| 单词 | hired |
| 例句 | He said the kids were convinced it was the work of ‘a hired killer.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl who hired him had two rows of holes in each ear. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She buys a duffel bag at a dollar store that hired her aunt to fill in. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Frequently, we’d tag along at his side, pencils and notebooks in our hands, when Dad toured a factory which had hired him as an efficiency expert. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember Robert dropping a tray of ices, and the expression on Frith's face when he saw Robert was the culprit and not one of the minions hired for the occasion. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “You good-for-nothing! You were only hired because your brother works at the desk!” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He hired a private investigator to dig into their personal lives. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In 1935, shortly after San Francisco’s new Bay Meadows Racecourse opened, Howard assembled a group of modestly talented racehorses and hired a crack young trainer named Buster Millerick to condition them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When the gangs realized that Root was eavesdropping, they hired the best cryptographers money could buy, for up to $10,000 a year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They were there in an official capacity, hired by the Department of Homeland Security to help maintain order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Nah, the hospital just hired a bunch of new security guys and I took a much-needed personal day, thank you very much.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Everybody with fingers in a twenty-mile radius showed up and was hired on the spot. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a bad beginning, but hell, I was being hired by Brother Jack, if he still wanted me, not this Emma woman. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Did you hear that Rick Sher- lund, a Goldman Sachs partner, annoyed some of his neighbors when he hired Jackson Browne to entertain at his anniversary party? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I had my own truck and got to where I had two men that I hired to help me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If your skin is too white, I’m told, you’ll never get hired. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The Jackboots hired them to guard the Jews in the ghetto. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Showing a natural resourcefulness, he had little money but got himself hired as an au pair, or domestic assistant, to a Franco-American family. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The older children were “hired out” by the master, Edward Brodas, to farmers who needed slave labor but who could not afford to buy slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, he would drive her; that was what he had been hired for. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z So they filled up and overflowed the ten sedans that Janie had hired and added others to the line. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Still, watching colored people hired more often and being promoted, that felt good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To get hired there takes a small miracle. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “So, what, they just hired you for your good looks?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He paid us a very good price, and with that money we hired a car to take us to the local train station where we would catch a train to Johannesburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been two years ago that they hired her, separately, to kill the same man. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z If he got hired, it wouldn’t be Uncle Camp he’d be replacing. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z In other places, just when I thought I might be hired, I was told to first obtain a permit allowing me to work in a white neighbourhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Had to let their hired man go because of taxes, and their oldest son took the king’s coin early this summer. He’s off fighting the rebels in Menat now.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Scott Wyatt, the former county attorney in Cache County, the man who hired Terryl, says she “deserves most of the credit” for the law. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z After that she came to where Joe Starks was waiting for her with a hired rig. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Few companies got crazier than Global Crossing, one of the companies hired by all these new telecoms to lay fiber-optic cable for them around the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, the planes hired by the United States Department of Agriculture and the New York Department of Agriculture and Markets in 1957 showered down the prescribed DDT-in-fuel-oil with impartiality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They paid her wages full and just, but there was no certificate of honorable discharge from the Concord Corporation, and with no certificate, she would never be hired by any other corporation in Lowell. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Beside the home bleachers, Ben and Mary Anne walked past les boutiques de Paris as “Moon River” was played by the band hired for the evening. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They hired more than thirty-five thousand unskilled African Americans and Mexicans to work in the mills. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z His voice is gentle; Mama says it is the reason she hired him after she asked Kevin to leave. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Millions find themselves locked out of the legal economy, and no one with a record has a more difficult time getting hired than black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She said he was doing okay, that her dad was still waiting for a new kidney, but that her mom had hired some help at the farm. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “I ask your pardon for our deception. The only ships sailing for Slaver’s Bay were those that had been hired to bring you to the wars.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tim hadn’t been on her father’s staff as long as the others, but he was smart and perceptive, which is why her father’s chief of staff hired him right out of graduate school. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Councilman Grandy indignantly denied that the money was a bribe from the pancake people; then he rushed out and hired the most expensive defense lawyer in Fort Myers. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z "That's right, I was hired. Things have been so brotherly I had forgotten my place. But what if I wish to express an idea?