| 单词 | former |
| 例句 | Truman agreed to support France’s bid to retake its former colony. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In a village near the city, they found a displaced persons’ camp set up at a former military base to provide temporary shelter and help for war victims and refugees. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a dilapidated place—one former rider compared it to an outhouse—but like everything else in Tijuana, it was innovative, offering the first primitive movable starting gates and photo finishes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Most former slaves voted for the Republicans, Lincoln’s party, with some Black men winning election to political office. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “Rutherford was an artist,” commented his former student A. S. Russell. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z ‘Thank you for your confession, former praetor. You’ve made my job much easier.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He wiggled out through the formers—it seemed harder than when he came in—and pulled the raft around. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z His laughter is nostalgic, I see now, the laughter of indulgence towards his former self. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Tanaka had no appreciation for bloodlines or former lives—the kind that stretched back generations, the ones that no one knew about. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I slipped off into sleep somewhere between Staunton and Lexington, and woke up just in time to get a perfect view of the towering white warehouse that was Roanoke, Virginia’s former Walmart. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It was all there, starting with Truman’s decision to back France’s war to recapture its former colony, knowing a majority of people in Vietnam supported independence and Ho Chi Minh. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The next day Philip Morrison, one of Oppenheimer’s former students, removed the plutonium bomb core from a vault in the Los Alamos Tech Area. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He let go of every former vestige in his life, except football. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he moved once more, to a former hotel, after a tall man started walking a dog on his block; and yet again, after a dream about Mr. Fitt poisoning his water with lead. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Although exact ages are not known, it is likely that some Waffen-SS recruits were former Hitler Youth, now old enough to join the elite SS formation. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Woolf, remembered former bug boy Sonny Greenberg, was “fabulous in everything he done.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He eeled in through die cables and formers, wiggling and pulling until he was inside the tail with his head clear of the surface of the water and his legs down on the angled floor. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The backlash that really bothered Ellsberg came from his former co-workers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ultimately, the Populists caved to the pressure and abandoned their former allies. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z King had traveled to Durham to announce his support for the lunch-counter movement because of Reverend Douglas Moore, a Durham minister who was a former classmate of King’s al Boston University. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some called former president Barack Obama the deporter in chief, because his administration deported more undocumented immigrants than any president before him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z These men were both former doffers at one of the mills. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The leaders of the American Revolution kept close watch as the former slaves fought for their freedom in Haiti. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The Butcher King had restored slavery to Astapor, the only change being that the former slaves were now the masters and the former masters were now the slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I suspected he had found me a foster home and that I was going to be “repatriated”—the term used to describe the process of reuniting ex-child soldiers with their former communities. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z This sentence is encumbered, among other things, by a long stretch between the filler of the relative clause, the former United Nations diplomat, and the gap after tapped seven words later. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In 1998, Walter and I were asked to go to Chicago to attend a national conference where exonerated former death row prisoners were planning to gather. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In former times, before Robert could remember, “the house” had been a summer luxury of the Lebruns. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And what did he think, your former husband?’ she said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Said one former classmate of him with dreamy reverence as he remembered Joe Bob’s place and time in high school in the early seventies, “You couldn’t touch ’im.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We filed down the dark halls and entered the former prison cafeteria. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When the elections were finally held, and certified by outside observers that included former President Jimmy Carter, Farmer was in Port-au-Prince. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The crowd is swelling, not just with factionless wearing black armbands with empty white circles on them, but with people from every former faction, their arms bare. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Mark stayed as close to him as he could, putting his life in the former soldier’s hands for the umpteenth time since they’d met in the subtrans tunnels. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The ruins of the old cathedral were demolished except for the crypt, where the former bishops of Chutreaux lay buried. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Throughout most of the hearing he had sat pleasantly, but when some of his former foster parents had come into the court, I could see him become upset. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A few months later, Houghton took Thomas Hoving, the former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, down to the Getty’s conservation studio to see the statue as well. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Others moved into the few spaces available at Harlem Valley, a former state mental hospital about forty-five minutes from Sing Sing that was now used to house correction officers. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The collapse had come, as on former occasion, just as I had expected. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Comparing Chout with Chaplin’s The Kid of the same year sheds a cruel and amateurish light on the former. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Now, in the Civil War, these former comrades- in-arms are enemies. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z More security guards arrived, until approximately fifteen men surrounded the former chess champion in a grim, silent circle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “He had no hesitation in letting others know of his own high opinion of himself,” said one former staff member. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably the former, since she never seemed to be too tired to fight with him. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Angola, the country’s largest prison, was built on an eighteen-thousand-acre former plantation once used for the breeding of slaves. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Marc is a former social media manager for a soda company, which he’s mentioned twice in his profile, and he isn’t sure if his daughter will reach him in time. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Certain former slaves were carving stone and laying bricks, stealing work from guild journeymen and masters alike. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As a former lawyer, he had made a smart legal deal when taking the job with The Mercury Theatre on the Air in 1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t,” was Jo’s decided answer, as she petted the fat poodle, whom she had adopted, out of respect to his former mistress. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Martinelli and other former factory workers say that, over time, they have come to fear that the fall out of the middle class could be permanent. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The only other quote comes from a man called David Clark, “a former colleague” of Scott’s, who says, “Megs and Scott are a great couple. They’re very happy together, very much in love.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But, miraculously, something of her former life remained, her last link to the person that she had been before she had become so utterly alone. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Tom Bolles, the freshman coach, was a former Washington oarsman himself. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He had also been a former juvenile felon. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A former all-around world aerobatics champion, she was qualified to pilot 20 types of aircraft. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I started working them a few years ago, after dropping by to visit a former boyfriend. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The principal reason for its success was its innovative techniques of terracing and irrigation, the latter being used to implement the former. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The former is the most modest person at the table. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They feel that there are mathematical minds and nonmathematical minds, and that the former always come up with answers instantaneously whereas the latter are helpless and hopeless. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The former New Jersey attorney general dubbed this phenomenon the “circular illogic of racial profiling.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In former days I would have said something annihilating to her, some scabby, scalding remark, but I can’t think of anything right off the bat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Bilbo believed that she had acquired a good many of his spoons, while he was away on his former journey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Once Millie is sure her parents are asleep, we head to the TV room and watch a few videos of former pageants that I stole from my mom’s stash. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Message to me from my former self: slow down and, above all, detach. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or do you think the demoness might have been some Tang woman who did something so terrible in a former life that she was reborn here as a white demoness?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z High-school students, among them former classmates of Nancy and Kenyon Clutter, chanted cheerleader rhymes, bubbled bubble gum, gobbled hot dogs and soda pop. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother-in-law, who was a former teacher, regarded me with some surprise and then said in a rather peevish way, “No, Zindzi cannot come and see you because she is not yet sixteen.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The former bodyguard said Kim Jong II often went there to hunt roe deer, pheasants, and wild geese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Michael O’Laughlen, a twenty-eight-year-old childhood friend of Booth’s, another former Confederate soldier and participant in the kidnapping plot, was also arrested on the seventeenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I was finally able to read again and devoured The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a book given to me by the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Byrd, a former governor, descended from a “First Family of Virginia,” one of the state’s multigenerational ruling elite. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Which it is well beknown to yourself, Pip,” returned Joe, strengthening his former mixture of argumentation, confidence, and politeness, “that it were the wish of your own hart.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He and Geyer checked with other hotels to find out who had run the Circle House, and learned from its former clerk that the registration records were in the possession of a downtown attorney. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the end, the community schools withered away and parents, faced with a choice between inferior education and no education at all, chose the former. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lungs filled in great gulps, he shot down again, pulling on the formers until he was almost there, then wheeling down head first he grabbed at the cloth. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion’s justifying her coming so far alone. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Curse all of you. May your pitiful water monster never regain its former health!” it yelled and made a mad dash for the fire. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The rest of us were relocated into a former defense workers’ housing project in Long Beach. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And two years ago, it was Dylan who warned Moreau that VanQuish was coming to arrest him, giving Moreau time to wrap his former apprentice in an illusion so he could escape. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z They challenged the sole Mexican waiter, Salomon Paniagua, a former Mexican army officer who, everyone agreed, looked Greek, to stand with them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Pheasant hunting, which had been good in these areas in former years, was virtually abandoned as unrewarding. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Will some former Nazi give him a newspaper job? What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z These teenagers, with their hormones, making out beneath a video broadcasting the shattered voice of a former father. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z A few of my former friends showed up at the performance, looking just as sweaty and desperate as I did. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The “auditorium” was a former chapel, with marble floors and tall stained-glass windows, dark now at 9:30 P.M. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be bands of turncoats secretly plotting to overthrow their former government, but I certainly haven’t run across them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was also given access to the Church’s personal trainer, Harry Sneider, a former weight-lifting champion who took a special interest in Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “She says that the world is divided into the people who imagine their own funerals and the people who don’t, and that smart and artistic people naturally fall into the former category.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Caesar’s former friends and colleagues, led by two senators named Brutus and Cassius, stabbed him to death on the steps of the Senate. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I sometimes look at a Facebook page devoted to Truman Drama, where Volpe’s former students communicate with one another and reminisce about what the program meant to them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Many of the bandits, Campos says, are current or former police officers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Hizdahr’s fearsome collection of former fighting slaves made indifferent guards at best. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Marcy does make it clear that her relationship with her former husband is on his terms. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z We live under the constant fear of being discovered as supporters of the former government. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Former juvenile offenders who had later become well-known public figures filed supporting documents, including very conservative politicians like former U.S. senator Alan Simpson from Wyoming. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As a former District politician, the fiery Moore had often been the subject of news stories in The Washington Post. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I will hide there, and the hand of god will wipe all tears from our eyes; there will be no crying, neither will there be any more death, because the former things will pass away. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Spats in front of appliance repair shops with former members of my dad’s church who think I sold my dad to the Romans. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z At the time, Hugh was living in a loft on Canal Street, a former chocolate factory where the walk-in coolers had been turned into bedrooms. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His rivalry with Bridges and Sturtevant, his former lab partners from Columbia University, reached a brittle end point, and his relationship with Morgan, never warm, devolved into icy hostility. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Two snakes full of poison” is how Patsy Mitchner, a former slave, summed up her experience before and after the war. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Stations of the former West Berlin passed one after another. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was assigned to a tailor shop, and the work was manageable, but it seemed as if my former life—school, friends, time to play and read—belonged to another world entirely. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The older man was gruff, a hardened former soldier who rarely smiled. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Across from us there was a bulletin board with newspaper clippings about former students. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was nothing he didn’t know; his former life, that dark age, could not recede fast enough. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She left the room without asking directions, as though she knew from former lunches at Sickler’s just where to go. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Coach Luma has started a girls’ team, and she and her program have helped a number of her former players get into college, many of them on scholarships. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z We thought we were saving time; instead we revved up the treadmill of life to ten times its former speed and made our days more anxious and agitated. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z At first we were surrounded by former orchards of apple, cherry, and apricot trees that had now become wild. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as I could tell, Ocean had been returned to his former status. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But when the lands that the agrarian reform had parceled out were returned to their former owners, they were reassured: things were returning to the good old days. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Charlie sat in the chair, and the contrast between him and its former occupant was comical. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He was sewing Martin the Warrior back in his former position on the corner of the magnificent Redwall tapestry. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Just took Mama’s phone and called Daddy’s friend at the newspaper—a former college baseball teammate just like the doctor who stitched me up had been. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Chavez, the former assistant building superintendent, was one of my favorite classmates. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "I think she is, Mr. McSouthers. The former wife of Sam Westing must be one of the heirs. Mrs. Westing is the answer, and whoever she is, she is the one we have to protect." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He begged after his former position, lamenting his folly and asking for forgiveness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The bank closed in 1933, and its former counting rooms have been converted into apartments. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a branch of a competing Klan group, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, led by a former member of the UKA Klavern, a saturnine housepainter named Lloyd Jacobs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All stone and dark wood, it had held up for the most part, though it now had a faded, sad look, as if losing its former occupants had stolen its soul away. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The water is cold and salty and delicious and I think maybe I was a mermaid in a former life. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1957, the former Marine test pilot had campaigned fiercely— and unsuccessfully—to be the first of the Mercury Seven to navigate to the heavens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I’m guessing the former, because there is complexity, autonomy, and a relationship between effort and reward in doing creative work, and that’s worth more to most of us than money. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Those humble replicas of the revelry of former times served to show Aureliano Segundo himself how much his spirits had declined and to what a degree his skill as a masterful carouser had dried up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I blurted out, worried my sister might have told my former coach that I was working at the Dollar Store. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Gilded temples, restored to their former grandeur, gleamed in the desert sun. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He entered Pris’s former apartment, unplugged the TV set, and detached the antenna. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But his case for insanity was damaged when his former wife, Annie, was called to the witness stand by the prosecution. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z So she did both—the latter to make the former possible. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “It all sounds like something a sixth- former would make up.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z But this was Christmas morning, and even though the superintendent was one of her former pupils, Mrs. Granger decided to wait a day. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to his companion, David Herold, and objected to the idea that blacks and former slaves would become voting citizens. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his former teammates stated, “He wasn’t a big fan of doctors and hospitals, that’s for sure.” The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z A former Hitler Youth, Hans was now a student at the University of Munich, and he had grown deeply disillusioned with Hitler, National Socialism, and the war. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I just got a postcard from a former patient,” Luce said consolingly. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I did not need to be guided to the well-known room, to which I had so often been summoned for chastisement or reprimand in former days. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z But one day standing before the marble and golden magnificence they fell to talking about the former life, which had been so hard and yet so happy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the span of about five hours, the carpets had been steamed to help keep Malia’s allergies from being activated by traces of the former president’s dogs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Shortly after he went to sleep that night, Billy traveled in time to another moment which was quite nice, his wedding night with the former Valencia Merble. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He was already the undefeated school champion, as he had been, he told her, in his former school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Mr. Subramaniam, retired Indian Police Service officer. And if you don't believe me, I'll just call one of my former colleagues, and they'll bring a pair of very fine bracelets made especially for your wrists." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z In a birdcage by the window, a green parakeet, the last surviving member of my grandparents’ former aviary, was moving back and forth on its balsa wood perch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The men tested the metal detector on three former Civil War soldiers who each had a bullet in a known location of the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His enthusiasm for the struggle he had undertaken restored his former vigor and relieved some of the pain in his aching bones. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a former schoolteacher from the capital who had moved to Ville Rose, as far as anyone could tell, to get drunk. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Anthony V. Bouza, a former top police official in both the Bronx and Minneapolis, discovered this when he ran for Minnesota governor in 1994. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Fyntan and Celine must have been alarmed by our misguided outpost in Kilanga, where we slept in their same house, antagonized their former friends, even turned their parrot out to nature’s maw. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And three bottles of water—former cider jugs, holding one gallon each. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Though groups like ACD and Reentry Physics still employed several of the former West Computers, Katherine and others found themselves the only black employees in their branch. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “The wall will fall to the wind as the windy hill will fall, and all things thought in former times: Nothing made remains, nor man remembers. And these towns shall be called the shining towns!” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Labor Service was a good thing,” recalled Horst Kruger, a former Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Many gave me addresses of their former schools to write to, adding that I should feel free to mention that I knew them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Each week a steady stream of former students returned to his class, the sad flotsam of men and women who had tasted the other side of graduation and found it wanting. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, and for the following few years, the representative was a Mr. Serin, a former director of prisons in his native Sweden who had emigrated to Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The locked room, about which the spiritual life of the house revolved in former times, was known from that time on as the “chamberpot room.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In her former blindness she had known him as shiftless Johnny Taylor, tall and lean. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z So too you must wash away your former loyalties, put aside your grudges, forget old wrongs and old loves alike. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Elizebeth heard a rumor that a former British Navy officer was their chief code maker. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Then he started getting phone calls from former professors, and the president of Harvard. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Luna, Ethyne, and Adara went to visit the former Grand Elder in prison. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Smaller and smaller the circle ungrew, with all the former life of a broad grassy plain trapped inside. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence we must ask: What were the factors that tipped the competitive advantage away from the former and toward the latter? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagining outrageous feasts and regaining her former glory, she finally fell asleep. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He was now back in his easy chair, in his former attitude before I had alarmed him. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Hanako had known two former college girls, previously rich, who’d gone to work in a canning factory just to get out of the camps. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He placed a cushion on the operating table, which was really just a desk repurposed from the former school, and I laid the bonobo down on it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Awaking to the sound of school buses, he ran back to Room 5 just in time as his former friend was hanging up his parka. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The former delivery boy danced into the Hoos' new lakefront home. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Oldham did admit that activists had forced some needed changes, but the former cotton mill manager immediately added huffily that “this could have been done solely by negotiation, without the picketing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Jared: Right here, right now, on these red hills of Georgia, a son of former slaves and sons of former slave owners are sitting down at the table of brotherhood, dude. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Several years ago, two former sumo wrestlers came forward with extensive allegations of match rigging—and more. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Sachs was a former aide to President Roosevelt, and a personal friend. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Civil War the former slave stayed on as plantation boss. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z At first, he was disoriented, like a ghost of his former self. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I remember saying this to him once—how embarrassing he was—and cringe at the former me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Scythe Curie smiled as she spoke about her former mentor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I repeat my former name, remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I even toyed with the idea that perhaps we had been close to each other in some former life—a mother and child, even. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z During the washing process and burial, we would refer to the dead by their Hebrew names, and their Yiddish names if we didn’t know the former. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z A former navy officer was working on his B.S. degree in special education when he saw Luke’s listing on Florida’s adoption website. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But then the duchess married el comandante, a former general in the Chilean army who wore his uniform every day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Though Roosevelt was also a colonel and a former president, he was an American guest of the Brazilian government and could not risk going against his host country’s laws. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z A former naval officer, he claimed to have grown disillusioned with America's long war with Russia. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The faded beige of former times had been replaced with strong and sure colors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The former owner of the cleaners, an older white man named Miles Jackson, fell under suspicion, but there was no evidence that pointed to him as a killer. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In an overgrown patch, a former plantation bricklayer built a forge for a former plantation blacksmith. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Thoroughly humiliated, he called out to his former friend the cat, “It was all my fault. I apologize to you, Squire Julian.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Then she had sent one of the neighborhood boys—one of my former tormentors—after a doctor. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And in his weakened condition, the former president believed he was a burden to the expedition. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As a former trading colony, South Africa has always had a large expatriate community. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I looked up, and I talked with three of the former secretaries to Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it is rare to talk to a former Volpe student who does not volunteer a story just like that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Besides Grant and Blaine, the other candidate seeking the nomination was John Sherman of Ohio, a former U.S. senator and the current secretary of treasury under President Hayes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z On my way there I ran into one of my former teachers and told her my great news. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z White first recruited a former New Mexico sheriff, who, at fifty-six, became the oldest member of the team. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Most of them were former criminal defense lawyers from Washington who had come to Georgia in response to a growing crisis: Death row prisoners couldn't get lawyers. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He said things suggesting that he might never be returned to his former Black Muslim post, and he now began to say things quietly critical of Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to allow time for me to fall on my face and show that the former prisoner hailed as a savior was a highly fallible man who had lost touch with the present situation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureliano Buendía did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The former thought might preoccupy professors in departments of psychology, and their colleagues in the neighboring departments of neuroscience. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Pirow was a former minister of justice and of defense and a pillar of National Party politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In an all-out campaign to push the Susan B. Anthony Amendment through Congress, a “Prison Special” tour began with former prisoners traveling throughout the country on a train named the Democracy Limited. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The chief judge of the court was former governor John Patterson. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “If someone showed me this picture and said, ‘Are any of your former classmates in this picture?' Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Then her Vision shifted, and she saw the former captain of the Current, a man with a kind face and a bulbous nose, put the Executioner to his temple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z But there is even more to this story, since Galileo had received a letter from a former pupil, Benedetto Castelli, pointing out that if the Copernican model were correct Venus must show phases! The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “I know you keep in touch with a number of employees at my former company, Mrs. Halliday. What are they saying about me?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Whereas before, I had anticipated my lessons as the hour most gratifying in the day, now, in measure equal to my former pleasure, I dreaded their advent. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Faith Temple, a former movie theater which had been converted fifteen years previously, could seat a thousand in its auditorium and another seven hundred in its basement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A rich man, himself a former quiz champion, heard of the case and gave a large sum of money to the Washingtons to aid their search. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And no shade on therapy...Just didn’t want to talk to some stranger about my subconscious fear of former kid-show stars and merry-go-rounds. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z In physical terms, for instance, one rower’s arms might be longer than another’s, but the latter might have a stronger back than the former. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Federal troops were withdrawn from the region and former slaves left to the tender mercies of Dixie whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For a former waitress such as myself, this is pretty much a breeze. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time she’d met him she’d begun to fear that she was retreating into her former self, before Paris—untouched, bookish, alone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As Halliday’s former closest friend, everyone assumed he alone could explain why the deceased billionaire had put his entire fortune up for grabs. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The former crested with fearsome rapidity; the latter sometimes took more than a century to tamp down, and it was followed by many aftershocks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Patches of my former self gleam white and pale. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z John Edwards, Kerry’s former running mate from North Carolina, had launched his campaign a month prior to that, speaking in front of a New Orleans home that had been ravaged by Hurricane Katrina. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They signed it “From three of your former scientific colleagues during your stay in the United States.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A slightly built former dancer, she worked upstairs as a vice president at Bravo. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Ebright, a former coxswain, was short, skinny, bespectacled, and sharp of feature, with a prominent nose and a receding chin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In former times they would send you a little package, of the belongings: what he had with him when he died. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleven winding steps lead to the second floor, which is full of the smells of faded grandeur: an old sewing room, a former maid’s room. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Renewed hope followed renewed effort: it shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, it faded, flickered: not a line, not a word reached me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Then came a widely reported lecture at Northwestern University by AEC commissioner Willard Libby, a former Berkeley chemistry professor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But here was a former Olympian telling me that he could turn me into a top fencer. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Scott Wyatt, the former county attorney in Cache County, the man who hired Terryl, says she “deserves most of the credit” for the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The farm was located up in the hills, away from the river, about a half hour’s walk from Shin’s former school and the house where he had lived with his mother. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The nurse gasped at the sight of her former charge, but she said nothing, merely bent down, lifted her to her feet with surprising strength, and smacked her hard through her torn clothes. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Golden, still getting maximum usage from his beloved Grade Sorter, raved about the design to one of his former classmates, the director of a big city think tank in Richmond, Virginia. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Like Lee before him, a former commander of West Point, a courteous man, military, a marvelous horseman, another gentleman. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Among them were two men, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, former British Airmen who had both been shot down and captured during the Great War. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He was a widely respected man—not just a singer, but also a former member of our tribal council. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, one member of a double-star system explodes, breaking the gravitational shackles that bound its companion, which then leaps into space at its former orbital velocity, a slingshot in the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all of the countries that place some restrictions on voting in prison are in Eastern Europe, part of the former Communist bloc. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was headed to Europe, police said, to join his Danish mistress, a former nurse, with whom he had had two children. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Space Race began soon after the Allies won World War II. America and the former Soviet Union inherited and made use of German technology, specifically rocket technology. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z There is, however, a telegraph line at Point Lookout, a former Union prisoner- of-war camp at the mouth of the Potomac River. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He keeps no running list of the whereabouts or exploits of his former students, which sometimes frustrates me because I want to know about them. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Some of the girls think it’s unfair favoritism, since her mom is a former principal dancer, but I’ve never felt that way. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe the former was a division of the latter. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z There was even a former Conservative functionary who had taken refuge in the revolt to escape a judgment for misappropriation of funds. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The name Stead was well known in America because of Herbert’s more famous brother, William, the former editor of London’s Pall Mall Gazette and recent founder of The Review of Reviews. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z When Fernanda realized that she was a widow whose husband had still not died, it was already too late for things to return to their former state. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Brenda Lewis was a former Montgomery police officer who joined us after seeing more abuses of power than she could tolerate at the police department. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z However, all such peoples either practice at least some food production or are the partly acculturated last remnants of the world’s former hunter-gatherer societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A former high school principal, Gallup had been educated in Michigan and Paris, and she loved Shakespeare as much as Elizebeth did. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z His younger brother J. C. “Doc” White was also a former Texas Ranger who had joined the bureau. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Furthermore, each wrestler belongs to a stable that is typically managed by a former sumo champion, so even the rival stables have close ties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He knew of the many stories of friends and relatives who, in the harsh glare of life abroad, became unreliable, even hostile, versions of their former selves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Harry Sneider, Fischer’s former physical trainer, accompanied Ellsworth to the auction and Sneider’s son subsequently traveled to Budapest with twelve boxes of material. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She married her former Lykes colleague Mr. Todd, and they have two adorable sons. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Several people had suggested that Tom Chapman, the new Monroe County district attorney and a former criminal defense attorney, would be fairer and more sympathetic to someone wrongly convicted than lifelong prosecutor Ted Pearson. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was not as accomplished a speaker, but as a former slave spoke for a large segment of the farm. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A few months after the press conference, Teller, wounded at being shunned by former friends and colleagues over his continued bellyaching, finally attempted to set the record straight in an article for Science. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z For the rest of their lives, the former West Computers reminisced with one another and with the East Computers and the engineers they worked with. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z We took the train to Bremerhaven, Germany, and then traveled on a former troopship for nine days across the Atlantic Ocean to Boston, Massachusetts. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z At one point Speed and Wyche invited Gey’s former assistant, Mary Kubicek, to an event in the basement of the New Shiloh Baptist Church in Turner Station, to talk about how she grew HeLa cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z After that first meeting, Grandpa Nate and I took Tillie Nachman, a former New York City person who had never learned to drive, to the stationery store so that she could buy the invitations. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z If Sam Westing's former wife was one of the heirs, she had to be Crow. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z We can’t see the former camp from here, but we know it’s there. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z After fencing, one of the hired men, a former apothecary's apprentice named Richard, instructed us in the art of painting our faces. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z One night a lieutenant named Jim Kent recollected how the former radioman had taken an interest in a dead Japanese boy with his pants turned inside out around his muddy ankles. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z By January of ’45 a few determined internees were already trying to recover former homes and farmlands. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine: Watching the performances of my former colleagues, I got the idea that once you assembled the requisite props, the piece would more or less come together on its own. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Coleman is a classicist who studied at Oxford and a former consultant for McKinsey & Company who clearly enjoys his role as a provocateur. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z A former slave came, to accuse a certain noble of the Zhak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some of my former teachers have had four or five favorite students in the class and overlooked the rest entirely. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z On Sunday morning, with Garfield's fate unknown, former President Rutherford Hayes wrote in his diary that the country faced a disaster if Garfield died. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She coughed, and we all three turned to regard her: Orleanna Price, former baker of our bread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was ashamed to let the Lord see me frightened after all the things he had said about the former me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The hovering mass—my former spiraling line of eager patrons—gasped. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z He paid a visit to his former classmate and found that his financial condition was no better. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There was reason to worry, too, for just a few years ago, the demons had broken their own laws and turned away over twenty thousand of their former guests who had expected to be readmitted. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother was always polite to everyone. She always said that you never knew if that person might have been some king or queen in a former life.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z President Bush's order was closely based on former president Roosevelt's proclamation to try the Nazi saboteurs in a military tribunal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Reminds Scoob of her former attic door—had to push it a little harder than all the other ones, and it always groaned as it opened like it was annoyed at being bothered. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z One entry, for May 16, 1895: “My birthday. Am 34 years old. I wonder if, as in former years, mother will write me....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I went over and opened it and found in the corridor without, Arthur and Quincey in pajamas and slippers: the former spoke:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z For his sake, I hope it’s the former. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "As you wish, my lord," he said with no trace of his former friendliness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In former days the members of my order had been well received there, but Saruman most of all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the last arithmetic test you only got twenty-six out of a hundred, and you said that your stupidity was due to your sins in a former life. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sister Libertine with beaming looks pushes him over to his former bed. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was founded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War by six former Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In i960, seventeen former colonies in Africa were scheduled to become independent states. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew that I would risk running into my former military friends, who would kill me if I told them I wasn’t part of the war anymore. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We always preferred to think it was the former. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I read a monologue from Julius Caesar and performed a short hip-hop play about the redemption of a former child soldier that I had written with Esther’s encouragement. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z She would restore the Ptolemaic Empire to its former glory. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z It's been a week, and the former Martian soil is rich and lovely. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Both are employed in European technology, but the former is more common—the arch is a classic example of compression. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The thought of my former faction sends a tremor through my hands. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The wrestling room was empty, save Coach O and Seth, a former college wrestler who came in every week to help Luke work out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z One of the rangers was Captain Nathan Hale, a 21-year-old former teacher from Connecticut. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Shostakovich was denounced by the Soviet Composers’ Union, and then came a deluge of public criticism - even from former friends and colleagues. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The e-mails and phone messages addressed to my former self come from a distant race of people with exotic concerns and far too much time on their hands. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When did the Bantu reach the former Pygmy and Khoisan homelands? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Reporting that even a former birdwatcher could now solve DNA was not the way to greet a friend bearing a slight hangover. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z When asked about jobs in their former lives, the new people lie and claim to be poor peasants, like Pa did, or small shopkeepers. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Started on a shoestring in 1898 by a former slave, the life insurance company grew vigorously, spinning off a black-owned bank and a fire insurance company. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “If we prepared our kids academically as we prepared them for winning the state championship, there is no telling where we would be now,” said former school board member Vickie Gomez with typical bluntness. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Both the old artist and the former beauty had long forgotten his misdeed. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Fighting for freedom, the former slaves defeated the armies of first England, then France: Europe's two most powerful nations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I had taken the alias David Motsamayi, the name of one of my former clients. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gorgias’s brother Herodicus is a doctor, and the former attests that when trying to persuade a patient to submit to a course of treatment, his oratory is far more effective than his brother’s medical expertise. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Against a former World Champion who was known to be one of the most difficult to defeat, Bobby had won five games, drawn three, and lost one, for a total score of 6½–2½. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We many of us had escaped, and so, upon the town’s falling, we would be conveyed to our former masters—at which thought, my spirits froze, thinking upon Mr. Sharpe and his devices. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We'd empty a place of half its possessions and listen to the details as we drove the former tenant to a quickly rented storage space. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mostly the former; it had been a costly war despite the valiant predictions of the Pentagon and its smug scientific vassal, the Rand Corporation—which had, in fact, existed not far from this spot. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z A Greek flag flew over the former Ottoman palace. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She’s actually smiling, coquettishly even; there’s a hint of her former small-screen mannequin’s allure, flickering over her face like momentary static. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z “Several members of Abnegation, three members of Dauntless, and a former Erudite initiate.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The former boy wonder was now a seasoned and slightly cynical leader of the city he’d called home his entire life. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The ex-CIA agent had been identified as James McCord, currently employed by the Committee to Reelect the President—which was headed by Nixon’s former attorney general, John Mitchell. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When Welles was asked about Houseman during an interview in 1963, twenty-five years after the Martian broadcast, he refused to talk about his former friend. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “So hard, so hard!” moaned Miss Havisham, with her former action. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Regulus’s bedroom was slightly smaller than Sirius’s, though it had the same sense of former grandeur. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He knew nothing about my personal life as a father and husband and seemed utterly uninterested in my background as a former newspaper reporter and editor, TV producer, and professor turned media critic and author. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But a ragtag group of the former ladies-in-waiting and their offspring by the fisherfolk established a festival to commemorate the battle. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I had myself been apprenticed by my former visits to this watching horror; and yet I, who had up to an hour ago repudiated the proofs, felt my heart sink within me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I followed of course, showing a pale shadow of my former burning curiosity. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There is a sort-of attempt to make a distinction between figures and tropes—the former operating at the level of a phrase or sentence, and the latter being shifts in meaning for single words. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I was enjoying this moment of no drama with my former best friend. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Another brief was filed on behalf of former child soldiers whose terrifying behavior after being forced into violent African militias made the crimes of our clients seem much less aggravated by comparison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The principal was studying records that must have been sent over from Gilly’s former school, Hollywood Gardens Elementary. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Having been frequently in company with him since her return, agitation was pretty well over; the agitations of former partiality entirely so. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z When he started to talk, the former president was his usual exuberant self, gesturing wildly with his hands. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z How many times in life will I get an opportunity to explore the former home of the man whose disappearance played a major part in two-hand-shoving me out of childhood? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z We have a hint of this relentless life in the words left behind by former slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Thereafter she alternated between the former masters and the former slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She pushed one of them aside and went into the former classroom, where a group of half-dressed soldiers were oiling their weapons. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Daddy bought it when I was nine after the former owner, Mr. Wyatt, left Garden Heights to go sit on the beach all day, watching pretty women. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He spent hours in the back room of his house drinking whiskey and calling former friends in the Klan, trying to explain his actions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I had agreed to international mediation, and on April 13 a dele-gation arrived led by Lord Carrington, the former British foreign secretary, and Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Farmer flew back to Lima, Bayona accompanied him to a small government health clinic next to Father Jack’s former church. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In my former squad I was the mega nerd, and I wish they were as into things as I get. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Paul Ellis told his son that there was a secret society of Southern men who would rise up someday and restore Dixie to her former greatness. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The former means not accepting other people’s opinions, always blowing best, having the last word; in short, all those unpleasant traits for which I’m known. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I can have a good laugh at my former self, remembering how my sisters and I nervously made our list of prospects: oranges, flour, even eggs! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These two ideas transcend our finite understanding, he wrote, “the former on account of their magnitude, the latter because of their smallness.” Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I read my book, bright eyed, breathing heavily, and rooted for Rontu to win against the pack of wild dogs, his former brothers. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z As former US vice president Al Gore has stated, “The survival of the United States of America as we know it is at risk. And even more...the future of human civilization is at stake.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z I spot one of Pop’s former patients and make a sharp turn away from her, pulling my scarf back up to shadow my face. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The fly population returned to its former level; so did infant mortality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The field was the best the track had to offer, including Velociter, the former track record holder for the race’s mile distance, and the terrific mare Uppermost, the only horse to better Velociter’s time. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They seem to have forgotten that I, a former member of the experiments they’re referring to, am in the room. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And then repeated, with her former pleasant change, “shall we walk a little farther, or go home?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Luther Rice joined them, as did two draftsmen and the city of Chicago’s former bridge engineer, W. C. Hughes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The former German capital sat deep inside the zone of Soviet occupation, in the eastern part of Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, okay. But I'm not just some former ugly girl who sold her soul to date hotties and go to the finest keg parties the Greater Gutshot Area has to offer.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The former date was calculated by Seneca historian Paula Underwood, who based her estimate on the tally of generations in oral records. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two of Lumumba’s former cabinet members are behind them, coming from Léopoldville in another car. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Within moments of his arrival, he finds himself with a glass of sparkling wine in hand, exchanging pleasantries with a former prima ballerina. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The wedge between my former best friend and me is pretty deep. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z The former harper crept out into the darkness, unnoticed by the rest. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon a former associate of Doe’s named Charles Taylor began fighting against the new regime. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Household workers, all, or former employees, she decided. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Families everywhere hurried away, carrying whatever they could save of their former lives. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After exchanging pleasantries with his former student, Davis revealed the motive for his visit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A former schoolteacher and librarian, she’d used her platform as First Lady to promote education and advocate for teachers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He was deep in thought, trying to recall every memory of his former journey in the Mines, and considering anxiously the next course that he should take; a false turn now might be disastrous. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “And Admiral Howe continues to delay the invasion. It’s maddening. The Crown must smash this rebellion into dust so we can return to our former lives with a sense of order.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At some point not long before his death, he told his former assistant Mary Kubicek that it was fine to release Henrietta’s name if anyone asked, since it had been so many years. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Yet I knew all the time, if I yielded now, I should not the less be made to repent, some day, of my former rebellion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Mary Jackson— a former West Computer!—had faced down the brilliant John Becker and won. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She pretended not to see Jasmine when they passed on the street, especially when her former playmate was in the company of her son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At lunch, I sit down by myself at the end of a long table featuring several members of my former Group of Friends. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z But he had accepted her, had obliterated her former disgrace. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Taking the helm of the city in 620 a.d., he was as determined to reestablish his city’s former glory as Kaan’s rulers were to prevent it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Hugh defends his former school, saying, "Well, isn't that the whole point of a field trip? To see something new?" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He’d already selected the officer’s rank and name, the latter borrowed from a former acquaintance, the then warden of Kansas State Penitentiary: Tracy Hand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Huge openings in the sides and in the roof were the gutted remains of former doors and skylights. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “She is our captive and my guest, and as a distinguished former agent of the Church, she may have information that would be useful.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even Barry McCaffrey, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, once remarked, if your child bought drugs, “it was from a student of their own race generally.