He had been on a tanker once, maybe twenty years earlier, navigating through the Philippines. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

My stomach lasted only until early November before violent pains hit me almost every evening. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Unfamiliar noises and new scents wake me early, and I'm swept into the day. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

Livingston threw himself into his new task with characteristic single-mindedness, even training himself to operate the tube on some early patients. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The discoveries once again fractured the consensus about the early American history, miring it in dispute. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We are making arrangements for a series of simultaneous exhibitions and matches for early next year. We are also considering an exhibition match where Bobby would play the entire Dutch Olympic team simultaneously.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

We didn’t eat anything, because we wanted to get to the beach early. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I didn’t go to sleep until four, but I was in someone else’s house, so I woke up early—at eight—with that crazy sleeping-at-someone-else’s-house energy. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

My roommate’s uncle had graduated from the school years earlier and was now a successful business executive. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The Daughters of the American Revolution, the patriotic organization that owned Constitution Hall, had ruled several years earlier that black artists would not be permitted to appear there. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

But after the early relief, this return, came suspicion, nagging until I realized that I had not neatly sidestepped the impact of schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, I know that’s pathetic in just about its purest form, but there’s no way I can deal with this kind of thing so early I need experience with this. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

In the early sixteenth century the voyages of Vespucci provided further evidence against that theory, and it was decisive. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This would have been during the holidays, five months earlier, because I remembered the porch banisters all decorated with pine boughs and an enormous, sweet-smelling bayberry wreath that hung on the front door. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

You know how I like to—get on early. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

“Blackavar, do you know that earlier this summer, before we had the benefit of your experience, we went for days across every kind of country—fields, heather, woods, downs—and never lost one rabbit?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, he arrived early and made it to the front door. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I have checked a number of the early papers describing the development of the HeLa cell line but have not been able to find any information pertaining to the race of the donor. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

Rutherford had relocated to Montreal and a professorship at McGill University, which featured a lavishly equipped laboratory funded by a Canadian businessman, in an early example of scientific patronage by industry. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s early,” Nora is saying, thumbing through her phone as she climbs out behind him in a plunging black jumpsuit and killer heels. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Taisin had felt the city coming as early as two days ago; it was an unmistakable knot of energies coalescing together all at once. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

This morning, I woke up early and ran into my parents’ room, shaking them awake just like I do every Christmas. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The low early sunshine was streaming through the wood and the grass was gray with dew and the cobwebs were like silver. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, as a child panelist on “It’s a Wise Child,” he had been advised repeatedly to keep his distance from the microphone. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘I fell asleep again waiting for you, Sam, you sleepyhead. I was awake early this morning, and now it must be nearly noon.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Those early months at the Cottages had been a strange time in our friendship. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a secret to keep, a gamble he had made years earlier and remade with each race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Camellia and Edelweiss, you both will be woken early." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Anyone who studied the early years of Sudan might have seen civil war in its future. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning, me, Jay, and Leo took an early hike. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Effie calls a reminder to meet early for breakfast to work out our training strategy, but even her voice sounds hollow. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Houses built in the benign spring and early summer took waves in their second- story windows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd had begun forming some forty hours earlier, but up to twenty-four hours before, there were still fewer than one thousand. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Every day, I got up really early and hobbled over to my truck that was sitting in the garage. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

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

It was virtually deserted this early in the evening. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In my semihysterical state earlier, I had not thought to wash it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was never too early to start looking around, to scrape together that night’s meal. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

To see the remaining traces of this early settlement, scientists would have to jack up the whole enormous pile and dig underneath. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I go to sleep early but I wake up every hour. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the morning of his meeting with the black ministers, Eduardo and I drove out a few hours early to the site in Brooklyn and walked it through once again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I arrived early to prepare for singing Alleluia with the other girls, and there he was waiting for me by the choir stairs. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All those microbes are still at an early stage in their evolution into specialized human pathogens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mustafa had a conversation with my parents earlier, asking for their permission to post it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

“Why didn’t you leave the Academy earlier, then?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

He even liked it sometimes during the early morning workouts that were held twice a week before classes started inside the school gymnasium. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 two themes are related in my mind because I believe strongly in early intervention, whatever the disability. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when she was out of the garden, Minli realized it was very early morning. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

His mother sells houses—a lot of them in The Farm—and for reasons too complicated to tell, Noah Gershom was best man at my grandmother Draper's wedding early last summer. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The going wasn’t very nice because of the wet, but by early evening I reckoned we ought to be near the place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

An early winter moon was rising in front of them, and a chill wind came with it, penetrating feet and hands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

I swallowed hard, but I was always interested in any thing from her early life that might explain Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m up and out of the house early the next morning. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon before we finally came to the source of the smoke, and what we found was not at all what we expected. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We arrived there early, and when the office opened, we were the first the lord of Alexandra—a tall, heavyset white man in a brown suit—saw. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, she had a really bad day. Just bring the tickets over here. I want to get an early start so we can beat the crowds.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the house and stood in the center of the early, dim morning street. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get to class early, when Mr. Neck is still in the lounge. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“And I will break your ship in half with my bare hands and send your friends to an early grave.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was still early in the morning, and the shadows around the warehouses and buildings were long. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

By labeling us at an early age, they were almost able to affect our school record for life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Look there. The little one is already back at her chores. And she did a fine job sweeping earlier.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are those eager ones who glean early, and find themselves with little to do as conclave draws near. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Lourdes closes her shop early and walks to the Sisters of Charity Hospital fourteen blocks away. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah...the size. The depth. And the depth in terms of the sun, too. As the sun gets higher in the sky, the stripers go deeper. That’s why we’re out here so early.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s too early for him to go to bed.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then there was Dr. James Parkinson, who was also an early socialist and author of many provocative pamphlets with titles like "Revolution without Bloodshed." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the early nineties, Father Jack left St. Mary’s to serve the needs of a church in a shantytown called Carabayllo, outside of Lima. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

On the corner at 122nd Street was the Church of the Master, a fairly large Presbyterian church in which I would spend much of my early life. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the early hours of the morning, the vice squad moved in on the illegal bar and arrested everyone, setting off days of rioting and looting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In early June, Henrietta told her doctors several times that she thought the cancer was spreading, that she could feel it moving through her, but they found nothing wrong with her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Carolyn turned a couple of more pages, then flipped back to earlier in the catalog. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the Wednesday after Caroline called Mother, I arrived at Papa Jay’s a few minutes early. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Like musicians, like mathematicians—like elite athletes—scientists peak early and dwindle fast. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was early January 1999 when I heard my parents fighting again right outside the house. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The boy he had recently hired to work part time showed up early. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

While food production was thus a necessary condition for the evolution or early adoption of writing, it was not a sufficient condition. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was so early that I felt as if I were the only one awake in the world. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Again Rick inhaled a pinch of Dr. Johnson Snuff; the menthol in it tasted foul, so early in the morning. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

It seems too early for it to be open, but I squint and see that the sign in the window says come in. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Under what circumstances would it remain preserved for early farmers? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Harry and Ron, the only ones left in their dormitory, were woken very early by Hermione, who burst in, fully dressed and carrying presents for them both. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Until 1946, Japanese schools taught a myth of Japanese history based on the earliest Japanese chronicles of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The commission concluded, “People of both races acted with such courage and promptness as to end the trouble early.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“At your house. She went over to clean early. She’s doing lunch shift at the restaurant today.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ll come early and try to bring a doctor with me.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were swallowed up by the early morning silence of the house. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rass had lived in the fear and mercy of the Lord since the early nineteenth century, when Joshua Thomas, “The Parson of the Islands,” won every man, woman, and child of us to Methodism. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one earlier assignment he’d been a French merchant; on another an Arab businessman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Delilah, are you—oh, hi, Mom. Why are you home so early?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’m going to start early. I want to get clear across Maine to Deer Isle.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, the ultimate explanations—for example, why bronze tools appeared early in parts of Eurasia, late and only locally in the New World, and never in Aboriginal Australia—remain unclear. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Tía is on the early shift at the bakery. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

From my earliest childhood I’ve felt that something was going on in the groves, something of which I was not a part. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it not a dangerous word, too closely connected to Hobbes and to dubious stories about sympathetic magic told by Digby—someone whom John Evelyn, another early member, could dismiss as an arrant mountebank? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most large early clocks are driven by a weight which slowly descends: grandfather clocks had to be tall in order to give the weight space in which to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But that wasn’t at all the way Joe remembered his early childhood. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Only if the early universe was very smooth and uniform, with a high pressure, can one explain the absence of observable numbers of primordial black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re left over from some earlier phase of evolution, and everyone still has one, even though we no longer need them to digest. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A miniature teardrop traveled down her white porcelain face, like dew on the tip of early morning grass. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He is somewhat taken aback, though, by a conversation with Moore early into his tenure. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The weather was so dry, in fact, that early settlers had found cacti growing in places. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Because Dad was a shift worker and would often start work early the next day, we’d have dinner at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and listen to the news. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Koenig, his gym teacher, made him leave class early and take a shower. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The early morning was the best time for seeing turtles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

In all these days, the sun had come out only twice, once for an hour early in the morning, and once late in the evening to give them a fine sunset. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This latter caveat rewidened the gap that the earlier statement had seemed to close. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I try to hide my disappointment; it was kind of Judith to bring this for me, and I don’t want to seem more petulant than I already did earlier in the meeting. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

If we finish early, maybe we can go to the bike shop downtown and window-shop. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

One thing everyone knows about them is if you give them a shock the baby pops out too early. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Please use the attached contact card to reach me at your earliest convenience, regardless of the day or hour. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was up early on Election Day and saw the man who came and knocked on the door. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Plus, it’s early. In another three hours, the place will be packed and everyone will be drunker and the mood will lighten considerably.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

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

My earliest memory of the mosque is being here with my parents during Ramadan for special nightly prayers when I was three or four. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“It is impressive that I accomplished so much at such an early age.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Great advertisement for early marriage, wouldn’t you say?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the advent of the first primitive, unpadded starting gates in the early thirties, some riders actually died in the saddle, speared into the exposed steel overhead bars by rearing horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though they’d been political rivals only months earlier, Barack and Joe had a natural rapport, both of them able to slide with ease between the seriousness of their work and the lightness of family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If this were an American Dream story, Dandy, who arrived in Chicago in the early 1930s, would have found a good job and a pathway to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Appointments started around 8 AM, sometimes earlier, each morning for a week. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t dark yet, but the sky had that hint of fall, of night coming early and taking the day away. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

To get her fair share of time with her parents, Hyacinth had developed the habit of getting up early. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“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

Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

With earliest day, I was up: I had my advertisement written, enclosed, and directed before the bell rang to rouse the school; it ran thus:— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

But he was also a man torn between deeply conflicting ideals, who harbored a profound resentment against many things that had been embedded in him during the early years of a puritan New England upbringing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, in the early evening, I find myself in a house in the Foreign Quarter with Keenan and Sana, standing before an elderly Tribesman. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We came to Manderley in early May, arriving, so Maxim said, with the first swallows and the bluebells. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The most compelling explanation is that all those early lynchings worked. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

My dad and I got to the office early—I was the very first patient. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

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

He was a pale, thin man in early middle age; his name was Teukros Basilides, and his dæmon was a nightingale. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The girls came for a week, early on, at the end of summer, when my mother was still in her house in the Soo and we could all pretend this was just another visit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning early, every evening until it was too dark to see, Daddy worked in his garden or among the vines. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re coming in from crabbing early these hot mornings,” he blabbed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the legal force of the Cache County Attorney’s Office, Rindlisbacher had been faxing Verizon in late January and early February. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The mornings after she left, I woke up early. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Then I said, “Maybe it’s too early in the day to call. I didn’t think about that.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The ubiquity of the geoglyphs may indicate that some type of cultural movement swept over earlier social arrangements. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Before we went to bed, Dad suggested that we avoid rush hour by starting out late in the morning instead of early. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Initial results showed a few key raised “islands” in control of a vast network of communication and interaction covering 200 square miles, as large as many early states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A man in his early forties, tall like nearly everyone on the boat ramp, he wore horn-rimmed spectacles behind which lurked sharp, penetrating eyes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

He said, very quietly, “Good. Very good. There is no contradiction. But tell me, you have nothing more to say about what I said earlier?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In the early days I thought that Mary Miller was just a well-mannered woman who checked on our progress. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

In the early darkness the halting, hesitant swing of the lantern marked the slow path from fields to pine woods toward the lowlands. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where have you been, and what are you hiding behind you?” asked Meg, surprised to see, by her hood and cloak, that lazy Amy had been out so early. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had to leave her job at the hotel early to come. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to ask for my hand, Laila! Maybe as early as this summer. Can you believe it? I swear I can’t stop thinking about him.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

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

For the first time she recognized anew the symptoms of infatuation which she had felt incipiently as a child, as a girl in her earliest teens, and later as a young woman. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she hadn’t, I wouldn’t have left so early for the haircut that I have not gotten yet. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It looks almost as though the dawn was breaking over there, beyond those hills. It can’t be though, it’s too early.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One of its earliest battles took place in 1925, with what became known as the Scopes Trial. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I remember my early Catholic schooling and recall an experience of religion very different from anything I have known since. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All we know for sure is that she had retired from work completely by the early 1950s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He and his wife are probably in their late twenties or early thirties. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

As I was growing up, I didn’t have any toys, but I did still own a baseball that Pete had given me a year earlier. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

During a single, early week of senate business in Springfield, Barack had introduced seventeen new bills—possibly a record, and at the very least a measure of his eagerness to get something done. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“That’s right,” he said, and told me about his father’s early years in Russia. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

In early January, an African American woman had asked if she could participate in the parade, and Alice Paul assured her that she was welcome. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Two of them are white, both in their early sixties, serving life sentences. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

It was early evening the following day by the time they arrived at Rasheed’s house. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I stare at the drawing I did earlier of myself as the Grim Reaper, the blade of my scythe reading “LOVE.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Dad and I practiced soccer in the arena together early on weekend mornings when it was cool outside. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s the sacrifice of an important piece early on in the game, with an eventual long-term gain down the line. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m glad you’re here early. Let’s see if we have you set up correctly. We’re really glad to have you participate.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

