truthfully, having earlier that day done almost exactly the same thing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Never at a loss, my father reached in the glove compartment, and took out the folded papers and the half bottle of liquor he had left there earlier. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years earlier, in fact, Burr had claimed to have confronted Hamilton with a personal complaint about incessant vilifications of his character, and Hamilton had acknowledged his indiscretion. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

His real name was Hector Henry—people started calling him Cootie when he got polio decades earlier; he was never sure why. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It snowed earlier and more heavily than it had in years, and the roads were often impassable. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the hospital, Officer Mora, the same officer I had spoken with at the station months earlier, tried to console me. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He bade his wife and two young boys good-bye and boarded a train the way he had years earlier when he served as a railroad detective, riding from station to station in pursuit of criminals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Dad started coming in earlier and earlier to round up the boys until, by the time I was eight, and Tyler sixteen, we’d settled into a routine that omitted school altogether. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After making the three-hour drive back from Gadsden earlier in the day and heading straight to the office, it was once again approaching midnight as I left the office for home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It started about twenty years earlier, when he was thirty—one minute he was busy with booze and women, the next he’d had several heart attacks and bypasses, and he woke up preaching. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In my second period, we passed the hour watching a film of the football game that Welch High had played several days earlier. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The plan he’d cooked up earlier that morning was going to have to come into play. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Looking back, what enabled Netscape to take off was the existence, from the earlier phase, of millions of PCs, many already equipped with modems. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Today we know that the fall was not quite as rapid, dramatic, and widespread as earlier scholars believed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her frame seemed smaller than it did a few weeks earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She motions to where Earth spun peacefully a few moments earlier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Dillard. You’re a sweet boy. Between this and the call I got from your father earlier, I feel very blessed.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The guidance counselor I had spoken to earlier looked at me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Three years earlier, before Christine’s parents had enrolled her as a student at the Allen School, another headline-making event had intruded upon her daily life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I take one more look at my drawing from the yoga room earlier, carefully evaluating it as I pull it down off the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I had not seen my mother since before our first trip to South Carolina—more than two years earlier—but now she would know where I was and could come back for me. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

As the spicy flavor of anise spread over his taste buds, his mind floated back to his conversation with his father earlier in the week. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He knew this, because a few months earlier, he’d written George Gey: I am interested in the racial origin of the person from whom your HeLa cell line was initiated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A water jug we had brought up earlier tumbles down the stairs and bursts across the floor. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The waxing moon rose earlier each night, though Xan did not pay it much mind. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He confessed that he participated in Booth’s earlier scheme to kidnap the president, but he denied involvement in, or knowledge of, the assassination plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Graham had thought twice this time, however, for he knew that just a few months earlier Geyer had lost his wife, Martha, and his twelve-year-old daughter, Esther, in a house fire. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

With that, the bus protest ignited by Claudette’s arrest twenty-one months earlier came to an end. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

He looks better than he did earlier—his eyes aren’t red anymore and some of the old spark of curiosity is in them, like he is interested in the world again. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Autumn was born a few days earlier than expected, and I was relieved that we would not have the same birth date. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

My hand was shaking itself out, until I looked up and saw the cumulus cloud I’d noticed earlier. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the coast had been clear, he’d snuck out of the apartment and hidden in the trunk of the taxi, which he’d unlocked earlier. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

At midnight, the bonfire is ceremoniously lit, having spent the earlier part of the evening standing empty, appearing to be a simple sculpture of twisted iron. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

All he can see is the marquee of the movie theater at which, ten days earlier, he’d been to see Le Tango de la Mort. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their bellies ached with hunger, and the earlier thrill of losing a few pounds before pageant time had been replaced with a terrible, desperate longing for food. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Did you sleep well? We are going to the earlier Mass today because your father has a meeting right afterward. Kunie, get into the bathroom, its past seven.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought Mom to Welch for a brief visit fifteen years earlier, right after they were married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’d grumbled a bit earlier about the German folks from the Lutheran church playing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, Charles had had a picture of Annie made. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” said she, “that, of the three characters, I liked you in the last best? Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a gallant gentleman-highwayman you would have made!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Staying,” Kenya says, her eyes wet from earlier. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had not been back to America since completing his survey there eighteen years earlier and had no known reason for being there, or any friends or patrons to greet him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The stupid goat had broken his leg two weeks earlier, and Anya’s grandfather wanted him to stay in the barn and rest for at least a month. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The temperature has dropped since earlier this afternoon, and the sun is hidden behind the buildings. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He wondered if it was the same one that had sped past him earlier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

These front-loaded modifiers can be useful in qualifying a sentence, in tying it to information mentioned earlier, or simply in avoiding the monotony of having one right-branching sentence after another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And it was Fiona herself, not looking up from what she was doing, who told us how the farm boy had come in earlier with the message. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly worried about losing his position at Los Alamos, he decided to tell Colonel Pash about the time, six months earlier, that his friend Haakon Chevalier had approached him about sharing information with the Soviets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only vaguely knew the names of the trees around me, and all I knew was due to Charlie pointing them out to me from the cruiser window in earlier days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I squint down the hallway to see the door swinging shut behind the girl I saw moving into a room down the hall earlier today, her scuffed white Converse disappearing onto the other side. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier, I’d sat with my parents in their living room, bursting with pride as we watched Santita and her siblings introduce their father at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was hard to imagine that this was the same gum-chewing girl he had just met a few minutes earlier. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And, you know, I forgave him right then for riding off and leaving me earlier. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

As Gum Baby said earlier, it be your own people. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

One of my earlier modifications was "saddlebags" draped over the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Star Wars film. Remember our conversation from earlier? At the train station? About Lando being the best?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

"Greetings to the final contestants of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. The earlier revision has been revoked. Closer examination of the rule book has disclosed that only one winner may be allowed," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

This could provide a solution to the problem, raised earlier, of why different regions in the early universe have the same properties. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived in Atlanta, Georgia, but I had been admitted to the Alabama bar a year earlier after working on some cases in Alabama concerning jail and prison conditions. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Galileo and his correspondents happily discuss facts, but there are Italian usages from much earlier, from the 1570s. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The new racial caste system operates unimpeded by the Fourteenth Amendment and federal civil rights legislation—laws designed to topple earlier systems of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And I didn’t mention the angry, icy interlude outside Delaney’s door earlier in the evening. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Since he’d been laid off eighteen months earlier, it was his only source of income. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Perhaps what happened earlier was just a brain belch? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If I had been born in a much earlier age, no matter how great my dedication, I would not have understood what the stars and planets are. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Electing to descend must have been supremely difficult for these three clients, as well as for Frank Fischbeck, who’d turned around hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eldest daughter, Miranda, no longer wrote him the happy illustrated letters she’d regularly sent his way throughout her earlier girlhood. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Allies had forced the German troops from North Africa earlier that year, but in China there was an ongoing battle to drive out the invading Japanese. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

People who had been asleep only fifteen minutes earlier stumbled along the streets. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that he’d grown a beard, most people didn’t recognize him, and he recaptured the peace and incognito of his earlier trips. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It stays steady at that level for the next two decades, before plunging downward in 1992 as sharply as it rose thirty years earlier. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Thaya Jaan got sick earlier this year, my parents decided to keep our promise to visit him and finally make the trip to Pakistan this summer. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was much earlier than her bedtime at home, but still Claudia felt tired. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was scheduled earlier this week. The people in the warden’s office have the papers.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Two girls jumped up and tried to remember a routine they’d performed years earlier, doing the moves right there on the grass. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They would have started earlier, only the delay so plainly annoyed the Shirriff-leader. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Eight months earlier, the man said, Chinese police had arrested him and sent him back to North Korea, where he had served a few months in a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

It made Tad feel worse about everything that had happened earlier. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the baseball Pete had given to me three years earlier when I was nine. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It might be possible that I win it earlier,” Petrosian replied, and confidently went on to explain that he wasn’t impressed with Fischer. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I started up crying out: “Then in God’s name let us come at once, for we are losing time. The Count may come to Piccadilly earlier than we think.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They listen only because they know the clean-cut proud Muslim had earlier been like them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could tell, because she was wearing the same neon green exercise shirt she’d had on when she’d dropped them off at their house earlier that morning. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

At least for a moment she seemed to be the same pretty young girl who had arrived a few weeks earlier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, it might have disgusted me; it was inconsequential now. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This young lady here made a powerful statement earlier,” he says, and the camera points toward me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He had failed a quiz in economics earlier that day. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

A lieutenant wanted me to check the logbook for an entry written three weeks earlier, something about when an inmate had been keeplocked. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belonged to the thirty-eight-year-old, unmarried daughter of the family that, up to a few weeks earlier, had been living in the house. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Several years earlier, my “strong one” name had been severely challenged. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. van Heerden had given Nhamo a bottle of orange soda from the refrigerator earlier, but by now had forgotten about her existence. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered now that the last time I had seen him was about five years earlier in a Denny’s restaurant where I was taking my mother for breakfast. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"We'll want horses. Swift and strong. The fighting will make remounts hard to come by. A goodly supply of gold will also be needed, for those gifts we spoke of earlier." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His hands were in his pockets, and he smiled, all traces of his earlier anger gone. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

We’d learned our lesson two summers earlier when we got to the market later in the morning and all of the best produce was gone. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The music, sports, comedy, and drama programs helped them forget the money troubles they’d had since the Great Depression began nine years earlier. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

He slid back again into his earlier position. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only three months earlier, Kwang had been on the cover of a Sunday magazine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a year or so earlier, Tree-ear had asked him how long he had lived there. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He then showed me the progression of his one and only game with Bronstein—a draw from Portorož two years earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Barack had kicked things off earlier in the year with a government-wide audit, asking each agency to find new ways to support military families. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I believe this happens first because of the causes that have been discussed at length earlier. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was denied because of an earlier drug possession charge for which he had pleaded guilty and served thirty days in jail. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She was sixteen then, but the last time I was at the farm must have been years earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was going to persuade you. How . . . ?” “I started to tell you earlier,” she said, “about my gift. What my hands do. Move your chair closer and I’ll show you now.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

As the Wrights wrote Father, banking had always been a problem for earlier aeronauts who had tried to do that simply by shifting their weight around inside the aeroplane. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He died in a car crash earlier this year,” I explained. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Bobby Rush, the incumbent congressman, had tragically lost a family member to gun violence in Chicago only a few months earlier, which cast Barack in an even poorer light. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And I recall, earlier today, watching a slip of paper fall outside the shoe store. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He thinks about the storm trooper earlier that day, how he said Germany needs soldiers. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

