At home, my siblings and I had to help Mom figure out the bills because she was busy working and didn’t have time to learn English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

My head ached from the strain of reading English. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Smith and Cowell realize that this further sense of ‘evidence’ is peculiar to English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He pauses, then says, “Haven’t you read Jane Austen? We English are more uptight than you lot, isn’t that so?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My mom made sure English was the first language I spoke. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

One of her key contacts was F. J. M. Stratton, a famous English astronomer, so short and round and jolly that he reminded people of Santa Claus. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re working on their books, Esteban finding the English words for his dad as he writes what he sees. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After all, she was just the head of the English department, a job that in the scheme of natural selection at Permian ranked well behind football coach and band director, among others. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One minor modification that readers will already have noticed is that the Semitic and Greek g became the Roman and English c, while the Romans invented a new g in its present position. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother translated into simpler English, "What car was the man driving, Carla?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Submarines appear in the English Channel, in green. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother had an especially difficult time learning English. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Her tongue caught on the stiff English words. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Proud that he could read the English as well as the Japanese, he figured he’d have an edge over anyone else applying. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh yes, I already know a little English; just to prove it I’m reading An Ideal Husband with the help of a dictionary! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The dictionary contained every word in the English language but the chain knew only a few. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This was written on Mr. Browne’s chalkboard when we walked into English class for the last time: MR. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There were kids from Uruguay and Korea who had just learned English but were doing extra credit for the current events stuff in Intro to Wall Street, reading Barron’s and Crain’s Business Daily. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

His blue seagull’s eyes dart from face to face as the English instructors appear onstage next. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The girls mumbled to one another, and then the tall one said, “Thank you” in English. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Though his English improved somewhat, he retired into silence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of weeks ago, he ran out of English class because we were readin’ a play about some dead white guy. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or when they both scoffed at us and said, “Speak English, you’re in America,” while we were teaching each other phrases in Urdu and Korean. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But the fact that the book was published in English and written in clear, accessible prose was almost as important as what it contained. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had started reading almost as soon as he entered school, struggling at first through the English books by looking up words and phrases in the big dictionary. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

French jams, English marmalades, an unclean butter dish, bottles of ketchup and Lea & Perrins circled past, before what the Object wanted: an economy-size jar of Rolaids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Of course I did! I know how to write in English!” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Today my Honors English class, the only class I enjoy, feels like a never-ending burden. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In English, he said something to the woman officer, who shook her head before flipping another page of her magazine. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Of all immigrants in New York City, officials say, Mexicans are the poorest, least educated, and least likely to speak English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden everyone seemed to know—as the professor of English had known—that I was a minority student. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say it in English if you have to. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he got to English, he tried to catch her eye, but she looked away. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Their mother called them “precious”—her own English version of the word. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie did not answer, and after half an hour of flying over the serene, smooth, silver and black eternity of the English Channel, Queenie asked suddenly, “What are you worrying about?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And the gastronomic suggestions only confirmed to my mind that the English didn’t know the meaning of the word food. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a while she got up and said, “I will make another egg for you, three minutes only—how the English like it. This one is cold now.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Poppy wrote half his card in English and half in Arabic. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I called a meeting for all the members and it was a lively session — conducted in Sesotho, Zulu, Xhosa, and English. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While he is smart and all that, his English has not kept up with the times, so he pays me to make it more accessible. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The English then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with Jamaica, which they took from Spain in 1665. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“And a lot of people here treat Mami like she’s stupid because she doesn’t speak English. How can people be so mean?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I knew that I had turned to English only with angry reluctance. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn to see the naked English guy, except he’s dressed in a leather jacket and jeans and boots. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Everyone, quiet!” she says, in English this time, loud and clear. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

They were dark, but they were speaking too low and in English, so I couldn’t grab an accent or slang to place them. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

In English class today, we discussed one of my favorite Emily Dickinson poems, and it felt as if something were splintering inside me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Tentacle by tentacle, in this way I begin to learn English. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

At last they came to the hall of the English Renaissance. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street signs written in both English and Spanish. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, the women of New England refused to buy English products and English tea. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So we set up a program to assist and improve the proficiency of aviation English.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He had applied an overdose of English Leather and Ben rolled down the window to cut the power of the scent. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In English there was an alternative: Robert Boyle invented the term ‘the corpuscularian philosophy’ in 1662 to cover both ancient atomism and Descartes’ new corpuscular theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Somehow, from these beginnings, it transformed itself into one of the most powerful English expletives, meaning something like “Die before your time!” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marian sang an English song, again all the way through. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Now I’m going to read the English translation that I made for you. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to let you know you failed your English test big- time. You’re about a hair from failing the course. I just wanted to warn you.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Necessity is the mother of invention, and over the centuries the English language has developed workarounds for its rigid syntax. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“For someone who doesn’t know English too well, you know an awful lot offour~bit words.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

For an hour Mr. Shin uses Korean and English examples to talk about the compassion of God. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I asked if we could speak in English for the interview; it felt more natural to talk to the American in English, and with Engel there to translate, the Hauptsturmführer did not mind. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

At school I always did fairly well, especially in the subjects I found interesting, such as English, History, Scripture, and, of course, Biology. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dalian has become for Japan what Bangalore has become for America and the other English- speaking countries: outsourcing central. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

The aid workers came from many different countries, but they usually spoke English to each other. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The English Herr was in a hurry,” to which the stranger replied:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then he was looking about him with that same slow turn of the head, and then he looked at her and said, “Of course, you’re the girl with the English accent.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He struck a good balance—I was playing on the team opposite English most of the time, and even though Fist was designed for him, he didn’t call it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I recently witnessed a fierce dogfight between German and English pilots. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A pageant was planned to celebrate the Ford English School graduation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

My plan was, as I taught, also to study, to take graduate courses in English literature and possibly writing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Many perfectly good English constructions were stigmatized because they had no counterparts in the language of Lucretius and Cicero. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Where authorities disagree, I’ve tried to weigh the best evidence and make decisions that reflect what thoughtful, literate people consider good English. decimate. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He likes to talk about dying soon,” Amaka said, in amused English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

How strange I must look to her in my English clothes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I knew he wanted the dates more than the bedsheet. Since he doesn’t understand a word of English, I made it a point to conduct the whole transaction in English.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The main market is situated along the highway leading into town, near an old train station built by the English. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Hobamok, who had acquired some English, indignantly denied the story. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In fact the British boys still rowed with the long layback that English prep schools and universities had taught for generations. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

English, as the most common language in the country, was used in teaching mathematics, history, geography, physics, biology, religious instruction, woodworking and domestic science. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther down the page is a word with no English translation next to it. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, Suitcase marched over and bellowed at us in English, a language in which he was not expert: “You talk too much, but you work too few!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she first came to America, her English teacher had admonished her, not for speaking too much, but too little. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But you have to understand, there were hundreds of forms to fill out, and nobody knew English all that well, and the rules changed all the time, and the agents hated talking to us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“You understand that this is an honors English class.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

And I can ask her about English too. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They always spoke to each other in English when Eliot was present. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Brian had once had an English teacher, a guy named Perpich, who was always talking about being positive, thinking positive, staying on top of things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you have good grades, especially in math, but your grades in English are not as good,” he said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Just before dinner time at Farm Hall, the English mansion at which Germany’s top scientists were being held, a British officer named T. H. Rittner asked to speak to Otto Hahn in private. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You bliddy snobs with your stuck-up schools and your stinking English superiority! But I’m going to show you. I’m going to give you what you deserve!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“He was a friend from when we were both in the dumb class. We were in the dumb class just because we didn’t know English.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun was so angry he could barely think of the words in English. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Not English, anyway, but I don’t think it’s very Scottish, either. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As a result, the English stuck to Newton’s fluxion notation rather than adopting Leibniz’s superior differential notation—cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Tata Ndu turned directly to Father and spoke to him in surprisingly careful English, rolling his r’s, placing every syllable like a stone in a hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were gready curious about English customs, and Rita pointed out that they could get Scout badges in anthropology if they took notes. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her book was a volume of English history illustrated with a few drawings which she pointed out to me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Professor Jabavu had been awarded a baccalaureate in English at the University of London, which seemed an impossibly rare feat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So you just get up and switch over to the English station! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among dances, swimming, and tennis she soon found herself getting involved in the English language. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

For a while, she pretended to barely speak English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would switch from Farsi to English between sentences, or sometimes even within them, and me and Dad would be left out. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I count in English, forcing it to the front of my mind. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, English and I would usually swap a few words about a party or a game from the weekend, something, anything, but today he was clearly avoiding me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This was an art school, and the writing workshop was commonly known as the easiest way to fulfill one's mandatory English credits. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

"Your feminists don't realize that there are different kinds of power," Ma interrupts, her accent taunting the one English word in her sentence. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The rabbis spoke only Yiddish in the Talmud classes, but the students could speak Yiddish or English. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Eventually, his English manager, Mr. Hollick, summoned him to his bungalow for a “serious chat.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pascal, who speaks English, is "aped over Jodie Foster" and owns all her movies on videotape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! The little African can speak a little English, huh? Don’t let the massa know, gal. Play dumb as long as you can.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I never do good in English and it’s my native language.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I argued that a year of classics could only bolster and enrich this now highly desirable course of study in English Literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was continually amazed at the combination of raw earth and rough people, white columned houses and traces of English manner. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew anything, and as I grew more agitated, my attempts at English dissolved into incoherence. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The family couldn’t speak much English and Sissy knew no Italian but as the months passed, they learned some English from her and she learned Italian from them and they were able to talk together. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had gotten in the habit of writing down a different English word and its definition every day and memorizing it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But the word itself, at least in English, French and Italian, is not new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

In languages as diverse as Welsh, Arabic, Chinese, English and Hebrew, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“How did you not know that your date does not speak English?” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Instead I now stayed indoors, engrossed in attempting to master the Monopoly game, form English words with Boggle and figure out how the various toys worked, by meticulously taking them apart and reassembling them again. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

More friends visited on weekends, and when Ugwu came out to serve their drinks Master would sometimes introduce him—in English, of course. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Also, because there were so many of us, including hundreds of young Navajo men who had learned to speak English in the boarding schools—our language was chosen for making that unbreakable code. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I enjoyed Mr. Milo’s class the most because I did better in math than in English. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

After English became my primary language, I no longer knew what words to use in addressing my parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she talked on the phone to friends from the English language school. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke English and she smiled and shook her head. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time I was discovering the richness of the English language I began imitating how white people talked, in the hope of learning proper pronunciation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

That you'd been in this house for over thirty years, serving a real English lord. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

That’s just how he talks, but it sounds so musical and soothing with that English accent. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was also written in English and Spanish! The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“A word for when you feel like kick someone? Ah, I miss English! They have many good words!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” said the goblins together in English. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Do you know how quickly he learned English? Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

This time he extolled the English, filling Massasoit’s ears with tales of their cities, their great numbers, their powerful technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dasch struggled to reply in German, so Kappe switched to English and used a fake British accent to try to hide his harsh German accent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Mostly he says incomprehensible things in Kikongo but also speaks like Mr. Poe’s Raven a desultory English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Divine providence,” the colonist Daniel Gookin wrote, favored “the quiet and peaceable settlement of the English.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m with you on that one,” English agreed. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

So she picked up one of the strips of paper and read it aloud, first in English: “Do not fight and air your dirty laundry in public. To the victor go the soils.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if Napoleon could find a place to grow cane, he could not get it past the English ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Only then did I determine to learn classroom English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He poured some whisky into a glass, drank it in one gulp, and said something in Igbo to which Kainene replied, in cold clear English, “My choice of lovers is none of your business, Udodi.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Gracias. Perhaps someday I will buy a book that is in Spanish and in English, too.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Afterward, two people came up to congratulate me and ask why I had a Northern accent and used such correct English. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The English, they open everything—then others, they come along and shut everything. It is very difficult.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary adds the gender-neutral prefix Mx. to its lexicon as an alternative to Mr., Ms., Mrs., and Miss. It also adds the word cisgender. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

This created a backlash that led to Prescriptivist dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I interview for receptionist, they tell me my English not good enough. Nowhere I can find work. Nobody to watch the baby.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everywhere we look there are signs in Spanish with the English translation right below. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Now I get mostly B’s, with a sprinkle of C’s, except for English. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The boy from English, Eric, waved at me from across the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

English would now take second place to Afrikaans as an official language. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stand up to sign out for the bathroom even though I was just there during English class. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Whenever Ugwu brought out the kola nut, Master would say, “Doc, you know the kola nut does not understand English,” before going on to bless the kola nut in Igbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Which in plain English means they didn’t want Black people to be freed. Ever.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

These language replacements in East Asia remind us of the spread of European languages, especially English and Spanish, into the New World, formerly home to a thousand or more Native American languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord God Almighty, Weiser, are you an idiot? She will not produce anything worth reading when she’s in this state. Look—this is verse. English doggerel. Pages and pages of it!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“We were foreigners who spoke English with an accent,” Grandpa said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She would teach me to embroider if I would teach her English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch quickly learned the restaurant business and sought a job as a waiter with the goal of improving his English. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Both pleaded for their absent spouses— "Emergency operation," "My wife doesn't even speak English"— to no avail. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I could hear, but I couldn’t say the words in French any more than I could say them in English. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A banner written in English and Vietnamese is carried behind them. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“All of the American leaders have committed treason against the King. You cannot deny that. Treason is the highest offense under English law, worse than murder. And what is the punishment for treason, my friends?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone sings “Happy Birthday,” in Spanish and English. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Luma learned to speak English without an accent and met kids from the United States and Europe, as well as the children of diplomats from all over the world. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

You failed English and chemistry, and you just barely passed history and math! Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, we boys are playing a game that is much like English football. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Random House Dictionary: “Nothing in the history of the infinitive in English ... supports the so-called rule, and in many sentences ... the only natural place for the modifying adverb is between to and the verb.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“That is more difficult. The English, they do not stab. You are right there. I incline to the view that someone else dropped the pipe cleaner—and did so to incriminate the long-legged Englishman.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe it’s Nellie. I saw him watching her when she was giving her book report in English and he looked more interested than he should have.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

To make this type of linguistic reasoning clear, let me give you a familiar example: the geographic origins of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And he worried about Finn, too, how easily a teenage boy could fall for a wounded bird, an absurdly beautiful wounded bird who didn’t speak much English. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought about what Señora Oralia had said about singing along to Beatles songs even though she couldn’t speak English. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

One of the fathers will stall in broken English while the others hastily pack the merchandise into the van. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mohan begins riffling through the pages of a book called Vedic Rituals for English Speakers. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The English papers did not tell the entire story. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Many Kikongo words resemble English words backward and have antithetical meanings: Syebo is a horrible, destructive rain, that just exactly does not do what it says backward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He nodded gratefully and started on the English again, finishing too loudly and in a rush, a sure sign he was unhappy. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know. I’ve never been in an English house before.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

And Nick and Abby are back to their obnoxiously happy normal, holding hands in English class and discussing corsages over lunch. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He tries to speak English but mixes Spanish in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t want any books about English officers looking for salmon or books about people shooting each other.There’s enough trouble in the world without reading about people bothering fish and each other. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murry looked up from a copy of an English scientific magazine through which she was leafing. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how to speak English but used it only in this class, so the words felt funny in my mouth. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The compass allows you to navigate out of sight of land and, naturally, Edward Wright’s prefatory letter to On the Magnet mentions the circumnavigations of the Earth by English sailors. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a sign with arrows pointing in each direction, but the words were written in English, not Korean. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Each student’s curriculum was rounded off by the Afrikaans, English and vernacular languages. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I could not have been more surprised when she showed up sobbing at Room 43 just as I was putting the finishing touches on my final paper for English. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When it comes to putting the units into a left-to-right order, the rules of English syntax leave writers with only a few possibilities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t miss all the weird looks we got on the way to English. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

George Blake had entered adulthood as a warrior against Nazism and emerged from World War II an English soldier and patriot. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Carlos asked, watching English and Shannon grab their bags. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The test consisted of three parts: two on English and one on math. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

When they talked to Air Traffic Control anywhere in the world, those conversations would be in English. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She studied the way she walked too, lightly — why should she struggle with English? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says this war is none of our business because the English are up to their tricks again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was marking the boundary between the American and English sections of the compound. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon inquiry, I found that English was the least of his languages, preceded by his own tongue and the speech of the Mandingoes. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They would need to learn English and how to fill out job applications, and they would have to get used to the expectations of the American workplace. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Velutha curtsied as he had been taught to, his mundu spread like a skirt, like the English dairymaid in “The King’s Breakfast.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was self-conscious about my accent and my English, worried that I would bungle the words. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Now I realized that this meeting was actually about a story I'd written, a story in English about a girl raised by sirens. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But aren’t the classes the same? English is English. Math is math.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