The grandeur of the ornate glass structure, built in the Beaux Arts style in the early twentieth century, makes one think it must have at one point been a playground for royalty. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We laughed because he used to say the same thing nearly twenty years earlier. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over at the group of young black girls who’d arrived ten minutes earlier; they held a sign that said, #JUSTICEFORJAVIER. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s too early for a school dance—the sun is barely setting over the mountains, its rays still long and an- gled through the windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed put for the rest of that long, early summer afternoon, but when the evening cool came into the air and the families on the beach left, the Tillermans went down by the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was bad to see the indomitable old man weak and hatless in the early morning, something soft in his eyes, pain in his face, the right hand rubbing the pain in the arm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell us what happened early on the morning of Sunday, August twenty-eighth.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was probably related to something that Miller, who had filled in here a couple of days earlier, had mentioned to me at lineup. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until early in the twentieth century, Princeton crews had rowed in the Delaware and Raritan Canal, which ran directly along the south side of the campus. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

I was raised in a gaunt house with a garden; my earliest recollections are of floating lights in the apple-trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“His mother came from somewhere that fell very early. They had gone through about five refugee camps before they came here.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The landlady is clearly not yet up and about, suggesting there is little chance of her serving breakfast earlier than her declared time of seven thirty. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Their stock goes back to the Civil War and maybe earlier than that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, I use ‘mankind’ when describing early modern views; ‘humankind’ when expressing my own views. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Very early in the morning he drove off in the automobile, and then at eleven o’clock the patients came to the office. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Stalin’s secretary picked up in Moscow, where it was two hours earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The night Uncle Katsuhisa arrived in Iowa, he left the dinner table early so he could go out and take a walk and maybe talk to himself. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The wild turkey he shot earlier hangs above him, the nail driven through its neck. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had prayed earlier that morning, but now I whispered the words again in our sacred language, asking the Holy People for protection. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in eastern Washington and knew that anywhere inland in early April would be cold. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked so much worse than it had earlier. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“Line up! School is closing early. Back to your homerooms to pack up!” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She steps onto the large glass elevator, overlooking the east lobby, just past a large, decked-out Christmas tree they must’ve put up early this morning, long before the Thanksgiving leftovers were even eaten. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

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

“I just assumed because you weren’t up early baking.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He cannot thank the book; the book has perished, as he nearly did, in scattered pieces, in the earliest hours of an October day, in a field 209 kilometers from Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I did a painting of the house in early fall, the leaves were just starting to turn. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You finished high school a year early, right?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

I had learned early one important thing, and that was to always teach in terms that the people could understand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the brilliance that Bathilda exhibited earlier in her life has now dimmed. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then Papa came home early and sat with us and took turns playing chess, and he didn’t even seem mad that Amil won. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll come by early. You can take a turn driving Joey and Star.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He said he might want to put you on early,” Al said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

On an unusually warm day in early November, she stepped to the open sill of the bell tower. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It cannot be too early to commence the task I have to fulfil,” thought I. I rose: I was dressed; for I had taken off nothing but my shoes. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

One of Mozart’s earliest friendships was with the young English prodigy Thomas Linley, whom he met and befriended in Italy. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I asked him why he hadn’t told us earlier what was wrong, and he said the saddest thing: “I didn’t want you to find out I was bald, too.” Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his early years in the country, while still enrolled at Harvard Medical School, Farmer himself had wondered about this, and devised a study that followed two groups of TB patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The adrenaline that had kept me going earlier was slowly turning sour. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was a welder, schoolteacher, riveter, farm worker, toxicologist’s assistant, and stenographer, all throughout the early and mid-1940s. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I set a challenge to not only be early—or at least on time—but also having a perfect attendance so I wouldn’t ever feel left behind on material like before. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

We have a schedule worked out, sort of a countdown, and by early June we will be out of this cave, and out of Mr. Fitzgibbon’s barn, I hope forever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither was accustomed to getting up so early, to feeling so unwashed, or feeling so hungry. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A habitual early riser, she began to sleep late. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was one day early in a recent September that the Professor happened to be the only witness to the very beginning of the Egypt Game. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“D’you think it’s too early to go and see Professor Moody?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

I went to school early the next day, since I needed some private place to practice the curses. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

The schoolyard is dotted with swings, with climbing bars and slides, in bright primary colors; a few children have come back early from lunch and are clambering about. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She liked the early nun-bits best, and hoped they hadn’t missed them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

First it was huts, as silent and barren as the ones I’d seen earlier. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Today was a bus day, and she took her seat early and glued her eyes out the window so she did not have to see Jack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Try to convince him not to end this trip early? The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

I would get up early and flip to Care Bears or Adventures in Wonderland. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

He was being excused a few minutes early so he wouldn’t be a second late for football practice. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

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

On weekends he would rise early, shower, and prepare breakfast for Angela and her mother. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she noticed, early on, that it was Okeoma’s opinions that Odenigbo most respected, saying “The voice of our generation!” as though he truly believed it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind and rowed out into the clean early morning smell of the ocean. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early morning the land had been filled with its usual concoctions of sound. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The passenger jet had left Seoul earlier that day, bound for Anchorage, Alaska, and had deviated off course into Soviet airspace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Lynn wanted to go to summer school so one day she could graduate high school early. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Um, it’s me. Dimple. Sorry, I know we said you were going to pick me up, but I got done early and thought...” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the crowd diseases, which we discussed earlier, could have arisen only with the buildup of large, dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I had never forgotten the children I’d seen sorting trash at the dump all those years earlier. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She had deactivated it earlier from her workstation. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By early evening, as Jeffrey was dozing off and my father was talking with yet another medical person about something, I couldn’t stand to be sitting in the room anymore. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Untreated because of the earlier misdiagnosis, my father’s body suffocated itself. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

That howl, the Director made it plain, discouraged the earliest investigators. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early to say what the final figure for the year would be, but it would certainly be higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before the opening, I come to the gallery early. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Had his offer to meet his mother come any earlier this year, there wasn’t an ice cube’s chance in hell I would’ve taken him up on it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

As the 2009 study concluded: “The evidence is growing that very early exposure to television is associated with negative developmental outcomes.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dates for animal domestication neglect dogs, which were domesticated earlier than food-producing animals in both Eurasia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was only just gone twelve, they were much earlier than I expected. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the Da- kotas, Minnesota, and Iowa, summertime temperatures began early. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The earliest pieces were all probably written down by his father, and perhaps improved in the process. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

They were watering the street and it smelled of the early morning. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He glanced at the corridor, surprised that Master was up so early. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

What life was about for me in those early years was being with the woman I was learning to call Mama. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

A tall man who appeared to be in his early forties, with a shock of silvery hair, wheeled an aluminum bike into a paneled office, then reemerged to greet me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just remembered I promised to get back early. Cathy, my wife, is going to have a baby.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

So it could easily be reached in the early morning, before its men were about. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early afternoon sun poured through the window, adding warmth to the stiff furniture I’d encountered two weeks ago. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Two weeks later, on a Monday in early February, I had my first full day at school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early radio system used by aviators to find their way when they couldn’t see the ground was called “radio direction finding.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The hours I chose to go were too early or late for fishermen, so I had the area to myself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, but we figured if you were here early, we could work in your classroom and plan some things for our club. Is that okay?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

C.P. closed up early and rushed home to tell his wife about the visitors. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I ignore her earlier warning and switch seats to join her on the couch. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

In the early 1620s, as the Thirty Years War temporarily shifted in favour of the Catholic side, the political situation in Italy changed in ways that would affect Galileo dramatically. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I give one last look around, wishing I wasn’t ten minutes early. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

One girl in her group had taken up the study of law, as Claire’s brother had six years earlier, and still went each day after school to the hall of Law and Justice for training. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We started early in the morning and worked until it started to get dark and after only a few hours we drifted into cliques like we were all back in school. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too early in the half to get into a slowdown but that was what they were doing. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed out that Richard hadn’t yet been tried, which made it too early to weigh in on the constitutionality of any sentence he might receive. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The moon was a thin sliver against the gauzy gray of earliest morning. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had come out from Pennsylvania three years earlier to study at McKendree College, where an uncle was professor of natural philosophy, a subject that later generations would call physics. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the one Santa had brought Mike maybe four years earlier. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

In the early years, Lynds was allowed to punish as he saw fit, and a whispered word, a look askance—the slightest infraction— was grounds for a whipping. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late on Saturday afternoon, everyone south of us was at mass at Saint Adelbert’s—which had gone modern and figured that it didn’t need to wake parishioners up early. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And it was still early in the day. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Convenient starting points for our discussion are the limited capabilities, uses, and users of early writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t you say you were in the market earlier this morning?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Jack says, “I scheduled an appointment with Dr. Hart for tomorrow at two. We’re checking out of the motel early and taking the ferry back to Seattle around noon.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s so pleasant to have you home early, darling,” Lillian said lightly. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Learning that we were early, we walked the two blocks to Dunkin’ Donuts and Jesse ordered black coffee and another glazed doughnut, took one bite, then threw the rest away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had never outgrown the habit of getting up early to scope out the gift situation under the tree on Christmas morning. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

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

She gets us up early and tells us for once in our lives don’t wash our faces, don’t comb our hair, dress in any old rag. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At the wheel was a good-looking man in his early thirties. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Daddy sent Betty Jean and her son home early, and we made cold pork sandwiches for dinner. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This early in the morning it’s easy to hear the rumbling of eighteen-wheelers on the freeway. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Many years earlier he’d been a young man behind the wheel, momentarily distracted, with a life hanging in the balance. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Apparently the student got sick and was sent home early.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

His father is a respected climbing Sherpa who taught him the basics of mountaineering at an early age so tThe sirdar is the head Sherpa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the early years of their marriage, the Manns traveled around Alabama, Georgia, and North Carolina, moving from one teaching job to another. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“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

But early in the morning like this, when the janitors and the folks who do the cooking are just making their way in, the door is unlocked. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Too early for a campfire, and I didn’t figure they were roasting marshmallows. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He had risen early, breakfasted almost alone, and had spent the morning going over the notes of the case that was recalling him to London. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that several spies had brought him the same rumor earlier in the day. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Once, a couple of years earlier at a luncheon for U.S. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They started jogging, a little slower than earlier, but not much. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There was a main structure, then a thirty-acre electrified enclosure where the adult bonobos lived, and the nursery, where the orphans spent their early years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zion’s mom dropped him off at Stagecoach Pass early Saturday morning, and then Mom took us to pick Connor up at his apartment. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Carl had to get back for his shift, though, so he and I got up early and left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

One of the rescuers, a woman, sat across from Thomas and Teresa; the leader who’d spoken to them earlier climbed onto the bus and took a seat at the wheel, cranked up the engine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“I was up early that day,” she always began, “because that naughty goat escaped again. I’d just reached the top of the hill when everything started to shake.” I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I woke early, having slept soundly and dreamlessly thanks to my gratuitous drug use. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed prudent, those early days out of the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was an early departure, and I wanted to be awake and thinking about her at the moment her bus pulled out, so I could say farewell in my mind. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The first day of school after winter break, I woke up early. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not cloudy, not twilight, not the early minutes of dawn. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

On it, Elizebeth had noted the time her flight was leaving Chicago—hours earlier than the plane that had crashed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her eyes followed the shifting stars as they twinkled in the early morning sky. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was early afternoon on September 22, a few hours after Reggie’s car swerved left of center. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anyway, she told me that Margie was in the cafeteria because she had a early lunch. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

"The king was looking for his dog earlier." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I forgot to buy breakfast stuff. Want to wake up early and eat at the diner before school?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The late afternoon wore away into early evening. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

This afternoon the teachers have a meeting, so we get out of school an hour early. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He found me early this morning. It has been a good day we have had together.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

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

It was early evening—the fields receding into a pink invisibility as they rose back into the horizon. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

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

By early March Olmsted and Eliot were back in Brookline, Eliot now a full-fledged partner, the firm newly renamed Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He gets up early every morning and goes outside to paint by four o’clock. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The Pentagon was in the earliest stages of planning for a war game that they were calling Millennium Challenge ’02. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

We are at school early, waiting for Ms. Lucas to arrive and open her classroom so we can work on the blog and create a schedule of posts. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

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

That first morning they weren’t quite sure when the staff would arrive, so they hid good and early. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

From those early days began my association with rich people, my fascination with their secret. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This ruler began his trip after the start of the winter, a winter that came early and harshly with winds that whipped and screamed at the mountain peak. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The early Greeks had believed that the first being was Chaos, corresponding to the phrase in Genesis in the same context, “without form.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too early, though, to eat what I had or I’d have nothing left when I needed it most. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“What you doin’ out so early?” he asked with a big grin. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If we eat this food too early, some of us will starve later. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A day earlier and she might have been sleeping in a bed beneath one of the windows. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“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

He and about thirty of his classmates were walking in early spring toward the train station, where their teacher had sent them to pick up coal that had spilled from railroad cars during loading. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

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

Livingston considered himself an equal partner with Lawrence in the cyclotron’s early development. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had deep-set, brooding eyes, and his face was more thoughtful, more solemn, than his younger brother’s, a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother’s was of lingering boyishness. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She got took one night early in June. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I understood why you had to hunt pigs early in the day when they were active. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

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

White and his men had earlier confronted Morrison after learning of his deception. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I think you should get to bed early—you’ll need your sleep. Ah”—he stopped, held up a finger, pricking up his right ear— “it’s about to happen.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But I’m the new guy, so I work early. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The gym instructor was a short, chunky man in his early thirties who taught in the mornings in a nearby public high school and supplemented his income by teaching in our yeshiva during the afternoons. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Choosing the former, I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants' wing early one morning and knocked gently. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

At the end of the night, Ron sends us all home early and promises to come in tomorrow morning to do the closing checklist. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

Then sweeping out of the northwest like a swarm of locusts there came one day in early summer a horde of men. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Please advise us at your earliest convenience but not later than October 10, 1957, whether or not you will participate in this tournament. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The following morning I woke up to Fig’s head hanging over my face at the usual early hour. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Newspaper clippings that mentioned Father’s name; the earliest ones, from back when seeing his name in print was a novelty. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

