Arguments of this sort were well known to the ancient Romans. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Inside the bookstall I traveled to mysterious places to meet ancient beauties or terrible monsters. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Those ancient rabbits are packing their bags and running away.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had marched, long-haired and ferocious, an ancient writer tells us, “sword in hand, against rivers in flood or against the storm-tossed ocean.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off in the hills, where the ancient highway curved, there was a motion, a dim light, and then a murmur. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus we confront a characteristic bent of the ancient mind—that tendency to equate what appears to be with what ought to be, without being distracted along the way with what is. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

By this standard there are no compelling cases of extraterrestrial visitation, despite all the claims about UFOs and ancient astronauts which sometimes make it seem that our planet is awash in uninvited guests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fossils of these ancients have been found dating from the Cretaceous era while in the Eocene and Miocene they were spread over England and Europe and America. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now she sang in the ancient tongue of the Elves beyond the Sea, and he did not understand the words: fair was the music, but it did not comfort him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

We like to regard the olfactory bulb as a sort of archeologic find, and we speak of the ancient olfactory parts of the brain as though they were elderly, dotty relatives in need of hobbies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most direct contribution of plant and animal domestication to wars of conquest was from Eurasia’s horses, whose military role made them the jeeps and Sherman tanks of ancient warfare on that continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The air was filled with the whispers and echoes of ancient spirits, and on the rock wall I could see a faint carving of my brother Hatun’s face. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For example, medieval Islam, centrally located in Eurasia, acquired inventions from India and China and inherited ancient Greek learning. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t that great on ancient history, but I was pretty sure the Roman Empire never made it as far as Long Island. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pythagoras may have been an ancient New Age thinker, but he was a powerful orator, a renowned scholar, and a charismatic teacher. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Beneath the shadow of the First Keep was an ancient lichyard, its headstones spotted with pale lichen, where the old Kings of Winter had laid their faithful servants. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The rabbit zigged one last time around a scruffy boulder, ducked under an ancient century plant and stopped—dead—directly beneath the mare. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The immense truck battery was of an ancient type too large to be wedged down in the belly of the tiny canoe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The front door opened, and Granddaddy came out onto the porch, an ancient leather satchel strapped over his shoulder, a butterfly net in one hand, and a malacca walking stick in the other. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

A 1986 Gallup poll reports that 52 percent of American teenagers believe in it, and a distressing number of people in all walks of life seem to accept at least some of its ancient claims. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankly, the more I read about the philosophers of ancient Greece, the more I think her life is a waste. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The scientists and librarians still collect their keys in the mornings, still study their ancient elephants’ teeth, their exotic jellyfish, their herbarium sheets. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They strike the floor with five separate tones: a miraculous, brief song in an ancient pentatonic scale. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shall see that ancient Japanese societies were among the most remarkable in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

By then only Dragonstone itself, the ancient seat of their House, had remained of the Seven Kingdoms that had once been theirs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If we subtract one proton and three neutrons from mercury, we make gold, the dream of the ancient alchemists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is that same game that the ancient animals of the night played long ago against the ancient creatures of the day. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

It belongs to a different, far bigger and more scholarly book to trace in detail the development of rhetoric teaching and theory between the ancient world and the present day. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Juana sang softly an ancient song that had only three notes and yet endless variety of interval. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only way my father could think of to instill in me a sense of my heritage was to take me to dubbed Italian versions of the ancient Greek myths. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Columbus had been an itinerant peddler of old maps and an assiduous reader of the books by and about the ancient geographers, including Eratosthenes, Strabo and Ptolemy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few miles after Salcedo, my lights single it out, the ancient anacahuita tree, dripping in the rain, most of its pods gone. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We follow winding roads through ancient green groves, woodlands filled with secrets and murmurs and mist. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

They talked about food words in those thousand-year-old languages and licked their lips over the ancients’ words for “oranges” and “deep-fried.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

A long time ago I was in the ancient city of Prague and at the same time Joseph Alsop, the justly famous critic of places and events, was there. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

At their feet lay a tile court worked into the shapes of ancient animals and peoples. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, ancient Japanese pottery was technologically simple by today’s standards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The forest to either side was a black void full of wild and ancient trees, nothing like the generic carbon-dioxide suckers that decorated the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Professor Flitwick, who was a tiny little wizard with a shock of white hair, was carrying an ancient hat and a three-legged stool out of the hall. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Today we are again seeking messages from an ancient and exotic civilization, this time hidden from us not only in time but also in space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ser Lyn was a different sort of folly; lean and handsome, heir to an ancient but impoverished house, but vain, reckless, hot-tempered . . . and, it was whispered, notoriously un-interested in the intimate charms of women. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He looks at the ancient fireplace, the carved details of the mantel almost as old as the country itself, and it may not be Kensington Palace, but it looks all right. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My minions will collect you shortly and bring you to the ancient place. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the monotony of bingo and sing-alongs and ancient dusty people parked in the hallway in wheelchairs makes me long for death. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A long time ago, it seems to her, Jorge boarded the plane for New York, sick and shrunken in an ancient wheelchair. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the center of the grove an ancient weirwood brooded over a small pool where the waters were black and cold. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The room was about the size of the forge back at Camp Half-Blood, with bronze-topped worktables along the walls, and baskets full of ancient metalworking tools. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A particularly ancient find was a flute made of bear bone, discovered in a Slovenian cave in 1995, which was dated at roughly 41,000 bc. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The prejudice against a finite universe is ancient. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

And his voice was abruptly full of ancient grief. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

For the alchemists, the reality of the philosopher’s stone was beyond question; within a generation their appeal to authority, to ancient texts and secret manuscripts, seemed hopelessly misplaced. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was eight years old, I found a stone arrowhead embedded in the stump of an ancient oak tree up on the mountain behind my house. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were also choral competitions, with a festival atmosphere and plenty of group choreography - ancient versions, if you like, of the present-day carnivals in Rio de Janeiro, Trinidad and Notting Hill. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And as I played these ancient digital relics, night after night, year after year, I discovered I had a talent for them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And it was in Eton’s ancient boathouse, just across the river from the looming eminence of Windsor Castle, that George had grown up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tarzan—“his straight and perfect figure, muscled as the best of the ancient Roman gladiators must have been muscled”—exemplified the ultimate victory of nature over nurture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The ancient mortal drachmas had been silver, Chiron told us, but Olympians never used less than pure gold. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

To be sure, the Ptolemies did commission massive new temples in the ancient style, largely to help the Macedonian rulers ingratiate themselves with their native subjects. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

An ancient spear point might have been used in war, but it could have been used in a hunt as well. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olanna could smell the mustiness on her wrapper; it must have been dug out from an ancient trunk for this occasion. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And you found a verse in his journal that led you to an ancient Bible in the school’s library.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Michael made a face like an ancient Martian stone image. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the larger picture of ancient forager life is hard to reconstruct, particular events are largely irretrievable. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Once upon a time in ancient Greece, there was an enchanted pool. This pool was sacred to Salmacis, the water nymph. And one day Hermaphroditus, a beautiful boy, went swimming there.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He ducked out from under an ancient Locomobile up on the lift, working a greasy rag over his big hands. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Just something the manticore said, about the Great Stirring. I can’t help but wonder ... if all those ancient powers are waking up, maybe . .. maybe not all of them are evil.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Dany put her heels into her horse and showed them the way, trotting beneath the shattered arch of an ancient gate and down a silent street. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I know I work in the absolutely worst cubicle with the most ancient computer, but that doesn’t mean I’m not qualified to at least assist you with this interview,” Delilah says. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Lares had formed shimmering purple lines against a mob of black, vaporous shades in ancient armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Even Daryn Lehoux, who thinks the Romans had everything we have, acknowledges one exception: There were no ancient universities, no scientific conferences, no journals where investigators published their results. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Thanks to the Scientific Revolution, we have a much more reliable type of knowledge than ancient and medieval philosophers ever had, and we call it science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But she looks ancient, shrunken, a mummified relic. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She noticed how passionate Sasha was about everything—their conviction that the ancient Greeks were better than base ten, that cats were better than dogs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The ancient information is written in exhaustive, careful, redundant detail— how to laugh, how to sneeze, how to walk, how to recognize patterns, how to reproduce, how to digest an apple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This place is both my ancient and my recent history. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Indeed, not only in astronomy but in other realms of inquiry, notably mechanical technology and medicine, the ancients seem almost perverse in their aversion to stumbling on the truth. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Theseus took her aboard with him from Krete for the terraced land of ancient Athens; but he had no joy of her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each year that followed, they had brought the ancient robe again to her mother for small repairs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient green-plush sofa lolled alone in the center, like yet another mossy fallen log, facing a soot- streaked fireplace still deep in last winter’s ashes. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could only see the dripping bowels of an ancient hill that might collapse on top of me. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are so ancient; we must try to ignore their appearance. Thanks to us and their programming, their minds have some value, and that is all we are interested in.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He sat high upon the immense ancient seat of Aegon the Conqueror, an ironwork monstrosity of spikes and jagged edges and grotesquely twisted metal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her mom was insistent that somewhere out there, just waiting to be found, was an ancient object that might help them defeat the Sleeper once and for all. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

When he stepped into the ancient hemlock, Oksi was still warm and dry inside his shirt. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lydia knew Dill hated texting because it was so cumbersome on his ancient flip phone. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He rubbed and polished this beauty until it gleamed like a piece of ancient armor. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seems incredible to us, until we reflect that ancient Mexicans lacked domestic animals to hitch to their wheeled vehicles, which therefore offered no advantage over human porters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pushed aside an array of mesquite branches to reveal the furniture: remnants of a filthy old mattress, two metal stools, and an ancient, rusty pot-bellied stove. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It housed an ancient castle as well as the Tombs—where Twelve Towns criminals went to receive punishment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

As Martin put it to me, Maya civilization indeed bore striking similarities to that of ancient Greece. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Later, after we finished reading about how ancient Sumerians built sundials, Jack whispered: “Do you ever want to beat those kids up?” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Visitors from the Shang Dynasty are said to have crossed the Pacific to teach the ancient Olmec how to write, build monuments, and worship a feline god. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was El Patron’s idea of an ancient Egyptian garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His ancient valet, Johnny Mitchell, bent over him, his tears falling onto Tommy’s cheeks as he gently sponged the mud and blood away. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, it’s a box room, filled with papers and files, a fold-up treadmill and an ancient Apple Mac. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its “Sinification” involved the drastic homogenization of a huge region in an ancient melting pot, the repopulation of tropical Southeast Asia, and the exertion of a massive influence on Japan, Korea, and possibly even India. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including their giant tortoises, which, like the ancient diprotodons, show no fear of humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe the greater the urge, the deeper and more ancient is the need, the will, the hunger to be somewhere else. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his dream he was climbing again, pulling himself up an ancient windowless tower, his fingers forcing themselves between blackened stones, his feet scrabbling for purchase. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There is no way for evolution to rip out the ancient interior of the brain because of its imperfections and replace it with something of more modern manufacture. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Egyptians were an ancient race of Caucasians residing in one of the northern sections of Africa. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He rushed past the ancient sycamore trees and hid himself in the bushes, waiting for the old men to leave. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Jordan College was scoured from the dustiest box-room to the darkest cellar, and so were Gabriel and St. Michael’s, till the heads of all the colleges issued a joint protest asserting their ancient rights. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Now he tried to sense the workings of this ancient building. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The poor man of Sheney dug in the moraines of Tuerresh and unearthed where Meshe pointed a great hoard of ancient jewels, and at sight of it he shouted aloud for joy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the surprisingly familiar eyes, black eyes that seemed at the same time both too young and too ancient for the broad face they were set in. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Supposedly the ancient king of Pylos had stashed his treasure there in times of crisis. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They were men far older than himself, relics of the ancient world, almost the last great figures left over from the heroic early days of the Party. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Here the ancient mouse took a while to leaf through the pages. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The truth he sought might very well be waiting for him on the ancient island fortress of House Targaryen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The cabinet also contains an ancient cracked plate commemorating the World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri, and a plastic cup bearing the nose and ears of a mouse. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s also customary to drop the final s when forming the possessives of ancient classical or biblical names that already end in s: Whose biceps were bigger, Hercules’ or Achilles’? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if learning about ancient Greece and classical philosophy is going to get me anywhere, but it’s not like trig is going to get me anywhere, either. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As the smoke ascended, the chanting died away and the ancient crone closed her single eye, die better to peer into the future. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The island, which of course was no longer that, was a long mound of smooth grass, like an immense ancient barrow, where rhododendrons and other shrubbery were growing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Taran saw, for the first time, how ancient was the enchanter’s face, and how careworn. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the dais, the ancient tragedy was being replayed. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luster came up, with an ancient white horse in a battered and lopsided surrey. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leonardo and Columbus and Copernicus were inspired by or independently retraced parts of this ancient Greek tradition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra stepped carefully toward Bennie and then watched her friend’s phone light illuminate the ancient, rusty gears of Manny’s printing press. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

There are hobs born with lined faces like tiny, hairless cats and smooth-limbed nixies whose true age shows only in their ancient eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The second type of change was even less visible to ancient hikers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

You enter the wall tower through an ancient gate outside the prison wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, proving a mathematical theorem was often as simple as drawing an elegant picture; the tools of ancient Greek mathematics weren’t pencil and paper—they were a straightedge and compasses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

An ancient goldfish surfaced and looked balefully at her, then disappeared beneath the dark water. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She passed it on to Melanie, and with it a lot of her interest in all sorts of ancient stuff. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Sorrowful Men were an ancient sacred guild of assassins, so named because they always whispered, "I am so sorry," to their victims before they killed them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, I’m shying away from ancient classical names. And besides, if he has a Mexican name, then maybe he’ll feel more Mexican.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

On the walls hung pictures of saints along with ancient battle shields. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the ancient electrical wiring was as likely as before to burn the house down. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She hissed and growled in her ancient language, but I didn’t need a translation to know she was planning to kill us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Switch out the ancient columns and ruined temples for cows and barbed wire, and Leo would’ve felt right at home. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As she drew nearer, an irregularity in the surface of the ancient glass foreshortened her image and she confronted the child of fifteen years before. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie flat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moths gnawing away at her grandfather’s ancient smocks? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

From the drawer he produced an ancient, creased manila envelope. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The ancients knew a few of these equation-laws, like the law of the lever, but with the beginning of the scientific revolution these equation-laws sprang up everywhere. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Our own day-to-day survival may no longer depend on our ability to sing, but our ancient ancestors were on to something that applies to modern lives, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a quarter mile away, across a stretch of yellow, waist- high grass, was a straight line of trees—an ancient raised causeway, Erickson said. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

With a tightening sense of anger, Hazel realized that an ancient altar to Hades had once stood there. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Jews joined them, as did a group of Christians called Nestorians, who had their own ancient and scholarly traditions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Still, enough remains to get a sense of the ancient city. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another hint that Ebola is extremely ancient is the way in which it can seem neither quite alive nor quite unalive. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shone his light on ancient clay jars. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What if our ancient ropes do not hold? Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet here, instead of the spiky Gothic then in use, was the lovely old Gaelic minuscule, as neat and round and small as when he had learned it from some ancient saint in dim Dunlothian. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

James Mortimer also has an ancient scroll which describes the curse of the Baskervilles. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The remaining shamblers are practically ancient, wearing uniforms from the war, and it takes very little effort to separate their heads from their bodies. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I had read how these forgotten folk had been encouraged to keep their old cultures, to see in their ancient customs meanings and satisfactions as deep as those contained in supposedly superior ways of living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient Greece, Pythagoras was remembered for a different invention: the musical scale. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s ancient history,” Emma muttered, “relevant to nothing. And hadn’t we better be thinking about the future instead of the “Someone’s being a grumplepuss,” said Olive. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

It was a cinch to find the ancient palace because it was surrounded by huge red mud walls and had a very grand entryway. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a very ancient thing: an old and terrible spirit was prisoned in that block of stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And then, in full view of all watching eyes, flagrantly disregarding ancient rules about women and men touching in public, I take Amit's hand and walk away. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Glancing neither left nor right, he strode indomitably up to the steam counter and, in a dear, full-bodied voice that was gruff with age and resonant with ancient eminence and authority, said: “Gimme eat.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They were serious-looking men, ranging in age from mature to ancient. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He was an ancient philosopher,” Nick teased, “who believed that men’s souls were round like apples, the color of pearls, and had little white wings.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For all that, it had an air of ancient lineage, and Taran was eager to hold it. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

To them, the Moon’s craters were evidence of ancient volcanoes and nothing more. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

And that ancient law went into effect which says that when you need towns they are very far apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier with a bloody chest wound reclined in an ancient pram pushed by his mates. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I have prayed in the ancient city of Mina, and I have prayed on Mt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Lord never sends you more than you can bear— That was an ancient Maycomb phrase employed by its fragile ladies who sat up with corpses, supposed to be profoundly comforting to the bereaved. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In it, I attempted to trace the evolution of economic man from the earliest times up to the present, sketching out the path from ancient communal societies to feudalism to capitalism and socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was probably avoiding a lovesick swain, not wealthy enough or ancient enough to suit her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we looked at the animals and sometimes we looked at the stuff the Indians had made in ancient times. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Archimedes wrote this, describing his construction methods, but all the copies were lost in ancient times. If I can translate this...” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

No trees grew there; but among the rank grasses could still be seen the burned and axe-hewn stumps of ancient groves. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His voice became heavier, ancient, and powerful— the voice of the Titan lord Kronos. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The cold voice was coming from the ancient armchair before the fire, but Frank couldn’t see the speaker. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mecca, when we entered, seemed as ancient as time itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t see her eyes, because she was opening an ancient green book and turning thin pages. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Basking in the applause of his German hosts, he exulted: “No nation since ancient Greece has captured the true Olympic spirit as has Germany.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He'd given them a disease—probably an ancient one the doctors didn't know about. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He makes adjustments to the flood of Prussian blue paper himself, responding to her arrangements, surrounding replicas of ancient Egyptian temples with columns of curving bookshelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Hizdahr’s blood is ancient and-noble. Our joining will join my freedmen to his people. When we become as one, so will our city.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Piper had never been there, but she recognized it from pictures - an ancient stronghold perched on a hill almost as impressive as Gibraltar. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient defence of the Dwarves against any enemy that might capture the First Hall and the outer passages. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

No longer could cardinals and clerics question the ancient doctrines. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Frightful jumped onto her wings, left the food, and flew to the top of the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

I am the only one in the family whose face is severely cut to the fine of ancient Indian ancestors. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pater Aquillus is a jurist, and his library is filled with everything from obscure law books to ancient Scholar tomes on mathematics. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Her story, like a number of others, shows how strongly the ancient Greeks disapproved of destroying or injuring a tree. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe stand was in skid row—a street of ancient buildings with cheap rooming houses and bars. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city dissolved in a shower of ancient glass and splintered quartz. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She flapped, shot ahead, and crashed into the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Like lots of ancient rulers, the kings of India had more than one wife. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His robe flapping around his spindly legs, Dallben made his way to a huge chest, unlocked it with an ancient key, and raised the lid. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Taran followed the ancient man out of the forge, across the chicken run, and into the white, thatched cottage. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Jus is sure this house could win the world record for largest collection of ancient Egyptian paraphernalia. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Marietta was busy taking care of Old Brimworth, who sat nodding her ancient wrinkly head as if she had a clue what was going on. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