To him, I knew all the languages of English the way he did those of Spanish. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to tell your father, but maybe you deserve to hear it first. You scored higher than any boy from the Sunderbans in English and Bangla.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t particularly fluent in English, but he liked them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get my head in the zone—and found myself keeping an eye on English and Shannon Pushcart, and I knew exactly why—they were tight with Rashad. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He could hardly manage English, much less the poetic language of a king. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

“She probably doesn’t even understand English,” I said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite this lack I still found debates useful in practising English. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Giulia was full of inside sources familiar with the English literacy test. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

They would inevitably surface within a rectangle of barbed wire, would find themselves greeted listlessly by dying Russians who spoke no English, who had no food or useful information or escape plans of their own. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Gatti, the English teacher,” he said, “will coach you....And Mrs. Johnson will talk to you about what to wear and things like that.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When she asked him in halting English about the acidity of soil and how it affected the corn crop, Charlie said, “Knows her dirt.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It recounts splendid imaginary amorous adventures of a perfect English gentleman in an intensely romantic land, the scenery of which is very well described. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I think about running out so she can’t pull the evil eye on me again, but Hairwoman, my English teacher, is patrolling the hall and I forgot to go to her class. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A girl,” Werner says in French, “did you see—?” but the interpreter only smirks and says something to the clerk in English, as though every German soldier he has interviewed has asked about a girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wished she would stumble in her Igbo; he had not expected English that perfect to sit beside equally perfect Igbo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The counselor suggested a support group, but Gora was too ashamed of her English to join. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

After he explained the English to her he stood up and jerked his hands in and out the pockets of his lumberjack. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I read one of her poems in English class last week, and I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be home soon, though. Why don’t we take a break from these potatoes and work on your English for a while? ” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They came at the same age to the same section of New York City, without legal papers or more than a few words of English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And yet here Anatole speaks French, English, Kikongo and whatever all he first started out with, plus knowing enough to be the one all-purpose schoolteacher. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the late 1600s, Cherokees likely first encountered the English when traders from the Virginia Colony came to the region. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, perhaps under the influence of a Middle English AMA, the worm was given sole rights to the word, and the doctor became the doctor, out of dek, meaning to accept, later to teach. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Read English news, yes, and English sport, politics and pomposity, but in future keep the things that hurt to myself alone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shona was the country's national language, but most people spoke English as a result of being colonized. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After waiting for months, Nguyen and her uncle Huynh’s families were sponsored by a church in Saint Paul, Minnesota, whose members helped them learn English and find schools, housing, and work. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Of course I do. But not too much. We don’t have too much English work at our yeshiva.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I realize she doesn’t recognize the phrase in Spanish or English. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

His mother and father spoke to their children only in English as a point of pride and a matter of definitively severing the bond to the Old World. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I discovered Annabeth was right about my dyslexia: Ancient Greek wasn’t that hard for me to read At least, no harder than English. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I filled my mind with other people’s thoughts—all in English—so that when she looked at me inside out, she would be confused by what she saw. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tapped it with my index finger, and the Mandarax software translated the text to English. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As they crossed Moskvoretsky Bridge, spanning the Moskva River, the Russian man joined them, striking up a conversation in shaky English. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even mind speaking Afrikaans to the maid, which is practically the same thing as English once you get the hang of it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“One, two, three—six, Monsieur. The old American lady, a Swedish lady, the young English lady, the Countess Andrenyi and Madame la Princess Dragomiroff and her maid.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought we were here to learn English,” Jack cracked, which made everyone laugh. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They’re chattering to each other, both flat on their backs again, batting words back and forth, English and Swahili, gazing up at the glowing night sky. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Tats walks me to English, which is not good, because she gets to see how there is no English. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“She’s driving me nuts!” the children told each other in English. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more books I read, the more I became confident that I could read anything written in English and understand it—as long as I had a dictionary. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the reading room in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From an early age I knew that my mother and father could read and write both Spanish and English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sign in Spanish and English announced that the restaurant was closed for a private party. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But then the clover elves all start to talk in Chitterish, and the one who can speak English explains that they’re just amazed by Sarah’s freckles and Jack’s buttons?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“All right; English pronunciation is crazy. But all I want of French is to be able to read it. Can you help me with that—and not bother about the pronunciation?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not all of it is in English,” Victor explains, “but you should be able to read most of the articles, at least.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I shove the half-lemon in, shove Grandma out, tell myself the English bloke has glandular fever, cold sores, and tooth decay, the trifecta of unkissability, like every other hot male in Lost Cove. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

She would like to be able to do that work herself, but even in a Mexican restaurant a waitress must know English. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Their English equivalents—“four,” “seven” — are longer: pronouncing them takes about one-third of a second. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

We passed another man wearing an English raincoat and a fedora hat and carrying a stick, walking slowly: a gray figure in bright sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s convenient to have a mom who is an English teacher. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a vintage Franklin performance, reminiscent of his bemused but devastating recommendations to the English government in 1770 about the surest means to take the decisive action guaranteed to destroy the British Empire. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He lowers his voice, and I hear: "I have a paper due in English class on Wednesday. Moby-Dick. Hope you have time to read it." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I'm not sure that he knew what he was hollering, or if it was even English. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was always eager and excited to read for them, because it made me feel that I was really good at speaking the English language. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I talked to your English teacher a couple of months ago, and it seemed for a while there that you were improving. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Oxford English Dictionary is certainly wrong to suggest that the word was not used in this sense before 1665. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She said she didn’t have time to teach us like a regular English teacher—we were too far behind. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones, whose husband used to teach in the English department until his death, is about his own mother’s age. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Guenever could not search for the GraiL She could not vanish into the English forest for a year’s adventure with the spear. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been a very long time since we have seen English women. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Be very careful, senorita. The soldiers of the English are cruel and dangerous. The river you need to cross is not far.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

You go to live in a big city and have your English there to cuddle you. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Kyung, who doesn’t speak much English, began calling Shin her eldest son. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of English, we heard a babble of accents from every corner of the Middle East: slang from Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria, as well as some in Farsi—the music store was run by Iranians. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

And if English knew, Carlos and Shannon knew. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

But in all the churches I have had to listen to the new English mass. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Guides to English grammar were written as pedagogical steppingstones to mastery of Latin grammar, and they tried to shoehorn English constructions into the categories designed for Latin. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Because she hardly ever spoke English to him, it sounded cold, distancing. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The English tribe would punish her in their own way later. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean it. I heard all that with English. Thanks for having Paul’s back.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The cafeteria was noisy with kids laughing and talking sometimes in English, sometimes in Spanish, and sometimes in a combination bouncing back and forth between languages. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

It’s difficult for the police because no one where she works wants to talk, and everyone’s English is poor. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Bede wrote a history of the church in Britain, the Ecclesiastical History of the English People, he used the new calendar. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

An English Tudor right next door, then a large Old Mission style estate, next a sprawling Craftsman, and last, the white house that Mr. Bender paired with the word careful. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Although he didn’t know the Bernese dialect, his German was fluent enough to be understood easily, and since it was the U.S. embassy, everybody spoke English anyway. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Francis Bacon invented the fact; from Bacon the fact entered the English language and was adopted by the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We’ll start with these and then when you know English better, you can read these.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read it in school because I had a depressed English teacher. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Can’t use him. In this business I need someone who can speak English and with experience. What about you?” he said, pointing at Roberto. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

An hour later, Alex was sitting up in bed, English book propped in his lap and a brand new plan taking shape in his brain. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

“The English don’t know reality or the world as you do, sir,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English scholar, Sir J. G. Frazer, thinks he probably wrote in either the first or the second century of our era. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only Mr. Brown, the genial, stocky, sandy-haired English teacher from New York—official school liberal, magnet for and friend of outcasts. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toño chooses these words by opening a little book he got from an English class. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Camp workers teach us English mornings and afternoons. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My English teacher has got us studying the Harlem Renaissance, which means we have to read a lot of poetry. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks. My mom and dad came to America fromCuba. We still speak Spanish in my house...and English, of course.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

It had once been surrounded by English gardens, which had partly collapsed into clay and African weeds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though there are many men who cannot read or write, they all speak English. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had just come back from England, where his father King Ban of Benwick had been helping the English King to quell a rebellion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Samuel said, “Liza, do you know the meaning of the English word ‘vacation’?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What a fine name! But, my good woman, how is it you speak such perfect English?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got it. It was the second English colony, after the one set up in Jamestown in 1607—not too far from where we are now, actually!” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It would have been, I believe, considered sacrilegious for any of my early English teachers to mention that a Shakespeare, a Shelley, or a Keats even considered accepting money for the words. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The detonating device was publication of a letter Jefferson had written in 1801 to Joseph Priestley, the English scientist and renowned critic of Christianity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The teeth sucked up the light, and darkness closed around Tayo with an ambush of voices in English and Japanese. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But he was adopted by a missionary who taught him English, and then he worked for various English people in Calcutta before signing up for his indenture and traveling across the ocean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

When Frankie spoke English, the change in his voice was striking. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Finally Elvio explained, “Mamá knows almost no English. We always have to speak Spanish to her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

But we are still fighting for ‘English liberty’ and don’t you forget it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was just him and Jetta, he could find any excuse not to speak English. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The two of us speak English to each other, even though we both grew up in homes where our parents spoke Bangla. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here’s another bugaboo that English teachers used to get worked up over. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn't speak any English and didn't have a driver's license, so she couldn't take me to the hospital. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He taught English for a year, then was asked to lead the guidance office. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Giving it my best English accent, I say, “Such a chatterbox, a guy can’t get a word in.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I couldn't figure out why my cousin would want to exchange his Yiddish name—which in English means Joseph—for the Polish version, but the teacher's rebuff didn't surprise me. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But in that moment I realized I’d never actually heard her say anything in English other than: “Yes.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So you want to help the Polish girl. Are you like that English nurse, the one who carried her lamp through the dark to save all of those sick people?” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She would speak only English, gesturing or miming to give us hints, if she was feeling generous. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Diana helps teach her mother English in a southern drawl. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Texans who bought the land fenced it and posted signs in English and Spanish warning trespassers to keep out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He made them taste Mrs. Hile’s pie and share Sam Gardiner’s candy; he showed them the book on English usage and told them about the cartoon in the paper relating to General McClellan’s late demotion. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the English journals had names I couldn’t pronounce. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

All the English teachers are in a meeting today. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

This sort of rhetorical stance isn’t the preserve of the English aristocrat. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was Igbo colored by the sliding sounds of English, the Igbo of one who spoke English often. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mostly it was in French and such, but Adah took things down in English in her notebook and held it where I could read it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cleric begins with a prayer in Urdu, translating everything into English for the many non-Urdu speakers. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Miss Cowper in English, whose first words were “This fall, we will be reading Jane Eyre by Miss Charlotte Brontë, and I am not naive enough to believe that you will all like it.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Screams of terror pounded in her ears, shouts in English and Italian. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

He hoped his English sounded like Olanna’s; he hoped, too, that his affectation would frighten this soldier into not asking him any more questions. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were sitting across from each other on the bench of a bay window that looked out onto the long, steep driveway that led to their magnificent English Tudor. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then she tells me I got to get a slip from Mr. Parrish, my English teacher, before she gives me a slip. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He majored in political science and English and by going year-round he graduated in three years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A hillbilly. Only worse. Some of ’em don’t even speak English.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You tell them your mama’s an English teacher, and in this house we speak only the King’s English.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama, look! I think this is a ballet movie,” I said in my heavily accented English. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were speaking English, although they all seemed to be from different countries. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A writer, an English teacher, and a beekeeper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels even more important to correct her English now, as if her English mistakes could prove she's wrong about other, bigger things. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She could at least give them names in plain English, you would think. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for me, I was exceptionally interested in English and got there in the end. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

I have to run all the way across campus to get to English. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

And trying to follow classes taught in English was just plain hard. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we got to Queens, in New York City, in the United States of America, I became dumb, just because I couldn’t speak English. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“No, thanks,” I say in English, and settle next to Baba, who’s got a plateful of fried eggs sprinkled with pepper. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday in advance. And by the way, young lady, you speak English very well.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

At five years of age, I knew just enough English for my mother to trust me on errands to stores one block away. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Magnificent” is one of my English words and I am proud of it. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, Today I walked into my fifth-period English class and all of the desks were lined up against the wall. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It is with such men as it is with the English landscape seen at its best as I did this morning: when one encounters them, one simply knows one is in the presence of greatness. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d been talking to their English teacher about their upcoming paper. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Biscuit tins with sumptuous pictures of English castles and ladies with bustles and ringlets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I became friends with a girl named Mabel, a white girl who was intelligent and tried valiantly to speak with me, even though I still knew little English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Uncle doesn’t know ten words, and insists on talking English very loud, as if it would make people understand him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you speak English?” she asked, and when I confessed with some embarrassment that I didn’t, she went on in Spanish. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Spanish words wove with English words like braids. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“You should speak to them in Urdu only. And don’t answer them if they reply in English—that is the only way they will learn.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I wanted to have a smart comeback, but by the time I thought of something in English, most conversations had usually moved on. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was kind of amusing, and also heartening, hearing my parents recite the branches of government in their broken English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

All she knew was that I could effortlessly recite hip-hop lyrics while struggling with my English class. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Wart would not have been frightened of an English forest nowadays, but the great jungle of Old England was a different matter. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Ahora, speak to us en ingles,' my father and mother united to tell us. At first, it seemed a kind of game. After dinner each night, the family gathered to practice ‘our’ English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though he did not speak it often, that other tongue flavored his English so he sounded different from everyone else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He didn't realize that I am fluent in Spanish, as it was the language I learned after English. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

English was staring at the TV again, his face now becoming a fist, tight and angry. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We mad^ up our own English, which I wrote down and now looks like “eeeeeeeeee.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained that I’d taken the test of English as a foreign language. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

When in English, ‘twas thus: “No, sir, this, this—Aye, you, this”—There was much negotiation, and a tune played or sung, taken up by others, learned by those newly hearing it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I remember the black political activists who have argued in favor of using black English in schools. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately he’s been lazy, addressing his parents in English though they continue to speak to him in Bengali. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Because my daughter? She goes to Bronx Community College, and she speaks better freakin’ English than you.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I imagine her sitting in an old English house, sipping hot chocolate while snow falls outside, drawing a tiny menorah on a notepad, a Hanukkah celebration for her alone. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Mr. Browne, my English teacher, was probably my favorite teacher of all time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The English historian Lord Acton famously said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All I said was English was my best subject. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

My more familiar English or Christian name was not given to me until my first day of school. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Are you sure your wife doesn't understand English, I mean, after living here so long?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

So after three died on the West Side, Colin's parents began to read with him, everywhere and always—primarily in English but also from French-language picture books. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

My father, who spoke only a few canned Chinese expressions, insisted my mother learn English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We missed at the other end, and English didn’t push the fast break. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Soon after taking up his position, Davy began to bang out new elements one after another–potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, and aluminum or aluminium, depending on which branch of English you favor.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

With the victory in the American Revolution, the English had then been expelled. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t speak English and I translated for her and looked out for her, because Tateh didn’t care for her at all. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I still wanted to learn English, though, so I asked Celia if she would come over to teach me a few things. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The man who wound his watch spoke English. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Once, in tenth grade, Joaquin had had to write an essay in his English class about where he would go if he could travel back in time. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Everyone mixes English and Urdu here, and the man nods his understanding. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dung had changed her name to Pattie once she found out what it meant in English. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But then, of course, we English also fought the Germans long and hard.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moms and English teachers hear it, though, and they have drilled children to avoid it in favor of Julio and I were down by the schoolyard. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She nibbled on her pencil erasers during English class, which was so cute...not that I looked at her all the time! Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was a soft-spoken, politically sensitive, brilliant Zulu student, whose love for the English language probably equalled my own. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dialed the school and when a voice answered, I said in English, “Hello?” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