When the Turkish Army had attacked Afyon two weeks earlier, Hajienestis had believed that he was dead and that the ripples of light reflecting on his cabin walls were the pyrotechnics of heaven. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad both came home earlier than usual. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was reaching for his third towel when he passed out from the combined effects of loss of blood and the fifth of whiskey he had drunk earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In a subsequent version of his analysis of plant hybrids, he mentioned Mendel glowingly and acknowledged that he had merely “extended” Mendel’s earlier work. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The egress order had been determined years earlier. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing is preserved from the second millennium B.C. but probably arose earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

From his waist pouch Crane-man took a handful of green herbs he had gathered in the woods earlier that morning. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Women who gave birth earlier, when the infant’s brain and head were still relatively small and supple, fared better and lived to have more children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to apologize for possibly getting her in trouble earlier. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When she’d asked Mamá earlier if she and Salvador must leave so quickly, Mamá told her that Uncle Antonio had arranged to get the money from the moneylender first thing in the morning. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The next day, as usual, Miss Volker called early but Mom was up even earlier. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I watched her get into a car with some other people I had seen in the courtroom earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Margot and I threw on our clothes as well and were upstairs earlier than usual. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the same room on the same date in 1861, one hundred and four years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederate army. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Boyfriend? Anyway, he came to see me when I was here earlier, meeting with the winners of Insomnia Con.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’d been arrested earlier that year while in charge of another air force regiment, for endangering the life of a top government official by failing to fly with him through a dust storm. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

But Mya sent me a behind-the-scenes Snap video earlier this afternoon, taken seconds after this picture, which revealed that Camila still has no clue how to surf. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I am teamed up for patrol with the dark-skinned boy that winked at me earlier in the day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Or even earlier than that—the Chilean site had suggestive evidence of artifacts more than thirty thousand years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The board duly passed it on to Robert G. Sproul, who had been inaugurated as the university’s president only three months earlier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Beck had spoken openly of his vision problem earlier, but with the summit in reach he neglected to mention its increasing severity to Rob or anyone else. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All I wanted to do was see the guy I hadn’t seen one week earlier. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while, especially as it got later and her last dose of painkillers wore off, she would flinch for a second, but her eyes never lost the intensity I had noticed earlier. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost thirty years earlier, East Germany's communist leaders had put up the Berlin Wall to dam the river of emigrants trying to leave the country. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Some months earlier, I had begun a halting study of the French language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

His mind had shut out all of the earlier emotions: the anticipation, excitement, pride, and even the happy kinship with his friends. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Even Maribel, who months earlier never would have been able to process a joke like that, put her hand over her mouth to hold in her laughter. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Only a few months earlier, that might not have been the case. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“And our school starts twenty minutes earlier than yours,” they said, “which means you can’t ride to school with us.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In conjunction with his earlier revelation that he was no longer able to walk, this had been very upsetting news to the people listening down below. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

There is no reason to doubt the stove-heated room or the dreams, but all the evidence suggests that Descartes’ new philosophical life had begun exactly a year earlier, on 10 November 1618. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Charles had been worried about the eye two summers earlier when he wrote that pencil draft. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The eighty-eight players in the First Canadian Open may have composed a stronger roster than had been fielded at the United States Open a few weeks earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, I should have stopped by earlier to thank you for the CD.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She had already tried to feed him earlier with a teaspoon into what remained of his mouth, trying to spare him the humiliation of dribbling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Decades earlier, Shirley Temple was similarly a symptom of the Shirley boom, though she is often now remembered as its cause. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you say so earlier, when I called?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we considered various wires of the cage in isolation; here, we put the pieces together, step back, and view the cage in its entirety. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“How did you do that earlier?” she asked him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Three days earlier, in broad daylight, two masked men had run into J. Browns Jewelers waving guns at the customers, ordering them to the ground. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“D’you think that was a centaur we heard earlier?” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, he had been drawn into a bar fight that resulted in a misdemeanor conviction and a night in jail. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Retracting his earlier thought, he concluded, “No, that ain’t so, I’m glad I went. I done my part and I’m going to fight right here till Uncle Sam does his.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Foods such as these, which are eaten on holidays, often preserve tastes and ways of cooking from earlier times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, two researchers, working independently, were making some startling findings by drawing on a curious fact of Earth history that had been discovered several decades earlier. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It made the move doable months earlier than would have otherwise been possible. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For on assumption, unlike the earlier debate over funding, Madison had the votes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s eyes roam over the elegant wood desk, which Davis had so thoughtfully tidied before running off two days earlier. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

About a month earlier, Hillary Clinton had declared her own candidacy, brimming with confidence. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket tighter around himself and thought about the question Frankie had asked him earlier that night: “Why does your uncle live like that?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I had a group of kids in here earlier this week.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was there when Matthew described it to Caleb in painstaking detail earlier: a black box with a silver keypad, marked with a strip of blue tape with a model number written on it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Anything to bring back the assurance he’d felt in the parking lot only a few minutes earlier. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

If it were half an hour earlier, we could have tracked backward and gone down another street. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

European newspapers, letters from earlier immigrants, and advertisements from steamship companies were filled with accounts of tables groaning with food in a country where everyone could get rich. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

The first execution by electrocution had actually taken place eleven months earlier, at Auburn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time the conventional wisdom about the dinosaur extinction was the same as it had been in Charles Lyell’s day a century earlier–namely that the dinosaurs had died out over millions of years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Back before the curse had come, an earlier, happier part of life. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her earlier misgivings were forgotten; now she tasted the allure of adventure. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It must have always been so in prison, though it cannot be said that earlier generations looked upon it with today’s tolerance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I visited an old plantation called Taperinha, site of an earlier Anna Roosevelt dig, the man at the tiller abruptly turned the boat straight into the forest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A gleam that made Thomas suddenly more scared of him than he’d been minutes earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A cloaked figure stood where the merchant was certain no one had been a moment earlier. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“And I think you owe the class an apology for being disruptive earlier,” she said. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my semihysterical state earlier, I had not thought to wash it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s arrival at Berkeley was rather less dramatic than his arrival a few months earlier at Caltech, which he had reached after a breakneck automobile drive through the desert punctuated by two serious crack-ups. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Nine months earlier, an intruder wielding a knife had somehow managed to jump a fence and barge through this same door, running through the State Floor before being tackled by a Secret Service officer. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She was kind enough to pretend she didn't notice me holding on to her scarf and hat earlier; I don't need to test my luck. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

After Oliver’s conversation with Jimmy L, he came back inside, swiped three of the double chocolate pecan cookies Mama had baked earlier, then retreated to his bedroom for some Beiderman brainstorming time. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"Mr. Stevenson, your people will just have to get here earlier," he said dismissively. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“And of course,” she continues, “had you arrived earlier it might have played out differently. Timing is a sensitive thing.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So ten years earlier, Charles had left Edinburgh and had gone off to study theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presto had come up with the idea six months earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Ending slavery was a challenge on the same gigantic scale as these earlier achievements. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

As we gather up our bags to move on, Safaa looks uncertain, in contrast to her earlier demeanor. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that several spies had brought him the same rumor earlier in the day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke earlier than usual the next morning and knew, before I was completely awake, that something was different. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The color drains from Bailey’s cheeks and all the apprehension and nervousness he had felt earlier returns instantly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun’s earlier assumption—that they were being evacuated by force—seemed to be confirmed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In this section are several addenda to earlier material in this chapter. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’d got a video player in the billiards room a couple of years earlier, and by that spring had built up quite a good collection of movies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years the sisters had become very close, overcoming an earlier estrangement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When he’d first crossed the river, sixty-seven, days earlier in the freezing temperatures of April, it had been an icy but gentle knee- deep creek, and he’d simply strolled across it. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which was strange, because just minutes earlier he had been acting like we were all murderers for not crying our eyes out. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was because Curron snapped on her and Whit threw her a little shade earlier, but now Krystal was fuming. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Is that one of the two cars that passed by us earlier? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“I have two new Messenger slots to fill, and as a matter of urgency I am promoting you a day earlier than planned. Here are your new uniforms.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I sleep as soon as my head touches the pillow, but wake earlier than I planned. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Because OSL is new, it could not have been used on earlier excavations—suggesting, as Waters acknowledged, that many pre-Clovis sites may have been already discovered, and mistakenly rejected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But that’s exactly what happened at that moment: everybody was even more silent than they had been a minute earlier. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She thought about earlier in the practice room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He’d picked up biking a couple of years earlier, not by virtue of its popularity, but out of necessity. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the unsatisfactory attempts at chemical control in earlier years had cost about £, 1 o per acre. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Hugh represented an earlier time at this school—before the space capsule landed and barfed up Cap Anderson. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The villagers remembered Matty as a fun-loving young man who had been destroyed when he fought the evil, unknowable forces that had menaced the village in those harsher times, seven years earlier. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"We tried to go in earlier, and they told us we couldn't come in." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Grace looked as uncomfortable as Joaquin had earlier, squirming and biting her bottom lip. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I want to get this thing done and out of my life,” he’d told me three days earlier at Camp Two. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

At some point earlier, Barack had received the authorization codes that would allow him to access the country’s nuclear arsenal and a briefing on the protocols for using them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She lifted her eyes and without changing her tone of voice, said, “You going to have to learn to get up earlier than this, Bigger, to hold a job.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s completely empty, as I discovered when I tried to clean bugs off the windshield earlier. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had poured the preserves into the jars hours earlier. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The man he tripped earlier grabbed his ankle. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, he had been given a flight safety award by his airline for successfully handling a jumbo-jet engine failure at low altitude. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Probably that father and son we saw earlier,” she said. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

My eyes settle on a book I’d spotted earlier: Hoop Dreams. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As we pulled into the station, I recalled an afternoon ten years earlier. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had arrived two days earlier by train from New York, been transported immediately to the Palmer House, and lodged there in its most lavish suite. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I'm sorry I didn't thank you earlier for the lasagna and the flowers. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

But before the panic could settle in, Javier squeezed Moss’s hand, then raised it and kissed it much like Moss had done minutes earlier. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The view looked nothing like it had when she’d stood here earlier, gathering her courage. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I breathe in again, though it definitely makes me feel like the hot dog I ate earlier is going to join ump guy’s blob of mucus beside me. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

From the moment I met her in the hallway she'd been blabbing, so excited about the hustle and bustle she'd experienced earlier in the day. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he remembered what El Patron had said earlier: Is she your little girlfriend? The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, however, was shaken awake several hours earlier than he would have liked by Oliver Wood, Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Some months earlier she had made a similar lunge toward him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