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Permian recalls the former Russian province of Perm in the Ural Mountains. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Remarkably, several former juvenile lifers had developed outstanding institutional histories with very few disciplinaries, even though they did their time with no hope of ever being released or having their institutional history reviewed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When Jane and Elizabeth were alone, the former, who had been cautious in her praise of Mr. Bingley before, expressed to her sister how very much she admired him. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The former sheriff showed up, in the guise of an elderly, quiet cattleman from Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If Poet’s estate did exist, it was sure to be a shell of its former self, stripped and plundered by the German army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Aurelia and Marcus, blithely ignorant of what was happening, hurried back to the atrium, to find the former sleepers wide awake and one, at least, in a state close to panic. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Our time in Chicago with other exonerated former death row prisoners was energizing for Walter, who seemed more motivated than ever to talk about his experience. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Setting aside the fact that Pope Alexander VI was his former employer, Josquin threw himself into the commission. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As had happened before, former allies of African Americans—as much as conservatives—adopted a political strategy that required them to prove how “tough” they could be on “them,” the dark-skinned pariahs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Ochoa-Perez, an exquisite embassy wife, was very former, I knew, because Jack hadn’t been on outside assignment in several years at least. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If you’re scared of both the past and the future, having a dismal record in the former and no ideas for the latter, you can always just wallow in the present tense of demonstrative rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z And I, the former mystic, was thinking: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He even had them officially listed and denounced for desertion, in case some British agent needed proof that the agent was really a former American soldier and not a spy posing as a deserter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A number of my former students now worked with the public defender's office in New Orleans, and they, too, had come to court and were cheering. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The ball cast rubbery echoes off the former monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were business and professional people, such as the militant former Brooklynites Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Lee, both of them dentists, who had given up their United States’ citizenship. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z According to her, John Henry was a farmer, a former slave turned sharecropper, who got arrested for something ridiculous. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z If unauthorized sex resulted in a pregnancy or a birth, the woman and her baby were usually killed, according to my interviews with a former camp guard and several former prisoners. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The former naiad was having harsh words with them in a foreign tongue, struggling in their grasp. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Last Saturday after school, one of the men who worked in the Griffin, a former tobacco hand named Martin, told her that the door to the roof was unlocked. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some hung at weird angles from their former lofty positions in the sky. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “That is the reason I am here. I wish to address the Council. As a former member. Right now, if I may.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Since no hotel would take them, they had been invited to stay at the Washington home of Gifford Pinchot, the former governor of Pennsylvania. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z “Do you break off,” she asked then, with her former air of being afraid of me, “because you hate me too much to bear to speak to me?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Gold’s former employer, a chemical plant called the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, was hiring again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1999, she opened a shelter for injured migrants in a tiny former tortilla factory someone lent her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In fact, very little is known about the fate of former welfare recipients because the 1996 welfare reform legislation blithely failed to include any provision for monitoring their postwelfare economic condition. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z At number seven was another of Tom Bolles’s former freshmen, Merton Hatch. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was the price I had to pay, Birdie said, for living with two former thespians. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z It gives great pleasure to the Editor to hear, from every quarter of our City, that universal health prevails in a degree equal to any former period. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Washington was told that a baker had been given the letter by the woman, a former girlfriend. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I pace around the show, up and down the former aisles, around the checkout counters where Jody’s sculptures pose like models on a runway, past the wall where Carolyn’s quilts yell defiance. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Mandela wanted to know how his former team and his ex-teammates were doing. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The sole claim to fame of Livermore, California, was as the former home of a onetime heavyweight champ who had moved there in the 1920s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In the former region the indigenous population mostly kept the invaders out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “And, by our former reasoning, it must be one of the passengers,” said M. Bouc. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The proportional burden on South Korea, some studies have found, would be two and a half times greater than on West Germany after it absorbed the former East Germany. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It carried a small army: one hundred former U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But with the entire confederation now smaller than one of its former communities, the best option seemed to be allowing the Pilgrims to remain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “According to Dauntless law, only Dauntless leaders can perform an execution. All five of our former leaders are Dauntless traitors,” says Tori. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “The same first name as a former president.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z A permanent trust fund for college scholarships had been established with a donation of one million dollars “from one of your former students.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Charlotte Morrison, a Rhodes Scholar and former student of mine, was now a senior attorney at EJI. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Stanton realized that opposing the Fourteenth Amendment would be a difficult fight; many of her closest friends and former allies disagreed with her position. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The former anger is gone, and with it that edgy, jealous lust we used to have for each other. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He turned to his former partner, Lise Meitner, a Jewish physicist who’d been forced out of Germany by Hitler. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Every year, Alex, June, and Nora fill up the East Room on the first floor with three hundred or so of their friends, vague celebrity acquaintances, former hookups, potential political connections, and otherwise notable twenty-somethings. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Only a few weeks previously, Weaver confided, Fosdick had been buttonholed at a benefit dinner by Dave Hennen Morris, a wealthy former ambassador to Belgium and a board member of the Research Corporation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Her father told her stories of how the recently emancipated black people were essentially re-enslaved by former Confederate officers and soldiers, who used violence, intimidation, lynching, and peonage to keep African Americans subordinate and marginalized. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He must not be allowed to restore the castle to its former strength. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rather modern-looking human skulls from Africa around 100,000 years ago have been taken to support the former view, with the leap occurring specifically in Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She seemed like a former neighbor or babysitter who just happened to know about my childhood. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Choosing the former, I climbed up to his small attic room at the top of the servants' wing early one morning and knocked gently. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “Then I shall rot in here,” the former Grand Elder huffed. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Several former foster parents admitted to being very frustrated by Avery because they weren't equipped to deal with his serious mental health problems. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was the man who had supplied the information that led to the arrest of the accused: Floyd Wells, Hickock’s former cellmate. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest tenants were standing by the door, guarding the entrance to the dining room where their former patron was being held prisoner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One advantage of the former was that while he was listening he could also be glancing at a board. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A year after they married, a former classmate contacted Enoch about a job at Perkins High School in Lambert, South Carolina. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was nothing Emily could see to identify this building as the former home of the Black Cat cafe, but the address matched what they’d found online, so it must be the right place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The former members of the Blue Team are scattered all over the cafeteria at lunchtime—twelve bodies orbiting the white-hot sun of the cool table. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z There was no telling what his strength would be after such a long hiatus; even Bobby couldn’t be sure that he’d held on to his former insight and brilliance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Bill Ferny’s treatment must have been very hard for the journey in the wild to seem so much better than its former life. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In its former life, this trail was a working railroad. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He didn’t know Dimple very well, obviously, and yet tonight she was just...off, a faded print of her former vibrant self. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Morrison’s former wife, Cole—who said she hadn’t come forward right after the murder because Morrison had threatened to “stomp me to death”—corroborated his account. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I learned from these former secretaries of Mr. Muhammad that while he was praising me to my face, he was tearing me apart behind my back. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Viola refused to call it either the laboratory or the former slave quarters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z So Bobby Gene ran for the diaper bag while I defended the fireworks and Cory cooed and cuddled our former sister. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Blake, who was from Maryland, was the only surviving child of eight born to former slaves, and like Chaplin he had learnt his trade as a vaudeville performer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They were also forced to live with skin-deep guilt brought on by the treatment of their former Nisei schoolmates. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Many coattails were wrinkled by Sandy Pittman latching on to them,” says a former business associate of Mr. Pittman who insisted on anonymity. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z But the former president didn’t complain; he wasn’t going to interfere if it was everyone else’s best chance for survival. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z William is carrying Blanche of Castile, Queen Mother and former Regent of all France, in his arms like a newborn calf. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z As a former deputy sheriff in the wild Badlands of the Dakota Territory, Roosevelt, however, believed that killing Julio was justified. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He still recalled enough of his former schooling to be able to recite entire blatts of the Talmud from memory alone, a parlor trick he’d shown off to the crew’s disbelief and amusement. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It must be Janine she meant me to see, because there she is, paired with a new woman, not the former one; someone I don’t recognize. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Pat Robertson, the former television evangelist and presidential candidate, maintained recently that he couldn’t prove that there weren’t Soviet missile sites in Cuba and therefore there might be. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They recognized her as Jean Tatlock, a former girlfriend of Oppenheimer’s and a member of the Communist Party. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The banner covers the building’s former name, some dead president they shot. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ll repeat these words to myself, as if by doing so I’ll somehow be able to understand my older brother and my former love a little better. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A former Navy fraternity, it was now, as Sasha explained, “a fraternity in name only.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Four flagrant examples are the comparison of South Korea with North Korea, the former West Germany with the former East Germany, the Dominican Republic with Haiti, and Israel with its Arab neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It took some work to break open the things—but a couple of former soldiers like Alec and Lana were trained to break open things, weren’t they? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Then to a former sergeant, then to the woman writing the letter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I meditated upon the peculiar circumstance, that but a half mile away, across the Neck, my former companions—good Mr. G—g among them—glowered back from the fortifications at Roxbury. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Blackwater USA, a private-security firm that employed former soldiers from the U.S. and elsewhere, had sent hundreds of personnel to the region. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks’ rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Remembers all the missed calls and messages—and the lack thereof from a certain former debate partner. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Suddenly the doorbell rang and Aunt Jody admitted the next-door neighbor, the owner of the house in which we lived and its former occupant. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But among them, his former pupils, excited by the high-sounding proclamations, the determination reigned to sacrifice their skins for a lost cause. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "There are no Jews in England. Only former Jews." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I get the feeling that the only reason he’s participating is to prove to me that he doesn’t agree with his former faction’s tactics. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Burns, a former Secret Service agent, had succeeded Pinkerton as the world’s most celebrated private eye. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When the highlight film showed Crow scoring the two-point conversion, the crowd rose to its feet and gave the former hero a standing ovation. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To underscore her authority it is likely that Cleopatra arranged a stop at Memphis—the former capital where the pharaohs of ages past resided. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The mutilated corpse of Mr. McRee, a poultry farmer and former member of the Egg Producers Association of Vermont, was found upon his Mechanicsville farm. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The trial would be conducted in an ornate former synagogue that had been converted into a court of law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At these words Harry remembered, as though from a former life, the dueling club at Hogwarts he had attended briefly two years ago. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There was nothing Emily could see to identify this building as the former home of the Black Cat cafe, but the address matched what they’d found online, so it must be the right place. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z "Your own . . . my lord, that would not be possible. The King's Hand has taken up residence in your former chambers." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Johanna will be heading up the former effort, and I will be heading up the latter, which is what we will mostly be focusing on tonight.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As a former educator, Garfield decried the nation's high rate of illiteracy, particularly in the South, revealed by questions in the 1880 census asking if a person could read and write. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The former chief magistrate pursuing peace every where with sincerity, tho’ mistaking the means; the latter taking as much pains to get into war, as the former took to keep out of it. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The former follows fairly briskly on from the latter; or should do, if onstage catastrophe is to be avoided. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z A former teacher, journalist, and dean of women at Northwestern University, Willard was both a visionary and a powerful reformer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z As the food filled my plate and the soldiers and former prisoners around me began to eat, I remembered that day in Kraków so long ago, the day the war had begun. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Four armed guards were patrolling the parking lot, and cars were parked all around the wire-netting fence that surrounded the former football field. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z A former student of Hiatt’s at the Harvard School of Public Health, Kochi had begun to reexamine his program under the constant pressure from Farmer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The former soldier had gotten to his feet and slung his backpack onto his shoulders. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Knowing Capricorn’s former favorite was to die that night just seemed to add to their fun. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Merle had received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and been ensconced for two years at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Swann’s former haunt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z My school building had been a former prison. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Working closely with a former business editor, Glenn Kramon, David labored for months to create a financial portrait of the richest Americans. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There was a story about the murder of a New York City public school teacher, Jonathan Levin, by one or two former students who wanted money. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now armed with a steady job, he set out to rebuild our former life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z White leaders—former planters—were clearly fighting to regain their antebellum positions of political and economic privilege. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But the former slaves in what became Haiti defeated the French army. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z As he lay ill with scarlet fever in the attic of a woman he did not really know, the last remnants of his former world were dissolving in Spokane. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When, a year from now, I choose between you, the unchosen one can return to his or her former life easily enough. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Bringing the whole matter into the open might be the best plan, but that would mean trying to find that former student, who was the sort who would deny all responsibility anyway. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These were the gates that slaves had used in former days as they went about their masters’ business, where smallfolk and tradesmen came and went and made their deliveries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And it’s like Old Charley Bums—the former Director, the racing fan, the real character—no longer exists. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z What a miserable state for a girl of former beauty! Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The anonymous seller claimed to be a former IOI contract programmer and one of the lead architects of its company intranet. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He also began working with the Clinton Global Initiative, a foundation started by the former president to bring together experts and leaders to find solutions to major world problems. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In so doing they find a far greater abundance of space and food than was available in the former colonies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I counted on reconnecting to my friends from my former school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We are both former students of the same instructor,” Tsukiko says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A former president of the Ninety-Nines, Inc., International Organization of Women Pilots, she tracked everyone down through their memberships in the Ninety-Nines. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z The man with their leads stuffed in the pockets of his orange fleece is Dr. Atchley, the Kansas University psychologist, an introspective former army captain turned scholar. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z What if she was the former owner of the house, or maybe she was married to the man in the painting downstairs? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When our entire fortune was lost to the surging waters of the Bistrifa—a shipload of fabric and ready-made clothes gone in an instant—he returned to his former career. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “In those days,” he explained sheepishly to a former graduate student who reproached him for talking over his students’ heads, “I was just trying to educate myself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z They spied this house, a former ship captain’s estate, from the harbor, and on an impulse decided to buy it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Had he not eaten venison in his former life? Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z On five different occasions, she and her husband, Jim, the former principal of Ector High School before it closed, had taken students to Europe to let them see other cultures, other lands. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, there’s no rule against it. And I did have a spouse. You’re forgetting how old I am, Jonas. My former spouse lives now with the Childless Adults.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He is a thirty-four- year-old former machinist from Frederick County, Virginia. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes later, they were finishing their first highball in the living room and were talking in the manner peculiar, probably limited, to former college roommates. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Even the students, many of whom were former prisoners, wore the same uniforms as they had before, with new patches over the pockets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then on Thursday, after I had had the unsatisfactory visit with my former friends, Grandpa Izzy called with a different suggestion. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Democrats were popular among White southerners because the party had pushed for leniency toward the Confederacy and had supported efforts to deny former slaves the vote. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The soft, maroon, flat-topped headgear of my grandparents’ former tormentors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While earnestly wishing to erase from his mind the trace of my former offence, I had stamped on that tenacious surface another and far deeper impression: I had burnt it in. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see through the tangled vines into the former hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been some talk about a former foundation fencer, moving from Texas back to New York, who would take the new job. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Jesse knew me as a writer for Rolling Stone, Wired, and Hotwired, the former website of the Wired empire, and that seemed to be enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I easily parried and lunged and landed the most fluid attacks on my former coach. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A little while later, as I was chatting with the former surgeon, who told me he and Baba had been classmates in eighth grade, Soraya pulled on my sleeve. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z While I was his junior in the former realm, I believed I had advanced beyond my onetime mentor in my political views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks the guest room where she will be staying—which is really a former hayloft shaped by a sloped roof—has “two lopsides.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In New Orleans I resumed my Negro identity and we went to all of my former haunts to photograph them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he couldn’t speak Portuguese, the former president’s gregarious nature broke through the language barrier. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was too busy now and had to be prodded to take note of his former star agent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z His paternal grandfather, a former professor of European literature at Calcutta University, had read from them aloud in English translations when Ashoke was a boy. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As a former officer looking back into Sing Sing’s history, I was struck by lost institutions of the old prison, such as the bands that played as prisoners marched to chow. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Our former question about apples or Indians becomes a question of zebras or Africans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A bird landed on one of Håkon’s shoulders, and the former dragon smiled at the little feathered thing. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Tori, former leader of Dauntless, ousted by Evelyn herself, stands a few feet away from me, her arms crossed. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “I think I recall that,” he says, as if not entirely willing to be reminded of his former, younger self. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Those folks at the school district probably don’t want a former drug addict working with them. It’ll be okay. I gotta believe that.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She did not want to bring her personal drama to rehearsals and to be around her former boyfriend every afternoon and feel that everyone was always looking at her. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The former slid her starboard oars out of the way before impact, but Sceptre's portside oars snapped like so much kindling as Kingslander raked along her side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The family maintains at least eight country houses, according to books by his former chef and a former bodyguard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her joints were a bit stiff from sitting still in the damp air, yet she moved with the measured gait of the former soldier she was. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z You share a first name with a former US president. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z We were building a pile of the pits on a file photo of one of his former subjects, a South American woman with a magnificently crooked nose. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Before he passed from cholera he liked to share stories from the Bible, his former master being more liberal-minded when it came to slaves and religion. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But right now, at this picnic table with his arm still protectively around me, Kareem doesn’t feel like the former. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Beatrice Leep lived with her father, a former professional basketball player with gimpy knees, a beer gut, and not much enthusiasm for steady work. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, however, with Jefferson gone over to the other side and their former friendship reduced to polite and nervously evasive exchanges, Abigail became his chief and, in most respects, his sole collaborator. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Just as his mother feared, Havens, a broad- shouldered former wrestler with tousled brown hair and a guileless smile, wavered some his freshman year and dated several classmates. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Arnold, a thirty-one-year-old Confederate army veteran and former schoolmate of Booth’s, was arrested based on a tip. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think I need to visit with my former Sisters. The cat’s away. And the mice shall play. And there is much that a mouse can do, after all.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z More precisely: a former mosque, with minaret torn down and Koranic inscriptions plastered over to provide a fresh canvas for the Christian saints that are, even now, being painted on the interior. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Closer, I could see that Vera’s face had the resonance of a former highly prized beauty. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Puma was a guard himself, and a former Teamster, from Brooklyn. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He had the former servants’ quarters renovated to keep as his private rooms because he enjoys the view. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The former portrayed God as an old blue-eyed white man with a long white beard, sitting between white, fluffy clouds, flanked by two bearded white men. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The former double agent now morphed into the model prisoner, charming the Scrubs' guards and administrators and making friends among its inmates. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson, a former stroke oar—one of the best Washington had ever known—was tall, well built, and notably handsome. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While Mrs. Bell, Stanley's former math teacher, might want to know the percent change in Stanley's weight, the reader probably cares more about the change in Stanley's character and self- confidence. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I want to appreciate this, that she can take off her former Miss Teen Blue Bonnet hat and be my mom. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Fleming, seventy- one, a former mayor of Garden City, a short man who enlivens an unsensational appearance with rather conspicuous neckwear, resisted the assignment. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “No one can feel worse than I do over the foolishness of their picketing the White House,” said Anna Howard Shaw, former president of NAWSA. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Far away from their former world came the cry of geese heading southward. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Aberdeen Gardens, the sprawling development built on former Hampton Institute farmland, was another desirable location, its wide streets with grassy medians and surrounding forests drawing many active-duty and retired military families. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “You also have the prestige of being a former spy.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “First of all I’m a gun collector,” said former city councilman Vern Foreman. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He would stay up until very late, suffocating in his faded velvet vest, scribbling with his tiny sparrow hands, whose rings had lost the glow of former times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z White, who had ordered his men to work in pairs for security, received a tip that a former member of the Al Spencer Gang had shown up in Pawhuska to kill federal agents. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “And all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class, and are respected and treated as equals.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Brandenburg Gate, a monument to the city's former greatness, still stood in the middle of the city, in the midst of a no-man's-land between East and West. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z This South American country was rumored to be wild and inhospitable, but she had contacts in the Dutch colony there, through her son-in-law and other former Labadists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His former girlfriend, Adele Picket, passed away after a long illness. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even though he became a justice of the peace after the war, the tight-lipped former member of the Confederate Secret Service was ever after wary of persecution for aiding the conspirators. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even in those early postwar years, Harvey distinguished himself with "an excellent knowledge of Russian espionage and Communist activities," according to a former colleague. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A campaign was orchestrated to erase from the face of the earth the good name of the former President, in the hope that the masses would stop mourning him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Both are theories of the universe, though the latter is much more mathematical and precise than the former. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our former technical sciences professor, Dr. Hauptmann, has called our attention to the discrepancy. He has arranged that you will be sent to a special technology division of the Wehrmacht.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I found it curious that a former member of the Communist Party’s Central Committee had decided to align himself with an organization that then explicidy rejected Marxism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another gunman was hired to assassinate Kelsie Morrison’s former wife, Katherine Cole, who was Osage and had agreed to testify for the prosecution. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was a cheerful fellow and seemed genuinely interested, so I confess I did spend a little time telling him about Darlington Hall in former days. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z In 1920, Hermann Muller, the former student of Thomas Morgan’s, moved from New York to Texas to continue studying fly genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Her high school and college records were examined, and her former teachers and administrators were questioned. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The former says that if the sun has risen in the east every morning since the dinosaurs walked the earth, you can bet dollars to donuts it’ll do the same tomorrow morning. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He wasn’t interested in being anyone’s tour guide, not even the former president of the United States. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The amendment established that basic rights of citizenship—including suffrage—would be granted to male former slaves, and by specifying the sex it explicitly denied those rights to women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The FBI tracked down former Langley engineer Eastman Jacobs, known for his left- leaning sympathies, and interrogated him at his new home in California. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Although it was once an Oxscinian territory and still exported blackrock and gunpowder to its former sovereign, it was too small and isolated in the deep south to be of much consequence. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z M. Bouc was a Belgian, a director of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons Lits, and his acquaintance with the former star of the Belgian Police Force dated back many years. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The astronauts, former test pilots and combat veterans accustomed to riding with the shadow of death on every flight, put themselves in NASA’s hands. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “We all knew in our gut that it was Dan,” a former colleague remembered. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z They came quickly in and closed the door behind them, the former saying, as they moved along the hall:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He didn’t seem to notice Bongo, who was hiding deep in the owls’ former home. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Every time I turned my e-mail program on, I faced hundreds of messages from kids, students, former students, parents, and teachers stacked in vast queues; it took hours just to download the mail. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The others were still punching and kicking Alec, but the former soldier refused to give in, struggling to fight back despite his odds. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The house regularly overflowed with guests, including Miele’s former wife and her husband. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Since the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, the former number-one jailer, the United States has run neck and neck with Russia in the race to become the world leader in rates of imprisonment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Infinite possibilities and enormous responsibilities stretched out before him, but he was not prepared to take advantage of the former, or accept the burden of the latter. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Darnell said he told Walter's former lawyers what he told me and they had raised it in the motion for a new trial, but no one took it seriously. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The former was on his knees; the latter was sitting on a beautiful chaise, his hands folded carefully in his lap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z That’s why great former cities in states like Georgia are pretty much ghost towns these days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Kashdan and Bobby had never met before, but the former was a legend in the chess world. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But what could the former slaves dor1 Every Indian who accepted the paltry wages specified in the indenture contract lowered the price an African could charge for his labor. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Yes, that was one of the problems,” said the former king. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z “From the former. I had narrowly observed her during the two visits which I had lately made here; and I was convinced of her affection.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z In 1867, Andrew Johnson, the nation’s first post-Civil War president and a former slaveholder, advocated a new practice that quickly replaced slavery as a main source of agricultural labor in the South. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The other boy, who was also a former child soldier, introduced himself. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z We chose Bikoki expecting to find people Anatole knew here, former friends and employers in the rubber trade, but most are dead now or have left the country. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the men had identified himself to police as a former CIA agent. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The program would have been much more interesting if the former mayor—the one who had fired her—had been the one to give the speech. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But that is my own illusion, a hangover from a version of reality I learned in the former time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z What mattered was that the massacres made fervent Biafrans of former Nigerians. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I want to ask him more about our former home, but Meng is quiet now, lost in his own thoughts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I pointed out that it was the former that had condemned me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z But crammed into the corner with Billy was a former hobo who was forty years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon Lincoln finds himself on the corner of Twelfth and Clay Streets, staring at the former home of Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The stranger did not share his amusement. "—my former apprentice, Widge, in consideration of which I have accepted the amount of ten pounds sterling." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z They would keep a minimal crew, all former sailors who had made their way into the ranks of the Dregs through one misfortune or another. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Because Cox has forty former slaves living on his farm, it is too dangerous for Booth and Herold to stay on the property. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Though partly collapsed, the Old Bear’s former seat would be warmer than the ice cells. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Though she now occupied the side of the bed left vacant by her former mistress, the dog knew she could never pass as a viable replacement. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Then I walked with Sam over to our former apartment to watch TV with Mrs. Muramoto. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Custom demanded that the queen begin with the Astapori envoy, a former slave who called himself Lord Ghael, though no one seemed to know what he was lord of. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But our Suffering shall not be indefinite if Aina would only purchase me an Owl & some other Sundries so I might restore our College to its former Glory & win again the Approbation of our Trustees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the second stage a former animal pathogen evolves to the point where it does get transmitted directly between people and causes epidemics. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the surface, this appeared to be another victory for Lawrence, for five of the members were his friends or former colleagues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The former Marine was the first pilot to average supersonic speeds in a transcontinental flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The former was quite good, bacon and potato soup with fresh bread and butter. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The day the first wave of Star Children returned to the Protectorate, the former Sisters threw open the windows of the hospital. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nate later explained to me that unlike the average citizen of Century Village, rabbis don't have former lives. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z I have no photographs or letters or even books from that former life, only the Irish cross from my gram. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As Siddhartha left the grove in which the Buddha, the Perfect One, remained, in which Govinda remained, he felt that he had also left his former life behind him in the grove. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Gates would give only one grant, Jim made peace with PIH’s potential or former adversaries, such as WHO’s tuberculosis branch, who would otherwise be competing for the grant. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She started the Fulton Firebirds two years ago at the suggestion of her mentor, a Black businesswoman we call Ms. Monica, who is the head lawyer at Coke, and who also is a former softballer. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z The former paintings in the lobby—landscapes aglow with Manifest Destiny, scenes of Indians being slaughtered—had been carted down to the basement. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I’ve made friends, students my own age from the colegio, and when I walk down the street, they talk to me as if I’m a normal kid, not a servant, not a former indigenous girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the news was first reported, there were some geographers, including Sir Clements Markham, a British explorer and former president of the Royal Geographical Society, who had stirred up controversy by doubting Roosevelt's story. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Collins was a former New York State Champion, a veteran tournament player, and a renowned teacher of the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The former faction had been identified with sending and captaining the fleets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Who were the ones talking about it—the former PSFs assigned there? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Duke Ellington, grandson of a former slave, began with his band a four-year residency at New York's Hollywood Club in 1923. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z From the walls, the painted eyes of former Directors seemed to follow him, their faces austere, their lips unmoving. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I need not have worried about the former; no one in the audience or on the stage had paid the least attention to my jottings. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of a few hours, his shoppers included a young woman with a giant diamond ring and a former airplane parts inspector living off her disability checks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The man assigned to the bed next to Billy’s was a former infantry, captain named Eliot Rosewater. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z "What Mister Bromios thinks or does not think," replied her mother, the former Bridget Comfrey, "is neither here nor there. That is a most improper occupation for a young lady." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z In front of us, the line splits in two as a large group of ex-soldiers, government workers, and former politicians walk over to the table to register for work. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Paxter Redwyne, Lord of the Arbor, marched down the length of the hall flanked by his twin sons Horror and Slobber, the former limping from a wound taken in the battle. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sanctuary was located on the former campus of a state school that had closed after it got shot up during one of Congo’s wars. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Finally it did settle down, ending with one big sigh from the former soldier. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The monkeys chattered angrily, spitting and clawing, but their former servant was persistent, pushing and shoving with the broom until both monkeys were out the door. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Without the former, you didn’t get the latter. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A former policeman and carpenter who in his youth had gained unlikely fame as a “rock dancer,” who delighted people with his “twist” performances, Saemi would do anything for a friend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One morning, Herbert completed his assembly of the bomb and placed it on his former girlfriend's porch. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Hadn’t he played a former World Champion, Dr. Max Euwe, just a year earlier? Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Also please send me all of your old former work that you have on hand, as I am eager to see it. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Instead of holding it in a church or chapel, we selected Mount Morris Park, and an appeal went out for all former members to join the funeral march. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The president hears footsteps on the gravel and the familiar voice of former Illinois congressman Isaac Arnold calling his name. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Of taking pleasure in the unhappiness of his former fiancee? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She crossed back to her former seat and brought the coin close to her eyes to study it. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, besieged by pressures of all kinds, left his bed of a paralytic in order to persuade his former companion in arms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A year before at this former asylum, a drunken CO had shot and killed his girlfriend, also a CO, and a female roommate, over unrequited love. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z After the game John Wilkins, a former Permian coach who was now the athletic director for the county school system, came into the Permian locker room. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “We got a being of former renown and illustriousness.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the gate opened, and Stern, a former shopkeeper who now was a policeman, entered and took my father aside. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I went few places without constant awareness that any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Albert’s will said nothing of his relation to his heirs, but folks in Lacks Town knew they were children he’d had with a former slave named Maria. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “The boy is suffering and we have no medicine here to lessen his pain. Everything is at our former base.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I didn’t have much time to examine the nest last night, but do think it is possible that the adults were the former habitants of the nest and, therefore, the eaglet’s parents. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the nearby town he found a former German engineer who was now unemployed and had five children to feed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Root said that Malcolm X made accusations about Elijah Muhammad’s conduct with various former secretaries. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I returned it to her; she received it quietly, and without saying anything she was about to relapse into her former studious mood: again I ventured to disturb her— Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Among its regional leaders were five former Confederate generals; its staunchest supporters were the plantation owners for whom Reconstruction posed an economic and political nightmare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z As each kiss was bestowed, the fairy reverted to her former size amid dazzling sparks and darted away. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He introduced me to a dozen men, one of them a retired teacher, another an engineer, a former architect, a surgeon who was now running a hot dog stand in Hayward. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Ballets and Broadway musicals and entertainments of that sort will flourish everywhere and will probably make the common folk happier than did the grim, hostile, fascistic pronouncements of their former leaders. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was strange, how Aunty Uju often spoke about the former heads of state, invoking their names with poisoned blame, but never mentioning The General. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He lived out of cans, but then perhaps his former wife did also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Or that Louis V. Gerstner, the former IBM chief executive, hired a Boston litigator to help him push through a plan for a large new house on his $11 million waterfront plot? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The former is beyond human capacity, and the latter is almost so, and is becoming more nearly so as the Machine’s experience increases by the second.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They had been his former means of travel. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The room is dimly lit, but I see familiar faces, former neighbors and classmates and my father’s coworkers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Up until his death Schindler kept in touch with some of his former workers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z My supervisor, I learned, was the eminent Professor Jonathan Steinberg, a former vice-master of a Cambridge college, who was much celebrated for his writings on the Holocaust. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To wrest a draw from a former World Champion was neither small cheese nor minor chess, but Bobby was unhappy since he’d lost the match, 1½–½. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Large numbers of former slaves roamed the highways in the early years after the war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like the books confiscated from foreign ships, the originals stayed in the library, and the former owners had to be content with a handsome set of copies. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Many former friends thought the paper was too radical or too embarrassing, and they refused to subscribe. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And Flint, now that he had his mother’s undivided attention, quickly regained his former high spirits. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He followed orders, however, and the former grand marshal of the fair wound up fighting the men who had built it. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As a former foreign minister now serving as secretary of state, Jefferson required no instruction on the international implications of Americas debtor status. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Men who had rowed with one another for a lifetime had begun to turn their backs on their former crewmates and neighbors. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For he must have known how painful it was to me, to be reminded of the former time. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a mother and a little sister, both former Candor. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Smyth was a former chairman of the Princeton physics department who had authored an official history of the bomb program released to the public following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z There was a woman on Weylin’s plantation whose former master had cut three fingers from her right hand when he caught her writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z White then enlisted a stocky, garrulous, and blond-haired former Texas Ranger who, according to a superior, was best suited for situations “where there is any element of danger.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mark stumbled, then got his balance, wondering what the former soldier had planned. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The foreman was a Pole: Franek, a former student in Warsaw. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the former McPherson Hall had been redecorated according to a Moorish theme. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Mr. O’Flanagan was the assistant manager of the gin and a former merchant sailor, and he loved having a bird around. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now, standing in the marketplace, engulfed in that invested town, that hive of my former masters' enemies, my eyes fell again upon Faneuil Hall. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z By the time Shin hit the road, defectors themselves, many of them former North Korean military and police officers, had taken over the trade and were quietly running for-profit operations. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Neither guy blinked at being instructed to join up with a reformed gangster who smelled strongly of urinal cakes to prank a former heavyweight champion prizefighter. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This fact alone would make the nation choose Aeneas’ side in the war, so intense was the hatred felt for their former ruler. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Fixed, anchored to a former version of myself. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The Housing Authority was headed by a former cotton mill executive named Carvie Oldham, who ran public housing with the same autocratic and ruthless style that had marked his tenure in the mill. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Kim thanks the former father for his kind words and for finding us a new family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then as now, when a knight took the black, tradition decreed that he set aside his former arms and take up the plain black shield of the brotherhood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z No, it turned out that the street instead commemorated Hermann’s father, Heinrich Goering, founding Reichskommissar of the former German colony of South-West Africa, which became Namibia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not far behind Hamilton came his former friend and successor to the presidency. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z His target was a bespectacled former journalist named Herbert Bayard Swope, chairman of the New York Racing Commission, the governing body of War Admiral’s home turf. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The former planters and new-money industrialists like Buck Duke controlled all the important institutions: courts, legislatures, schools, police. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was a foregone conclusion that Washington would be called out of retirement to head the force, but equally predictable that the aging general would delegate actual command to his former aide-de-camp. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A former singer in her early twenties, Comrade Ri dressed like a junior executive at Samsung. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She loved me, even after I became a ghost of my former self. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "We have given you Lord Arryn's former chambers in the Tower of the Hand, if it please you. I shall have your things taken there." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A former Pentagon employee named Daniel Ellsberg had illegally leaked highly classified information to the Times. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Beatrice’s husband was a paymaster, a man whose job it was to hand out wages to employees of the former government, and the men at the door wanted whatever cash he could get. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He said this: “There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z “Daniel Ellsberg, a former State Department and Pentagon planner, and of late something of a phantom figure, agreed today to be interviewed at a secret location.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s a former acquaintance of our parents, so his presence is not unexpected—but why right next to me? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He asked a former assistant, Charles Eliot, now one of Boston’s best landscape architects, if he would come to help. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Tortured and tormented until no bits of his former self will ever emerge again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When Reggie came in on the afternoon of January 27, just after he accepted the plea, Kaylene’s first impression was he was either arrogant, or very quiet, but probably the former. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “And that’s the problem. But I think...I think this will either push her to finally get help or push her over the edge. I hope it’s the former.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z So the agencies, encouraged by the success of that early round of resettlement, brought in other refugees—survivors of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oppressed minorities from the former Soviet Union. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z While he obsessively pulls off the stickers from the sides of the former gelato carton, Mai and Dell and I fill up everything else with the fresh dirt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He would continue his job as a British spymaster by running agents in New York, including Ann Bates, a former Philadelphia schoolteacher who had left that city at the same time as the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton was aware of the Federalist plot, which was no half-baked scheme hatched by marginal figures, involving as it did several Federalist senators from New England and Timothy Pickering, the former secretary of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Brown was a union worker and a former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since Washington had spent eight years sending American soldiers to their death in battle against Great Britain, one might expect that he harbored even more hostile opinions toward his former adversary. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The wealthy and the famous were recognized—ccWe wish to recognize in our presence the former governor of...” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Working on a navy contract quietly and virtually single-handedly at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Lawrence’s former graduate student Philip Abelson had perfected a way of enriching uranium by thermal diffusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Such a move astonished Spain and the Venetians and stopped them in their tracks, the latter out of fear and the former out of a desire to recover the entire Kingdom of Naples. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth had always admired Luke, the former head counselor for Hermes who had betrayed us and joined the evil Titan Lord Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z But she is not an echo of her former self. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m a former field hockey goalie, long-standing member of the Save-the-Manatee Foundation, rare attendant at the Greek Orthodox liturgy, and, for most of my adult life, an employee of the U.S. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Next it was announced that all the camps would be closed within the coming twelve months and that internees now had the right to return to their former homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Not the smoldering caldera of my former pimple. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Finally the pilot picks up the microphone and says, ‘Madam. Was I married to you in a former life?’ Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Among the witnesses were cabinet members, some senators and congressmen, and former Presidents Hayes and Grant. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Not so, however, the story the former hotel manager now told Geyer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The former soldiers couldn’t get enough of it; orders for Green’s tobacco soon began pouring in from around the country. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Maria, our former maid, came to see us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Portraits of former Masters hung high up in the gloom along the walls. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, every day, the perimeters of her former estate seemed to double, as did the contents of her almari and coffer boxes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z These officials had never believed him before, but their former skepticism had crumbled under the weight of new developments. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And once Mazen realizes he’s been betrayed by his former lieutenant? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “One of my former guardian kids was in a class-action suit, but it was unsuccessful,” she said somberly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z When prefixed to the name of an office, ex- denotes that the person formerly held the office named: as, ex-mayor, the former mayor. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he have his free filed down and replaced by a pretty mask, his brain turned into whatever mush the authorities decided would be acceptable for a former renegade raised in the wild? Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z On the former score, Adams had the misfortune to become the first occupant of what he described as “the most insignificant office that ever the Invention of Man contrived or his Imagination conceived.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There were many fewer of the former, again suggesting that the hieroglyphs were mainly letters and syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It took a San Francisco dentist, former pro baseball player and investor named Charles “Doc” Strub to change his mind. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The former was habit, the latter was used to tell time when he could not move his fingers enough to dig in his watchpocket. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was the same soldier who, when they arrived at the training camp, a former primary school with buildings sheathed in palm fronds, shaved Ugwu’s hair with a piece of broken glass. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I considered all these people, current and former staff, to be family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He’d paired up with two other veterans, both former military officers who had extensive political and military connections. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was this Chinese steamroller that the former peoples of tropical Southeast Asia have left behind few traces in the region’s modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Large areas of the former Fertile Crescent are now desert, semidesert, steppe, or heavily eroded or salinized terrain unsuited for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The former perhaps believed in reincarnation, while the latter thought this was nonsense. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at our home and it suddenly feels like a museum full of artifacts from a former life. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The cable news anchors had finally made their way to Iowa and were now singing the praises of this political wunderkind who’d comfortably bested the Clinton machine as well as a former vice presidential nominee. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We’re also trying to keep open the agricultural extension program, training former rubber workers to subsistence farming. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z By actual count, there are more words of classical than of Anglo-Saxon origin in the English vocabulary,—probably two and a half times as many of the former as of the latter. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z It also helped that he was strikingly good- looking and built like the oarsman he had been, the former stroke oar of a Washington crew that had won national championships in 1924 and 1926. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Officials at the Eclectic Institute asked their former student to return to Hiram as a teacher. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It was like dropping an atomic bomb on a town,” said former mayor Hank Avery, and the explosion was felt in Odessa. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, at least a thousand myrtle warblers could be seen in migration during former years; in 1958, after the spraying of the elms, observers could find only two. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z My former classmates would call the abbey, wondering how I was doing, and the priest would answer the phone. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z To accomplish this, they have their own genome, a tiny thing with fewer than fifty genes, left over from their former existence as free-floating bacteria. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d been followed all day by a group of Arabs, one of whom was the brother of his former mistress. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If anyone had been an empress in some former life—at least among demons if not among the Tang people—it was Miss Whitlaw. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The Royal Air Force plane carrying six former POWs from Korea touched down at Abingdon Airfield in England in April 1953. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he scratched his neck and settled down in his former drooping position. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Du Bois eloquently reminds us, former slaves had “a brief moment in the sun” before they were returned to a status akin to slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It smells of me, in former times, when I was a mother. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson spoke for many of the participants caught up in this intensely partisan and nearly scatological political culture when he described it as a fundamental loss of trust between former friends. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In addition, White brought on an experienced deep-cover operative who looked more like an insurance salesman—perhaps because it was his former profession. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s an old kitchen from one of the former rental units, which they’re using until their new one is ready. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He opened the door of the former restaurant — maybe he had taken control of the space after the previous owner was killed — and stood there for a while, chatting with the soldiers who passed. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Stanton sends a telegram to New York City, recalling Lafayette C. Baker, his former spymaster and chief of security, to help him in this effort. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Based on the mama line, I assumed the former. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Had it been such a wise thing to go into the home construction business with his former son-in-law and end up with a loss of $1.2 million? Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the crescent moon birthmark on her forehead was a shadow of its former self—like a smudge of ashes on her brow. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z In his exuberance, he swelled up to his former gigantic size. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He carefully oudined the evolution of the ANC’s policy, putting things simply and clearly, and his former positions as teacher and chief imparted an added gravity and authority to his words. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z None of my former classmates were in this class. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Peacekeepers line the roof across from our former hideout. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Crushed by the fall of Richmond, the former rebel capital, John Wilkes Booth left New York City on April 8 and returned to Washington. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "My thanks, Lord Petyr, but I will be taking Lord Stark's former quarters in the Tower of the Hand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I believe my former Sisters are meditating, dear Wyn,” Ethyne said with a smile. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But it was a bad moment, because the house had lost its peace of former days. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He must examine the reasons for their victories and for their defeats, in order to avoid the latter and to imitate the former. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In the years since the war ended I have met former Japanese soldiers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was my father, the former king of the City of Bright Moonlight, who gave the Paper away over sixty years ago,” the king said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In Du Bois’s view, Washington’s public statements arguing that poor education and bad choices were responsible for the plight of former slaves ignored the damage wrought by caste and threatened to rationalize the entire system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For several years after the war's end, federal soldiers were stationed in the former Confederate states. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A great change has occurred in the countenance of Neumann Two, as though he looks not at his former companions but into his last hours on earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I dream of the former, but suspect the latter. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Lady Constance did resume her former distance toward Penelope and the children, but in fact, she became distant from everyone. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z "Met my former partner the other day. Offered to buy me a drink." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Thorn’s mouth twisted with distaste when I said the name of my old enemy—a former friend who’d tried to kill me several times. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Luis thinks it could even return this area to its former prominence as the tangerine capital of the world. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says, “I didn’t ...” There’s a surge forward, like a crowd at a rock concert in the former time, when the doors opened, that urgency coming like a wave through us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He encountered members of the old Al Spencer Gang and the former head of the Veterans Bureau, who had committed bribery during the scandalous Harding administration. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The explorer Martin Sauer, who visited Kamchatka five years after Cook’s expedition, discovered that the Russian government had at last ventured into the former epidemic zone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Secretary LaHood, tall and genial, a former Illinois congressman, had begun focusing himself, and his agency, on the issue of preventable traffic fatalities, especially those caused by use of technology by drivers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Moreover, the threat of violence often deterred blacks from pressing legitimate claims, making the “civil rights” of former slaves largely illusory—existing on paper but rarely to be found in real life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z With that she departed, leaving the young man full of ardor and decision, all his former uncertainty and hesitation gone. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The father only came to the Clinic twice, citing business obligations, but from those two meetings it is apparent that he is a dominating presence, a “self-made” man and former naval officer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His nominal goal was to end backbiting about the bomb program from Roosevelt’s director of war mobilization, James F. Byrnes, a former senator and Supreme Court justice. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Officials from the Japanese Sumo Association typically dismiss any such charges as fabrications by disgruntled former wrestlers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The son of a former slave, Hayes was recognized as one of the finest singers in America. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I saw my former roommates, Seanie and JP, waiting in line for pictures, and it made me feel good to see my old friends, but sad, too, because I missed rooming with them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One such case involved the Rad Lab’s former staff chemist Martin Kamen, who had been fired by Ernest during the war in response to an unproved—and groundless—charge of disloyalty. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a shot, in fighting stance, of a former prizefight champion, a popular fighter who had lost his sight in the ring. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The white man was giddy, his former authority easing into his voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A former teacher in Newport News’s public schools, he had taken the Newsome Park job after being fired for joining what was one of the most bitter and contentious of all of Virginia’s teacher-pay-equalization lawsuits. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Kids who are wraiths of their former selves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Dorothy’s friends and former Moton colleagues watched helplessly as their children’s futures were sacrificed in the battle over the future of Virginia’s public schools. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z They are a gift, these tales, the milk of solace, and he knoweth well who teaches me, that he grants a boon in thus recalling me to former ages. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z There was a long letter from a former graduate student who wrote about her life after the university. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For the briefest second, she saw a flash of panic in his former compatriots. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Dingy linoleum and appliances lining a single wall remind Gogol of his former place on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the adventure-seeking former president never regretted his trip down the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The view was not of the backyard—it was too close—but of the former woods. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the angels who took apart the prisons and the police; who held councils prosecuting the former officers who’d shot children and murdered people, sentencing them to restitution and rehabilitation. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The pit fire was burning, low, and the king’s shadow on the Wall had shrunk to a quarter of its former height. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Basil, my former bunkmate from Mews, helped me start these rumors. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The symbols etched on its sides sparkled briefly, as if they remembered their former glory, before they faded back to worn shadows. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Private George Washington Buck, former sergeant, had a place to himself, wedged between two rocks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The former Sisters were waiting for them in the empty room. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “Charming as that may be,” Muriel said, “I would require the energy of a knot unraveling to work any spell capable of restoring your grandmother to her former state.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “What? Do you now pity your former enemy?” he asked. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He had a loud voice with a slight accent, as many in Village had, the traces of their former languages lingering with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z A lawyer and a former private detective with the Burns agency, Davis had a groomed sleekness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The walls are made of dark paneling, and of course there are portraits of our former heads of school and the current board of directors, complete with Dr. Santos on the end. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He possessed great knowledge, said the believers; he remembered his former lives, he had attained Nirvana and never returned on the cycle, he plunged no more into the troubled stream of forms. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z How many times had her former self run into the hard waterfall? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 To take the former first, human cultural traits vary greatly around the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The city was founded by Alexander the Great and constructed by his former bodyguard. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of what they said could apply to any former slave who overheard them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He was a former chemist who was never seen without his shining Phi Beta Kappa key. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z If the United States backed down here, in Hitler's former capital, who would trust it to stand up to Stalin anywhere else? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I thought about Rear Admiral Hill, the former superintendent of the Naval Academy, who served as the president of Valley Forge in my last three years of high school. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of anything worse for an old man than getting beat up by his wife’s former fee-ance. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If she was right, the person in danger was the former Mrs. Westing. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Cherrie not only respected Roosevelt as the former president of the United States, but he genuinely cared about him, like a brother. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Hamlet did not acknowledge my opinion, but went on in his former vein. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The next day at work I called my former principals at Tembisa and Alexandra Secondary School and requested letters of recommendation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally realized that Father, no matter how kind he may be, can’t take the place of my former world. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Davis’s eventual successor was his former assistant, an electrician named John Hulbert. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With the government’s case in trouble, prosecutors eventually called a witness who, they believed, could sway the jury in their favor: the bootlegger and former bureau informant Kelsie Morrison. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When a disgruntled servant informed Dona Zaida about the changes in her country house, she descended on the ranch in a fury and restored the villa to its former state. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a former Columbia oarsman himself, he said, and after watching their recent exploits he had decided to send his son west for college so he too might become a great crewman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Volpe’s current students want his former ones to know that the tradition has been upheld. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy held jurisdiction over AEC appointments, and to appease its Democratic majority, Eisenhower named two former Truman aides, John S. Graham and John F. Floberg, to the open seats. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If the outside of the Hema reflected what the old tent had once been, the interior clung to its former grandeur with a desperate grip. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Invariably, those who knew him summed him up with the phrase used by former jockey Mike Griffin, who never forgot a brief riding audition he made for Irwin: “the biggest man I’ve ever seen.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors were stealing her babies from her, not her former masters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Rondell told us about a former foster mom’s crazy cat that never got neutered and always sat in their sixth-story window meowing at female cats that pranced by on the street below. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Catherine’s birthday party was attended by many friends, French, Haitian, and African, including current and former PIH-ers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Along with her mother, brothers, and family friends, Mollie went on carriage excursions around the city and took a boat to Mount Vernon, George Washington's former home, for a picnic. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Again, she began to smile and to eat with something of her former appetite. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z At the time of the conference at least a quarter of the Haudenosaunee were former captives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The former principal of Nantucket High School, Paul Richards, and his wife, Martina, a nurse, moved last year to Needham, Massachusetts, after renting here for five years. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z All that remained of the former wired-in city were the ruins. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The former plants are termed self-incompatible hermaphrodites; the latter, dioecious species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah,” the former soldier replied through a grunt as he stood up. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Dorothy Vaughan was more likely to run into her former colleagues in the Langley cafeteria or the parking lot than to see them during the workday. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To Lewis Powell, the former Confederate spy who watched Lincoln’s speech with Booth, will go the task of killing Secretary Seward, who, at age sixty-three, is currently bedridden after a near- fatal carriage accident. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Understandably enraged, Indians attacked Dermer several times on his journey south; he was eventually slain on Martha’s Vineyard by another former Indian abductee. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The wax dummy in the coffin had been molded in the former image of Sam Westing as he had looked fifteen years ago—not as he looked now. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson, watching the fire chief meticulously taking notes on his clipboard, had completely forgotten about her former tenants. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z An amused friendliness took the place of his former contempt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You paid for the former, but almost never for the latter. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In our top story tonight, investigators say a fire at the home of former Atlanta Police officer Garrett Tison was deliberately set. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z At first, it appeared that both horses would run in the former, and Maryland geared up for the meeting of the two titans. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert had never known the house, and looked at it with interest “I never knew you in your former home,” he remarked. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The birds singing all about them were those to which they had been accustomed in former days. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, this disenchantment with Durham’s black elite among poor blacks came just as the former group realized its apotheosis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Though they cared enough to kick everyone out when the former employees tried to bunk down in the once-plush rooms and make use of the supplies and heat. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The last room was another monument left by former miners in Wieliczka’s happier past. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z "I hereby convey to the bearer of this paper the services of my former apprentice—" The man paused. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was written by a former American who had risen high in the German Ministry of Propaganda. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, playing brilliantly with the black pieces the next day, won his first game ever against the Russian, a former World Champion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But the former president knew what a bloody gash to his leg really meant, especially in the unknown and unforgiving jungle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The room had not been touched since its former occupant had left. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anybody wearing the fraternity pin,” he added, and touched a blue dot tattooed under his left eye— an insigne, a visible password, by which certain former prison inmates could identify him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z During one 1920s season at the old Tijuana track, former rider Bill Buck remembered, the two oldest riders were just sixteen. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for Arsinoe, whom he imprisoned and sent to Rome, he did not punish his former enemies. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The gardener, the last one of Gatsby's former servants, came to the foot of the steps. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z My old friend Pascal and two other former students of Anatole’s were murdered by the army on the road south of here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Herold is a former pharmacy clerk who was born and raised in Washington, D.C. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His former employer described him as "a thoroughly wholesome, typically American boy" with a "modest demeanor." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Only former winners are invited to participate as members of the planning committee. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Fowler continued, “You know that we have a signed confession from our former employee Yvonne Grayson. Yvonne admits stealing Legos from our store—God only knows how many—to give to her friend’s son here.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Writing out the ruins of his former life. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z So Mary enlisted the help of Helen Mulcahy, a former East Computer who had transferred to Langley’s technical editing department. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z She drops off some clothes at the dry cleaner’s where her sister’s former husband’s sister works. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I reminded him of various subjects we had discussed on former visits. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The first is Johanna Reyes, former spokesperson of Amity, identifiable by the scar that crosses her face and the hint of yellow peeking out from under her black jacket. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Lucy and Titania never spoke, the former because she chose not to and the latter because her tongue had been hacked out by a previous owner. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He introduced himself as Donovan, so my guess is he changed his name to get off the grid and dubbed the place Carl’s Closet in tribute to his former glory or something.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z She envisioned her former master tangled in linens, purple tongue poking from his lips. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Four years after Osborne left, however, a former guard from Elmira named Lewis Lawes took the helm and in twenty years on the job became America’s most famous and admired warden. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He fluttered to his former throne, his face as pinched and solemn as a pigeon could look. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z ‘Tomorrow we’ll take you back to your people. We’ll assure them that you have not been touched by the men. You can go back to your former life.’ Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “But to expose the former faults of any person without knowing what their present feelings were, seemed unjustifiable. We acted with the best intentions.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Some kids don’t like to play football and the Spanish-Mexi- cans are one of them,” said Vern Foreman, an electrical contractor and former city councilman who had graduated from Odessa High in 1951. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood—in fact, they believed the former was based on the latter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She closes the door and walks over to my bed, sitting down beside me like we’re former friends who don't know how to act around each other. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z 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 They did, however, for his former friend at Monticello, who had spent the bulk of his adult life keeping his head and his heart in separate chambers of his personality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was a possibility, I thought, because Grandma told me that former President Truman had put African-American and white soldiers together in the armed forces during his term. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That much he had learned by telephoning the Reverend Mr. Post, who further discouraged him by declining to reveal his former clerk’s exact destination. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z A former burn victim herself, she knew that real flowers aren’t allowed in the burn ward because of the risk of infection. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Union leaders called my home and warned me against any contact with my former editors, many of whom were my friends, telling me to hang up if they tried to call and plead their case. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1868, former Union general Ulysses Grant was elected president, succeeding Andrew Johnson. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Luckily I was in the habit of carrying several books with the name of my former school on them. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “What happened to the former world was not a tragedy. It was an opportunity to leave our past behind.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He explained how in former centuries, before the arrival of the French, the Abomey kings had enormous palaces and very nice clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1955, Moore was surprised to learn that his former timid classmate from BU was leading a bus boycott in Montgomery. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Bobby was almost giddy with delight at notching his first win against one of the strongest players in the world, a former World Champion, the man he’d fantasized about murdering during the 1959 Candidates. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Here, the counselors have posted photos of graduates from last school year, each photo with a small sign under the name that lists the college the former graduates are attending. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “If only I was in my former form,” the pigeon moaned. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z If the state needed cleansing, it would not be achieved through genetic selection, but through the reeducation of all individuals and the erasure of former selves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z His story was vetted and scrutinized by former prisoners and guards from the camps, as well as by human rights lawyers, South Korean journalists, and other experts with extensive knowledge of the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I felt cold and dismayed: my worst fears then were probably true: he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Al Ulbrickson had arranged for them to move into Cornell’s former house, a much more substantial structure on the east side of the river, right next door to the California house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One former Rand colleague summed up the sentiment there: “Hang him from the highest tree in town.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Woody’s father was a former sergeant in the Army. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z That they were old friends who had shared a childhood was now a barrier—they were embarrassed before their former selves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z White gathered enough evidence to convict the former warden, who became prisoner No. 24207 in the same penitentiary. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If the wicked ones had harmed his mummy, then even his ba was dead, for a man’s soul could not live if his former body were destroyed. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Two days later, working at the clinic, beginning to feel calmer, he was approached by a former TB patient, a young woman with a baby. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He had decided to take with him one of his officers, Captain Mark Haines, a former Green Beret. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Burger had been loaned as an aide-de-camp to the head of the medical division of the storm troopers, a former Olympian athlete and doctor named Emil Ketterer. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Martin was perhaps the first public advocate of the “covenant with death” interpretation of the Constitution, as well as the first former delegate to denounce the Sectional Compromise as a corrupt bargain. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He climbed straight to his former hollow and settled there, his tiny head poking out. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The King of Abomey was just delighted to find out he could trade fifteen of his former neighbors for one good Portuguese cannon. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Practices and games were downright life-giving because they were my one reminder of my former life. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Euwe, a doctor of philosophy in mathematics who had taught at the Amsterdam Lyceum, was a former World Champion, having defeated his predecessor in 1935 with a studied and logical approach to the game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The mention of Jessica brought a hint of his former irritation back to his features. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Then again, she was now a former popular kid, which was probably the only reason she was talking to me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Betting that his former KGB friends would offer him refuge, Blake devised a plan to escape to the East. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z "There are no Jews in England. Only former Jews." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have any enemies you can think of? Someone who would want to hurt you like this? Maybe a former employee? An old business partner?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The former snout now curves into a slight upturn at the tip. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I watched my former coworkers scatter across Poland, one by one, family by family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Though the sentence may be beyond salvation, passivizing the relative clause would be a place to start: the former United Nations diplomat who has been tapped by protesters demanding Mr. Morsi’s ouster. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The Garretts do not know Booth’s true identity and believe his story about being a former soldier. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z After leaving Mudd’s house, they find temporary refuge a few miles down the road at Rich Hills, the home of Samuel Cox, a former Confederate captain. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He’s a former marine who came to the country with an occupation force years back, but once the troops left, he stayed on, marrying a rich Dominican lady and opening his successful grocery store. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z I called two of my former friends, but getting together with them was not easy. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The former was obviously preferable because, given her belligerent moods, it would be very difficult for Maurice to maintain a dominant position that would allow him to think unhindered about DNA. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But they jerked and pushed and he was headed up when they jerked and he shot to die surface, still inside the birdcage of formers and cables. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Langley put a former East Computer named Sara Bullock in charge of a group dedicated to using the squat, gunmetal-gray block to solve engineers’ equations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z At least one of Carrel’s former lab assistants verified Hayflick’s suspicion. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As former US president Barack Obama has warned, “Climate change is no longer some far-off problem. It is happening here. It is happening now.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After Gran had shared the former news anchor’s proposal, my parents scoped out Ms. Campbell’s online video blog, Black, Vegan, and Proud, before giving the okay. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Since the SS recruited Hitler Youth as young as seventeen, former Hitler Youth became part of the inhuman concentration-camp system and the business of genocide. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The next day, October 21, Hall went to visit Saville Sax, his former college roommate. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Their desire is more just than that of the nobles—the former want not to be oppressed, while the latter want to oppress. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I wished so much to share the good news with my friends in the ghetto and with my former teachers and principals, but my mother warned me against it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z All around us, as far as my eyes could see, were the burned-out silver and white husks of former homes and vehicles. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We walk past our old apartment and my former schools. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their stillness is the reason why these memories of former times do not awaken desire so much as sorrow—a vast, inapprehensible melancholy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Their contact, a former Confederate agent, Mrs. Quesenberry, had a place about half an hour away on foot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Four months after she began spending afternoons in the superintendent’s room, Shin heard from another former school friend that she was pregnant. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I think we’re much more hypocritical about illness, and poverty, than were people in former ages,” I remember Julian saying once. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She was a former homecoming queen from Kansas— Miss Agriculture, Kansas State. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A former college radio DJ turned public school kindergarten teacher, he has a gentle, thoughtful manner punctuated by a dry wit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She was quiet for a moment, thinking, Jesse decided, about her former school, which he saw as bright and new with a gleaming gymnasium larger than the one at the consolidated high school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z The ornate church building stood on land that long ago saw services held in a rude brush arbor and led by a former slave. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Though everyone could see that the former president was noticeably thinner—he had lost fifty-five pounds on the expedition—they had no idea how momentous it was that Roosevelt was even alive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The drive was a ribbon now, a thread of its former self, with gravel surface gone, and choked with grass and moss. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Goebbels had promptly remodeled and expanded the house—the hundred-year-old former palace of the marshals of the Prussian court—to make it even grander than it had been. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The place looked and felt as if the former occupants planned to return within minutes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The former president told Rondon that a detailed map was costing them too much time. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z We often read that red seems to advance, while blue recedes; or that the former is a violent or passionate color, the latter a sad one. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One month after moving into his building, Holmes sold the former Holton drugstore and assured the buyer that he would face little competition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then out of nowhere Augustus said, “You can’t just not contact your former boyfriend after his eyes get cut out of his freaking head.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z To be honest, this was the reaction he expected from his former coparishioners. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Two soldiers came into the house and told the sergeant doctor that the lieutenant had sent them to help take me back to our former base. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Five days after Lenin’s death, Petrograd, the former capital of Russia, was renamed Leningrad in his honor. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z His attitude was so just that it allowed him to hope even for the support of former Conservative combatants. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The Democrats were only secondarily interested in terrorizing the newly freed blacks—and then mostly because the former slaves had made political alliances with the Republicans. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He conveniently ignored the fact that the ex-slaves wanted to work their own land, not labor for their former owners. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Comparing a dachshund with a wolf, you wouldn’t even suspect that the former had been derived from the latter if you didn’t already know it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Enemies in a former Earth Age labored side by side as colleagues and fellow citizens. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Although she was a former softball player who had wrestled the controls in airplanes in the worst weather conditions, she could not pull her body weight up to the chin-up bar. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Just as he was used to football injuries, he was also used to lavish attention, as was every former Permian player who had once been ordained a star. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of her former beauty not a vestige remained. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1977, the former Klan leader was elected business manager by a four-to-one margin despite the fact that his opponent, the incumbent, was black, as were 80 percent of the union members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. 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