With firm Spanish sounds, he conveyed confidence and authority English would never allow him. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was a superior tongue, a luminous language, the kind of English he heard on Master’s radio, rolling out with clipped precision. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She didn't know much English, and she had no idea what was going on. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Reading the articles about other teenage girls was one of the few benefits I could see to having taken English for so many years in school. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“A mixture. The Dutch settled most of the land up and down the Hudson. There are a lot of them still here and they don’t much care for the English crown.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd worked hard to learn English, and he spoke it with just a hint of an accent. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Having recovered from the nasty turn, Sydelle Pulaski settled down to transcribing her shorthand to Polish, then from Polish to English. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama wanted me and Jay to speak English; she felt it gave us a better chance to do well in school and get a good job later on in life. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I also forgot Italian when I learned English. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It can be debunked with a glance at any page of a historical reference book, such as the Oxford English Dictionary, which will show that very few words retain their original senses. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I spent the morning at the computer, flipping back and forth between my religion and English papers. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The biggest surprise came from Mr. van Daan, who reported at one that the English had landed in Tunis, Algiers, Casablanca and Oran. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

What we didn't speak was English, so we had identification tags on our jackets to make sure we ended up in the right place. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

He told them the names of each item in English as he gave it to them—“shirt,” “shift,” “apron”—then pointed out other words they would need, like “massa,” “yes’m,” and “yessir.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Each of those countries has its own dialects of English. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She instructed her about deafness and blindness—how valuable and necessary they were in the company of whitewomen who spoke English and those who did not, as well as in the presence of their children. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two more kids trying out for the roles of Miss Ornsby, the English teacher, and Chet, the boyfriend were called up as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I pivot abruptly and walk to the library, because I know for sure my English exam is real Real Life. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“We use only real butter,” she says in her accented English. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1896, English surgeon Stephen Paget says that heart surgery is impossible. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Many of our most popular American children’s songs hail from centuries of ballads, hymns, popular and folk music of early New Englanders, Scottish, and English settlers inhabiting Appalachia, and African and European descendants. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Celia gives Miles these looks in English class. Like she wants to eat him.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

In 1806 he had come up with a plan: Let the English rule the seas; he, Napoleon, would insist that no country in Europe would buy from them. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her English contained no remnant of an accent. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Wear this and no one will notice what kind of English you speak,” she said. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“You know the English saying ‘Keep Calm and Carry On’?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He reached into his backpack and pulled out a copy of West Side Story, some play his English teacher was about to put on in front of the whole school. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

After calculus it was off to honors physics and then honors English and then honors chemistry. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hardly ever see Summer during the day, since the only class we have together is English. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

By the time he got to Mrs. Torrance’s English class, she had turned her small desk fan out toward the classroom. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Nick asks, falling into step with us on the way to English. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They even worked out that the first layer of the encryption, the one that used English letters, was based on digraphs—that is, pairs of letters. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“There is an English airman being held in Ormaie,” the photographer explained. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Son to an English professor who hated everything about the South, grandson to a gentleman farmer who loved everything about it. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

He spoke in English, and I couldn’t make out what he was saying. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I figured that if American children learned English through books, so could I, even if I was starting later. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The bookseller got down two fat books, Parts I and II of An American Dictionary of the English Language and then a third. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had some sort of an English accent. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The English public, now consuming some eighteen pounds of sugar a year, knew little about the lives of the enslaved Africans whose labor sweetened their meals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“My English friends, an endangered species in these days, they say to me, ‘Eva, in Great Britain your “Madame” is too onions-and-béret. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bridey says it doesn’t matter what class of an accent an Irishman has for he’ll never forget what the English did to us for eight hundred long years. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I held up English for You and Me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“You can speak English!” said Fudge, sounding outraged. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

On the last day in English, we finished selections from Travels with Charley and I turned in my Travelogue assignment. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“She understands English very well. Only doesn’t speak.” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He talks so fast in English that I’m not sure I understand what he’s saying. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Undeterred, the Powhatans continued to build a stronger confederacy and attempted to discourage new English settlements along the James River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

I started to tell him, to say—to translate her Spanish words into English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every once in a while I found myself smiling at total strangers because I knew that if I were to speak to them in English, they’d answer in English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is from this line of thinking that we get, it would seem, the first reference in English to an hypothesis as a theory that needs to be tested. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And then, after she swallowed, she elaborated: “English, because I always went to American schools. Spanish. Italian. And a little bit of Mandarin from my grandmother.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

She stretches the words really long, like I have a hard time understanding English or something. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

She bit her lip to remember the word in English. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Most of all I needed to hear my mother and father speak to me in a moment of seriousness in broken—suddenly heart-breaking—English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love my English class. Mr. Ingman says I’m a good writer.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Very clever, aren’t we?” the English guy says to me at once. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Ms. G said we’re not limited to just using them on English assignments. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

At about the time I no longer bothered to listen with care to the sounds of English in public, I grew careless about listening to the sounds family members made when they spoke. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It first appears in English in 1729, well before ‘homesick’ and ‘homesickness’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"He learned his English as a waiter in Gib." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In those miles, along the twisted roads beside the steep mountain, I feared that I would never get back to America, civilization, English and wide streets again. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom had called for Princesse, who spoke the best English because she had studied it in college. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Besides, she says, he’s back at work at Rank’s Flour Mills and please God this job will last a while with the war on and the English desperate for flour. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Last year, our English teacher, Mrs. Jackson, thought it’d be really great for us to keep journals. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter that the Mellower was of the English tribe and the shave was obviously Shona. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And shows no inclination to learn English, I’m afraid. Now, a bite, and the events.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Classes at the camp reminded me of school in Cuba, except here there was a sense of urgency in learning English. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was easy to be formal and cold in English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

After class, Nam and English busted out before I could catch up with them, and I was sure it was going to be a long day—and practice was going to suck. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Landau gets to our table, tears off two slips of magic paper, and hands one to Bob English. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The English were eagerly filling Antigua, Nevis, Saint Kitts, and Montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I’ve got to go down there to order. He didn’t speak enough English. It’s ten blocks. I’ve got to burn something off before I eat anyway.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy kept announcing in English, then Arabic, like some kind of television host, and everyone would cheer. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Guddat, why are you singing English songs?" says the leader, with an air of superiority. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He really likes teaching kids English and thinks maybe he can take over the drama department, too, next year. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The passive voice is just one of the gadgets that the English language makes available to rearrange phrases while preserving their semantic roles. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Intimacy thus continued at home; intimacy was not stilled by English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time Mr. Kapasi had been teaching English in a grammar school, and he bartered his skills as an interpreter to pay the increasingly exorbitant medical bills. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: “sociopath.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't I tell you,” she said in accented English, “not to mess with girls? Hassan is a good boy, doesn't do this 'dating.' And look how happy he is. You should learn from him.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

After English, I met with Mr. Ward and explained all of that, or enough of it to satisfy him, anyway. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He patiently listened to Roberto who, using the little English he knew, managed to enroll me in the first grade. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The old man who’d given up his seat saw us noticing and said, in English, “Amsterdam’s spring snow. The iepen throw confetti to greet the spring.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

"Here. And after it shut we went over to that other café. The old man there speaks German and English." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I had decided to read Wuthering Heights — the novel we were currently studying in English — yet again for the fun of it, and that’s what I was doing when Charlie came home. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’ve been trying to translate some old Chinese poetry into English. I’m not sure it can be done. Will you take a look?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Or more correctly, she spoke each word with such clarity that I was certain a foreigner who didn’t understand English could have understood her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a bat, I think, but I don't correct her English. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But the family was so keen to learn good English that they hardly ever spoke German to me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, in another way, it mattered very much—it was unsettling to hear my parents struggle with English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ma asked him with her best, extreme English pronunciation. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He spoke English with an Igbo accent so strong it decorated even the shortest words with extra vowels. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Here you speak English,” she said to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was little to do on the first day of the semester, but she read for her English class. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

"Oh, I passed English all right. It was mostly literature, though. I only wrote about two compositions the whole term," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Freshman English was taught by a cheerful woman in her late twenties who kept talking about something called the “essay form,” which, she assured us, we had learned in high school. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ms. Diamatis would say, “Bob English Who Draws, can you please take us through the eights?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He understood English fairly well, except when someone tried to criticize him or tell him what to do. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English Exchequer used to keep accounts on a variant of the tally stick until 1826. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Did anybody ever tell you that sometimes you talk like a lunatic who speaks perfect English?” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I’m senior boy and the job is easier because I’m fast and when Mr. McCaffrey is out in the van and my work is done I read the English, Irish, American magazines and papers. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He's being moved out of his English class and put into some kind of Honors/AP program. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The authorities had provided a translator for Mollie, but she waved him off and spoke in succinct English, the way the nuns had taught her as a child. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“I speak a little English. We happy to be here.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Hayden was discreetly driven from the park in one of the fair’s innovative English ambulances with quiet rubber tires and placed in a sanitarium for a period of enforced rest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was looking me over, probably wondering who the hell I was, this intruder upon the sanctuary of English majors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s a paper I wrote for my English class on Trampita. My teacher liked it,” I said proudly. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was written in red-blooded English, from New York, the United States of America. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was based in New York, and his running mate, William English, had been a congressman from Indiana. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I had to copy these words over and over again as if they were English words formed from my own head. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was written in English, which Mameh didn’t read or speak, hut I read it for her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian moccasins were so much more comfortable and waterproof than stiff, moldering English boots that when colonists had to walk for long distances their Indian companions often pitied their discomfort and gave them new footwear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There is a certain irony in this, since Boyle became an absentee landlord, one of the hated symbols of the English oppression of Ireland. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I warrant I missed something fine with Henry Henry. But there is time, sir, there is plentiful time in this war for Henry Henry and, if I commence English, for Aubrey Aubrey, too.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He said it was a liberal state college, had a good English department and low tuition. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Smith must have taught her some English words during her visits to our fort and his visits to her village. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Some of the kids made fun of me when I tried to say something in English and got it wrong,” he went on. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they said that. But then they laughed at me whenever I tried. Or they spoke for me. And they talked to me in English mostly.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

He was only the second porter, and his English was still literally translated. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“How many times have you heard a Russian speak English?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

There’s color in his cheeks and lips, the glow of Brooklyn summertime warmth that his English blood isn’t accustomed to. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You speak as if your tongue were a saw and English words were made of wood. You have a French accent.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I know English better than you, I bet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In English, we’re reading some boring old book, by some boring old dude, set in some boring old time period. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

An English teacher as well as a guidance counselor. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I took English literature and health and American history. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I dropped out of all those math classes. I’m studying English now, like Daddy did.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was across the street in front of the office so I couldn’t hear him, but I was certain that he was yelling in both Korean and English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though both of them can write in Spanish and English, they write in a hesitant manner. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a paper due in English and Mr. Parrish collected them. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe she cant speak English,” the other said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke either English or Swahili to each other. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

With his salt-and-pepper hair, denim clothes, and leather jacket, he reminded me of a TV actor, but he was just an English teacher. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

For three weeks he had been in a panic over a paper he had to write for his fourth course, something called Masterworks of English Literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The neon sign above the gate was impossible for me to read, because if there’s anything worse for my dyslexia than regular English, it’s red cursive neon English. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Talk English,” he called, mostly to show Naomi he remembered the rules. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had taken that up from the priest-baiting captain, who spoke a little English. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Besides, the less I had to speak English, the better. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it doesn’t turn into proper English soon, they might get stuck.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

English were building factories, drinking tea, and organizing against the slave trade, the vast majority of Russians were serfs. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth and William knew enough about cryptography to guess that “V” might stand for “E,” the most common letter in the English language. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Finally, after struggling for English words, I managed to tell her that I wanted to enroll in the sixth grade. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

But this is the first time a consensus developed around what the English call an ‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Calling the English for help would be collaboration,” I gasped coldly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Many of these rules have become entrenched in a vast community of English speakers, who respect the rules without ever having to think about them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

To faze is to disconcert or embarrass; it comes from a Middle English word, fesen, which meant “drive away” or “put to flight.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty minutes later, I've got my mouth full of English muffin and the cell phone rings. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What does he say to do when a woman has...” he hesitated over even saying the word in English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we could hear it all the way from the kitchen: shouting; and a coffee cup breaking; swear words in both English and Greek; feet stomping out of the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had tired almost instantly of the Poe poems they had read from Naomi’s English book, but Beto adored their “gloomy splendor.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ngubase was a soft-spoken fellow in his late thirties, with a shaky command of English, who was currently serving a sentence for fraud. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

English philosophy has always been thought to be peculiarly empiricist; on this account, it seemed that England had created and invented the culture of the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I attended a one-room school next door to the palace and studied English, Xhosa, history, and geography. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those people who called me a pocho could have spoken English to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you understand English?” he says, taking hold of my arm. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The standard question rule in English converts You are seeing what? into What are you seeing? and hence You are looking at what? into What are you looking at? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered that it was Tuesday, the day my mother taught an English class at the Y.M.C.A. where my father was the director. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, here was Anatole looking back at Father with his eyebrows raised very high, like “Do you understand plain English?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the English boys had got Dove down and was twisting his arm, making him swear allegiance to his Britannic Majesty, gracious George the Third. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment I faced these three impeccably groomed women, I forgot my English and Mrs. Johnson’s lessons on how to behave like a lady. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Nor could they ignore the old ladies’ practical advice to improve their English through Bible study class on Wednesday nights and, later, through choir practice on Saturday mornings. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

These clumsies may be fine in conversation, but written English isn’t ready for them yet. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But she’s tangled up in metal. This is going to take a while. Put a splint on that girl. Take her and her family to the hospital. See if any of them can speak English.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

But it was one thing for me to speak English with difficulty. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Berrange later revealed in his deft cross-examination that many of the African detectives were unable to understand or write English, the language in which the speeches were given. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

English mathematicians fell far behind their Continental counterparts when it came to developing calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I was also concerned that I couldn’t do my best in my English, shorthand, and typing classes, all of which would have been a breeze under any other circumstances. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He understood and could speak English if he wanted to. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good English is clear English: it’s efficient, precise, sensible, economical, sometimes even beautiful. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you want to study French, Mr. Bowditch? Maybe we could trade lessons. You could help me with my English, and I’ll help you with French.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I know English, I don’t know how to translate something that makes no sense at all, even to me. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I could see people rush by, but eveiyone spoke English so quickly that I could only understand a couple of words. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A card she calls me, which sounds ridiculous coming out of the mouth of an old-maid English teacher who’s practically fifty years old. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Or I would say that I had been offered a teaching job by an English department. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Where are we now?” said Will to the captain, whose English was limited. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Where are the, you know, the remains?" he asks, still using English. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Brodatt is not a Northern English name; it is a Russian name, I think, because her grandfather came from Russia. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Once or twice he tried asking in English, but it was no use. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or, in English, ‘With great power comes great responsibility.’ The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Samuel, how are you?” he calls out in accented English. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was certain to flunk English this term, simply because English was mostly reading and he didn’t have time anymore to spend four or five hours every night reading a lousy book. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Mary Suzanne was about forty then, a frail, gentle woman from Japan who could speak no English. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he said it in English so that I could understand it, and no one else would except the photographer. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“My daughter won an award for English and her friend got the highest GPA in the ninth grade,” Mr. Doyle brags. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I had Mr. Milo for math and science in the mornings and Miss Ehlis for English, history, and social studies in the afternoons. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The floors were shining, the walls a cool, soothing white, and the titles of the paintings were written in Spanish, with the English translation as a secondary thing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Oh, says the librarian, he reads hundreds of books about English officers fishing in Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We were taught — and believed — that the best ideas were English ideas, the best government was English government, and the best men were Englishmen. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned enough English to order burgers and Mexican food and to talk about baseball and the weather with his housemates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

He starts in Spanish, then switches to English. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

There were some English and Americans from Biarritz in sport clothes scattered at the tables. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

From around the middle of the seventeenth century there is a flood of adjectives that appear in English for scientific experiments, theories or discoveries, all based on the names of scientists. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I hated having to struggle to do everything in English. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

As she pulls out a ticket he inquires, first in French and then in English when she does not catch his meaning, if she might know whom he could contact about the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He spoke the kind of American English that she had just given up, the kind that made race pollsters on the telephone assume that you were white and educated. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

My table was from my family and was of a very fragrant red wood, not what you call rosewood, but hong mu, which is so fine there’s no English word for it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even got called out by Mrs. Norris in English for staring out into the parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They haven’t yet told the passengers who they are or what they want; all they’ve said, in heavily accented but understandable English, is that everyone on the plane will live together or else die together. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her English is as rubbish as my French, but though we persist in thoroughly mangling both languages, we understand each other pretty well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Merry Christmas,” she said just as if she could have said anything in English that she wanted to. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she speaks again, I see the transparent English translation in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She makes fun of him, but I know she’s scrawled his name over and over and over again on the last page of her English notebook. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It didn’t matter how unaccented my English was. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Pravda, or “truth” in English, was the name of the main Soviet newspaper. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