As Smith walked the horse by, an ancient Indian leaned up and looked the horse over. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph was tossed back into the labyrinth of ancient streets as he followed the boy, shouting the names of dogs from books he’d read: “Bull’s-eye! Toto! Snowy! Pongo!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Such increased competition among plants themselves made a major contribution to larger seed size and to many other changes developing during the transformation of wild plants into ancient crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or there, almost invisible against a leaf, is the lacewing, with green gauze wings and golden eyes, shy and secretive, descendant of an ancient race that lived in Permian times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The Ptolemaic avenues with their grand colonnades are gone, but the streets of Alexandria are just as crowded and chaotic as the ancient accounts describe. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

An ancient roustabout is also looking through the stands but facing the other direction. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Finally he waved it back and forth in the smoke from the incense burner, chanting, “Hear us, O Thoth, ancient and wise. Hear us and answer.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruno Latour maintained that the fact that the bacterium that causes tuberculosis has been discovered in the lungs of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, Ramses II, did not mean that Ramses died of tuberculosis. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Oppression and the fear of learning have obliterated almost all memory of ancient Alexandria. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black pebbles and the ancient gray cinders the mountain had thrown poked into his backbone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

This may also be another clue that ancient modes may have had more variety of tuning and pitch than modern keys do. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Gandalf was shorter in stature than the other two; but his long white hair, his sweeping silver beard, and his broad shoulders, made him look like some wise king of ancient legend. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Taran noticed the enchanter had even made some attempt at straightening up the disorder of ancient volumes crowding the room. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

They did not use the sonic, stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

A train rattled along the ancient metal caterpillar over Fulton Street and sent a cascade of rainwater onto the exiting crowd. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

On December 21, 1919, the Russians, together with fifty other people who had been sentenced to deportation, were herded together on an ancient army transport ship named the Buford. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He knew every step, every stony divot in the ancient walls, every creaky floorboard. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

By 1900 this ancient sound had fed like a river into the choral texture of all Russian composers. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They kissed in the ancient way, joyfully, on both cheeks. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Roza scooped her ancient flowered bag off the belt and trailed the students to a man who held a placard with the name of the university written on it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like most ancient peoples, the Greeks were stargazers, and the Babylonians were the first masters of astronomy: they had learned how to predict eclipses. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It is said there were no fleas in ancient Ireland, that they were brought in be the English to drive us out of our wits entirely, an’ I wouldn’t put it past the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Mother Ermentrude frowns on this ancient penance, though some of the older nuns still practice it. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He loved playing the familiar tune on the ancient piano. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It is beautiful, ancient, mysterious and - in its incredible test of human memory - miraculous. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Arriving tourists are hailed by “guides” with backpacks full of phony ancient figurines and ethnically incorrect souvenirs of Mexica drawings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Up he went and sat upon the ancient chair, feeling like a lost child that had clambered upon the throne of mountain-kings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The capabilities of ancient foragers, and the complexity of their cultures, seem to be far more impressive than was previously suspected. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little by little the funereal splendor of the ancient and icy mansion was being transformed into the splendor of the House of Buendía. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Writing still called to her, and she also longed to study ancient languages. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Instead of completely burning organic matter to ash, ancient farmers burned it incompletely to make charcoal, then stirred the charcoal into the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Fiercely, he ripped the shelves off the wall, revealing a window closed in with ancient shutters and dirt. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The boots were so ancient that their green rubber was cracked all over, as if covered with spiderwebs. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

At last they came to the ruins of an ancient temple carved into the side of a mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“The story goes that the Romans stole something important from the Greeks, back in ancient times, when the Romans conquered the Greeks’ cities.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had distilled it at the age of sixteen, enabling him to work miracles, among them the highest aspiration of the ancient art: the transmutation of lead into gold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dimarion’s gaze darted to the ancient copper coin in the sand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“That was a decision between husband and wife. Why are you bringing up this ancient history?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

As I drove out of town, I saw an ancient woman standing in a blighted field. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Hannibal enlisted tamed African elephants in his unsuccessful war against Rome, and ancient Egyptians may have tamed giraffes and other species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In other areas, though, that role of cereals was taken over or shared by roots and tubers, which were of negligible importance in the ancient Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If all eighteen indeed died violently, it means that about 4.5 per cent of deaths in the ancient Danube Valley were caused by human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The ancient pharaohs assigned surveyors to assess the damage and reset the boundary markers, and thus geometry was born. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Nico had once read a story from Plato, who claimed that in the ancient times all humans had been a combination of male and female. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He and Jay used to pretend that those big oak trees were ancient creatures rising from the earth’s core. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“They’re a part of an ancient religion that died long ago.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There are only four of us, but using this ancient means of transport, months of trash leaves the building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Another lay beside him, and another, in a circle of ancient dead guarding a high stone slab on which a shadowy figure lay at full length. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Inside, I contemplated taking the stairs but decided to wait for the ancient creaking elevator. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Of ancient Korean houses and tall westernized buildings. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He shook his ancient head, a gesture weary beyond words. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Kofun tombs are up to 1,500 feet long and over 100 feet high, making them possibly the largest earth mound tombs in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

To the ancient sister she said, ‘Can you get this thing going again?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a painting of a young man and woman in ancient Greek attire, both brandishing swords. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Some of it, such as the variation in berry size or in nut bitterness, would have been readily noticed by ancient farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I could hear were the voices of the ancient witches burbling their silly sentences about "How kind Your Grandness is" and all the rest of it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Too much energy was surging through the ancient system. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s easy to understand why the ancients believed human spirits could be trapped inside them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Both were bad news for ancient farmers, who would thereby have promptly lost any favorable mutants without understanding why. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a mistake, however, to idealise the lives of these ancients. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other gifts were a crusty, holey, once-white sock from Henry, and from Beans a thumb-size, brown something that Palmer finally recognized as an ancient cigar butt. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

There upon its spur stood high walls of ancient stone, and within them was a lofty tower. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Santa grabbed the picture on the mantelpiece, a photograph of an ancient and hostile-looking woman in a black dress and black stockings standing in a dark alley paved with oyster shells. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this seems unreasonable: modern libraries, after all, keep records of duplicate volumes, and their ancient counterpart was no less carefully cataloged. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

After biology and language, our third type of evidence about Japanese origins comes from ancient portraits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stravinsky reported that the idea for a piece based on an ancient pagan dance of ritual human sacrifice came to him in a dream and that the scenario suggested such a deliberately layered sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Greeks were different; they embraced the abstract and the philosophical, and brought mathematics to its highest point in ancient times. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Their voices bounced off the walls and ceiling of this ancient hall and fell into a glorious harmony the likes of which I’d never heard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Spurge and Werfel were crossing a crater where some ancient battle must have happened. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

He thinks certain modern technologies—the clock, the compass, gunpowder, the telescope—represent a real advance over anything achieved by the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The ferry sauropod navigated between huge armored warships and around a steamboat before docking alongside an ancient wooden frigate with cannons poking out of either side. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

From one such island rose a weirwood gnarled and ancient, its bole and branches white as the surrounding snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They are ancient, full of tears and holes and ground-in dirt stains. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like many other pseudosciences, numerology is ancient, and acquires some respectability from its religious associations. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She held her own hands out to us, the ancient gesture that was both an offering and an invitation, to come forward, into an embrace, an acceptance. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m a shepherd, and I have been to many places, but I come from only one place—from a city near an ancient castle. That’s where I was born.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ocean floors were ancient, as everyone assumed, they should be thickly blanketed with sediments, like the mud on the bottom of a river or lake. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The call sounded from far away, and Wart found himself standing by the side of an ancient tumulus, like an enormous mole hill, with a Mack hole in front of him. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Larson passed over an old National Geographic that showed the architectural detailing of some ancient Mesoamerican temples. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the meanwhile frightens me, sir. The ancients placed love and war in the hands of closely related gods. That was no accident. That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Tallow was sitting by the fire, cleaning and oiling each part of her ancient, frail gun. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Not unwelcome! Not unwelcome! According to our ancient codes of hospitality, once he has crossed our threshold with our permission, it is our duty to keep him safe, or we lose all honor.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Perhaps nothing in natural history has been at the center of fiercer and more enduring hatreds than the line of ancient beasts known as dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In turn we walked up, took his ancient, calloused hand and wished him a good day. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we have no documents from the Natufian culture, so when dealing with ancient periods the materialist school reigns supreme. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, ancient foragers regularly ate dozens of different foodstuffs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their route swung to the west as they rose out of the valley, still between the ancient walls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He told Robin, too, of far countries: the Holy Land where crusaders had fought for the tomb of our Lord, and of Greece and Rome, whose ancient languages were the beginnings of many other tongues. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

These legislatures were following a long tradition, dating back to ancient Greece, of treating those convicted of crimes as less than full citizens. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For years, they had both been fascinated by the Mayan glyphs, the script of the ancient Maya of Mesoamerica. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was of azure sarsenet, hand-embroidered in gold thread with the numerous small fleur-de-lis of ancient France. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many had ancient flintlocks, old squirrel guns, handed down for generations. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensation is identical to entering the circus, even down to the scent of caramel lingering in the air, but there is something deeper beneath it, something heavy and ancient underlying the paper and string. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

What can we say about the spiritual and mental life of the ancient hunter-gatherers? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this revelation is typical, the ancient Danube Valley was as violent as the twentieth century. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my turn came, I handed my buckets to the ancient slave who worked the pump handle, a man old as dirt, with stone-gray hair and skin the color of the night sky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we can make some educated guesses as to what music from ancient Greek and Roman times really sounded like, based on their writings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Luke went over to the ancient television and turned the knob, hoping it would endear Toby to the idea of staying put. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The word for “a piece of sugar” in the ancient Indian language of Sanskrit is khanda, which, as it passed through Persian to Arabic to Europe, became candy. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

There is a small and ancient bed, his coverlet smooth and tight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

In 2003, though, archaeologists discovered ancient seeds from cultivated squashes in coastal Ecuador, at the foot of the Andes, which may be older than any agricultural remains in Mesoamerica—a third Neolithic Revolution. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He desired her calmly, initiating her into the most secret and most ancient of sciences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four, Vivian is ancient, but she doesn’t appear to be senile. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped to rest beneath a low passageway off an ancient cobblestone street. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The ancient Incas obtained vicuna wool by driving wild vicunas into corrals, shearing them, and then releasing them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After days of searching, we finally found an ancient moldering door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was mostly ceramic, with a metal knob to advance the wick, and it looked ancient. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although she had never been taught this, Frightful was following ancient peregrine instincts. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He said nothing, but his ancient eyes were full of pity. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

These people were like the ancient Israelites because they’d been given a true religion but hankered after false idols. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The door to the attic was just as Ophie remembered it, narrow and ancient, covered in dusty white paint. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dad swerved the boat, cut speed, and ducked the craft into a little branch canal and under an ancient, crumbling stone wharf that smelled of crab flesh. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a little girl, I did not know I was a descendant of the Inca, the most powerful ancient civilization of South America. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the wavering firelight Gandalf seemed suddenly to grow: he rose up, a great menacing shape like the monument of some ancient king of stone set upon a hill. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient woman, withered and bent, and Buttercup thought of all the faces that had gone by in her lifetime, but this one she could not remember. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Trixie has stood by Levy' Pants through the years,” the office manager explained while the ancient assistant accountant babbled something else about the turkey. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew that Bela Lugosi was an epic actor from the ancient world whom people like Sahil still look up to today. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Joe said the curves were “meanders,” and he showed her rocks in the streambed that were full of ancient shells. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“In ancient times, two great Roman roads met here. News was exchanged. Markets were held. Friends met, and enemies fought. Entire armies had to choose a direction. Crossroads are always places of decision.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This hatred went back to ancient rivalries and misunderstandings over religion and nationality. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The words seemed so ancient and full of bad omen I didn’t want her saying them in English and accidentally directing them toward me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

After they had mastered the ancient cures that worked, they would be taught the most up-to-date western discoveries. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had moved in the midnight waters of space like a pale sea leviathan; it had passed the ancient moon and thrown itself onward into one nothingness following another. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It is long since the beacons of the North were lit,’ he said; ‘and in the ancient days of Gondor they were not needed, for they had the Seven Stones.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Intricate loops and spirals had been carved on either side, ancient hieroglyphs the meaning of which had been lost to the ages. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I can see his clothes in my mind, bright as a lithograph or a full-color advertisement, from an ancient magazine, though not his face, not so well. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chiron had told me long ago: Immortals arc constrained by ancient rules. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The next day, he gave his son a pouch that held three ancient Spanish gold coins. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, always “religiously,” he branded “heathen” and “pagan” labels upon ancient non-white cultures and civilizations. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If enemies had crossed the waste to destroy these cities in ancient days, they might well come again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Dancers danced; musicians played queer tunes with bells and squeaks and bladders; singers sang ancient love songs in the incomprehensible tongue of Old Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Saying that ancient foragers were probably animists is like saying that premodern agriculturists were mostly theists. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the scientists said it was probably an ancient and dormant volcano crater. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

In fifth-grade history we had spent a lot of time worrying about the flooded river deltas of the ancient world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with a scorched roof and filthy walls and a weed-choked, yellow lawn, it looked ancient. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The old man moved toward the door, and his ancient dog lifted his head and peered about, and then got painfully to his feet to follow. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the way she exhales sounds like she’s happy she’s in this tiny shack in this ancient neighborhood with a bunch of my dad’s relatives. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“And why would the ancient Greeks or Romans or whoever need an eagle to fly a lyre up to heaven?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m really jealous — the ancient Egyptian wizards were fascinating. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Dawn Madden sat in the cockpit of an ancient tractor, whittling a stick. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Guarding the ancient steps are giant granite lions, tigers, eight-headed snakes, and elephants. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rumors circulated that emaciated Jews returning from the camps were using gentile children's blood for transfusions, a revival of the ancient accusation known as blood libel. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But every reader addicted to coffee can thank ancient Ethiopian farmers for domesticating the coffee plant. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So ancient that I believed-it no more than a legend. There are still deep secrets concerning Dyrnwyn, unknown even to the wisest. Its loss destroyed Spiral Castle and was a severe blow to Arawn.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That at least was as he remembered; the ancient stones slick with spray and spotted by lichen, the sea foaming under their feet like some great wild beast, the salt wind clutching at their clothes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I breathe in the difference of being on this earth now and maybe not tomorrow, the precipitous edge of something new for me but as ancient as the beginning of time. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Fired by the mystery of the language no one could read, he became a superb linguist and passionately immersed himself in ancient Egyptian writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yellowstone wasn’t the site of an ancient supervolcano; it was the site of an active one. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes, deep green, are as cold as his voice, and look ancient ancient, as though he has traveled this earth since time and time. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something to do with them, something like a sentence in tiny dry print on a page, flattened out, like the dates of ancient battles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would take my line, but when I got its head above water, it would eye me with those cold ancient eyes and let go. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In one of them, large Gothic windows were lit, showing shelves of ancient books. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But even silent, the bridge had always seemed very wise to Tally, as quietly knowing as some ancient tree. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He knew that all the other Touchable workers in the factory resented Velutha for ancient reasons of their own. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

To accomplish this, the English started by attacking the ancient Irish social system. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

For me she would forever be a mythic weaver in the basement of an ancient house in Ardestan. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

I listened for the ancient language of the world as Mama Killa, Moon Mother, grew larger in the sky night by night, but I had yet to hear the voice of Beyond right and true. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The thing was ancient, a beat-up silver box, but it worked. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Any reconstruction of the lives of ancient hunter-gatherers from the surviving artefacts is extremely problematic. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Osha stood across the pool, be-neath an ancient oak, her face shadowed by leaves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Zero never worked its way into ancient Western numbers, so it is unlikely that the omicron is the mother of our 0. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

But it turned out the sci-fi Hela was inspired by the ancient Norse goddess of death, who lives trapped in a land between hell and the living. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bran heard talk of Moat Cailin> the ancient stronghold the First Men had built at the top of the Neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His hairline was receding rapidly; his face was beginning to resemble an ancient topographical map of Africa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had an ancient sewing machine that they had bought upon their arrival in America. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

But the Late Baby was there, in the stands with his ancient parents, yelling away like he was still a cheerleader. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

‘They call it Pylosian mint. Apparently the plant sprang from the blood of a nymph who died on a mountain near here, back in ancient times. I didn’t ask for details.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is an ancient drumbeat, old as time. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I must be getting very old and my ancient conditioning worn thin. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ptolemy III Euergetes wished to borrow from Athens the original manuscripts or official state copies of the great ancient tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, regular dog eating has been a last resort of meat-deprived human societies: the Aztecs had no other domestic mammal, and the Polynesians and ancient Chinese had only pigs and dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If only I had access to ancient books at the library, like Doctor Strange. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He became the invincible Gael, the scion of desperate races more ancient than Arthur’s, and more subtle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the ancient mythmakers knew, we are the children equally of the sky and the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How ancient,” Jared S. said, when I told this part to my class. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

"I nipped out when the ancient witches were coming in," I told her. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Patience, you young scallywag,” chided the ancient mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient bands. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

That feeling—it tied her to them, to her mother, her father, her grandmother, with strong threads too ancient and precious to be broken. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stood in a field, one where trees had been clear-cut and what remained was nothing more than what looked like some sad, ancient war zone. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He led them up winding alleyways and down ancient stairs to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher he'd been telling them about for years. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

What is it about those plants that kept their domestication beyond the reach of ancient farmers capable of mastering such difficult techniques as grafting? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the firelight, Miss Miss seemed to undulate in some ancient dance. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

It was because Ultima was a curandera, a woman who knew the herbs and remedies of the ancients, a miracle-worker who could heal the sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new agricultural territories were not only far smaller than those of ancient foragers, but also far more artificial. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seldom now reach three feet; but they have dwindled, they say, and in ancient days they were taller. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

From the time of its creation in the third century B.C. until its destruction seven centuries later, it was the brain and heart of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"If we storm these walls thousands will die," fretted ancient Lord Estermont, who was the king's grandfather on his mother's side. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She handed me a gold signet ring, and I didn't need to be an archaeologist to know it was ancient. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The rumours that you have heard are true: he has indeed arisen again and left his hold in Mirkwood and returned to his ancient fastness in the Dark Tower of Mordor. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Consider a map of ancient Egypt with two vertical sticks of equal length, one stuck in Alexandria, the other in Syene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years before, I had asked Pena what he thought the reaction would be if he discovered that ancient Indians were, in fact, not genetically related to modern Indians. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then the wind began, warm, incipient, full of voices from the past, the murmurs of ancient geraniums, sighs of disenchantment that preceded the most tenacious nostalgia. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was something out of an ancient god’s nightmares. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mary led the way along a hard path above the mud; like many things the mulefa had made, it was ancient and perfectly maintained, more like a part of nature than something imposed on it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik—that’s all ancient history now. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Underneath his voice was another, more horrible sound—an ancient, cold sound like metal scraping against rock. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tune your television to any channel it doesn’t receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

In the corner closest to the door I came in, there is an ancient double swing-set covered in rose vines. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