When I awoke again, it was early in the morning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She came to school early and stayed late. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

And I,” he added archly, “have brought some good news too. The post has came in early!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

We started walking on the sandy beach early in the morning and saw the sunrise. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I wanted to stay at Valley Forge and attend its junior college, which would allow me to go through the early commissioning process, receive my associate’s degree, and become a second lieutenant in the Army. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“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

Since most of the work took place in early morning, I could supplement my income with a nighttime job, such as lighting lampposts. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Mom told me those types of pregnancies frequently miscarry early on, but not always. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

In the early morning the scene below slowly took shape and color. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Actually, he was older than me, probably in his early twenties, but he broke his leg jumping from the ship and his suffering made him a child. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is the point at which this argument becomes interesting, for, as noted earlier, Quintilian does take signs to be equivalent to testimonies, and so does Parsons. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

The following evening, therefore, when they had finished an early supper, she gathered them around her. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now he had three train tickets to San Antonio and a world of details he needed to explain to Naomi about how they’d get to Tyler in the morning, early, early. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Just six months earlier, his wife had died suddenly of pneumonia, leaving him with two school-aged children to raise. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The thaw and spring rains had turned parts of the roadway into muddy sloughs, and despite the coachman’s skill, early on the last morning they were stuck fast. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

It had been almost two years ago, on a sunny early summer afternoon. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Our father left early the next morning, before the sun even rose. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He looked over his shoulder at her and said, “You’re up early.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Bloom had been able to open his village as early as August 1892, well before Dedication Day, and within a month had covered his costs and begun reaping a generous profit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

And I have to get up early tomorrow morning to catch the train. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey woke herself up early the next morning, before the first gray signals of dawn, when the air outside lay black over fields, marshes and the glistening water she could just see from her window. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with great gifts in math, music, and languages, Meyer had worked as a Navy code breaker since 1918, and in the early 1920s she was creating new codes for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

I had casually inspected this area on my early morning walks, and it was there that I decided to bury the manuscript. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about earlier in the practice room. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On the early Gemini flights, we were worried about the machinery breaking, and so we decided it would be a good idea for one of the two men to be awake at all times. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The regent left early on Monday, and by late morning we were ready to go. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Milton was thinking back to his early navy days, to his time in the landing craft. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When he asked for permission to publish articles about the early history of code breaking, the NSA forbade him to do any such thing. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“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

His father had been an armorer at Bitterbridge, he said, so he had been bom with the sound of steel ringing in his ears and had taken to swordplay at an early age. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even for a crack shot, an unrifled, early seventeenth-century gun had fewer advantages over a longbow than may be supposed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Yet they weren’t entirely satisfied with their earlier efforts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The same seat Mateo was in when he was singing earlier. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It’s a rule that we never listen to sad music, we made that rule early on, songs are as sad as the listener, we hardly ever listen to music. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was early morning of a bitterly cold winter day in 1965. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new caste system labels black and brown men as criminals early, often in their teens, making them “damaged goods” from the perspective of traditional civil rights advocates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He was already regretting not filling out the early retirement form. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was early January, and the winter chill sucked the air as dry as a bone. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I tell her no, it’s just that I have a job now and have been early to work. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Our discussions centered primarily on a new date, and we agreed on early May. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last water we had was just the little bit that Alyssa’s uncle gave us early this morning. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

In the early nineteenth century, women had few legal rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The prospect of a visit with Shadrach changed the color of the world around Jeth, and he rushed to get his chores done early. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are still lying on the floor of Cuddledown, early in the morning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They tried to feed me lines in those early experiments with the propos, too, and it was a flop. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She sometimes removes her sign early, or for periods of time when she is tired from reading or in need of a respite. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Life in this vision of early America was hard but pleasant; in most ways, archaeologists said, it was not that different from life elsewhere on the planet at the time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Their coach ended up in such a bad mood, though, that he made them leave the social early and get back on their bus to head up to Seattle. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I pretend that shooting hoops in my backyard is my earliest memory. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

This dream family lived far away from the saloon; so far that he had to hop a trolley to get home in the early morning after he locked up the saloon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The small, crowded living room was still blue with early morning light. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early, and the morning sun had not yet made it over the lip of the ridge. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

His father, earliest bird in the house, was coming down the stairs. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

“Yes. Though it seems you didn’t, if you were up so early.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I walk into the house five minutes early, humming “Love Me Do,” thinking I ought to go buy a short skirt like Jenny Foushee wore today. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I stayed by him the rest of the long afternoon while he slept When he awakened, it was early evening and had turned cool again. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy tells them it’s too early to be that blazed, and they laugh way too hard. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The microscope and telescope, both developed in early seventeenth-century Holland, represent an extension of human vision to the realms of the very small and the very large. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We can go to the early show and still get home in time for dinner. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Bellinis got to the newsstand very early. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pink sunrise warmed the houses on the other side of the street, but it was still early enough that the dark blue-purple of night had not completely burned away. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There was a scapegrace fellow in the crowd named Ktesippos, a Samian, rich beyond all measure, arrogant with riches, early and late a bidder for Odysseus’ queen. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because it was early afternoon, there were few people stirring on the streets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five years earlier she noticed Lawrence walking down the street in his uniform, and fell for him instantly. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Usually when she cooked, the food had the house smelling some-kind-of-good, and they’d scheme ways to get an early spoonful of banana pudding or sneak a slice of sweet potato pie. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When he saw how high the log floated in the water, his mind again toyed with the idea that had scared him earlier. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, The Giver would order a vehicle and driver from the Speaker. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’ll mean waking up a bit earlier, but I don’t mind. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I said quickly: “That’s not what Ruth’s upset about. It’s about something else, something that happened earlier on.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Many early kings were considered divine and were accorded special treatment in innumerable respects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He glanced abruptly to his right, where a cigarette, lighted some time earlier in the evening, was balanced on an ashtray. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

She needs to know that the baby and the adult that she saw earlier today are the injured baby’s family. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We walked home through the quiet early morning streets along Avenue D, saying nothing to one another. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She knew now of what it was that she had so silently and so early accused her aunt: it was of tearing a bewildered child away from the arms of the father she loved. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Agent Jones tore up the early retirement form. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

But Betsy was already sitting at her desk early, so I couldn’t. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

If Hamilton had presented his distinction between personal and political criticism earlier, the affair would most probably have ended before it began. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He fell asleep early, only to find his nights disturbed by evil dreams. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suggested a street early that we get off our bicycles and walk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

“I’ll be home early. Let’s just pretend this is a normal day.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sit-ins and marches continued almost daily, and by early October more than three hundred young people had been arrested. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yossarian went to bed early for safety and soon dreamed that he was fleeing almost headlong down an endless wooden staircase, making a loud, staccato clatter with his heels. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It looks like most of the other tributes learn something about their trades early on. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

From her earliest childhood that scream came, with a memory of flowing, spotted skin and rending claws, and later of Ambuya tearing out her hair when they brought Mother’s bones home from the forest. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The roses will bloom in early summer," 1 told Sarah. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the early mornings everything sparkled with frost. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as seductive as the sleep that had dragged at him earlier. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“You must have started early at the mess.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I saw very little of my father during those early weeks of February. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

Bucky’s father was killed by prison guards a year or so earlier. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

We all rolled our eyes and complained ’cause that’s the one thing everybody had to look forward to, getting out early for good behavior. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the end of a decade or more of intensive chemical control, entomologists were finding that problems they had considered solved a few years earlier had returned to plague them. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The beloved instrument, seldom touched now had not been moved, and above it Beth’s face, serene and smiling, as in the early days, looked down upon them, seeming to say, “Be happy. I am here.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gone too early to the great house and the Old Lord was still sleeping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Of Eratosthenes’ parentage and early life, our sources are almost silent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He was probably one of the oldest undergraduates at college, but he joined the military after high school in Iran and didn't move to Baton Rouge until his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I learned about opening moves and why it’s important to control the center early on; the shortest distance between two points is straight down the middle. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Hope we're not too early. We were anxious to have our first authentic Afghan dinner!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess. My mom said she wanted to take us skating as an early birthday present for you. We can go after choir practice.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Travis leaned on the glass counter that housed Mr. Burson’s tiny museum of early editions of Faulkner, O’Connor, Welty, and McCarthy. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Later there would be the headaches that kept him up in the early mornings. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’d seen him play earlier, I realized, as part of the Gypsy children’s band. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As we came out of the hotel that morning they glittered in the early morning sun, and under the influence of those two-sided accessories, what happened next took on contrasting tones. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He had to get up early to take care of a lawn down there anyway. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

She wasn’t expecting me that night, but same way you can’t always expect someone to just up and die and leave this world, I jumped right into it a whole month early. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even the two boulders in the backyard sometimes turned to silver in the early morning sunlight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I don’t think she ever intended to hit us earlier, only spook us. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We get permits early on the rez,” Jacob said while I unlocked the door and flicked on the porch light. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

“My girl and I had a fight earlier.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I know what I said earlier about goodbye scenes and how it’s best if you can just walk away and move on. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Woolf had spent Seabiscuit’s rally much too early, in pursuit of the wrong horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor that the young Rousseau should put some of his earliest thoughts about society and the individual in an operetta about Columbus and the Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At an early age my mother sat me down and explained that everyone has bowel movements. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The early harvests were poor, but they soon improved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Matilda, so far as I can gather at this early stage, is also a kind of mathematical genius. She can multiply complicated figures in her head like lightning." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In early August my father received some frightening news. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Charlie had gotten up who knows how early to put snow chains on my truck. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her legs wobbled so badly, Percy cursed himself for not calling a rest earlier. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Smith didn’t care about the race results; all he wanted was swift starts and the fastest early fractions. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days, I used to catch glimpses of my brother all the time. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still early, and I’m not ready to be awake. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She was in her early forties then, and there was nohody to look out for her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since it was early afternoon on a weekday, when everyone was at work, it wasn’t crowded. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The gray clouds in the sky meant more snow, but they also meant night would come earlier, and maybe an earlier end to the day’s marching. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Monday morning I’m up early to wash my face and flatten my hair with water and spit. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The HIV epidemic tipped in the early 1980s, in short, not just because of the enormous changes in sexual behavior in the gay communities that made it possible for the virus to spread rapidly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been enough distance from the hostage crisis of the seventies, and the Gulf War of the early nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Thinking of the Almighty’s earlier guidance, I bowed my head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to get to work a little early today. One of the girls has a sick baby at home. Don’t let me find out you’ve been out that door. Understood?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Everywhere else in northwestern Europe the early records, the traditions, the songs and stories, were obliterated by the priests of Christianity, who felt a bitter hatred for the paganism they had come to destroy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kaz had warned them to anticipate competition, other teams bent on gaining the prize at any cost, but this was early in the job for things to be going so badly. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I suppose it was still too early to plant. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning in early summer, a renewing warmth in the air, Obinze arrived at the warehouse and knew right away that something was amiss. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

She likes walking through the streets so early, had liked rising by herself in semidarkness, liked the sense of promise it lent the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

There wasn’t any real shortage of time, since Aunt Loma and everybody in the cast had gone home for early supper. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

No one had expected such an early morning session. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped the other two fell asleep really early tonight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

You saw what happened up here earlier this month. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

His father, a farmer, had died two months earlier. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

We are sitting on hard chairs on the back porch, warmer now than it was earlier in the day from the sun and the heat of the stove. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I’m wondering if he should really be so eager to work at a school where the angry parents of the a cappella kids hounded the old music director into an early retirement. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

So despite the early rumblings of discontent on the premises of Paradise Pickles, Chacko, in rehearsal for the Revolution, continued to play Comrade! The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That had been during the early days when I had felt strong restrictions and resented Emma's boldness and her opinion that I should have been blacker to play my role of Harlem leader. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have the early practice today, so the gym hasn’t been opened up yet. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

They strolled back to the main street and entered the grocery store Dicey had gone into days earlier. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel the heart that beat early in the morning on Saturday and told me I didn’t want to die. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was daylight, early morning, and the air was thick with smoke that hung, yellow and brown, above the ground. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the earliest known cultivated emmer wheat comes from the Fertile Crescent around 8500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I delete the message and tell myself to be early on Monday, just to make it up to him. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Even the earliest Mesopotamian states exercised centralized control of their economies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have left church early, walked out, after hearing the congregation spontaneously applaud its own singing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

I’m sure you are wondering about the activities I wrote of earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After this sudden visit I didn't hear a word from Buddy until one fine Saturday morning in early March. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to say no because I had to get up extra early and drive the DeSoto, but Papá taught us never to turn down work. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It is true the event was still a month or so away, but then it had always been our habit to talk over such events from an early stage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was the early morning of June 23, 1938, workout hours. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And then, early the next morning, we set off back to the mainland. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke early, washed up, and grabbed a bite to eat at the Mess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They spent the night at Vatete's village, and early the next day they moved on. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face, which earlier had seemed marked by old, bruising shadows, looked young again. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Nan poked her head in and said, “Well, you’re here early.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

They stood in the strawberry fields early one July morning just after picking season was finished. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I get to social studies class early, and Ms. Rochambeau is up out of her chair as soon as she sees me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

I laughed when I remembered Tucker bringing up the bridge earlier. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The most wrenching thing, however, was our shrunken size: three days earlier, when we had ascended this terrain we’d numbered eleven; now there were only six of us. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mountains rose up on her right, tall enough that snow capped their tops even in the early autumn chill. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

And earlier today I had gone inside it and come out someplace else: September third, 1940. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have a really early call. It might be better if we rent a hotel closer to the set.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The eggs hatch around the first week in June, and the nestlings are ready to fledge in early July. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had promised Mama I would be home early, but I needed someone to talk to in a bad way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

There is no sign of my earlier attempt to smother her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