And my mother had given me a talk earlier that year, about what would happen when I started menstruating. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The command is as abrupt as the earlier door slam, and twice as close. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Almost,” Rob replied—which was good, because he’d mentioned a moment earlier that he was shaking uncontrollably in the awful cold. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s from a number I had called earlier, and immediately my insides twist. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When the day finally came, Bra Spider rose up earlier than everyone else. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And when his mom was home, she put them to bed even earlier. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Step by step it has been going on for a quarter of a century, drawing on even earlier work for some of its foundation stones. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He recalled that it was Jefferson himself who had first encouraged him “to write something upon Aristocracy” when they were together in London thirty years earlier. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, my mother had said she was tired of the tile backsplash behind the stove in the kitchen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

If we swirled around the oak tree the way Dismay had swirled earlier, we’d be bashed into the rose of Sharon bushes that sprayed the bottom of Listening Rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

So far, the policeman hadn’t seen much out of the ordinary except for the scene earlier that day: a wild-eyed man waving a red umbrella and chasing several giant black dogs around the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going into the American Classic in May, I’d already posted two all-around firsts in earlier meets, and one all-around third. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To clarify a remark someone made earlier, I confess that I am making up all the proper nouns. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The trolley trundled toward them, only half full since most of the factory men caught an earlier car. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’d gotten home earlier than usual, so my mom and dad weren’t back from work yet. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The round-faced man they’d seen earlier that day stood there, framed by the doorway. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, everything about Diana made sense, and I could hardly believe I hadn’t figured it out earlier. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Maribel and her mom climbing into a truck similar to the one they had climbed out of seven months earlier. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“If only I had listened to you earlier, I wouldn’t have had to go through this horror.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or about his mom and dad, or his dog, Captain Jack, that he had put to sleep only a few months earlier. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I emailed to thank him for Infections and Inequalities and promised to read his earlier books. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

We snuck into each other’s rooms by night to trade secrets, argue, commiserate, spy, and continue chess games and monopoly games that had begun days earlier. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had seen the number on the radio in Greg’s memory only a few hours earlier, burning brightly through even the murkiest clouds of his thoughts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But the doctor’s entry was identical to the one weeks earlier: “No evidence of recurrence. Return in one month.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The morning light, as cold and merciless as it could be, woke Malcolm up far earlier than he liked. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Seasoned activists may respond that all of this is “just politics,” but, as we have seen in earlier chapters, they are the same politics that gave rise to the New Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His voice had started doing the same uptick that Maya’s had done earlier that day, a question instead of a statement. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Zooey was now gazing abstractedly at an old root-beer stain on the ceiling plaster, which he himself had made nineteen or twenty years earlier, with a water pistol. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In Grandfather’s town, the house with the upstairs balcony, where he had watched the Nazis arrive six years earlier, was also occupied by strangers. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

At his high school graduation a year earlier, a classmate, a son of Emco’s owner, had approached him with a vague job offer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had stayed there twenty-three years earlier as a navy ensign. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, who had earlier tendered his acceptance, felt obliged to show up. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that a few years earlier, when scientists started taking protective measures against cross-species contamination—such as working under sterile hoods—it had suddenly become harder to grow new cell lines. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our Regiment is armed from rebel stores seized in raids earlier this month. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

It was published a few days earlier, on December 31,1890. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The price is never as high as the cost of managing the same diseases during the earlier stages of no-technology or halfway technology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he and Ernie headed for the garden earlier, they’d left Grandpop slumped in his chair at the table; it was obvious that he was disappointed that Dad wouldn’t talk to him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was famous for remembering something that she forgot to yell at you earlier, and dropping the wrath right back on you. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

These efforts to cope with human environment have proved a far greater challenge than the earlier struggle with nature. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read, realizing that a few days earlier I could have gone in and ordered anything on the menu. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, looking as human as that cello I’d been drawn to two years earlier. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I topped the tank off with some more water from a sealed container that I'd stored in the trailer earlier. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I have to wake up thirty minutes earlier. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

In those earlier years he was called Alcides, or descendant of Alcaeus who was Amphitryon’s father. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had wanted to help me into the flat when we arrived earlier in the afternoon, and Chima had insisted on carrying my bag. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They told me that Pancho Villa had ridden through about five years earlier, after raiding some towns in Texas. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the signal she and James had agreed on when they made up their secret language earlier that day. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

In earlier decades, persons newly successful and ambitious for social mobility similarly seized upon certain ‘family words.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about my dad’s face earlier this afternoon. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I would rewhisper all the words and sounds I had messed up earlier that morning, trying to invoke how the one girl who always wore a baby-blue cardigan would speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the lack of a legacy doesn’t bother Vincent as much as it would have earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Just shut it, dude. Remember what I said earlier—can’t take any chances. Plus, think about it. You really think there’s an exit anywhere? A secret trapdoor or something?” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

With these thoughts on my mind, I had a strange feeling earlier tonight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours earlier when I’d attached my regulator to my third and last oxygen canister, I’d noticed that the gauge indicated that the bottle was only half full. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ellsberg had intended to just grab copies he’d made earlier, but since they were there he decided to get a little work done. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

Near the site of where the Boston Massacre had taken place almost 150 years earlier, some of the guardsmen opened fire on the mob, killing three people. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I think back to earlier years . . . some are triumphant, pumping their fists in the air, beating their chests. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was incredible, but we stepped out into the perfectly quiet day we had known earlier. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In doing so, I could not refrain from pointing out the superficial resemblance between Pauling’s three-chain helix and the model that Francis and I had shown her fifteen months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

They have started without me, Eleanor thought; tomorrow I will wake up earlier and be there to talk from the window too. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

On one earlier assignment he’d been a French merchant; on another an Arab businessman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been raining earlier, and a rainbow filled the sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The face of the redheaded girl intertwines with gory images from earlier Hunger Games, with my mother withdrawn and unreachable, with Prim emaciated and terrified. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Most of our records from the fifties and earlier were contaminated. Instead of cleaning each page of the records to save them, the administration decided to have them carted away in bags and buried.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bentley's journey to the FBI offices had begun almost ten years earlier. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He read from a law passed just a year earlier that made it a class A misdemeanor to drive carelessly for any number of reasons, including using a mobile phone. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The vault that was searched had in fact been emptied earlier that same day. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The prophets must have gathered wood earlier because a great heap was already present at the center of the bare knoll. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The king was looking for his dog earlier." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I wondered why Papa could not open Jajas door when he tried earlier; the desk was not that heavy. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, the warm glow of the lights made passersby feel that this street might have looked the same one hundred years earlier. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

One could use the laws of science to evolve the universe back in time to determine its configuration at earlier times. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here,” said Harry, and they placed him in a niche where a suit of armor had stood earlier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Even the kitchen was a throwback to an earlier time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Do me a favor, will ya? Tell Steve to stop by the shop tomorrow. We gotta talk. It’s real important. I tried to catch him earlier, but I missed my shot.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thomas asked, thinking it kind of strange that Chuck was suddenly acting like an adult instead of the little kid desperate for a friend he’d been only moments earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

It was a prescient question, for Frank Oppenheimer’s association with Lawrence’s lab would end abruptly, following the disclosure of his earlier membership in the Communist Party. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He would get up even earlier in the morning, read it by flashlight for a while, sneak it back, and go trotting with Bow Wow. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also recalled in surprising detail his one unpleasant ride on Seabiscuit three years earlier, when the horse was still with Fitzsimmons. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant a lot to Joe; several weeks earlier, Joyce Simdars had returned from Montana, and free admission meant that he could afford to bring her along on dates. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

And just as we’re about to get into the elevator, I look over and see that dead lobby plant, from earlier, and—you wouldn’t believe it—a single bud, popping up from a branch. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Five weeks earlier my grandmother had given me her old riding lawn mower and I’d started mowing lawns. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

I grab my pencil and bite it thoughtfully as I stare at the words I wrote earlier. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He might also have felt somewhat uncomfortable knowing that this easternmost option contradicted the impression that Madison had created in the earlier debates—namely, that a more western location near the Pennsylvania border was preferred. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Glucose levels were monitored by testing urine, which could only measure glucose present in the blood eight hours earlier. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” he had promised the white people of Alabama earlier that January. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This is your night, Mateo. Seriously. You sang to your dad earlier and stopped when I came in. No one is judging you. You’re holding yourself back and you have to go for it.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He found his way to the High Street, where the lawyer’s office was, and wondered about going to see him, despite what he’d said earlier. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the one extreme, the Tasmanians continued to use stone tools superseded tens of thousands of years earlier in Europe and replaced in most of mainland Australia too. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Holmes, newly free and land rich, brought a new woman to the fair, Georgiana Yoke, whom he had met earlier in the year at a department store, Schlesinger & Meyer, where she worked as a saleswoman. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Why are you always trying to make me feel stupid?” he asked, pulling the napkin out of his pocket that he’d scribbled on earlier. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“So, what you said earlier. About breaking up. You never answered me.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Deirdre looks down, ready to fly, when two boys on a bike turn the corner—they resemble the boys from earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The light fades earlier; on the way home from school we walk through the smoke from burning leaves. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their class always gets out earlier than mine, and they are a level ahead of me. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Though Bigwig did not know it, his earlier blows had torn Woundwort across the nose. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sent me a text earlier and said he needs to talk to me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It occurred to me now that a great part of my mindless indifference to my surroundings earlier on was simply that I didn’t know where I was, couldn’t know where I was. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. poked her Afro into the kitchen to offer her help but she looked as green as she had earlier that morning. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The construction noises I heard over the phone earlier were actually due to construction, because the office is only halfway built. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t just about record-buying preferences, either: being a composer in the twentieth century meant making career- defining choices that simply were not relevant to earlier generations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

On the narrow shelf, the magazine I'd noticed earlier, an old issue, from before the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a union official, a deputy of Joe Puma’s, with whom I had had a two-hour lunch two years earlier, when I was first exploring this subject. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As I tried to say earlier,” Luke remarked, “living in a haunted house plays hell with a sense of humor; I really did not intend to make a forbidden pun,” he told Theodora. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Pa planted a kiss on Big Ma’s cheek like he hadn’t driven all the way from Brooklyn with her earlier. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

During parent conferences earlier this month, my parents came in to meet Mrs. Shannon and the other teachers. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Poppet mentioned you as part of the series of events that occurred earlier, so I hoped you would arrive eventually.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One can reasonably say, then, that Huygens had been wrong to claim that his result was in some way ‘better’ than Boyle’s, and wrong to abandon his earlier beliefs in the light of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Take instant messaging, which the 2004 report found to be in 60 percent of homes with children, but that hadn’t been in virtually any home five years earlier. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

After the first few measures, I forget everything for a moment and feel whole again, in spite of what happened earlier in the day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