It had been entertaining and fascinating to find here on Gethen governments so similar to those in the ancient histories of Terra: a monarchy, and a genuine full-blown bureaucracy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like certain ancient frescoes entombed for centuries suddenly exposed to the day. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Joseph found his uncle in an ancient kitchen, tossing a few pieces of charcoal into an iron stove. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Houses are demolished, people killed, ancient trees ripped from the ground. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Twisted words, pranks, omissions, riddles, scandals, not to mention their revenges upon one another for ancient, half-remembered slights. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the shallows beyond the breakwater an ancient corpse rising and falling among the driftwood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The ancient gold coin dangled back and forth, glinting in the sunlight. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

He told me how complicated the process had been, because the wiring in the building was so ancient. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were in the tiny Church of the Men—a chapel as ancient as Christianity in the islands, though it was scarcely twenty feet square. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose you could also take it to mean “old” as in “longtime,” or “old” as in “ancient.” Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had arranged three stools in a row, while she herself jammed her rump into an ancient baby’s high chair—a bohemian touch that gave her a tennis umpire’s advantage of height. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Every year when it’s time to bring out the ancient snowman, Maria jumps and cheers with real excitement. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what the ancient Egyptians had said, but I doubted they had said exactly that Uncle’s face got wistful as he stared into the sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem likely that the ancient Egyptians used any of the kinds Ken and Toby knew about—crankcase, sewing machine, polyunsaturated or bicycle. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I love it when a plan comes together,” he announced, dropping another catchphrase from another ancient TV show. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of the four ancient Ionian and alchemical “elements” is in the modern sense an element at all: one is a molecule, two are mixtures of molecules, and the last is a plasma. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Few of the ancient sources are very specific about these matters, as we would expect when speaking of one of the most visible and famous institutions of their times. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

If the androids had remained substandard, like the ancient q-40s made by Derain Associates—there would be no problem and no need of my skill. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looked so vibrant and beautiful that it was hard to believe she’d been present in all the ancient stories. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The system is evidently an ancient one, long antedating the immunologic sensing of familiar or foreign forms of life by the antibodies on which we now depend so heavily for our separateness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard had already spent three years combing the Southwest for ancient bones, crawling into rattlesnake caves and taking a pickax to rock faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We saw representative assemblies modeled, to a greater or lesser extent, on those of the ancient world. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Bulky, with a strap to hang around your neck and a slim slot along its front, it was the kind of device that seemed ancient. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He arrived at this conclusion, not on so-to- speak rational or sceptical grounds, but entirely on the interpretation of ancient authority. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this city of splendors, Dany had expected the House of the Undying Ones to be the most splendid of all, but she emerged from her palanquin to behold a grey and ancient ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They spent exactly enough time among the vases of ancient Greece to be able to man their waiting stations and not be discovered. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although many collateral sanctions were repealed by the late 1970s, arguably the drug war simply revived and expanded a tradition that has ancient roots, a tradition independent of the legacy of American slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Three massive hand-hewn beams, hauled here from some ancient Breton forest and craned into place centuries ago by teams of horses, hold up the ceiling. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Here and there upon heights and ridges they caught glimpses of ancient walls of stone, and the ruins of towers: they had an ominous look. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Entering Matrosskaya Tishina, I found a confusing maze of cell blocks, low doorways, endless tunnels, dingy corridors, and ancient metal staircases. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Frozen inside the gemstone was an ancient insect, stuck forever. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Though of iron, the cauldron seemed alive, grim and brooding with ancient evil. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

The nearest thing to an exception is the dog, originally domesticated as a sentinel and hunting companion, but breeds of dogs were developed and raised for food in Aztec Mexico, Polynesia, and ancient China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All this was contained in a cityscape of carved honey stone and gilded domes, the streets radiating out from an ancient amphitheater filled with colorful market stalls. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

When he caught his first glimpse of the Wall looming above the tops of an ancient gnarled oak, Jon was vastly relieved. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Carved figures paraded around its edge, screaming or singing, holding weapons or ancient instruments, calling for the storm in the center—roiling clouds and lightning. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The landscape was dotted with buildings that looked like ancient Greek architecture—an open-air pavilion, an amphitheater, a circular arena—except that they all looked brand new, their white marble columns sparkling in the sun. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient Greece, Pythagoras saw the peculiar behavior of waves that traveled up and down a plucked string—how certain notes were allowed and others were forbidden. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They tumbled to the paving stones at the foot of the bridge, the ancient leather splitting, pages of parchment flying. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

When she turned a corner in the Old City, she was just a ripple of an ancient, continuing echo. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

On their shoulders they carried a keg of ancient anger, lit with a recent fuse. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could run across any surface, even the sea; but she’d been afraid he wouldn’t follow them into the ancient lands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood-and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The memory of ancient liberty does not and cannot allow them to rest, so that the most secure course is either to wipe them out or to go to live there. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, Koffi had been born long after that golden age, but she still tried to imagine it as she traversed the city’s ancient streets. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

"If you look even slightly into the ancient past, you'll see how love has driven many a war. Just ask Helen." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They dreamed of finding abandoned mansions in the woods and vanishing into secret chambers in ancient castles. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In her dream, Piper flew above the Parthenon - the ancient temple of Athena, the left side of its hollow shell encased in metal scaffolding. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Someone had once tried to persuade him that the ancients did not understand the winds in the Mediterranean. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had seen the wild, ancient creature in him before, but this time that inhumanness edged into something she recognized with her gut: He looked at her with desire. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sponge rock gives the place a kind of oyster-shell, cave quality that makes it seem ancient and folk-arty at the same time. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I made a three-fingered claw over my heart and pushed outward—an ancient gesture Grover had once taught me for warding off evil. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hopping from oak to maple to hickory to tulip tree, the pigeon still in her talons, she made her way to the top of the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He took a few deep breaths to get his courage up— —and an ancient woman he had not seen before hobbled into the men’s meeting place. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their blood would have been spilled on ancient stones. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Two ancient lamps burned fish oil, throwing dim shadows against the dark stone walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So instead of being influenced by the sound of ancient Greek music, eighteenth-century composers were influenced by the ideals of classical art. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient little Evinrude that could be stubborn before it warmed up. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

However, this was not at all obvious to the ancients. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

"Alexander of Macedonia. Alexander the Great. Only thirty-two years old and ruler of much of the ancient world. How much more he might have achieved if he'd only listened to me." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Those near me informed me that he made the drum speak, and that it chanted the praise-songs of his people in ancient times and their exploits martial. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Would ancient Sapiens have been more tolerant towards an entirely different human species? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a little red Toyota that was so ancient, it was about to die, but I loved that car. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Try to think about it like an ancient philosopher. WWSD, you know?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Descendants of the ancient kings and queens of Qarth, the Purebom commanded the Civic Guard and the fleet of ornate galleys that ruled the straits between the seas. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Your agent will easily recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The fly, my dear sir, has one striking feature; its wings are typical of the aërial powers of the psychic faculties. The ancients did well when they typified the soul as a butterfly!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The armored cars of the police stationed themselves out on the street, surrounding the ancient building. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her father wraps the largest in cardboard and uses an ancient wheeled dolly to thump it down the stairs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Sprat went on to acknowledge that there were some hardliners who were so hostile to all aspects of ancient learning that they wanted to abolish Oxford and Cambridge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She could feel the old women watching her, the ancient crones of Vaes Dothrak, with eyes that shone dark as polished flint in their wrinkled faces. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A million colored dust-motes danced and swirled as the two mice trod the ancient stone floor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

To Wilkes’s way of thinking, ancient Indian farming methods may be the cure for some of modern agriculture’s ailments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Hess’s readings showed that the ocean floor offered anything but the gooey smoothness of ancient silts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was no graceful way around it, but her hands clung to the lip of the stone ledge where the ancient axes were displayed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The beds are covered with ancient electric blankets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She nodded at Methuselah, the ancient gatekeeper mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

‘The lack of ghosts is eerie. Back in ancient times, Delos was sacred ground. No mortal was allowed to be born here or die here. There are literally no mortal spirits on this whole island.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Kepler gave the printing press a prominent place in the frontispiece to the Rudolphine tables, which celebrated the progress of astronomy from the ancient world to the modern era. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Another Arab visitor reported, even at a late date in Alexandria’s ancient career, that the city was all white and bright by night as well as by day. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

As proof, she announced the creation of a Zea diploperennis-gamagrass hybrid in the laboratory that displayed the attributes of ancient maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For many, the only certainty was the stars, and the ancient astrological conceit prospered in the courtyards and taverns of fear-haunted Europe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went to the wilderness to worship, to the wildest mountains, the deepest forests, as if they kept to the customs of an ancient time before men had thought of building houses for their gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Spanish she called out to me, sounding the whistle of her ancient breath. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The seven... you mean in the ancient prophecy, the Doors of Death? I’m one of the seven? And Jason, and—” “Yes, yes.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

There must have been hundreds of ancient oaks on the property, but Angelo seemed to know every one of them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

At the very least, it spoke to the migration patterns of ancient people. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Modern drawings of ancient cities tend to show them at an imagined apogee, the great monuments all splendidly arrayed together, perfect as architectural models. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You know, in ancient Greece, Aristophanes would write plays about how much of a dipshit Socrates was and perform them right there in Athens. Talk about cutthroat, right?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

As closely as Taran observed each step of the way, he knew the path to Medwyn’s valley would be lost to him as soon as the ancient man left. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The sound of their screaming passage was muffled by this dim, soundproofed world, this ancient autumn world. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient music-making, pitch was fixed - defined - only by the length of your string or pipe, hence the need for a label like ‘A’ to denote the same sound made on different-shaped instruments. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The giant oak tree felt ancient, like the Bottle Trees on my grandparents’ farm. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Others divide the Precambrian into two eras, the very ancient Archean and the more recent Proterozoic. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The paper peeled off in a whole sheet, slowly, with a long fffffft sound, as the ancient dried paste reluctantly turned to dust. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

All of these parallels between Mesoamerican and ancient western Eurasian writing testify to the underlying universality of human creativity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Collectively, memorable events have caused the ever-quickening pace of change during the past five millenniums, which begin with what we call the ancient world. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been riding one of the school brooms at team practice, an ancient Shooting Star, which was very slow and jerky; he definitely needed a new broom of his own. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

If used as part of a systematic program of research in disease and physiology, Herophilus’s timer might have taught ancient doctors much about the circulation of the blood. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

She held both palms up to face the sky, one gloved, one sleeved in bees, like a shaman performing some ancient ritual. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

An ancient car braked to a halt and I hurried to it. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the buildings here are ancient, but there are no barns left in the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

What was needed was a revolution, a reversal of the ancient, brittle roles we’d been playing out since my childhood. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

To get around the problems of fossil distributions, they posited ancient "land bridges" wherever they were needed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

During the peak of ancient astronomy, Greek astronomical tables regularly employed zero; its symbol was the lowercase omicron, o, which looks very much like our modern-day zero, though it’s probably a coincidence. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The major intellectual pursuit of his last years was a concordance and calibration of the chronologies of ancient civilizations, very much in the tradition of the ancient historians Manetho, Strabo and Eratosthenes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could find was an ancient chamber pot that had been the drinking bowl for the cat. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He would marry me off to an ancient man who would soon die and leave me enormously wealthy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, nobody really knows what the music of ancient times sounded like. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient tree nearby with many well-placed branches and rough bark that should give my feet traction between the slick patches of moss. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Viserys told her tales of knights so poor that they had to sleep beneath the ancient hedges that grew along the byways of the Seven Kingdoms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had taken an ancient marketplace and squashed it together with a modern grocery store. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even by the standards of the superstitious ancient Greeks, Pythagoras’s beliefs were eccentric. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“You heard Reyna talking about the ancient lands. They’re much too dangerous. Roman demigods have been forbidden to go there for generations. Even Octavian couldn’t get around that rule.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What I found seemed ancient, but I copied down the cell numbers for A.M. porters anyway and returned to W-gallery. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skillets, beds, patched up spare inner tubes all hanging and dangling from the ancient cars on the outside and hopeful humanity, herded and hovered on the inside, chugging on to the muck. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

For the boys speak a jived-up transitional language full of country glamour, think transitional thoughts, though perhaps they dream the same old ancient dreams. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Story Box flared white-hot in the dark before it faded to a dull glow, and a sigh seemed to settle throughout the hull of the ancient ship. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He avoids the term ‘atoms’ because the ancient atomists had insisted that atoms were not divisible and that the space between them was empty. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Right before Mom had the twins, their other car, an ancient CR-V, broke down, and Ivy’s parents had decided it wasn’t worth fixing. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The rubble was probably very impressive, but, ever since Olympia, Leo had been on ancient ruins overload. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I think of this syrup tin as an ancient artifact, like something dug up out of a tomb. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dionysius didn’t have a zero, so he started the calendar with year 1, just as the ancients before him had started theirs. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Two more ancient bags and a small trunk were brought up and put beside him. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her participation in these ancient rites helped her to earn the approval and respect of her subjects. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Bloodletting was an ancient and trusted medical practice that had been in use for more than 2,500 years. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

What was new was not yet admirable, and thus it presented itself, as best it could, within the carapace of the ancient. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I fought the sucking mud and crawled out like some prehistoric creature from an ancient lagoon just as Mami and my sisters and brothers came running. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If this begins the ancient prophecy, we don’t have resources to send an army to these Doors of Death and protect the camp. I can’t imagine even sparing seven demigods—” “First things first.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The forest spread out around us in a boundless labyrinth of ancient trees, and I began to be nervous that we would never find our way out again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He would be talking to us about this or that when suddenly he would stop in mid-sentence and a look of intense pain would cloud his ancient countenance. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Argo II was designed like an ancient trireme, only twice as big. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Before we end this gallop through early astronomy, it’s worth asking why the ancient Greeks didn’t achieve more in their study of the heavens. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

In ancient Greek mythology, the Three Sisters of Fate spin out a person’s destiny within three nights of their birth. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was an unyielding homage to ancient Greece and Imperial Rome, the birthing grounds of civilization. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now, a god cannot usurp another god’s symbol of power directly—that is forbidden by the most ancient of divine laws. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Thank you, thank you, O Most Generous and Thoughtful One!" chorused the ancient witches. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

His ancient joints crack loudly in the awkward silence. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little fingers of fire licked against the dry scored rind of the ancient tree and scorched it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

One day, we all went in our little motor-boat to an island we had never been to before, and for once the ancient half-sister and the manly lover decided to come with us. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Goodwife Willingson had packed a cold meal for us, and we chose an inviting spot in the shade of an ancient oak. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Robert said, reining his mount to a sudden halt beside an ancient barrow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Before they had left his hut, Yishan had tossed some robes and boots at her from a chest that looked as ancient as the gang Pinmei had hidden in. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Old ruins could still be found amongst its hills and bogs, the remains of ancient strongholds of the First Men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some of them looked ancient: covers faded, old-time parchment- looking binding. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, she didn’t have many ideas; but then, she was younger and hadn’t had a chance to learn much about ancient history. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For instance, did you know that the ancient Romans used bottles of urine as a refreshing oral rinse? They thought the ammonia in urine would disinfect mouths and whiten teeth.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, Miao-Yao speakers did not acquire their current fragmented distribution as a result of ancient helicopter flights that dropped them here and there over the Asian landscape. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His expression slowly folded into a mask of ancient sadness. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The narrow hallway was lit by an ancient light fixture and filled with the recent memory of cigarette smoke. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The world known to the ancient Greeks was a tiny place. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“It was one of the titles of the ancient Swazi queens,” Arm said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

To the west lay the ancient Grunewald forest, where sixteenth-century German princes hunted stags and wild boars and where Berliners of all classes nowadays enjoyed hiking, picnicking, and foraging for mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Persians have mastered the ancient and noble art of the awkward family photo—in fact, we probably invented it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Besides, our music teacher, Miss Brown, was ancient, and her decrepit horse had to pull her gig three miles from Prairie Lea. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I read about the ancient Egyptians, the Greeks and Romans, and the Dark Ages, when the old civilizations fell apart and the only people who could read and write were the monks. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

More important, Makowski says, researchers have little evidence that ancient Peruvians actually believed in a single overarching deity called the Staff God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

At some point in the past, she’d inhaled a collection of ancient prophecies that had supposedly been destroyed around the fall of Rome. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Through her window she could see the last wrinkled leaves gripping the branches of the ancient red maple, refusing to drift down to the ground until absolutely necessary. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Oh, here and there was the look of a famous ancient cave or a Chinese opera. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Help me get him into the boat! Quick!’ cried the ancient half-sister, gripping him under the armpits. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under her breath Juana repeated an ancient magic to guard against such evil, and on top of that she muttered a Hail Mary between clenched teeth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I already mentioned, tame cheetahs were prized by ancient Egyptians and Assyrians and modern Indians as hunting animals infinitely superior to dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was met by a white-aproned technician, who led her down the long corridors of the ancient building to a large, cold room whose walls were painted gray. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would remind you that Gaea wishes the girl to be taken alive. You can torment her. Drive her insane. Whatever you wish, of course. But her blood must be spilt on the ancient stones.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Watras lent me a pair of really expensive bongos to use at home, along with a huge stack of ancient Latin jazz records. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

That the bone didn’t attract greater interest is more than a little puzzling, for its appearance came at a time when America was in a froth of excitement about the remains of large, ancient animals. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Like this one that I am dotting up with oil crayons, only a real ancient one. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

She made a sour face and a gesture that was probably rude back in ancient Mesopotamia. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The figures, from left to right, are the astronomers Hipparchus, Copernicus, an anonymous ancient observer, Brahe and Ptolemy, each surrounded by symbols of his work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was a weirwood ancient and colossal, ten times the size of die one in the Stone Garden at easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I paused to look at the collage he'd made of his trips to places that were already ancient when Rome was just a village. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He was able to rent an ancient mansion that had belonged to one of the great saltpeter fortunes before they invented the synthetic substitute that had shot the whole industry to hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Mahabharata is one of two ancient poems. It was written in Sanskrit, an ancient Indic language that is no longer spoken.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He turned a corner and saw two ancient stone towers jutting into the sky, side by side, much taller than anything else in the neighborhood—maybe medieval watchtowers? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Next to the stairs on the left, a row of cubbyholes was filled with leather cylinders—probably ancient scroll cases. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Me and Agent, we were into ancient gods and goddesses, you know, because people want them as tats. Abeona was a Roman goddess. Did you know that?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Gigantic stone blocks, green with ancient slime, rose higher into the mist than they could see. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Greek Army, encouraged by the Allied Nations, had invaded western Turkey in 1919, reclaiming the ancient Greek territory in Asia Minor. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Señor Paz was an ancient black Chihuahua that lived down the street. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

But there was no punctuation in those ancient texts and that’s all there is to it. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

They stood there on the ancient highway, neither of them moving. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other coincidence between archaeological and linguistic evidence concerns the cultural baggage that ancient Austronesians used. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He kicked the backs of his sneakers against the tall stack of ancient encyclopedias he was sitting on. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Some of its methods have ancient roots, based on the knowledge that, like ourselves, insects are subject to disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sugar had a third use in ancient India—it was considered a medicine. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Ah,” says Gabriel, his ancient eyes boring into me. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