As a matter of fact, he could almost do a better job of reading and writing in Egyptian than he could in English. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I’m not going to learn English so I don’t become American.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was pre-enrolled in English, math, Spanish, physical education, social studies, and science. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He had actually lent his support to the Stamp Act in 1765 and lobbied for a position within the English government as late as 1771. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I never talked to her after the talent show, and there were two full weeks of us sitting next to each other in English, her looking at me and me looking anywhere else. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The day went by like any other, filled with work, and Kit said nothing, ashamed that in this somber household she should even remember a happy English yuletide. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

As she drove away I remembered that Käthe isn’t supposed to understand English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The husband was a small, timid man, sick with pneumonia caused by an unidentified microbe, and with only limited command of the English language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he would disappear into the streets with his gleaming English Bulldog. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I could hear him talking to her in English, but I couldn’t discern what they were saying. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Salvador lapsed into a glum silence, Lupita asked, “Aunt Consuelo, could you teach me some English words as we work in the fields?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I talked to her in English, she answered back in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The endlessly repeated claim that Webster’s Third treated ain’t as correct English is a myth.3 It originated in a press release from the publisher’s marketing department which announced “Ain’t gets official recognition at last.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's writing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I keep an eye on the clock, because I don’t actually want to miss English class. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

In the gallery, friends and family members sit and watch, the bewildered audience to a play performed in an unknown dialect of acronyms, Latin, and Old English. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

When the smaller boys didn’t answer him quickly enough, he snapped, “Do you understand me or don’t you? You speak English, right?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We spoke in Spanglish, a combination of English and Spanish in which we hopped from one language to the other depending on which word came first. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was learning a little English from watching TV, especially the cartoons, which were easy to follow. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Char told Juju she was flunking English and it’s because Miss Saunders don’t like her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

It is worth noting that the term itself is relatively modern: in English it dates to 1715. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hussein spoke only a few words of English, and it was unclear whether he understood Coach’s order. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Another open doorway to another class with The Taker, winter quarter of AP English Comp. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

At first I thought she would drop me, but since I was already in what the others teachers called “dummy” English, where else could I go? The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I made my way to English in a daze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

This word entered English in the 1200s, so there’s no reason to say it as if it were French. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Me? Ha! You must be thinking of that fellow in Kolkata—the miracle worker. You are growling up the wrong bush, my boy, as the English like to say.” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s go, then. Take me there. How do you say it in English? I’ll...er...‘murder two birds with the same rock.’” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Be quiet!” he roared at us in English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The French had taken over the house after throwing out the English trader who had lived there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

English was then still a party favor for me—crack open the dictionary, find out if I'd just been insulted, praised, admonished, criticized. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Thus, his English was not of the best; and I, in faith, could not speak any word of the language of Oyo. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fukida, a leathery old farmer in overalls and a billed cap, answered in English that was too precise, too perfect. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, there was not as much bloodshed between the English and the natives, and the two groups shared the land together. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sitting beside him, I don’t move a muscle except to turn my English notes. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Transformation was discovered by an English bacteriologist named Frederick Griffith. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

We know how confusing we find it when native-born Japanese people speak English without distinguishing / and r: imagine the confusion if our alphabet did the same while similarly homogenizing the other consonants that I mentioned! Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were long periods of silence, because Ito spoke only English and Papá spoke only Spanish. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We spent a month reading poetry from the Harlem Renaissance in our English class. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His accent was American, like Joseph’s mother’s, but sometimes he pronounced things the English way, so his speech sounded rather mixed up, as though he didn’t come from anywhere. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Ali-Reza laughed, and then he said, in English so I could understand, “It looks like the Ayatollah’s turban.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

His accent was not German, to Lee’s ears, but English, of England. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are too many fresh English and American regiments over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking excellent English, Ilyumzhinov greeted Bobby and handed him a suitcase of money. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Have you noticed my English is super good now? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was chilly that April, with the awkward changeability of English spring. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“All right. Let’s forget the English language lessons. We are going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He not only recognized me as a tree Muslim, but he gave me two books, one in English, the other in Arabic. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got on the phone and spoke in broken English, saying, “I no pay! I no pay!” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Part of that had to do with what was asked of him—with the exception of English, he said he had almost no homework. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry, the cabbies in this town are sharks,” he said in perfect English, without a trace of an accent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Torrance hosted yet another discussion in her English class, instead of working on an essay she had assigned for the following week. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Kathy made lunches while the three girls sat at the kitchen table, eating and reciting, in English accents, scenes from Pride and Prejudice. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s been hard for her, but she’s been great in English. Her writing is gorgeous and funny and detailed. She’s a tremendous reader.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

We did not go to American movies before because Papá did not understand English. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That meant doing well in all my subjects: math, Pure Science, history, geography, and English were easy. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The trees surround us with their fall leaves in blazes of red and orange and yellow, as if they, too, are celebrating the first English wedding in the New World. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ask Seamus but he doesn’t know any poetry at all especially English poetry. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The second man, the one who had called out to us at first, answered in English and then greeted Miig in Cree. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There was the time, for example, maybe a few weeks after the talk by the pond, when Miss Lucy was taking us for English. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used to be the best writer in school and here she ended up barely passing English. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The noun system of English provides a writer with ways to distinguish entities the reader is being introduced to for the first time from the entities he already knows about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But after she had been with them, she could feel the truth in their fists and in their greedy feeble love-making; but it was a truth which she had no English words for. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Which is of course idiotic in the kind of profound and multivalent way that only an English teacher could fully elucidate. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Several days later, when Jack and everyone else in town first heard the rumble of tanks a few miles away, they dared hope it might be English tanks coming to defend them. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sanskrit and Latin words could be traced back to mutations and variations in an ancient Indo-European language, and English and Flemish had arisen from a common root. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, as the frost-tinged night came on, the staff built fires of Elgon olive logs in the fireplaces, and the food in the dining room was horrible, in the best English tradition. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

No recognition of the difficulty she was having in trying to describe what she had seen with her tiny English vocabulary. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He keeps telling me I ought to be writing these stories to go with his pictures, since Mrs. Lacey at school has been bragging on those things I wrote for English. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess I should have shut up about who my English teacher is.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he feared that his children knew better English than he did, just from watching television. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

In 1807 a bill to ban all English involvement in slave trading passed the House of Commons, then the House of Lords. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For example, English transcribes about 40 phonemes with a mere 26 letters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I knew it was you, the notes in English. Well, I figured it out after the talent show. That was the best—it’s my favorite Pixies song. I’ve wanted to say something for months.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I use English, my accent's 100 percent Mumbai. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he wanted to hide or not outright lie, he chose to speak in English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In comparison, her English was as sharp as a blade, each syllable honed into a serrated edge. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She took the silver candlesticks from the cupboard again, set the table with the English china, and once more wore her city dresses to the family’s late-aftemoon gatherings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

While staying in a posh London hotel and attending the theater in the English king’s own box, the royal couple and most of the rest of their party came down with measles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I look around and spot the one sign that doesn’t have an English translation: ¡BIENVENlDOS! Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

English voyages, by contrast, were almost always funded by venture capitalists who hoped for a quick cash-out. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Joy. That will be fun homework. They put me in the dumb class because I couldn’t speak English. But now I can speak both English and Spanish!” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Her daughter Diana quickly masters English, something she hadn’t done surrounded by Spanish speakers in California. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Laurence Olivier, when Bas was feeling silly, after the English film star. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When we showed our movie to other English classes, lots of the students who had made fun of us for being in a remedial English class began asking how they could get into the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Tisquantum had learned English because British sailors had kidnapped him seven years before. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But English is more flexible than what a logician would have designed, and the context generally makes it clear what the speaker means. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But Mrs. Baker—the holiday-hating Mrs. Baker—had us open English for You and Me and start in on a new unit: “Strong Verb Systems.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

If a man goes off and joins the English army his family might as well move to another part of Limerick where there are families with men in the English army. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In front of me is a fully clothed Guillermo and a fully clothed English guy on opposite sides of a chessboard. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“He does that at every meal,” the girls told us in English. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, accustomed to the multifarious conjugations of ancient Greek verbs, had found English, for all its incoherence, a relatively simple tongue to master. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if it’s in English or Creole. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I guess the evil school shooters didn’t listen in English class because they did not Get the meaning of that book at all. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t they sign up for your sophomore English class? Won’t they be disappointed if you’re not here on the first day of school?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘All I has to do is reach in and grab myself a handful! English boys is tasting extra lickswishy!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the symbols on their helmets, I knew the soldiers weren't French or English. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Teaching such an ancient Sapiens English, persuading him of the truth of Christian dogma, or getting him to understand the theory of evolution would probably have been hopeless undertakings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents often said, “We thought she’d be grown but young enough to learn English and translate for us.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cut me off in English, “The best you’ve ever had, right?” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Straight A's in Flushing's gifted program? You'll do just fine here, young lady. I'll enroll you in Advanced Placement for math, English, French, and physics." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I hate that guy,” she muttered in English. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In Oklahoma I spoke like a kid who learned English from a book. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Words she was sure would never appear on Mrs. Rappaport’s English list. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I can command a company in Italian. I could learn it in English easy.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The resulting, long final chord of The Song of the Earth - Western music’s symbolic ‘home’ of C major, naturally - was described by the mid-twentieth-century English composer Benjamin Britten as being ‘imprinted on the atmosphere’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The one next to me, with the iron glasses, said she taught English and her friend taught history and American government. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I think you are wrong, my friend. I do not see that young English girl as a criminal.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

One book, Famous Short Stories of England and America, which we had used as a textbook in high-school English. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

During the 1988-89 school year, Odessa High also had a greater percentage of students than Permian pass the state- mandated test in math and English that was required for a diploma. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Happy birthday to you!” the children sing in English. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He motioned to the girl from English class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The guests were all older women and members of the English tribe. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Encouraged, she opened her mouth wide to pronounce her first English words for an American. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t talk plain English like us; he said I can not instead of I can’t, and they are and did not and such. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oddly enough, one of the most easily overlooked disambiguating words in English is the most frequent word in the language: the lowly definite article the. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She spoke almost no English and couldn’t afford day care for Alyah. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You are reading all of these?” he asked in English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“We have to read it for Advanced Placement English,” Wes says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The border was crowded with soldiers who either didn’t speak English or pretended not to. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“We’re Scottish and English. I have an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Even in English class, Mrs. Tracey looked at my T-shirt and smiled. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Too noisy. And it’s all in English. I don’t understand the songs.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The “Spanish” ones were harder working, he said, because they didn’t speak English too well, just like us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English, they argued, were descendants of man, who was created by God in God’s own image. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Armed with his English Bulldog revolver, Comstock was one of the few prominent white citizens in Osage County who seemed willing to assist investigators. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

At Devon the open ground among the buildings had been given carefully English names—the Center Common, the Far Common, the Fields, and the Fields Beyond. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s from Bangladesh. He has a cleft lip and palate. His parents sent him here to have surgery. He doesn’t speak any English.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

When I went to kindergarten and had to speak English for the first time, I became silent. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But so she is always called in English poetry. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her indignation came to her in English, even as she recalled a Chinese saying, Lao xu cbeng nu — constant shame becomes anger. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because I wrongly imagined that English was intrinsically a public language and Spanish an intrinsically private one, I easily noted the difference between classroom language and the language of home. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I paired up with English, and we started on the leg machines while the big guys hit the bench. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Your stories,” Mrs. Marl had said in their English lesson. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Like teaching me English, Toño gets me ready for job searching. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The English flight officer has studied the craft of the novel. She is making use of suspense and foreshadowing.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I spoke French and English with my parents, but was still fluent in the language of my childhood friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In English, I open my book because the teacher is reading, and everyone else is reading along. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

If such work existed in Atlanta for unskilled applicants who spoke no English, Generose had yet to find it. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was held in secret, and the parliamentarian, who spoke perfect English, having been educated at Oxford, asked for anonymity, which he believed would enable him to better work behind the scenes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the interim, yet another English expedition had attacked the Wampanoag, killing several without apparent provocation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I've known English witches", she went on, "who have turned children into pheasants and then sneaked the pheasants up into the woods the very day before the pheasant-shooting season opened." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Now, she was learning English in a Catholic classroom, where no nun had ever mentioned the words she was needing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In the beginning it was good to have repetitive tasks that didn't require speaking much English, but I knew I didn't want to spend the rest of my life doing this kind of work. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Any silver that English or French pirates could steal from the Spanish was also ideal for buying Asian cloth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I toss my backpack into my locker and pull out my books for English and French. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I had always thought their English was tinged with a Yiddish accent. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

A giant black-complected man walked up to Bloom and in perfect House of Lords English said, “I suggest you be more civil. Otherwise I may lose my temper and throw you into the water.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Her English is thick and broken, syrupy and hypnotizing. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“I sorry. I no understand,” I said in my best broken English. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“On Christmas Eve, a German sub sank a troopship in the English Channel. They say there were thousands of American soldiers on board who drowned.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He made us sing one of the English songs that Teacher Sarah had taught us as a car drove through the orphanage gate. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will give it to other people, King. English people.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can hear plays by O’Casey, Shaw, Ibsen and Shakespeare himself, the best of all, even if he is English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I serve now, sah,” Ugwu said, in English, and then wished he had said I am serving now, because it sounded better, because it would impress her more. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were suspicious of the foreigners, who didn’t speak English, ate strange foods, and had strange customs. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

What is there about an English accent that makes people seem more intelligent than they maybe are? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But she’s probably carrying your English pilot’s license and National Registration card,” Paul pointed out quietly. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Was there no other sentence in the English language? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was Arthur Holmes, the English geologist who did so much to determine the age of the Earth, who suggested a possible way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I struggled in my English class but always did well on spelling tests, which we had once a week. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He pushed the door open and English, Shannon, and Carlos filed in, backpacks and all. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Call for help. Let your English masters come to your aid, or I will break your neck.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“I speak English,” Will said slowly and clearly. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a pretty wide conspiracy, involving everything from his car’s faulty ignition to his father’s nagging about college to his English teacher’s “gay way of talking.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was not their lack of cards, but their lack of English that had betrayed them. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The writing is in pidgin English and Spanish and Mandarin and then languages I have never seen. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs the song menu from the table and flips to the English section. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I was in English class and writing about whatever the hell I wanted to, instead of the assignment, I was still doing something I could turn in. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She motions to a chair next to a girl who must have gone to the other elementary school and who I think is in my English class. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Park wasn't in English or history, and he wasn't on the bus after school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I’d hear strangers on the radio and in the Mexican Catholic church across town speaking in Spanish, but I couldn’t really believe that Spanish was a public language, like English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hello, Dr. Sweetwine,” Oscar says, back to being the English butler. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It must have been hard for her to maintain that smile, because by the time English class came around, her chin was quivering from the strain. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“My mother loves this book. She was always trying to get me to love her English novels.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing in a midlevel class? Don’t you already know English?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the old country, they had toiled as tenant farmers under the oppressive control of their English landlords. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think Aaron would have stayed here long. He doesn’t speak English well enough to talk to any of these men.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were the first to publish the English translation of The Communist Manifesto, written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The letters all came from the English alphabet, but the Mounties suspected the plaintext was in Chinese, probably in Cantonese dialect. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I thought about skipping school today, but I hate to miss English. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Where we lived and shopped, everyone spoke Cantonese or English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must always speak English. Navajo is no good, no good at all.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

My new English teacher, Miss Perry, and my math teacher, Miss Johnson, both talk about symbols. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“You are a bloody mess, dude,” he says, throwing in the English accent. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

They have no fear of the English plague, only disdain for English stink. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time she is done staring, blinking, wiping away tears, all without speaking English, our entire family has a sponsor to Alabama. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