All of the earlier fights with the giants had been in vain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The only noticeable thing was that he would come home much earlier than usual, maybe four in the afternoon instead of the usual eight or nine. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reported that earlier in the day the rebel Fourth Armored Division had seized the airport and key intersections in the city. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She usually woke earlier than this, but it had been a late night. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“Man, don’t sweat it. You should have said something earlier. I got you covered.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t show nearly the restraint it had earlier, and practically pounced on it, snapping up the smoldering sack in its great wide mouth. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Talc had not noticed the plane, only one of the many that had come sailing through his transom and window one semester a few years earlier. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a month earlier, Hitler had already received an even greater gift, and it had been given him by those who would soon become his mortal foes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

You control what you do, he had told Maya earlier that day, and he knew he was right. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

First it was huts, as silent and barren as the ones I’d seen earlier. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Had we known that you would be left out of your friend group, we would have gotten you a cell phone earlier, Junie,” my mom said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He let me hear it earlier,” says Supreme. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s not combed back as nicely as usual—he must’ve been out in the crowds earlier. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Two years earlier he had baldly compared ‘the superiority of the revelation through Jesus Christ to that through Abraham and Moses’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Our top story: A student rally turned violent earlier today at Midtown School of the Arts,” the newscaster says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Windy, I’m sorry I didn’t tell you earlier.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

How can he remember all that from almost forty years ago, but forget stuff that happened ten minutes earlier? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He did not believe he had ever heard the word Ingsoc before 1960, but it was possible that in its Oldspeak form—“English Socialism,” that is to say—it had been current earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The shiner had been a whole lot bigger and blacker a couple of days earlier, he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because of my twelfth place win in Tunisia and my earlier gold medal finishes in the domestic tournaments, my national ranking had improved significantly. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Almost twenty years earlier, he had been working on a tanker called the Andromeda. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I’m glad the shop has cleared out from earlier; nobody here to clown me. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The earlier pleasure over his approval of her cooking had evaporated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Rad Lab’s first report on its findings reached the Physical Review dated February 27—a crucial two days earlier than a letter from Lawrence’s Caltech rival, C. C. Lauritsen, documenting his own experiments. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Came by to see you earlier, but you weren’t there. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Anya took the rubles and slipped them into her pocket, the weight there somehow even heavier than the horseshoes from earlier. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, when crisp leaves had begun slipping to the ground, signaling the end of summer, Dad had been in high spirits. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was deep in enemy territory with no allies but a drüskelle who’d thrown her in a cage only a few weeks earlier. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t he played a former World Champion, Dr. Max Euwe, just a year earlier? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

On the seventh day, the alchemist decided to make camp earlier than usual. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at the fading light, which was fading earlier these days. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I remembered Henry’s cool voice, scarcely six weeks earlier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But elsewhere, on older worlds, where life has evolved billions of years earlier than on Earth, perhaps they know 1020 bits or 1030—not just more information but significantly different information. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His earlier thought returned to him; probably she was not actually a member of the Thought Police, but then it was precisely the amateur spy who was the greatest danger of all. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me again and said: “That’s why you wasn’t hungry earlier?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Down front to the right, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, who only a few hours earlier had crumbled in our front yard, defeated by the cotton rows, now sat on the edges of their rickety-rackety chairs. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly they report the same facts and allegations as earlier in the day, trying to talk to girls who work at the club, hounding its owner as he gets into a car. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, I had run through these same woods with all of my might, looking for safety, trying to get away from campus. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In the late 1990s, however, Cook County Hospital started a project that may one day earn the hospital as much acclaim as any of those earlier accomplishments. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"But how did you deal with—" "With my little problem? Simple. The sun was shining earlier, and it didn't feel that cold, so I just stripped down to nothing and I went out." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, we won the release of Phillip Shaw, who was fourteen when he was improperly convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole in Missouri. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They got to chat in the car, and Roy arrived home twenty minutes earlier than usual. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She holds out the circular gold pin that was on her dress earlier. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

That the ride I’d stepped onto seven months earlier had been rolling toward that moment of emptiness in front of the church sure as a runaway train on a clear stretch of track. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Harry could hear the men who had jeered at Hermione earlier, yelling at another girl in the distance. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hope Hel loosens up a little—at least enough to forget that she was so irritated with me earlier. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I was seeing Schmidt too, about this messed-up thing that happened not quite two years earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I saw the waiter who had come in earlier with the complaint about tough meat coming in again. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

My London showing earlier in the season had been disappointing, but the last six months of training had made a difference. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Playing two or more parts on instruments is far easier and children can begin this type of multi-part performance much earlier. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“If only Mija’s mother had brought her to me even a few hours earlier, she could have lived. If only they didn't believe in shamanism more than medicine.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They swiped Rachel’s apple and Edna’s dessert earlier in the week. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The last time I’d seen her was a couple of weeks earlier, when she was sitting in front of me in church and, turning around slowly, had asked me how I was doing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He unrolled the message that he had set aside earlier. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

In contrast, four species of big mammals—the goat, sheep, pig, and cow—were domesticated very early in the Fertile Crescent, possibly earlier than any other animal except the dog anywhere else in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing in the world could convince me at that moment that she didn't know I was the sick and guilty sonofabitch who woke her up five hours earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then I sit down on the edge of my bed and pull up the screenshot I’d taken earlier of the dome’s scaffolding. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She had really wanted to tell him about Papa earlier, but now it felt strange. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I’d discovered it four years earlier, while searching for discarded computer parts. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

That had happened years earlier when she first started at the Department of Corrections and was working the graveyard shift in Ogden. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the jail, Hooks positively identified Walter's truck as the one he'd seen at the cleaners nearly six months earlier. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

All the sunshine meant there were vegetables earlier than there should have been, and given the dire straits we were supposedly in, there seemed to be lots of food. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a way, sex had got like “being creative” had been a few years earlier. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instrument commonly called the "piano" by the way, was originally called a "pianoforte" because it could play dynamics, unlike earlier popular keyboard instruments like the harpsichord and spinet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Hugo remembered another movie he and his father had seen a few years earlier, where time stops in all of Paris, and everyone is frozen in their tracks. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

She’s the youngest of three daughters; her father was the pastor of the village for many years but died eight years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s earlier than it seems, I thought I slid out of bed and padded down the back stairs to the kitchen. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to tell you about that earlier,” Mom said as she padded back into the kitchen, already changed into a nightgown and slippers. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

His shelves were covered in books, and he had many souvenirs from the Paris World’s Fair, which he and Isabelle had attended a month earlier. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

While JimmyTrotter milked Sophie, I told him what happened earlier with Big Ma and why she was anxious to get rid of us for the day. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Her legs are shaved, making me think I should have known earlier that it was a girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Thinking neither of her hardships nor of earlier times, she wondered when the Dalals would return with her new bedding. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Despite Abraham Lincoln’s assassination just sixteen years earlier, President Garfield did not have armed guards protecting him. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It involved scraping cells from the cervix with a curved glass pipette and examining them under a microscope for precancerous changes that TeLinde and a few others had identified years earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The Captain nodded, tightening his arms across his chest as he had earlier. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She talked to me earlier,” Frank said abruptly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The legs are getting so bad he has to get up an hour earlier in the morning to get the stiffness out, to put on another dressing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the host asked me about my body, her face faded from the screen, and was replaced by a scroll of words, written by me earlier that week. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He acted like an earlier missing link in the human species. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

For some reason it hadn’t dawned on me earlier that I was cooking a very difficult meal for a group of very picky food experts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It might reach him before my earlier letter got to Char. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The author of the letter, as stated earlier, was Zooey’s eldest living brother, Buddy. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He was opening and closing his mouth like I had been earlier. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

In a photograph taken of him several months earlier, he is wearing a stylish dark suit. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He’d e-mailed me a few months earlier in response to an article I’d published in Johns Hopkins Magazine after meeting the Lacks men. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was joking with myself earlier, but now I’m wondering how it’s possible that I’ve stepped into the most predictable teen rom-com ever. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

It was heavily plagiarized from a work written thirty years earlier by the Oneida Community’s founder. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now I’m up way early—even earlier than I would be for school. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

This was something I’d trained myself to do many years earlier, a drill I forced myself to go through every time I climbed, and on Everest it may have saved my life. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He has on the same suit he had on earlier in the day, although that feels like last year. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, she had wandered off to smoke her last cigarette before showtime. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it has to do with his father. You never really get over a thing like that. At any rate, the kid attacked two police officers over on Bryant Street earlier this afternoon.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Deborah realized these movies were fiction, but for her the line between sci-fi and reality had blurred years earlier, when her father got that first call saying Henrietta’s cells were still alive. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I have to leave for work in a minute. I’m catching an earlier train today.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Over the arm of the couch, I caught a glimpse of his face staring back at me through the dark beyond the window—where just a few minutes earlier I had been crouching. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to get us back to how we’d been just a few moments earlier. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The Hindi kid would soon learn what the British learned earlier in the century, and what the Russians would eventually learn by the late 1980s: that Afghans are an independent people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was still warm, a gentle radiance of the day’s earlier sunlight. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ugwu hoped for a little more light; the moon had been more generous earlier when he buried his ogbunigwe about thirty yards ahead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If it hadn’t been for your call moments earlier,” he says, “I would be the one lying on the ground.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Fine, How about this—you know your mom’s last question? Are you happy? I told her that earlier today was the happiest I’ve ever seen you. That’s a little pathetic, honestly.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

She arrived later in the morning and left earlier in the afternoon. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Our Solar System is certainly a prerequisite for our existence, and one might extend this to the whole of our galaxy to allow for an earlier generation of stars that created the heavier elements. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t think she ever intended to hit us earlier, only spook us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A senator who had spoken earlier had come up to him after the rally and had enthusiastically shaken his hand, promising him his complete support. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

We’d seen her at the receptionist’s desk earlier when we first came in. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He devoted a full two months to revising Washington’s draft, amplifying Madison’s earlier account of the need to rise above party differences and rally behind the elected representatives of the national government. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I was talking to my mother or I would have come earlier,” he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My family must have been here earlier this morning. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years earlier, I had stood behind that same window, thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure which weapon to select, but some of the other freshman girls I met earlier chose épée, so I did the same. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Just as he had done a few days earlier, he slid a coin out of his pocket and looked at it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Bridge had noticed the cat ears earlier that morning, on the shelf above her desk, where they’d been sitting since the previous Halloween. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was fairly easy to follow the trail he had made two days earlier. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Cager Lee, the eighty-two-year-old grandfather of Jimmie Lee Jackson, killed by a state trooper two weeks earlier, could walk only a few miles each day. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