The record of the earliest art is lost to us. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keep in mind that these results reflect only a child’s early test scores, a useful but fairly narrow measurement; poor testing in early childhood isn’t necessarily a great harbinger of future earnings, creativity, or happiness. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Your pops came in here and took care of it earlier.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Hub Heap, who came out here in 1939 and later started a successful oil field supply company, remembered well the single event that embodied his early days in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles noted that from an early age she was neater than her big brother. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, but it all came too early. We could do with some now.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Their lives were at sea, together and apart, as they passed from their twenties to their early thirties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

I woke early this morning, but I did sleep for a few hours, which is an improvement on last week. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d made a gallon of iced tea earlier and brought out four full glasses. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

My earliest memory of him is from when we were four years old. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I remembered Branwell telling me something, so I asked, “Didn’t he ask if he could skip the tennis lessons and go home early?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is early November, a day on which the temperature has suddenly dropped, bringing the first true cold of the year. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, all Witchlings were required to learn basic magical self-defense from a very early age. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I place everything in a folder on my thumb drive with all my other application materials for early acceptance. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Tell them lunch will be at one, though they’re welcome to come early.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s enough for today. Everybody get here early tomorrow. I’m giving out the uniforms.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years the sisters had become very close, overcoming an earlier estrangement. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

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

“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

"I'm going to get the e-mail address. It's not too early for you to send a message saying you are interested. It's temporary. Just until we get this all straightened out." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“They went to bed. Want to get up bright and early. Before the doors on the second floor open again.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Celia took to her bed by early summer and stayed there for the next eight months. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1600s the French explorer Samuel Champlain thought he might find a route by water across Canada—up the St Lawrence, through the Great Lakes, and on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Some stars may be surrounded by millions of lifeless and rocky worldlets, planetary systems frozen at some early stage in their evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1920s, biochemists had acquired a deeper understanding of the structure of nucleic acids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

And I was doing this one Saturday morning early toward the end of April—the 26th, to be exact—when I began hearing from a long way away a heavy muttering noise. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Motives which were already present to some small extent in the great wars of the early twentieth century have now become dominant and are consciously recognized and acted upon. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

By early summer, walk- ing turned to a gentle canter, first a mile, then two, then three. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

That didn’t work, though, because she ended up leaving the party early. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

It went there early in the morning to sleep after it had spent the night prowling. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Music play: The early childhood music curriculum guide. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He had worn his good ones when he left earlier to see about his own boat and the crab shanty. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a famous man in earlier. You could have waited on him if you weren’t watching your blooming owls.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I stayed there all day and on into the early evening. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

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

With luck, they’d be home in early November—maybe even the last of October. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later work has also cast doubt on whether there could be a phase transition in the very early universe of the kind required. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Aureliano would escape at dawn and come back early in the morning on the next day, each time more excited by the proof that she had not barred the door. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of early morning there were noises by a rock a little way down the side of the mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then she quotes me something El Lider said in the early years, before they started arresting poets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my early years, I wondered why it was so rare to catch a scythe out of his or her robes and in common street clothes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The earlier pleasure over his approval of her cooking had evaporated. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Caroline spread the word that the gym would be open early for paper-chaining, and I guess a lot of kids are taking her up on it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

She get up early in the morning and go to market Buy only stuff that’s fresh. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another vital early development in women’s long road to the ballot took place in 1851, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met antislavery and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

In the end, as I said, the vehicle crisis got resolved, and early the next morning, in the pitch dark, the five of us got inside a bashed but perfectly decent Rover car. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy turns around and I realize he’s older than I first thought, maybe early twenties, with stubble darkening his cheeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay,” he says, just like I had to him moments earlier. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

She had learned early how to swamp ugly imaginings with pleasant ones. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

This early evening I was in this place when at the usual time, the phone in the booth rang. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My earlier photos are pretty amateur-hour because of bad lighting, but there’s no edit button and that’s probably for the best. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

But the library, so snug and warm last night with the burning logs, was like an ice-house now, in the early morning. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want any part of this. I don’t believe in early marriage anyway.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

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

“You get up awfully early, Henry,” he said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When most Lackses talked about Henrietta and Day and their early life in Clover, it sounded as idyllic as a fairy tale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Well talk in the car,” one of them had said earlier over the phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When Bigwig had spoken earlier of sounding out the Owsla, Hazel had been in two minds. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The campers down at the volleyball pit. had early '90s hairstyles, which were probably good for keeping monsters away. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Though Seabiscuit had won the race easily, running the final quarter in a blazing twenty-four seconds flat and obliterating the track record by \\% seconds, he had dragged early in the race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hips came in early, is how it started. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“It’s eight-thirty here. That means it’s already early Saturday morning in London. Summerhill offices are closed until nine A.M. Monday, Greenwich Mean Time.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Very early in the morning on July 4, 1998, I felt the first twinges of labor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When I showed up at the church a few minutes early on a cold and rainy Sunday evening, he was waiting for me. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I woke up early the next morning still in my clothes from the day before. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

About four months after Lill was born, when Mother went to bed early one night with a cold, we were sure a new brother or sister would be on hand in the morning. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, the first one after Papi, if he has to go in for an early shift at the hospital. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He could be locked up for the rest of his life, but there was a chance he could get out early after serving twenty-five years. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Spring flowers have been blooming too early for centuries,” he tells me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

After a week of harvesting carrots in early December, Lupita came home one afternoon and found a letter from her mother. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Some of those kids cheered for me earlier. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

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

Or was it earlier than that—was it back when my father was still alive? Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

While she was probably in her early twenties, she acted in every other respect like a very small child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And so I decide to make the ascent earlier rather than later. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The early light came filtering palely through the wood, making the tree trunks like watered silk. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Either late Friday night or early Saturday morning, he placed my birthday money and my allowance on my dresser next to my talcum powder and my Timex. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the seventh day, the alchemist decided to make camp earlier than usual. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Aibileen asked me to come early so here I am. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My mind swept back to early experiences in the movement. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Thunder” I attribute to a strong baritone and a great deal of stage training at an early age. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But the horses woke them very early in the morning. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there was some connection between that very early story of him and the fact that he was God of Commerce and the Market, protector of traders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since no one could actually remember such a thing—they had been far too young—they went as deep into their memories as they could to find the earliest image among them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

Colonel Smith’s early call for reserves evidently had not upset the commanding officer. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

She’d thrown up a lot earlier in the day, and Mom made an appointment to take her to the vet the next morning. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Today, I got up hours earlier than I needed to. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. They raided our house earlier and wanted to ask her some questions. Me and Lyric gotta stay with Grandma right now.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I would leave the house very early in the morning and return late at night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I took Annie’s note and tucked it inside my heavy coat and headed up to the locker room, half an hour early for Conditioning. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bill complained that the dog cut into their social life, since they always had to come home early for fear of what the dog might do to their apartment. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

In the early evening, the streets in our neighborhood vibrate with the engines of the generators. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

We were tight on the early influences too. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He took the early lead, then swung very wide on the far turn, falling behind into fourth. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He was not attractive to look upon, very short and from an early age bald, and he was ponderous at learning. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Cade’s voice was as sweet as jasmine flowers on an early summer evening. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like—a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendants intellectually, artistically, and politically, too. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He left the old man without speech and went out into the early morning. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, in the early days of humans, the community was our only protection against predators, and against starvation. We survived because we trusted one another.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was ten minutes early at the corner where he met the guys every school day. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

OK, now I get it—a person’s conscious experience of where the early taps fell depends on the location of the later taps. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

We close early and pick up dinner from Reuben’s. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In July 1986, the nation’s rig count hit an all-time low of 663, some 85 percent fewer than the high it had hit less than five years earlier. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He showed up at the tenement back in early April.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At the farm, Dr. Mudd’s wife, Frances, rose early, called for her servants to prepare breakfast, and woke her husband. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Burnham hoped for an early cure to the nation’s financial malaise, but the economy did not oblige. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Prayed he wouldn’t become a parent as early as she had. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She knows from other women it’s wise to be there early in the morning when Mr. Coffey and Mr. Kane might be in a good mood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

There are no early sources for his story except a few brief allusions in Hesiod, in the eighth or ninth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It used to bother me; now I just see it as an early lesson in the inherent value of healthy competition. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Years earlier, before her marriage, Anna had taught school in Lynchburg, Virginia, but she lacked the credentials needed to teach in Philadelphia. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

He could see nothing but the sky through the small wind hole, for it was high in the stone wall and only in the early morning allowed a ray of sunshine to come in. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Being so mad at Julia makes me feel nervous about how I treated Isabella earlier. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

In the early accounts Eros was not Aphrodite’s son, but merely her occasional companion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

I want to dive back into bed and tell her it's too early to be awake, but she knows what palace life is like, and I need to learn from her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Some days we finished early, and I helped out around Just Us for Justice. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

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

My school is an easy ten-minute walk from my apartment, and on the first day of class I arrived early, watching as the returning students greeted one another in the school lobby. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One by one they come out into the early morning sunshine, my son, my daughter, and Puli, the child I clung to who was not mine, and he no longer a child. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father returns to the key pound earlier in the evenings. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

I’m not saying I would have done anything different, had I seen it earlier. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

But the heaviness from the morning drapes back over me and even though it's only early evening, I climb a tree and settle in for the night. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On a mild afternoon in early December I am at the store going over inventory orders with Margaret, the sharp-eyed accounts manager. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

Mr. Powell lets us out early, and I’m the first to get to our break spot. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how hard it would be to walk seven miles through deep snow and had no confidence that the campground would be open this early in the year. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Governor Faubus didn’t ask for federal troops, but they’re up in his face anyhow,” Grandma said as we sat watching the arrival of the 101st Airborne Division early Tuesday evening. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He said you were— how did he put it—his earliest memory. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Without fail, I think of her every time I stumble upon an episode of Wheel of Fortune, and wonder how the hell Pat Sajak and Vanna White haven't aged since the early nineties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Sometime during the late afternoon or early evening he would come upon a village and stop for the night. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Saturday. I leave pretty early in the morning, so...” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In the early days with the troupe, I’d learned how to size up a town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s no way she was in her thirties when she had a tag sale twelve years earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Well, in the early night we crept down a long ravine into the upper end of the Wizard’s Vale, the Ents with all their rustling Huorns behind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But he’s been so tired, I don’t have the heart to wake him early. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, but the early darkness still didn’t make sense to me. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A radio expert with the Coast Guard, Jones had been trained by William in the early 1930s. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He must be rostered on for early morning in the city. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“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

Harry sat down opposite the ghost in the ruff he’d seen earlier. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, when the alley was still quiet, I could smell fragrant red beans as they were cooked down to a pasty sweetness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

What seemed like a great idea earlier suddenly felt like a sure disaster. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

It could be her birthday, it could be the morning of the Rapture—Cathy will get up early on Saturday to clean. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We discovered early that in order to stop stealing we would, for a while, have to steal more than ever. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I fiddled with my radio until I found a report that an early tropical storm was shifting north from Cuba and might hit the keys with hurricane force winds by nightfall. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the morning Zeitoun rose early, said his prayers, and paddled across the street to feed the dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

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

In the early twentieth century, husbands and doctors had the right to have their wives and patients held in psychiatric wards for indefinite periods, sometimes confined by straitjackets and leg irons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We always got there early, before it filled up with college students. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He closed the inn early, something he had never done before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

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

There early every morning the farmers arrived from all over the surrounding countryside, with trucks full of tomatoes, corn, cabbages, potatoes, eggs, chickens, hams, food for the city. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baker figured that since I was leaving early, I should do the whole day’s work in the morning. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I would leave early enough so as to reach their farm when the sun was coming up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early spring and we were her garden, and she was starting to see the bulbs and seeds that she had planted in us last fall coming up. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

Dusk fell early in the afternoon, and it was night by half past four. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

That got us to the ballpark early for batting practice, which was okay by me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has just one live actor, Steve, a fresh-faced man in his early twenties in khakis and a rugby shirt who acts as the show’s host. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was still early in the evening and the street lights had not yet come on. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A group of armed Dauntless escort me to the bathroom in the early afternoon. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Outside in the playground, I can hear the hydrant dancers we saw earlier. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

City buses and trolleys circulated from morning till night, swelling with riders before the orange and pink of dawn, as employees punching out from the graveyard shift met early birds just starting their day. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

This time, he claimed to have noticed the eerie similarity between Jackson’s speech on behalf of slavery and one delivered a century earlier by an Algerian pirate named Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Taylor graduated early from high school, in 2013, at the age of sixteen, and was the valedictorian at InTech Collegiate High School. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This was in the early 1930s, when the French were still trying to make Pondicherry as Gallic as the British were trying to make the rest of India Britannic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

In a nod to the Martian broadcast, the main character played by Welles, Charles Foster Kane, says early in the movie, “Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Since it’s early, only a few kids stand around in front of the school. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

In early November, Gold took the bus to Cambridge and found Heine- man’s house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still early and there isn’t much morning in the room but you can see Dad over by the window with Margaret in his arms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

As I stumbled up the hill, I was struck by how very beautiful the farm looked in the hazy early light. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Baba told me to stay up a little later when I said good night, insisting that I shouldn’t go to sleep too early or my jet lag would be worse. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The early morning heat was full of the promise of worse to come. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chill that must come from one’s own bloodstream, for it comes in summer as well as winter, from some inside part of you that knows it is early morning. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We took solace in each other’s company, and spent those early weeks speculating on why we had been transferred. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had been painting, I said, since early childhood, but that, following the advice of Pablo Picasso, who was one of the oldest and dearest friends of my parents, I had never exhibited. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Just after the start, Pollard tucked Seabiscuit in behind early leader Biography, who cut a brisk pace. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Agloe, New York, is a fictitious village created by the Esso company in the early 1930s and inserted into tourist maps as a copyright trap, or paper town. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Her fears were not fully assuaged until she became pregnant early in the new year and delivered a healthy boy, John Eric Lawrence, in mid-October. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

“You started to tell me about him when I dropped in earlier.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

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

My parents had lived through attacks, called pogroms, in the early 1900s. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Even my earliest bad memories of the school are tied to her. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He had merely glanced at the headline when he had taken the rolled-up paper from the delivery owl early that morning and thrown it aside, after noting that it said nothing about Voldemort. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Many friends had come to say good-bye the night before and in the very early morning—but now only the family was congregated on the porch. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If such a haplogroup turned up in Pena’s assays, it could write a new chapter in the early history of Native Americans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact, from its earliest days, it had struggled financially. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