A warning look from her mother checked any further remarks, and the whole family ate in heroic silence, till Mr. March mildly observed, “salad was one of the favorite dishes of the ancients, and Evelyn...” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Champollion, who was fluent in ancient Greek, read that the stone had been inscribed to commemorate the coronation of Ptolemy V Epiphanes, in the spring of the year 196 B.C. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The street empty, the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage-scenery, the other homes dark, the Hound here, Beatty there, the three other firemen another place, and the Salamander...? Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spoke of the ancient medicines of other tribes, the Aztecas, Mayas, and even of those in the old, old country, the Moors. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the sisterhood Mom’s always talking about. Five women who are reincarnations of legendary queens from the ancient stories. These days their job is to raise and protect us.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nabi Samuel is named after the ancient prophet Samuel, who is believed to be buried there. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s related to the scarab beetle, which the ancient Egyptians worshipped as a symbol of the morning sun and the afterlife. Sometimes they wore it as jewelry.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The good news was that the flooding deposited rich, alluvial silt all over the fields, making the Nile delta the richest farmland in the ancient world. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a very ancient truck, with a small round hood, but it had been lovingly polished and was wonderfully shiny. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He wore the battered clothes of a field hand and an ancient broadcloth coat highly polished by age and wear. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Years ago, her grandfather had taken her to see a masque in Bridgetown, in which a troupe of players from England had acted out the ancient Christmas story. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Most of them are in the ancient lunar highlands and date from the time of the final accretion of the Moon from interplanetary debris. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder,” said a third voice, gravelly and ancient like the first, “if perhaps you do not know the way, young one.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were many stories this night; several recounted in tongues I knew not to groups of four or five; a few sung; some ancient tales told. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He buzzed toward the ancient swamp monster’s face, peering into those large, damp eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“This goes against the ancient laws. A hero is allowed only two companions.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

The ancient Japanese developed some of the oldest pottery in the world and settled as hunter-gatherers in villages subsisting on Japan’s rich seafood resources, long before the arrival of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the decades that followed, extensive excavations revealed to increasingly intrigued eighteenth-century Europeans how sophisticated - and, to their consternation, how saucy - their ancient ancestors had been. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But as natural as zero seems to us today, for ancient peoples zero was a foreign—and frightening—idea. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to study those ancient scrolls we got. There’s got to be all kinds of new weapons I can make. We’re going to hit Gaea’s armies with a whole new arsenal of hurt.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wave after wave broke over our ancient stone boat, and yet it—somehow—stayed buoyant. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

He learns the endless terms, the vocabulary that classifies the details of ancient buildings, writing them on separate index cards and making illustrations on the back: architrave, entablature, tympanum, voussoir. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to see an ancient, rusty, gas- hog convertible rolling by, with Russell behind the wheel and Piper jumping up and down and shrieking in the back seat. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The pounding of her feet echoed through the tomb as she ran between the sarcophagi for Damaris, the sword of the ancient king. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She found herself surrounded by a knee-high mound of treasure—Roman denarii, silver drachmas, ancient gold jewelry, glittering diamonds and topaz and rubies—enough to fill several lawn bags. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time in over an hour, Dolores’s thoughts drifted to the ancient toe bone, worth millions of dollars, that she’d left sitting on the armrest of her car. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the spring he went to Venice alone for a week, the trip he’d planned for the two of them, saturating himself in its ancient, melancholy beauty. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Cecilia’s eyes were brimmed with tears, and suddenly she looked ancient. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

When it was realized that ancient tapirs had existed simultaneously in South America and Southeast Asia a land bridge was drawn there, too. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The form and abundance of the galaxies have a story to tell us of ancient events on the largest possible scale, a story we are just beginning to read. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same is true of almost all the other ancient Ionian scientists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss grew thick between its ancient stones, spiderwebbing up its walls like the veins in a crone’s legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had used the ancient name for peculiars, the one Miss Peregrine had taught us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, many of the ancient groves have been lumbered off, but many of the stately monuments remain and will remain, for a good and interesting reason. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe is knowable, the ancient Ionians argued, because it exhibits an internal order: there are regularities in Nature that permit its secrets to be uncovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the swamp that smelled of still water, they walked past ancient trees cloaked in vines. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were warm and shivering, and young and ancient, and alive. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

An ancient woman sat in a rocking chair and sipped a mug of tea. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The photo of the ancient parchment glowed on Jake’s computer screen: The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Only if the archaeological context—the dirt and rock around the find—was established as ancient could the bone be classified as ancient too. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the name was well-earned, because apothecaries were ancient, dealing in the old ways of medicine, too. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

"He was unprotected. But here . . . this Storm's End is an old place. There are spells woven into the stones. Dark walls that no shadow can pass—ancient, forgotten, yet still in place." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Every now and then we stumble on a major civilization, such as the ancient culture of Ebla, which flourished only a few millennia ago and about which we knew nothing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for my ancient half-sister and my not-quite-so- ancient half-brother, the rest of us were all pure Norwegian by blood. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, it took the patronage of the “decadent” Ptolemies to put ancient Greek science—and book collecting—on a firm institutional footing. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The temperature in the digging pits sometimes hit 130°F. Slowly peeling away the geological layers, Howard’s workers revealed that Blackwater Draw had hosted not one, but two ancient societies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Those nonbitter almond seeds are the only ones that ancient farmers would have planted, at first unintentionally in their garbage heaps and later intentionally in their orchards. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music of Mozart, Haydn, and the early works of Beethoven are in this style, which we call classical rather than neoclassical, because the original classical music of ancient Greece and Rome is lost. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The library is part of an ancient high- rise that now lies almost entirely in the water several hundred feet from the lake's eastern edge, completely overgrown with wild grasses. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

About an hour later I found myself lying upon that same nursery table my ancient sister had occupied some months before for her appendix operation. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama Boanda’s ancient parents looked just alike, both of them tiny, bald, and perfectly toothless. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Evidence from fossilised skeletons indicates that ancient foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition, and were generally taller and healthier than their peasant descendants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She closes her eyes, and the folds in her face seem ancient. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

From the Masters and from ancient Lore-Books Ged learned what he could about such beings as this shadow he had loosed; little was there to learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He had just finished doing this and was about to light up when the ancient half-sister called on him to come swimming. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the ruins seemed already ancient. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The great monolith tilted and began to sink, grinding down through ancient layers of rock, ripping through them as though they were paper. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It surprised her, how many men and women were in Abba, gathered at the square for the meeting, crowded around the ancient udala tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In her hand was an ancient valentine, a big heart surrounded by paper lace. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They walked past the faded banners, broken shields, and rusted swords of a hundred ancient victories, and a score of wooden figures, cracked and worm-riddled, that could only have adorned the prows of ships. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already the flames were dying down as the ancient timbers were consumed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I’m finished delivering the telegrams there’s enough time to go to the ancient monastery graveyard where my mother’s relations are buried, the Guilfoyles and the Sheehans, where my mother wants to be buried. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

My dad fiddles with the TV and all the cords, and manages to get the ancient DVD player up and running. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Not the wafer and the wine, but the flesh and the blood, vibrant and alive, and vibrant even when stooped, ancient and withered. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They chose a uniform style, neoclassical, meaning the buildings would have columns and pediments and evoke the glories of ancient Rome. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Before he could raise it, the ancient sword flashed in the warrior’s grip and hewed him lifeless to the ground. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

A bigger grinder had a cute little drawer filled with spiderwebs and ancient coffee—and with mouse leavings. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Down beneath my legs the toilet bowl had a rust stain, ancient, too. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"My father has donned the ancient crown of salt and rock, and declared himself King of the Iron Islands. He claims the north as well, by right of conquest. You are all his subjects." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The boy was fascinated by Fourier’s collection of Egyptian artifacts, collected during the Napoleonic expedition where he had been responsible for cataloging the astronomical monuments of that ancient civilization. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other, related question is whether ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers similarly put their ethnobiological knowledge to good use in selecting wild plants to gather and eventually to cultivate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other scholars maintain that the world of the ancient foragers was exceptionally cruel and violent. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For example, some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were not composed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Other bones and fossilized footprints were found in the Connecticut River Valley of New England after a farm boy named Plinus Moody spied ancient tracks on a rock ledge at South Hadley, Massachusetts. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hello” wasn’t a valid command in BASIC, the only language the ancient computer understood. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A jigsaw puzzle of ancient Egypt outlined the dining room table with the extra pieces piled up like pyramids spilling over onto the floor. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many woven cloths were hung upon the walls, and over their wide spaces marched figures of ancient legend, some dim with years, some darkling in the shade. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

From their luxurious accommodations, they could take in fabulous sights as they passed the ancient ruins and famous monuments of Egyptian culture, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

For several hours Frightful bobbed her head and looked from one strange animal to another in this world of ancient survivors. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Artemis opened the ancient languages file on his Power Translator and selected Egyptian. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He remembered old women sitting sidesaddle on ancient donkeys, taking their last steps. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“But, my friends, if that ancient egg ever breaks, this barn will be untenable.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Well-known quotations embody both of these things: they come with the imprimatur both of ancient derivation, and of the many people who, by passing it on, in some way are understood to have endorsed it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then again, ancient statues weren’t always a good reference. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glowing orange, too, and he spoke in the same ancient voice of the Maafa. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The ancient tyrant Mezentius of Etruria, punishing his enemies, bound each living prisoner to a corpse and left them thus, shackled face to face, until the corruption of the dead involved the living. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

An ancient religion from a forgotten time—what were they doing here? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jay spent most of class talking about what to expect from the semester, including a final project involving ancient Rome or something. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But they were hardly the only wares for sale in the heated marketplace that was ancient Greek cosmological debate. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“They are backed by ancient fortunes, held in trust. Bribes get paid. Locations are changed when necessary.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

As she watched, it changed from a New York subway token to an ancient silver drachma, the kind used by Athenians. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That’s much easier in these days of high-tech weaponry, produced only in industrial plants and easily monopolized by an elite, than in ancient times of spears and clubs easily made at home. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it didn’t stop Mrs. L. J. Weidenbach, the banker’s wife, who came leading her father, an ancient codger half her size in full Civil War Union blue. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

One ancient street lamp is trying to light this lonely place, sputtering its life away. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

There is something intrinsically good-natured about all symbiotic relations, necessarily, but this one, which is probably the most ancient and most firmly established of all, seems especially equable. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched breathlessly as it came to an ancient oak tree, a hundred years old and massive as a greystone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The greater families were also concerned with events in the Kingdom at large, and many of their members studied its ancient histories and legends. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Between the windows some ancient wooden santos, and a couple of newer ones that had been carved and painted by the expatriate Snuffy Ledoux, were hanging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They speak to me, as John Kwang could always, not simply in new accents or notes but in the ancient untold music of a newcomer’s heart, sonorous with longing and hope. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apollodorus, also a Greek, is, next to Ovid, the most voluminous ancient writer on mythology, but, unlike Ovid, he is very matter-of-fact and very dull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But archaeologists have had moderate success in unearthing other ancient instruments in all corners of the globe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

We have far surpassed the science known to the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“In her children our two ancient houses will become as one,” he said, “and the long enmity between Stark and Bolton will be ended.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sheepishly, he said, “I admit. I have looked into the ancient rituals. Not for myself,” he added quickly. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The history of Egypt is divided into dynasties of rulers, in accordance with ancient Egyptian practice, beginning with the First Dynasty shortly after 3000 B.C. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There will be no more study of philosophy or the ancients,” she said firmly. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

To the east, the ancient church spires and peaked rooflines of central Berlin rose above a sea of trees turned red and gold in the crisp autumn air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that if you rubbed a magnet with garlic it ceased to work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He sifted through many sources for his material but in the main he concentrated on a set of ancient Icelandic documents known as the Eddas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But we are largely at a loss in trying to comprehend the beliefs and rituals of ancient hunter-gatherers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there is also another voice; a small, mean voice, ancient and smug, that comes from somewhere deep inside my head: It serves her right. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Leo stared at the sphere, trying to recall where he’d read or heard about a similar ancient machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

More than ever before, he wanted to disappear, to sink through the temple’s ancient stone floors and never be seen again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I found a digital copy of the sixty-seven-year-old Tomb of Horrors module buried deep in an ancient FTP archive. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Between a duck pond and a blacksmith’s forge, he came upon the tree that gave the place its name, an oak ancient and tall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So, when Toby turned to them a moment later and thundered, “Kneel and bow low—O ancient Egyptians—before the miracle of the oracle!” they hurried to obey. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is we ancient ones," said a meek voice from behind the door. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

But at the individual level, ancient foragers were the most knowledgeable and skilful people in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another witch, an ancient witch, filled her to bursting with more power than she knew what to do with. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Most of them remain in the cities, prolonging the lives of ancient Silvers, mending livers destroyed by alcohol and the like. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

The squat, bandy-legged man with long, straggly, ginger hair jumped and dropped an ancient suitcase, which burst open, releasing what looked like the entire contents of a junk shop window. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Whenever the lights flickered, he was afraid the ancient generator might be shuddering to a permanent halt. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke a number of languages, ancient and modern, and had published a translation of Anacreon, with commentary, when he was only eighteen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sky above me glows like the ancient patina of saints. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, ancient Athens resembles a modern democracy even less than in the previous particulars. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His family had collected enough ancient armaments to supply an army. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I wished I could say that like the House of Atreus or Cadmus we were suffering for the sins of our forefathers, or fulfilling an ancient Greek oracle. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want ancient tomes that I have to handle with forceps and rubber gloves. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In 1953, after sinking a series of experimental bores, university geologists agreed that the site was indeed anomalous and attributed the deformed rocks to some ancient, unspecified volcanic action. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

AH round the panelled walls there were ancient paintings of departed badgers, famous in their day for scholarship or godliness, lit from above by shaded glow-worms. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are fossils to be safeguarded, ancient manuscripts; there are pearls, gold nuggets, a sapphire as big as a mouse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At that point it bent left and went down into the lowlands of the Yale making for Stock; but a lane branched right, winding through a wood of ancient oak-trees on its way to Woodhall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Two cardboard boxes of stuff are stacked by the kitchen, two mattresses lie on the ground by the window, and an ancient TV and old, mustard-yellow couch take up the rest of the space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Given the evidence available now, the same seems to be true for the Olmec and ancient Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We are not sure. It is not the language of the Xi—or if it is, it is something more ancient than we can read. But you shall take it with you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The basement in their North Logan home was an electronics graveyard that included Keith’s first Atari, an ancient model he’d sometimes pull out, disassemble, then solder back together as an improved version. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He rubbed his chin, like he was pondering an ancient proverb. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Before him, tall wooden shelves rose up into dimness, crammed with leatherbound books and bins of ancient scrolls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Thomas had been smoothing the tiny rough spots from the worn, ancient carvings and reshaping the infinitesimally small edges and curves. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The priests there could perform the ancient coronation rites to install Cleopatra as pharaoh. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because it contains some of Japan’s best agricultural land, where super-expensive Kobe beef is raised today, and where Japan’s ancient capital was located at Kyoto until the capital’s shift to Tokyo in 1868. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now that they were in the ancient lands, they had to be constantly on guard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Consequential as is the two-game lead the Soviet champion now enjoys, the board is still set for a duel that could rank among the most brilliant in this ancient game’s annals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In some neighborhoods, old stucco villas with red-tiled roofs crowded the cobblestone streets, so that if Percy concentrated just on those areas, he could imagine he was back in ancient times. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder how there can be any communication between those ancient milky eyes and those dark glasses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

For you must know that much is still preserved of ancient lore among the Rulers of the city that is not spread abroad. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

It’s an ancient Farsi that I can only sort of catch. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The night guard, an ancient Irish cat with a wooden cane, was staring intently at one of those seven-day medicine holders. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle supervised the stowing away of his ancient chair and then sat down on it. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I beamed again and this ancient dude snapped a pic with his phone. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

And how all my solo time was pretty much ancient history. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She finally abandoned her work, not so much because of her husband’s sarcasm, but because it seemed impossible to compete with the ancient pottery of the Indians. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even at war, soldiers of the crown hardly merited that term, which belonged to ancient battles and bloodcurdling cries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The notion of the earth whirling and hurtling through the cosmos was, in the end, fatally counterintuitive to the ancient mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

They were made out of ancient Roman coins. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The most brilliant of the visions was the stars and moon spinning around each other in a glittering sky, an ode to the Gran’s real name, Knox—an ancient word that meant night. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a thousand years more ancient than anything the Normans knew. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work was difficult, and it gave Ophie watery eyes and a runny nose every time she beat the dust out of an old mattress or shook the cobwebs off an ancient set of drapes. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But the pens were worth the effort, and during the next few days Egypt was full of scribes practicing the ancient art of hieroglyphic writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In science this began to change only in the course of the debate on the ancients and moderns at the end of the seventeenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Like tuxedos. I bet the ancient Romans hated togas as much as we do. By the way, you didn’t bring any weapons, did you?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Many of the caves in the buttes are splattered with ancient pictographs—rock paintings of hands, stars, frogs, and human figures, all reminiscent of Joan Miro, in overlapping red and yellow and brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself in Cambridge, a graduate student wearing a long black robe that swished as I strode through ancient corridors. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Percy hoped the ancient lands wouldn’t be as bad as they’d heard. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My father says the Shannon is a killer river because it killed my two brothers.When you look at pictures ofjesus He’s always wandering around ancient Israel in a sheet. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The ancient, giant mahogany trees, all the trees, the game, everything of the forest was being destroyed, and the land was forced to lie fiat, he said, and bare as the palm of his hand. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The game ran on an ancient analog computer and was played on a tiny oscilloscope screen about five inches in diameter. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Will pulled his gairon over beneath an ancient gnarled ironwood and dismounted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This arises from the fact that her ancient military practices were not good, and that there has existed nobody capable of inventing new ones. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

She resembled an ancient statue of her mom, Aphrodite, which Jason found a little intimidating. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One hint is in an ancient book of sailors’ directions, the Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written by an anonymous merchant living in Egypt around A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you go to the ancient lands, especially Rome itself, there is something you should know about your mother.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Now and then an ancient shepherd in a dusty brown cloak would pass Sitti's house up in the village, tapping a wooden cane against the stones. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The most marvelous exhibit of modern times or ancient times has now just closed successfully at Paris,” he told the Tribune. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The ancient civilizations of the black man have been buried on the Black Continent all the time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if they weren't there, the container might still hold a clue that could help us find Nergal, something the police might have overlooked because investigating ancient monsters wasn't part of their job description. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Her hair was wispy and thin on her ancient head. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Oh, and according to the ancient prophecy, I was going to die when I turned sixteen—which happened to be in five days, the exact same time Typhon was supposed to hit New York. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Until they stood in a great stone room where lay a black and ancient lake. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He then sets out, just as per the ancient rhetorical handbook, three points of disagreement. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“An ancient ritual, Your Radiance. Three Graces shall be present to witness the examination and say the proper prayers.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The mhondoro, spirit of the land, had chosen to show himself in the shape of the ancient king. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

He bent down beside the wounded man, feeling him with his hands, looking with his ancient fingers, until there was not an inch he had not covered or a bone he had not felt. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like hieroglyphics, like some ancient language left by a time and a people he could never hope to understand. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Word has it,” Marie-Laure overhears one taxidermist telling another, “the stone is from Japan, it’s very ancient, it belonged to a shogun in the eleventh century.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The fire marched up toward them through the ancient town like something searching houses for traitors. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Our owl. He’s ancient. It wouldn’t be the first time he’d collapsed on a delivery. So then I tried to borrow Hermes —” “Who?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And back in the ancient days, when Rome fell, the eastern half of the empire survived—the Greek half.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