As it came to me, bit by bit, I understood more clearly what Sapo had told me earlier. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

And so I decide to make the ascent earlier rather than later. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One September afternoon, with the threat of a storm, he returned home earlier than usual. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wonders if all the grand words earlier about stories no longer being what they once were was all for show, something that the man does not truly believe. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Waiting at the Selma side of the bridge were the possemen who had watched the marchers pass earlier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, on his way to meet a Soviet agent in New York City, Ames accidentally left his briefcase on the subway. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It looked so much worse than it had earlier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

On the other, Dad had lost his job nearly six months earlier, when the restaurant he’d been managing went out of business. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“You know what the city center is like! Get up a few minutes earlier!” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d made a copy weeks earlier, in case he lost the original, and it had somehow gotten away from him between the copy store and Powell’s. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Once, a couple of years earlier at a luncheon for U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry. I wish I could a called you earlier so you could pick up that phone.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Here’s hoping they ran off to join the circus,” Mama said to Ophie, the first words she’d uttered since her reprimand earlier in the afternoon. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had forgotten my earlier fright; it came back in a sick, bilious wash. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could not believe they heard my welcoming speech at the Murphey Awards and saw me dance at an event several months earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Two weeks earlier, Lilya had been wounded in the shoulder and the leg. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Wes was talking to his new friend, Woody, one of the first people he’d met when Mary moved the family to this neighborhood a year earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

It was the strangest thing: Lyra knew exactly what she meant, and half an hour earlier she would have had no idea at all. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“As I said earlier, I trust your devious brain is working through a way out of this pickle. This town is terrifying.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The giraffe was a tali drill that had been brought to the village by the two men who had visited earlier. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this same train station my grandparents had arrived a half century earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure we could find someone. I saw Alexander the Great in the beer hall earlier. He's good when he's sober." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

But those hypothetical outcomes were foreclosed by mammal extinctions thousands of years earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had showed up a few weeks earlier to visit Miss Mary Finch, his aunt and only living relation. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six months earlier Tamara had been badly injured in an air raid with a compound fracture to her left leg, which left her with a permanent limp. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He tried to make small talk, telling the jockey that Bing.Crosby’s hit “Pennies from Heaven” was written in that den by earlier tenants. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ernest Lawrence was being mentioned in quarters and in contexts that only a year or two earlier would have been unimaginable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mustafa had a conversation with my parents earlier, asking for their permission to post it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

On one of the coldest nights of the year, a record number of Iowans had fanned out to their local caucuses, almost double the turnout from four years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

After dinner we were taken to Block 16, a cluster of fifteen barracks that had just been finished a day or so earlier—although finished was hardly the word for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, of course. We will be out by December thirty-first, maybe earlier. Again, I’m sorry, Mr. Beiderman. I hope you have a happy holi—” Papa stopped and looked down at the phone screen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The Runners had just returned and entered the mysterious Map Room, clanging the iron door shut; Minho had already gone in earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

For over a month, whenever he clicked on the television, Charles was forced to look at the five cheaters who, six months earlier, had robbed him of his rightful prize. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tony noticed that Mexicans, who make up the fastest growing immigrant population, have been far less successful at moving up from the bottom than many earlier immigrant waves. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A moment earlier Fd noticed that wispy clouds now filled the valleys to the south, obscuring all but the highest peaks. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but she was. And you raised an excellent suggestion earlier. I should take a walk outside.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I saw you give Spencer cash earlier,” Mom says. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But it’s Frank’s happy, and that’s good enough to make Axel feel different than he had earlier in the day. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children must have taken place earlier in the day, and now they had all gone home. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

I shift slightly to the left and see that he’s grinning at the couple I saw coming into the hospital earlier. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When she had visited the mini-museum earlier, she hadn’t really looked around. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Instead of handing on the tried and tested chants, as had been the norm in earlier centuries, Hildegard made up her own chant tunes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Yet Farmer only had to look at the changes in Cange from when he’d first visited the settlement six years earlier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Mom hesitated, her eyebrows still high up on her forehead from when I’d snapped at her a second earlier. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He already said that earlier, and I promised to try. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Humans first evolved in East Africa about 2.5 million years ago from an earlier genus of apes called Australopithecus, which means ‘Southern Ape’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only deep into the play’s final act did he notice a white scrap of paper visible behind a flickering, holographic prop stove he’d been working on earlier. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She hardly resembled the perfect robot who had appeared on the shore just a week earlier. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

As indicated earlier, any effort to downsize dramatically our nation’s prisons would inspire fierce resistance by those faced with losing jobs, investments, and other benefits provided by the current system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Not as good as earlier years when the streets of Incheon were filled with foreigners, but enough to feed his family. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I know she doesn’t mean to take my hand in the same way the two women earlier did, but it’s still comforting, after she’d yanked her hand away from mine before. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The air between them smelled of tobacco, of the onions and grilled lamb they had eaten earlier. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Stanley thought back to what Mr. Sir had said to him earlier, and the bits of conversation he'd overheard. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Your pops came in here and took care of it earlier.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

TeLinde, one of the top cervical cancer experts in the country, was a dapper and serious fifty-six-year-old surgeon who walked with an extreme limp from an ice-skating accident more than a decade earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Armstead had been ranked higher than Granger in some national magazine a few years earlier and officially became the school with the best facilities, the best teachers, and the most Ivy League acceptance letters. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

When Rose and me were out earlier, it had been nice, but now the sun had gone down. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Only three minutes earlier, it was working fine. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had not yet mentioned it to her husband or her children; Moody had discovered their absence only earlier that morning, and was still unsure what to make of it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I get to school, Sam is already there, which means she took an earlier bus or her grandpa dropped her off. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You think I don’t notice the way you look at me sometimes? Why’d you think I was asking you those questions earlier, huh?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They had continued talking by phone since her visit earlier in the year. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My hands hadn’t stopped shaking from earlier, and every time I tried shutting my eyes all I could see were the white coat’s blank ones staring right back into mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You saw what happened up here earlier this month. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I look back down at my phone, remembering the encrypted note I’d received earlier in the afternoon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Several weeks earlier, Henry had become angry when the twins were voicing moral objections at the idea of killing Bunny. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, Bouza had written a book in which he called abortion “arguably the only effective crime-prevention device adopted in this nation since the late 1960s.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

At his side was the young Arab the boy had spoken with earlier. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounding up the hill to Fry High, the creature barreled through the hole it created earlier, following its original course to the library. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

If the rats could detect the handful of greens he’d eaten hours earlier, they must have an unbelievable sense of smell. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The last being the only thing I could do anything about, I took what was left of my piece of bread from earlier in the day and ate it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When I’d left him on the South Col seven hours earlier, I was terrified that he wasn’t going to survive through the morning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was prettier than the black dress on the bed, the one she had earlier picked out for her parents’ party. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because she had finished breakfast earlier than she expected, because she was bored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With a start, Thomas realized it was the black-haired guy who’d given him the look of death earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Let’s take another look at a pair of earlier lists. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His voice, which had earlier been low and sinuous, now gave a loud drawn-out howl, as if of grief. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was three months earlier, the summer of 1997 to be exact, when my mom told me that we were putting our beloved home on the market. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

That was the smashing sound I’d heard earlier at Tornado Touchdown Time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real river island, not like the pebble beach we’d paddled past earlier. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier a half dozen drunken soldiers had noticed her cow in her barn, butchered it right there, and carried the slabs of beef back to the encampment in the dark. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I understood you to say earlier that no gill-netter would board another’s boat except in the case of an emergency. Is this correct, sir? Did I hear you right?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In 1927, the state of Indiana passed a revised version of an earlier law to sterilize “confirmed criminals, idiots, imbeciles and rapists.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

While he exhibited flashes of brilliance, this wasn’t the same Bobby Fischer who’d swept through the United States Championship eighteen months earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mark could only catch a glimpse of a running shadow up ahead, but it looked like someone in one of the green suits they’d seen earlier, without the headgear. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For a girl who’d had her first sewing lesson in home economics only six months earlier, it really was pretty nice. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like Doug, I had eaten little and slept not at all since leaving Camp Two, two days earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Today, I got up hours earlier than I needed to. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The date thus seemed to imply that the Maya had originated well to the west of what was thought of as their traditional homeland, and much earlier than had been thought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s one unequivocal piece of good news: the crate of two dozen paintings that Vincent had sent three weeks earlier, the first shipment from Arles, finally arrives in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

When he’d first approached me about running for state senate years earlier, there had been only two of us to think about. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I recognized some of them, like Shagufta, who had been holding the laundry when I entered the servants' quarters earlier, and Ghulam, the driver who brought me here. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Either Coach was lying or Drew had lied to him earlier. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

My reflection in the mirror catches my eye; my makeup from the tournament earlier now looks smeared and smoky, dampened by the rain, and my hair hangs in wet strands of color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The bottle you brought in earlier appears to be finished.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He thought back to their first meeting, four years earlier at a lecture hall in Cambridge, where a group of Bengali poets were giving a recital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He sat down beside her on the bed and began to stroke her cheek with the same half-mocking touch he had used on earlier occasions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadrack’s earlier violence had coincided with a memorandum from the hospital executive staff in reference to the distribution of patients in high-risk areas. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Because the artifacts were crudely made, Abbott believed that they must have been fashioned not by historical Indians but by some earlier, “ruder” group, modern Indians’ long-ago ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But did Galileo make his measurements in Florence, or earlier in his life in Venice? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There is no longer a threat to safety. I repeat: There is no longer a threat to safety. You may resume your earlier activities. Thank you for your patience.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

How delightful to see Your Majesty in your audience chamber earlier. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In reality, there must be some truly “earliest X,” with all claims of earlier X’s being false. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few moments earlier the group had wanted the detective to arrest Holmes the moment he entered the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Still, I had a vague sense that at least some of them were those who had gathered in the shoemaker’s house earlier in the day. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ali had served dinner earlier—potatoes and curried cauliflower over rice—and had retired for the night with Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They strolled back to the main street and entered the grocery store Dicey had gone into days earlier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed that Hiss had passed these to him several years earlier, as part of their conspiracy to provide information to the Soviet Union. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these parallels have been discussed at some length in earlier chapters; others have yet to be explored. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, I’d even finished first in some events at earlier meets. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His father, a farmer, had died two months earlier. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The once marginal, second-tier law firms started by the people who couldn’t get jobs at the downtown firms ten and fifteen years earlier. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Both cars had been bought a week earlier at an auto auction. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They started jogging, a little slower than earlier, but not much. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Seven weeks earlier, at the end of April, Jule woke up in a youth hostel on the outskirts of London. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I told him that he hadn’t wanted to talk to us earlier and we didn’t want to talk to him now. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He knows he's been one since the day five years earlier when he was fired from Goupil’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Roman Ideals When the Romans set up their Republic nearly a half-century earlier, they rose up against the Etruscan kings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