We talked, played, and they taught me English. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I say the words in Spanish and English, so she knows how much I mean it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And why do English people sound smarter than the rest of us? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I was in your English class this year. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was also the case that Jamaica’s English elite, unlike their counterparts in the United States, had little interest in the grand project of nation building. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“There’s no doubt as to your qualifications. You are a fine tennis player, well mannered and able to speak English, rather well, I must say.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was poorly attended, but it made some of the English papers, and the reports of what had been said were ugly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We will teach the boy English,” Reverend Hunts says, “and then I will tell him the good news of Christ, and he will bring that message to his people.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The only good place was English, where Mr. Gunthrie seemed to have reined in the class so well they ignored me completely. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The first Europeans in Ohio found woodlands that resembled English parks—they could drive carriages through the trees. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Anglican” meant English Church; in England everybody had to belong to it, or at least they were supposed to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No worry, no worry,” Generose said in her sparse English, raising her hands. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Since my mom couldn't speak much English, she didn't want to make any airport connections by herself, so my dad planned to fly to Atlanta to pick her up. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Now my English teacher was insisting that I explore the two worlds, that of the books I read and that of my writing, and examine them for common threads. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

At fifty-plus years, with limited English skills, he had few options. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Lil got up from her table where she was doing our English class exercise that was supposed to show us More Wonders of the Adverb. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was standing opposite one of the richest men in England, a man who had decided out of the goodness of his heart to give a huge gift to English schools. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Those two words, God and Good, are only one letter apart in the English language,” she said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It moved into Latin and Middle English as jlamen, a pagan word for priest, and into Sanskrit as brahma, then “brahman.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See how nicely he speaks English,” she said to her children in Tamil. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The guerrillas tried to get information out of him, yanking on his rope and firing rapid questions at him in Vietnamese or a few words of broken English. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And sometimes I more than held my own—as in the state’s Academic Decathlon, in English and other subjects where my curiosity and interest overcame my rebelliousness. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But by then I would answer in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s much better at English than I am. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

No speak English, she says to the child who is singing in the language that sounds like tin. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alex, fifteen and the oldest, understood English, but spoke with a thick Burundian accent that, combined with his deepening and sometimes cracking voice, made him hard to understand sometimes. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Here’s an example: my English teacher, Ms. Hardwick, is a wolf in cheap clothing. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Under the bright green and blue plastic tents vendors sell everything from fabrics with stripes, paisley, and flowers to books in Chinese, Khmer, English, and French. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took a while for the doctor to revive her husband and even longer to elicit, through the man’s broken English, what he’d said that so enraged his wife. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nam was another one of the guys on the team, our point guard when English needed a break, and he dodged around a few people to catch up with me. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She says it like English is not my first language. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The remaining six kings woe sufficient to hold the English, while Lot’s men rested and re-formed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually Mr. Geiger, the English teacher, came in and started talking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

It sounds the same in English and French and German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

So with him, she spoke in moods and gestures, looks and silences, and sometimes a combination of English punctuated by hesitations and Chinese frustration: “Shwo buchulai”— Words cannot come out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wouldn’t be happy if we grew up with English accents but better an English accent than an empty belly. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In English, a past-tense form is typically used to refer to past time, but it can also be used with a second meaning, factual remoteness. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She said “friend" in English; the tame word parents used because they could not desecrate their tongues with “boyfriend," even though it was exactly what they meant: somebody romantic, a marriage prospect. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In September, Gogol returns to high school to begin his junior year: honors biology, honors U.S. history, advanced trigonometry, Spanish, honors English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Greenberg’s rationale was that English was the language of the aviation world. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Stalag,” said a man with an ironic smile and an English accent. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The original German expresses a more subtle and complex idea than the English words in which it is so frequently quoted. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My English teacher flips out because the government is demanding we take yet another test to assess our reading skills, because we’re seniors and pretty soon we might have to read or something. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Everything Will could see spoke of wealth and power, the sort of informal settled superiority that some upper-class English people still took for granted. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are so modest. I will send the liaison officer. He can handle the English.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

But if you wanted to watch them in English, the original American audio would be simulcast on the radio. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There are strange accents and strange religions and many who do not speak English at all. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he had no problem expressing himself in English. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The English, despite their bluff, are certainly no more to blame for the war than all the other countries, large and small, that are now occupied by the Germans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Morocco, Casablanca and Oran have been in English hands for several days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mostly men asking for a translation from the few who could speak some English. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As we squatted face to face, I studied his wide-set eyes and tried to teach him English words—palm tree, house, run, walk, lizard, snake. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

These two, of course, were the only people in the world who have ever shot an arrow the distance of a mile, with the English long-bow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, I happened to be alone in the classroom with Mr. Ostrowski, my English teacher. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But from colonial times through the days of apartheid, black people in South Africa were required to have an English or European name as well—a name that white people could pronounce, basically. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I’m not gonna lie, I had to read the first page over and over again to know what the hell the writer was even saying, ’cause she doesn’t use regular English in her book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the evening, I sit on Meng’s lap as he reads and translates to me stories about America from an English book he bought in a nearby store. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until you children master English, you must think, do, wish for nothing else. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

When the meeting was again called to order Mr. Hoo suggested they offer Ms. Pulaski a slightly larger share of the inheritance in exchange for a transcript of the will—in English. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in PR, even though we had to speak English and Spanish in school, I still liked speaking in Spanish better. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Apparently they were speaking English and the slave girl had to translate for the captain, so either she just didn’t get it or she put up with it, which partly proves Julie’s point. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The master at school said that everytime the Irish were about to demolish the English in a fair fight a filthy informer betrayed them. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Evidendy an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of The Lord of the Rings. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

He described it several times in print, in Latin and in French, but never in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her fascination with my ability to speak English had led to many other topics. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, don’t speak too soon. I could still fail English.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Supernovae provided the explanation, and it was an English cosmologist almost as singular in manner as Fritz Zwicky who figured it out. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even though Gomo has been here for a long time, her English is not that good. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

My dad barely spoke English, but walked into places as if he was returning to his castle. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Maybe that was why I sometimes used Spanish words when English words couldn’t fully explain what I needed to say. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He, who had paid to straighten their teeth and smooth the accent out of their English in expensive schools, he was nothing to them now. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

She taught me English as my first language. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Occasionally one of the children asks Moushumi to say something, anything, in her English accent. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“First the telephone was ringing and then I hit my leg on the dumbbell and then I failed English, see?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when he looked down at the book to read the English translation, he stumbled over the word herb, pronouncing the h. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They assumed, no doubt, that a Muslim woman, presumably submissive and shy with her English, would allow her hijab to be ripped from her head without retaliation. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On my way to English, someone grabs my shoulder, and at first I think it’s a yard-duty teacher ready to tell me to slow down. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The man was small and bald with large round arms and spoke very bad English. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never spoken anything but English, and the other kids in the second grade despised me for it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the way my mind works with language, even when I’m hearing other languages, they get filtered into English as I’m hearing them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Go see, but don’t say anything. Once the shopkeeper hears your English, the price will triple.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The Hari-Krishna people are chanting something closer to English than it sounds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded to him like an insult couched in good English, which, of course, made it a double-insult—the insult itself, and the fact that Chacko thought he wouldn’t understand it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever it was spoke haltingly, as if English was its second language. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s a kid named Reid in my English class,” I said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

About two dozen of his Cherokee syllabic signs were taken directly from those letters, though of course with completely changed meanings, since Sequoyah did not know the English meanings. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I am grandfather of two American,” he said to the woman in English. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Chief Opechancanough decided to wipe out the English once and for all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The answer to this question is to be found in a notebook belonging to an English lawyer, musician and literary figure, Roger North. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Jefferson owned several copies of English histories that reprinted the Rumbold speech. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m just demonstrating the absurdity of English spelling.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Now that he was in Class Five, English came to him almost as readily as Bangla. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The English guy looks over his shoulder, then back to me, his wild face wild with worry now. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Rousseau’s disparagement of the English as “a nation of shopkeepers” persists as a belief that a concern with numbers and details numbs one to the big questions, to the grandeur of nature. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the English Channel the sticky afternoon was as turquoise as Head and Shoulders shampoo. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Everyone on the train who could understand English did! Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

English is the international language and the language of money and of the media, so we had to keep that. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Yes, the Bible was not written in English, but the Bible came to South Africa in English so to us it’s in English. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I told Mrs. Liebow, my English teacher, and she said that it was what separated heroes from humans, the not giving in, and I hadn’t understood that. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bechu made good use of his knowledge of English by writing to the elite newspapers in British Guiana. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kazilly, who teaches us both English and history, is a certified crazy man, at least in our opinion. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

And how everyone in the city could speak French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, English, and Dutch? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The old man admitted to being a retired English professor who had been thrown out upon the world forty years ago when the last liberal arts college shut for lack of students and patronage. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the other comer was a Ye Olde English version of a 7-Eleven, which for some reason was also a post office and a drugstore and sold newspapers out front if all else failed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know the words in English—or in Portuguese either. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee Chong listened while Li Po was read to him in English. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a result of the heating vent’s bad acoustics, her own imperfect English, and the fact that she kept lifting her head to hear if anyone was coming. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I started reading everything I could find that had English words. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking English, he commanded Marti to be quiet, while other men in the group took flash photographs and emptied her purse onto the ground. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As she pressed forward, she realized she had shouted to the man in English. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But as the messengers walk away, he says in English, “Except the guns and swords. I will throw in some extra gifts instead.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

In Spanish he knew all the languages, but for as long as he’d been speaking English, he believed he knew it only in certain realms. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The precinct’s Yiddish-speaking detective was absent, so I spoke in halting English, question after question flung at me like pummeling fists. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The English news channels didn’t make a big deal out of it, to them Alberto Salazar was just a Latin reporter for a small newspaper. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Hannah Song was frustrated that Shin sometimes avoided responsibility, expected special treatment, and made little effort to learn English, which limited his usefulness as a spokesman in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But it meant that the fact had a peculiar status in English law: once determined, it could never be disputed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Your wife and I?” she said in plain English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She’s never said anything to me over the phone about speaking only in English. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mom and Mrs. Van Dorn—who has now become Julia—discover that they both went to Northwestern and both majored in English literature. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There had been a time when many people knew of his shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldiers who were always well-heeled. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No exceptions. If you don’t want to do this assignment, my esteemed colleague, Mrs. Garrett, just told me she has some openings in her English class. They meet this period, too. You can transfer over.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Even with his rough English, he managed to make himself clear. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Day after day, if I ask directions or try to chat about the weather, they attempt nervously to answer me in halting English or French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ACT was composed of four sections: math, English, science and reading. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every night, we’d pop one of them into the DVD player and I’d fall asleep to the sound of some guy with an English accent talking about meerkats or koalas or jellyfish. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The work made Dalton famous–albeit in a low-key, English Quaker sort of way. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

A boy who is good at games is usually treated with great civility by the masters at an English Public School. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’d scream, and screaming is the same in Korean, Farsi, and English. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“What?” she said, and the man switched over to English. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And get your English wrong once, and you’re on the teacher’s bad side forever.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Man was like those silent letters they’d just learned about in English class, like the s in island or the g in phlegm. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

But you wouldn’t know it in my English class. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

John Kwang was Korean, slightly younger than my father would have been, though he spoke a beautiful, almost formal English. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She taught English composition as if everyone cared about it, which I found appealing. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

People laugh and whoop and clap as Tiny continues the serenade while I walk off to English. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The English Colonel from No. 15 was with him. They had been sitting talking.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh!" he said in English, "you tell fortunes?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The Latin for “slave” — servus — as rendered in English literally is “the spared one”; slaves being those taken prisoner in battle, who should, therefore, by all the rules of engagement, have been slain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reviewed his math, his physics, his English, struggling for long hours with his broken-backed books, and as the boat rocked and pitched he set out two main goals for himself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the others come back, I tell them how strange he seemed but that he spoke English. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I did not realize that they were talking in Spanish however until, at the moment they saw me, I heard their voices change to speak English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father and my mother were also Norwegian, but because my father had a business in England, I had been born there and had lived there and had started going to an English school. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, that has been used for people as well as animals and inanimate things for some eight hundred years, and it’s standard English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence a linguist would immediately deduce correctly that the English language arose in coastal northwestern Europe and spread around the world from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Los, just don’t be stupid,” English warned, coming over to the bed and giving me five. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even though I hate poetry, a poem I read for English class pops into my head. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The letters keep coming: from more family members, from the Roos family both brothers had boarded with in The Hague, from Dutch artists, French artists, Australian, Belgian, Danish, English, and Italian artists. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The afternoon brought the tour to the Aquinnah lighthouse, in an area the guide explained was first inhabited by the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head and later, in the 1600s, by English colonists as well. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He speaks English better than he reads it, and he puzzles his way through the stories like a man doing a crossword puzzle. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Since, however, he could neither read nor write English, he acquired no details or even principles from the existing scripts around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only other teacher who was down for stuff like that was Mrs. Tracey, the English teacher. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Odenigbo made a drunken pass and she submitted willingly and promptly: He was the master, he spoke English, he had a car. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They speak English, right?” my dad wondered aloud. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Left to the berks, the English language would “die of impurity, like late Latin”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

As if she hadn't answered in English, her mother repeated for the officers, "A big green car." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He glanced up at Dympna as she approached and gave a laugh, and exclaimed in a broad American accent, “Well, look what we have here—three gorgeous English gals to fly with!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, she and Moody shared nearly all their classes, from biology to Honors English to health. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know English, I can read, and I have money,” I say as I walk down the front steps of the school. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I watched English spin circles around Tooms, moving so quickly he could have been on skates on ice. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then Lupita asked to change the subject, “Where did you learn the English you know?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know you spoke Farsi so well,” I said in English. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The same Sir Humphrey Gilbert who brutalized the Irish during the colonization of Ulster was placed in charge of the first English colonial settlement in North America in Newfoundland in the summer of 1583. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Later, in 1764, as tensions between Great Britain and the American colonists increased to an even greater degree, the English parliament passed the Sugar Act. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She could not even take theater classes until her senior year because her schedule was loaded up with remedial math and English and courses in study and life skills. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’m so relieved Grandpa is alive that it doesn’t matter to me if he never speaks English again. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sitti was back in the room by now, listening to them talk English and nodding her head. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Congolese girls, with bleached orange hair and a crude phrase or two of English, and the straps of expensive American bras sliding down their shoulders from under skimpy blouses. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The 5 x 109 bits of information in our encyclopaedia of life—in the nucleus of each of our cells—if written out in, say, English, would fill a thousand volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She carefully rips the naked English guy out of my sketchbook, thankfully not noticing the drawing beneath it, and carries him with her over to the bed and sits down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“I don't know. She showed up this morning and hasn't left. She doesn't speak a word of English. I kept hoping Poppy would come home for lunch today and help me out.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

In English I can fake an Orkney accent better than a German one, so we went with that when I was operational—obscurely difficult to identify. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Back then, all she wanted was to be “normal,” to speak English perfectly and go to business school, and never seem strange to anybody. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was only one occupant at the moment, obviously the young English lady referred to by the conductor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The angriest I think I ever saw Luma was when one of her young players proudly showed her his report card, which revealed an A in English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They dress as if they are going pheasant hunting on a cool English morning, in silk doublets, velvet breeches, stockings, shoes, and felt hats, with their powder flasks hanging at their sides. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Ay, mi niña, I love you too...Did I say that correctly? My English is getting better, isn’t it?” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t have enough Claritin-D for this situation, a point I have to make by holding my nose, since her English does not extend to the concept of allergy. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of hanging their orders on a rack, the waiters shouted them out, in Greek, Spanish, and a kind of fractured English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He said when he was in the English army in France the Germans sent gas over which made him so sick they had to take him to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