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

Farmer’s involvement in Russia had started two years earlier, when he made a futile effort to convince the Soros Foundation to provide funds for PIH’s TB work in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“I tried to find you earlier to tell you,” Amar says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had an awful headache yesterday and went to bed early. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

John Gay's Beggar’s Opera was an early example of this, and later the music hall songs of Arthur Lloyd, and Sam Cooke's ‘A Change is Gonna Come’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

Sam finally made her decision to leave early for the summer program at the college of her choice. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

But in the twenties and the early thirties, it exerted a considerable influence over much of London and the Home Counties. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It rained three days in a row in early October, and he was almost relieved because that meant he couldn’t go on those days, didn’t even have to think about going. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had been way too early, way too fast. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a result, people who are classified as violent offenders comprise a much larger share of the prison population than they would if they had earlier release dates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In early April he starts on what will become another series of paintings of blossoming orchards. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a while chokecherries were thick on the trees along the lumber roads that had been a mist of white blooms earlier. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps our friends were right to get out earlier.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

She didn't tell me this, but I know she ran and jumped on him, and kissed his face, and played tickle monster, and hugged him like she hugged me earlier, but ten times tighter. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

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

Modal melodies, revivalist spirituals, the call-and-response or ‘holler’ songs of African slaves: all of these went into the mixing pot of the early Blues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They didn’t eat with us because we ate earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I think every teacher at Knightsbridge signs a pledge to schedule an important test the week before the Christmas recess so that families that plan a winter vacation won’t take off early. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A number of people remembered having heard an explosion early in the morning, before daylight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Washington, he wrote, “it was a bad time, too early for clarity.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

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

These same brain changes occur at very early ages for young children who play music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Following an early breakfast she tied her sandals carefully, anticipating the walk to Annabella’s. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

One day Father surprised them by coming home early for lunch. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mammoth I'd met earlier, the Buckeye, began a slow clap, and the other guys from the team joined him. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

By the time the early months of 1945 rolled in, everyone was looking for exemptions from duty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Bobby was conflicted about his intense desire for privacy, and his need—from his earliest days of childhood—for attention. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I was making my early rounds when I saw a blue light coming from your father’s room. I thought he might have left the television on.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Storms came early with rain and between the rains fierce winds struck the island and filled the air with sand. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quentin caught the school bus to Coalwood to help me do the loading and then spend the night at my house so we could get an early start. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, early Australians and New Guineans were probably capable of intentionally traveling over water to visible islands, and were using watercraft sufficiently often that the colonization of even invisible distant islands was repeatedly achieved unintentionally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the early years of Jim Crow, conservative white elites competed with each other by passing ever more stringent and oppressive Jim Crow legislation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If you want to,” she said, “but not too far. Mama said we got to leave early, and it’s getting dark.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a Saturday in early spring, and the new Maplewood Recreation booklet had just arrived in our mailbox. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The next morning I got up extra early to get ready for school. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’d get up early some Saturday mornings and drive south on Highway 17, push the Ford up the winding road through the mountains to Santa Cruz. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Before, he had just looked out the back vents in the early morning and late afternoon, when he knew people were about. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though not dominated by martinets like my teacher, early mathematics education is generally poor. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evenings we nearly always went out fishing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days later, word of the ascent reached Queen Elizabeth on the eve of her coronation, and the Times of London broke the news on the morning of June 2 in its early edition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He made his name with ragtime but this style, as we saw in the previous chapter, was in the early 1920s being superseded all over America by jazz. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The earliest Midnight Dinners were small, intimate gatherings of friends and colleagues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was too early in the spring for Sukey to be let out in the Big Woods to eat grass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Fay had gone out dancing at the Stardust Ballroom, so I didn’t expect her home so early. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But being cut off from the exit's not good idea, so it’s early to rise tomorrow, before the sun even, so we can put some more ground between us and them.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She didn't speak a word of Farsi and ended up married to an Iranian man who was in his early twenties. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He knew how it came, like the frost that bleeds out of the winter ground, hardening the clear water that an early thaw leaves in wagon ruts. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

They would run out of liquor early, they always did. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skill and courage she showed in parachuting was admired, and she became an early favorite for the spaceflight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even if one of them is infected, it's early enough that they'll still have a chance to recover. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

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

Undoubtedly, the political and cultural context of the drug war—particularly in the early years—encouraged the roundup. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I do a lot of driving early in the week, turning it over in my mind. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

If they were bored and felt like leaving class early before the bell, they just got up and walked out before the bell. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Infection and colitis ulcers had so compromised his system that they were amazed he had been able to play tennis just a few months earlier. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sam was out of bed early the next morning. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two or three years earlier we’d have thought the movie had spooked Grandma. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I woke up early, feeling very cheerful, thinking that there was someone to talk to even if he was sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Schizophrenia isn’t supposed to manifest until a person’s late teens, at the earliest, but I’d gotten a shot of it at just seven years old. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“You can’t start too early. Speaking of which,” he says, looking pointedly at my mother’s outfit, “is that what you wear to work?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Father Amadi came early the next morning, looking even more unpriestly than before, in khaki shorts that stopped just below his knees. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The dance never ended that night and we had to leave early the next day, so we left as most of the villagers slept. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Moreover, the exposition had entered that precarious early phase common to every great construction project when unexpected obstacles suddenly emerge. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I looked at my sister, Cecilia, and said: “You were born a little too early.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier, even six months earlier, it might have worked out that way. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It stood empty and silent this early in the morning. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Mom said after a while, “we are pretty early, I guess.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“She’s come home early for some reason. If she has gone to the library you will be able to go through the hall without her seeing you. Wait here while I go and see.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not exactly sure. It was early in June.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

This theory of spontaneous generation had ancient origins and lingered until the early 1700s. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The grey day had become an early night while he was inside the storeroom, and it came as no surprise to him when a familiar shadow swirled beneath the street lamps. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She had felt it earlier that day, standing with Beverly and Louisiana in Ida Nee’s backyard. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

From an early age they look different, move differently, they can’t find shoes or gloves that fit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It was still very early in the process. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

It was still fairly early by the sun, something between nine and ten, and the hobbits turned their minds to food. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The silence ended during the early months of John F. Kennedy’s presidential term. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A few minutes earlier she’d jumped out of the car, pulled her jacket over her head, and scurried into the hospital, past the “colored” bathroom, the only one she was allowed to use. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking back at early man, perhaps, or at his ape cousins, he saw that running away was what you did instinctively when you were afraid; retreating was the usual effect of fear. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

The word “reconversion” itself implied the possibility of returning to an earlier time, of a reversal even, in the changes large and small that had transformed American life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative, as it seems it may, it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fog obscures the early morning joggers and the lone practitioners of tai chi. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

His father had disappeared some time earlier; how much earlier, he could not remember. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But Anna quit early while I kept going. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Wednesday led them all up some stairs, past life-sized models of the four horsemen of the apocalypse hanging from the ceiling, and they followed the signs to an early exit. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Throughout Garfield's early years in Congress, the family lived in rented rooms in Washington, returning to their house in Hiram, Ohio, during Congressional holidays. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“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

I’d traveled to Poky early one January with the crazy idea of visiting a particular resident. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

"I'm leaving early in order to take a job." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

One Thursday in March, the circus had come through Humble, Nebraska, like a rogue spring wind, the kind that kicks pollen into the air and sends the shoots up too early. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The diner closed early today. Not enough customers in the afternoons anymore. Aren’t you supposed to be at soccer?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He had to go out very early, I said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese is classic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

“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

And then, just as Marshall and Melanie got back to their apartment, their dad had come in early from the university. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby came a few hours later, on the early morning of January 28. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was late afternoon in early winter, nearly dark outside. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When even those who went to work the earliest were still sleeping behind their second-story shades. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing the ferocity of the firing from High Bridge, he assumes that the Union force is much bigger than the group of men who galloped past him earlier. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Very little is known about his early life, but some accounts say that he also studied at Oxford, although there is no formal record of this. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

An early spring sun hung in the Mexican sky on March 21,1934, when Ten Ton Irwin shimmied his 425 pounds through the giant rear door of his sedan and pushed off for Cheyenne. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the earliest readers of Origin were aware of the book’s far-reaching implications. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We knew our family would return from Mexico sometime in early April, but we did not know exactly what day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was palpable and menacing in away it had never been when he said, “I can’t come on Sunday until midafternoon,” or “I have to leave early today.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

The one difference was that early in the nineteenth century Manhattan had established very strict quarantine rules. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

Next morning I’m up early and drinking tea with Dad and telling him about the Angel on the Seventh Step. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

So it was with some relief that I stepped from their woodland realm in early afternoon and strolled into the sunny, dozing straggle that was the little community of Cheshire. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next morning Father left early, while I was still asleep. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ruth May’s condition pitched suddenly into decline, as inexplicably as it had earlier improved. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I’ll have to go back several weeks, to the earlier part of the summer. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is only Mrs. Cole,’ said I, ‘depend upon it. Nobody else would come so early.’ Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

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

He laid heavy emphasis on the early and late medieval Talmudic commentators, and we were always expected to come to class knowing the Talmud text and these commentators in advance. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Back before the curse had come, an earlier, happier part of life. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

We vault to third place after he correctly identifies a picture of the oldest surviving mosque in America: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, early 1900s. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In early 2005, Sarukhan took an urgent call from New York’s police commissioner about an increase in gang activity among young Mexican men, a sign that they were moving into the underside of American life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They started early in the morning, in the gray light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had told me to expect a check in early July for the lease on her Texas land. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The early scientists did not even know how to perform a test for statistical significance. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was still early in the morning, and the water felt cool on my legs. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

But she and Tom had gone away early that afternoon, and taken baggage with them. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Across the room, Henry’s with June, making a gesture at her hair, and she turns and lets him fix a piece of her braid that came loose earlier in a fit of anxiety. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Children, tonight an early supper,” Mami is saying, as if Mundín and I are six and nine instead of twelve and fifteen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

A few hours earlier, they had watched as a few of Regibald du Burgh’s gang had picked up their boss on a stretcher and carried him off. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Dimple swiped at her eyes, ignoring the looks of a couple of early risers probably headed out to coffee. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

When spring arrived with soft breezes and meadows grown green, the villagers began sowing early peas and barley, followed by the village boys who threw stones at the hungry birds trying to eat the seed. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the months went on, the Wide Patrols became systematic; during summer and early autumn there were usually two or three out at a time. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nine months after the invasion, a fight broke out in the shop, which led to the earliest major roundup and hundreds dead. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The second set this year,” he told me in early summer. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could make out Aunty Ifeoma’s voice from the verandah, and I wondered what she was doing up so early. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The earliest of these found so far are small figures of mammoth ivory from a cave in southwestern Germany, made 30,000 years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eilis was one of our earliest huntresses; King Roland called her to service when she was only eighteen, and many people questioned whether she was ready to lead the Royal Hunt,” the huntress explained. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The stories are early literature as well as early science. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there was no one else around, because tourists don’t like getting up so early in the morning. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I walk around in Dad’s yard, checking on the early bird plants. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

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 Main Gate of the Los Alamos campus in the early 1940s. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the kitchen was a throwback to an earlier time. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I woke up super early because of the dream, and didn’t go back to sleep. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

"I told you. They let us out early. They let the whole--" "You did get kicked out! You did!" old Phoebe said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing in school so early?” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And of course almost all the early scientists shared a common language. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ambiguous usages of Noah Biggs and Alexander Ross, discussed earlier, also follow the publication of Hobbes’s Humane Nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But I still wake up early to watch as she sets her hair in hot rollers and applies her makeup. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Aibileen will give me Constantine’s story by early next week, I just might be able to pull this off. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh! my dear, we cannot begin too early; you are not aware of the difficulty of procuring exactly the desirable thing.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

However, without curtains over the cracked glass, the sun streamed through the window every morning, so the children woke up early and sore each day. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Something about that early morning, the way the sun made everything bright and golden. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mom would leave early this morning, thinking I’d catch the school bus on my own. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The first story about the creation of the narcissus is told only in an early Homeric Hymn of the seventh or eighth century, the second I have taken from Ovid. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

If he was trying to get his outside chores done early, maybe that Miss Sadie would be off doing the same and wouldn’t come back till noon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since it’s his weapon and the rest of us have to defer to his knowledge so entirely, there’s the odd feeling of being let out of school early. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1950s Anaheim began to feel much less rural and remote. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

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

Longtime visitors to the Khumbu are saddened by the boom in tourism and the change it has wrought on what early Western climbers regarded as an earthly paradise, a real-life Shangri-La. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the early 1800s, European traders, missionaries, and whalers began to visit New Zealand, which had been occupied 600 years previously by Polynesian farmers and fishermen known as Maoris. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to these traits, the subject shows mild early signs of a disorder of his thought processes. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, while the boys are at school, I wait for Matilde, peering out the window in case she comes early. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we pulled into the station, I recalled an afternoon ten years earlier. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mom’s voice drifts in from my bedroom. “...home early. Excuse me? I rescheduled two conference calls to be...” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

This is just what we think happened in the early history of Venus, because of Venus’ proximity to the Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It met in a classroom at the nearby high school, and it was so popular that although I arrived ten minutes early, a new student had already taken my place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the early days, mill owners greeted workers by their first name each morning, inquiring about the health of children, who might also be known by name. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

His wife, Adelaide, phoned me early in the morning and I rushed to Oliver’s bedside. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a study in the early 1960s of seven thousand unvaccinated smallpox cases in southern India found that the disease killed 43 percent of its victims. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Anderson had taken the stage there many times since her earliest professional performances as a teenager. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Normally, Tad left parties early, but that look during that Fourth of July party made him stick around long after everyone else had gone. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Some are generals from the war- front, the same ones Thomas mentioned earlier. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Go to bed early and read my stash of comic books, the ones I found in the shed about The Flash and Green Lantern and Batman before he was a movie. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