The washtub, where his mother had been washing earlier, was open still, and filled the kitchen with a sour smell. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a song from the past, the past of the campus and the still earlier past of home. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was just that whenever I looked at myself, I saw weaknesses where a few years earlier I had seen strengths. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He held the flashlight for me so I could sneak up on any holes I had found earlier in the day, thinking they might be tarantula burrows. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

‘She left earlier than we did, in a farm cart. But—you know— she’ll be all right.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you continue making progress,” one of the nurses told me earlier today, “I see no reason why you shouldn’t be going home in a couple of weeks.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Seven months earlier, on a frosty March afternoon, McCandless had ambled into the office at the Carthage grain elevator and announced that he was ready to go to work. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He does not say thank you but I decide I’ll accept his thank you from earlier. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I stayed home, I was going to end up swallowing those pills, but the certainty I’d felt minutes earlier was retreating. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Twenty years earlier, he explained, he’d been with a friend who was driving a car at a demolition derby. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Then in the end I said to him: “I’m sorry I blew up at you earlier. I’ll talk to them. I’ll try and see to it you get someone really good.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier, Shani went out to play with one of the neighborhood girls, Lateshia, and came back home with her face covered in blood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He also kept an eye out for any large footprints like the one he’d seen earlier. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He never did make the connection between that fast-food stop and my request a couple of weeks earlier. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The decision about who went where was made by Shin’s teacher, the man who two years earlier had saved Shin’s life by providing him with extra food and halting abuse from his classmates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In photographs taken when he arrived a month earlier, he had looked merely sick. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“That stuff happened earlier in the summer. It just doesn’t matter anymore,” I say, feeling stronger. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

I asked her earlier if I could do any of the literary works we’d studied this year. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Is it that Rachel girl who was here earlier?” my uncle asked. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Would Charlie be getting up an hour earlier, too, in France? Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She turned to include the others, and Pinmei saw that unlike her earlier close-lipped smile, this one was soft and kind. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

My breaths are tight, like when I was laying into Peck earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He dipped it into that same bucket I’d kicked a few days earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

This means that at earlier times objects would have been closer together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young Mexican who started his shift ten hours earlier climbed out with a bag of garbage and heaved it onto the sidewalk. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

One by one the women were taken through the door that Afi had spoken of earlier. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few months earlier he had almost killed himself on a combination of whiskey and some red wine made by an Italian drinking buddy of his. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night when I asked Rob about it he said he wasn’t certain, but he thought the victim was a Sherpa who’d died three years earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I realize the source of the niggling feeling I had earlier. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If I've seemed indifferent to him earlier, I make up for it now, by finding him, nursing him back to health, going to the feast for the medicine, and being very free with my kisses. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The young lady who had met us downstairs earlier cracked the door. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

But Abe had changed since his dad had gone away two years earlier. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he usually won the right to take the first shower because he had to be at school an hour earlier than me. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You may recognize his face from his earlier visit to Valentine, a most distinguished young man of the arts.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“You won’t touch her,” Mark says, the look in the man’s eyes filling him with the bravery he couldn’t find a few minutes earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Janey Hart discussed how 100 years earlier, men served as hospital attendants and women were thought of as too weak to withstand the horrors of military hospitals. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t Cool Papa tell the crowd earlier that the blues was more than a song, it was a story? Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

He thus stumbled on Mendel’s earlier paper buried in the Brno journal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bobby knew of him, of course, having played over his games from the Amsterdam tournament of 1956 and also from seeing him from afar at the USA–USSR match in New York four years earlier. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Some of his earlier stays in the PSU had been recorded in this same logbook. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They showed none of their earlier sluggishness and shrank quickly in response to the light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Two months earlier, he’d done the same thing on his way to a show in DC, exiting the highway at Marathon. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

That same night, trying to get to sleep in an overnight, I kept thinking about something that had happened to me a few days earlier. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oliver’s stomach rumbled, the double chocolate pecan cookies he’d eaten an hour earlier a distant memory. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In their first of two games on Saturday, the Fugees would face a familiar opponent: Blue Springs Liberty Fire, the team the Fugees had beaten in a 3-2 comeback earlier in the season. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I notice for the first time in the morning, with the spring mists rising up from the hills around Przemyśl, the sun coming up earlier and earlier in a watery sky. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

A few of them have been carrying packets of the food Trina found earlier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I spoke earlier of the emergence of the trailer home, the mobile unit, and of certain advantages to their owners. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My stitches had come out two days earlier and we were celebrating my first full span in the Arcanum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“She is ignoring me. Did you notice how rude she was earlier? These Eastern Europeans just don’t like serving black people.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Despite what Natasha said earlier, I can never work in a building like this. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I think the boys he’d been playing football with earlier came back, or maybe it was some students strolling by who came and sat down with us. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d always had excuses until a few days earlier, when I called his house to see how he was doing. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That whole thing unfolded a few years earlier, when Jayme was eight months old and the family still lived in Southern California. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Three black words were printed there, so obvious he couldn’t believe he’d missed it earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Charles looked through his boxes and found some shells for Annie and Etty to play with—shells he had gathered on his Beagle voyage about twenty years earlier. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His nervousness had subsided months earlier; he knew he no longer had control over his destiny. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

These were not peanuts handed out on his recent flight but something acquired years earlier, back when all planes had propellers and pilots wore leather helmets and long, flowing scarves. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Without knowing it, he was mirroring the smirk his mother had left his father with when she saw him on the couch years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

There was a lot more media attention and national news coverage than in any of my earlier cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were on bikes because a few weeks earlier, Eric’s ’82 Olds sedan, their only other means of transport, caught fire on the highway to Nampa for the fourth or fifth time. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scroll down to some of Harriett’s earlier posts, where there are fewer selfies and more pictures with friends. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The brunette from earlier, Becky, is called to the stage and she performs Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When her brothers left Washington for Williams College two weeks earlier, they expected their father to regain his health in Elberon. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

My stomach growls in anticipation of the jumbo samosas I saw someone carry into the school earlier. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gorging on sweets didn’t chase away the blues as it had a week earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

One arm around Hermione, he fished in his jeans pocket and withdrew a revolting-looking handkerchief that he had used to clean out the oven earlier. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

There are more people in the hallways up ahead now than there were earlier—it must be time for them to start work. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

They didn’t eat with us because we ate earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Moss experienced a flash of a memory then: Esperanza, days earlier, making the college fair about herself. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Aunt Nancy holds up her hand, not like earlier with a flourish, more like a stop sign. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Long before Garfield and his family boarded the train from Mentor to Washington a few days earlier, he had toiled over naming his cabinet members. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The nights he spends there, he learns to wake up earlier than he is used to, to the sound of Silas barking downstairs, wanting to be taken for his morning walk. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, about one of every two Americans uses a cellphone; in 2004, there were 176 million subscribers, almost eight times the number a decade earlier, according to the market research firm IDC. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“So where were we, before I behaved so rudely?” he asked in the gentle cadences of an earlier century. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

After Aunt Gloria had tossed it on the floor earlier, and the police had said they didn’t want it, I’d taken it back up to my desk. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

So how about comparing today’s most popular names with the top ten from only twenty years earlier? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I’d oiled it earlier, and it slid open without a sound. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

My head pounded as I tried to recall the tiniest details about my time in their home nine years earlier. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Mom and Jess and the twins joined him in a booth, and he explained that what they’d seen and heard from their classroom earlier was called a steam explosion. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Pm sorry I said all those terrible things earlier. I didn’t want to believe you—that you were who you said. I knew what it would mean.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“That’s the least of your worries! Perhaps I was not sufficiently dissuasive when we discussed this earlier. Perhaps you do not fully understand the circumstances of the ymbrynes’ incarceration.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I crossed the hall and had actually picked up the offending item before realizing its full implication; my father, I recalled, had been brushing the entrance hall a half-hour or so earlier. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eight months earlier, in February 1992, the man who was the author of the internationally acclaimed Roots passed away suddenly in the middle of the night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those kids cheered for me earlier. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A year earlier, however, these students did even worse, averaging just 4.1 on their fifth- grade tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In earlier chapters, we have seen that throughout our nation’s history, poor and working-class whites have been bought off by racial bribes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Only seven years earlier, fresh from their victory over Hitler, American and Russian leaders—and most of their citizens—believed that the two nations could coexist in peace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most Americans date the end of the Civil War with the rendezvous, two weeks earlier, of Generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, focussing on a linguistic alteration can mislead us into thinking that something important has happened when it hasn’t, or that something happened at a particular moment when it actually happened earlier. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wanted to chime in and say that if he had told me that a few days earlier, it actually would've been a secret to me. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, when her hair began to thin and silver, to give it body, she wore her jet-black bun pinned to her small, silver head. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe they could show me how to write the poem I had wanted to write months earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Hillary Clinton, she said, had shown her this same view when she’d first come to visit the White House eight years earlier. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In their earlier days together, when Jonas was Leader, he had called on that vision often for answers to problems. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He took it when we were at the beach earlier. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m sure you are wondering about the activities I wrote of earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know you were that exhausted, or I would have stopped earlier.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘No. He had a travel card. He’d shown me it earlier.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day, I moved very far from the disadvantaged child I had been only days earlier. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some, no doubt unconsciously, fear that Ann was right in her earlier belief, that there’s nothing below the racism—except more racism. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m never positive of anything, Tucker, I’m just telling you what I know. But you said earlier this year that Celia and her mom didn’t get along, right?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

If he had fallen that hard earlier in the day, surely he would have cut himself. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t hear her reply, but a few seconds later the throne transformed into the Joust game, just as it had earlier. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He looks at my pocket again, like he did earlier. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In other respects the pottery preserved the red slip and the vessel forms characteristic of earlier Austronesian pottery in Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When she thought, this is the same sun that strokes the faces of my old friends back in my earlier world, her eyes felt thick. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I read the pages in my math book that other kids had read weeks earlier, but nothing made any sense. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some of her friends who dropped by to visit had just been to the Woodstock music festival a few weeks earlier. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It was a moment of reconciliation, when the nagging hunger in his belly was forgotten and his earlier affection for her had temporarily revived. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the brilliance that Bathilda exhibited earlier in her life has now dimmed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But wrapping them up in the napkins you asked for earlier—extending this meal for days, if possible. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was very clear that the sense of wellbeing he had felt, a half hour earlier, at being in the right place with the right, or right-looking, girl was now totally gone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