We are in a crater, the English are coming down obliquely, they are turning our flank and working in behind us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sweet,” her oldest daughter, who was about Estha’s age, said in English. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was an English one, without any accent Lyra could name. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Too many Europeans ignored his rules and smuggled in English goods. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Hello, sister,” the man said carefully in English. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted one of the inventors of the English novel, so I suggested Daniel Defoe—no, he was a dissenter from the Church of England. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They speak English like everybody else but they babble away to one another in a language they made up, Hung sup tea tea sup hung. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The books were of the most varied kind—history, geography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law—all relating to England and English life and customs and manners. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Are they too drunk to communicate in English? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And then he said something to me in English and I couldn’t understand him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Louie, who knew only a smattering of English until he was in grade school, couldn’t hide his pedigree. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The censorship delayed the delivery of mail because warders, some of whom were not proficient in English, might take as long as a month to censor a letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they won’t let you in with your shtetl talk, but when I speak English, I sound like a cultured American.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Course they would, but the English quality wouldn’t. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The joke was that to my seventh grade English class, I had made my father a myth, like djinns, like Rostam, or like Mike Maguffy’s girlfriend from summer camp that nobody else knows. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And her English, her immigrant English, has a touch of otherness that makes it unintentionally prerise. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1651, a freak accident leaves the son of an English aristocrat with a gaping hole in his chest. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow morning, my journey as an English teacher officially begins. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was very hard because we were in Kenya so the exams were in Kiswahili, a third language I had to master beyond Dinka and English. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father: Arthur Fox, beloved English film and stage actor best known for his turn as James Bond in the eighties, deceased 2015. Y’all drink.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In some families the children worked out a sign language, but here the children spoke English, which their parents didn’t seem to hear. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the Fugees have seen their grades improve as they have become more familiar with English and have taken advantage of the program’s tutoring sessions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I could speak perfect English, and I barely spoke Afrikaans, the language colored people were supposed to speak. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Meme has a dog with gray eyes, a sheepdog with two names, one in English and one in Spanish. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I must compliment you, young man, on your grasp of the English language.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Western Europe has evolved or acquired about 40 languages just in the 6,000-8,000 years since the arrival of Indo-European languages, including languages as different as English, Finnish, and Russian. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He learned to roast turkeys and to drive a Pierce-Arrow sedan, and he perfected the English he had begun to learn before he left Japan. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would speak in her gentle way with the pleasant mixture of Norman French and good English words that were becoming the fashion. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

An argument ensued and in the middle of it, one of the African secretaries turned to me and said, “Sir, can you speak English?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Candidate instructors, it stipulated, were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages, and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

It said: Person well disposed to the English. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patrons are mostly businessmen from Korea, but there are others, some whites, and then some young Korean-Americans dressed in conservative suits, speaking perfect English, red-faced, drunk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instructor for her part believed that the text the students used, Adventures in English Literature, which contained selected works by Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and Daniel Defoe among others, was too hard for them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy whispered back, “Who knows? Maybe they think he’s our next-door neighbor from St. Louis, since he’s only speaking English. I just said he was our friend.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

While speeches were made in English, Russian, and Icelandic, the audience fidgeted, craning their necks to the side entrance, half expecting—hoping—that at any moment Fischer would make a grand entrance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I repeat, Ha, and wish I knew enough English to tell her to listen for the diacritical mark, this one directing the tone downward. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Treason against the Fatherland—what was I doing working for the enemy, the English? Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If it hadn’t been for English, I would have never returned to 15th Street. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like many Afrikaans-speaking warders, he was keen to improve his English. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gather my books and head to English class. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

But the United Kingdom is separated from the rest of Europe by the English Channel and the North Sea. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. M stayed frozen in one position like she didn’t understand English or even how to walk anymore but everyone else was shouting and running. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I felt that I had somehow committed a sin of betrayal by learning English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, many read the English translation. We do know what the Qur’an says.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Before I start chanting at them in a language they don’t understand, I owe them something important—in plain English. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“A D? Did you write it in English? I mean, good English?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“No, I think you’ll find he was English. His command of that language was immaculate, anyway,” said the Director. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after one went to school that one learned English. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It included English, where the class spent the first ten minutes going over the homework assignment for Monday and the next forty-five minutes doing the homework assignment for Monday. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean you get to speak Spanish and English,” I went on. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Liyana liked the way he smelled—like Poppy’s old bottle of English Leather. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Generose, who spoke Swahili, some French, and Kirundi—the language of Bujumbura and western Burundi—knew only a few words of English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

One Of these days I’m going to say, “Oh, cut it out! You’re much better at English and geography!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Second, these were richly allegorical stories with plenty of incident and emotional impact but without extravagant, over-egged operatic acting to embarrass the English. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I know it’s crazy that the kid in Oklahoma on welfare who barely spoke English at first used to be a prince. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My mom speaks English perfectly well except for a few things. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

We read Dante’s Inferno in English class, and I always thought it was odd that the very pit of hell is ice—the absence of all hope and light and love. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

English children from the books or newspapers I’ve seen don’t look like I do. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The conditional probability that someone is an American citizen, given that he or she speaks English, is, let’s assume, about Vs. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every one knows you can talk English and Afrikaans like any white man,” Ndlamini said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Van Braam did not speak English very well, but he spoke French, and he understood what Washington wanted him to do. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one had ever made people speak in English around me before. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Reggie worked for the Bees and took classes, thinking he might study English. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mom and I mostly communicate in English, but when she’s upset or excited, or wants a little privacy, the Farsi comes through. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Like almost all other English scientists, he joined the war effort and became part of the Admiralty’s scientific establishment. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I can only speak a little bit of Spanish, because Mama used to say it was better if we learned good English. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

I have a lot of friends who are in honors English and they’ve become quite interested in what my class has been doing lately! The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“French Papists, for that matter. Didn’t speak a word of English. Least that’s what they claimed. Try talking to him in French,” he said, indicating the boy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Entirely different kind of playing,” she said in her English explanation voice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing here?” a man barked in English from behind me as I descended the final set of stairs to the ground floor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It happened in my sophomore year, in English class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I hung out with Jack in homeroom, English, history, computer, music, and science, which were all the classes we had together. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They had their own business, a home, two daughters who could now speak English better than they could speak Farsi, and enough financial stability to afford another kid. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Just before the 1620 landing of the Mayflower, smallpox had spread from English trading ships to the Pequot fishing and farming communities. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was that I had not spoken a single word of English that entire day. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This idea terrified the English—and not merely because their sugar island of Jamaica was just over a hundred miles across the water from Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I walked to a nearby farmhouse and explained in English to an elderly white lady that I would like to buy some petrol. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to teach high school English, and Mom says he got everyone to love reading. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Later, when I was doing my homework, I found myself doodling in the margin of my English book. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“The English was my favorite too. The writing.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Spoony and Berry tag-teamed me with the more political activism mumbo jumbo than I could stand, until at last, thank God, English, Shannon, and Carlos showed up. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“We focus on civics and mathematics and English. The Director of Mobilization has sponsored our efforts.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Now that Salva was learning more than a few simple words, he found the English language quite confusing. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

An English accent speaks suddenly from somewhere deep within my mind, startling me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Posh Southern English with a faint French accent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For the hours that Gogol is at nursery school, finger-painting and learning the English alphabet, Ashima is despondent, unaccustomed, all over again, to being on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds Queenie said, “He says he’s over the English Channel. He’s looking for Calais.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

An’ isn’t it a very curious thing that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland an’ the English brought in the fleas. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His hands trembled as he read first the Spanish and then, more slowly and beautifully, the English. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

A correspondence course in English; reads everything except detective stories. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He spoke English with a thick, rolling Urdu accent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Why the hell does he think he’s over the English Channel?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Sucker spoke better English than I did,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he understood nothing of what she said, having little English. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke no English, not a single word, not yes or no, hello or thank you. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the few people whose eyes clearly saw the implications of the Copernican model soon after the publication of De Revolutionibus was the English astronomer Thomas Digges. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The sponsors will help us find a place to live and schools to teach us English, and they will help us adapt to life in America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then remembering a lesson from Ross Milton’s book, which he and Jenny had been studying together when they had a little time, he tried fitting his angry thoughts into better English. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

They poured me more wine and I told the story about the English private soldier who was placed under the shower bath. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The idea of having to speak a foreign language all the time was overwhelming, even for girls like me who'd studied English for years. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Plus, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in English. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“It is English pronunciation that is crazy. Take three words: rough, cough, and dough. Excepting for their first letter, they are all spelled alike. But how are they pronounced?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stores pressed against other stores on either side of us, large signs in Urdu and in English towering on billboards overhead. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I have been expecting you,” he said in English. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She likes to talk Korean at our house because in her house Uncle Tim wants only English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

We would mix in traditional English Christmas songs with African ones, and include a few protest songs — the authorities did not seem to mind or perhaps know the difference. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re black in South Africa, speaking English is the one thing that can give you a leg up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Why wouldn’t the English king and church not share all their land with their own starving countrymen? Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He said the last part in English, to be funny, and even though I’m not sure Sr. Rivera understood him, he was nice enough to laugh. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I understood his anger about the English class. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amélie peeked and discovered that the pages are numbered, so she’s put them all in order for me, but it’s in English and she couldn’t read it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care about not eating a slice of pizza or skipping the doughnuts his English teacher sometimes brought for their first-period class. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Harry pressed the Extendable Ear deeper into his own: Over the murmur of the river he could make out more voices, but they were not speaking English or any human language he had ever heard. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

You’d wonder what the English are thinking about when they take a man that has the consumption and give him a job making sandwiches. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They sent people to America to learn not only how to speak English fluently, but also to learn our American Indian languages. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had another British officer in here one time, an English airman, very I-say tip-top well-bred chap, and though he was kept under guard he was always allowed to walk about with his hands free. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Finally, he must have thought, after all these decades, his mother tongue, Afrikaans, was on its way to supplanting English as the language of the land. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have preferred one on English and two on math, but luck was not on my side. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The only time he had ever seen Kaisha speak in front of a group was for a presentation in an English class the year before. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After months in the comparatively warm and flat English countryside, they just weren’t in shape for this kind of work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So she spoke Mandarin and a little bit of English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For several hundred years commentators on the English language have been predicting, lamenting, or celebrating the imminent extinction of the subjunctive mood. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And no hot guy should be allowed to have an English accent and drive a motorcycle. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There was another awkward pause before Sir David said, rather uncertainly: 'We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French, Mr Lewis.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

It turned out he was in my English class also. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My father wanted me to continue to improve my English. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then, with far more zeal than he had done anything in weeks, he picked up a pencil stub and wrote down under the inscription, in English, “Fathers and teachers, I ponder ‘What is hell?’ Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

In particular, Frisian, the other Germanic language most closely related to English, is confined to a tiny coastal area of Holland and western Germany. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

What did the English words box and route mean? Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not a disciplinary transfer, and even though English is not my first language, I know I don’t belong here. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Grace carefully got out of the car, heaved her empty backpack to her shoulder, and headed toward English, her first class of the day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He was mediocre in English, social studies, French, and computer science, and well below average in math and science. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

A Frenchman who had come all the way from France asked the ranger in broken English if many people committed suicide by jumping in. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was leading a double life, trying to be an American kid at school but coming home to teach my parents English and help them pay the bills. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Born into a life of sumptuous privilege–his grandfathers were dukes, respectively, of Devonshire and Kent–he was the most gifted English scientist of his age, but also the strangest. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Not known is whether his arrival was due to chance or if Massasoit had asked him to come down because he had picked up a few English phrases by trading with the British. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I'd never been a big fan of the medium but welcomed them as an opportunity to bone up on my English. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He majors in English and writes small, sad poems. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, I had lunch with Alisa, and took a chemistry quiz. Oh, by the way, my English teacher’s a bigot.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Man, seriously, we just wanted to catch you up,” English cut in. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

They’d gotten so many phony messages sent by Japanese soldiers who spoke perfect English that they thought it was just an enemy trick. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

That evening after my last class, I went to the school library and looked for Rav Gershenson’s name in the Hebrew and English catalogues. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He repeated the opening words of the Book of John to himself in English: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is addressed to me in Spanish, but the body of the letter is in English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Devonian is of course from the English county of Devon. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She felt she spoke much better English than everybody else. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It never makes any difference what the English say." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She learned about Indian words that have been incorporated into American English, like moose and pecan and squash, and Penobscot words like kwai kwai, a friendly greeting, and woliwoni, thank you. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Countless idioms, word senses, and grammatical constructions have been coined and circulated by the universe of English speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

This one was larger and fuller and it spoke to me in English. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The rules of English syntax force him to put the subject before the verb, and the verb before the object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The young maid who has been listening to our English gibberish offers us a pink perfumed hand towel, which Sandi accepts and waves like the flag for our side. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When the English guy comes back in, his head’s down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He had once been keen on English and Shakespeare, but after the separation he seemed to become apathetic about learning. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Chinese speakers get that list of numbers — 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6—right almost every time because, unlike English, their language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I want to learn some real English, Mr. Loring,” Philip said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And English sentences are often constructed without regard for building codes. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

When I complained to a friend of mine, she told me about her English class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Most of this notebook was in German, but there were still bits and pieces in English. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Uneducated and barely able to speak English, he was terribly poor, and the family was on public assistance much of the time. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, maybe because I’m English, I don’t know, he quoted Winston Churchill: ‘If you’re going through hell, keep going. ’ I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You must learn their language quickly—it is called English—but try not to forget your own. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Told by their doctors that tea was good for their health, the English were drinking up to fifty cups a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

My English teacher, a tall, wiry fellow with a Ph.D. from one of the black universities, gave us The Merchant of Venice for a reading assignment. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

If, after becoming a successful student, I no longer heard intimate voices as often as I had earlier, it was not because I spoke English rather than Spanish. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With English out of the way, he was taking government and the electives of sociology, computer math, photography, and food science. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francis wanted to talk to Dorothy Hodgkin, the best of the English crystallographers, while I welcomed the opportunity to see Oxford for the first time. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Laleh had finally switched back to English to provide a running commentary for me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The lovely November sunshine crept into the classroom, shining warmly upon the beautifully written but boring English words on the blackboard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

After English, I slowly make my way to my locker to get my lunch. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

If you’re standing in the dock, English is the difference between getting off with a fine or going to prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The English teacher had helped him to create a sermon winging through Hamlet’s soliloquy. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could read ten years beyond his level, do math that left Tam Lin bewildered—and irritated—and speak both English and Spanish fluently. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Besides, once you know more English, you’ll be able to make some friends.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The conditional probability that someone speaks English, given that he or she is an American citizen, on the other hand, is probably about 19Ao or .95. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He speaks no English. These mines. They keep us in the dark in more ways than one.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And in English, I raise my hand when Ms. Singh asks someone to explain the difference between mood and tone. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

There were four of us kids still young enough to be living with Mama, plus Granny, her mother, sixty-five then, speaking no English, and nearly blind. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Branwell told The Ancestors that Tina had started school without knowing a word of English and was the Illinois state spelling champion when she was in fourth grade. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new language of Korean Air was English, and if you wanted to remain a pilot at the company, you had to be fluent in that language. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He wrote his question in German, and it wasn’t until then that I realized he had been writing in English all afternoon, and that I had been speaking English. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

And ‘How is it possible this happens before glamour when glamour is an ancient concept? See “glamer” in the Oxford English Dictionary.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Oatmeal,” I said, pronouncing the word in English. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Goods from around the world would pile up on English docks, while the people of Europe spent their money on products theyd sell to one another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I have heard ‘radical’ linguists make the point that black English is a complex and intricate version of English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You had to know Old English and the History of the English Language and a representative selection of all that had been written from Beowulf to the present day. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Upon my return from Universal, the head of the English department told me, “You’re making us look bad.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The words on the cards are written in English. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The editor was often a visitor, spending hours talking to Matt, staying overnight now and then, and testing Jethro’s progress in the book on English usage. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter was written in English, even though I had written in French. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“No Yiddish, remember?” she whispered back furiously, before smiling at the bartender and responding to him in English: “We have heard great things about this club.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A caseworker brought us a TV, but the shows were in English, so we couldn't understand anything. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Fadi looked at her blankly for a few seconds; his brain was slow in getting used to English again, even though his mother had drilled them every day during their homeschooling. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

One is to provide grounds for confidence that the writer has a history of reading edited English and has given it his full attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They all spoke English when they talked to each other, or to the waiters, but the accents were as diverse as the gentlemen. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

I glance at Bob English Who Draws and see that he isn’t writing either. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A huge, black bird springs out; it perches on her bureau, looking just like the etching of the raven in Yo's first English poetry book. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

And whenever I hear the strains of a different English, I will still shatter a little inside. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Jesse went to the Chicago Film Festival where he met a friendly and attractive Finn, but she barely spoke English. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother, who cannot speak English like the rest of us, wanders perplexed through the shops, inspecting the strange foods for sale. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But that doesn’t get me much, except perhaps with Miss King, this English teacher I’m going to tell you about. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She worried that she was becoming indolent and losing her English. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He alw'ays spoke in Spanish, though he understood and could speak English when he needed or wanted to. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes they found a sailor who knew English. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Fina isn’t at school yet when my bus arrives, so I go straight to homeroom and don’t see her until English class. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some English teachers frown on starting a sentence with there, possibly because they prefer keeping the real subject before the verb. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet I was not angry with her for speaking broken English; my English, too, was broken. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sitting quietly at Table Six with Bob English Who Draws, who is drawing. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He didn’t speak very good English, because he hadn’t left Chinatown since he came from Taiwan, because there was no reason for him to. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He blesses me in Latin, talks to himself in English and I wonder what I did to him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, I forget all about Cal until the next day in English class. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I was surprised at how much English I actually understood when she spoke more slowly. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Those advocating an African solution might profitably study the recent English efforts to establish a black colony in Sierra Leone, where most of the freed blacks died or were enslaved by the local African tribes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the morning a helpful young English intern popped in to ask him about his liver. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“We talked about the English essay a little.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The only thing I was worried about was trying to speak perfect English. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Roy took a piece of lined notebook paper out of his English folder and wrote. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba and Ma, though, always use Bangla at home, and speak English only with outsiders. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They wandered back to the rooms of fine French and English furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A brilliant scientist can come over the border from Mexico to live in America, but if he speaks in broken English, people say, “Eh, I don’t trust this guy.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I thought perhaps my English was a touch too fast for him. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He drank all his water and then turned to Ugwu and spoke English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