An early experiment to answer this question was performed by Christiaan Huygens, very much in the Ionian tradition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was after seven o’clock by this time and, being early December, already midnight black. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Unless, it suddenly occurred to me—and here was an arresting notion—unless persuading yourself that you are not confused is merely a cruel, early symptom of confusion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

The dew and gossamer had dried early from the grass and by midmorning the finches had fallen silent. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they returned to the mobile home in the early afternoon, Uncle Jet had finished stabilizing the last metal post of the cornfield. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The story begins in the early 1950s when a bright young geologist named Eugene Shoemaker paid a visit to Meteor Crater in Arizona. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Most folks go to bed pretty early around here.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Six boys came over the hill half an hour early that afternoon, running hard, their heads down, their forearms working, their breath whistling. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her excuse was always that my early body development made me look older than the rest of the class. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair was loose and damp, grayer than it had been three months earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Speaking of cooking, what do you think of frybread for an early dinner?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Misha said, “pet away. What are you doing out here so early?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

As her cousin Joe had years earlier, she found it intolerable to think of her flesh and blood in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Her hair was red-gold, burnished copper in the early light of winter that came through the small window and fell over her as she ate. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

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

In the early nineteenth century, and even today, the Chewa people were the rulers of the central plains. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

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

Twenty years earlier, I had seen some of the first war with my own eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the early morning I had studied maps, drawn a careful line along the way I wished to go. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her eyes had bruises under them, and her face was shiny with sweat, early in the morning and all through the day. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Chadwick’s discovery of the neutron in early 1932 posed questions about atomic structure and behavior that could not be fully processed without an understanding of chemistry in addition to physics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

One morning she got out of bed for an early errand, and I fell asleep again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

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

But when they told of the coming of love and light the early storytellers were setting the scene for the appearance of mankind, and they began to personify more precisely. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“During your stay, all of your actions will be recorded by video cameras, as outlined in the consent agreements you and your parents signed earlier.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Abel blew his warm breath against the lock before opening Sommensen’s warehouse—a mildewed barn built of creosoted timbers, put up more than fifty years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In later years, I would tease her about this early allegiance, telling her that had she not met me, she would have married a leader of the NEUM. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In late July and early August, fewer spectators gathered to watch the picketers, and the press coverage dropped off. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“You have far too much energy for this early in the morning,” I tease. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sometimes in the early evening, I parked the car and walked up a freeway overpass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

By the early 1960s, however, the gene had vastly exceeded a “hypothesis.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As early as 1932, Sproul sponsored him for membership in the Bohemian Club, the most august organization of prominent citizens in San Francisco. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Traditionally, the Career tributes' strategy is to get hold of all the food early on and work from there. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“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

It was early in the afternoon and she and Hezekiah were alone. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

According to an article published in the New York Times, mobile phone companies, going back as far as the early 1980s, openly marketed the devices for use by drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

It is early morning on a Caribbean island, and African slaves—hundreds of them— are being sent out to the fields to pull weeds and burn the high, dry grass. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

“D’you think that was a centaur we heard earlier?” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Livestock ordinarily avoid this plant unless forced to turn to it in late winter and early spring by lack of other forage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but agree, and guessed that it might have something to do with the workshop being cooler this early in the morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We felt certain we’d stand a better chance if we tried to help kids think differently about food and exercise from an early age. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

"Wednesday night. Eight, until. He likes to start early." When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

As I learned more about how these early role-playing games worked, I realized that a D&D module was the primitive equivalent of a quest in the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I did not want another drink so early in the morning so I went up to our room. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

So Annie and Doc Mom settled on a pair of plain red lifeguard baggies that were exactly the ones I would have chosen for myself about an hour and a half earlier. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In early 2012, I was ranked number two in the United States and thirteenth in the world. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

From early childhood, Izzy had been fiercely, stubbornly independent; she refused to ask for help with anything. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They say to customers sorry it’s so early, but they have to close sooner tonight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You see? I’ve been right all day. We were meant to meet. If we hadn’t met earlier, maybe we would’ve met now.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman and the other riders were taking bundles down from their horses, and Kaede watched them in confusion, for it was too early in the day to set up camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In order to deny the Klansmen seats one evening, Ann’s group arrived at the meeting early and occupied all the empty chairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Essentially, he was uncoiling the cyclotron that years earlier he had conceived by twisting Rolf Wideroe’s linear accelerator into a spiral. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“I came early to decorate Ruti’s room. This is Mark. He came to give me a hand.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, she woke up too early, smelling her own bad breath and feeling a sad and unsettling peace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Most radar transmissions are for military purposes; they scan the skies in constant fear of a massive launch of missiles with nuclear warheads, an augury fifteen minutes early of the end of human civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was also, reputedly, an early enthusiast for the Copernican model, although he published nothing on the subject himself. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Gradually in early 1992, I noticed the bombers coming more often. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until early August that we received a reply from Mother and Grandmother concerning Father’s revelations. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early evening and I was the only customer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too early even to do my chores, I drank the coffee black, sitting on my steps, watching the sky blush the palest pink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Of course, we were, but in those early days, it didn’t seem possible. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dogged it on through La Fayette and Morgan City and came in the early dawn to Houma, which is pronounced Homer and is in my memory one of the pleasantest places in the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer he liked to get started early on chores before the sun blazed down on him. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

With more people under one roof, laundry day began early and clean sheets were a priority. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

In the earlier discussion, however, I was referring to things that impair our ability to solve problems. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And in the early morning swept clean of clouds and telescopically clear, we crunched around on the thick white ground cover of frost and got under way. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She started calling early on my scheduled days, saying that she wouldn't be needing any help. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Margot had arrived much earlier on her bike and was waiting for us. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Those languages eventually replaced all earlier western European languages except Basque. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had put the best man he knew, his own son Jimmy, in charge of his breaking and early training. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I might still be very sick if they give it to me early. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma said they had gone to the early Mass and they would see us at lunchtime. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

High in the mountains, Coalwood could be a damp, cold place even in the early fall, and I would have been happy to stay there for another couple of hours, at least. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was going to be ham and eggs that evening, with fried potatoes if you were early and bread and butter if you weren’t. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Her mom taught on those days and had to get in her practice hours early. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Far from resisting the emergence of the new caste system, Clinton escalated the drug war beyond what conservatives had imagined possible a decade earlier. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I asked them about Jongilizwe, and for an hour I seemed to be back in Thembuland as they told colorful tales about his early years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They removed the chest tube early the next morning, and Armand gave the staff the go-ahead to let me sip apple juice. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

From an early age Carmen had felt that she had been born into the wrong body. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

So I showed up early to every lesson, gritted my teeth through the arduous group classes, and was always the last one to head home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My father and I woke early so as to be in our synagogue by eight-thirty. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As we glided in toward a landing in the early morning or late afternoon, we could judge how high we were by the shadows on the craters, just as we would on the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leon and his friend were arriving in the early evening, or even sooner, and the performance was set for seven o’clock. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I went to bed early that night, around eleven; at twelve I was awakened by a loud persistent banging at the front door. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Hull had been commissioned two years earlier to take over the school’s disciplinary measures by their principal, who had sought out some sort of tax break that could save the school money. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

For several months in the early 1940s, it actually was my home when I had no other place to stay. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the early years of the twentieth century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American South, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They were men far older than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great figures left over from the heroic early days of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She was leaving early in the morning for Vancouver. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

My mother always wakes up early to heat up soup and eat with me while the rest of the family sleeps. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the cyclotron development had been, let us say, a year earlier, I repeat, there is every reason to believe that some of these discoveries referred to would have been made using cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The state redrew their indictment and we were back in court in early December. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1965, while he was living in Berkeley, California, he began singing songs at the early protest rallies that had sprung up against the war. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

We had early supper so that we could get to the theater by seven o’clock, in time for the first show. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally, I would do the morning chores early so as to be out in the field at first light. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been warned earlier that this sacrifice might be necessary, but had not believed that it would really happen. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And so I know her coming to school on her own this morning was not about being too tired to get up early. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Elections would be held as early as the end of 1993. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his opinion, an injury to the brain occurring as early as mine should have no lasting effects on physical mobility. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a few days earlier, across the country, there was another tragic example of the stakes. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My work in teaching him to read had finally paid off a few months earlier. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cast in bronze, it was the face of a man in his early forties, wearing a necktie, a tuft of hair falling across his forehead. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early April, I returned to Willemstad with my mother, and we took up life where it had been left off the previous April. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A steady flow of men and women from East Bengal—those who had sensed the early political convulsions before their neighbors—had already started to fill the low-rises and tenements near Sealdah station. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were in their early forties then, married nearly twenty years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

This seems to be the earliest usage of the term ‘hypothesis’ in its standard modern sense, at any rate in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Like I said…” Dad’s voice drops off. “...early.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Einstein’s earlier pathbreaking work on the photoelectric effect suggested strongly that light was composed of a stream of “light quanta,” or particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Will L. Wilson’s heart attack came four days earlier in the bedroom of his brownstone in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

They ran down the stairs to a kiosk that sold the early edition of Sunday’s New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“His mom dropped him off early,” she said. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“What a dreadful thought. It’s much too early for breakfast.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They got their early funding from the federal government. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In a decade of solid, original research, Luce made his second great discovery: that gender identity is established very early on in life, about the age of two. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

All of this occurred during the hectic early phases of the TB project in Peru. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I’m leaving early because I have to stop off at the police station first, to give them my statement. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Almost sixty years earlier, in 1729, as a young printer in Philadelphia, he had begun publishing Quaker tracts against slavery and the slave trade. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

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

Before getting out of my car, I decided to put on my well-worn suit jacket, even though I had noticed earlier that it was missing buttons on both jacket sleeves. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Heavy thunderstorms rolled into Atlanta early in the week, soaking the field. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was early in the morning of June 21, now. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

If he could catch it good and early, there might be a chance he could get back up to the castle, seize the Marauder’s Map, and find out what Malfoy was doing... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, just as the drug war was kicking off, inner-city communities were suffering from economic collapse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

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

She tried not to think about what was probably happening out there: The show didn’t start for another forty-five minutes, but some of the early birds in the audience would be filtering in. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Ernie fell asleep early that night, and for the first time ever, Genie was glad to hear him snore. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He was in his early twenties, or appeared so. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

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

My first solo campaign event took place in early April inside a modest home in Des Moines. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“It has been an exhausting day,” the doctor said, “and I think you ladies should retire early.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He remembers Frau Elena as she looked early this morning, standing in her nightdress beside the hall lamp, fussing over his bag, all the other children asleep. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

It turned out there were a lot of things I had yet to learn about life, or at least life on the Princeton campus in the early 1980s. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

On this very special Saturday morning, Grandma, Conrad, and I were up early puttering around. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d spent most of my early life in the crumbling east end of the city, surrounded by urban decay and concrete waste where the skyline looked like a ruined mouth of rotted teeth. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By early 2000, United States prisons and jails held nearly 2 million people, meaning that one out of every 140 residents was behind bars. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air was cold—icy, even—and it smelled the way early mornings always smelled to me: like dead leaves and the dregs of unfinished cups of coffee. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t shake the things Jessica had said to me a few minutes earlier. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

It’s a kind of fugue state, anyway, early sex. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

But there aren’t many kids in seventh-period study because most of them cut it and the others get excused early because our school is overcrowded. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

If I had to guess, I would say he was in his early twenties. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

"I've come specially early to tell you, and I'm taking you over myself." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

This morning, I woke up really early, like farmers do in cartoons. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

It was early in the morning, and Cole had just jumped from one rock to another in the stream. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

I encouraged everyone to start studying early in the morning. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

After contentedly poring over The Tivies, I wandered into the lab to see Francis, unquestionably early, flipping the cardboard base pairs about an imaginary line. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the afternoon and early evening, we receive lessons in history. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The water danced brightly in the early sunlight; away to their right nearer the river's mouth, they caught a glimpse of ships' masts. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

L’Hôpital bought himself the best teacher that money could buy: Johann Bernoulli, a Swiss mathematician and one of the early masters of Leibniz’s calculus of infinitesimals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

This trend, which began in the early 1970s, is said to have forced states to make the protection of vulnerable prisoners a high priority. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know he wasn't one of my early supporters. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

On the last, Estraven stopped and made camp early, in order to set traps. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fresh tracks showed that many wagons had passed this way recently, but in the early morning the path was empty but for her and Saerla. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It’s like he switched into mute mode early. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Preacher said, “I’m leaving right now to postpone the business I had in Chatham. If you have everything together, I can get going by this very afternoon, early evening at the latest.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was early in the afternoon when they got there, so Joe said they must walk over the place and look around. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Corporal Kolodny tiptoed stealthily into Captain Black’s tent early the next morning, reached inside the mosquito net and gently shook the moist shoulder blade he found there until Captain Black opened his eyes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

His father, a happy-go-lucky and reckless buck, had thought nothing of living close to human beings except that he would be able to forage in their garden in the early morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Every creature planned to get up early to see Wilbur off on his great adventure. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

And then, after 1,200 years, these early people left the cave for good. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

What tales of daring and adventure must earlier have been recounted as sailors and navigators, practical men of the world, gambled their lives on the mathematics of a scientist from Alexandria? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moira told me once that it used to be where the undergraduates ate, in the earlier days of the university. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night early in May Nat got a good lunar observation and worked out their longitude. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe that guy bought us the root beer,” Irene said, chewing hard, attempting a bubble; but it was too early, and she barely made one the size of a quarter. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The day of the master’s departure, I roused myself extra early on account of I feared Madam might do the same. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I wondered if that’s the way I had looked two months earlier and hoped that if I had, it had worn off by now. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was too early for her to be back from Portland yet, even if she had not gone on to some other, more distant port. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“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

—Emily Dickinson And then I settle into my precalc seat twenty minutes early. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Good thing we got here early,” he said, his gaze traveling down the long rows of baking stations in the center of the room, where the contestants would be competing. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I wish you didn’t have to leave so early.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