When she came back with the small pile of earlier editions, her mother was standing at the table, reading the editorial about Mr. Larson. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

However, should it be that you are able to release me earlier, we would be very grateful. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I was interested to hear, he was telling them things I had told him months earlier: You can change the outcome; there are prospects and opportunities. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The railroad had taken that sassafras down some years earlier to make room for a bigger depot platform. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She had arrived earlier and had already gotten everybody checked in. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

She should begin, as she had decided earlier, with a simple account of what she had seen at the fountain. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, at least 10 percent of Americans violate drug laws every year, and people of all races engage in illegal drug activity at similar rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On those days I had the thrill of getting up even earlier, grooming Quince until she shone, plaiting her mane and tail, oiling her hooves, then traveling with her in the horse trailer. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, he left the house ten minutes earlier so that he could walk slowly to school, without ever having to run. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I kiss dozens of people every night,” she’d told Feral earlier that evening. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The sound reminded Finn of an earlier time, a time when another car was jerking left and right, Roza’s pale hands slapping at the back window. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Just a few weeks earlier Aunt Xi-wen had complained to the school because some students had climbed into her yard to pick mulberry leaves for their silkworms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only hours earlier, my da had come in from his job at the bar and changed his clothes, as he always did after work, shedding rank smells with each layer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I thought of the stuffy, windowless concrete room from earlier today. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At trial, Joe testified that he had participated in the earlier burglary but had not committed sexual battery. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Syme had done earlier, Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-colored gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It would be nice if he’d come to me with this earlier, before I knew that President Snow had other plans and just being friends was not an option for us anymore. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel the ambrosia she’d eaten earlier starting to repair her leg, but it still hurt so badly that the pain throbbed right up to her neck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew that the vague thought I had had earlier, that goodness and intelligence could somehow lift a person above the idea of race, was wrong. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer had received his doctorate only two years earlier under Max Born at Gottingen, where he had communed with such rising stars of quantum mechanics as Werner Heisenberg and Paul Ehrenfest. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The boys had arrived two nights earlier after a long, cramped ride in the back of their dad’s old Honda. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

At an earlier proceeding, he was asked what his profession was, and he said, “I don’t work. I married an Osage.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Like I said earlier, it’s fall now and high school has started. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

There had been earlier attempts to build communities whose goal was to advance knowledge: sixteenth-century doctors, for example, had formed networks and had published the resulting correspondence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t as crowded as earlier, but the people who were there were in constant motion. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“There’s always Rule 1. I thought of it—earlier—but it’s desperate.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was the kind of bird that grew the beautiful long red feathers Uncle Turu was trading for earlier. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I had a visit earlier this year,” the queen says at last. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The casts had been removed a week earlier, but the doctor had warned him to take it easy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

My memories pull me back to an earlier part of the day, to the before. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had noticed him earlier, in his three-piece wool suit, staring at her as they waited on the tarmac. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few days earlier, Bunny had been grilling me about where I’d gone to prep school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He turned to face the tree he had threatened earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I think back to how flustered she looked earlier, and know that today might not work out the way we want it to. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Neither Elizebeth nor her team was fluent in Chinese, but Elizebeth had learned some basic characters while breaking another drug case earlier that year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

As we saw earlier, farmers in the industrial food chain are often on the edge of going bankrupt. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

She had finished hers a half hour earlier, and she knew I wasn't going to finish mine, mainly because it got cold—I could never seem to finish it before it got cold. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I thought about the botched execution of Horace Dunkins a month earlier and became even more distraught. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you say you were in the market earlier this morning?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Besides watching Tony, Wes’s first real interaction with drugs had taken place a few months earlier, just before the move out to Baltimore County. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They had last seen him a year and a half earlier, when he had toasted Endurance and her crew. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They followed no very clear order, for they interrupted one another continually, and Treebeard often stopped the speaker, and went back to some earlier point, or jumped forward asking questions about later events. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And a few months earlier, Charles had spent some time with another cousin, Emma, who was just nine months older than he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As mentioned earlier, there is also firm evidence for regular sea trade between some of these islands, such as New Ireland and New Britain. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The radio controls of more modern models had not been heard of ten years earlier. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Despite my earlier vow not to hike with the car, I found it rather suited me here—indeed, completely suited me. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Their colleague had been killed just days earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier, we’d been on a busy road, driving through four-way intersections, past strip malls and fast-food restaurants, but as we neared the apartment building, all of that had given way. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

My stomach and head still feel rocky, but much better than they did earlier. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I tried to find you earlier to tell you,” Amar says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

His mother had already passed away years earlier, and his sister, his only other sibling, lived far away. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the Almighty’s earlier guidance, I bowed my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I thought you’d made a mistake when you doubled your chorus earlier,” Denna said to me as the applause died down. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She must be the person I spoke with earlier. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Gus was here earlier. He was here when I woke up. Took off school. He ...” His head turned to the side a little. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, Norma jumps off the couch and grabs the history test she had brought home so eagerly just a few minutes earlier. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some several of the new investors were merchant relatives of Mr. Gitney’s, the Young Men whom I had seen about the house in earlier days, but whose presence had never amounted to much. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A month earlier when thunderstorms seemed imminent, Father had counseled his congregation to repent their sins and the Lord would reward them with rain. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get to this point in the evening I suddenly forget the happy, earlier hours. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I’d visited the plant earlier that spring I watched steers being unloaded from trailers into corrals. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I feel like we’re back in time, in a kind of Cuban version of an earlier America. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was here earlier today with his girlfriend,” she explains to her assistant. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before going into the operating room, George told his surgeons that he wanted them to take samples of his tumor, just as Dr. Wharton had done with Henrietta’s tumor decades earlier. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The handcuffs clipped to his belt were as shiny and unscratched as the day he joined the force, almost two years earlier. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she’d moved the meeting to two hours earlier than originally scheduled. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It had been a warm winter and a balmy spring in Bone Gap, so everyone with a field and a taste for corn had plowed and planted earlier than they’d ever dared before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If you had only summoned me a little earlier, I might have been able to do more, buy you more time!” said Snape furiously. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It was the same suspicious man she'd seen earlier that morning. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

But sometimes he slipped back into the habits of his earlier life, when he had been a sly and deceitful boy in order to survive. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s not Roy’s bicycle. This one was stolen from Trace Middle School earlier this afternoon, shortly after classes let out.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She should have realized it earlier; Adanna’s belly was swollen and her skin was a sickly tone, much lighter than it was only weeks ago. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few gowns, like Bandit’s, betrayed the twelve-course dinner the clansmen had consumed earlier. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

A minute earlier, walking along the sidewalk, we noticed the sign on the door that read part-time help WANTED. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chevalier was a professor of French literature at Berkeley and the host of the Communist discussion group at which Oppenheimer had been spotted by the FBI about two years earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were heading to the local jail to protest the arrest earlier that day of a civil rights worker. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court upheld judicial override in an earlier Florida case, which left us with no constitutional basis to block Michael Lindsey's execution. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They had desegregated Durham’s tennis courts in this manner a few months earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You know the rules, Ibtihaj,” my mother said, echoing my father’s words from just a moment earlier. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A couple of months earlier, all the national parks, along with all other nonessential government departments, had been closed for a couple of weeks during a budget impasse between President Clinton and Congress. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

A day earlier, Reggie had been sitting in a classroom in Provo at the Missionary Training Center. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

At the water mill door he drops several small logs on top of others he apparently carried up earlier. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexander Graham Bell, famous for inventing the telephone five years earlier, suggested using induction balance, with which he had worked while perfecting his invention. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Definitely not the smile of someone who’d had a baby four weeks earlier. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was back twenty-five years earlier when I was her little Charlie and she was willing to fight for my place in the world. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Andrew McBride, my biological father, had died while she was pregnant with me fourteen years earlier. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new ciphers were not as demanding as those she had cracked earlier in the war, and they did not yield much in the way of vital intelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Eight rats, two from each group, ran to the round pieces of wood Mrs. Frisby had noticed earlier; these resembled sawed-up pieces of broom handle, each about a foot long. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, Annabelle gets up an hour earlier than usual, and then heads out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Two men, Robert Chambliss and Charles Cage, had been arrested earlier and charged with illegal possession of dynamite. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And then Ser Gregor returned, earlier than expected, driving a herd of goats this time in place of a herd of prisoners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The first casualty of the day was John Lewis, his skull fractured in the exact spot where he had been struck years earlier during a Freedom Ride. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my only other trip to the courthouse a month earlier, I had gone to the clerk’s office to pick up files and the staff had asked me where I was from. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Thus, Tolstoy would have approved of the insight offered in another context by an earlier author, Saint Matthew: “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Three months earlier, two young white girls who lived nearby in Alcolu, a small mill town where the races were separated by railroad tracks, had gone out to pick flowers and never returned home. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“My girl and I had a fight earlier.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As they flew over the dark, twisting lane down which they had walked earlier, Harry heard, over the whistling of the night air in his ears, Dumbledore muttering in some strange language again. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Ruth May’s condition pitched suddenly into decline, as inexplicably as it had earlier improved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we’d been here twenty minutes earlier,” said the boy, “your watch would have been correct!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The doctor double-checked the list of diseases I had marked on the form earlier. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

But when I’d seen her earlier, when August and I had first come in, she didn’t look like she could be of service to anybody, bound up with all that chain around her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been years since I found her note in the Bible, and who knows how many years earlier that Matilde had written it there. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was time to go, Naomi went over to the long table that had been heaped with food earlier. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two young people had spent a lot of time earlier looking all around as if they thought they were being followed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her father returns to the key pound earlier in the evenings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The snow that had fallen a few days earlier was now a dark slush shoveled against the sides of the road. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