El Patron looked ancient, no doubt about it, but his mind was sharp. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient mossy smell, the smell of a silent church where services are seldom held, where rusty lichen grows upon the stones and ivy tendrils creep to the very windows. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

To read these ancient episodes is to be returned, as ’twere, to myself; in lost antiquity, I seek my restoration. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but the architecture to the right—those old stones—that’s more likely to lead to an ancient part of the maze, toward Daedalus’s workshop.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

An ancient fig tree spread its branches over the path, as if welcoming all who wandered by. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Inside, ancient pictures and clothes and knickknacks were tucked away like secrets. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“According to Percy Jackson,” Reyna said, “the battle with Gaea will be fought in the ancient lands. In Greece.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Not for nothing was Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory, regarded by the ancients as the “mother of the muses.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It has been claimed that Tassoni expresses a sense of liberation from the schoolroom of antiquity, but his claim is merely that the moderns must find a place in the schoolroom alongside the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The answer to the puzzle lies not in the answers ancient minds were capable of producing, but in the questions they asked. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Baba was reciting a long poem he had deciphered from ancient stone inscriptions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A fact bobbed up from my memory, that the ancient Egyptians prescribed walking through a garden as a cure for the mad. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our ancient, animal nature says: Bolt when you see danger coming. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The moment passes, and it’s just the four of us, surrounded by the rhythm of the sea, the cool blasts of air, the ancient rocks. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ancient crown of the Kings of Winter had been lost three centuries ago, yielded up to Aegon the Conqueror when Torrhen Stark knelt in submission. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Dude, I don’t even have my own room, much less my own computer. My parents have this ancient Dell that’s practically dead.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Scrimgeour now pulled out of the bag a small book that looked as ancient as the copy of Secrets of the Darkest Art upstairs. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The royal procession gave her a chance to honor an ancient rite, which helped her win over the priests and landholders. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It had been built into the side of a mountain, overlooking granite peaks and a valley carved by ancient glaciers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘The most ancient temples to the gods, in the middle of Athens. That’s where Gaia will wake.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The inside of the hotel reminded Armpit of pictures he’d seen of ancient Greek temples, with stone pillars and marble floors. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was even a porch outside, affording a beautiful view of the ancient Red Sea city. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looming and bleak, folded in mist, guarded by a million screeching birds, it looked like some ancient fortress constructed by giants. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

With radiocarbon, these numbers, these ancient ages, could be known, and with ever-increasing accuracy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Rather than being founded on agriculture, the ancient cities of coastal Peru drew their sustenance from the sea. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Towering shelves lined the room, filled with ancient scrolls and dusty spellbooks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

An old tar pail rattled in the bed of his ancient pickup as he pointed me west to the Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

And the Doctorita—ancient, nearly blind, and wrinkled like a raisin—laughs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence it seems likely that some of them were also the founding crops of highland agriculture, especially as the ancient drainage systems preserved are so similar to the modern drainage systems used for growing taro. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scientists theorize that the first “eyes” were nothing more than a pigmented, light-sensitive spot on the skin of some ancient creature. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They are ancient paper lanterns, translucent, unlit, strung across the courtyard, too fragile to move — though when he sees Ralph, his father, still a brave man, tries to speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peregrine was not just the oldest person in our village, she had a special wisdom for healing, midwifery, and ancient magic. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The thick slabs of gray stone were cracked and covered in ivy, as ancient as anything Thomas could imagine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

A reliance on artefacts will thus bias an account of ancient hunter-gatherer life. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I loved to read about ancient Rome, and I was quicker than my brother to find the lessons in the fables of Aesop. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“I’m not going to,” he said, stepping back to try to find Frightful among the branches of the ancient hemlock, but primarily to keep Alice from seeing his great sadness. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

As in ancient Rome, any road he chose would have gotten him there. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer hear the water—not the rain or the charging of fins through the sea—only the snapping of flames as they gobbled the ancient trees and tender saplings. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Zed’s broken-down pickup truck towed an ancient camper. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He jogged over to a neighbor’s house and came back carrying an ancient, ruined ladder. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

‘In the ancient times, Orion joined the Hunters. He was Lady Artemis’s best friend. He had no rivals at the bow - except for the goddess herself, and perhaps her brother, Apollo.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Using his razor-sharp fangs he began gnawing into the ancient tapestry, working from the tasseled hem upwards. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Any large-scale human cooperation—whether a modern state, a medieval church, an ancient city or an archaic tribe—is rooted in common myths that exist only in people’s collective imagination. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a very demanding task, but by ancient standards it was the state of the art. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was graced with broad avenues thirty meters wide, elegant architecture and statuary, Alexander’s monumental tomb, and an enormous lighthouse, the Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barrelchested and ancient, the Old Man, it seemed to me, might die before he ever reached the podium. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A ton of ancient stuff filled the entire space. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient highway that ran down from Isengard to the crossings. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I glance around to see what’s buzzing, first at the ancient yellow chandelier above my head, then at the shiny silver intercom on the wall. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They learned the basics of Black Widow Bokator—a deadly version of the ancient Cambodian martial art developed specifically for the Scythedom. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The woman’s rickshaw was ancient, but well oiled. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The ancients knew that the world is very old. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their droppings speckled the gargoyles that rose twelve feet tall on either side of him, a hellhound and a wyvem, two of the thousand that brooded over the walls of the ancient fortress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

An ancient propane tank attached to one of the crushed trailers detonated in a small explosion, causing the crowd to scatter and dive for cover. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

There was something magical about it: the low walls, all that remained of some ancient hall, and the pillars looming over me like giants in an ancient playground. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The decisions of the assembly were enacted by an executive body called the Boule, or council of five hundred, which contained the closest thing ancient Athens had to members of congress. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

As they watched, down the hot road in the windless light first one white woman and then another arrived, all of them with stunned faces, all of them rustling like ancient papers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This: A flat map of ancient Egypt; when the sun is directly overhead, vertical obelisks cast no shadows in Alexandria or Syene. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the top they found, as Strider had said, a wide ring of ancient stonework, now crumbling or covered with age-long grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Mom says when she had him in high school, he already looked ancient. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Harry could see a clearing ahead, through the tangled branches of an ancient oak. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Others ancient and delicate as a dried flower. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

An explanation for the decline of ancient science has been put forward by the historian of science Benjamin Farrington: The mercantile tradition, which led to Ionian science, also led to a slave economy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the walls were priceless tapestries, ancient and much faded, depicting the glory of the Old Empire of Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But there are good reasons to be very careful in extrapolating from modern forager societies to ancient ones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is, and has always been, “gleaning,” named for the way the poor would trail behind farmers in ancient times, taking the stray stalks of grain left behind. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They went up three flights of ancient stairway to Miss Harris’s room slowly, so that Trotter would not collapse. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

After a moment the ancient dog walked lamely in through the open door. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wore an ancient Greek chiton and a white himation, a kind of cape that flowed down his shoulders. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Soon the ancient coin would fall, and the walls would cave in, and the water would crush them in seconds, their broken bodies chewed up inside it for the scavengers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ethan is not in the courtyard as promised, but after several misdirected attempts, I eventually find him at the lavanderia, the ancient washing basins next to the gardens. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s an idea that before the Goddess arrived, there was life—an ancient civilization, but somehow, they disappeared. Perhaps through that Wyrdgate thing. Ruins exist—ruins too old to be of Fae making.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

I imagine a giant spotlight on me as I enter, emphasizing my ancient jeans, torn sneakers, and greasy hair. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I heard voices, among them my own, chanting harmonies in an ancient hall. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They would sail around the Greek mainland, following the routes that Greek heroes had taken in the ancient times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ancient mouse sat down at the breakfast table with a small groan. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Many have tried. Even Artemis’s own brother, Apollo, was not able to kill me back in the ancient times. He had to use trickery to get rid of me.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My most absorbing interests at the present time are etymologies of ancient languages, the newer works on the calculus of variations, and Hindu history. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They believed they had found traces of ancient Indians in modern blood—a first step, possibly, toward rewriting the history of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ancient mouse refused to say more until they were safely inside his gatehouse study with the door firmly shut. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And of course they were descended from the ancient kings of Ireland, as every Irishman is. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the visual arts, the term classical refers to ancient Greece and Rome. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The houses they lived in, with pools and windows that weren’t clogged with ancient air conditioners. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

After lowering a torpedo filled with nitroglycerin into the belly of the earth, the muddied workers would detonate it, occasionally turning up a fragment of an ancient American Indian spear or an arrowhead. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

And they didn’t eat tortillas ten thousand years ago, though tortillas are indeed ancient. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The street is dark, and the building looks ancient and abandoned. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

As he greeted some ancient melon vendors who had known their grandfather, Liyana’s eyes fell on a young man, who appeared to be a dwarf, weighing bananas on an old-fashioned hanging scale. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Lee looked up from the page, and he answered the book as he would answer one of his ancient relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the pool was a little low house of stone roofed with deep and ancient thatch. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

At all events, plate tectonics not only explained the surface dynamics of the Earth–how an ancient Hipparion got from France to Florida, for example–but also many of its internal actions. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sat morosely drinking coffee, reading an odd assortment of magazines or pamphlets speculating on space travel and ancient civilizations. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Still reading from ancient texts, secret writings, and the Bible his mother had given him at age fourteen, Cabot had taken his curiosity to obsession. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Still, settings like this had always been for other people, not me, and I fought back some ancient fear and melancholia. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some ancient wisdom entrusted only to her parents? The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had found an ancient Martian tomb yard. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because, over the course of his life, he’d experienced countless ancient sculptures and learned to understand and interpret that first impression that crossed his mind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Her power was more ancient than that of Hephaestus, or Athena, or even Zeus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I like to surround myself with reminders of ancient Kemet so the boys and I never forget our imperial roots. You know anything about that?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Ptolemy Family The Ptolemy family came originally from Macedonia, a kingdom located in the northern region of ancient Greece. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

A space-time in which events have imaginary values of the time coordinate is said to be Euclidean, after the ancient Greek Euclid, who founded the study of the geometry of two-dimensional surfaces. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra’s limbs were barely moving; ancient rivers gushed through her body, an ocean raged inside her heart. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Most to the North he looked, and would pause at whiles to listen as if by some ancient art his ears might hear the thunder of hoofs on the plains far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Cuttings have the advantage that, once ancient farmers had found or developed a productive tree, they could be sure that all its descendants would remain identical to it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In front of her, the prairie stretched to the horizon like an ancient seabed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“They will if they can reclaim their ancient freedoms,” said Ball. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

It sounds like the primal scream of an ancient race. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It’s more of a closet with 3 huge filing cabinets, a desk, and an ancient computer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that science is going to transform the world and that the moderns have outstripped the ancients in every possible respect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It pleased him that she should dwell there hungry but unabated in malice, a more sure watch upon that ancient path into his land than any other that his skill could have devised. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They are sustained by the ancient institutions of religion, which are so powerful and of such a quality that they keep their princes in power no matter how they act and live their lives. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient inhabitation beneath and around the modern town has barely been investigated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A tinted glass portal separated us from the inner sanctum, where a giant bronze chalice held the ancient fire. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“This is it. The Virgin’s sanctuary, her home,” I said, taking in the beauty of the ancient cement building with its stained-glass windows and tall central tower. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He put his hand on Leneus’s forehead and spoke an ancient blessing. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Europeans who colonized the Americas came from their own rich, ancient cultures. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I was thinking about finding a place to study ancient theology.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Directly ahead of him, across the river with its vivid, square sails, rose the high east bank and the other half of the ancient city of Thebes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Another had an ancient automobile embedded on its face. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In that letter Jefferson had mentioned Adams in passing as a retrograde thinker opposed to all forms of progress, one of the “ancients” rather than “moderns.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The house was on a corner between rusting, deactivated train tracks and a long line of ancient, majestic-looking oak trees. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Peering through the mists, he glimpsed a broken spire, a headless hero, an ancient tree tom from the ground and upended, its huge roots twisting through the roof and windows of a broken dome. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Little remains of the Heraion on the Aegean isle of Samos, one of the wonders of the ancient world, a great temple dedicated to Hera, who began her career as goddess of the sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

References to "shading" in some of the ancient texts may have referred to differences in tuning. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Lembede gave a lecture on the history of nations, a tour of the horizon from ancient Greece to medieval Europe to the age of colonization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in effect it was unanswerable even now, since the few scattered survivors from the ancient world were incapable of comparing one age with another. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Had Ghost uncovered some ancient cache of the children of the forest, buried here for thousands of years? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Now, as in those ancient times, the sharp-eyed dragonflies capture mosquitoes in the air, scooping them in with basket-shaped legs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

It may well be that ancient hunter-gatherers living in zones more fertile than the Kalahari spent even less time obtaining food and raw materials. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a family we had always done everything together and we didn’t see why the ancient half-sister should suddenly decide to do things differently even if she had become engaged. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for his hands and a circle of his face, his body was gray all over with ancient, ingrained dirt. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He spiraled upward and sped into a cluster gathered on the extended arm of an ancient oak tree, shouting all the while. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Many alchemists believed that all matter was a mixture of four elementary substances: water, air, earth and fire, an ancient Ionian speculation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This variety ensured that the ancient foragers received all the necessary nutrients. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike those ancient structures, the symbol at the apex of the central steeple was not a cross, but a two-pronged tuning fork. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

By 1700 this sense of continuity had been destroyed: the moderns knew that they were different from the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There she was, waiting for them in the shed, Nefertiti, the beautiful queen of ancient Egypt, like a magical omen, or, as April put it, “a beautiful messenger from out of the ancient past.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest have locks on them, some very ancient indeed, belonging to officers who quit or transferred or died or who knows what. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For me, heaven mostly looked like the pictures in the Landmark book I read about Julius Caesar in ancient Rome. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘Stick it out, son,’ I told him, ‘give it a chance’ and before you could spit it was Henry this, Henry that, he’s changing his major from whatever the hell it was to ancient Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All around, sledgehammers rang against iron as swarms of men and women clambered over the ancient oil tanker, tearing it apart. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She took the hem in her hands, as ancient Near Eastern ululations issued from her throat. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some were rusty and ancient; some were shiny and new. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly situated in the sheltered lowland ahead and big as a palace, with the lovely symmetrical proportions of the ancient Greek architecture Penelope had so often admired in her history books at Swanburne. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Creating a stable calendar was a problem for most ancient peoples, because they generally started out with a lunar calendar: the length of a month was the time between successive full moons. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“No,” he said, and shook his ancient head. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Mythology, the ancient sociologist would have thought, could not possibly enable millions of strangers to cooperate on a daily basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this Attic roughneck polity, you can think of Plato—with his radical idealism, intellectual rigidity, and hatred of the mob— as a sort of ancient precursor to Conservative MP Enoch Powell. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It is therefore not so surprising that the Ptolemies chose to continue this ancient marriage custom between members of the Egyptian royal family. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

As her approach altered her angle of view, the revelers on the lid of an ancient trousseau chest writhed into dance steps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But this was not because they were unchanged holdovers from humankind’s ancient past but because smallpox and influenza laid waste to their villages in the 1920s. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ancient Greeks were the ones who gave us the idea. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mumble thanks for the advice, feeling like I’ve just been stripped naked by the crazed enforcer of some ancient sumptuary law: No chatting for you, girl. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

No ancient writer can compare with him in this respect. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The armbands were old gold, solid and heavy, engraved with the ancient runes of the First Men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For a millennium or so there were ancients and moderns, which corresponded roughly to pagans and Christians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Because this institution is an ancient one, it cannot be called a new principality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

All these late-medieval discussions took place within the context of a geographical knowledge which corresponded to that of the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

So far in the ancient lands, she’d only seen one place on her wish list: Diocletian’s Palace in Split, and even that visit had hardly gone the way she’d imagined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Tradition has it that modern Sharia Nabi Danyal corresponds to the Street of the Soma, ancient Alexandria’s primary north—south byway. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The Muslims began to translate some of these ancient Greek texts. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And Xan, the swallow, burst from the thicket and soared over the trees, beating her ancient wings as best she could. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, the ancient Wonder Wheel hung over the sprawl of carnival that hadn’t been torn down or converted into fancy shops. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now it was wielding a large bright sword, an ancient weapon of terrible beauty. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He felt like the inhabitant of an ancient tomb, an Egyptian pharaoh or Chaldean king. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His overcoat and trousers seemed older than he was, the way they were patched and hung on his body like the bark of an ancient tree. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Each of his phrasings was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

While Muslims studied the words of the ancient Greeks, most Europeans turned to counting on their hands, and only a few knew how to read. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Court had been hearing evidence in this case for eight days already, in the ancient high-towered College of St. Jerome. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Dinosaur teeth—ha! Those foolish mortals don’t even know when they have dragon teeth in their possession. And not just any dragon teeth. These come from the ancient Sybaris herself! They shall do nicely.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Frightful hopped from limb to limb until she reached the wispy top of the ancient hemlock. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They could not estimate how long they had been following the course of this ancient winding corridor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

My father had been a vaquero all his life, a calling as ancient as the coming of the Spaniard to Nuevo Méjico. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing was ancient, but Mrs. Grayson managed to work around the keys that were out of tune. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As Lyra looked at her, she had a shock: the blankets stirred, and a very thin arm emerged, in a black sleeve, and then another face, a man’s, so ancient it was almost a skeleton. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ancient philosopher would have had a ready answer. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

We have cots, the table and chairs we acquired in Kinshasa, a collection of agriculture books and teaching tools from Bikoki, my ancient suitcase of family treasures salvaged from Kilanga. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt more like the Three Fates I’d seen knitting the yarn outside the highway fruit stand: ancient, powerful, and definitely not human. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This whole twisted landscape—the dome, pit, or whatever you called it—was the body of the god Tartarus—the most ancient incarnation of evil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient, medieval-looking thing, bound in brown leather that brought to mind a falconer’s gauntlet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When an ancient horse named Hipparion was found to have lived in France and Florida at the same time, a land bridge was drawn across the Atlantic. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

There lay the old soil, and the plants of it so ancient they had worn themselves out. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the carvings and stained-glass windows in European cathedrals, the art in San Lorenzo and other Olmec cities consisted mainly of powerful, recurring images—the crucifixions and virgins, so to speak, of ancient Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ancients longed for logos in its purest form—the clear light of analytic philosophy— to be the only effective component of an argument. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Conor could also see the great yew tree that rose from the center of the graveyard, a tree so ancient it almost seemed to be made of the same stone as the church. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

In other words, Pena might be able to find ancient American DNA hidden in Brazil’s European population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I say vague things about how we humans painted landscapes sometimes, too, and that I’m painting the world I want to live in: a world of adventure but also of ancient beauty. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And suddenly my attention wandered, and looking at my ancient friend, I saw that his wandered also. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streets are narrow, and the second stories of the medieval houses lean over us like ancient guardians. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“So you kind of have a thing for ancient Egyptian stuff?” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