King had gained national prominence during the Montgomery bus boycott a decade earlier. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. The ground was fresh. It must of been stuck in there only last night or early this morning.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be light by then, and he wanted to go as early as he could. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Twenty-seven years earlier I had carried it with me out of camp only half understanding what it meant. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The West might not be directly accountable for all of Iran's drama, but they definitely stirred the pot back in the early 1950s. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I’m describing the condition that we Muslims were in back in the early 1950’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We just got up earlier every morning until finally we met ourselves going to bed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just an early autumn snow; it will be gone in the morning. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Northern blacks took pride in dressing in the formal suits and dresses popular in the early 1900s. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, I know it's very early, but we have to leave. How about cocoa for breakfast?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Construction of all the main Sing Sing buildings in use today began in the early twenties: a new Hospital Building, a new Death House, 5-Building, and 7-Building. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was very early, and misty, when we got there with our luggage. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though Alex was early, the line for his bus was already thirty people long. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

It came over division radio early that night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In early July he persuaded Albert Einstein to put his name to a letter alerting the president of the United States to the threat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“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

So they set about their work early, for it was canning time, and who knew but what the wind would come back this time with a cooling rain. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

One early morning they persuaded Silver to come with them and traveled over a mile to the outskirts of Kingsclere, returning with a tale of mischief and feasting in a cottage garden. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

And al-most in the same instant bang! would go the bullet, too late, or too early. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I remember she was in her early twenties, and not bad to look at. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So February sneaks in a couple of beautiful days early on, and just when you’re stretching out like a cat waking up, bang! Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The economist Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist and devout critic of George W. Bush, bemoaned this fact as the President’s reelection campaign got under way in early 2004. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Selfers were also convenient for early farmers in that they occasionally did become cross-pollinated, thereby generating new varieties among which to select. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Now he has Jo and the baby, but as Jo herself knows and had written to Vincent only six months earlier while in labor—“there’s no one in the world whom he loves as much.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There were plants here, in places where wind-borne seeds had dropped into the rocky crevices and been nourished by melted snow, sprouting now in this early spring, their stems reaching up. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As a result of this introduction to literature, and given the fact that Mr. Monroe is an English professor, Chester developed a taste for reading early in life. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the rally, everybody met at our house, mostly because Brent Chisholm was expected to show up and no one could resist the chance to get an early, in-person peek at him. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Ellen had managed to sleep a little in the early morning hours, but she got up when she heard him and prepared a breakfast that neither of them wanted. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a little early to meet Emily Sue, so I walked down to the main street. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, early in the morning, the plow came through the garden. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Two bullets screamed off into the early morning sky. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll take you to school and ask for a volunteer in your class to arrive early and leave early with you every day. You’ll have plenty of time to go up and down the stairs.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

It was too early for the beggars to return and too soon for the drunks to get rowdy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was good that we went out early, good we came back when we did. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

He repeated what he had said earlier in the proceedings. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

They would arrive earlier than the others and spend the morning shaving him, giving him massages with hot towels, cutting and polishing the nails on his hands and feet, and perfuming him with toilet water. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I was seeing Schmidt too, about this messed-up thing that happened not quite two years earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

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

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

Unlike early Soviet space capsules, which were automated, American spacecraft required experienced pilots at the controls in case of malfunctions. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was still early and I had a black eye from Bowdy’s good-bye punch. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The five of us ate an early dinner in the hotel restaurant. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“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

By early December, I was more comfortable with the Courters’ routine. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Granny came into my room early one morning and sat on the edge of my bed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early yet, but the kids always skipped fire circle on the night of a Changing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Swiss jumped out to an early lead but were soon overtaken by the German boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He found himself thinking of Pete, and of something that he had said as they had sat on their bed years earlier: A lifetime of glory is worth a moment of pain. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He bought a rig and drove around, meeting the earlier comers, talking of soil and water, climate and crops, prices and facilities. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When these children of Bantu Education entered their late teens and early twenties, they rose up with a vehemence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

As it was passed from ragtime to early ‘Dixieland’ jazz bands, though, syncopation became more sophisticated: now, instead of the right hand cheating the left, one instrumentalist was playing against another. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

I passed the electric fences of Pulefin Farm in early afternoon, all track and trace behind me soon covered by the snowfall. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days of space travel, one consideration in choosing astronauts was weight. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sending it forty-eight months early gives it plenty of extra time in case fuel reactions go slower than expected. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Caruthers had shown her true nature early, and so, even if Ophie was nervous, it was something of a relief to know already what sort of creature she was dealing with. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And, Jenny? Book your hotel rooms for another night. No way is anybody going home early.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Coraline woke in the early hours of the morning, convinced she had heard something moving, but unsure what it was. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He came into the kitchen, wrapped himself around his wife, and explained that unless the fishing was excellent he was coming home early the next morning, would be home, he hoped, by four a.m. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

From time to time, she looks out the window, at the lilac sky of early evening, vividly tinged with two parallel stripes of pink. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever and whoever he was early this morning, he isn’t that person any longer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

A young woman, probably in her early twenties, sat with her head between her knees, trembling and rocking. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some months earlier she had made a similar lunge toward him. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Even though lead was widely known to be dangerous, by the early years of the twentieth century it could be found in all manner of consumer products. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She still punishes me for the early years. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Coca-Cola mystique had always been based on its famous secret formula, unchanged since the earliest days of the company. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I check my phone to make sure I’m not too early or late, but I’m right on time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

What could he do to us anyhow if he didn’t recognize us and we left early in the morning? All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I was always up early, at least when the weather was good. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

A cloaked figure stood where the merchant was certain no one had been a moment earlier. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

They crowded together in a room stuffy with the heat of early summer. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The earliest known Olmec writing, for example, is on a potsherd from Chiapas that dates from about 300 B.C. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally, early one evening, with Andras and his father there, her breath slowed and stopped. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much about my early life, but I do remember this: Whenever I got the chance, I would dip my fingers into cool mud and use my mother’s back for a canvas. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She was probably in her early twenties and had this big, wonderful smile. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Listen to this,” Mr. Eberhardt said, and began reading aloud from the newspaper: ‘“A Coconut Cove police cruiser was vandalized early Monday morning while parked at a construction site on East Oriole Avenue. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Abby must have come early and worked hard before the tournament started. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

It was early, not yet nine, and Perry was the first customer at the Washateria, a self-service laundry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more we thought about it, the less likely it seemed that a burglar would have forced a door so early in the evening, when there were still people out on the streets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I’m taken aback by the frankness of his question, especially so early in the dialogue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

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

He introduced Ernest Lawrence to his readers as the leader of a “scouting party” of Berkeley wunderkinder, most of them “still in their early thirties.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Tell me, are your ravens early risers as well?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

By early afternoon, we are poised to carry it out. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The Morning Service began at seven-thirty—early enough to enable Danny and me to attend and not come late to school—and Levi was called to recite the blessing over the Torah. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’d misjudged her because of her small size, but even so, she couldn’t be much older than her early twenties, hardly what I had expected to find. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They swiped Rachel’s apple and Edna’s dessert earlier in the week. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The walls are lined with portraits and with shelves of books—pristine early editions—neatly organized and artfully arranged. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

From a very early age, I understood enough, just enough about my classroom experiences to keep what I knew repressed, hidden beneath layers of embarrassment. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since I’d gone home early after lunch yesterday, I hadn’t had a chance to talk to her about what happened, or hear why she had to go to the principal’s office. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Four white boys in their early teens, sons of some newly arrived Irish people, occasionally entertained themselves in the afternoon by harassing black schoolchildren. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

One day in early December, I came home from basketball practice and Gay said, “Check the answering machine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

I felt that the courage, the resiliency and the unswerving, fanatical will to survive, to dream of a bright future, to accomplish, to conquer, of early years had deserted me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

An early winter quill had etched an icy pattern over the garden. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I know Mrs. Brook takes me out of the library early but not before I see Michael looking at me with his big Bambi eyes and giving me our special wave. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was definitely uncomfortable but not nearly as scared as a few moments earlier. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

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

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

Spring came early that year and the sweet warm nights made her restless. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

El Jefe was furious and kept everyone till well after dawn—perhaps to show up our early departure. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I made the drinks too strong—which she liked too well; and I brought up politics—which she all but hated—too early in the evening. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She roused them early even though nobody in his right mind would wash his car on a rainy day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I loaf around until the company comes back in the early morning, grey, dirty, soured, and gloomy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the heat of early afternoon, they would remove their helmets and flak jackets, walking bare, which was dangerous but which helped ease the strain. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he observed them each year, and he remembered Lily’s earliest Decembers. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

This furniture is a clunky imitation of the early Scandinavian furniture of ten or fifteen years ago, now drastically out of style. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Born with a hereditary condition that caused a progressive loss of vision, Fisher had become nearly blind by his early teens. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

For example, in Problems in American Democracy the other day, Mr. Weiner asked him what kind of homes early American settlers lived in, and John said tree huts. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or that their marriage had been arranged years earlier? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I slept dreamlessly that night, exhausted from beginning my day so early, and sleeping so poorly the night before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He made us leave four hours early and drove us the hour and a half to Chicago way before Thaya Jaan’s flight was due to arrive. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She only rose early in the morning because Mrs. Caruthers liked to have her first cup of tea with the dawn, and now that Ophie lived in Daffodil Manor that task fell to her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

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 died in the intensive care unit in the early hours of the morning. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He gets up early on weekdays, lights the fire, boils water for the tea and his shaving mug. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I stared at the fading light, which was fading earlier these days. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had been kicked in the head early in the game. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

It was early rainy season, and the frangipani trees planted next to the walls already filled the yard with the sickly-sweet scent of their flowers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

And another time, when Toby had gotten to Egypt early and alone, he’d had the strangest feeling that someone was watching him. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching DuBridge by phone in early October, Lawrence informed him curtly that he was needed to lead an important defense initiative. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Elderly players, meanwhile, are victims of taste-based discrimination: in the early rounds and late rounds, they are eliminated far out of proportion to their skills. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Such snobbery was rooted in the fact that by the early 1980s, Everest’s easiest line—via South Col and the Southeast Ridge— had been climbed more than a hundred times. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I’d given a speech at Yale Law School earlier in the year that was attended by a producer from the popular CBS investigative program 60 Minutes, and he also called me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The wedding party left Johannesburg very early on the morning of June 12, and we arrived in Bizana late that afternoon. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We waited for him but he didn’t come, but I don’t know if that’s because he didn’t want to or because we left early.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

She slept on the couch, and left early the next day, on the first bus back to the village. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be by for you tomorrow, early!” he called over his shoulder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

By the time Koch walked into the Mercury office in early fall of 1938, three of his plays had been produced. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Under the right conditions this energy is able to push objects around; in the early universe it might have pushed objects apart. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The generators stop running at ten since petrol’s so bloody expensive to ship out, so either you get to bed early or you learn to love candles and kerosene.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Up ahead it curved to the right and there was a faint blue radiance, like the sky of early night. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the Riddle barn knew Smith was trying to coax early speed from Seabiscuit, but the idea of a horse outbreaking War Admiral was unimaginable. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And since the men who built the early theatres were mostly sailors who had returned from the sea,” continued the voice on the tape, “Billy felt right at home.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

The closest, a heavyset, darkhaired man in his early twenties, seemed to be the one who had spoken. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Navigating using instruments without being able to see the ground was known in the early days of aviation as “blind flying.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

And because Momly gets to Ma's house at the butt crack of dawn, Ma goes to bed dumb early on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays so she can be up and ready to go. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

Reinforcing that interpretation of a single invention of pottery in the south and a spread from that one source, the style of the earliest Jomon pottery is fairly uniform over the whole of Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You never know how much traffic there will be, and parking’s always a disaster. Better early than late, that’s what I always say.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

But curious or hungry children of early farmers, nibbling wild plants around them, would eventually have sampled and noticed those nonbitter almond trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was an old quiet smell about the room, as though the air in it was little changed, for all the sweet lilac scent and the roses brought to it throughout the early summer. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She drove him to school, and he got there early every single day, even though it was a forty-five minute drive. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The first of April was a gray and half-rainy day that still thought it was early March. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

In early March 1941, we piled our belongings onto a wagon we'd scrounged for the move and said good-bye to our apartment, the last tie to our once promising life in the big city. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Usually he drove in the early morning, as soon as it was light enough to navigate. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Brown hair like you. She was born six weeks early but the doctor says she’ll be fine.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those early days, I often spoke on behalf of my fellow prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you remember what we were speaking of earlier, of how bloody, terrible things are sometimes the most beautiful?” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Recalling the delay they had suffered a year ago, this time they had arrived early and would be leaving before the coming two-day event prevented their departure. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That evening, our mother made us go to bed early. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years of threats and insane posturing, it’s Fox’s early cancellation of Bunker that provokes North Korea’s supreme leader to action. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I would’ve thought you was too young for the palsy,” the huge woman murmured, sliding into her seat with the cup of coffee she’d promised herself earlier. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was only in the early hours of the morning that I finally sank into an exhausted, dreamless sleep. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The man, in his early twenties, wore a blue, faded shirt and khaki pants. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only pleasant thing about cleaning one’s bailie was that this was the one moment in those early days when we could have a whispered word with our colleagues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he applied his mind to his early morning meditations. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me again and said: “That’s why you wasn’t hungry earlier?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

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

They heard a noise behind them and jumped, thinking Albert had returned early. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They did a lighting check earlier, but those guys left way before us. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In Skadden, the legal historian Lincoln Caplan describes that early world of takeovers: The winner of a proxy contest was determined in the snake pit. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

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

That is, I acquired my earliest sense of the Church—and my membership in it—through my parents’ Mexican Catholicism. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many Amazonian Indian groups were similarly eliminated by private settlers during the rubber boom of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 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

The air was cool and soft, as if it were early spring, yet they felt about them the deep and thoughtful quiet of winter. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

They’re five minutes early, thanks to Jack, who hustled her out the door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Racial segregation had actually begun years earlier in the North, as an effort to prevent race-mixing and preserve racial hierarchy following the abolition of Northern slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was too early for the sprint, but he was starting to wonder what would happen when Moch called for it. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Cole couldn’t believe he was getting up this early to go sit in a freezing river. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I like to walk down Main Street in the early evening as the air starts to cool and the sky turns colors I’ve never seen before. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