If there were events earlier than this time, then they could not affect what happens at the present time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had only been to Miami once before, two years earlier, on vacation with a now ex-boyfriend. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Babies were weaned at an earlier age—they could be fed on porridge and gruel. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with a man like Perrington, who always got what he wanted...she didn’t have much time to find a way to avoid owning up to the subtle promise she’d made him earlier that year. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He looked much more a man and less a boy than he had a few months earlier. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An instant later, the glare of a spotlight cut through the crowd, reaching the exact spot where Finn had stood only seconds earlier. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The Fugees had managed a win earlier in the season against a team that had beaten the Strikers. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier, in an unwarrantably self-deprecating paragraph of a letter to her brother Buddy, she had referred to her own figure as “irreproachably Americanese.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d mastered reading and writing so quickly he’d begun training in Illumination three months earlier than any Apprentice before him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Lyra had felt something of it earlier, but now she was seeing it directed at someone else, and poor Adèle Starminster had no force to resist. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Juanita had looked it up while I was driving earlier today. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sun had gone down about fifteen minutes earlier, and since the lights were always turned off at exactly eight o’clock, most girls were already in their assigned beds, chatting until total darkness set in. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By this time Aeneas, who in the earlier part of the story seemed as human as Hector or Achilles, has changed into something strange and portentous; he is not a human being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father had disappeared some time earlier; how much earlier, he could not remember. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Charcoal residues from a fire can thereby end up close to the remains of a plant or animal that died and was eaten thousands of years earlier or later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s just bought his small travel business, more as a hobby than anything: he made his money earlier, in real estate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Vonetta and Fern had been good earlier, watching and listening as the space shuttle orbited around the moon, taking its time to fire off another rocket to land. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Already at the tables, a group that had arrived still earlier was singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” in order that they might use the salt and pepper and ketchup there. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Guess that explains why they tackled one another to the ground earlier.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“He came in earlier and I wouldn’t admit him because he wasn’t in the book. We bickered for a while, Fela was here for most of it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Classes at Graham High started fifty-five minutes earlier than the classes at Trace; the high school kids were off the streets long before the middle school buses finished their routes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not up any earlier than you are. Can I help you?” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

As my avatar finished materializing, I looked down and realized that the floor I’d been standing on earlier was now gone. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The ubiquity of the geoglyphs may indicate that some type of cultural movement swept over earlier social arrangements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At my son’s high school graduation a week earlier, I had listened as a self-important cable news commentator droned on for thirty minutes about the future of the media in a digital world. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I gathered the fraying strands of song and wove them carefully back to what they had been a moment earlier. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mother had been awake when Milton slipped out of bed less than an hour earlier. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a pair of pristine white gloves and appeared just as fresh as she’d been hours earlier when we first met. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Up in Quincy, Abigail reiterated her abiding sense that Jefferson could be trusted to recover his earlier intimacy with her husband. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Toulouse-Lautrec stays for lunch, and he and Vincent have a big laugh together over an undertaker’s assistant they had seen earlier on the stairs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The same seat Mateo was in when he was singing earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We laughed because he used to say the same thing nearly twenty years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the showers the coach talked to us about how we had hung in earlier and how well we had played on defense. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Greasy Sae’s soup, made with stock from the bones of a wild dog we’d shot a week earlier, was below her usual standards. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The caption said the family had found out just a few months earlier that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, yet at that point she’d been dead for twenty-five years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘Not our orders!’ said one of the earlier voices. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Marco catches Celia’s glance with a hint of the smile from earlier before he turns away, fading into the background again almost as easily as her father vanishes into shadows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then out of nowhere he just blurted, “You know, I meant what I said earlier.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As noted earlier, a child with many books in his home has indeed been found to do well on school tests. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In 1619, Ferdinand II had become Emperor after Matthias died, and this was the same fervently Catholic Ferdinand who had caused Kepler so much grief in Styria earlier in his career. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I asked this of the dark boy who had said earlier, at the table, that the white man’s actions proved him to be a devil. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

That summer, while Variation was being compiled into its book form, a review of his earlier book, Origin, appeared in the North British Review. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

On August 15, about a month earlier, he’d written a memo to all the attorneys in the prosecutor’s office. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My head was still reeling from Derrick’s earlier attacks. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She waited for him to mention her earlier vomiting, but he didn’t continue. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I challenged, stepping into the space between me and the guard who’d disarmed me earlier. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The way it began, it was a bit like a repeat of earlier. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Durham’s police chief telephoned Mayor Evans for instructions, only to find that Evans had left town earlier that day, leaving a power vacuum at a critical time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The boys from earlier reminded her of a short story she’d finished working on this morning, something for her eyes only that has kept her distracted in the quiet times at work. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Three days later, Kenneth received the news that Alma’s body had rejected the new kidney and she had died earlier that morning. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Hall’s obligatory turn-around time had come and gone a full two hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

If the Court wasn't troubled by anything we'd presented, I expected an earlier ruling on our motion for a stay. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It had expired a couple of years earlier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“Um...well, not a date. I was talking to some guy earlier this year. Nothing came of it, though.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then a doctoral student, he had learned of the region’s peculiar landscape during an earlier stint as a cub reporter in Peru and thought it might make an interesting topic for his thesis. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

One of the Shoun brother doctors concluded that the time of death was around ten days earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I’d seen him play earlier, I realized, as part of the Gypsy children’s band. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, I know that a little earlier, some guests had actually commenced lunch out there, only to be interrupted by the appearance of ominous storm clouds. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side was Westinghouse Electric Company, with a bid to wire Jackson Park for alternating current, using patents that its founder, George Westinghouse, had acquired a few years earlier from Nikola Tesla. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Katherine purses her lips in thought, the storm of her earlier emotions subsiding. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I think back to when we were on the roof earlier. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the women knew one another from their earlier women’s rights work, but some were new to reform efforts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Thomas Sprat, writing a history of the Royal Society in 1667, repeatedly compared the reformation in natural philosophy with the earlier reformation in religion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lyesmith had loaned Shadow a battered paperback copy of Herodotus’s Histories several months earlier. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

China differs only by having been unified much earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been on a tanker once, maybe twenty years earlier, navigating through the Philippines. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

They are home for the weekend, Stuart told me earlier, their first since they moved to Washington. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The same tone of voice used earlier for Hopkins. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“First things first. Day’s brother John. I plan to help him escape tomorrow night. No earlier than eleven P.M., no later than eleven thirty.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

A thaw between America and Russia, something most leaders would have thought impossible only months earlier, seemed on the horizon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had introduced himself to Ifemelu earlier, a pudgy, well-groomed man. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Ivy was certain Robin recognized June from that picture she had drawn earlier, hence all the winking and smiling, but Ivy found she didn’t mind. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A year or so earlier these same girls had been porcelain figurines, gingerly dipping their toes into the disinfectant basin at the public pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Robert left earlier, with the excuse that he had to chop wood or see how the little apple trees behind the house were doing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks earlier, Miss Page had gotten the ax when the principal caught her toting a loaded rifle down the school hall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the cafe, no one would have guessed that I was carrying luggage at the Sakubva bus station only months earlier. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at each object and tried to compare it to my earlier flash inventory of my parents’ possessions. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

I had told her about Alice working on the project at the university, and I had mentioned Fay to Alice earlier— so they weren’t surprised to meet. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s still dressed in his clothes from earlier, but one sleeve of his shirt is pushed up to his elbows, while he’s undoing the cuff link on his other sleeve. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There were some passengers from earlier stops, but there was plenty of space and I found an empty seat for myself. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last he discovered what he was looking for: a big piece of liverwurst he had found earlier that evening. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or was it earlier than that—was it back when my father was still alive? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That search returned few results, but I found an article dated three years earlier about the trial of a Brighton, Colorado, boy arrested for assault. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Escapees from earlier deportations had furtively returned to the ghetto with stories of trains filled with people entering a camp and leaving empty, even though the population of the camp never increased. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Speaking of the weather, as we sat there tucked away all afternoon I watched the thick rain clouds I’d seen earlier creep slowly toward shore and us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He said it with the certainty he had wanted in his voice earlier. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She followed Penelope down the stairs and back into the bedroom she’d been cleaning earlier. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

If the virus had been noticed earlier, it might have been named Kinshasa Highway, in honor of the fact that it passed along the Kinshasa Highway during its emergence from the African forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poly face’s customers know to come after noon on a chicken day, but there’s nothing to prevent them from showing up earlier and watching their dinner being killed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Bo’s school—his fancy Catholic school with its strict dress code—let out earlier this week. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, it was the same truck he had driven us to Georgia in years earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The story had its start four years earlier, in May of 1792, when Washington approached Madison to help him compose a valedictory address. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

News of the death had arrived some hours earlier; indeed, I had myself knocked on the door of her parlour that morning to hand her the letter. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He is concerned about Herold, who rented a horse from him earlier that day and is long overdue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

If, after becoming a successful student, I no longer heard intimate voices as often as I had earlier, it was not because I spoke English rather than Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned earlier why Commander Jameson pulled me out of Drake. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the earlier discussion, however, I was referring to things that impair our ability to solve problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only through skilled medical attention. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

On rainy days, she left earlier and walked to school slower so that she would be soaking wet and rate the privilege of drying in the furnace room. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred years earlier and she would have been burned at the stake for her visions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Let us now trace out the earlier stages of those trajectories. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She walked with me to Mrs. Windermere’s, and I’m not lying, everything was even greener than it had been in town when I was making deliveries earlier that morning. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Exactly one year earlier, Hall had turned Hansen around on the South Summit at 2:30 p.m., and to be denied so close to the top was a crushing disappointment to Hansen. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kyril Montana had also helped Bud out of one ticklish situation involving federally controlled interstate land sales in which Bud had become embroiled during his earlier days when he was based in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are, of course, still bound by the promises made earlier tonight....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Eight years earlier—in 1943 — a group of researchers at the National Institutes of Health had proven such a thing was possible using mouse cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The pain in my hands I’d ignored earlier was worse now. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“That Woolworth’s shop earlier, it had all these tapes, so I thought they were bound to have yours. But I don’t think they did.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I meant to say earlier, before you shot out of here, that the new touches look nice. I suppose this is your doing?” she said to Wynn. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I began going to bed earlier and earlier, sometimes even in bright daylight. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mind was really on Bodega and what he had said earlier that night. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Rather, when he sees them, they often remind him of the person he once was and the life he earlier shared with them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, yes. But they marry earlier and earlier these days. What is the use of a degree, they ask me, when we cannot find a job after graduation?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

May Belle jogged to the end of the row and picked up his T-shirt from where it had been discarded earlier. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

I said earlier that most of my emotions are hybrids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Indeed he had come home from there once already tonight, much earlier in the evening. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

And he woke up earlier to fetch water and scrubbed the room floor harder and waited to win back her friendship. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This story begins a day earlier, on the afternoon of Friday, April 5,1996. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Cliff was in his seventies and still minding the tobacco barn behind the farmhouse his father had built decades earlier, checking the furnaces several times a day to make sure they stayed at 120 degrees. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As he went carefully to bed, Werfel heard muttering in the elf’s room again, just like earlier. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I start to look for the brown bag I saw Uhmma with earlier. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

In terms of our earlier distinction, they got us from the short run to the long run. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

A few articles from over twelve years earlier popped up at the top of the list. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The way it hides everything that happened behind it earlier. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thus thought it opportune to relate at this point, as precisely as possible, what had taken place earlier between myself and Lord Darlington. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z