An ancient handcar allowed Fist and Knife to move quickly through the system. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Bones of crocodiles, bones of ancient hippos and ancestors of elephants. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana was the other ancient epic poem that lots of Indians knew. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most popular in Japan is the view that the Japanese gradually evolved from ancient Ice Age people who occupied Japan long before 20,000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A sharp, tangy smell flooded her nostrils—an ancient stench that told her whole body to run as far away as she could—but Sierra held her ground. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In much the same way, the ancient Greeks revered their athletes and made statues of them in marble. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These cards are more ancient than your Lotería. More powerful. They will help you reach your destination, the home of your ancestors.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It stands to reason, then, that somewhere along that street should be a spot corresponding to the ancient city’s main crossing, the confluence of the Street of the Soma and the east—west-running Canopic Way. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The pastor started off talking about the importance of Juneteenth, equating the plight of black slaves to the Israelites in ancient Egypt. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Women had it pretty bad in ancient Greece. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

But until today, their embarking on a journey to the ancient lands hadn’t seemed real. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The singer's robe contained only a few tiny spots of ancient blue, faded almost to white. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy had been in the Atlantic, the Pacific, even the Gulf of Alaska, but this sea felt more ancient and powerful. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He made the ancient sign of warding off evil - three fingers thrust out from the heart - and the ghost of Beryl Grace disappeared with a soft hiss, like a sigh of relief. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is a flowing waterfall of alchemical and astrological symbols, ancient marks for planets and elements all emblazoned in black ink upon her fair skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the meal, he talks nonstop about ancient Italy and the Italians’ love for clean, simple cooking, which means my project and this boy are forgotten. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The bird was winking and holding an ancient gold coin in its great curved beak. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“In this one, it theorizes that dragons aren’t magical at all but are just normal animals that ancient people thought were magical. And the legends persist to this day.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to tell me that ancient Egyptians came here to trade five thousand years ago?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

These natural cancer-causing agents are still a factor in producing malignancy; however, they are few in number and they belong to that ancient array of forces to which life has been accustomed from the beginning. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He spoke sofdy, yet the high officers of the Night's Watch all fell quiet, die better to hear what the ancient had to say. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The political future of East Asia depends in large part on their success in rediscovering those ancient bonds between them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In addition, just as Eurasia’s east-west axis permitted many of these Chinese animals and crops to spread westward in ancient times, West Asian domesticates also spread eastward to China and became important there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He emerged victorious after slaying the wildcat with his ancient sword, which became famous throughout the land. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

He looked around, then his eyes seemed to finally settle on the ancient woman leaning on her cane in front of him. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Tia Alicia took her to museums and the symphony and the ancient ceiba tree. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any reader steeped in the history of Western civilization would be forgiven for assuming that African food production began in ancient Egypt’s Nile Valley, land of the pharaohs and pyramids. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the people of Rass built one from ancient memory lavishly cemented with rumor. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without the discovery of as yet unavailable research tools, we will probably never know what the ancient foragers believed or what political dramas they experienced. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most scholars agree that animistic beliefs were common among ancient foragers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean, he gave me that file, that ancient file, a few days ago and told me to be sure to tell my English teacher about it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The chief began to speak to the people in his ancient, wavering voice. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, Bruce discovered three copies of the ancient text and returned to Europe with them, leading to their later translation into English by Oxford professor Dr. Richard Laurence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The ancient Kongo used to stretch across all of central Africa. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Otto and I finally got out, I was surprised to see not only Clement, Mom, and Dad, but ancient Mama Marie-France — apparently she’d been away negotiating for extra milk when the rebels had attacked. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

From Gram’s front yard, you can see the church—with its wobbly steeple and ancient bell—to the left, and the village hall—with its cheery red brick and bulletin board—to the right. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Beatles borrowed sounds and techniques from both past musical traditions and cutting-edge advances - from ancient folk modes to electronic experiments - to become the most famous band in the world. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The science of medicine at the end of the eighteenth century still relied a great deal on ancient myths and folk remedies. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The red priest spoke of ancient prophecy, a prophecy that foretold the coming of a hero to deliver die world from darkness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Mollie kept vigil over her mother, one of the last tethers to the tribe’s ancient way of life. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The smell of rosemary was back, filling my nose with a memory that felt both ancient and new. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Elephant hide is thick as bark on an ancient tree, but a claw-stick can pierce it like a leaf. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Good. Yes. It’s a piece of an ancient pipe.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But this year was different because of the work that Kira had done on the ancient embroidery. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is the one who will restore Kampuchea to its ancient glory. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some argue this ancient Sumerian tale’s worth, but I think all stories have value. Readers and listeners should decide which stories speak to them or not.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She also knew that Petra was the name of an ancient stone city in Jordan, a sophisticated and graceful city that had risen out of the desert more than two thousand years ago. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

On the north end of the island, the ancient brick walls and stepped pyramids of the slaver port Ghozai had suf-fered the same fate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“In ancient times, the House of Hades was a major site for Greek pilgrims. They would come to speak with the dead and honor their ancestors.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A long porch was almost pulled down by an ancient wisteria vine. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

No one was there except for the librarian, ancient Edward Pocket, who sat behind his desk writing something with a tiny pencil clutched in his gnarled hand. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was one word, one syllable, which without thinking he spoke indistinctly, the ancient beginning and ending of all Brahmin prayers, the holy Om, which had the meaning of "the Perfect One” or "Perfection.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now your blood will be spilled far from home, on the ancient stones, and I will rise. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By the same token, the modern Korean language may be a poor model for the ancient Yayoi language of Korean immigrants in 400 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the Renaissance, modern music was understood to be quite different from ancient music because it was polyphonic rather than monodic—Galileo’s father, Vincenzo, wrote a Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“We learned rather abruptly that these numbers, these ancient ages, are not known.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Outside the Casa Rosada a black cat, a mechanical man, a Little Red Riding Hood, two tramps and four ancient Egyptians joined the already unwieldy group. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was actually trying to make amends for his unfair characterization of Adams in the Priestley letter as one of the “ancients.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Momma used to talk about her favorite horse, Cassandra, named after some doomed woman from ancient myth. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

An ancient television set stands in the corner of the room. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ancients didn’t have the equipment to deal with the infinite, but modern mathematicians have learned to handle it. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The canals, gleaming in the sun, dappled the ancient brickwork with gold. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was happy and reassured by the message from ancient China, because it meant that what she wanted most to do was exactly, at that moment, what she should do. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I run back and then head over to the “deli” counter, which consists of ancient turkey sandwiches wherein the turkey strongly resembles ham. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

A few things have fallen into place—things that I hope are more divine intervention than some ancient family curse leading me into a trap that’s gonna end my batball career. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It isn’t like the church’s courtyard, with ancient cobblestones and bird droppings. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

If they were for storing cotton, as Haas surmises, they would have been, in this textile-mad society, an emblem of state power and wealth, the ancient equivalent of Fort Knox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And for myself, I lie in my hammock at night and whisper the names to the darkness: Dahomey, Taghaza, Sankore, Accra, the ancient realm of Songhai. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, he turned his sharp mind to other tasks, such as the study of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually we found a suitable spot, still in Chryse but far from the confluence of the four ancient channels. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

A toothless smile quivered on the ancient lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When we kids played around the mule barn, we peeked through its dirty, screened windows to look at the ghostly stalls and the ancient harnesses. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, one ancient Greek surpassed Zeno in matters of the infinite: Archimedes, the eccentric mathematician of Syracuse. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The same may be said of much ancient and medieval sculpture. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient custom at funerals to hire poor people to take upon themselves the sins of the deceased. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, the Japanese were not the sole ancient people with pottery: it was invented independently at many different times and places around the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had gone away ordinary and come back miraculous, like the ancient magicians who came down from the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My back is against the ancient stone wall. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I myself had found ancient stone tools, very crude and primitive, that had probably been used as hammers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I praise this method, because it has been employed since ancient times. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Their kite shields all bore the same device: a crystal sword shining in the darkness, the ancient badge of those the small- folk called Swords. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The tragedy of the Moriori resembles many other such tragedies in both the modern and the ancient world, pitting numerous well-equipped people against few ill-equipped opponents. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He liked the tombs of the ancient Chaldeans even more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mormont paid no mind to the mongrel crowd; his eyes were fixed beyond the siege lines, on the distant city with its ancient | walls of many-colored brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He met Chandresh only once before, at a symposium on ancient Greek architecture. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Foundation of ancient power that no longer mattered. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Mom asks, hovering over me with the ancient percolator. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so they followed her—the ancient swamp monster and the Perfectly Tiny Dragon—into the wood. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In short, the themes of GGS seem to me to be not only a driving force in the ancient world but also a ripe area for study in the modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But even I felt completely overwhelmed at times by the foreign sights, smells, and sounds of this ancient coastal city. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They followed a winding trail to the small hollow surrounded by five ancient trees, known as the Witch’s Handmaidens. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My mother heard the report of D day on our ancient radio and walked up to the crab house to tell me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Harfoots had much to do with Dwarves in ancient times, and long lived in the foothills of the mountains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Elis experiment belonged to a different world entirely—a world light-years ahead of the floating disks and squat cylinders previous ancient authorities had imagined our planet to be. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The only decorations in sight were a dusty vase on a three-legged table and a black-and-white picture of an ancient woman dressed in an old-fashioned white dress. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Albert Einstein was far less dexterous with his hands than was an ancient hunter-gatherer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“The alchemical worm Ouroboros of ancient myth. Its teeth are sunk in its tail.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He told them about Great Zimbabwe, the ancient ruined city to the south, and of Monomatapa, who founded the Shona Empire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

By conversion or conquest, Islam, the religion of Muhammad, won over nearly all the lands of the ancient world: Egypt, Persia, India, and the Christian Mediterranean. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The walls enclosing the place were painted with stiff figures of ancient gods. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Asking what happened to the ancient Maya is like asking what happened in the Cold War—the subject is so big that one hardly knows where to begin. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I used to teach ancient history. Poseidon’s eyes twinkled. “That’s me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Some supported themselves with tall carved staffs as they struggled along on ancient, shaking legs, while others walked as proud as any horselord. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Last year our world history teacher told us how the ancient Greeks used to go into battle naked. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke as though recalling an ancient thing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then the guards stepped forward, and Faramir opened the casket, and he held up an ancient crown. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Since its homeland includes the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of Western civilization and animal domestication, ancient peoples must have experimented extensively with onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Ring may have aspired, through ancient myth, to explain and explore basic human instincts, yet it was still, by and large, a series of oversized operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Reyna herself was only now getting used to it, and she was pretty sure the statue did not appreciate being relocated in the middle of an ancient Roman city. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They look like the bones of an ancient giant, one that roamed the earth a long time ago. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Those Fertile Crescent crops spread into climatically similar adjacent areas of North Africa and laid the foundations for the rise of ancient Egyptian civilization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The young man waved back and sang out with a smile, “My gorge fills with hate for you, you ancient, decayed sack of manure!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She told them that Talus lived there, the last man left of the ancient bronze race, a creature made all of bronze except one ankle where alone he was vulnerable. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph and Frankie slipped past the guard and followed a well-worn royal blue carpet through a door, down another hallway, and up an ancient cast-iron spiral staircase. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was something ancient in that noise, the music of a coordinated herd. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There remained, of course, the ancient tradition concerning the high king at Fornost, or Norbury as they called it, away north of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer thought of a line from the ancient Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita, a dramatic moment in which the god Vishnu declares: “Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus died the greatest mind in the ancient world, slaughtered needlessly by the Romans. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Harsh sounds of chains and pulleys, like the workings of an ancient steel factory, echoed through the room, bouncing off the walls with a hollow, tinny whine. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

As an adult, Champollion succeeded; fulfilling his childhood ambition, he provided a brilliant decipherment of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Magnifying glasses were known to the ancient Greeks, and spectacles were in use from the thirteenth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Seeing Doreen supported in my arms and silent except for a few wet hiccups, the woman strode away down the hall to her cubicle with its ancient Singer sewing machine and white ironing board. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I’m talking last updated in 2003 ancient, so it’s hard to navigate and find all the rules. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Arthur shifted his elbow on the battlement and looked at his ancient friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were known to be five regular or “platonic” solids, whose sides were regular polygons, as known to the ancient Greek mathematicians after the time of Pythagoras. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cambridge was just as I remembered: ancient, beautiful. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“The rabbi calls it an ancient Jewish cheat sheet for people who can’t remember the words.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The incomparably ancient kingdom of the pharaohs offered the Macedonian Greeks significant liabilities as well as important assets in their attempt to establish a new ruling dynasty in Egypt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It made me think of things I shouldn’t even know about—blood spilled on an ancient stone altar, the foul breath of a murderer. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The Harlem part of the river was dotted with ancient wooden piers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like a magician producing a rabbit, he pulled out the Archimedes sphere and began tinkering with the ancient bronze dials. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Why was the disk’s precocious technology not widely adopted in Crete or elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kira always stood at her mothers side, never touching the fragile ancient cloth, marveling each time at the rich hues that told the history of the world. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I liked my teacher, a diminutive white lady named Mrs. Burroughs, who seemed ancient to me but was probably in her fifties. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but fortunately,” said my uncle, his eyes twinkling, “you are a dedicated scholar of ancient history and literature. You were able to solve it, I think.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d taken a picture of an ancient redwood tree standing solemnly against the backdrop of the Pacific Ocean. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

My ancient mace looked like the one in the text. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The guide shows them agate from Brazil and violet amethysts and a meteorite on a pedestal that he claims is as ancient as the solar system itself. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The journey is supposed to take fifty-four minutes, but it rarely does: this section of the track is ancient, decrepit, beset with signalling problems and never-ending engineering works. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This interstate pretty much follows an ancient trail,” Grandpa Nyles told Jimmy. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

In some ancient time, an enormous tree had fallen in a giant wind. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Since we were just about to start studying ancient Egypt in history, Mr. Browne thought this was a good choice for a precept. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sparks correspond to lightning—also present on the ancient Earth and on modern Jupiter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1700's, Western Europeans became very interested in the ancient classical style, which was imitated by many artists, sculptors, and architects. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

You've come to the ancient lands where I am strongest—where I will wake. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes...” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At last, we spied an ancient female gnome sitting on the ground near the pond. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Croft’s was the first death I mourned in America, for hers was the first life I had admired; she had left this world at last, ancient and alone, never to return. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was movement in the darkness, scuffling and shuffling, a redistribution of ancient centuries, an evasion of foreshadows. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath the mountain’s arm within the Wizard’s Vale through years uncounted had stood that ancient place that Men called Isengard. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“And it’s a temptation for any intelligent person, and especially for perfectionists such as the ancients and ourselves, to try to murder the primitive, emotive, appetitive self. But that is a mistake.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of it looked terribly ancient and interesting. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was “to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The debate between the ‘ancient commune’ and ‘eternal monogamy’ schools is based on flimsy evidence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The structures were clustered near the top of a small hill—another ancient mound. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We do know that Brunelleschi, in his search for new architectural forms, had made a study of the surviving classical buildings in ancient Rome, a study which involved taking measurements and drawing plans and elevations. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was an ancient custom meant to call forth the powers of the seen and unseen worlds. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Olga kept this sealed up and buried like an ancient tomb. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

First they ripped out the boards that covered the ancient fireplace, coming upon the rusty bricks like prospectors upon the mother lode. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

A scent of ancient decay choked his nostrils. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

And the magic she used to do so was strong, since it was the wizard’s own magic, ancient and powerful, and he could not undo it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“There is only one teacher of ancient Greek here and he is very particular about his students.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The forest encroached on both sides, leaving the road ahead only discernible for a few meters as it twisted, serpentlike, around the ancient trees. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

My synthetic surroundings faded away as I focused on the game and lost myself in its ancient two-dimensional reality. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, pal,” Aunt Heidi says, now standing with me just inside the ancient swinging doors of the bus station. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay and slept away the night on the deep mould beneath an ancient tree. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were little pieces of ancient sea urchins in my hand, mollusk shells. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There they had built their burrows, dividing ancient houses into tiny studios. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be modest. You’ve got ancient roots. Greek as well as Roman. It’s no wonder Juno—” He tilted his head, as if listening to a voice from above. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern, and South African Christianity is a perfect example of this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

So were Archimedes and other rare geniuses of ancient times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I neared the far side of the field, an ancient woman emerged from a thatched hut to watch me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

We switched trams, and after four more stops we arrived at a street split by a beautiful canal, the reflections of the ancient bridge and picturesque canal houses rippling in water. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Behind them the ancient castle loomed against file stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She leads us up ancient goat trails and sheep paths, through scrubby grass and meadows of mountain flowers, toward the cluster of small ruins Alan spotted earlier. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had bred the first peregrines in captivity and, using an ancient technique called hacking, had been able to free them to the wild. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

We’re mostly talking about cute boys in our class, and only here and there studying for our exam on the ancient Incan empire. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Karhidish village is like an ancient castle of Earth in having few or no separate, private dwellings. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was a small dignified scholar with a white goatee beard, and as far as I could gather, he was an astrologer, a meteorologist and a speaker of ancient Greek. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

No matter how dangerous the ancient lands were, Piper couldn’t wait to get there. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I glanced at Peach, the ancient lines and wrinkles on his face had smoothed out. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I figured I shouldn't dress you traditionally. It's time to modernize Belles, in my humble opinion. Du Barry has been so ancient in her preparations," he says under his breath. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It looked ancient and mysteriously beautiful, and for a moment, I thought it glittered magically. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Few axes had ever swung in that black wood, where even the moonlight could not penetrate the ancient tangle of root and thorn and grasping limb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But whether or not the selection of wild edible plants by ancient hikers relied on conscious or unconscious criteria, the resulting evolution of wild plants into crops was at first an unconscious process. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room is lit by a series of old-fashioned fluorescent tubes with plastic covers—they must be ancient. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. I was probably annoying you with all that talk of ancient village people.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I could almost make out words now, ancient, ancient words, older even than Greek. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

How had the ancients come up with such cockeyed fancies? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Not only ancient history—the mythical age of the brothers’ feud—but my own history one second ago, has vanished utterly, dropped out of existence. in Time. is an allusion of language. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tassoni is well aware of all sorts of things that the ancients did not have: falconry, for example, or silk, or perspective painting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She was wiser by far than any short-lived human, but she had not the slightest idea of how like a child she seemed beside these ancient beings. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine, the ancient half-sister got engaged to be married. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eye sockets were clotted with filthy slime, and the redness of her lips was caked and crusted as if she had vomited ancient blood again and again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was come to the heart of the realm of Sauron and the forges of his ancient might, greatest in Middle-earth; all other powers were here subdued. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Granddad told me to toughen up. I got mad and called him ancient and a dinosaur. Then he called me...um, some other stuff.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Out here in the fairgrounds, I could understand why ancient people used to think the world was flat and the sky was a dome that closed in on top of it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And when Holly was long gone, soaring beneath the hallway’s ancient oak beams, Artemis said, “I don’t like lollipops.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

In late 1997 astronomers announced that they had used these supernovas to measure the distance to some very dim and ancient galaxies. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

I imagine they’re all these ancient buildings with steeples, stained-glass windows, and those kneeling benches like you see in movies. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

What elicits the gasp is the fact that they are standing in a forest, her back pressed up against a huge, ancient tree trunk. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

