| 单词 | abandon |
| 例句 | Other men tried to retrieve some of their own personal items abandoned in the rush, particularly books. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Up until that point he had never felt rejected or abandoned, and in each of his affairs he had had to resort to all his tact to disengage himself without hurting the girl. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A man sang that he would never forgive the ungrateful woman he once loved because she had abandoned him at what was supposed to be the happiest time of year. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I try to look past him at what we’re passing—a sea of crumbling, abandoned buildings that get smaller as we go. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “You abandoned your post at Blackcliff with no intention of returning. Explain yourself.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Anyone who avoids having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Now it was a wasteland of abandoned factories. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z At sundown Sam and Mole camped by an abandoned barn on the side of Mount Warren. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z My family scrambles to set up our encampment in the field near an abandoned hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the side of the trail were weapons, clothing, packs, and other personal items that appeared to have been abandoned in haste. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The boomerang, that quintessential Australian weapon, was abandoned in the Cape York Peninsula of northeastern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The whole thing used to be an abandoned set of train tracks that ran through the Meatpacking District. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z The village was empty, abandoned by the wildlings who had once lived there, like all the other villages they had passed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I have abandoned my intricate routine of gel, comb, mousse, straightening iron, curling iron, and hairspray...that would totally derail us getting to school on time. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “You take care, French. Don’t break cover. Just disable the drivers and wait for them to abandon the cargo, just like we planned.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z We abandoned the path to plow through a field of marshy grass. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They were still blocks and blocks away from the abandoned house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The boyish abandon of that stout man was charming to behold, for though he ‘carried weight’, he danced like an India-rubber ball. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I round the abandoned church and find Bate’s pickup. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie was right: my father hadn’t abandoned us; he abandoned me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Government-run foster homes in Mexico get migrant children whom authorities find abandoned in airports and bus stations and on the streets. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It has an abandoned quality with no fire on the hearth, no cloth on the table. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They were hungry and cold and living in an abandoned shack in the woods not far from the pig farm. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Quickly, people stuck themselves to the white truck like ants on an abandoned candy bar. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z The miner had abandoned everything to go mining for emeralds. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z There seeing an abandoned hut he entered it, and too faint to light a fire he fell down on the cold stones of the hearth, and lay so with his wounds unstanched. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Most adults abandon fallen or missing babies for one reason: HOPE. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Eventually his hand abandoned my shoulder and rested against the back of the park bench. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z To get hold of us, Mom rings a huge bell that Dad found in the abandoned shipyard next door. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This place feels like the eerie, abandoned suburban neighborhoods that surround nuclear power plant leaks. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It seemed to have been abandoned for a while. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z A small abandoned bonfire in an oil drum makes an alley glow. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt unloved, unwanted, abandoned and betrayed by a world that seemingly denied me an opportunity to find my niche. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sons abandoned the remains of their fathers without a tear. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents’ house looks sad and abandoned and swallowed by the mist. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We were raised by the same parents, rejected by the same mother, abandoned by the same father—even if he did have a good reason. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Soon enough, our people abandoned us, remembered us only as creatures of the old land, as things that had not come with them to the new. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z How could I abandon my parents, who were nice enough to pay for my education at Culver Creek, my parents who had always loved me, just because I maybe liked some girl with a boyfriend? Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The steady state theory therefore had to be abandoned. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z My body moved through the streets, past sentry fires and redcoats carrying torches down suspicious alleys and into abandoned houses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And my husband had abandoned me to uncertainty and grief. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “He wanted to know how I felt after you abandoned me.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Countless times he could have abandoned us, taken his fortune, and fled. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I abandoned the crickets and went back to the goodness of the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Then people began abandoning farming communities in California’s Central Valley, when it became the Pacific Dust Bowl, overcrowding the already overcrowded cities, like the big cats abandoning the dry hills. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He’s abandoned the useless spectacles he wore as a member of Erudite in favor of an Abnegation gray shirt and their trademark short haircut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “Heldred eventually controlled the foothills around the Shalda. This meant that he controlled the mountains themselves. They started to plant crops, their nomadic lifestyle was abandoned, and they slowly began to—” “Get to the point?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was the girl abandoned by her mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It came untethered and crashed around with reckless abandon—burning, shattering, consuming. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Cross pen- and-pencil sets, records listened to twice and then abandoned, clothes that were too large, too small—that never seemed worth transporting to the increasingly cramped apartments he inhabited over the years. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Arguments for belief in magic and witchcraft were largely abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To appreciate the power of epidemics, we have to abandon this expectation about proportionality. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought we abandoned that when Peeta asked for separate coaching. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Apparently inspired by the black wave, some enterprising rebel commander came up with the idea of confiscating people’s abandoned automobiles and sending them unmanned down the streets. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The camper van, standing in the abandoned barn like a solid, multicolored animal, was more familiar to Meggie than any of the houses where she and Mo had lived. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Nora grabs Alex, pulling him away from Henry and spinning him around, her hands on his waist, and starts grinding with abandon. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They began to walk without another glance at the abandoned streets, the dead, empty houses, the gardens, the tombstones . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This closet is abandoned—it has no purpose, no name. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Why would I be happy to see someone who abandoned us without warning and never looked back?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We hopped the fence that surrounded the barracks, skipped over a little creek, and broke into the open dirt field where old, abandoned tanks collected dust. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Four thousand, Your Grace. They will help us garrison our abandoned castles, the better to defend the Wall.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He told her of trolls who steal people's feet and gods who abandon the poor. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The house was before them, overgrown with honeysuckle, dark-windowed, looking abandoned. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In a new school one had to build a set of friends on the abandoned carcasses of unhappy boys and girls who befriended you during the days when you had no choice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Walking by some abandoned houses—looks like some Scud missiles just bombed them out. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother swore that she loved me, and she abandoned me in the end. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We tried playing a few times without the North, but this turned out to be so boring that we abandoned the game altogether. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Many of these vehicles had been in working condition when they were abandoned. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To this day, no riverside table is complete without a bowl of farofa: crunchy, toasted manioc meal, vaguely resembling grated Parmesan cheese, which Amazonians sprinkle on their food with abandon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In fact no personal articles: what greeted him consisted of unclaimed debris which Polokov had inherited when he took the apartment and which in leaving he had abandoned to the next—if any—tenant. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They would not abandon the government, but capture it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Smaller units do not voluntarily abandon their sovereignty and merge into larger units. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Past the fields was a trail that skirted another abandoned farm, also overgrown and untended. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She finally abandoned her work, not so much because of her husband’s sarcasm, but because it seemed impossible to compete with the ancient pottery of the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a wild, impossible notion, to be abandoned as soon as thought of; but the room had awakened in him a sort of nostalgia, a sort of ancestral memory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Kepler was shaken at being compelled to abandon a circular orbit and to question his faith in the Divine Geometer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis, however, was not happy, telling me that a week was far too long to abandon work of such extreme significance. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We did not see any troops; only abandoned trucks and stores. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She scooped Laney up and crashed down the stairs, the destroyed breakfast left abandoned outside the Beiderman’s door. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Katie had to do two washings free for the girls to make up for it and Francie’s voice lessons were abandoned forever. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z From here I can see the crowd of people gathered in the abandoned building next door. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z But that was hardly possible unless he abandoned Penny. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z More people abandoned the bars and hotel lobbies of Poughkeepsie and made their way down to the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One can reasonably say, then, that Huygens had been wrong to claim that his result was in some way ‘better’ than Boyle’s, and wrong to abandon his earlier beliefs in the light of it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z After a few additional attempts sans board and pieces, the invisible match was abandoned and they played on the portable set. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The last time it had broadcast a local event live at such an hour had been when a little girl named Jessica McClure was rescued from an abandoned well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, she felt she had abandoned her principles, and sold out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Part of him wasn’t ready to forgive Vikus for abandoning them, either. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He somehow lost or abandoned his surest and quickest means of escape from the city: the one-eyed horse Booth had bought. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Cleopatra would not hear of abandoning her ships, and she refused to consider a separation. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The short burst of manic energy had completely abandoned me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Bekhir asked, raising an eyebrow at Hugh, who had long ago dropped his act and was now gulping down stew with abandon, bees buzzing happily around his head. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Not knowing what would befall me next, I clutched my mother’s image, feeling all at once abandoned and chosen, despairing and hopeful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z There wont be a South Vietnam left to abandon. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z But I was already married and my husband yet lived, though he had abandoned me and I him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Peculiarly, the abandoned land was the wettest—with its rivers, lakes, and rainforest, it should have been the best place to wait out a drought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All in all, being God’s sole and abandoned emissary to Kilanga was keeping Our Father very busy. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerome Rogers, 12, shot at abandoned Green Street lot. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Stravinsky's style - the jerky jigsaw of adjacent, unrelated musical segments - was also abandoned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As the hours of the evening pass he will grow distracted, anxious to return to his room, to be alone, to read the book he had once forsaken, has abandoned until now. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was worried about how confused I would be, how abandoned I might feel. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Maize had not grown in these abandoned pastures for centuries, but the handiwork of the land's original inhabitants remained for those with eyes to see it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Your dad found you passed out behind an abandoned house near your practice park,” Scoob says. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z It was such an unforeseen attitude that Amaranta Úrsula felt humiliated by the idea that she had given her husband the pretext that he had wanted in order to abandon her to her fate. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Becky had vanished, her rooms at the Oliver Street boardinghouse abandoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the boiler on the hill there were numbers of large pipes also abandoned by the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d found them while rummaging in the basement of an abandoned building at the hospital sometime in the eighties, he said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As a result of such attitudes, the brilliant and promising Ionian experimental method was largely abandoned for two thousand years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The houses on our side have been abandoned. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The Christian churches could not abandon their belief in miracles and angels, but Christians could certainly retreat from their insistence on the reality of witchcraft, demonic possession, poltergeists, levitation and second sight. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z El Barrio, run-down and abandoned, was just waiting for them to take it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Danny’s block was heavily populated by the followers of his father, Russian Hasidic Jews in somber garb, whose habits and frames of reference were born on the soil of the land they had abandoned. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He might have considered the popular theory that the Milky Way, which glowed so brightly at sea, was the remnant of a path through the sky abandoned by the sun. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z These are fleeting moments of private disquiet, only dispelled by abandoning herself to the joy and excitement of those around her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She had the inhuman attribute of abandoning what she could not get and of waiting for what she could get. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought of her following these guys, four years older than her, into abandoned buildings. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z They kept a steady plodding pace, past a shepherd's croft and the abandoned workings of a mine. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Kronos couldn’t have risen if it hadn’t been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z She didn’t know what it meant that Istanbul had been quiet for years, or that villages were abandoned and full of statues. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z “May I ask why you are abandoning your education?” said Mrs. Weasley. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After Boipatong, there were those in the NEC who said, “Why did we abandon the armed struggle? We should abandon negotiations instead; they will never advance us to our goal.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Or by the time Gregor crawled across the few feet of stone that separated them, would he again be mumbling about fish and abandoning Gregor to the darkness? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "Then men tell true," answered the poet, "for that is how Heorot is by day. But by night it's a different story. After darkfall the hall stands abandoned. None dare go there." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a key feature of his work that Galileo always carried out experiments to test hypotheses, modifying or abandoning those hypotheses if the outcomes of the experiments did not match their predictions. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the safe harbor of each other’s company they could afford to abandon the ways of other people and concentrate on their own perceptions of things. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z They had abandoned their old latrine to the Americans—and their the-ater, the place where the feast had been held, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, that very sweep is why the Maya collapse has fascinated archaeologists since the 1840s, when the outside world first learned of the abandoned cities in Yucatan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All this talk of exams and teachers getting tired and making mistakes and now the chocolate sale . . . and the two pieces of broken chalk abandoned on the desk, like white bones, dead men’s bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The servants who walked the ladies had abandoned them, and they could not escape on their little bound feet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As for the King, the Duke learned his intentions when the Duke invaded Tuscany after the capture of the Duchy of Urbino: the King forced him to abandon that campaign. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Turns out, backing in isn’t necessary, because, surprisingly, the on-ramp isn’t congested with abandoned cars—but then, I guess that’s not surprising at all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z By mid-June, all of the city’s motels and nearly all restaurants had abandoned race restrictions, with most of the rest promising to follow suit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z US from June’s abandoned stack of magazines, and the image dominating the cover is one of the shots from his and Henry’s portrait session. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Oh, puke,” Mary Anne whispered in Ben’s ear, abandoning her pen and paper since Ben was adamant about refusing to read what she had written. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In a matter of days, Kubat was back in California with the money, and Bobby made arrangements to abandon his tiny room. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “The view is so grand that all timidity left me and my watch on the movement of the car was abandoned.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Then go ahead,” Chaol said, pointing to a distant target along the far wall of the abandoned hallway. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But Fifth Harbor had been useless and all but abandoned by the city when Kaz had taken it over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ready to abandon the now suppressed idea of flight. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it was running, tearing down the hillside with demented abandon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I have this urge to go back in there and stand with them, like I’ve somehow abandoned them. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Today three-quarters of the terraces are abandoned, and the alpine landscape has not regained the productivity it had a thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Today, Australia is populated and governed by 20 million non-Aborigines, most of them of European descent, plus increasing numbers of Asians arriving since Australia abandoned its previous White Australia immigration policy in 1973. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z You’d come across movie posters glued to abandoned buildings, but they would be for black-and-white films. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This was an especially strong wish among the fugitives, who were embarrassed at having abandoned their city in its time of great need. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Hazel had followed this reasoning to a certain point but he abandoned it before it was resolved, not only abandoned it but searched for some way to change the subject. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mark officially decides to abandon his own notions for a while. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I look out our window at the abandoned house across from ours. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The air in the abandoned house lay cold and still, lingering dead without the family within it. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The only reason you caught me in that abandoned village,” I said, “was because I had no food. What if I’m alone again?” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The basement wasn’t quite finished, bathroom project abandoned years ago, toilet bowl off its sewage site, half inch of dust coating it. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Yesterday, for instance, after passing the abandoned Indian village, they had heard a noise coming from the trees above. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The abandoned library felt too loud and too hot. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z With defiance, with abandon, with hysteria, any way you can. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Other board games, such as Trouble and Sorry, were also problematic: If a touch of bad luck stymied his plans, he became angry and would abandon the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t find another gully, but Salvador did see an old, abandoned car off the road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z A few people slipped out of the ranks, hoping to hide in some abandoned building. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z All our supplies, our packs, remain down by the lake where we abandoned them when we fled from the mutts. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Did you fight jihad? Did you abandon everything you had and risk your life? If not for the Mujahideen, we’d still be the Soviets’ servants, remember. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Kate said she had no memory of her dead mother, nor of her father who abandoned her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z We eventually find the BMW parked in an abandoned back lot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Everyone had abandoned ship after the photo fiasco. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z All of this could have been avoided if Mom hadn’t abandoned me today! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “We adopted Fred from the New York City Animal Control Center. They informed us that Fred had been abandoned in an alleyway. That he showed signs of neglect, maybe even abuse...” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z As an abandoned wagon hid her from his view, she saw him push against a portion of the wall. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In Brazilian terms, it was like abandoning a glamorous expatriate life in Paris to come back to Chicago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind us shells are sending up fountains from the now utterly abandoned village. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the promise now of finding a hootch somewhere, or an abandoned pagoda, where they could strip down and wring out their fatigues and maybe start a hot fire. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The air had that unstirred quality of an abandoned house. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z She tried and quickly abandoned trying to teach them how to play charades; they were simply no good at guessing the names of famous people, since they had never heard of any of them. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Most will be housed in one of our abandoned castles.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It looks like it’s been abandoned for years. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “What were we going to do with a box of abandoned kittens?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I had abandoned Mr. Sheep Sheep in a field, lost my kite in Dubai, and forgotten Ali Shekari’s hat in an Italian plane. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But the woman’s body lies unattended and abandoned. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The army was gone and the city abandoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Ultimately, the Populists caved to the pressure and abandoned their former allies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Things abandoned long ago by pilgrims enroute to their several and collective deaths. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “When she comes back,” my mom said, “she’s going to be devastated. To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Booth’s father abandoned his first wife and two children in England and fled to America with eighteen- year-old Mary Ann Holmes, who became Booth’s mother. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z We walk through the abandoned security checkpoint without stopping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z On the ride back to school the rubbings made by the other children are torn up, crumpled, tossed at one another’s heads, abandoned below the dark green seats. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some parts of that learning could be taken over by the advocates of the new chemistry, but much of it had to be abandoned as incomprehensible and unreproducible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The archaeological record shows that southern Yucatan was abandoned, while Maya cities in the northern part of the peninsula soldiered on or even grew. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The curse wasn’t going to let me abandon the ogres. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was abandoning me, but it stopped at the edge of the shadows and, waited. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But the gritty shipyards and boat works clustered around the locks were largely quiet, nearly abandoned in fact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It seemed extraordinary that Hermione’s mania for upholding rules could have abandoned her at this crucial juncture. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Sam had trained her to hunt the rabbits and pheasants that lived in the abandoned fields on their mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There was a long line of abandoned trucks and carts on the road leading up to the bridge. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sure enough, my usual waterproof magic had abandoned me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It was a little creepy, all abandoned like that, and when the blackberry bush rustled, I ran back toward the barn and decided that was enough exploring. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z They hung open as though abandoned, and as they approached they saw there was no one in the gatehouse. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They beat up whites and Blacks with the same abandon, and liked each other so much that they never needed to learn the art of making outside friends. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets were tangles of abandoned cars and the sidewalks narrow paths between high shoveled walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They are my mother’s twin daughters from her first marriage, little babies she was forced to abandon on a road as she was fleeing Kweilin for Chungking in 1944. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And now that Lyra had the taste for exploring it, she abandoned her usual haunt, the irregular alps of the College roofs, and plunged with Roger into this netherworld. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Gregor was still here and wasn't thinking at all about abandoning his family. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z But Booth must have been unhappy with Herold for abandoning Powell, whom he especially liked. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She explains that certain creatures are allowed to scare and harass unsuspecting people if they wander someplace generally acknowledged to be spooky—like graveyards, old abandoned mansions, dark caves, and under beds. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z “She abandoned me after my mom died, gave me to foster care.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He abandoned the manufacture of little fishes, ate with great difficulty, and wandered all through the house as if walking in his sleep, dragging his blanket and chewing on his quiet rage. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Their guide gestured to a nearby building that appeared to be abandoned. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When a city begins to grow and spread outward, from the edges, the center which was once its glory is in a sense abandoned to time. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They live above a printing company abandoned a month before. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t want your money,” she said, a little sharply, keeping her eyes levelly on the sunken roof of the abandoned house. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Anthropologists who interviewed the Aché recorded a case in which a band abandoned a middle-aged man who fell sick and was unable to keep up with the others. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivy flipped through the crinkly pages and caught a glimpse of a drawing she’d abandoned a few months ago as a hopeless case. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Behind them came Shmuel, dancing with abandon, his hands above his head and his black hair a dark halo around it. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The eggs are so close to hatching, she won’t abandon them.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Climbing atop a wooden crate, someone’s abandoned seat, I saw the source of the tumult. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But with Max abandoning us the way he was, I could feel my Circle of Friendship shrinking. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z In later states, including most today, the leadership often became nonhereditary, and many states abandoned the entire system of formal hereditary classes carried over from chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The plane dug a trench more than thirty feet deep into the spongy earth of the old strip cuts on Skyline Drive, directly between two hushed, abandoned pieces of mining equipment. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Saber came much more naturally to me than épée had, and I almost felt guilty that after two years of hard work on the épée squad, I abandoned it with no regrets. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I spent my first night in an abandoned military barracks. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z However, she had already made a false start with Dante’s Inferno and had to abandon reading it partway through, and she did not want to repeat this misstep with the Hesperus. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Beyond it sat the abandoned Jerusalem airport—a few streaks of gray runway and a small tower. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Radios blared frenzied merengues from one house, while from another, an Evangelist exhorted his listeners to abandon their sinful lives and seek salvation in the arms of Jehovah, Aleluya, Amen! When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z We slept in abandoned villages, where we lay on the bare ground and hoped that the following day we would be able to find something other than raw cassava to eat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Their commitment to their faith is confounding a long-held assumption that, like earlier generations of Baptists or Pentecostals, prosperous evangelicals would abandon their religious ties or trade them for membership in establishment churches. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He couldn’t even get up, and I seemed to be abandoning him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Behind her, a busy signal buzzed from the abandoned receiver. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He looked about the hallway and to the landing below, at the champagne glasses and half-eaten samosas and napkins smeared with lipstick abandoned in every comer, on every available surface. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We didn’t talk about what happened in the abandoned sawmill, and we didn’t kiss again, either, for that whole endlessly long Saturday. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I stole a gyropter. It ran out of fuel and I had to abandon it in the countryside not far from here. The rest of the way I walked.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yep, she called to me from the parking lot of abandoned cars. The sun was shining through her windows like a beacon of hope.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z People abandoned their conversations and gravitated towards her in a murmuring swarm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her headlamp, abandoned on her glass-covered bed, sure would have come in handy right now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Dylan turns to me, once again abandoning the complex sorcery of the pause button. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She showed me pictures in my head of abandoned, charred puppies. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z In the end, Mother Paula’s had no choice but to abandon its plan to put a restaurant on the corner of East Oriole and Woodbury. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For a long time I didn’t understand why so many black people had abandoned their indigenous faith for Christianity. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I had made a hurried but diligent search which I finally abandoned, telling myself I’d be back for it later. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I considered waiting a few days to call Aech back but quickly abandoned that idea. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Soon the other families abandoned their homes on the flatland and went up to the hills. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hapless rowboat circles the pole in the growing whirlpool and the pitch holding together its copper planks abandons it, spilling into the water like an oil slick. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Laughter covers indiscreet glances of welcome and promise, and takes the edge off gestures of betrayal and abandon. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Who is this man crying like an abandoned child? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z This abandoned neighborhood just made him feel odd and uncomfortable. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The Green Door recently had been abandoned for larger quarters on nearby Portugal Place. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I drove to the abandoned monkey house one day in autumn, to see what had become of it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I duck inside an abandoned utility building about a hundred meters from the water. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Candice abandoned her play kitchen and walked over to her grandmother. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She scrambled under the fence, abandoning her grain bag and spear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I should have abandoned any and all hope of being this ill-fated group’s glorious savior, cut my losses, and bailed. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Even the earth itself seemed filthy and abandoned. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He'd mentioned to me previously that all kinds of cats had sought shelter in his field of abandoned metal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He abandoned the noiseless transparencies and pointed at the center of the spreading rings like a setter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I pretended I was reading from the book, flipping pages regularly, but I had abandoned the text altogether, taken over the story, and made up my own. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Even so, he had no intention of abandoning his interest in the other laboratory problems. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “And why,” his mother fumed, “did they not come for you when you cried out? Why did they abandon you?” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z And middle finger to middle finger, on their beautiful mother’s midriff, they abandoned that line of questioning. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And it seems to be completely abandoned, with no sign of any workers or performers. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I came back to being Sophie when the trail joined up with an abandoned railway and began to parallel the airport road. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Commencing immediately, he’d tell them, they would no longer abandon equipment along the route of march. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The only course which remained to us was to abandon our late conveyance and seek another. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He had never felt so lonely in his life, abandoned, defenseless. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He calls everyone here Mother. He has belonged to the whole village ever since we found him abandoned outside the gate. At first, no one wanted him.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon she will abandon looking and eat another delicacy—or at least I hope she will. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Her sense of power was loose and her vixen carefulness abandoned. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They abandoned the car and hung their thumbs in the northbound lane. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They traveled mostly on old abandoned trails, astonishingly plentiful in this virtually uninhabited region; occasionally, they cut straight through the bush. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he meant to abandon us here, but Frankie took my wrist and dragged me in pursuit of the man. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Their uncle’s block, where half of the homes sat abandoned and burnt out, represented what the neighborhood had become. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z My boyfriend and best friend both abandoned me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My mother was sleeping in the living room while Nattie and I sat there, looking at his abandoned things. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He woke her in the middle of the night and took her to an abandoned quarry north of town. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I remained at the window, feeling strangely abandoned but not knowing what else to do. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z After briefly occupying the cold northern tip of Honshu, Yayoi farmers abandoned that area, presumably because rice farming just could not compete there with the Jomon hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t deal with this now. All this nonsense, and the captain has abandoned ship and left a mess to boot.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z When she put on her puzzled look, I abandoned whatever point I’d been trying to make and said: “Ruth, there’s no way you’ve forgotten. So don’t give me that.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the detailed observations of the apparent motion of the planets forced him to abandon the idea of circular paths and to realize that planets travel in ellipses. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What is this?” he said, his fingers working the meat off a bone—the spoon-and-fork charade was abandoned a week after he married the girl. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “You want me to abandon the quest, let Camp Jupiter be destroyed? My friends are counting on me.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Two siblings had had their hands superglued to the wall and then were abandoned by their parents. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I made my way swiftly back toward the house to find my companions and abandon this place. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The friend had since abandoned the parking lot for the hope of greener pastures, leaving Hali’s mom to inherit the spot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d felt so abandoned since her birthday, it had never occurred to her that Peris would want to see her, especially not here in Uglyville. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z The next morning he told Holmes he was leaving and would abandon his interest in the store. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A white blanket spread over the neighborhood, covering garbage cans and the hulks of abandoned cars, so that the street looked fresh and full of promise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Lenina and Henry abandoned their game and walked back towards the Club. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I looked back, the entire street was abandoned, except for a few people trying to save something from the ruins of their homes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The island was part of an abandoned village, much like the place where Nhamo used to have tea with Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sam had trained her to hunt in abandoned fields. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Magpies drifted from cottonwoods across the deserted road, and bluebirds and swallows flitted in and out of abandoned adobe farmhouses. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I abandon Du Barry's instructions: the snowy skin, the black hair, the rosebud lips. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Omer said, “These lands don’t seem abandoned. The villages look very old. I knew it wasn't true.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Whether it was or not, though, the woman, unconscious and abandoned, was in need of help. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Past a child’s shoe abandoned on the path. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z After dates with eight different “candidates,” each of whom adhered to the same sexless script, he abandoned Church relationships as the avenue to an amorous life. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He was preparing a group of these pieces for a one-man show when he heard about the party and he instantly abandoned his own work and began a giant pincushion for Doc. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As it turned out, the wood was too hard for cutting once it dried, and the groves were abandoned. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z But having made this mark on medicine and laid down a marker for the scientific approach in general, Vesalius suddenly abandoned his academic career although still not 30 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The minister went home, and the sisters from the church abandoned their death watch, declaring they had witnessed a miracle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The other potters seemed to slump as one into dejection, all but abandoning their work in favor of long, lugubrious visits to the wine shop, where they commiserated with one another. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z After a while, she rolled over in my arms, leaned up, and kissed me, softly at first, then more fully, until we were making out with real abandon. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The girl who drowned the slaver cities in blood rather than leave strangers to their chains can scarcely abandon her own brother’s son in his hour of peril. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But little by little he began abandoning him to his solitude, for communication was becoming increasingly difficult. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They had discovered a jug of wine inside a cupboard and the fugitive drank with abandon. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After my sixth fruitless trip to Imre I decided to abandon my search. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I know who you are and what you did! How dare you abandon those dogs in a hurricane! How dare you!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Sansa tried to look forlorn and abandoned as other heroes of the Battle of the Blackwater were sum-moned forth to receive their rewards. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z To get to the Northern Mountain, Ku-Ang had to cross the abandoned Black Bridge. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The centrifuge, which was being pursued by Lawrence’s old friend Jesse Beams at the University of Virginia, persistently underperformed its expected enrichment yield; it would be the first method abandoned outright. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t seen her with my own eyes, I would swear the house had been abandoned for years. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Had the people who once lived here run away from Capricorn, or was the village already abandoned before he and his men took up residence? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, take Leontes in The Winter’s Tale. He tried to poison his friend, he threw his own wife in prison, and he abandoned his baby in the wilderness. So he’s the absolute worst. Right?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z On a previous visit to the Amazon I had seen runnels just like these on a rubber tree in an abandoned plantation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Yehuda’s sparkling eyes reluctantly abandoned his unruly dumpling and found Jacob across the room. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Eight of us have to guard a village that has been abandoned because it is being shelled too heavily. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Prince Joffrey's mount was a blood bay courser, swift as the wind, and he rode it with reckless abandon, so fast that Sansa was hard-pressed to keep up on her mare. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Once he spent the night in a house that had been abandoned because its inhabitants feared contamination from the dead man next door. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I watch the fringe disappear in the rearview mirror, distinct from the abandoned buildings around it only by that string of electric lights draped over the narrow street. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was rumored that he had abandoned power and fortune in his distant nation, although his origins were actually never known. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The bridge had long been abandoned, and when he finally reached it, the Bashe immediately rose from the water. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Now it abandoned her and went to the place where the living walk with the dead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Or almost abandoned, because a pair of monks lived there in a tar paper shack, tending a small garden and some broken shrines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No doubt they made some mention of my carriage and bearing. Thus, I am recognizable. I hardly suspected that I have become a legend. Perhaps I abandoned that movement too hastily.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These articles, he claimed, caused him to abandon the plan and to jettison all hope of ever succeeding at such a scheme in the future. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I shall tell them that we have abandoned the fight for civilization! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His own mother had fallen to pieces when his father died, abandoning the house he grew up in and moving back to Calcutta, leaving Shukumar to setde it all. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z See an abandoned building, graffiti on the wall. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep seeing my sister plummeting down, like she did in the GoPro video and a million times before, bungee jumping and cliff diving with reckless abandon. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z After a few days, he realized she had recognized him, but he did not abandon his precaution of keeping her blindfolded, even when they were alone. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This predicament was made worse for Hoover when Maytag abruptly abandoned ship and seized Penelope as his partner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z They drove through a village that was empty but for a few hollow-eyed beggars lurking in the abandoned market street. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now that the moment had come, Ash felt unexpectedly shy, and all the words she had thought she might say abandoned her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of the abandoned new houses in Port-au-Prince, where the owner had enough money to build them but not enough money to put in windows and doors. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Dreams of drowning in warm turquoise water; dreams of abandoned cats walking across her body as she slept; dreams of strangulation by serpent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Ignatius lumbered over to the picket fence, abandoning the hopeless cause espoused by the wagon, and viewed the oil paintings and pastels and watercolors strung there. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His heart was pounding inside his chest like a small drum, not in its usual steady march but in a wild, arrhythmic abandon. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I abandoned my mental letter and crouched in the supply closet, hoping no one would find me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, he did not abandon hope of finding some way to budge the North Vietnamese. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The spike of the past hour or so began to plummet into a crash, adrenaline abandoning her body. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once on the other side, we find shelter in an old abandoned warehouse with a low concrete roof, propped up by three remaining walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The governor pardoned twenty-six of the inmates, and the experiment was abandoned. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bathing from the sink of an abandoned building, on the run from the Erudite.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else could explain how quickly she’d changed, abandoning the rest of them for parties and hot showers, leaving her friends behind, just as Peris had so many months ago. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I turned off the headlights and parked Cade's truck on the side of the road in what was probably the exact spot where we'd abandoned the vehicle hours—all those empty miles—before. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Sickly banana trees leaned around the abandoned huts. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because pneumoencephalography could cause permanent brain damage and paralysis, it was abandoned in the 1970s. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Soviet scientists had to abandon fission experiments to work instead on weapons that could be used right away. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The peach trees had all died, but there were a couple of small oak trees still growing by an old abandoned cabin. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Dull gray in color, she'd been abandoned by a spooky alcoholic with long fingernails and a large collection of kimonos. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z When news of the discovery of the abandoned riding boot makes its way back to Washington, Baker concludes that Booth cannot be traveling on horseback. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It illuminated the bell tower of the abandoned church at Beaver Comers. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In these circumstances, the only tiling to do was to abandon the place in which he was feeling uncomfortable, in the hope of leav- mg his discomfort behind him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a city that had been built just to be abandoned, in which all the fears and madnesses and revulsions of the creatures who built it were made into stone. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It was possibly the first time he had ever abandoned Master Artemis in a time of crisis. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z But Chasca quickly abandoned herself to the now rapidly beating drums. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Saidu said after he was done telling us the story one night in an abandoned village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Starting down, I noticed a large piece of ice glinting in the remains of an abandoned drink and seized its coldness in my hot hand and hurried back to the room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The derelict bodies of the poor were found in abandoned houses, disfigured with disease’s scabs, swaddled in table-clothes and all the refinements of shattered luxury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I used the water from Chencho’s abandoned canteen to clean Pita’s wound. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Max disappears, the window shuts without a sound, and I duck into the deep doorway of an abandoned shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He sat up a little straighter as he realized where they were: right next to the abandoned gas station where he saw the stray dog that morning. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “Who would’ve thought this guy had abandoned his family?” she said, joining our conversation. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It looked as though he had abandoned the use of axle grease, but he had certainly attempted to comb his hair — Harry could see the comb’s broken teeth tangled in it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z In addition, many people had hauled furniture from burning buildings and abandoned it in the streets in hopes of saving it. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The incident provoked her into doing what she had never done before—abandon her duties. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Right angles had clearly been abandoned below ground level. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He paused again and lifted from the table the brick with which Bigger had battered Bessie in the abandoned building. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He figured he’d merely abandon it somewhere so that the owner, whoever he was, would have to chase around the school looking for it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked abandoned and dilapidated, even in the usually flattering moonlight. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Like my mountain, the tilled land eroded and grew stones, not crops, and the farms were abandoned. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “You offer to help, then you abandon me.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the army decided the hill was not a significant military target, and abandoned it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Mr. Crouch?” said Percy, suddenly abandoning his look of poker-stiff disapproval and positively writhing with excitement. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As silence again settled over the glacier, I felt abandoned, vulnerable, lost. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A colorful bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk stopped Emily in her tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The place has an abandoned feel to it, and I feel my frustration building. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was soon after this trip that Lyell decided to abandon a career in law and devote himself to geology full-time. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He abandoned the starlight and scrambled down the dark steepness, shouting like the enraged Aeneas until he fell against the door, which did not yield. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He had abandoned her for this modern, heartless girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he always felt like he was abandoning me. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The right thing to do was to abandon her hunt and report what she'd heard. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Aren’t you going to reprimand me for abandoning my faction and seeking out my brother? ‘Faction before blood,’ right?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Shakespeare inspired the storm and the shipwreck and the abandoned baby, among other things. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was broken only by the sound of Franny blowing her nose—an abandoned, protracted, “congested” blow, suggestive of a patient with a four-day-old head cold. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t feel betrayed or abandoned at all. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She hadn’t cared a whole lot about my bathroom habits when she abandoned me to Mrs. Watson and T. Ray. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The surrounding buildings are half-collapsed and appear to be abandoned, which is probably why I never noticed the Dauntless compound before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Ruins of older buildings dot the lake, buildings abandoned by business owners and residents when the floodwaters rose. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z I used to watch my sister with deep envy as she danced with such abandon. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z These machines were discovered by the police the next day abandoned in a dry arroyo on the western edge of town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was abandoned by children who until then had been friends. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Her mind wandered, thinking of her friends at Tule Lake and how some of them had abandoned her after they learned her parents were renouncing their citizenship. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The dark, narrow strips of ground between the stacks were clogged with the skeletons of abandoned cars and trucks, their gas tanks emptied and their exit routes blocked off long ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If you decide to stay where you are, then you are no better than all the other gudanod who’ve abandoned their homeland. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes they abandoned their cars and staggered up to the houses of strangers and pounded on their front doors, begging for and receiving shelter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They said that if we abandoned our campaign in response to a call made by J. G. N. Strauss, the United Party leader, it would help the party defeat the Nationalists in the next election. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Desperately ill paupers were wandering the streets, or abandoned in their homes with no one to care for them. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Over the woman’s shoulder, she sees she has left the door to her room ajar, her nightgown flung with distressing abandon on her bed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lilya flew to her rescue and damaged the enemy fighter so badly that the pilot had to abandon his plane in the air and take to his parachute. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The dead and their bones ended up in a tiny graveyard next to the abandoned church, at the foot of the volcano, where there is now a proper cemetery. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The lawn was overgrown, not in that neglected way that makes a place look shabby, but with nice abandon, as if to say, there’s room in this house for everything, even a lot of grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had emerged from what turned out to be the black-painted metal car of a long freight train, parked or abandoned in a woodland siding. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Only in tropical northern Australia did malaria and other tropical diseases force Europeans to abandon their 19th-century attempts at settlement, which succeeded only with the development of 20th-century medicine. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of them have abandoned their blue clothes in favor of black-and-white ones, but they still wear their glasses. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z You squeeze your brain one way, your imagination the other way, and see your mother peeking out the holes of crumbling abandoned buildings to stay dry when it snowed or rained. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She’d always loved being independent, but now Tally felt like the last littlie to be picked up from school, abandoned and alone. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z No predators would abandon such a rich feast. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For all her talk about wanting to be mistress of her seat, Selyse Baratheon seemed in no great haste to abandon the comforts of Castle Black for the shadows of the Nightfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He slept on the abandoned mattress despite its dank smell. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It echoed throughout the dark room, and the sound triggered memories of an old movie— something about astronauts boarding an abandoned alien vessel. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z For a while they met in the back rooms of the abandoned part of the house, where Alba handed out walnuts and served them herbal teas while they meditated in a cross-legged position. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Demons were perched all around me on derelict equipment and abandoned train cars like the audience of a gladiatorial match. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Our guards had not hesitated to abandon their posts; we could have left, and yet we didn't. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A few people, including Bailey, manage to applaud, while those who had abandoned their seats return to them, looking both disturbed and curious. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z So the two-spheres theory was abandoned, even while efforts were made by some conservative thinkers to preserve the traditional claim that the seas are higher than the land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As near as my mom and I could figure, he’d been abandoned by his parents when he was very young, probably because he was so . . . different. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I told him where the abandoned manioc field was, and he thanked me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once in the bathroom, I abandon my sick routine. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Stares and silence greet us as we follow Edward deeper into the building that is supposed to be abandoned. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A hundred times a thin scent of water drifted past him, but he never considered abandoning his post for its promise. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Well, there was an abandoned den there. Fox, maybe? Didn’t seem like it had been used in a while. But since it was near those willows, and sometimes I’ve seen screechers digging around their roots...” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He threw his wishing rocks with abandon and laughed at me for not tossing even one. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z How will my logger get power once I abandon it on the surface? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I pictured them on her porch, abandoned, while I ran off shoeless to Arizona. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My plans for revenge, such as unscrewing the lightbulb, locking the door and hiding his clothes, have unfortunately had to be abandoned in the interests of peace. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z God, I was certain, had completely abandoned me. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “This was abandoned property. It is now my house.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then I abandoned it for five years and didn't pick it up again until I met Bas, when I transformed it into a scrapbook. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The way he saw it, if they left, they abandoned all those people to certain death. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The deadline for moving ahead or abandoning the match was looming, and then it came...and went, with no further word from the champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Once again he was being abandoned by people who wanted to get rid of him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I discovered what lazy nest builders they were, taking over the abandoned homes of others whenever they could. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The father of her unborn baby has abandoned her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Some areas looked like they’d been excavated, but most of the city just seemed abandoned, as if it had been left to the elements for the last two thousand years. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t believe Tyler would really go to college, that he would ever abandon the mountain to join the Illuminati. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “So why did she abandon those babies on the road?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nina was still singing, something about a sailor who’d abandoned his sweetheart. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Around the abandoned lorries they passed, supplies had been scattered by troops looking for food or drink or petrol. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He is Kama, whom the world has abandoned. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the distance he could see the abandoned farmhouse that Basil had spoken of. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Thousands found out about the navy ships ready to abandon the navy. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She could imagine how she might abandon her ambitions of writing and dedicate her life in return for these moments of elated, generalized love. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was no easy thing for him to abandon Adam to his desolation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Bologne, the first mixed-race colonel in the French Army, was thereupon abandoned by all his previous patrons and friends, and died in impoverished obscurity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There is an abandoned store on the southeast corner of Broadway and Thirty-fifth Street in Lorain, Ohio. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z As we entered Montclair, he drove through the worst section of town, and finally pulled up at an abandoned structure that even Dracula wouldn’t have felt at home in. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t risk a second to say good-bye; I crossed the abandoned fields in the rapidly diminishing light and was alone by the time the Congo five-minute twilight began. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Most streets in the immediate vicinity of the fire were impassable due to the crowds of people or abandoned furniture. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The cold night air is reality at last: indifferent to me as a stone face carved on a high cliff wall to show that the world is abandoned. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z A smuggler promised to deliver them for $2,000 up front, but he robbed and abandoned them in Tapachula, just inside the southern border of Mexico. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Reluctant to abandon his girlfriend, Fox, Madsen selflessly volunteered to stay and look after everybody until help arrived. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Soon the five cars pass through the deserted sections where houses have been abandoned or where families hide. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The rumor that die tunnel spanning die river would use Negro workers became an announcement Planned, abandoned and replanned for years, this project had finally begun in 1937. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z To continue his search for the treasure meant that he had to abandon Fatima. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They had cleared brush, tilled the abandoned fields, and leveled the overgrown fencerows. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The effort was abandoned at 3:30 p.m. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, with the aid of several glasses of champagne, Tsukiko persuades her to abandon the effort, drawing her out into the sunken garden to distract her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The attic was silent again, abandoned, nothing but a room full of mementos. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “They abandoned the ship, they did! I’ll have their skins, by God! They had orders!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only boat in view was an upside-down rowboat abandoned on the rocks beneath the inn, its bottom thoroughly rotted out. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But after several months of caring for him at home, the victim's wife apparently abandoned him and he became gravely ill. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z This coyote took all their money and then abandoned the entire group of mojados while they walked through the desert. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I make a deep bow and head for the door, my trip to the kitchens abandoned. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z So I abandoned plans to cook with or serve my own salt, and counted myself lucky to have survived. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z First, fool Lustig, then Hinkston, then gather a crowd; and all the men in the rocket, seeing mothers, aunts, uncles, sweethearts, dead ten, twenty years ago, naturally, disregarding orders, rush out and abandon ship. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z They abandoned the car and flagged down a crowded State Transport bus. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she shows us slides of her art gallery when it was just an abandoned building, and all the ways it’s transformed into what it is today. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z All she could picture was their stuff, abandoned at the library table while they’d been at the computer bank discovering Mr. Griswold’s next clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z That was enough to persuade Weaver to abandon his strategy of delay. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Birds and squirrels and monkeys chatter merrily in the abandoned garden. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I need to know, because now I feel abandoned too. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the block the neighborhood dead-ended in abandoned farmland that Mami read in the local paper the developers were negotiating to buy. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Or perhaps it was abandoned and sacked for religious reasons—archaeologists have advanced several hypotheses for the city’s demise. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Aigo, you poor children! How could your parents abandon you?” the grandmother cried. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At the same time, though, the cosmos never truly abandoned its original emptiness. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Bees often abandon the hive, leading to the collapse of the entire colony. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My own mother abandoned me in a park, and I also grew up in an orphanage.’ Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Instead, one might guess that they once had a more nearly continuous distribution, which became fragmented as speakers of other language families expanded or induced Miao-Yao speakers to abandon their tongues. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her point of departure that final voyage on the underground railroad was a tiny station beneath an abandoned house. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then the car was over the bridge and out of sight behind the trees and the abandoned vehicles on the road. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After half an hour of useless guessing, the children had come no closer to an answer, and Constance abandoned her silence in order to mock their efforts. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And your grandmother, who was abandoned by her father. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He had the rawness, the abandon, the unbridled meanness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall of 1979, her senior year of high school, Mia applied to the New York School of Fine Arts with a series of photographs she’d taken of abandoned buildings around town. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not their fault you abandoned them in the arena. Who knows what the Capitol’s doing to them?” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I intend to return for him the moment I’ve ferried you to safety. I would never abandon Mr. Benedict.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Now he was in Tartarus, dying from gorgon’s blood plus a dozen other agonizing curses, while he watched his girlfriend stumble around, helpless and blind and believing he’d abandoned her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It looked abandoned, its clapboard siding faded to splintery gray. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He could handle a basketball with remarkable dexterity for one who had abandoned the court so long ago. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We came upon a carriage abandoned in the street, the door open, a horse dead before it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Mia is still unconscious, but her vital signs are improving,” she tells the assembled relatives, who have abandoned their distractions haphazardly on the chairs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, by the end, we had even abandoned our routine of meeting over a cup of cocoa at the end of each day. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He wondered why it seemed like God had abandoned him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “You left me, abandoned me,” he tells her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z One day, hunting for food, we climbed through the window of an abandoned house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I abandon my fork and scrape up the last dabs of gravy with my finger. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Now that the Vast Wall is abandoned, men have been streaming into the city every day!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z When he lowered the ship’s boats to tow them toward the nearest land, one sank and the men in the other cut the line and rowed off north, abandoning the cog and all their shipmates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Thus it is here, in the poverty-stricken, racially segregated ghettos, where the War on Poverty has been abandoned and factories have disappeared, that the drug war has been waged with the greatest ferocity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I said to myself, the statement rising to a question as I recalled how suddenly he had abandoned our bed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Another time, he found an abandoned house nearby. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “No. I did not abandon you and your mother. I was taken from you. You are abandoning us by choice, the way your grandfather abandoned me.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z By the next morning, it had to be abandoned. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes we would not see him for days and we worried that he had abandoned us, but he always returned. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She was rummaging around in an abandoned police car—maybe looking for the emergency radio—and her bade was turned. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Evening has fallen and my foot hurts from all the crazy shoes, so I abandon any thoughts of going into town. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z With the track pulled out of Coalwood, the N&W Railroad Company had abandoned the spur line in the wilderness of Big Branch, about five miles west of Cape Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her dialect deepened as she spoke, abandoning the smooth lyrics she had been trained to use when she worked in the houses of white men. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Has he persuaded Theo to his side, or will his brother abandon him? Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Dill mirrored her gesture as they approached Good News Coffee, the town square with the gazebo, and Forrestville’s abandoned 1920s-era downtown theatre. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z At the edges of town, ancient-looking cottages stood abandoned and roofless, evidence of a shrinking population, children lured away from centuries-old fishing and farming traditions by more glamorous opportunities elsewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The city looked like it had been abandoned for decades. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Eventually, Celia abandons her search and returns to the foyer, where Marco is standing by the door with her shawl folded casually over his arm. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The rebels have swept in through the empty streets, the abandoned barracks. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “Did they seem put out that I abandoned them?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And it was a system that Indians were abandoning in ever-rising numbers at the time when Europeans came. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Watch had once manned seventeen castles along the hundred leagues of the Wall, but they had been abandoned one by one as the brotherhood dwindled. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She pitied him and rising lightly from the water like a sea-gull she told him his one chance was to abandon the raft and swim to shore. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t just abandon everyone else I cared about, everything I knew, everything I could help with. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “And the sword,” said Ron finally, when they had at last abandoned their attempts to divine meaning in the Snitch’s inscription. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z We’d found the car abandoned along a side road a few miles west of East River, and picked it only because it still had a quarter tank of gas. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Or we stay in cabins belonging to other people or to the government, or we stay in abandoned logging camps, or we pitch two tents, one for sleeping and one for supplies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He assured Thieu that the United States was not abandoning South Vietnam, that Nixon would continue the bombing as long as necessary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You can put some jazz or something to it. Are these all abandoned houses?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Didn’t she realize she’d abandoned her family for the last month? Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The only thing that remained of their passing was the cream puff, abandoned before Sycorax had climbed into the radiator. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I don’t know why she was so willing to abandon that place after she was rescued. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z One night, we find shelter in an abandoned hut. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone actually abandoned a BMW by the side of the road.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “We should move quickly. I was on my way to rescue yet another abandoned baby. I have been doing so forever so long.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z During supper-time, we heard shouting from another Company—curses the most furious—and, wondering at this outburst, we abandoned our plates and rushed to witness the argument. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The abandoned train station next to the river is boarded up now, the red paint peeling off in giant strips. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We stumble across seven abandoned pay phones in some ditch, underneath a highway leading north toward the Queensboro Bridge. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z With the exception of a few abandoned cars and green Dumpsters, the enormous blacktop parking lot was empty. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I would have preferred an abandoned site, but knew I couldn’t continue. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The stenographers had abandoned their typewriters and were crowded around us. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean abandon my corner near the bathrooms?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z But there was a way to avoid such aggravation: He could simply abandon the Datsun and resume his odyssey on foot. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Our situation, I find, is thus: Williamsburg—its Palace and its House of Burgesses—lies utterly abandoned by all royal authority, and is now the haunt of rebels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Faeries live in hills and valleys and barrows, in alleys and abandoned mortal buildings. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My legs ache by the time we reach the bridge, but then I see the Merciless Mart across the marshy river, abandoned and unlit, and I smile through the pain. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I want to be a hero. And heroes don’t abandon their friends.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Other times his overnight quarters might be an abandoned car, an empty garage, a basement stairwell. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only worse, because she’d broken the world she was abandoning them to. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z If a product or enterprise doesn’t constantly reinvent itself, it is superseded, cast aside, abandoned without sentiment in favor of something bigger, newer, and, alas, nearly always uglier. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I ran hard, with abandon, into the narrow swatch of the clearing, darker here with the closer trees. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Then it is true. Your Worship means to abandon us.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They were safely stashed in the abandoned cages below the old prison tower at Hellgate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I’m standing atop the scaffolding at the abandoned silo at the Beaverton farm, feeding an endless chain of paper links through the intake window. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This didn’t seem completely crazy imagination in 1942, when jumping out of trees stood for abandoning a torpedoed ship. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z I am not abandoning Nell, I told myself sternly; I’m doing the right thing, no matter how much it hurts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The car had been found, abandoned at a diner in Pennsylvania. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The school had abandoned uniforms a while back, but the dress code was still pretty strict. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Just after nightfall we finally come to another settlement, another one with docks on the river, another one abandoned. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The meerkats were abandoning the ponds—indeed, the whole plain—and rapidly making for the forest. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At her glance, three girls rose and abandoned theirs in the far comer of the room beyond the dining tables. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z My chance came when Madam received an invitation from a friend who had moved into an abandoned rebel mansion in Greenwich Village, north of the city line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I briefly contemplated abandoning Margo to her fate, but just kept breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth as she ran toward the house. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When the exhausted crew of Endurance gave up the battle against the pressure and abandoned the ship, the ice field around her was not a sight to inspire confidence. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z While he attended the races at Tanforan with Bing Crosby, the crooner found himself abandoned as fans and autograph-seekers smothered Howard. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her raging back that she’d founded the only sanctuary in the world devoted to bonobos and couldn’t abandon it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The train takes a turn it doesn’t usually take—left, away from the glow of Erudite and into the abandoned part of the city. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Just brick houses, some lived in, some abandoned. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Yet in later life, his attitude toward these skills reflected a curious facet of his personality: having mastered them, he abandoned them almost entirely to move on to new challenges. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, they’d only just gotten the door itself, which he’d found in the basement of another abandoned building. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Sun’s high in the sky and there’s a gas station a short distance away, but the lot where the RV is parked is otherwise abandoned. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Dr. Musoke abandoned his efforts to give his patient a blood transfusion for fear that the patient would bleed to death out of the small hole in his arm. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why are you going to abandon your kids?” he asks her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In each pane of our abandoned house transformed, she watched me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Each day Ashoke is pained by the half-eaten sandwiches people toss into garbage cans on campus, apples abandoned after one or two bites. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I knew he was running out of strength, close to death, and yet I had abandoned him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The most distressing change here at Rose Hill is that, due to the undead plague, most of the people in the valley have abandoned their farms for easier living out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I don't know. How can I? He's only staying with Dad because he hates Mom, but what happens when he realizes Dad abandoned us a long time ago too?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Caesar was keen to discover its secret but, as the story goes, his soldiers insisted that he abandon this quest even before they reached the first waterfall. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I always knew, even when I was estranged from the regent, that all my friends might desert me, all my plans might founder, all my hopes be dashed, but the regent would never abandon me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Obviously I don’t like her! She abandoned you!” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If he scampered off like the rest, it would be like a father abandoning his family. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z For instance, around 3000 B.C. the hunter-gatherers of southern Sweden adopted farming based on Southwest Asian crops, but abandoned it around 2700 B.C. and reverted to hunting-gathering for 400 years before resuming farming. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Bolted last night while 1 was in the shower. Took my Jeep, too. The cops found it abandoned this morning up near the toll plaza at Cutler Ridge.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “I thought that your mother had abandoned you.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z To her right, the guiamala—now abandoned—trotted in nervous circles until it knocked down the tent’s central pole and the whole structure gave an ominous shudder. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The square itself is ringed with run-down storefronts, most of which are abandoned. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Whole blocks were abandoned, buildings blackened and hollowed out by fires set by arsonists—many of whom were in the employ of landlords looking to cash out of the deteriorating ghetto. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Most homes look as if they have families who love them; others look like abandoned orphans with their burned-out roofs and missing windows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If someone dies inside a hogan, that hogan is abandoned forever. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aberdeen Lake” sounds romantic and mysterious, like it might be located somewhere in die Scottish Highlands, as opposed to an abandoned outpost at the edge of Death Valley. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We boys and common men abandoned our shoes, stockings, doublets and slops weeks ago. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I could’ve talked him out of it, I know it, but I abandoned him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She might as well go back to bed—the bed she so rarely abandoned that poor Mrs. Helm had to battle for the chance to change its linen twice a week. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Because TB was largely concentrated in poor countries, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight MDR. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She had tried one and abandoned it to him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He remembered the photo in Hazel’s abandoned house in Seward. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Mudgett’s only close friend was an older child named Tom, who was killed in a fall while the boys were playing in an abandoned house. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We abandoned him to a kinder fate and the dictates of nature. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He began to take off his own clothes, though with less abandon than Hooper. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The basic theory underlying this strategy is that white Americans will abandon discriminatory practices if and when it becomes apparent that black people aren’t inferior after all. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Baba abandons his egg halfway to his mouth. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Hot Pie scuttled back inside, abandoning them . . . but Gendry came back, the fire shining so bright on his polished helm that the horns seemed to glow orange. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Just ’cause you guys abandoned me on a godforsaken planet with no chance of survival? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I really hope it’s an abandoned hosiery mill. Oh! Or maybe a raccoon-infested bus station!” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Obviously, the notion that the height of a mountain could be measured from sea level could establish itself only after this view had been abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Only one child, poor Charlie Johnson, was ever thus abandoned, and not a single child was lost, although anxiety invested the closing moments of each day. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But he wasn’t ready to abandon clinical practice, certainly not in Haiti, where he had worked for almost two decades. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I expect to encounter the same guards who tried to stop us on the way in, but the gate is abandoned, left open. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On the way back our car broke down so we had to abandon it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z There was an abandoned ice cream truck behind us. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Alyce,” whispered Beetle, surrounded by boys and abandoned by the cat. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, while Father was smack in the middle of explaining something to the Underdowns, they suddenly hustled us onto a tiny airplane and abandoned us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z On that first day of tryouts, Jeremiah played with all of the joyful abandon you might expect of an eight-year-old who had been stuck inside a dark two-bedroom apartment for months. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z States had largely abandoned execution by electrocution, gas chamber, firing squad, and hanging in favor of lethal injection. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "Astronomers in the twentieth century essentially abandoned the solar system," he added. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, when the government clerks had panicked and dashed from Philadelphia, they had abandoned all papers and records in boarded-up houses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I spent the next several weeks running the argument over and over in my mind, picturing a small dog chasing a puppet across the floor of an abandoned warehouse. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Pawhuska is filled with its share of abandoned buildings, but it is one of the few towns that remain. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Only when cell theory established itself in the 1830s was preformationism abandoned. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That hushed tone meant he hadn’t told the others that she’d been about to abandon them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z One afternoon, somewhere west of the Batangan Peninsula, we came across an abandoned pagoda. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A battered yellow taxi draws up beside him and, grateful to be able to abandon his train of thought, Salim gets in. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Well then, I guess it’s all right. You know what they say: ‘Have not a hand in the blade with abandon.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I tracked down the owner of the abandoned house, and once the papers were all signed and it was mine, I arranged for Marcus to help me renovate. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help thinking how selfish it was of her, abandoning her brother like that. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Their lives and mine were so separate that it might take them several days to realize that I had abandoned my place in the attic. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The old knight would not abandon Joffrey easily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z This abandoned library parking lot was like an alternate universe where everyone really cared about raw eggs, and holding hands was a totally acceptable thing to do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z There was an abandoned warehouse inside, a dark, dank sort of place where rats scuttled. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I feel abandoned and forgotten, dropped into misery worse than my own. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Annette, a twenty-year-old server who is six months pregnant and abandoned by her boyfriend, lives with her mother, a postal clerk. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Joon asked as she rinsed the last few dinner dishes, abandoned by someone at the sound of the bell. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As Cherokees fled, abandoning their towns and fields, the attackers seized, killed, and scalped women and children, taking no prisoners. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Before we left, my father found an abandoned soldier’s helmet. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z They could not abandon their houses, fields and granaries without grave risk of loss. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These proper folk, who had always maintained an appearance of peaceful reserve, now rolled in the aisles with abandon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The yard was littered with abandoned car parts, tires, broken pieces of furniture, and other detritus. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some were dead and some were dying; more were their kin or close companions, unwilling to abandon them even for a bowl of onion soup. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The town had been abandoned years ago but they walked the littered streets carefully, the boy holding on to his hand. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He did not wear his pirate costume with abandon, and there was something rather tragic about the side-whiskers he had fluffed under the scarlet handkerchief on his head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No one knew where Scipio spent the nights, and he never spoke about it, although every now and then he would drop a mysterious hint about an abandoned church. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to call out for him to not abandon me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z There was only one vehicle, an abandoned wagon drawn by two horses. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z When Hernando de Soto became the first European conquistador to march through the southeastern United States, in 1540, he came across Indian town sites abandoned two years earlier because the inhabitants had died in epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They reminded me of children lined up in an orphanage—seen but abandoned, together but alone. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The summer of the mariposas, we abandoned our beloved Lotería for good, neglected our chores, and went completely wild. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Miss Avocet stayed on, emerging from her torpor now and then to wander the halls, calling out forlornly for her poor abandoned wards before slumping into someone’s arms to be taken back to bed. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The colored one was far away and was rusty and looked as though it had long ago been abandoned on some junk pile. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Neighboring diners dug into the pig, cutting pieces off it with careless abandon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The abandoned stores, equipment and vehicles made an avenue of scrap that spilled across their path. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On the roof of the abandoned factory, the lonely drummer drummed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The abandoned village wasn’t too far off, and already showed signs of rebuilding. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “You must understand that love never keeps a man from pursuing his Personal Legend. If he abandons that pursuit, it’s because it wasn’t true love . . . the love that speaks the Language of the World.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I shivered in my bed like the abandoned dog that I was, my skin shaking over my bones. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Once they disagreed in a narrow lane, and Mr. Merriweather was abandoned for seven hours. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Dad said, “We’ve both been worried that you’ll feel abandoned. It’s important for you to know that we will always be here for you, Hazel. Your mom isn’t going anywhere.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The thought of abandoning my team and sabotaging their chances at a win... Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He regretted abandoning his accomplice, but when he heard the screaming girl at the window, Herold decided to save himself. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Although past midnight lights showed in all but the abandoned houses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved into the house when they came down from the mountains, as the house had simply been abandoned. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I kept to the fronts of buildings, ducking into doorways when necessary, until I finally took refuge in the abandoned chandler’s shop. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Um, you led me to an abandoned elementary school. That has ‘I want to kill you and play dress up with your dead body’ written all over it.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z They were a flaming invitation to the Sun God not to abandon his children forever. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He abandoned the house on Quality Ridge and lit out for parts unknown, taking with him what remained of the investments of half the town. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the old Jansenist antiscience creed that was building up in him, but for whatever the reason, Pascal’s newfound devotion led him to abandon mathematics and science altogether. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Those tracks have long been abandoned, and the Wood is thought to be the home of dangerous beasts and the most powerful of all the fairies. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z What saved them was that along the way they found several summer cabins, abandoned for the winter. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had hinted that he would abandon the “broken” one and just get another. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Riding through Clover is like riding through an abandoned war zone. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He saw only the abandoned bikes here and there on their sides; an upturned wheel on one was still revolving slowly. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “We met in an abandoned village. He had fled his village.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Having tasted freedom’s bounty, it was incomprehensible to Cora that Mabel had abandoned her to that hell. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “No shortage of accommodation,” Bushra says as we pass yet another abandoned ruin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z By two o’clock, Reynie was abandoning his last letter to Miss Perumal, starting over, then abandoning the new one as well—too anxious even to think about being anxious. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It looked like something a dog had chewed on and abandoned. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In no time, the camp had the look of an abandoned ship. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z A wagon, laden with crates and chests, stood abandoned near the door of the stable. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “They basically said that she abandoned them, so why should they look for her? Especially Joaquin, what with the foster care and everything.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Galton must have realized the inherent limits of his pedigree project, for he soon abandoned it for a more powerful empirical approach. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The boy reached the small, abandoned church just as night was falling. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one the lovers tried out all the abandoned rooms, and finally chose an improvised nest in the depths of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow I never realized that when Tobias charged out of the city with me, he wasn’t just a rebel defying his leader—he was a son abandoning his mother. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z ‘You speak nonsense. A column of fire is about to destroy you and your precious Greek statue. No ally can help you. Your mother has abandoned you as you abandoned your legion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I searched the entire western half of the Col for more than an hour, peering behind boulders and poking under shredded, long- abandoned tents, but found no trace of Harris. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z One day as he was strolling peacefully about the grounds, he discovered two tiny babies that had been abandoned in a basket under the grape arbor. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Jon had housed them in the same abandoned tower where he had once slept when he had been new to the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He strongly urged their leader to abandon the fixed survey method once and for all. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z At once the children turned back to one another, their feud abandoned in the face of her grief. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “He deserves your getting angry with him. For abandoning you and for abandoning your daughter.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He would never have abandoned them at the Bay of Pigs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m standing on the red railway car that sits abandoned next to the barn. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It's been two hours since we abandoned ship. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were all the old arguments I had proposed years before—long since abandoned. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With abandon, I ran and skipped and kicked big rocks and stomped through mud puddles. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She sees it, Hamilton Shiley’s abandoned Big Wheel in the street up ahead. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He jotted these down in his notebook beneath his abandoned Caravaggio notes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Behind him, just then, Franny blew her nose with guileless abandon; the report was considerably louder than might have been expected from so fine and delicate-appearing an organ. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The cratered streets were flanked by little more than ruins of shelled buildings and abandoned homes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involved bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And now we all sat in an abandoned barn, trying to create a fire for warmth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Besides, roads change, increase, are widened or abandoned so often in our country that one must buy road maps like daily newspapers. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The only other clothes that fit me were someplace in the Pennsylvania countryside with the farmer who had abandoned us. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z That means we must be north of the bridge, where the city is abandoned. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The five minutes were apparently over, but the players were making no move to abandon the field. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In the lovers’ postures he could see the abandon typical of those who have known each other for a long time. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They abandon the site forever and leave that useless bauble to their foe. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Kudzu- swamped clusters of old abandoned buildings shadowed under the loom of swamp trees. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t just abandoned orphans anymore—they were part of something. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Dad’s crossing the bridge by the old abandoned gristmill, turning at the boarded-up school, and for the first time I can feel Shiloh’s body begin to shake. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be just a matter of time, the Soviets reasoned, before the Americans would be forced to abandon the city. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Frear and Wood hurried away as quickly as possible, weaving around the piles of personal property abandoned in the road. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Then it was a mental hospital for a hot second in the seventies, then a crack house. Now it’s abandoned. City doesn’t know what to do with the property, I guess.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “The Titan lord always pays his debts. Perhaps a glimpse of the friends you abandoned ...” The darkness rippled around me, and I was in a different cave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps it wasn’t as easy for her to abandon the river. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The house was empty, every phone disconnected, every workstation abandoned. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We passed two British ambulances, abandoned in the block of vehicles. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Rubbish and abandoned placards lay in the dirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Your beloved has unleashed a special curse—a bitter thought from someone you abandoned. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A terrible impulse to flee, to abandon Peeta and save myself, shoots through me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he was out the other side of town, and there were piles of stacked Union muskets, blankets and canteens and wagons, the abandoned implements of war. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This distinction played havoc with congressional debate by creating doubt that the temporary location, once chosen, would ever be abandoned. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z At all costs, the citadel must appear abandoned. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “The Foretelling is truth. A truth you will soon face. You seek to run. You seek to abandon your duty. But you cannot escape your destiny.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She, Nicholas, and her four other children were living in a second-floor walk-up in Englewood, a crime-burdened neighborhood abandoned first by the white middle class and then by the black middle class that succeeded it. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He forced the producers to simplify dialogue and abandon certain techniques they had taken from adult television. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not abandoning Mo's. This is your chance to be a hero, Daoud. A real one." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Some had sunk so deep into the bog that only a comer showed; others lay strewn about like some god’s abandoned toys, cracked and crumbling, spotted with lichen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z For this reason I worked on the canoe I had abandoned on the spit. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I seemed to become the main character, as if I had abandoned myself and allowed some other person to step right in and take me over. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They’d been surviving out here in the forest and fields around the abandoned village, and Anastasia had given birth in the wild. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z We spent our summers at Nantucket, Massachusetts, where Dad bought two lighthouses, which had been abandoned by the government, and a ramshackle cottage, which looked as if it had been abandoned by Coxey’s Army. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z His speed abandoned him, and he lost race after race. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He was supposed to be sitting in a lightweight, state-of-the-art canoe, but that had been abandoned during the punishing journey to get here—along with many of their supplies, including much of their food. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The China National Space Administration abandoned a project they'd worked on for years just to provide a booster. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only had he stood her champion on Nagga’s hill and shouted out her name, but he had even crossed the sea to join her afterward, abandoning his king and kin and home. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The members of the secret church would meet in abandoned buildings. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They climbed the highest hill above the village to the abandoned stone house where her uncle used to live. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There was no use risking theft or discovery because of a few pinpoints of light reflected in an abandoned window. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Three days later, his jacket and knapsack were found abandoned, miles into the woods. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The next day the king’s scouts chanced upon an abandoned crofters’ village between two lakes—a mean and meagre place, no more than a few huts, a longhall, and a watchtower. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Many horsemen were forced to abandon the sport and sell off their farms and horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z This was never a big deal before, since it used to be abandoned. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I stand up, balancing on the edge of the roof, and peer at the courtyard seven stories down, just for a moment imagining the weightlessness, the absolute abandon of the fall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Anti-Semitism also became a quasi religion—or certainly a profound belief—for him, and one that he never really abandoned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, Bailey looked at the class itself, in mute appeal, like something wounded, lost, abandoned. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My gray choice, however, seemed rat-tight, and I abandoned my idea of taking another walk and decided to sit steady and wait for sleep. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He abandoned the ditch for the forest the moment he saw someone coming toward him from the opposite direction and ran through the cluttered forest frenziedly like someone pursued, his cheeks burning with disgrace. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yet I see nothing else we can do. Would you abandon him? Would you have cut off his head?” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Mr. Popper had abandoned his telephoning and was now busy shaving and making himself neat in honor of being the owner of such a splendid bird as Captain Cook. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Hungry dogs roamed and barked, abandoned by their masters because they weren’t allowed on ships. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Ray’s and Leda’s few toys abandoned on the floor. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z But Rafik thought she had passed the camp and was heading down through low bushes and scraggly trees toward the runways at the abandoned airport. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Now they were abandoning it for good - and leaving Leo behind. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Before they were married, both of them had briefly attended community colleges, but each had abandoned the exercise long before getting a degree. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But mostly they were angry with the “brass,” and with their own officers for abandoning them in the retreat, and with the French for collapsing without a fight. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “We’ll look for a cluster of trees or maybe an abandoned cabin. I’m sure we’ll find a safe place to rest for the night.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Coleman property had been abandoned for a number of years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought that abandoning their canoes and trekking through the jungle was a terrible idea. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Word spread quickly around the stage: none of the bands was getting through the traffic, now at a dead stop as people abandoned their cars and walked the last few miles to the festival. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Watch now had garrisons at Icemark, Long Barrow, Sable Hall, Greyguard, and Deep Lake, all badly undermanned, but ten castles still stood empty and abandoned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Given the disastrous events of April 1865, Mudd assumed that the Union victory had changed the actor’s plans and the scheme to kidnap the president had been abandoned. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At one point the heat became too intense, so he ducked into an abandoned store where he found a large blanket on the floor. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z But Collier Farms was like none of the other pseudovisions I’d seen, because it was wildly overgrown, as if it had been abandoned for fifty years. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In the fifteenth century, Angkor Wat was abandoned to the jungles after an invasion by Siam and forgotten about until French explorers rediscovered it in the nineteenth century. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And knowing this, she abandoned the past instantly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I just sat, surrounded by abandoned lunches, staring at the cup of Jell-O and letting terror crawl through me until my arms and legs felt like they would be frozen to the table forever. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I could not countenance that we would abandon the town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Private Price was evacuated from Corregidor just a few weeks before MacArthur himself abandoned that post, with his famous promise to return. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Flowering vines sent up creepers from every crack in the wall or pavement, and young trees had taken root in the Walls of abandoned shops and roofless temples. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Most of his lodge-mates had lost their parents to illness or accident, though one, Tarik, had been abandoned as an infant by an irresponsible couple who had no interest in raising a child. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, all hands were engaged in preparations to abandon the stockade. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Another year he abandoned red, even as the mother of purple. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I see Mabel turning into a sullen girl, all too aware of the ways she has been burdened, ill-treated, abandoned to this sorry lot. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Or suppose the humans simply cut their losses and abandoned Weep, leaving a ghost town for them to lord over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The apartment complex manager’s office looks like an abandoned church, and has the name Royce Court scrawled across in an old country-western font. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But he abandoned her when she told him what she was. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He abandoned the cart there and went off for another one. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The TV shows pictures from Florida: a man unable to stand because of wind, cars abandoned, trees lying on the ground. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Beyond the bridge, the dirt path abandoned the banks of the Dudh Kosi and zigzagged up the steep canyon wall, ascending through aromatic stands of pine. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We were worried that the police would find his car abandoned and his body nearby. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She sped to the abandoned meadow, now pale green with raspberry and young hawthorn leaves. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a score of little courtyards, half of them abandoned and overgrown. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But it left something with him; as long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Hrothulf, he knows, is a danger to his sons; but he cannot abandon the child of his dead younger brother. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z For now, she abandons it and watches Marco as he crosses the room to reach the bookcases lining the wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At first the plan was to tell each other ghost stories ’cause it was so dark and eerie walking the long stretches of abandoned beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z They found nothing, save for the places where fires had been, where small encampments had been abandoned. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Add to these one more compelling reason for Clarkson to abandon his post: yellow fever had already seized his wife and killed his youngest son, Gerard. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In addition to absconding with twenty-five thousand dollars and giving Milton false hopes of my return, Father Mike was abandoning his own family. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He’d sacrificed himself to take out the Princess Andromeda, and I had abandoned him. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And let me now posit this: 'dignity7 has to do crucially with a butler's ability not to abandon the professional being he inhabits. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Once more Roy Baty sent a laser beam cutting at him, missed, dropped the tube and ran somewhere deeper inside the apartment, to another room, perhaps, the electronic hardware abandoned. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The only time he abandoned his Trappist laconism was when Alba went to visit him in his tunnel of books. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The abandoned shipyards display their corrugated roofs like infected scars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie stood facing her new friend by the table they had just abandoned, people around her whirling into action. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Or a broken shoe abandoned—though not for long. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z I feel a longing in my chest when we pass Apá’s abandoned childhood home. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The deep mine is abandoned, its tunnels flooded, the equipment inside covered with black water. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But had he not abandoned himself to the impulse he would now be a heap of mangled flesh. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z During the daylight hours, they dove into the surf with abandon, emerging tanned and sure-footed, as if they were selkies who had let their timidity float out on the tide like a false skin. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How will I do this and not cause my son, God forbid, to abandon the Master of the Universe and His Commandments? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Despereaux's brothers and sisters soon abandoned the thankless task of trying to educate him in the ways of being a mouse. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z No sooner had Louella proven itself a success than I had to abandon the day-to-day operations of the company and let my family handle the business full-time. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You still think my own government will abandon me,” said Spurge with a little bitterness. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z But I had never heard anyone announce to their twenty-four-year-old daughter, as my mother had the week before, that the father she’d previously been told had abandoned her hadn’t even known that she existed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The streets of Berlin, many of which were still lined with abandoned homes and devoid of pedestrians, provided Blake with the cover he needed to hand off such precious—and treacherous—cargo. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z My sister and I would play in the parking lots outside the little doors to the basements of the abandoned buildings. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Grace could see her mentally ripping out the carpet in their living room, adding a second wing, or quite possibly abandoning Grace’s father and her to live in this house instead. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z A lot of the Negro girls’ combat schools are in old plantation houses, while the boys’ combat schools are in abandoned military barracks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They reached the edge of the ruins after midnight, and boarded down to the abandoned building where Tally and David had camped. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z They sailed in November 1676, with Halley, now just past his twentieth birthday, abandoning his degree studies. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She would not die alone, and she wouldn’t live her life having abandoned the one boy she’d ever really cared about to the mercy of some madman. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Du Bois attacked Washington and his followers not only for abandoning politics but also for repeating demeaning stereotypes about blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m not abandoning my brother any more than my parents are. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z People abandoned their loot and ran for cover. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And what did they do with suspiciously abandoned baggage in 1940, anyway? Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And we sing with the same abandon, not worrying too much if our voices hit the right notes or the right words. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Judge William Lewis saw house after house in his neighborhood abandoned, saw the streets empty, saw the hearses constantly passing his home, and fled. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The sprawling Tudor monstrosity in the plutocrats’ retreat of Tuxedo Park, New York, had been built at the turn of the century by a wealthy banker and abandoned amid the grief of a family tragedy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The problem with this view was that it meant abandoning the idea that the universe was created out of nested spheres—a high price to pay, and one that few were prepared to contemplate. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Another resident has moved in, taken one of the abandoned apartments, and close enough for me to hear him. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I am a babe in the woods, abandoned at the foot of a tree. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Last month, Iran abandoned preconditions for resuming international negotiations over its nuclear programs that the West had considered unacceptable. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Drained by worry, abandoned by St. Christopher, she stopped fighting an eventuality that had never been fated in the first place. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They were not financially able to abandon their potatoes, so they cheerfully set up camp right on the state line, where they ate potatoes, sold potatoes, bartered potatoes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z White had seen plenty of lawmen killed on the frontier, and though he didn’t talk much about these deaths, they had nearly caused him to abandon his calling. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So the centers were shut down and the birds were abandoned to die off in the wild. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z We pull over to the side of the road, leaving the car, and walk through the abandoned entrance, puzzling at the barrier that must have been put in place after the gate came down. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But he abandoned the idea immediately, because even the thought of making any physical effort was unbearable. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The intestine was in the sand where the dog had abandoned it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of abandoning Gulliver was far worse than the realization that he’d have to jump. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Magdalena says the trash heap near the old airport was their bodega, and their home an abandoned shed near the runway. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Normal afternoon shows have been replaced by a live report of a kid somewhere in Kansas who fell into an old abandoned well. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Runt was safe and sleeping inside the abandoned groundhog’s den that Bristle had enlarged for him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z To go inside, we must ride between two trees, an oak and a thorn, and then straight into what appears to be the stone wall of an abandoned folly. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Dome is too far away. To please this prince, I would need to abandon all my people. You should send him home.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few steps away, an abandoned satchel still packed with clean shirts lay open. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Marland, the oil baron who found the Burbank field, had built a twenty-two-room mansion in Ponca City, then abandoned it for an even bigger one. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I put up the picture of the abandoned house in my neighborhood. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z We found a shovel and pickax at an abandoned farm and spent just about every free minute digging a hole. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad, on the other hand, seemed more like those friends who had abandoned Erik, who now regretted ever getting involved with him in the first place. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Hermione reached out for a copy of the Evening Prophet, which somebody had left abandoned on a chair. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Explaining the reversal to the Associated Press, Ulbrickson broke cover, abandoned the dance of doom, and said simply what he believed in his heart about the sophomores. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Made of rotted wood and abandoned shackles,” she read aloud. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The guy crashed into an abandoned pile of trash bags, and before he could get back up, Sargon was on him, jaws wide.... City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The black people, for all their new look, seemed awfully anxious to get to the valley, or leave town, and abandon the hills to whoever was interested. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He had abandoned the Wonder Woman outfit and was dressed in sweats. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some crouched in dark doorways of abandoned buildings, gnawing on moldy bread and the peels of sugar beets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z All lay in uneasy silence, putting me in mind of the abandoned village where I had first met Bear. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Some young people took up the weapons abandoned by the guards and performed sentry duty. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There was even a massive and chilly attic, though it gave Ophie such a sense of foreboding that she abandoned it completely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Their new home, Mom said, was in an abandoned building on the Lower East Side. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Bede didn’t want to abandon the new dating system, so he extended Dionysius’s calendar backward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z One time when he was forced by strategic circumstances to abandon a stronghold to the forces of Colonel Aureliano Buendía, he left two letters for him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z First he took out the tendons, bringing the troll to its knees, then he abandoned the mace and went to work with gauntleted hands, perhaps deadlier than the mace had been. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Arm was delighted to find that the police carried baby bottles, in case they found an abandoned child. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Henry refused to compromise; he left school, abandoned his plans to become a clergyman, and took a job as an agent of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If Severin says the wrong thing, I am going to have to abandon all phases of the plan except for “get out.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Enrique likes the people in the trailer, especially his mother’s boyfriend; he could be a better father than his own dad, who abandoned him ten years ago to start another family. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Their joy was evident in the way they nodded and grinned while they resumed shoving cake into their mouths with reckless abandon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The swing set was just sitting there, abandoned, the two little swings hanging still and sad from a grayed plank of wood, the outline of the seats like a kid’s drawing of a smile. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z We left her to make her way past the body of him who had assaulted her; we abandoned her before she discovered the body of her father. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The developers built the outer structure quickly and then left it, abandoned and unfinished, its unpaned windows staring emptily out into the Brooklyn skies. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Horses and animals, lost or abandoned by their owners, roamed helpless in the streets. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On another floor of the hospital, in a waiting room, Ashoke hunches over a Boston Globe from a month ago, abandoned on a neighboring chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He told them how no one liked him or wanted to play with him, how no one appreciated him or cared, and how even his guardian had abandoned him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z On the other side of the road, halfway between where we’re huddled and where Baba and the others are, is an abandoned house: stone walls, no roof, no doors. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Their books prevented them from running with grace and abandon. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Shin got to Shanghai, he had long since abandoned any hope of traveling to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Those whose numbers had been noted were standing apart, abandoned by the whole world. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Business associates, friends, and family eventually abandoned Guiteau when they discovered he had swindled them. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Jon had seen an abandoned hold-fast once, a drear place where nothing moved but the wind and the stones kept silent about whatever people had lived there. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z However, many was the time I’d find my vegetables left in the abandoned camp. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had said that the lessons were leading to something to do with the prophecy; Harry had felt bolstered, comforted, and now he felt slightly abandoned. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Urban exploring. We enter abandoned buildings, explore them, photograph them. We take nothing; we leave nothing. Were just observers.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z People squeezed into the gaps between abandoned vehicles or against shattered walls and doorways. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Sweeping down from the high ground, General Meade’s infantry pounces on the terrified Confederates, who abandon their wagons and race into the woods on foot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Although the students of Burnt Mill Creek had largely abandoned what at one time had been considered boys-being-boys typical teenage bullying, the German Dance Club was still fair game. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “I like to think Twelve wouldn’t have abandoned the rest of the rebels back in the Dark Days,” I say. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z To her left the slope fell away toward a landscape of olive and lemon groves, of poorly tended vineyards and abandoned windmills, lying hazy in the evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Alba abandoned her studies; the school of philosophy, like many others that open the gateway of the mind, was closed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All usual pursuits were abandoned in the Gryffindor common room the night before the match. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They tease her about how Pa found her abandoned near our trashcan and adopted her out of pity. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Arguments over the location of novas and comets in the heavens thus continued even after 1610, after which date the traditional Ptolemaic system was abandoned by all competent participants. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They dreamed of finding abandoned mansions in the woods and vanishing into secret chambers in ancient castles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Tell her I’m here and I will always be here and I will visit her every day and I will never abandon her. Tell her that.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I found him out back, sitting in an abandoned car. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all have abandoned the adverb for the adjective. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When someone speaks to him, he answers politely and gently, his mind far away—on murdered thanes, abandoned hopes. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Aerial footage shows cars abandoned at the edges of freeways and side streets. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In my head I can still see that little pile of clothes lying at the edge of the track, abandoned. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “I live a mad, abandoned life, draped in a shawl and going from garret to garret.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally, totally exhausted, when I thought I would have to abandon my search, I opened one more door. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The place they found some distance down the road was an abandoned prospector’s cabin. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z “It’s really that I can’t leave Otto, Mom. I know the surrogate mothers are great, but he’s bonded to me and it would kill him if I abandoned him.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond a crossroads in that wilderness they began to come upon the possessions of travelers abandoned in the road years ago. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I had the uneasy feeling that we were abandoning them, as if we had the magic ticket and they did not. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But he realized that Haiti was now so embedded in his mind and heart that he could never abandon the country so quickly. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was a desolate, cratered face, sooty with care like an abandoned mining town. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Lifting her tail and leveling her body, she walked to the abandoned scrape. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I ducked through a Troll Hole and made my way back to the library, walking again through the abandoned metal shelves. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z It felt like young people hadn’t abandoned the cause, like they really wanted to know what we went through. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The castle had been abandoned when King Jerrold was a boy, although it was reopened on special occasions, for private balls, weddings, and the like. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I asked, worried that they too might have been abandoned. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The Masks whirled in panic as their spirits abandoned them. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z ‘Are we to abandon him? Must we not seek him first? An evil choice is now before us!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Other times I was sure I’d be rejected, and that God would punish me for applying, for trying to abandon my own family. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The trade union movement as a whole buckled under fierce right-wing attacks and quickly abandoned black workers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We left the place secretly—it was utterly abandoned—some four or five hundred of us issuing forth in a dismal parade to the north. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z So it had to be an abandoned movie theater, of course, one that had been closed down and forgotten about by the owner. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z His car was abandoned on the roadside, the front door left open. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t want people to abandon the town, because they needed to use civilians as a shield against the military. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “She’s supposed to be guarding the school, why’s she suddenly abandoning her post to come and see Dumbledore when he’s not even here?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There was an old abandoned cemetery atop the hill with rows of unmarked headstones and tangles of brushwood clogging the aisles. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A lone clog, the size of a small boat, lay abandoned in front of them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z When I reach the tree with the abandoned nest at the foot, I pause a moment, to gather my courage. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Glum faces were everywhere throughout the Glade, and most of the workers had abandoned their daily jobs. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “You’d be sad, too, if your husband had abandoned you for another wife,” Grandmother said harshly. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “So we siphon gas from an abandoned car.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Even the Nigerian armored car, left abandoned at the end of the street, had grass growing from its tires. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The importance of diffusion, and of geographic location in making it possible, is strikingly illustrated by some otherwise incomprehensible cases of societies that abandoned powerful technologies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There’s one down by the train station, in an area that used to be nothing but abandoned, burned-out factories and graffiti. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I could practically hear Tidings: “You let him go? A soldier does not abandon his charge!” Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Gregor couldn’t believe his dad would abandon the family and never look back. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Inkatha members then proceeded to occupy the abandoned shacks and confiscate all the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched her fall convincingly into poverty and despair, once abandoned by the wicked count—who was the prologue speaker in his black cloak. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Rietveld, his family name, was abandoned, cut away like a rotten limb. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Other stolen pieces were hidden in salt mines, abandoned factories, castle ruins, and the basements of museums. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “I know that the Mother of Dragons will not abandon us in our hour of peril. Lend us your Unsullied to defend our walls.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had taken her through all the other stages of healing, and somehow, I couldn’t abandon her now. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She wasn’t sure how they would pull off a rescue if scalding the monster with salt failed, but Seth was right about one thing—they couldn’t just abandon Grandpa. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Agents were aware that Pike had been hired by William Hale back in 1921 to solve the Osage murders but had abandoned the case after failing to make any progress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She looks around at the scraggly grounds, the overgrown bushes, the abandoned houses. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z It is a testament to the strength of Lyell’s sway that in the 1980s when geologists had to abandon just a part of it to accommodate the impact theory of extinctions, it nearly killed them. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I jump into the water when the fire finally reaches me, near the abandoned train station. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He sat by a gray window in the gray light in an abandoned house in the late afternoon and read old newspapers while the boy slept. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She has relocated her offices from an abandoned minimall in Florida to an abandoned barn in New York, and I have found her. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z If I found a nest of nightingale eggs or chicks, I was not to disturb it or the mother would abandon her roost and the chicks would die. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z She helped me put on my life jacket, then put hers on, saying, “Now, remember everything that we were told about abandoning ship.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Presently we came upon a circle of straw huts, intact but abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Eldridge would not allow the sick man in his house, but he did let Piercy stay in an abandoned log cabin in the woods. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “She was abandoned. Someone found her wandering the side of Beach Boulevard.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z They had abandoned their own fine armor in Volantis, along with their gold and their true names. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After such an eve, the crush and dance, utterly awesome was the silence of streets abandoned by all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I would never abandon my principles or ideals.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Would her sisters scoff at her for abandoning her Iranian ideals and allowing hair-free Americans to weaken her resolve? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Whatever misgivings he’d previously had about them seemed to have been abandoned, because he was fastidiously studying Nkrumah’s journal while two little girls decorated his curly hair with flowers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When her eyes got used to the dark, she saw that she had found a treasure: a winter’s supply of food, carefully stored and then, for some reason, forgotten or abandoned. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He was probably here to finish what he’d started when he first abandoned us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z They ate in the church and slept in one or other of the many abandoned houses in the village; that was the rule and it could not be broken. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Even the most optimistic staff began to cancel meetings, abandon research projects, and shelve any new ideas. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Around sunset we arrived at an abandoned village with she mud houses. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The mouse’s name was Tucker, and he was sitting in the opening of an abandoned drain pipe in the subway station at Times Square. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not here. Not like this. At this abandoned building I just discovered by the beach. At sunset. I have an idea.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But as Aureliano’s hope abandoned him, she was becoming less visible, as if the light on her were fading away, until she sank into drowsiness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “We shall have to abandon our canoes and every man fight for himself through the forest,” said Rondon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Everything was designed to be packed away quickly or abandoned. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But your mother and I knew too many people who’d married and abandoned each other for less. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Sickly, feeling abandoned by his parents, quarrelsome, unsociable, a virgin to the day he died, Isaac Newton was perhaps the greatest scientific genius who ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Reaching under the abandoned teacher’s desk he sat behind as presiding officer, Carter pulled out a small black box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Pax would never have thought he’d been abandoned—they were inseparable. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “There’s no law against destroying abandoned nests,” the vice-president was saying. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you abandoned Luke because you knew his future and didn't do anything to stop it.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Seeing me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to smile, and framed a few words of congratulation; but the smile expired, and the sentence was abandoned unfinished. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He shuddered at the thought of their former occupants, the hairs rising on the nape of his neck as he swiftly abandoned the repulsive scene and hurried along the passage. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He looks over at Leo, who has abandoned his project with the TV and is now happily eating a slice of cheesy bread. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As he disappeared behind the lime trees lining the side of our house, I stood trembling in my bare feet, wondering if we’d ever be close again, the way we were before he’d abandoned us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z All she could picture was their stuff, abandoned at the library table while they’d been at the computer bank discovering Mr. Griswold’s next clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Gravel crunches under my boots as I head into the abandoned heating plant. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When we didn’t have access to the school’s dance studio we’d break down oversize cardboard boxes in abandoned streets and parking lots, set up a boom box, and practice. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She bore twin sons to Poseidon—but fearing her father’s displeasure if he learned of the children’s birth, she abandoned them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Was she trapped in the wrong terminal, worried that her new husband had abandoned her? Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was just a darkness beyond the swamp, at the heart of the abandoned rubber estate, from which the sound of crickets swelled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The story slid out with all the details: being abandoned on the road, struggling to care for Grandfather, getting the fever. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All this calamity surrounded Helmuth, but he stayed in the city and made daily door-to-door visits, cautiously walking deserted streets and abandoned alleyways “with a trembling heart.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In summertime I would abandon adolescence to put the black cassock of mourning over a light summer shirt. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was abandoned at the Pet Hut shelter on September 18. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The long battering ram lay unguarded, conveniently spotlighted by the rats’ abandoned torches. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But to abandon Orr’s tent would be to abandon Orr, who would have been spurned and humiliated clannishly by these four simple-minded officers waiting to move in. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We abandoned most of our belongings so we could move faster, but it didn’t do us any good. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The ache in the middle of my left shin bone came to life, and I abandoned any hope of sleep before seven, when my radio-alarm clock would rouse me with its hearty renderings of Sousa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The rock crusher was an old abandoned quarry. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt, his beast disguise abandoned, squatted beside the dog, who came forward and sniffed him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The room had been abandoned in the middle of childbirths, where dying mothers had aborted fetuses infected with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I heard they passed the hat and collected a hundred and forty dollars to encourage those policemen to abandon their duties,” Grandma added. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I contended that it would be a mistake for the Communist party to persuade writers to abandon imaginative work to write pamphlets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you ever tell me about the shadowshapers? And then you just disappeared—you abandoned us. All of us.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I no longer wanted to be there for that, but I didn't want to abandon Herbert. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z With its formal closure thousands more workers joined the swelling army of the unemployed, and homeless men took up residence among the great abandoned palaces of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To wit: “How could I abandon my closest friend, my iPhone?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The lawyer who escorts her to the theater refuses to explain despite the manager’s protestations, abandoning her as quickly as he can with no more than a shrug and the tip of a hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z According to one story, he demanded that the people of the city of Canopus abandon their homes to settle in the new capital. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z None of the old dreams had been abandoned. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I wondered how many people had abandoned their cars at this point and walked the remaining miles down. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Sam and his forest and abandoned meadow were her habitat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As I look around the stacks of drinks, I find a single case of water that someone abandoned there maybe yesterday, when it wasn’t such a precious commodity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Despite his continued admonishments to Oppenheimer to abandon his political “leftwandering,” Oppenheimer found it hard to cease his engagement with liberal causes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He’s not abandoned him, but he’s not happy, either. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The new law requires the public school system to abandon any programs that involve bilingual students. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This room looks like an office only without computers, and it appears to have been abandoned in a great hurry, like its employees were beamed up to space or something. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Their fears began to circle the abandoned car, then to pile into it, tense new passengers with theories in their laps. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulls up to a curb in front of an abandoned building. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly a group of about ten shadowy figures leaped out of an abandoned building across from the street and surrounded me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe when you deteriorate back down the ladder of evolution as I have, when you sink into the tomb world slough of being a special—well, best to abandon that line of inquiry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There were miles of pastures and tens of miles of wasted, washed-out land abandoned to the hardier weeds. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z On that second day we abandoned our sledge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z My best friends had abandoned me, and now my mom had, too. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Fifteen minutes later, we’re on an abandoned construction site looking at a crumbling cement wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “We’re going to have to abandon the truck and get a new one.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Big Tony had taken the dogs to an abandoned warehouse where he could work on their “intruder attack” skills. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Last but not least was the cherished research in biomedicine, which Ernest did not propose to abandon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Even in times of supposed crisis, the commander couldn’t abandon his precious protocol. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z We’d done dry runs at the dockyards in New Jersey, using abandoned ships as our targets. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The lamassus roared and abandoned their battles to sprint in to help their mistress, but it was too late. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z But really, my parents abandoned everything they knew and loved because they didn't want their daughters to grow up with a strict religious code. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z In Laila’s hands was a metal spoke she had snapped with a pair of pliers from an abandoned bicycle wheel. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes focused on the bleak, unpainted spectator stands, abandoned for so long that tiny plants had started to push their green heads through the cracks in the cement. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Christ would not die or abandon me or be untrue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I knew my mom would never abandon me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Most Polynesians and many Melanesians abandoned the use of bows and arrows in war. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Vegetables were abandoned, half cut, on huge steel platters. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Victor Flores, four years old, maybe five, was abandoned on a bus by a female smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The train station in Seattle was in the middle of empty warehouses and abandoned buildings. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When Mr. Pontellier learned of his wife’s intention to abandon her home and take up her residence elsewhere, he immediately wrote her a letter of unqualified disapproval and remonstrance. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z A good-size chunk of shrapnel twanged off the abandoned car we were hiding behind. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She felt a stab of sympathy for it, abandoned not only by her kin, but by herself, left empty and alone while she was here, weeping her tears onto a stranger’s chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It may slip off treacherously, but its keeper never abandons it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The shoe poet scavenged through abandoned luggage as we walked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was Patria’s worried tone more than her question that pulled Dede back into that abandoned part of herself where she had hoped to give love, and to receive it, in full measure, both directions. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She will not have abandoned us, she would never leave her people, he was telling himself, when he heard the prince’s death rattle coming from the queen’s apartments. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He rushed toward the gulls, hollering and swinging his arms until the strutting scavengers abandoned their find. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I park in the fairground parking lot hidden behind Kristina’s house and abandoned since the last fair of the season. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z As I stare at the graffiti on an abandoned factory with shattered windows, he takes my hand and squeezes it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The hives looked like an abandoned neighborhood, the air groggy with heat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I can tell now that the building we're perched on is abandoned and boarded up, and only two JumboTrons along this entire block are functional. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Pieces of farm equipment in the distance look like abandoned toys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I had already abandoned Leib for the much cooler, I thought, name Leon. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z That made me abandon any inkling of escaping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw myself swelling like bellows on their blood, a meaningless smudge in a universe dead as old wind over bones, abandoned except for the burnt-blood scent of the dragon. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no abandoned tennis court in the other another’s world, no bottomless well. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z There seemed to be no connection at all among the books, except that they were all about traveling and had all been published after the minimall was abandoned. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z If Salla abandoned Stannis and his cause, he pointed out, he abandoned all hope of collecting the gold that was due him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t even tell me not to break into abandoned buildings, or ask why I was at an abandoned building at 10 A.M. on a school day. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z But after a few days’ close contact with the pestilence, Knox found that his warrior instinct had abandoned him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The soldier’s loudness annoyed him; this was a man who had abandoned his ogbunigwe and run off long before the vandals were close. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Percy led them right to it, on an abandoned stretch of hillside overlooking the ruined Forum. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When he decides she is too tall to be an adorable accessory, he begins abandoning her in dressing rooms or hotels. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My Teluman blades are long gone, abandoned on the dais of the amphitheater yesterday. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I'm in what looks like a child's abandoned bedroom. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z And soon even the few people who still lived there had forgotten their imperial glories. “getting along with nature” Why did the Maya abandon all their cities? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis and I sate awkwardly in silence, the pretense of tuition abandoned; knowing that the coming lesson would be but a simulation of learning; and being unwilling to begin this pretense without an audience. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The ancestors were as much a part of the family as the children, and to abandon them would have been wicked beyond belief. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “They didn’t abandon me. What happened to them was my fault.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And always I remember that this huge area had once been much more settled and was now abandoned to the creeping forest, the animals, the lumber camps and the cold. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By the third day, I abandoned my umbrella entirely and walked around in a perpetual state of wetness. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z In a way, she was doing the same thing now, abandoning him once more. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One army abandons the field almost immediately after the first blow has been struck; its opponents declare victory and are rapidly joined by deserters from the other side. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We all abandoned work and went into the village. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I passed by the abandoned habitation of the College of Lucidity on Cambridge Street. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the abandoned Latin service it was the priest alone who spoke the affirmation of faith. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes return to Jane's back, because they have to go somewhere, and Tiny says, "Grayson, are you abandoning your asexuality?" Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Neither the twins nor Lola knew precisely what led Briony to abandon the rehearsals. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The Bronchettes, no longer duty-bound to cheer and serve up those reedy, screechy screams, started dancing away with abandon, their faces fresh and unvarnished by lipstick or rouge powder. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was too small and weak to fight whatever drove Celia to abandon him each day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They slept that night in a dry shallow cave amongst the outcroppings of an abandoned molybdenum mine on the crest of a hill. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking around the barn, we saw that it was most definitely abandoned. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Shortly after that, Washington learned that California’s coach, Ben Wallis, was leaving Berkeley and that the school was on the verge of abandoning its crew program after years of less than stellar results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The house was somewhat musty and abandoned, like everything in sight, and needed a number of repairs, but its former dignity and fin de siecle charms were intact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That gap...Is that where the abandoned house is? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z After much pleading and promises of reform he succeeded in getting her to come home and he abandoned his concubine. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They couldn’t abandon you; they couldn’t fail you. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z How unlucky does a kid have to be to fall into an abandoned well? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Milkman considered whether to go back for his suitcase, abandoned the idea, and followed the directions given him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Varys abandoned the brazier to take his seat at the table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Estha and Rahel had no doubt that the house Chacko meant was the house on the other side of the river, in the middle of the abandoned rubber estate where they had never been. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There's one slight problem with my plan: I don't have any way to "record" the wattage from an abandoned solar cell. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Forlorn, feeling totally abandoned, I returned to my barracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Then she thought how, now, she would embrace again the faith she had abandoned, and walk again in the fight from which, with Richard, she had so far fled. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The houses that had been built with such haste during the banana fever had been abandoned. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Since Moore had abandoned his cells, they were no longer a product of his body, the ruling said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Then why didn’t humans abandon farming when the plan backfired? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d found it in a trash bin behind the abandoned strip mall across the highway. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Thirty minutes after settling down for the night, wind-driven debris from the fire ignited the dry grass nearby, forcing them to abandon their things and retreat farther north. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A bunch of Second Guessers and Minute Men who’d obviously abandoned Father Time and switched sides, the person-shaped living galaxy Night Time, plus many, many, many more. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As soon as this happened, they cheerfully abandoned the gruelling, dangerous, and often spartan life of hunter-gatherers, settling down to enjoy the pleasant, satiated life of farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But Vincent wants to be better than the man who had gotten her pregnant and then abandoned her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They fell silent when they saw Victor come out of the abandoned movie theater, but he greeted them as if there was absolutely nothing strange, about him being there. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z In the aftermath of the riots, most business owners on Springfield Avenue, the key commercial thoroughfare, didn’t bother to rebuild and left their stores abandoned and boarded up. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We could not expect Santa to give us anything if we only put our tattered, abandoned toys in the giveaway box. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I was wearing a pair of trousers I had recently found hanging on a pole in an abandoned village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Indians carrying the litter, and those escorting Atahuallpa, never abandoned him: all died around him. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They abandoned their carriage- house oracle and split the profits, even though the only one who had cared about the material side of things had been Nana. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He feels somewhat betrayed she’s abandoned him when he needs her most—when he and June both need her most. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The men had blades at their sides and were sifting through abandoned homes before setting them on fire. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The black boy is born in Daytona Beach, Florida, and his mother abandons him at the age of two. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “But if you cause any trouble, I reserve the right to knock you unconscious and lock you in an abandoned building somewhere.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z But now, even if I did get a job offer in a big city, I can’t abandon Aibileen in the middle of this mess. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We had to abandon most of our nice things too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A colorful bouquet of flowers abandoned on the sidewalk stopped Emily in her tracks. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When the assassination attempt failed, King Herod abandoned the idea. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I study the abandoned house across from us. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It is nothing more than an abandoned real estate office. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Thank you for not forgetting them, for shadowing the feeling of being abandoned the rest of the world gives them. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Its top was crowned with a circle of weathered stones, a ringfort of the First Men that had stood desolate and abandoned for hundreds of years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I see the same process when I am abandoning a campsite, and local people come to scavenge what is left. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Those occupying the chairs closest to the flaming chair abandon their seats and rush for the door, only to find that there is no longer a door to be found, only a solid wall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z One shopper abandoned a cart, mumbling about a wallet he must have left at home, despite an obvious bulge in his back pocket. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When the travelers arrived, the man discovered that the uncle no longer lived there, the house having been abandoned long before. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z He wore a beret long after other people abandoned them, he smoked a calabash pipe and his dark hair fell about his face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They fought with a wild abandon he’d never seen before, never even imagined, driving Hatchet’s men toward the edge of the pier and into the water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She would not abandon a daughter to this life, but train her to read the columns of blood and numbers in men’s eyes, to understand the morphology of survival. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Joseph dashed behind an abandoned car across the street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Ash, I am not the mother who abandoned you.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Nana wasn’t on the couch, and it looked abandoned without her sitting on it, reading while she watched the twenty-four-hour Bunker live feed. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It causes them to abandon their ways, to attack strangers. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He was unwilling to abandon this lovely lassitude but he had to, of course. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Theodora had abandoned any attempt at a chair and had put herself down on the hearthrug, cross-legged and drowsy. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z A single abandoned shoe, which somehow seems creepiest of all. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Would someone find him years from now, abandoned and dead? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The building was abandoned by everyone who could make a dollar on it. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “And . . . his parents abandoned the house because they were so sad and . . . they moved to America! That’s it! Isn’t it?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The cities were abandoned, and shrank to a fraction of their original size, all their considerable wealth sold off to pay for seeds that didn’t grow, for land they couldn’t water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Koffi felt her last bit of resolve abandon her in a rush, as though someone had wrenched it from her with a violence. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Aboriginal Australians may have adopted and then abandoned bows and arrows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Five hours later the car arrived at the Trinity site and stopped in front of an abandoned adobe ranch house. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Men wounded in the battle kept up as best they could or were abandoned to fend for themselves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z By midmorning I arrive at the infirmary, an abandoned concrete warehouse with moldy, crumbling walls and open spaces for rooms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Like a child touched by tragedy, who grows up suddenly and abandons his playthings, Chacko dumped his toys. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be a jerk move to abandon her right after hitting her up for a favor. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Have you abandoned your project to form a political party or nominate a candidate for president by divine right? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We climbed into an old abandoned warehouse building that stood along the wall at Dabrowki Street. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z You could see the abandoned funeral chapel, iron doors padlocked, ivy on the sides of the spire, a small tree growing out of the guttering at roof level. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I begin to weave my way across to the mansion, tripping over abandoned treasures and snow-frosted limbs. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z We were going to find an abandoned mansion, and she was going to enchant birds to take care of us. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It is still not too late to abandon this folly,” Gerris said, as they made their way down a foetid alley toward the old spice market. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A normal child would have abandoned the task long since. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z This incident led Alexander to decide to abandon canoe and return north. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the day, the snow had been delicate as dandelion puffs; the flakes had perched on top of each other with abandon and ease. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the ice was advancing again, the Hainish Withdrawal was complete and the Colonists were on their own, an experiment abandoned. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “Electra is your wife. You cannot abandon her. As for me—it is no misfortune for me to die.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But I thought better of bringing them to the plantation house; they had a much better chance of staying alive in the abandoned village, away from people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Not to any of us. I guess we’ve all been abandoned....” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z But when they began to fight on land, they abandoned this successful strategy and followed the usual practices of waging war in Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps then it might be understood why this small Martian town is abandoned. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But at some point in my midtwenties I abandoned my boyhood fantasy of climbing Everest. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, some couples were so abandoned—flinging high and wide, improvising steps and movements—that you couldn’t believe it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned toward home, dejected and abandoned by my sisters and brothers who wouldn’t stand by me against this spoiled brat. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He had abandoned his work at the scales and was now cutting out lines on the mirror. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When the group suddenly came upon an Indian village, their minds were somewhat eased when they saw that it had just been abandoned. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “It’s wonderful to see that you’ve done well since your family abandoned the lifestyle and value system they believed in.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Maybe Margo felt comfortable there because Margo the person lived like that all the time: in an abandoned room with blocked-out windows, the only light pouring in through holes in the roof. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He said it had been a very pleasant race, and would have been worth watching if Bottechia had not abandoned it at Pamplona. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of a single excuse for why I’d be out with seven chickens on a farm that looked—I’m sorry to say this—like it had been abandoned. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He is also missing his jacket, abandoned in a previously wandered-through room. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I let myself out of the lab and slip past the outhouses and the abandoned hotel. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The sun glinted off the abandoned grocery carts and made them magical, beautiful. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Would they finish what they had started, or would they abandon Thorpe and go on to other issues? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I tried to cry and I was so angry at her for abandoning me, for making me wait and suffer unnecessarily. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s late and I’m sitting on a hill of old hay and dirt and a couple worn blankets in an abandoned horse shed outside Fresno. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z She abandons the cards and turns to something else instead. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Matt stared out the window, punishing her for abandoning him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Lacking men, Theon had been forced to abandon the outer defenses and post his guards along the higher inner walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I turned away and looked out the window, where there was nothing but fields and now and then a falling-down wooden barn or some old, abandoned colored house. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But one by one, each woman rose to compare her work with the original, shook her head in defeat, and abandoned the hall. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Close enough for Tanin to abandon what she was doing and join the Assassin in the humid jungles of the Forest Kingdom. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Some descendants of these fishes eventually abandoned the water and moved to dry land, where they evolved into other animals by the transmutation of one form into another. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are still a few left—abandoned, of course, but it shouldn’t be too hard to restore one to house a single prisoner. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Mark abandoned the idea of guarding their rear and looked up to see five or six faces packed together at the door, waiting for them, wild-eyed and seemingly hungry for violence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z We just sort of left, the way you abandon your desk at the end of the school year. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Up ahead I see one of the trains that runs along them, abandoned near the wall. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Eventually he abandoned the attempt to free them, and they journeyed on. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But as she lay in the middle of the giant trampoline in Taryn’s backyard after three days of facing her empty locker, Ivy felt more abandoned than ever. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But in 1684, Halley’s affairs were thrown into confusion by the death of his father and the project was abandoned for many years, as other matters took precedence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Looking around the abandoned small towns we drove through, glancing at the gas level, fiddling with the turn signal, fingers dancing on the steering wheel. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Boots came, and his brother, not to be abandoned, followed. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He told me this while ripping through his duffel bag, throwing clothes into drawers with reckless abandon. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He abandoned any pretense of even being my friend. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He could not guess what was the other dark and secret way, but the very mention of it had seemed to fill Aragorn with dismay, and Frodo was glad that it had been abandoned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Having completely abandoned his domestic obligations, he spent entire nights in the courtyard watching the course of the stars and he almost contracted sunstroke from trying to establish an exact method to ascertain noon. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “If things went wrong, it might be said that I had abandoned them.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Even his uncle had abandoned him in this cold place at the end of the world. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z How much air was in an abandoned well, anyway? Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Cash is waiting for him out in the hallway, his suit abandoned for plainclothes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It’s like he totally abandoned his peeps this year and only hangs out with Auggie now. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The other men readjusted their packs and got ready for the make-believe assault, and Seaman Stephanides abandoned the solitude of his helmet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lydia no longer felt like she was abandoning Dill, but she did feel like she was abandoning Travis. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z My mom, who was only six or seven herself, used to round up the abandoned kids and form a troop and take them around to the shebeens. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And tomorrow, at the Choosing Ceremony, I will decide on a faction; I will decide the rest of my life; I will decide to stay with my family or abandon them. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Franklin was leaving King’s College to take up a new job at Birkbeck College, and Wilkins thought that she was abandoning the DNA project. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “I want to see it. Every morning I check in for work there; I want to see that it’s been abandoned for years, as you say.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Immediately alongside was the abandoned railroad ditch that carried the pipe that carried the aviation gasoline down to the fuel trucks at the airfield. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The captain said, “We have to abandon ship.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z I myself believed precisely the opposite: that nonviolence was a tactic that should be abandoned when it no longer worked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The children rocked back and forth to simulate the tossing of the ship in a storm and howled with merry abandon. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Other folks were also moving into abandoned buildings, she said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, it wasn’t right to leave his mom like that, but still—he was just a kid. Hermes shouldn’t have abandoned them.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I think of being too tired to fight with him anymore, or to hear his excuses; too tired to care that my brother had abandoned me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Mom seemed to look away from the abandoned houses, but she always brightened up when she spotted a bird’s nest full of baby birds who were chirping for lunch. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “That is so cool. I mean, I don’t think I could stand to lose another friend. You know? We don’t have to worry about one of us abandoning the other. Not for a single day.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A hot wind blew trash and dirt through the abandoned stalls. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Miners don’t abandon an accident until it’s hopeless. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t have forced you to go out there. I got mad because I thought you were abandoning me.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “But…,” she said, “I didn’t want my way. And I wasn’t trying to hurt anyone. I just didn’t want to leave, and abandon Ess....” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She reminded me that my mother abandoned me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The house looked deserted, dark and silent, even the honey-colored stone had the feeling of something abandoned. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a common misconception that birds abandon their babies because of scent. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z We’re on Carnation where most of the houses are abandoned and half the streetlights are busted. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z But they lost interest and, soon, the watch sat abandoned on the straw mat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Reconstruction is most typically described as stretching from 1863, when the North freed the slaves, to 1877, when it abandoned them and withdrew federal troops from the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Hamlet’s love led me into this maze, where he abandoned me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When Rondon scouted the area across the river, he found what was left of another abandoned Indian village. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He could still hear the police in the abandoned house behind him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They were both men whom childhood had abandoned without a trace. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Open garage doors show all of the junk inside, and bikes and scooters lay abandoned in yards. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Five days later another ranger returned to the abandoned vehicle, managed to jump-start it without difficulty, and drove it out to the National Park Service maintenance yard at Temple Bar. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not seem to feel any grief at abandoning Johnny, who sat disconsolately on his bed watching Rab. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They all feared they d been abandoned, but it took me to turn fear into certainty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It looks to be abandoned, the second-floor windows covered in a thick layer of dirt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Then parents will abandon children, elders will be left to starve. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z On the uneven surface of the ice, the machine turned out to be awkward and impractical, and plans to use it were abandoned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Linda would never have considered asking me to abandon the sport, but the announcement that I intended to quit had reinforced her decision to marry me. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z While serving at a base in the Southwest, he began collecting arrowheads, a hobby that ultimately led to his abandoning geology and coming to the University of Arizona as a graduate student in archaeology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He walked down the broken blocks past clusters of abandoned buildings, the glass from shattered windows on the sidewalk, junkies on the steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I do wish we didn’t have to abandon him. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then they abandoned the track altogether and flew skyward in a huge dark wave. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Like others around them, many scavengers abandoned their brooms and shovels and ran from the city. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The big box chronometers on the ship had been abandoned at Dump Camp, but Worsley had chronometer watches. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Laika followed along, enthusiastic about the mission to explore the abandoned prison. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I felt better seeing everybody else’s eggs, and when Charlaine and the other judges started setting up, Twig, Dari, and I abandoned our parents and walked around the room to get a closer look. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Parts of it are always being changed, by a ceaseless activity to which all of us are committed; new words are invented and inserted, old ones have their meaning altered or abandoned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lyra was conscious every single second of her dear, abandoned Pantalaimon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Often, migrants abandon an injured member of their group rather than risk being caught by the authorities. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Reaching through her and abandoning her at the same time. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Everyone abandons their cars and runs south, the complete opposite direction of traffic. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Think about it, right now. Picture us abandoning this place and this game and starting over together somewhere else, and mean it.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Recognizing the gravity of his predicament, he had abandoned the cocky moniker he’d been using for years, Alexander Supertramp, in favor of the name given to him at birth by his parents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Dumbledore had known his middle name....Dumbledore might have made the connection with the Gaunts....Their abandoned home was, perhaps, the least secure of his hiding places, it was there that he would go first.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s not? I didn’t know that. I thought they had finally given you permission to continue living in Alexandra since Father had abandoned you.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just an abandoned hunting shack, like hundreds of others that dotted the forests around here. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries many Amazonian Indians, the Yanomamo among them, abandoned their farm villages, which had made them sitting ducks for European diseases and slave trading. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The street is dark, and the building looks ancient and abandoned. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z By standing on the wheel of an abandoned trailer he was able to see other parts of the sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Somehow, I had to drag the iron monsters away from Miss Rose and get the others to abandon the ambush. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But in each variant of Socialism that appeared from about 1900 onwards the aim of establishing liberty and equality was more and more openly abandoned. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was thinking the words, but I must have said them out loud, because Lettie and Ruthanne abandoned their own search and stood beside me as my drumming fingers suddenly went still. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A few feet into the level above, she saw why the equipment had been abandoned by the work gangs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Do you ever feel your hither abandoned you, Percy?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t just keep abandoning people,” the Toad said, glaring at Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z By the time of our overflight, half or more of what once had been the flourishing land of the Maya was abandoned. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pheasant hunting, which had been good in these areas in former years, was virtually abandoned as unrewarding. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My hypothesis is that had it been a group of girls abandoned on the island instead of boys, it would have gone a lot differently. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I couldn’t find a list anywhere, but after searching “abandoned subdivisions” and “Grovepoint Acres” and the like for a while, I managed to compile a list of five places within three hours of Jefferson Park. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Don’t mention her and I won’t speak of your Lumumba shattered with machetes like this poor snake and thrown in pieces into an abandoned house in Elisabethville, with the blessings of my hateful homeland. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The people around you are growing restless from waiting, a sea of shuffling feet, murmuring about abandoning the endeavor in search of someplace warmer to pass the evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Too bad it smells like an abandoned copper mine.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Lying partly across them were some of his hiking maps, of North Wales, Hampshire and Surrey and of the abandoned hike to Istanbul. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To abandon her and live with Lyra, even for the few years they’d have together—could he do that? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z They attended in great crowds and watched, and we were sensible of their distress; for they had all sworn loyalty to Dunmore and to the King, and now they found themselves abandoned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The back of Hagrid’s enormous shaggy head — he had mercifully abandoned his bunches — emerged over the crowd. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z If we didn’t name the car, we didn’t feel as sad when we had to abandon it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Now for a look at the workshops,” she cried, whisking him through another door and into a large abandoned laboratory full of old pieces of equipment, all untended and rusting. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z When autumn came, she threw herself into her studies, catching up on all the work she had abandoned that spring, began every now and then to date. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She pointed down the beach at Ess but then noticed the little girl had abandoned her letters, and was now seated and burying her feet in the sand. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Instantly I abandoned my books and rushed outside to investigate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I took five steps into the room, and everybody fell silent, abandoning their activities to glare at me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The Argo II can make it. It only has to stay in one piece long enough to get us back home. Once there, we can abandon ship.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Catholic church, first on the scene and deeply dug in, sat in comfortable tradition while the missions were gradually abandoned and their roofs fell in and pigeons roosted on the stripped altars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Fela had moved her operation down the road to what was probably a better spot—an abandoned storefront on the bus route to Salcedo. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Now, I mean. Trying to stay sober. He’s there for you as much as he can be. He didn’t abandon you. He created a situation, and he’s owning up to it.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Here and there an earthen house, abandoned by the dwellers, stood up until after days of the water it fell slowly back into the water and the earth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z One of the buildings is just abandoned, and the rest are mostly empty. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s crying now, the shameless abandoned weeping of a child; her fingers clutch my sleeve. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of borrowing Egyptian terms, the Greeks preferred to revive abandoned Greek ones. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Some brought their families with them, and hid them in the shacks in illegal yards; others made their homes in abandoned cars and buildings. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In case they had to abandon the cart and make a run for it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I returned to the table and flipped through the children’s book again before abandoning it for the bestiary. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the way home, we swing by the Hob, the black market that operates in an abandoned warehouse that once held coal. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z She turned and raced back to her rucksack, abandoned on the pavement, and rummaged through it feverishly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a poor house, a meager house with the look of having been quickly abandoned. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He was sick and tired of finding himself in this position—scared and hurt and abandoned and endlessly asking himself why. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But when the voice sang out again—and I realized it was coming from the abandoned church—I told myself that a church was an unlikely place for evil spirits to abide. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Hushpuppy had a knack for finding huge overturned logs or shallow caves or even abandoned shacks for them each day. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My room seemed abandoned and small, like it had stood empty for weeks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When 'Taniel turned ten he abandoned us for a cot of his own, full of rocks that fall out of his pockets. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We settled on a bench beneath a great spreading willow, then abandoned it and found more comfortable seats on the ground at the foot of the tree. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I could see Stan abandoning all efforts to help me obtain a tennis scholarship. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “A difficult time, for her? She isn’t the one that got abandoned.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “We should get back to the dirt path and try to find the next mark on this map. Teresita’s husband said the path led to an old abandoned barn. We could rest there.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I wanted to, but I also didn’t want to abandon Audrey. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z So I drove as far as Gig Harbor, Washington, abandoned the car, and inveigled a ride on a northbound salmon seiner. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was large and dark, an abandoned feeling. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z For the rest of the song he’s back up on his feet, gripping the microphone with both hands and singing with abandon. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I felt I was abandoning her— she hated Delaware and I had talked her into staying there, and now I was leaving. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon, however, I abandoned thinking at the molecular level and turned to the much easier job of reading biochemical papers on the interrelations of DNA, RNA, and protein synthesis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There were car parts and tires, and hundreds of tennis balls abandoned by dogs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Carol lives in one of the older houses on the other side of the abandoned orchard, closer to the school, a yellow brick house with two stories and green-painted shutters framing the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion knew that she was dead; no man spoke so fondly of a woman who had abandoned him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Selfishness, she cried to herself— selfish to abandon another soul so as to save your own. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He pouted his perfectly formed lips and surveyed the splintered shingles and abandoned nets from which the unsavory fishy smell arose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Maurice's trousers gave way with a sigh and he abandoned them as a wreck, rushed toward the forest, and then came back again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Desolation sweeps through me: I feel, for no good reason, that I have been abandoned. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Intoxicated by the evidence of the miracle, he forgot at that moment about the frustration of his delirious undertakings and Melquíades' body, abandoned to the appetite of the squids. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She was abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “His mom abandoned him, and his dad beat him up. How could his loyalty not be with his blood, with a family like that?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I watch the thief turn the dead person’s pockets inside out and abandon the body, slipping into one of the nearby buildings. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He knew that, even if certainty about everything else had abandoned him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Great men of the sea must never abandon their beasts!” the captain announces. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Lily pulled off the road and guided the truck into an abandoned parking lot. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z She abandons the cart in the middle of the aisle and walks toward the exit. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He kicked his horse and fled, abandoning Lewis Powell. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as I’m willing myself not to care, he takes my hand as if it’s the most natural thing in the world and leads me to the back room of a cramped, abandoned shoe shop. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “You are paranoid,” she said, and abandoned me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When Gates saw the desperate conditions in James Town he decided to abandon the settlement and take the remaining survivors back to England. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Four cars had been abandoned at haphazard angles along Hill Street, and one near the intersection of Hill and Ericksen had slid into a parked pickup truck, crumpling the driver’s-side rear panel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The last of the foreign life forms was abandoning ship. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But Ifemelu was full of sanguine expectations for The Small Redemptions of Lagos, with a dreamy photograph of an abandoned colonial house on its masthead. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When their children say, “You abandoned me,” they respond by hauling out tall stacks of money transfer receipts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My great-uncle Terry, Robbie’s husband, had abandoned a career as a plumber for the same reason, instead becoming a Pullman porter. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Like an abandoned foal that nestles against cows in the barnyard, maybe I just need to feel the warmth of belonging. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The area was half-gentrified now, but it still held old corners and dark alleys, an abandoned burial ground and a church with an Italianate campanile standing guard over the boatyard and the chandlery. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The abandoned makeshift hospital looks sicker than its patients. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As if the navy would abandon its country? Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Next to one of the churches sat a narrow piece of abandoned land, which Miss Josie always talked about making into a community garden and Oliver wanted converted into a basketball court. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z If it didn’t mean abandoning Dimple, he might consider running to the car, jumping in, and taking it all the way home to Atherton. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z As far as he could see there was nothing but bundles and stacks and more bundles neatly placed like little abandoned shrines in the late day, in the warm-blowing wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The investigative journalist Jonathan Kwitny later argued that the case was “a fine example of what can happen when important matters of public policy are abandoned by government to the self-interest of corporations.” Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “I see,” he said, “that I shall have to give my second solution. But do not abandon this one too abruptly. You may agree with it later.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Though she’s never been particularly kind to me, her willingness to abandon me comes as a shock. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z I felt resentful... abandoned... alone ... sad... scared .. . and furious. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z For this reason, more than for any other, she abandoned her workshop. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of miles of country roads, rough timber lanes, overgrown tracks leading to abandoned mines, and unmapped trails snake across its length and breadth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They neared a group of abandoned train cars, and Seven pinched her nose. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z At that point he gave up on preserving the bulk of the meat and abandoned the carcass to the wolves. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z North of the city, we landed on an abandoned airstrip, where a cargo plane was waiting. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Leaving the papers on the floor, Chandresh returns to the desk, to the neat pile of notebooks next to the abandoned brandy bottle. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This vestibule is an archway that leads into a dark building that has every indication of being abandoned. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Based on all the books Jinny had read, it wasn’t what mothers were supposed to do—send their kids away, abandon them to live on an island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I wanted to win the match but I was afraid to win: Bobby could simply leave the match and abandon chess forever. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You’d have to be deep into the massive automotive clot to feel that abandoning your car was your only course of action. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I need to know why she abandoned me yesterday. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Davis and the Confederate government must abandon the city or risk capture. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Already the great house did not seem to have been abandoned for a few hours only but for years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the stories, the shepherd who abandons his duty is a villain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And all the way down Seagull Beach, I drag those thoughts of the abandoned pup. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Halfway through looking for it, I remember that today’s the day Meet a Priest Day I abandon the search and get up. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Pinmei felt relief flood through her, the waves of gratitude carrying her in reckless abandon, as they crashed through the open door. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The vine was Tartarian honeysuckle, a weed that grows in waste places and on abandoned ground. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His life, from the moment his mother had abandoned him when he was three, had been a series of disappointments and hardships, but he managed to keep his head above water most of the time. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing, curiously, seemed to have been moved from the day when the house had been abandoned. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Queer as it seemed, men who would cheerfully face battle and risk death to rescue a companion would abandon that same companion in a heartbeat if he were known to have greyscale. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A mother who abandoned her child did not deserve a second chance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Dahomans also competed, as did the Turks, “some of them as hairy as gorillas,” the Tribune said, with the anthropological abandon common to the age. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I feel like a child, abandoned in the dark woods; not even my mother's image comforts me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Two miles farther down the road, he told me to stop at an abandoned slack dump. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He walked to the back and peered through the window at the abandoned kitchen. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After my father’s death my brother abandoned his schooling and began to work in the jute mill he would eventually manage, in order to keep the household running. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was selfish and irrational, but she was furious with him for abandoning her, Tariq, who was like an extension of her, whose shadow sprung beside hers in every memory. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And my father couldn't imagine abandoning the life in Kraków he had worked so hard to construct for himself and his family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that they inspected me to see if I was a regular, and then abandoned me as unimportant. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said I was born to be a Keeper. He said that Keepers don’t have families, only one another, but that it’s, uh, better because families only run off and abandon you.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But he earned the reputation of a coward who had abandoned his mother to die. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They did not know that tens of thousands of North Koreans had abandoned their homes and were walking into China in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her hair exploded around her face with its usual reckless abandon. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z These people, of course, were not ready for a revolution; they had not abandoned their past lives by choice, but because they simply could not live the old way any longer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And if Thomas Jones abandoned them, how would they find a way to cross the river? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Said he “refused to be held responsible for a little kid getting injured in an abandoned death trap.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The boss hostler is furious, whacking the beleaguered men of the Flying Squadron with flagrant abandon. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z An entire village appeared to have been abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But those short moments had made it all worthwhile, those moments of pure plenary abandon, when he felt as if he, and he alone, were in control of the universe of his childhood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His legs were getting back to normal; the stick had been abandoned. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Down a flight of stairs, through a concealed side door and a second hidden corridor, there is a small room full of chairs and tablecloths and one old, abandoned tennis racquet. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When the dust clears, Marco’s briefcase sits abandoned on the pavement by her feet. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “No, I’m not. I almost abandoned you that way. But I didn’t.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The park was the site of an old sawmill, now abandoned, but the outer walls of the mill building still stood, square, like a fort, in the middle of the field. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was Ivan, a jaunt in his step and a cap too warm for the weather sideways on his head, swinging the metal-topped staff Kin had made for him with sloppy abandon. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Turned them west instead of east, abandoning his hopes of wedding Queen Daenerys? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He dreamed that Lydia announced she was staying and not abandoning him after all. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Although his career path had shifted to politics, Roosevelt never abandoned his passion for nature. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Dvorak abandoned the Hiawatha project but claimed to have absorbed research he had conducted for it into his musical thinking for the symphony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In 4-Wind’s first exercise of statecraft, he abandoned the Zapotec allies who had helped him achieve the throne, aligned Tilantongo with the Toltec empire to the north, and attacked the Zapotec. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was crowded with abandoned quills, a rusty tinder box, and a few coins and pound notes, which I was sore tempted to take. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Sons of the Six were supposed to exhibit a constant decorum in the Temple of Lkossa, but they abandoned it as they swarmed him. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I scrambled to my feet and rushed to the other side of the barn where Pita had abandoned the rusty old tools. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z She did have terrible manners, it was true: She spilled food with abandon, chewed with her mouth open as often as not, and held her utensils like shovels. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Her mom is NOT abandoning her place in line. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Now she must concede to those who think perhaps I should have been abandoned in the jungle at birth: well, they have a point. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The newborn baby girl is abandoned in a forest. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I see what you’re trying to do here. I don’t think I’m ready to forgive her for abandoning me.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If I die, I die friendless and abandoned. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I take a seat some distance from the tent housing the abandoned animals, watching it with increasing desperation. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A number of well-known doctors had abandoned their patients and scampered to safer air; ten others had died, while still more were ill and could not receive patients. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I head straight toward an abandoned outbuilding on the far edge of the property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But she soon realized that the amount of work she put into them was more than she was paid for and abandoned the idea while she thought of something else. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Looking up at the constellation of garbage, it was as though gravity had abandoned the place and all that junk simply floated, magically free, above our heads. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z We walked past blocks of empty houses along streets that felt abandoned. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite her tireless work finding homes for abandoned babies, Xan had a deep loathing for difficult things. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “That was fast. You would abandon your true nature with so little consideration?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Helmuth believes in prayer, believes in God, has always believed in God, even now doesn't believe that God has abandoned him but has grown closer. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He imagines himself in the farmhouse she’s described to him, waking up to eggs frying in a skillet, walking with her through snowy, abandoned fields. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And that holds especially true for Everest climbers: when presented with a chance to reach the planet’s highest summit, history shows, people are surprisingly quick to abandon good judgment. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Piles of uncollected garbage, along with abandoned vehicles, dotted the banks. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes swept back and forth over the abandoned campsite, stopped on the axe. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Another arrow sped past, landing in the abandoned nest. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I rode my bike home, two blocks past my building to this house that had been foreclosed on and abandoned. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z It made Mm fed desolate, to be abandoned by tbs water of the well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was kind of weird how the room looked so abandoned, like someone had moved out everything but the heavy furniture. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z We have encamped upon the shore; abandoned our encampments; and now we have set off, at last, from the ruins of Norfolk. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In a gamble, Massasoit intended to abandon, even reverse, a long-standing policy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I can probably force them to abandon manufacture of their Nexus-6 types; what I do during the next hour will affect the structure of their operation. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Spiders started building new webs in abandoned huts; dust started to sift in from unpatched roofs in golden spicules. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We always destroyed the bases we abandoned so that other squads wouldn’t be able to use them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Had a midnight bar mitzvah in the basement of an abandoned building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Off they went, Dede telling them her story of coming home and finding the house abandoned, the boys gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bessie supplied the hiatus by a homily of an hour’s length, in which she proved beyond a doubt that I was the most wicked and abandoned child ever reared under a roof. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Nor did Dr. Bogert’s sleek paleness abandon a certain hangdog attitude. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The others were moved to an abandoned jail. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Maybe if you hadn’t abandoned Luke and his mom!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Twig gladly abandoned her original question—something with food coloring and placebo effects. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Dany granted her the jewels but ruled the house was lost when she abandoned it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At current rates of change, within the next decade the few remaining bands of hunter-gatherers will abandon their ways, disintegrate, or die out, thereby ending our millions of years of commitment to the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dad was going to plow the abandoned fields, sow seeds, and reap the grain. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The atmosphere is somber, vaguely abandoned, as the streets had been. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z On our way there, we learned that the underground resistance of the camp had made the decision not to abandon the Jews and to prevent their liquidation. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been hard to abandon it, but Jon was not so lost to honor as to take it with him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Is your mom still living with you? Didn’t abandon you when you were a baby? Do you have a bed you can sleep on?” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z At that point in life when he abandoned the dandy’s posture, I assume it. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1864, Woodhull divorced her husband, who had abandoned her, and married Colonel James Blood, a wounded Civil War veteran. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Looks like it was abandoned ages ago,” I said. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The dirt is clumpy and dry, drilled through with the paths of insects like an abandoned ant farm. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In Pyongyang, the weary prisoners were confined with several hundred others in an abandoned school building, where they remained for nearly two months. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The foragers could either run away, abandoning their hunting grounds to field and pasture, or take up the ploughshare themselves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, with sudden understanding, “You thought no one lived in this building. You thought it was abandoned.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Lord Ramsay’s men pushed back from the tables, abandoning cups and trenchers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The emergency room is nearly abandoned at five-thirty in the morning—I don’t know how I caught that lucky break. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Throughout all of this heartache, his family had never abandoned him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z That man, who had a higher standing in society, was guilty before God for abandoning her to keep his social status. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Aru thought it would look old and creepy inside, but it turned out to be just an abandoned office space. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z At lunch, shortly afterward, he told a newsman that he was “not abandoning the match,” but Fischer had acted improperly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Tipping one wing, she moved effortlessly over an abandoned field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “Very good, Percy. Elpis, the Spirit of Hope, would not abandon humanity. Hope does not leave without being given permission. She can only be released by a child of man.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Bolted last night while 1 was in the shower. Took my Jeep, too. The cops found it abandoned this morning up near the toll plaza at Cutler Ridge.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z It seemed impossibly hard for them to expect people to just calmly abandon someone they loved so that he could be executed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Ophie could understand why someone would want to do that, even though she couldn’t imagine abandoning her people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The whole garden became a thick underbrush, like an abandoned town, through which one could scarcely walk without slashing a path with a machete. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1876, as part of a deal that put Republican Rutherford B. Hayes into the White House, Southern blacks were abandoned by the North. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The hunting trail began where they’d said, between an abandoned haircutter’s hut and a cluster of charred bed frames marking a looted furniture shop. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I trusted you and you abandoned me to work with him?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In some vague way, to abandon the McNab boys would be to abandon something in himself. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The tall, long-haired man was standing beside the fire, his chair and wood abandoned behind but the knife still in his ham fist. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z ‘Youth! Beauty! Your father could have made me immortal, hie could have taken me to Olympus, but he abandoned me. You can set things right, Jason. You are my proud warrior!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Later, when she told him she was pregnant with their child, he abandoned her, tossing her away like a picked-clean chicken bone. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba had come to save him, and in return he’d abandoned his father. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Up ahead I see an abandoned yellow school bus. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Many in the neighborhood didn’t approve of an unmarried Irish woman raising an abandoned Italian baby. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Gram had abandoned her parasol to the side of the tent and was dancing with Old Joe, her long dress skimming the grass as she spun on bare feet. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They had to abandon the teachings they had had all their lives about the respect due their elders. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Having dallied with the priesthood in the Anglican Church, he abandoned it to become a caseworker. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, somewhere outside Providence, in an abandoned, grassy field, the train stops. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone had assumed that Shackleton's team was trekking overland, only to find themselves abandoned. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Frightful searched the macadam road for the girl and was over the abandoned field. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I can’t believe I have been abandoned, left all alone in the world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z But near her in rehearsals for a school play, with all the waiting around that implied, all the backstage intimacy, all the intense, fraught, giddy, emotional abandon brought on by assuming identities not your own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You can’t have a daughter, since you abandoned her when she was little and went to war,” the sister-in-law argued. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Zeus loved her, but when she was about to bear a child he abandoned her, afraid of Hera. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For the last few months, construction crews have been giving that abandoned house an Extreme Makeover: Bushwick Edition. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Isobel moves a pile of abandoned books to the desk, where her Marseilles deck rests. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even if all he did was abandon me, that in itself was a frightening prospect. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There were no torn scraps of cloth clinging to branches, no deep bootprints or abandoned campsites. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the pink and red azaleas that were scattered with such abandon over the hillsides. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Here, in this context, it’s neither prayer nor command, but a sad graffiti, scrawled once, abandoned. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Billy and five other American prisoners were riding in a coffin-shaped green wagon, which they had found abandoned, complete with two horses, in a suburb of Dresden. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I held out a lead figurine of Hades—the little Mythomagic statue Nico had abandoned when he fled camp last winter. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z And, in dubious addition to them, occasional peculiar entities remained in the virtually abandoned suburbs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z In doing so, he completely abandoned two principles which had been fundamental to Aristotle: that the element earth is a sphere, and that the element earth is at the centre of the universe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She wanted to abandon her children for the Resistance, but Father wouldn’t let her. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Nailer prayed for the people he had abandoned and then he turned his face forward again and let the wind rush past. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Meera abandoned spear and net, jumped up, and grabbed the branch above her head. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It would follow that when scientific views are abandoned and replaced by new ones it is because the new ones are thought to be better at succeeding, paying, etc. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I let my hair hang loose and abandon my uniform of loose shirts in favor of one that cuts across my shoulders, revealing my tattoos. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z After two hours of fumbling through the dark, Chronicler saw light flickering through the trees and abandoned any thought of making it to Newarre that night, deciding a farmstead’s hospitality would be welcome enough. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There had been other places, remote villages like this one, houses, abandoned farms, even a fortified castle once. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The people flocked to the abandoned Greek camp to see the sights: here Achilles had sulked so long; there Agamemnon’s tent had stood; this was the quarters of the trickster, Odysseus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “They stuck us in an abandoned elementary school. We broke out. Your turn.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the long way through Batalla, through the sectors side roads and abandoned buildings, not stopping until I’m a good distance outside of military grounds. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When you leave tissues in a doctor’s office or a lab, you abandon them as waste, and anyone can take your garbage and sell it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Usually I came late at night, when Mains was locked and abandoned. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The book was called Roadside America: Your Travel Guide, and had been published in 1998, after this place had been abandoned. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A muddy stray, nosing through a pile of trash next to an abandoned gas station. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He had touched her, and made her decision for her, so now he felt he could not abandon her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When the Freedom Riders' bus traveled through Alabama, they were abandoned by the police. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Anything living that could abandon its home, some of our neighbors included, had migrated westward, in the direction from which we heard drums every night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern foragers occasionally abandon and even kill old or disabled people who cannot keep up with the band. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We had heard of a secret market in town conducted in a yard behind an abandoned house where otherwise unavailable food items were sold to civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The check rein had been abandoned long ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At her words, the girls abandoned the tray of petit fours and scrambled to sit in front of the television set. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z He told her about his dead and dying patients, and about the neighbors who had abandoned their homes and businesses. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The men’s locker room—I’ve never seen the women’s—is itself nearly abandoned; though it’s stuffed with a hodgepodge of some two hundred lockers of inmate manufacture, fewer than twenty are actively used. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z You can’t just abandon your family because they did something horrible. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z |
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