The early June dusk was soft and green, not yet with the oppressive heat of summer. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Many early states and all modern ones have had literate elites, and many modern states have literate masses as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, the earliest forms of the Semitic letters appear in many cases to have been pictures of those same objects. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are home for the weekend, Stuart told me earlier, their first since they moved to Washington. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know we have been together the whole livelong day, Robert—since early this morning?” she said at parting. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

The University of Alabama had emerged as my parents’ early favorite. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

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

Traditional histories like to equate Beethoven, the colossus of music in the early 1800s, with his contemporary Napoleon Bonaparte, revolutionary-turned-Emperor and serial military adventurer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My being early would be, I hoped, an indication of both how badly I wanted work, and how promptly I would perform any assignment given me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

By early April, he was down to 4:46; by late April, 4:42. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I took the early afternoon bus for Tuskegee, walked through a Southern town of great beauty and tranquility. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was early spring when at last the Master released him, sending him first to offer his fealty to the Archmage Gensher. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She got me up too early and said we were going to IHOP, just the two of us like we used to do before Sekani came along and ruined everything. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

This would become one of my early, unwitting lessons about life in politics: Schedules and plans never seemed to stick. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

In the early volumes of the Philosophical Transactions it appears only once or twice a year. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She is hyper, talking fast and high-pitched like the chirping birds outside my window in the early morning. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“When I built the cable company, in the early stages, I was making deals where I would have been bankrupt if I hadn’t pulled it off. I had confidence that I could make it work.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

There were only two trains up from San Sebastian, an early morning train and the one we had just met. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A thin drizzle was falling, so fine it might have been dew, the ground beneath my feet felt like the earth in the early morning and no longer a street. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright and early, Mr. Benedict had said, and indeed it was early, but it was far from bright. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Dr. Bliss entered the sickroom early on Monday morning, September 5, Garfield greeted him impatiently. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Beyond the open window, the garden lay in the heat of the early afternoon sun, full of bees and vivid flowers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In early March, General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces in Vietnam, requested that two battalions of marines be sent to Vietnam to help guard the American airfield at Da Nang in central Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the early morning, when Burnham conducted his inspections, the buildings were a pale blue and seemed to float on a ghostly cushion of ground mist. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

F. C. Donders learned early in his life to pay attention; he had eight older sisters. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Remember when Oliver was four and woke up early on Christmas and came downstairs and unwrapped every present under the tree looking for a train set?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years earlier, on August 20, 1947, a U.S.- led war tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, had sentenced seven Nazi doctors to death by hanging. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

This microscopic analysis often continued until the early hours of the morning. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Reggie,” she says, meaning my dad, “maybe you should take King out early. Give him a chance to find a good spot before the parades start.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest opportunity. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Why do we always start so early?” said Scruffy, stretching into a yawn. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When early civilizations started pressing reeds to clay tablets, carving figures in stone, and daubing ink on parchment and on papyrus, number systems had already been well-established. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Hadn’t Mr. Dalton said that they did not get up early on Sunday mornings? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The two of them had been very close to each other from their earliest years, and it was not strange that Thambi should follow his brother. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men had milked the cows in the early morning and then had gone out rabbiting, without bothering to feed the animals. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She usually woke earlier than this, but it had been a late night. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

It was on a day in early summer that the goose eggs hatched. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

He took it when we were at the beach earlier. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"I thought maybe you got to move into the dorms early or something. Did you meet people?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just as the earlier-cited studies show that family structure has little impact on a child’s personality, it does not seem to affect his academic abilities either, at least in the early years. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

She was packing our lunch, with a couple of early tomatoes and some salt for them in a twist of paper. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He told me about it in early January, a day after the third letter had come. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There was light in some of the windows, although it was still early in the afternoon. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was early when we pulled out of the parking lot. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

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

His personal charisma and innovative strategies won many battles, but as early as the fall of 1965 Fuller had already realized the need for a new organization, one less hamstrung by federal and local bureaucracies. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's a tale told well, like all good stories, and it doesn't take long to lose myself in early twentieth-century Minnesota. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I made sure that they were brought to the village early in the morning. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Hall’s obligatory turn-around time had come and gone a full two hours earlier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Initially her mood was bright, for the parcel contained an early Christmas present she planned to give to her friends the Lawrences, but as she neared the corner of Sixty-third and Wallace, her spirits dimmed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The next morning, the boys awoke early, eager to get out on the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“All I can say is I am sorry and, like I told you earlier, it won’t happen again.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But I felt I owed him a debt because of all that his family did for me in those early days. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They knew that it was too early to get an answer to their letter, but they couldn’t resist starting down to Grand Central Post Office to take a look anyway. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had first expressed an interest in setting the poem to music when he was in his early twenties, before the full weight of the Napoleonic Wars began to envelop Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Also, if I was lucky and found the hogs early, maybe I’d have time left to visit the cave and watch the bats come out. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom thought about that and replied, “Maybe you’re right. Maybe this is some kind of early development. Maybe the owners of the packing plant built those houses for their workers.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, I wake up with the sun and go to work early. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Sam Waksal dumped his ImClone stock when he got early word of a damaging report from the Food and Drug Administration; his friend Martha Stewart also dumped her shares, then lied about the reason. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In Alabama and across the South during the early 1960s, African Americans were denied the most fundamental right in a democracy—the right to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Very early I figured out there were millions of words in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

A woman who is involved with a Sing Sing inmate got an early copy to him through the visit room and told me it was being passed around enthusiastically. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dusk was approaching, early because of the sullen lowering clouds; when I took up the sack, not full today, the stones rattled loosely inside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

At some point earlier, Barack had received the authorization codes that would allow him to access the country’s nuclear arsenal and a briefing on the protocols for using them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The bicycle she had ridden to school throughout her earlier years was taken to be refurbished and given to a different, younger child. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Which made any upright, true blue Milagro citizen, knowing the odds in favor of the early Death of the Fruit Tree Blossoms, just about vomit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I want to go to sleep early because of jet lag,” she said, but Brave Orchid, who had never been on an airplane, did not let her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a little predictably, I did so by saying: 'I was just thinking earlier, Miss Kenton. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I packed the few things that I possessed, and early one morning we set out on a journey westward to my new residence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s from Ayesha. She knocked while you were sleeping but didn’t want to wake you. Her family caught an early transport out, but she said she’d see you soon.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

I guess in Manhattan you have to start putting on winter coats early in the season, so you don't freeze on your walk between Duane Reade and the cardboard box you’ll eventually sleep in tonight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

You hear the news on the radios of people who got a reason to get up early and you hear mamas yelling for their kids who go to school to wake up. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Looks like Halloween is early this year,” my grandfather says, gesturing to a group of goth boys standing in line. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Why are we stopping so early? Tree across the road?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He dipped it into that same bucket I’d kicked a few days earlier. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I realized that this unprofitable task of his was probably nothing more than a method of whiling away the early morning hours, much as other insomniacs do crossword puzzles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A more careful examination of the data revealed that Manson was not only too small, but also nine million years too early. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Because the British were the most active in the early years, British names are predominant in the geological lexicon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, my dad and I are going back out to scout Squaretail Brook again early on Sunday.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then one morning when I went in early to cook breakfast, Lizabeth was sitting at the kitchen table holding a envelope. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was early, but I didn’t feel like staying up by myself. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

On the rare occasions that Min dismissed him early, he would hang around the house, looking for little chores to do—pulling weeds in her vegetable patch or sweeping the yard. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When we pulled open the Dutch door, he startled and swung his big head around to find out who was up so early. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Against ordinary horses, Seabiscuit had enough early speed, but War Admiral was no ordinary horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up until the early nineteenth century, Cherokee tribes occasionally hunted in the area, but found the terrain otherwise too rugged and uninviting. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We walked in silence for a long time until Ayanna slowed, and I realized we were back at the indoor Thicket glade where John Henry and the others had quizzed me earlier. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“We finished breakfast really fast because we were all excited, so we got to the airport extra early.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was early evening already, and she was getting hungry. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Of these projects, he identified two—Sloan’s X-ray tube and the accelerator, not yet known as the cyclotron—as “rather spectacular and important in their early developments.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“Dixie Mafia”? I'd met Walter McMillian two weeks earlier, after spending a day on death row to begin work on five capital cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Officer Delinko’s sergeant said, “Captain, I ought to tell you that David volunteered for this surveillance duty at the construction site. And he went out early in the morning, on his own off-duty time.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, in early April, Bunderson fired back with a three-page motion that put a fine point on his argument about distraction and frame of mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It is not too early to begin looking for trouble. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

So my daddy, who had just turned 18 eightteen eighteen years old, got up early before daylight and walked all the way to Spindale to town. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He had enjoyed their company early in his adolescence, but it had become apparent that he’d always be a step away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Since early in the eighteenth century, the London watermen had also made a sport of racing their dories in impromptu competitions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Old man like him goes to bed early, I guess. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to bed now, Comfort, even though it is very early,” said Peach. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The students were all in their late teens or early twenties, many of them recent immigrants to America, and of middle and lower income. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always try to finish up early so me and Baby Girl can set together and play. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

He hadn’t been alert early enough, hadn’t seen the signs jutting out everywhere around him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dates on the pages are all from the late summer or early fall, just weeks before she would have gone into hiding. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They wanted to go early, all but begged me. I said, how would it look, the superintendent’s boy playing hooky?” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered earlier than I expected, throwing off my concentration. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

What fun, I wish I had jumped trains earlier. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is six in the morning; Vanessa Martinez has gotten up early. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

Cole hiked the shoreline a few days early and found a little scrubby pine tree barely three feet tall growing against the trunk of a larger tree. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In just the past decade, they have uncovered a huge mass of brand-new information, and there is plenty more ahead; the biologic revolution is evidently still in its early stages. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night, early in the war, Robert Oppenheimer drove to the home of a friend and fellow Berkeley professor, Haakon Chevalier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search the sky above for early stars, see none, and then tell him what I remember. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It was published a few days earlier, on December 31,1890. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A moment later he said, “Here’s the priest from Marengo already. He’s early.” The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I remembered Henry’s cool voice, scarcely six weeks earlier. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This imaginative but impractical form of early notation, attributed to a ninth-century French monk called Hucbald, had the words rise and fall according to the shape of the tune. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The men on the garbage trucks would empty the can early in the morning and no one would be prying round on a day like this, with all the snow and its being Sunday. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She showed up early at Richie’s arraignment the next day and took a seat right behind the defense table. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the early afternoon, Jenny was telling Fred he was a “good boy. Such a good, good boy.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I join him on the bench, and together we watch the early traffic go by for a little while as we eat. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“I just found out that I have an early showing of one of the houses I designed this afternoon, for one of my biggest clients. I’ll meet you at the university by four.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

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

By early afternoon the rain had still not let up in Griinau. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

To satisfy them, Archimedes also included a proof, based upon the accepted mathematics of the time, that relied upon the so-called axiom of Archimedes, although Archimedes himself mentioned that earlier mathematicians deserved the credit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“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

Chloroform, which had been discovered in 1831, had begun to be used to relieve labor pains a few years earlier. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no phone around, so I could not call and tell Mother I wanted to go home early. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But in many ways, the true problem had begun years earlier, with a scandalous secret agency that once had been at the heart of American code breaking. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

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

Fifty years earlier, Dr. Philobosian had made his living treating Ottoman ladies in Smyrna. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

Previously the earliest manifestation of the Staff God had been thought to be around 500 b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A quick-witted and intelligent kid, he’d been nicknamed “the Professor” and set his sights early on the idea of someday going to college. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the 1980s and early 1990s Clement measured peach palms throughout the Amazon basin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the early evening, she put on a bright yellow halter top to show off her tan, jeans, and big green hoop earrings, and set out with friends to celebrate the Irish holiday. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The table suggests that food production began to provide a large fraction of human diets around 5,000 years earlier in the Eurasian homelands than in those of the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m invariably ill-tempered in the early morning. I repeat to you, the choice is open to you. Either you go to America with Mrs. Van Hopper or you come home to Manderley with me.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Because she had finished breakfast earlier than she expected, because she was bored. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Certainly, it feels like I always knew about donations in some vague way, even as early as six or seven. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was pretty tired, since he and my father had just finished loading all the stuff into the truck a few minutes earlier. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to turn back again, spend the night and start early in the morning, and he pulled the raft once more onto the sand and wipe- scraped it dry with his hand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

On an early MP3 player, he listened to rap and hip-hop. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Somewhere between that time, between sixteen and nineteen, the nervousness had turned to a kind of nausea that he would dream about in the early hours of the morning. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I stand up and push in my chair, like we’re always supposed to, grateful that picture day means that class ends early. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

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

Daddy takes the el and a bus to get to work, but he still gets there early every day. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

And indeed a study made in Holland in the early 1950’s provides support for the view that polluted waterways may carry a cancer hazard. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The blue plush chair was exactly where she’d shoved it two days earlier, catercornered three feet from the place she’d have to set up the ladder in order to reach “Sarsaparilla to Sorcery.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The men had no uniforms, so they wore ordinary clothes: coats to ward off the early morning chill and large-brimmed hats. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“It was slow and the store closed early.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the early spring of 1927, the trial reached the US Supreme Court. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

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

Morrie is older than most of the teachers, and I am younger than most of the students, having left high school a year early. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Institute called his mother early this morning. They said that he hanged himself.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the early evening we stole home, tree by tree, to find that the warden had gone. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He detailed his role in helping to plan the early bombing campaigns, and told how two years in Vietnam had changed his views. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Breakfast at that early hour seemed odd, and even Hannah’s familiar face looked unnatural as she flew about her kitchen with her nightcap on. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Athena Parthenos gleamed in the early light, and Reyna thought how beautiful the goddess would look on the hill above the Greek camp. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was awakened early in the morning by my mother. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

British fishing vessels may have reached Newfoundland as early as the 1480s and areas to the south soon after. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I knew hard work would get me there, so I reported to work early every day. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

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