‘It is part of the lay that is called The Fall of Gil-galad, which is in an ancient tongue. Bilbo must have translated it. I never knew that.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t a big enough hole, and besides, if the floor gave way, Arachne could probably hang from her silk and escape, while Annabeth and the ancient statue would tumble into Tartarus. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Since ancient times, folk music has been the music of ordinary people, not the ruling class or professional musicians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Once in the Mediterranean—the Mare Nostrum—they would be in the ancient lands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The creatures returned to the attack: botched beasts, belonging to ages before bird or dragon or man, long since forgotten by the daylight but recalled by the ancient, malign, unforgetful power of the Stone. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She dug around in her bag and plopped an ancient yearbook on her desk from a school called Jupiter High. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was a tradition among the ancients that things were very cheap in Hell. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The early selenographers had so many features to name that they found themselves honouring ancients as well as moderns, opponents as well as allies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They stood for a moment in the ancient vault. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the tops of the branches she looked like an ancient queen of the jungle, presiding over her domain. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The major factor behind these shifts becomes obvious as soon as one compares the modern Fertile Crescent with ancient descriptions of it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even when his visitor’s band lifted the tent flap, the silent drops coursed down his nose and fell on the parchment with regular ticks, like an ancient clock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The King of Gondor and Lord of the Western Lands,’ said Gandalf; ‘and he has taken back all his ancient realm. He will ride soon to his crowning, but he waits for you.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Where an ancient gang of spirits hangs out, I mean.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Instead of the strong and vibrant young woman she should be, the mother Gabe deserved, she was now an ancient hag waiting for death. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

By ancient custom an iron longsword had been laid across the lap of each who had been Lord of Winterfell, to keep the vengeful spirits in their crypts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He wore an ancient flat straw hat, blue jeans, both coat and trousers, and heavy shoes of which one sole was loose so that it slapped the ground when he walked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 2640 B.C., Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A net woven from long grass that covers the couple during their vows, the touching of each other’s lips with salt water, and the ancient wedding song, which likens marriage to a sea voyage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The lizards were scavengers, but they were mild and harmless creatures, and by an ancient understanding with the mulefa, they were entitled to take any creature left dead after dark. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I still know the one that ancient chalk-white woman taught me with a polished fruitwood stick. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

High-ranking clergymen experimented with the dangerous ideas of the void and the infinite, even though the ideas struck at the core of the ancient Greek philosophy that the church cherished so much. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was a compound, Fjerda’s ancient stronghold, home to an unbroken succession of kings and queens, repository of their greatest treasures and most sacred religious relics. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The other half of the Abbey overlooked undulating sweeps of meadowland, its ancient gate facing the long dusty road on the western perimeter. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It rocked him to the rhythm of an ancient, fetal heartbeat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of modern actors who use a formal method of loci to remember their lines, I daresay, isn’t that high, for instance—and not everyone in the ancient world went along with it. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The Stone Age should more accurately be called the Wood Age, because most of the tools used by ancient hunter-gatherers were made of wood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He glanced over his shoulder at the ancient tree, which was still flailing its branches threateningly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph knew that, even though he was wearing a nineteenth- century velvet suit, had a broken watch on his wrist, and had just eaten a huge meal in an ancient kitchen. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Knowing my brother, probably some broken-down, ancient ice cream maker somebody’s selling on a ‘Please take my trash’ app.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

This suggests that Ebola is an ancient kind of life, perhaps nearly as old as the earth itself. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the ancient Egyptians were quite sophisticated mathematicians. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, don’t look at me. I’m a young god, remember? I don’t keep track of all those ancient monsters and dusty titans.. They make for terrible party conversation.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Despereaux, seeing her tears, broke the last of the great, ancient rules of mice. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Mom’s car is an ancient Chevy—built back in the nineties, I think. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The ancient wisdom was discarded, and scientists began to divine the laws that governed the workings of nature. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Wearing traditional Roman dress, Octavian went to the Temple of Bellona, the ancient goddess of war. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

‘What in the world came over you?’ asked the ancient half-sister, clasping his hands tenderly in hers. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Bring me your best and brightest bookworms, research hounds, and gamers. Our first Library Olympiad shall commence on March twentieth. The ancient Greeks had their summer games, so we’ll take the first day of spring.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Its massive head rose above the waves on a long white neck that gave way to smooth brown scales, ancient heavily lidded eyes, and a sharp beak that could snap a man in two. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Unsure how to act in the company of a divine presence, this living reincarnation of an ancient and illustrious lama, I was terrified of unwittingly giving offense or committing some irredeemable faux pas. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

But their quest, and everything she’d suffered to get Percy back...if she didn’t go to the ancient lands, it would all mean nothing. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

As I sang the ancient tune quietly to myself, I realized it was the refrain Mamá had sung to us to soothe our nerves on dark, rainy nights when we were very young. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The equivalence of numbers and shapes made the ancient Greeks the masters of geometry, yet it had a serious drawback. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The preserves are the final refuge for many ancient and wonderful species,” Grandpa said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up some hours later, she was sitting in the ancient little chair in the corner, reading a guidebook. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A gardener had trimmed the ancient roses, planted geraniums, laid out the vegetable flat, and brought the living spring in little channels to wander back and forth through the garden. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In ancient Rome, the gladiators who won the most were the ones who were left-handed. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On some days he wore two watches: he wore two this day, an ancient watch and chain his children had cut their teeth on, and a wristwatch. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Folks informed on business rivals, ancient nemeses, and neighbors, recounting old conversations where the traitors had uttered forbidden sympathies. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“There are rumors it is hidden in an ancient engineering work. We believe it could be sealed within one of the gates of the Panama Canal.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“They are coming this way, the children of the night, traveling forth from the ancient world, coming from far and wide to avenge their mother.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

An ancient drunk in a colorful sombrero moved in slow motion, sucking his toothless maw and holding out a hand for spare change. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes an ancient prohibition becomes outdated, or it may turn out that a musty convention was never really a rule at all. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leo felt bad about ruining all these ancient inventions, but this was life or death. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This ancient refuse became ammunition in a long-running academic battle between Harvard botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf and George Beadle, a geneticist who worked at Stanford, Caltech, and the University of Chicago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He reached over and patted the ancient dog, and he apologized, “I been around him so much I never notice how he stinks.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He heard a low snarl, met the gaze of an ancient creature with cold, empty eyes. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“The splendor is an ancient, primordial energy,” she explained. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

We in Europe are only dwarfs and no nation, ancient or modern, has conceived the art of architecture on such a sublime, great, and imposing style, as the ancient Egyptians. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was going on and on about ancient Rome when it became clear to Mai that the only thing that mattered was in a courthouse in downtown Bakersfield. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Last of all came the collar, a heavy golden tore emblazoned with ancient Valyrian glyphs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

After all, I wanted to hit something when I threw that ancient book. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some ancient depictions of horselike animals used for riding or for pulling carts may refer to onagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s called Skeleton Hill because it was an ancient Indian burial ground, duh,” he said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if my face betrayed my shock, but I returned to gazing at the simple, ancient cross, just in case. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ancient lands were forbidden to modern demigods; the area was simply too dangerous. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Both floors had cages, or bubbles, in which one officer sat and operated the gates and cell doors by means of an ancient system of brass-handled levers that protruded from the wall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands tremble a little as I untangle the ancient lights from one another. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“This will be your new pen pal for tonight’s assignment. You’ll have to write this person a note using the writing of ancient Egyptians.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Miss Miss tottered slightly on her wheels and at last came to a stop near the end of the runway, where she sat, waiting, like some ancient idol. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

My sister especially enjoyed this ancient dance because of its fast spinning. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I remained as still as the ancient mountains themselves, afraid that if I shifted even a little, the sight before me would disappear. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The influence of Greek art and literature became so powerful in Rome that ancient Roman deities were changed to resemble the corresponding Greek gods, and were considered to be the same. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

With these words the ancient nigromant stood upon tiptoe and did as he had explained. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How would you even get to these ancient loops?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He told that lady if she even tried to brush his hair, he’d put an ancient Kazakh curse on her. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were like white bouquets God had stuck in the stands of ancient oaks and hickories, glistening green in their own new growth. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

How many of those ancient points of light were the last echoes of suns now dead? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

There was no ancient emperor for him to measure up to. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The ossifying conviction that he was living out some ancient and preordained plan, encoded in his blood, built into the architecture of his name. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

There was a musty odor in the room, the odor of old books with yellow leaves and ancient bindings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With one side of my family coming from the dessert capital of the ancient world, I was doomed to have a sweet tooth. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

So in ancient Rome, whose texts Vergil knew exceptionally well, and in the Renaissance prior to 1492, there was no concept of discovery. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few men are seated with their sleeves rolled up, washing their arms and feet, and it suddenly occurs to me that the ancient mosque isn’t a museum or monument. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“What, God makes new plagues for us? The ancient ones weren’t good enough?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Way down Carpenter’s Road, where the concrete sidewalks started, children hurried to the sliding places before shopkeepers and old women sprinkled stove ashes, like ancient onyx, onto the new-minted silver. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You made it here alone, across the ancient lands.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Veteran hearts at this contained their dread while at your side the daughters of the ancient seagod wailed and wrapped ambrosial shrouding around you. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celaena looked up from an ancient book of Wyrdmark theories as the door creaked open, the hinges squealing loud enough to wake the dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But there are many Smatterers and ignorant Fellows, that would fain reconcile the ancient Writers, and excuse these lyes; not seeing what damage they bring to the Common-wealth of Learning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“They look very old, like something the ancient Aztecas used to wear.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

After climbing over an ancient wall on the other side they struggled on up the slope. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Finally, the jack had opened to its full extent, the rail still only half-free from its ancient bonds. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The fairly ancient half-brother was the only one who could make the engine go at all. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why was its printing method invented around 1700 B.C. in Crete and not at some other time in Mesopotamia, Mexico, or any other ancient center of writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Werfel immediately was swept up by the ancient tune, as heartbreaking and familiar as his mother’s tears. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

It was here, ten thousand years ago, that the ancient fairy race, the Dé Danann, had battled against the demon Fomorians, carving the famous Giants’ Causeway with the strength of their magical blasts. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

But even to pose that question is to illustrate the gap between ancient perspectives and our own expectations of mass literacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Scrolls of fallen wallpaper lying in the floor like ancient documents. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Stupid rich man fed me tea and gave me a rickshaw ride home. But would he donate any rupees to our school? No! All the furniture here is falling apart—including these ancient desks!” Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Regiomontanus was one of the first to benefit from the supply of ancient Greek texts that reached Italy after the fall of Constantinople. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had re-membered the stories of her childhood, the most loathly and ancient bugaboo her nurse had ever frightened her with. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled out an ancient black book to match the ancient green book, and blew away cobwebs from it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

All of which brings us to the key point: the ancients, particularly in the classical period, had no notion that equates exactly with our modern conception of “science.” Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The peasant’s ancient ancestor, the forager, may have eaten berries and mushrooms for breakfast; fruits, snails and turtle for lunch; and rabbit steak with wild onions for dinner. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The big mesa is to this day regarded as an apu, an ancient spirit transfigured into rock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Jason had secretly hoped to visit the ancient site of Apollo’s Oracle, maybe get some insight into his personal future, but if the place had been overrun by monsters . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the case of the Pygmies, the answer is “not yet,” merely because archaeologists have yet to discover ancient human skeletons from the Central African forests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Until Columbus demonstrated that classical geography was hopelessly misconceived, the assumption was that the arguments of the ancients needed to be interpreted, not challenged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

They were old clothes, long gowns like the ones ancient courtiers and scholars wore in the movies. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

More guards followed, carrying a litter behind them—the sort of thing an ancient king might be carried around on. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Toño is grateful also, I know, for on this slab of ancient wood, in this old and holy place, shoulders touching, I can feel my brother weeping. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though, on the one hand, he was taken by surprise, on the other he knew, had known, with an ancient instinct, that one day History’s twisted chickens would come home to roost. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake and I know the dream must come from an old memory, some ancient transgression—it doesn’t matter which one now. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor is the absence of fractures and cuts on an ancient skeleton conclusive proof that the person to whom the skeleton belonged did not die a violent death. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the right, the walls were made of ancient marble slabs. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Had the ancient Greeks known them under a different name, if they’d had tulips at all? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“He says when a mockingbird sings, for all we know it’s pitching fossils into the air. He says who knows what songs of ancient creatures we may be hearing out there.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

One was so ancient he appeared to be withering before their very eyes; the other was tall and strapping, with a thin black mustache. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Abbott’s medical practice collapsed because patients disliked his touchy disposition and crackpot sermons about ancient spear points. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The group wound its way past ancient trees, and over rolling meadows, and through babbling streams, collecting more and more curious animals as they went. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew death was all around, breathing down her neck like some ancient god, like the giant painted throng haint now rushing toward her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In contrast, most ancient Southwest Asian crops exhibit just one of the alternative wild variants or alternative transforming mutations, suggesting that all modern varieties of that particular crop stem from only a single domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well,” Hazel said, “it didn’t make us invincible. The Twelfth lost its eagle the first time way back in ancient days, during the Jewish Rebellion.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

A few strange, antique portraits of the men and women of other days decorated the stained walls; a cupboard with glass doors contained some books and an ancient set of china. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Because the adder has something that belongs to our Abbey, an ancient sword, sir,” Matthias replied. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“Gurgi is more comfortable than he was,” the ancient man said in his deep voice. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Astrology, which has flourished from the days of ancient Babylon down to today, is completely absent from classical Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just think of her as ancient because even when I was little she seemed really old. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd seen hundreds of photos of these ancient stepped pyramids, but how could there be one in Central Park without anyone having noticed? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

In the Old City, Baba points out the fine mansions and covered souqs, the ancient caravanserais, the mosques and churches—everything burnt and broken and twisted. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

My mother took one pair of oars and my fairly ancient half-brother took the other, and off we would go. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And hiding here behind the shipping box for an ancient IBM wheel printer—the oscilloscope. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Beauty Minister moves underneath a tapestry depicting an ancient map of Orléans. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The high tree did prove to be an elm, an ancient giant covered in gnarled bumps and handy branches. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But from ancient times until quite recently, sugar itself was a medicine, a means of healing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Bible has much to teach, yet professors must use it judiciously, supplementing it with other sources, when they teach ancient Middle Eastern history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’d always thought of dragons as being ancient somehow, but a child dragon made sense. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“But even Plato knew that class and conditioning and so forth have an inalterable effect on the individual. It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The motives behind building the new church were twofold: to resurrect the ancient splendor of Byzantium and to show the world the financial wherewithal of die prospering Greek American community. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There were oil paintings and an ancient piano and expensive china cups. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

And ‘How is it possible this happens before glamour when glamour is an ancient concept? See “glamer” in the Oxford English Dictionary.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He makes the acquisition of knowledge feel like a secret, beautiful thing, and an ancient thing. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

These and other discoveries add details, which continue to fascinate me, to our understanding of how agriculture’s rise triggered the rise of agriculturally based complex societies in the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

My other example of how ancient peoples apparently used their ethnobiological knowledge to good effect comes from the Jordan Valley in the ninth millennium B.C., the period of the earliest crop cultivation there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of it there wound lazily a dark river of brown water, bordered with ancient willows, arched over with willows, blocked with fallen willows, and flecked with thousands of faded willow-leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He photographs the narrow sidewalks, the dark cobblestone streets, the mansard roofs, the ancient, shuttered buildings of pale beige stone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When my father was growing up inside the Old City of Jerusalem—that's the ancient part of town inside the stone wall—he and the kids on his street liked to trade desserts after dinner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

These ancient roses, it has lately been asserted, were so constructed that the five sepals did actually stick out beyond the petals—just as they are represented to do in the heraldic rose. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lies and art...it’s an ancient problem. So if we work with art,” she said slowly, “we’ll have to figure out something else first: What makes an object a piece of art?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hie showed the hole where the lead was poured in, and the nails through the end, and the notches near the handle which stood for ancient scalp*. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had played here as a boy, skipping stones across the cold black pool beneath the weirwood, hiding his treasures in the bole of an ancient oak, stalking squirrels with a bow he made himself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He took her hand in his, both clasped on the table, and between them silence grew, an ancient silence that they both knew. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Proud Volantis, queen of the Rhoyne and mistress of the Summer Sea, home to noble lords and lovely ladies of the most ancient blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the Middle Ages, this mysterious group of stones was believed to be either the creation of an ancient race of giants or conjured by Merlin the Magician, who allegedly transplanted it from Ireland. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

I revolved in my head passages of ancient texts that recalled how Britons had been slaves. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It had a football-locker smell of ancient sweat, iodine, blood and rubbing alcohol, and I felt a welling up of memories. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similarly, he believed, ancient Indian skeletons should also differ from those of their descendants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A thousand eyes, a hundred skins, wisdom deep as the roots of ancient trees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She pushed the book toward them, and Harry and Ron read: • The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Sorcerers Stone, a legendary substance with astonishingpowers. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

How can we resolve this contradiction between Japan’s presumably ancient language and all that other evidence for recent origins? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Dad had predicted, Anne’s friend drove up to the house in an ancient Model T, with writing on it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

As these medieval thinkers imported the philosophy and science of the ancients, they inherited the ancient prejudices: a fear of the infinite and a horror of the void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

He passed by Bryant’s receptionist—attractive, with waist-length braided silver hair—and then the inspector’s secretary, an ancient monster from the Jurassic swamp, frozen and sly, like some archaic apparition fixated in the tomb world. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, when I sang this song with the Lansman family, those words seemed like ancient history. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he says, and then carefully pulls what seems to be an ancient flip phone from his pocket and places it in my hand. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair tied back in white bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Nuggets of keen observation and odd tidbits about the ancient world glint in it, too. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was a strange-looking figure, broad and muscular, with the vigor of an ancient but sturdy tree. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

That too was a gesture belonging to the ancient time. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Pur: that one word contains for me the secret, the bright, terrible clarity of ancient Greek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have traced the beginnings of theater back as far as 2500 BCE, to the ancient Egyptians and sacred plays involving the myth of the god Osiris and his wife Isis. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He made a claw over his heart and pushed outward—an ancient gesture for warding off evil. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

First Wife looked quite ancient and frail with her rounded body, bound feet, her old-style padded jacket and pants, and plain, lined face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the Holy City looked as ancient as time itself. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could find descriptions of phenomena in ancient writings—the Green Phoenix stories, “The Seven Strange Tales of the Golden Bottle,” “What Confucius Did Not Talk About.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the cedar stock he found there—long, tight-grained, straight sections cut from massive, ancient trees—he could mill elegant planks of wood twenty inches or more wide and sixty feet long. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In ancient times, however, much of the Fertile Crescent and eastern Mediterranean region, including Greece, was covered with forest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"How much do you know about ancient Iraq? When it was Mesopotamia?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The Pharos Lighthouse The Pharos lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

They only had twelve days before Gaia planned to wake, on 1 August, the ancient Feast of Hope. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You propose an expedition to Greece in your warship. You do realize that the ancient lands—and the Mare Nostrum—are dangerous?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a scrap of ancient bark material tied with a twist of sisal. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m eating cereal, putting on my stockings, and reading ancient Mayan spells. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had a kind of light-colored glow that set it apart from other ancient works. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The rocks are sandstone and shale, which were laid down layer upon layer in an ancient sea that existed before the mountains rose. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across her knees lay an ancient shield—a battered circle of wood and bronze, painted with the likeness of Akhlys herself holding a shield, so the image seemed to go on forever, smaller and smaller. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the morning an ancient furniture lorry stops for them. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ancient mariners gave them the superstitious name of “Three Sisters Waves.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Rachel Dare, you’re telling me Annabeth is in Tartarus, yet she’s found a way to send this message. She wants me to bring this statue from the ancient lands to your camp.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I was spending an evening with my friend Mark, who studied ancient languages. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It had pictures stuck in it, cutout pictures of fairies and witches, trolls and dragons, goblins, nymphs, and ancient trees. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wrote of an Indian maiden, beautiful and reserved, who sat alone upon the bank of a still stream, surrounded by eternal twilight and ancient trees, waiting . Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing that we can’t change is that the game has to have an ancient civilization theme. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were under way, with a bunch of angry Romans behind them and the ancient lands ahead. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