More ambitious still, he hoped to use his influence on the English to make this new Patuxet the center of the Wampanoag confederation, thereby stripping the sachemship from Massasoit, who had held him captive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Patrice already approached our English teacher, Ms. Simon, who enthusiastically supported the idea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

All English dictionaries, he declared, were vestiges of the same British tyranny that the American Revolution destroyed forever. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Moody was back in English class discussing Othello. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A hostess appeared and greeted us in English. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The words seemed so ancient and full of bad omen I didn’t want her saying them in English and accidentally directing them toward me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I know that we have British furniture in our bungalow, like the upholstered wooden chairs in the sitting room and our large oval dining table and English china. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ma has instructed them to use only English at the club. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was very bashful about his English, but he was really very pleased with it, and as we went on talking he brought out words he was not sure of, and asked me about them. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She switches to English, her voice calm and commanding. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She was amazed at how easily she was able to convey her thoughts in English. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Venetians greatly expanded the sugar trade, so much so that a hundred years after Henry Ill’s reign, the English were able to buy thousands of pounds of the sweet stuff each year. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"A man with your knowledge of English and of America in general does not come to Germany every day, and would be wanted in almost every department of the German government," said Kappe. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no, I’m sure I couldn’t. I can read most languages, but I have trouble speaking anything but English. Can’t get my tongue to do what it’s supposed to.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon Rafik was working on definitions for his English vocabulary list and asked Liyana, “When does a person go from being an acquaintance to a friend? Where is the line?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

People from other countries could come to learn how to speak English and get the knowledge they needed to manage their businesses. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Also, if he did not like the way someone’s last name sounded in English when it was translated from Navajo, he would just choose another last name and give it to that boy or girl. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because our church was the English Church, the people here on the Ridge seemed to be more on the Tory side and wanted to be loyal to the King. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jefferson’s highly moralistic language castigating George III and the English government in the Declaration of Independence was not just propaganda, at least for Jefferson. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Dianyi, you now speak English just like the children of the lecturers.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Let's go and look at the English," Mike said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

A tuck-box is a small pinewood trunk which is very strongly made, and no boy has ever gone as a boarder to an English Prep School without one. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost his accent and now spoke Nigerian English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

They also raised cattle, goats, ducks, turkeys, terriers, bees, and English bulldogs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Along the way, he built schools and almshouses, new roads and bridges, and even founded whole new towns, establishing himself as one of the most enlightened of the English landlords in Ireland at the time. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Darling, did you think God wrote it all down in the English of King James himself?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The King James translation of the Bible is considered the greatest piece of literature in English. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he arrived, he had no English, no place to stay, and less than twenty bucks. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“There is no English law that makes me responsible for those deaths.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“What is it? English starts in five minutes.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

He lay on the top bunk, reading for his English class. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

After that he went back to working in the stables and speaking broken English. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Don Julio had told me that if students didn’t speak English, the schools in Brooklyn would keep them back one grade until they learned it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Paul was a pretty cool guy, even if he was my English teacher as well as my stepdad. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She also just arrived in New York, but they put her in the smart class because she speaks French and English. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

They mimicked what Americans told them: You speak such good English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“You know how to type? I can use somebody in here who can type and speak English.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says he doesn’t mind if I read silly English books by P. G.Wodehouse as long as I don’t forget the men who did their bit and gave their lives for Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Headmaster said you read English well. He’s a good man, but strict to the core, isn’t he?” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I followed him down, and we passed pilgrims by the thousands, babbling languages, everything but English. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

English, on the other hand, poses a challenge for people like Sasha who don’t see themselves as fitting into neat either/or categories like male or female. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“You’d have an easier time talking to your grandfather if you could speak to him in Farsi. He was never very comfortable in English, even before.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The new invitation, designed by Ashima, the English translation lettered by Gogol, is the only thing that isn’t a leftover. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She also spoke English with a harsh-sounding accent, like she was always angry. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When first period ended, our English teacher, Mr. de Milo, came outside to inspect the carnage. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I bought English grammars and found them dull. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The American twins who routed the fine old English ghost,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The only time I have known him to show impatience is when the postman lags, for it means we must wait another day before the arrival of our English mail. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” I said in English to the woman on the other side of the kiosk’s window. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Every now and again a language grump complains that the distinction between adverbs and adjectives is disappearing from English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The man of her choice was a young English doctor and that summer he came with us to Norway. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

That comes in handy in implementing the two principles of composition when they would otherwise be stymied by the rigid word order of English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She nearly hit Ms. Hoffman, the ancient English teacher who once told Toby he was nothing when he got caught stealing chocolate milk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Is that why they teach us English in school, so we can speak like them?” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“How simple that makes it. Now translate that into English, Master.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

It was rather like the English custom of shaking hands: the original use was to find out whether your visitor was armed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In Nigerian Pidgin English, he wrote, whack meant eat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m reading Macbeth for AP English—a class I am no longer taking. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

After a half hour there was a knock and I yelled back in English, “Leave me alone!” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The English SOE agent who was being dropped off that night was disapproving. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

And then a few Asian students recount their experiences being asked if they understand English. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

There was only one way I was communicating with the outside world at all, and that was my English journal. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, I didn’t know he knew that much English! Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we knew nothing else about language distributions and history, we might have guessed that the English language arose in North America and was carried overseas to Britain and Australia by colonists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hsu had come to America from China, and English wasn’t her native language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at his friends’ and cousins’ children he thought not only of pigs but also of “savages,” as the English called native people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Daddy, I got an A in an English theme,” Karen said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only did variation and dip diverge from place to place, but in 1634 a group of English experimenters claimed that variation fluctuated over time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“No, I know that, but someone here could teach me English when I come back from the fields.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Together we began learning English and mathematics from Teacher Sarah. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I have to speak choppy English to talk to a doctor but he keeps asking who I am and when I’ll come see her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I’ve just been stuck with that Classic Book for my English homework. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

From all the Shakespearean paraphernalia hanging on the walls, I’m guessing we’re in an English classroom. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

One Mexican-American friend of my mother’s, who regarded it a special blessing that she had a measure of English blood, spoke disparagingly of her husband, a construction worker, for being so dark. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Turning to the man, he switched over to crisp English. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

If the Cassell’s gave him a translation he didn't understand, one that wouldn’t fit the meaning of the sentence, he looked the English word up in the psychology dictionary. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My mother spoke perfect English, but every so often when she was upset, she slipped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“But your girlfriend is,” English said, with impeccable timing. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slavery depended on brutality— the death of a minister, an idealistic, white English minister, convinced more and more people in England that this was an immoral trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We had to sound civilized in public, he told us; we had to speak English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They roll their Rs when they speak English and we told them they do not have to do that. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, this is good English, the kind that you should be listening to,” he shouted from the yard. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It made Bridge think of the first intruder drill and the way her English teacher had said “Make your bodies small!” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

"English is my mother tongue. What can I do for you?" The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Across the ocean, at a German listening post, an erfasser, or a radio monitor, listened to the news and translated it from English to German. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We’re lucky that English, with its stretchy grammar and its giant grab bag of a vocabulary, gives us so much room for verbal play, if not anarchy. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short, stocky, muscular man, fluent in English, Sotho, and Zulu, expressing himself in all of them with precision, humor, and confidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a moment of panic, trying to decide whether to answer him in Yiddish or English. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t know the English tribe had them.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, as I began to learn and speak more English, the African American kids started accusing me of sounding “white.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We frequently exchanged books, did English homework together, read prose and poetry together, trained together, and sat on the same seat during tennis trips. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

After all, the Latin terms survive more or less in free variation with the Greek, and Puttenham’s English equivalents are abundantly charming—albeit that charm is conditioned by a certain quaintness. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t speak English, but he liked soccer. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Clear thinking requires a command of the English language, and fifth grade is the ideal time for every girl and boy to acquire an expanded vocabulary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad once came to school to do a writer’s workshop with us in English class. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The drama sponsor, a woman named Joan Mott, a “very nice person” and his colleague on the English faculty, was staging a scene and blocking the actors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

In English, it sounded funny to us, as mushy and formless as the cereal itself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“And there’s a kid in freshman AP English who writes these great fantasy short stories, and he submitted a few of them. I picked one of those, too.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Even though they knew no English, they believed that a better future was possible in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to speak to her in French, Lingala, and then English, but she knew none of them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“In English of course” leads me to Fear Number 7—being English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The woman reminds us of the name of the camp like we can’t speak English and somehow her speaking slowly and very loudly will suddenly make us fluent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Watch your English. You sound like a field hand.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

English teachers assigned the composition of short stories and poems. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He read and reread the works of Stephen Potter—the English writer who coined the terms one-upmanship and gamesmanship—not as social satire but as a manual of practical stratagems. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Perry, my Teach for America English teacher, is wearing yellow, and yellow means peace. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was fascinated just listening to the way perfect English came out of a person in the clothes of a Hasid. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He never talked about cars with anyone in English, he said. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

‘Body language’ is a form of communication, like speaking English or French or Chinese, but it has no words, only gestures. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Ware came home, raging because the English had searched his ship and had taken two of his men. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the English began to invade their homelands, Indigenous peoples brought their ways of diplomacy to their interactions with the colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Accuracy on matters Irish are not the forte of the English. Truth is, we're the friendliest people you'd wish to meet. Even north of the border. We just gun each other down occasionally, that's all.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

What makes black English inappropriate in classrooms is not something in the language. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, her English was still just classroom English, a foreign language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Ashton said when he found them they could barely speak at all. Not even English, ha!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“My mom won’t even pick up her study book. Does she think she can walk into that test and pass just because she speaks English?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We have all the Spanish supermarkets now, and the school district started those English programs. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Six, what is the meaning of this?” the bartender asked in English, his voice as smooth and oily as his hair. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Miss Braden-Hammerschmidt. A project! You know that essay English teachers always make kids write? ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

In modern English the distinction is clear: going to the ballet is an experience; the Large Hadron Collider is an experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As per his custom, the coach didn’t sugarcoat his words, perhaps because English was his second language. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The Community House was too out of the way and even though I had gone back to the English class there only a few times, now I stopped going altogether. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

We have to know them in Irish and English and if we forget an Irish word and use English he goes into a rage and goes at us with the stick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

An English heritage would explain his extraordinary charm and smooth manner, so unusual in brutish, clangorous Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The full English menu, though, offers them a few left-branching options. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Hello,” she said like an English telephone operator. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is the English batteries to the right of our section. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke English with the accent particular to Baja and knew Jule’s drink: a Diet Coke with a shot of vanilla syrup. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Game nights in the concession stand hit occasional lulls, so Theo and I entertained ourselves making plastic cup pyramids and talking about English class. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

It recognized England’s right to retain tariffs on American exports while granting English imports most-favored status in the United States; it implicitly accepted English impressment of American sailors. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I heard it in English and Geometry: “Did you see her?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

A product of upper-tier English society, he was also an aesthete and idealist with decidedly romantic sensibilities. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The English teacher said we had to turn in a term paper or a photo essay on somebody we admired. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The tent was poor and shabby, compared with the splendid pavilions of the English knights. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She herself could not practice openly in the United States because the training here was so different and because she could never learn English. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think the English nation perfect in every respect?” asked Sallie. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I worried about my math grades, and I always had trouble in English composition classes. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh—things like guiding in the German pilot the other day. I’ve done something like that before, only in English.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s a known fact that behind a book is always a good place for hiding and people-watching, so I pulled out my copy of The Outsiders, the book assigned to us in English class. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

They’ve been reading The Outsiders for English class, lying on his bed side by side with the same book open, she a little farther along. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

With many tears and in badly broken English, the mother told of the disgrace and of the father’s plan to starve the girl and the unborn child to death. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two days of the week, I had homeroom with my English teacher, Mrs. Downs, a young blonde who had taught only one other class in her life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“Has it ever occurred to you,” he said, “that the whole history of English poetry has been determined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All the early English colonizers of North America, including those who came for religious reasons, had sworn loyalty to the king of England. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps it would be a better idea to speak to her gently instead of raising your voice,” Olanna said in English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was behind in English, Miss Martin’s favorite subject. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bacon had himself seen men suspected of treason racked, though torture was not normally used in English legal proceedings. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

His English had improved against his wilL He was getting old. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get to English class, Mr. Wise gives us a villainous smile that can only mean he’s finished grading our short essay quizzes on Thoreau. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And nowhere did he seem more determined than in English class, under the spell of a special teacher named LaRue Moore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had only one actual book in English which would be placed in a Tralfamadorian museum. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She liked to hear me read the catechism in English, although she could not understand all I read, and I myself could not yet read with complete comprehension. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"The storm," Vogel said in his accented English, "it is closer than Houston reported." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you hear that, Hoover? Blast it all, they can talk English, and they’re not even covered with hair. Let’s go find Ashton and give him a what-for. The chap’s been pulling our leg.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Unable to read new English books on a regular basis, I reread the ones I had over and over again, till the pages become dog-eared. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is in these moments that I wish for John Kwang to start speaking the other tongue we know; somehow our English can’t touch what I want to say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If any of you have noticed since September,” Blessington pointed out, “this is English class, not Spanish. Julia-day-Burgos”—he pronounced her name with a thick accent—“wrote only in Spanish.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I won’t kiss you if you don’t want. I’ll send your English girl. Good-by, baby. The cognac is under the bed. Get well soon.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Only English colonies are allowed to taste the forbidden fruit of liberty—we who grew up under England. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I erased my entire hard drive last night. I need to load everything back on and rewrite that essay for English. Hey, Brady, remember those oxymorons we talked about in lit the other day?” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The English government realizes by now that they’re not going to beat us easily.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t even entirely clear if they were singing in English or one of the several languages of Yugoslavia. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Francie, shaky enough regarding English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, didn’t stand a chance with the French language. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who spoke little or no English, but who could do one of the many jobs associated with putting a garment together, flooded into the buildings each morning and out again each night. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Just as our English teacher told us you can put too many adverbs and adjectives into a sentence—its called overwriting—you can put too many meanings into a statement. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I make good grades in English and history,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was to be taught to read and write, not only in English but in Latin, and not only in Latin but also in a curious abbreviated language of Dr. Bright's own devising. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, some English teachers have enforced the notion that conjunctions like and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to join one sentence with another. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got to speak proper English, baby. I don’t want you going places and people thinking you don’t got no home training or nothing.” Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In his correspondence with the boatbuilder, he threatened to buy his equipment from an English supplier, demanded price concessions, and insisted on design modifications if he were to buy. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Dunstaple was a composer with a new and enchanting style that everyone wanted to emulate, and musicians fell over themselves praising the startling new sound of English triads. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The English rangers who had trained to fight like Highlanders were essential to Britain’s invasion of Florida in 1739. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

She liked how the place for a “title” was on what English speakers would call the back. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Between math and biology and English, people traded jokes as gleefully as children with baseball cards, and every day the jokes became more explicit. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She knows to say: He not here for when the landlord comes, No speak English if anybody else comes, and Holy smokes. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, I couldn’t discern a Yiddish accent in spoken English, when the accent was my own. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was in English a week later when possibly the strangest thing of all happened. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I hope Andy is able to get himself together and pass English this quarter. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They called themselves the RUF, but their victims combined the English words rebel and devil, and called them debils. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of the Indians' recent good experience with English visitors, he invited people to come aboard. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was at the abbey for seven years. I learned how to pray. How to be silent. I learned to read Latin, French, even English. There’s that. It keeps me from the gallows.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Plus his name—his real name—was English, so he pretty much had his pick when it came to the girls. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

This chapter looks at the religious and philosophical foundations of the permanent English colonies in North America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