None of the ancients seemed quite able to agree that any of the others were funny, however. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Finally leaving behind ancient Aristotelian beliefs, insect scholars had begun to agree with Goedart that direct observation was the only reliable approach to studying natural processes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We turned to see a cloud of dust heading our way led by an ancient pickup truck moving at great speed. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

What could be cooler than unearthing an ancient bone that’s been hidden for tens of millions of years? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thus, as a reader I never forgot the ancient Catholic faith—that the Church serves to help solitary man comprehend God’s Word. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what the myths show is how high they had risen above the ancient filth and fierceness by the time we have any knowledge of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His commands had the understatement of the ancient cavalry art of dressage. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time she was looking very ancient—she must have been close to fifty years old. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The raw substances available to ancient peoples were natural materials such as stone, wood, bone, skins, fiber, clay, sand, limestone, and minerals, all existing in great variety. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

According to an account by Galen, it was Euergetes who was responsible for one of the most notorious acts of bait and switch in ancient history. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It’s creaky-looking and made of ancient timbers, and it rises precariously from the ground that is so very far below. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It was a paperback prose translation, abridged, set loose from its numbers, robbed of the music of the ancient Greek but—as far as I was concerned—still a terrific read. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

‘I’ve never driven in a city,’ the ancient and trembling sister announced. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence the ancient proverb: “Better a flat nose than none at all.” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“We’re standing at the ancient entrance of the Necromanteion. Odysseus came here, and dozens of other heroes, seeking advice from the dead.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His cheeks and brow were scarred with intricate tattoos in green and black, ancient Valyrian sorcerer’s signs that supposedly made his flesh and skin as hard as steel. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The milk, poured with one gently tremoring, ancient hand. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The travellers reached a low ridge crowned with ancient holly-trees whose grey-green trunks seemed to have been built out of the very stone of the hills. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ancients did refer to the ‘laws’ of nature when they wanted to say that nature is regular and predictable, but they never identified any particular scientific principle as a law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Instead, they turned to the ancients like Aristotle and the Neoplatonists. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Horrible, debauched, mouth limp and cracked, loose against the teeth as an ancient dog’s. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dimple groaned and clutched her head, feeling like that ancient pressure cooker Mamma still used when she made idli cakes. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Although Descartes followed the ancient atomists in their distinction between primary and secondary qualities, he rejected their belief in empty space, the void. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most ancient peoples believed that only emptiness and chaos were present before the universe came to be. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Then, as Balekin’s sword falls to the ancient rug, I see where he was shot. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Gat is putting music on the ancient CD player. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He told of an ancient feud between two brothers which split all the world between darkness and light. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She nearly hit Ms. Hoffman, the ancient English teacher who once told Toby he was nothing when he got caught stealing chocolate milk. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Many other human societies besides those of the Sumerians and early Mexicans—such as those of ancient India, Crete, and Ethiopia—evolved these prerequisites. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She explained about their quest to the ancient lands to stop the giants from waking Gaea. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he said out loud, doubtfully, “they would have pronounced it Cuchullain in the North? You can’t tell with ancient languages.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient oaks of St. Charles Avenue arched over the avenue like a canopy shielding him from the mild winter sun that splashed and sparkled 011 the chrome of the motorcycle. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

From our modern perspective, it is easy to dismiss the ancients’ qualms about the utility of science. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Bears eat anything and this one had just eaten something ancient and foul. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It left them and turned fierce, stripping leaves from trees and pulling the dirt from ancient earthen walls. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The relation between various insects and many diseases of man is an ancient one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I promised you ancient mystery, and now it’s nothing but a parking lot,” said Paolo, half sad and half joking, as they got back in the car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She could only use patience and self-restraint poor tools when matched against the heartfelt mania of love to which the ancient race was martyred. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

To ecologists, the great tropical forest in South America was and is the planet’s greatest wilderness, primeval and ancient, an Edenic zone touched by humankind lightly if at all. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man walked over to the side of the store and slid open the door of an ancient cooler. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She guessed she was hearing hundreds of years of parties and celebrations that had been held at this shrine in ancient times, as if the memories had been freed along with the spirits. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And the only ancient languages that he could read were Latin and Greek. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But of all the culturally sophisticated ancient civilisations that were playing and enjoying music in this period, there is one group that emerges head and shoulders above the rest. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Slowly, the ancient wood began to rise, tearing free from plants and earth, bending the rail that lay across it. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient wooden meeting hall there with a huddle of permanent dwellings around it, and wharves and jetties and an eelmarket. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Deeper and deeper into the ancient woods I went, past thick bracken and stately oaks, until I tripped and fell again. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, for the first time, she caught the beauty of the ancient Hebrew verses. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The snow dissolved and showed last summers ancient green lawns. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother looked regretfully at the ancient mountains of garbage. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I rented a bulldozer and cleared four acres of the small—if ancient—black spruce and set to work. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We drank Pepsi out of these old-fashioned bottles that Dad had found at some ancient country store, and I swear they tasted better than the regular kind. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries gunpowder, printing and the compass were the three inventions of modernity most frequently cited to prove the superiority of the moderns to the ancients. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We’re starting a big unit on ancient cultures that will last until December. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“To get yourself killed? To break our oldest laws and travel to the ancient lands? How will you even find their ship, assuming you survive the journey?” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

There were gray, ancient dried fish and jellies and potatoes sprouting wigs of grass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

On a table in the center of one end of the barn were also a number of ancient mine telephones. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, no ancient Greek struck a medal with the word Eureka on it and started awarding it to successful scientists as we award the Fields Medal to successful mathematicians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This one never had a name, but it was spoken by the members of an imaginary agricultural society something like that of ancient Mesopotamia. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

If the ancient Creeks had lived next to Lake Michigan instead of the Mediterranean Sea, maybe they'd have reconsidered the nakedness thing. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ancient queen’s hair glittered like a shooting star as she plummeted into Erilea. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The first evidence for tool production dates from about 2.5 million years ago, and the manufacture and use of tools are the criteria by which archaeologists recognise ancient humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only a month before, my ancient half-sister, who was twelve years older than me, had actually had appendicitis, and for several days before her operation I was able to observe her behaviour at close quarters. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The average ancient forager could turn a flint stone into a spear point within minutes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dirt must be removed carefully so as not to damage the ancient stones beneath it. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

At that Ged lifted up the staff high, and the radiance of it brightened intolerably, burning with so white and great a light that it compelled and harrowed even that ancient darkness. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient pot-bellied stove glowed in the center of the room. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It exists in the mythology of Egypt, Greece, the Middle East, and Europe, and is the same as the vermilion bird of ancient China. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This chapter focuses on the decades-long dispute over when human beings first came to the Americas—an argument that seemingly has been won by those advocating a more ancient date. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Water-wheels were known to the ancient Greeks and Romans but were far from common; thanks to an early medieval proto-industrial Revolution, they quickly became widespread around the end of the first millennium CE. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Behind the lamassu, more columns sprouted from the ground like ancient trees in a petrified forest, forty feet tall, spindly but still miraculously upright. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But she still had the face of a Grand Ball princess, with her bird-in-flight eyebrows and nose, elegantly curved like a letter from ancient Arabic writings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There are ancient ideas reverberating through this structure, very old hunches. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was the way it had been since ancient times. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

That’s an ancient Greek saying that translated pretty well into American. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In no other way could the ancient cycle be broken. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cassiopeia, after the vain and arrogant queen of the ancient Greeks who tried to sacrifice her own daughter to the sea gods.’ The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Cape pigeons often darted and flitted around the boat, but the men couldn’t bring themselves to kill the friendly birds, and ancient superstition forbade them from killing the albatross that still followed majestically above. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Impressively, they learned it from the best possible source, the ancient Maya themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“To keep the ancient odour of Mr. Faber in, of course,” said Faber sweating at the job. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Man, how long did your ancient ancestor work on this project down here?” remarked Kojo, admiring the carefully crafted corridor of stone. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Others distrusted Jews who lived apart, speaking Yiddish—which was the traditional language spoken by Eastern European Jews— and following ancient customs of dress, culture, and education. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

This premier city was the cradle of ancient art and architecture, as well as the site of both the Hanging Gardens and Tower of Babel. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

The outer layer of plaster had peeled and flaked away from most of the building, showing ancient red-brick walls that were absolutely straight, rising up higher than twenty feet from the yard. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The presumption has been, either that thinking comes naturally, or that the required intellectual tools for thinking about natural science had all been developed by the ancient Greeks. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dad hauled our ancient barbecue out of the basement and spent the afternoon scrubbing it. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rabat in Morocco, our next stop, with its ancient and mysterious walls, its fashionable shops, and its medieval mosques, seemed a charming mixture of Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel his warm breath against her skin, and Juana whispered her combination of prayer and magic, her Hail Marys and her ancient intercession, against the black unhuman things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wmterfell’s inner wall was the older and taller of the two, its ancient grey crenellations rising one hundred feet high, with square towers at every comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the distance, City College was lit up on the hill, looking like an ancient castle complete with turrets. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

For the town’s water supply, he tapped into a pristine ancient lake that lay a thousand feet below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our failure to domesticate even a single major new food plant in modern times suggests that ancient peoples really may have explored virtually all useful wild plants and domesticated all the ones worth domesticating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blood of Olympus watered the ancient stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

So what if I’m ancient and cranky and my body’s a wreck? Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Situated at 12,600 feet, it was the highest city in the ancient world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It used to seem like ancient history...but this happened to my family. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It smells like a closet in an old house and is in an ancient shape. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder how Lily knows a priest in an ancient mission so far from Boston. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“And its alchemists who were said to have made gold in ancient times.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes later I heard the unmistakable throaty honk of his ancient Crown Victoria in the parking lot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The exact spot where Aphrodite was born of the foam could be visited by any ancient tourist; it was just offshore from the island of Cythera. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

An ancient peregrine instinct was finally guiding her—do not feed the fledglings. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“We really need to document the moment when we raise the treasure from its ancient hiding place to establish our claim.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the classroom window stood an ancient apple tree, its branches gnarled and entwined. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

We crossed the ancient wooden bridge and turned right. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Propped up against the headboard, her hairnet cinched on her forehead like a diadem, Desdemona looked as ancient and indomitable as the elderly Queen Victoria. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In just the first two seasons, 100,000 pounds of ancient bones were excavated from the site, and tens of thousands of pounds more came in each of the half dozen years that followed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

At school he was Toby the cool-cat sophisticate; and now, suddenly, he was Toby, the grief-stricken ancient Egyptian. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if the scientific tradition of the ancient Ionian Greeks had survived and flourished? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But these few modern additions have remained of modest importance compared with ancient staples like wheat, corn, and rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Out of a thousand centuries they drew the ancient admiration of the footman for the horseman. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything would depend on what ancient findings we had accidentally been told about, and how accurate the account was. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tossed her jacket onto an empty chair and sat down at the living room table, where an ancient monitor sat attached to a whirring hard drive. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Like its ancient predecessor, whose red marble halls were now the haunt of bats and spiders, the Meereenese pyramid boasted three-and-thirty levels, that number being somehow sacred to the gods of Ghis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When Poppy asked him in Arabic for the school, he pointed to an ancient building right ahead of them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘One of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Made by the same dude who did the Athena Parthenos.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They waited until the Pacific populations were stable before legally asking for permission to resume this ancient tradition. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In olden days they had, of course, been often obliged to fight to maintain themselves in a hard world; but in Bilbo’s time that was very ancient history. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The ancient half-sister, fresh from her swim and now clothed in a towel bathrobe, came and sat herself close to her manly lover. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents keep the television on in the living room even though they’re in the basement, watching Pretty in Pink on an ancient portable DVD player. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Their ancient ancestors had found the Galapagos Islands so pleasant that they had not returned north. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Again the mouse warrior armed with his ancient sword returned to haunt Cluny’s fevered dreams. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With one mighty blow from the blade of the ancient battle-scarred sword he severed the rope holding the Joseph Bell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Matt saw an ancient fish rise from the depths to look at him with a round, yellow eye. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew this ancient chamber was on the verge of collapse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Studies of ancient skeletons indicate that the transition to agriculture brought about a plethora of ailments, such as slipped discs, arthritis and hernias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba points out ruins of medieval palaces and ancient forts in the hills, gutted and burned by fighting. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Celia carries Ivanito past the sofa draped with a faded mantilla, past the water- bleached walnut piano, past the dining-room table pockmarked with ancient history. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

From what root is "democracy" derived?—What adjective is formed from "democracy"?—Is Russia at present a democracy?—Can you mention any ancient governments that for a time were democracies? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their own records began only after the settlement of the Shire, and their most ancient legends hardly looked further back than their Wandering Days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

More than 5,000 years ago, before the time of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians designed a system for transcribing their decimal system, where pictures stood for numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They were the windows of Brandy Hall, the ancient home of the Brandybucks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In this way, matter’s division ceased, and, as the ancients professed, substance was returned to its originary unity. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But, locked in that dark, horrible world, Celaena only saw the ancient queen barrel into Cain, knocking him down, before the dead charged. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The shell was partly open, for the overhang protected this ancient oyster, and in the lip-like muscle Kino saw a ghostly gleam, and then the shell closed down. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all stared as if we had discovered some ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the old man died in that hour and fell upon his face; and no other tidings of the ancient dwellers in the mountains have our folk ever learned. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The moves came quickly, just like in the club—a simple and beautiful strut, ancient but casual, like walking down the street. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The classics were the books supposedly written by Confucius and the ancients, about the correct way to live. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Greece alone in the ancient world people were preoccupied with the visible; they were finding the satisfaction of their desires in what was actually in the world around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right now I feel ancient, and overworked and too warm. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As strange as this system seems to modern eyes, it made perfect sense to ancient peoples. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Greek art reached a pinnacle of beauty as respect for the individual flourished in Athens, and Roman relics attest to the might of the greatest empire in the ancient world. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Cobb sometimes subbed for their Social Studies teacher, and he always managed to slip in a story about the Vietnam War, even when their class unit was on ancient civilizations. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He’d silenced Matthias’ conscience with prejudice and the promise of a divine calling that was probably nothing more than the wind moving through the branches of an ancient tree. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Both had been developed by the ancient Greeks. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I am the master of this place!” said the figure, in words so ancient and guttural that they were scarcely words at all. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A disdain for the practical swept the ancient world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the lintel was affixed the ancient dragon’s skull, its browning sockets gazing down the corridor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It has no legal status, but socially and ethically is an ancient and vigorous institution. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“That lamp was totally cursed. I just got back from fighting an ancient demon in the lobby.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t worry that Courtney still hasn’t given Brian his hat back or that Heather doesn’t take her ancient gray eyes off me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

So we spent the rest of our paid-for tour in silence, walking through the ancient crumbling halls, trying not to look at the hunks of cream-colored bones in the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A venerable tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek orators, teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we ended up going to the ancient palace at Abomey, instead, which was the only tourist attraction for hundreds of miles around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the debris of ancient village sites does not include fossilized words along with bones and pottery, it does reveal movements of people and cultural artifacts that could be associated with languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And it was only the children who spoke; the adults all seemed sunk in a lethargy so ancient that they might never move or speak again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She had gone once with her parents to hear Grace Bumbry sing Aida and had been fascinated with the tragic story of the beautiful princess who had been a captive in ancient Egypt. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also had drawn a baby surrounded by ancient, gnarled trees. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Above the towns, scattered like pebbles, were single villas where ancient families had found a brook, a green spot, and laid out a tile pool, a library, and a court with a pulsing fountain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the Argo II reached top speed, Fort Sumter was only a blot in the distance, and they were racing across the waves toward the ancient lands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

These conclusions surely apply with much greater force to the undocumented history of ancient technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The word style is derived from stilus, the writing instrument of the ancient Romans. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although these deceptively simple ancient flutes are almost all that survives of Palaeolithic music, acoustic scientists have recently made an extraordinary discovery about the lifesaving importance of music to cave-dwellers of this period. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The story of zero is an ancient one. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The leader of the cult was Pythagoras, an ancient radical. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient school-bus-yellow sign with a black circle holding three equilateral yellow triangles. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Sprat was even blunter: getting rid of the tyranny of the ancients simply involved throwing out what he called ‘the rubbish’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t let them grow up. I taught them useless things like ancient military strategy. They didn’t even know how to go to the store and buy rice!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Leo checked the ancient bronze astrolabe, which was now fitted with the crystal from Ogygia. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Belief could be sustained only if a peculiar authority was granted to obscure books, or better still ancient manuscripts newly discovered in locked chests. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Tally looked up at the ancient, serpentine shape of the roller coaster, the vines crawling up its framework. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It looked old; hammered red bronze, leaf-shaped, its blade covered with ancient glyphs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We found it fairly easily, on a street with a nave of ancient elms branching over it. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Tell him,’ snickered the other ancient spider of a clerk, ‘that Mr. Lyte is—ah—sensible of the great honor—ah—and regrets to say he has formed other plans for his daughter’s future. Ah!’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of ancient skates, hanging on a coat stand. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

When I looked at her, I felt the same way as when I stared into the ancient flame of the Atashkadeh. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Tom sang most of the time, but it was chiefly nonsense, or else perhaps a strange language unknown to the hobbits, an ancient language whose words were mainly those of wonder and delight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It would have been better if the living room conjured on Truman’s ancient stage were composed of pieces from Stickley or Herman Miller, but where was Volpe going to find those? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Long years and much mental strain had taken their toll on the ancient mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The story goes that they’re devotees of some shrine up there—some kinda ancient magic. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

We brushed the oars and hulls lightly with handfuls of ancient straw from the stables, leaving a fine layer of dust over everything. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The maps all looked ancient, but Dimple supposed they would have to do. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The growth of the modern city to the ancient municipal limits and beyond, however, has made that prospect a remote dream. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded purple Prince concert tee and ancient running shorts he constantly had to pull up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The old wolf bone seems to be more typical of ancient counting systems. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

When she managed to sleep, her dreams were haunted by ancient battles, by swords with eyes, by Wyrdmarks that swirled around her head and blinded her with their bright colors. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Tally, Ryde, Croy, and Astrix made contact with the city uglies, starting new rumors, teaching new tricks, and offering glimpses of the ancient magazines the Boss had salvaged from the Smoke. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ancient flint spearhead was manufactured in minutes by a single person, who relied on the advice and help of a few intimate friends. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though counting abilities were rare in the ancient world, numbers and the fundamentals of counting always developed before writing and reading. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Even in ancient days they were, as a rule, shy of ‘the Big Folk’, as they call us, and now they avoid us with dismay and are becoming hard to find. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She snuck him in after hours, allowing him to see ancient swords up close and honing his craft. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

To do what he asked was tantamount to my transferring entirely out of Hampden College into his own little academy of ancient Greek, student body five, six including me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ancient mouse placed his paws on his young friend’s shoulders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z