My English teacher, I recall—a Mr. Ostrowski—was always giving advice about how to become something in life. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fruity truth: My favorite English author is Jane Austen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

All of Zeitoun’s nieces and nephews were fluent in English, and were translating for the rest of the family. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

He spoke with less of an accent than Alex, and though he struggled with writing and reading, he liked to make jokes, and that gave him the drive to improve his spoken English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

After lunch we take our time leaving the cafeteria before heading to English class, where Mr. Kazilly awaits. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The American name “period”, incidentally, was one of its original English names too. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Maddy says, “I could deal if the food was edible. And my parents don’t like it that the teacher hardly speaks English.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I knew I had a thick accent, not because I heard it myself, but because kids sometimes made fun of me when I spoke English. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was at the threshold of one of the English classrooms, his eyes wide with shock, and Kaisha stood behind his chair, a smile on her face. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

So the word ‘fact’ in its modern sense becomes respectable in English only after 1661, while in French it was at first a word particularly associated with Jansenism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

During my first months in school, I remember being struck by the fact that—although they worshipped in English—the nuns and my classmates shared my family’s religion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I told her that Max spoke Spanish, she simply repeated what she said in English: “Take him away.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the pilots sat in the cockpit and worked their way through the written checklists that flight crews follow on every significant point of procedure, those checklists were in English. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“I just found out that I failed the English test. I didn’t actually fail it at that time.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I get wound up, I speak fast, using a jumbled mix of English and Kinyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was about this English guy, Alec something, that was in the war and loses his memory in the hospital and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The passive voice, too, has several uses in English. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Uhh ... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don’t want any invention. We want the ‘straight facts’, as you say in English.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was German, because I’d heard him talking to the waiter, but I had no idea if he had any English or if he’d been able to hear Bunny distinctly enough to understand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

A voice, speaking English with an elegant Hausa accent, announced that the passengers from the London flight should proceed to board the flight for Lagos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The English for part of the poem goes like this: A lake of new milk I beheld In the midst of a fair plain. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But neither do I think that black English should be a language of public instruction. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I read a little Oscar Wilde for English and practiced vocabulary for French. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I read the first two chapters in my English text, Myths and Their Meaning. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

There was a simple reason for my having taken to perusing such works; it was an extremely efficient way to maintain and develop one's command of the English language. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Likewise the keyboard music of sixteenth-century English composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and John Redford, which was originally intended to be sung, was soon adapted, by them and others, into music tailor-made for the virginals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Then, in English, “Are you trying to pull my leg?” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the mission schools, black people learned English, European literature, medicine, the law. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At times, she relied upon an interpreter to help with her English—a language that now seemed to convey secrets beyond comprehension. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They made tables of how often other letters appeared in the message, then compared this with the distribution of letters in normal English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Not like the English? Not like Miss Barkley?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In English, softly, I tell him: "It's yours. Yours to keep. We don't want it back." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The next period is English, and I know that I won’t be able to get by quite so easily. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

All I can make out are the words English Class written on the brown-bag book cover. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

"I'd like to give you something," she begins, but the English words are hollow on her tongue. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The written alphabet that was developed for Maskoke in the 1800s uses letters that look like those in the English alphabet, but some represent different sounds. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

As I grew fluent in English, I no longer could speak Spanish with confidence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Victims of cancer or car accidents, once they heard my story, they hobbled and wheeled over to see me, they and their families, though none of them spoke English and I spoke no Spanish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Verity,” I said in English, and exhaled every last molecule of nicotine and oxygen I had inside me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’m looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The father opened his arms wide and welcomed them in his broken English: "This is your home, and never you should forget it." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ms. Keaton stops me as I’m leaving English to let me know that my final timed essay has to be on The Tempest. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They waved, they shouted bits of broken English, and they cheered. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kapasi was accustomed to foreign tourists; he was assigned to them regularly because he could speak English. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower, she thought. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even though they were not Mexican and spoke only English, they had many of the same experiences as my family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The film footage stops, and a youngish guy with an English accent appears on the screen. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So even if she had written the news of my mother’s death in English, I wouldn’t have had the heart to read it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s wonderful English/” The man was in uniform. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we continued, sound effects—a raging underground river, voices speaking in Ukrainian and accented English—led you through the cave, but there was nothing to see in this game. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It was about a wealthy English duchess whose spoiled kids pretended they loved her but were really just trying to cheat her out of her money. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She was getting an English accent, all of a sudden. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But you both speak English really well! And you and Grandma are bilingual!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Once again, we might return to our analogy to an English sentence. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

So whenever we hung out with Babiki and her sisters and their friends, a lot of the conversation was in English. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents speak English in the home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had a strange accent—British, maybe, but also as if he had learned English as a second language. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Vivian herself looked like one of those English schoolgirls you see on TV. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaka said she was not interested in choosing an English name, and Father Amadi laughed and said he would help her choose a name if she wanted. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Miller said, “Will he be able to read it? Does your dad speak English?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Impressed by what they saw, the earls introduced cannons to the English army, which adopted them enthusiastically and already used them against French soldiers at the battle of Crecy six years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then I realized the tide wasn’t even English. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was mumbling, fading in and out of lucidity, shifting between English and Polish. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But we both know that not everyone uses the best English. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She is in high school now, taking Mr. Lawson’s English class, going to the dances Gogol never went to himself, already going to parties at which both boys and girls are present. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I told her I did not speak English. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was boring, and we knew that if we did not learn grammar instead of just phrases, we would never learn English. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Writers of English have been merrily “splitting” infinitives since the 1300s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child she was owned by a Dutch-speaking family, who did not teach her English. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“So, everybody relax a bit while I take attendance, and then when we’re finished with that, I’ll start telling you about all the fun stuff we’re going to be doing this year—in English.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

To accomplish these goals, he intended to play the Indians and English against each other. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The English spoken language—the upper classes, anyway—must have fewer words than the Eskimo. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

In the early 1600s, the British seized a half-million acres from Irish farmers, drove them from their lands, and opened those lands to settlers who would be under English protection. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke a stately English without ever using the letter R. When the tong wars were going on in California, it happened now and then that Lee found a price on his head. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contraction—usually two words combined into one, as in don’t or I’m—seldom gets a fair shake from English teachers. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In English, Mike asked me if you said anything about Monday night,” I told her. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Esteban walked quickly with his big strides, practically dragging Clara behind him, without noticing the dirty water that was spattering his impeccable gray trousers from the English tailor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m using the fresh one for meringue pie,” he added in English. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We are not really entitled to complain, because we are lucky children: English children got their houses bombed and we did not. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The men look up from their work to watch us—three English boys in dirty shirts and worn-out slops and one naked Indian princess, tumbling like cartwheels all over the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Every moment I work in field, I think of you,” the woman said to Papa, switching to English, weeping harder now. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But no one is born with skills in English composition per se. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“English history!” roared the silver-maned senior Senator from his state indignantly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

English visitors did not find this arrangement peculiar; chimneys were just coming into use in Britain, and most homes there, including those of the wealthy, were still heated by fires beneath central roof holes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The warriors said the slow matches on the English men’s guns were smoking up the room, making them sick, and they should put them out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

That March Samoset—the third member of the triumvirate— appeared, having hitched a ride from his home in Maine on an English ship that was plying the coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I go with one of the young English upstarts and choose a slightly exaggerated, magnificently tailored suit that emphasizes my new, waspy figure. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The Great Six made certain of that, our daily lessons filled with the importance of the spoken and written English word. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva filled the major roles with his pets from Advanced English. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He turns toward me; the English language and I reappear in the conversation. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

My English isn't as good as his, so I muddle through and he helps me later with anything I've missed. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Billy asked them in English what it was they wanted, and they at once scolded him in English for the condition of the horses. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For his part, Tisquantum was seized on his journey home, perhaps because of his association with the hated English, and sent to Massasoit as a captive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I open my mouth to apologize, thinking maybe it’s not too late to save myself, but the English teacher cuts me off. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He stared at her school uniform, speaking English smoothly. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Amari learned quite a bit of English from the boy, who seemed to know intuitively what she needed to know. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Eliot, who wrote the Waste Land thing they were studying in English. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so Reverend Hunt spends each morning teaching Namontack a few English words. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Was she supposed to shout at him when she saw him in English class, Was that for me? Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

“You don’t need to repeat everything I say. I presume you know the English language well enough or I wouldn’t ask you to read Shakespeare.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I pray to the forest of fallen trees that Brian looks out the window and sees me here with the naked English guy. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The newt, although fairly common in English ponds, is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I cared which side we sold them to, but the British were the ones who had money—they had the whole English exchequer behind them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He goes shopping with her on Madison Avenue at stores they must be buzzed into, for cashmere cardigans and outrageously expensive English colognes that Maxine buys without deliberation or guilt. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In all the ruckus, somebody was talking English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lamps were also lit in the study or library, and I found the Count lying on the sofa, reading, of all things in the world, an English Bradshaw’s Guide. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Or I could teach them some English, or some math. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid there may be a problem,” he said, in accented English. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The letter wasn’t in Greek but English and Lefty had to translate: Dear folks, This is the last letter I’ll be able to send you. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Salvador was caught tonight because he didn’t know any English. I must learn.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Slowly, we taught ourselves to read, write, and speak English, and to do math. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ashoke’s English was good enough, he began to read the books himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, it seemed to me, not only that the world was full of English majors, but of people with a lot more experience than I had. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

How lovely to see my quadratic equations, my social studies notes, and my English grammar book again. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

To move students through the system, many refugees were placed in standard classes that, while appropriate for their ages, did not take into account their lack of schooling or English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“That’s very true,” Talc agreed, eager to join any campaign against the figures of English history, who had been the scourges of his existence for so many years. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now she had English thoughts too — that was true also. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean, you look for the most common symbol or letter in the code, and you can assume that that symbol stands for e, because e is the most common letter in English,” Emma corrected. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Harry Potter, you know,” he told the Bulgarian minister loudly, who was wearing splendid robes of black velvet trimmed with gold and didn’t seem to understand a word of English. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Gru-well, my crazy English teacher from last year, is really the only person that made me think of hope for my future. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had heard all about her, and he had seen fifth graders in the library last year, noses stuck in their dictionaries, frantically trying to finish their vocabulary sheets before English class. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was something about speaking English that carried him away. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

One branch became bowan in Germanic and bua in Old Norse, meaning to live and dwell, and then the English word build. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as she introduced herself, I recognized the English accent. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Her husband had always stated most emphatically that he wished all his children to be educated in English schools. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought about the famed repression of the English. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I slung my backpack over my shoulder; and on my way out, I found English. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Slowly, ‘experiment’ became in English a technical term for something scientists do; but not, as we have seen, in French. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And what he’s chiefly remembered for is a heroic attempt to domesticate the figures and tropes of classical oratory by giving them English names and English examples. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But just cause they don’t have something in English doesn’t mean they don’t have it in England, know what I mean? Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My plan was that I needed the time to take a course in Shakespeare, since I was, after all, an English major. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Penn then remarked that Engel’s English must have been picked up in the American Midwest, which left the rest of us speechless for a longish moment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For every one German plane there come at least five English and American. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, in English it’s not obvious how to draw a picture of the common syllable -tion, but we could instead draw a picture illustrating the verb shun, which has the same pronunciation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I can read a little English,” I said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not shaking anymore, and he’s actually speaking English, although his voice isn’t quite synced to his lips. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Whatever her reasons, whether she is fat, or can’t climb the stairs, or is afraid of English, she won’t come down. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew English wasn’t their first language and had real doubts about how much they were even following what I said, but when I finished, they erupted into vigorous applause. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In college and graduate school, I was registered as an ‘English major.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke English well enough, and what few words I could extract from him were accented but articulate. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She thinks I am Chinese or Japanese because I always order in English or by number or by pointing to what I want on another table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I didn’t speak English yet so he passed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke no English, only Luo, and expressed delight that we’d come all this way to see her. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There is no distinctive subjunctive form in English; the construction just uses the unmarked form of the verb, such as live, come, and be. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The English guy is trying to convince Guillermo to go to some type of sauna with him later this afternoon. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke softly in English when we had lessons and in Igbo, although not often, when we didn’t. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

We smile at each other, and it is crazy to me that this is the same person who was sitting in English with me all year. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was...how do you say it in the English...a schwindle.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Keeping in mind all those old ladies who have passed on, today is the eve before we honor the first English child born in America—Virginia Dare in 1587. Don’t forget your history,” she murmured. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nor did the English regard the Dawnland wetu as primitive; its multiple layers of mats, which trapped insulating layers of air, were “warmer than our English houses,” sighed the colonist William Wood. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

His cousin s wife, Ojiugo, had once said, “English people will live next to you for years but they will never greet you. It is as if they have buttoned themselves up.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But how could I?” he continued, “the teacher gave them in English.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

"Is there an Englishwoman here? I would like to see this English lady." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The following week, our English teacher paired us together for a joint oral discussion on To Kill a Mockingbird. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge asked me in English for my letter from Dr. Shawarbi, and he thrust it at the clerk, who read it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also texted English, Shannon, and Carlos to let them know that I was finally on my way home. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Of course I speak English,” said my dad in Farsi. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Each word was a garbled hiss in multiple tones, as if a swarm of African killer bees had learned to speak English in unison. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Embarrassingly, almost all of the traffic was the other way—scores of English joined the locals despite promises of dire punishment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I search through a few more notepads scattered around, but find no more words in English, no more words for Dearest. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

To their further amazement, this almost naked man greeted them in broken but understandable English. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Eskimos from Mekoryuk spoke English al­ most all the time. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not if the letter is registered. Valentin’s always reaches his family. They write and tell him so. Concha takes his letters and registers them. She speaks English well enough for that, he says.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In English, they would be free of the sharply defined gradients of Korean hierarchy: formal deference, informal deference, blunt, familiar, intimate, and plain. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Thus in one blow Elizabeth had been saved from typical English digs, while I looked forward to a lessening of my stomach pains. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Like his father before, he grew up wild, in trouble with the English, or the Irish, or both. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hanako wasn’t sure what he meant—before she learned English?—but she curtsied, then thought that was wrong, so she quickly bowed instead. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He stumbled backward, not caring if he missed English class, or the rest of school, or even the rest of his life. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“You read it, too. In English last year.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Are you ready to go to town and begin preparation for the trip?” he asked in English. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Each tray had a little sign in Spanish and English indicating the names of the different types of bread: LA CONCHA/THE SHELL; EL BIGOTE/THE MUSTACHE; LA OREJA/THE EAR; EL MARRANITO/THE PIG. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Much earlier I spoke of the changes at state lines, changes in Highway English, in prose forms on the signs, changes in permitted speeds. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brain fries when I try to read Shakespeare, but my English teacher would not accept “my hound hath eaten my volume” as an acceptable excuse for avoiding Hamlet. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Nowadays, in English, we can no more have a merely plausible proof than we can have a false fact; but Boyle is using ‘proof’ differently from us. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Hoping I might learn through repetition, I tried using gender in my everyday English. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Oscar switches to clipped English, making an excuse about discussing a bill, then says to Luna, in Spanish, “Just think about it.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She wouldn't roll her eyes at him in English. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

And I know we make fun of Bunny for being such a dreadful Latinist, but he’d managed to eke out a pretty competent little English translation of the more recent entries. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Giri was her grandmother’s word for it—it could not be precisely translated into English—and it meant doing what one had to do quietly and with an entirely stoic demeanor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she shrugged and said in English, “Don’t think so.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The family’s quiet was partly due to the fact that, as we children learned more and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bob English is making less and less sense. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Afrikaans policemen were surprised if a black man could speak English, much less answer back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to his studies in London, Headmaster often shifted back and forth between Bangla and English, but he always seemed to mangle English proverbs and expressions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretending to read over the notes for my English exam, but really I’m trying not to think about my wasted first kiss with stupid Adam. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

What made the word ‘fact’ respectable in philosophical English? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon, the invaders had taken over the English countryside using hundred-foot-high fighting machines with spiderlike legs and “long, flexible, glittering tentacles.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

But a mispronunciation, SKIZZ-em, became so common that it’s now standard English and preferred by most people. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He thinks that will get us to do things for him,” “Dying soon indeed. He’ll be here when we are as old as he is now,” Obiora said, in equally amused English. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, hello there,” I offer, mimicking him exactly, English accent and all! I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In English today, we get to listen to music during reading. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

The child’s parents speak English in the home. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z