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hired to sell a miracle vegetable chopper on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The Usurper's hired knives were close behind them, he insisted, though Dany had never seen one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z So my mother, in her desperation, hired him. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He hired a doctor and a dentist and provided their services to his miners and their families for free. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Guys like Dr. Strayer were hired to figure out how to configure networks and displays so that the information was useful and life- preserving—not overwhelming and deadly. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z My dad had a degree in mechanical engineering from Louisiana State University, but since he was undocumented, it was impossible for him to get hired for jobs that fit his qualifications. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Leahy, the prosecutor who had been hired by the Osage Tribal Council, considered all this to be the most “high-handed and unusual course of conduct I had ever witnessed on the part of attorneys.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Outside of employing a number of New Orleans natives, Zeitoun had hired men from everywhere: Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, Brazil, Honduras, Algeria. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Jobs were hard to come by, limited at least somewhat by the fact that managers at some of the big factories in Chicago regularly hired European immigrants over African American workers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z To show causality, we need a scenario in which more police are hired for reasons completely unrelated to rising crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A hired boy took on a few, and Chris Beeston reluctantly agreed to don women's costume again, and for a time the sharers scheduled the plays with the fewest female roles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Later on, in twelfth grade, I worked with another great teacher my mom hired, Miss Susan. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I hired a fast powerboat. I guess the owner’s still around; he said he’s going to try and pick up some work in Oxford.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Jule got hired to work for cash at a storefront gym in a strip mall. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Agents were aware that Pike had been hired by William Hale back in 1921 to solve the Osage murders but had abandoned the case after failing to make any progress. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She jokes that this is the reason her family moved here, when in fact it was because her father was hired to run a computer-chip plant. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Three old colored men had already been hired, but not for die road work, just to do the picking up, food bringing and other small errands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I never expected to be the sort of person who hired someone to come into my house and prepare meals for my family. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She had just got hired at a new job doing store security downtown. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z With the help of hired hands, Garfield grew crops and raised animals to supplement the income from his government position and law practice. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In London the Darwins stayed with Erasmus, who hired three horse-drawn cabs for Charles, Emma, and all the children and their nurses and governesses to go to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting a job is more common, and 39 percent of poor people who are hired rise out of poverty, as against 3 5 percent who get at least a two-year college degree. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z "This case is a lock. I have a statement by everyone popped that Gantos was part of the operation. Not to mention that Rik—who hired him—is set to testify." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He was hired for his knowledge of spices, and yet, to our great delight, it’s his sausage talents that have come in handy now. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z From the moment Mr. Carter hired him and placed him in charge of operations, the Captain began to implement the latest in mining technology. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But when she learned the woman’s name, Michael-Mary was so charmed by the sound of “Corinthians Dead,” she hired her on the spot. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom had hired two more coaches by then, and soon more families began signing up their kids for our programs. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The previous year a guided American expedition had hired a Sherpa named Kami Rita as a cook boy. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “He was the smoothest man I ever saw,” said C. E. Davis, whom Holmes had hired to manage the drugstore’s jewelry counter. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Or, if hired, maybe he would be fired soon if she kept acting like that. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But I gave that up when I was hired as an editorial assistant three days a week at one of the biggest magazines in the city. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But he always came back again, and since he was willing to work for very little money, Mr. Schmitt always hired him again. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, the 24/7 customer call center gets about seven hundred applications a day, but only 6 percent of applicants are hired. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The boy’s very presence in the shop was an omen, and, as time passed and money was pouring into the cash drawer, he had no regrets about having hired the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z On Tuesday and Thursday evenings they commandeered half the parlor of Number Five and hired their own teacher. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The Institute hired him to operate its electron microscope, which uses a beam of electrons to make images of small objects, such as viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their own efforts were so childish compared to the practiced skill of these hired men. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z After the vehicles were registered in the name of state entities, private drivers were hired, and wanderers like Shin were offered low-cost, no-questions- asked transport around much of the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z All the taxies were hired, all going downtown. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Because I hadn't hired any lawyers yet, I didn't have co-counsel to sit with me and help manage documents or help with the defendant during the hearing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And he hated being around his parents and the high-priced lawyer they had hired for him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z We hired the cheapest lawyer we could find and went to the Merits Hearing armed with this new strategy. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Outside of school we had a recreation program, with leaders hired by the War Relocation Authority. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The old policemen were replaced by hired assassins with machetes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She says, “It is the work of the Housewives’ League that helped to get my husband hired. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But when I turned around, I realized that unless the Bannock Police Department hired hundred-year-old officers who got around with walkers, we were pretty safe. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was only sixteen, but I didn’t tell the manager that and he hired me for forty hours a week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I’m hoping the new owner might need a helper. Do you know if the shop’s hired someone already?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Each of the presidents, dictators, and generals had brought his own protectors, and of course the Alacrans had hired a small army for the party. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She applied for a job and was hired right away, since she had a degree, and there were never enough teachers in Battle Mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To remove the writing load from Houseman, they hired a lanky thirty-six-year-old writer named Howard Koch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “And then, to make things worse, Dr. Throckmorton hired that fashion mistake from Fairview to take Mr. Glass’s place without even consulting me or my parents?” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Getting hired by the laboratory as a professional mathematician had been an important and groundbreaking stride for the black women— for all of Langley’s women, of course. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Howard hired three guards to stand by the stall, one in the daytime, two at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The next step for those applicants who are hired at a call center is the training program, which they are paid to attend. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Whoever made it must not have hired someone like her dad to fix the errors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z How Mr. Stonecrop had hired men from the shipyards to dig up the markers, then hack through the frozen ground to the coffins—or what was left of them. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The couple bought a house on Sedgewick Road, hired a maid, joined the country club; Mrs. Richardson’s grandmother found a stable for her horse, Jackson, and became a member of the Flowerpot Garden Club. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So they hired a lawyer, Louis Koerner, to pursue a civil suit against the city, the state, the prisons, the police department, and a half-dozen other agencies and individuals. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z If you take a job with an Affirmative Action employer, do you worry that your co-workers will think you are unqualified and were hired only because of your race? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The boy hired to guard the car has gone off. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The hired soldiers from Germany had a fearsome reputation. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in a burst of invention, I hired an all-night taxi to lead me, and sure enough I had passed very near my hotel. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z A carpenter was found to build beds; a horse, cart, and attendants were hired to bring in the sick and carry out the dead. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Dr. Z had hired a lawyer, Gretchen Silver, to defend Bran if the state brought charges against him. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard returned to San Francisco, opened the Pioneer Motor Company on Buick’s behalf, and hired a local man to manage it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z We played the Steinway in the middle of the night, filling the darkness with half-remembered music, alarming the cats and terrifying the hired men. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z For the police there were warnings of a different sort—letters from parents, visits from detectives hired by parents—but these were lost in the chaos. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Though she was a member of Farmville’s Beulah AME Church, it was the First Baptist Church that enjoyed her esteemed piano playing come Sunday morning, because they had hired her as their pianist. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Schindler's name meant something to me only because he had hired my father. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “I imagine you must be extremely disappointed in your position, Miss Lumley. You were hired to be a governess, but this is a job more fit for a zookeeper, is it not?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Putting yourself on display. Trying to make that boy whom I hired to take care of some projects around here—projects your father never has time for—you're trying to make him notice you.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He hired others to cut down rare sundari trees that grew on the uninhabited islands of the reserve. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z It was slow work, but Old Rit got the fresh scars healed up, and then when Harriet began to get a little flesh on her bones, Brodas hired her out again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They hired him when he was nine and kept him on until he was dispatched with a single note. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He gave a million dollars in seed money and hired an attorney to draw up papers for Partners in Health and its corresponding sister organization in Haiti, Zanmi Lasante. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He kept the books, hired the attorneys, called the undertaker, and eventually paid the bills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What if, instead, Falconer had hired Nick to bring me to him? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z All else being equal, immigrants were hired before blacks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He quit his job at Floyd’s Foods and Dr. Blankenship hired him to work twenty hours a week filing and cleaning his office. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z But he hired them out to men who were cruel. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat Uncle Vernon had hired was still there, with a lot of water in the bottom after the storm. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z To hasten a cure the community constructed a stage and musicians were hired to play soothing dance music so that the dancers might slowly waltz themselves back to good spiritual health. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "I'll ask you to explain all this later. For now, I'll be content to get back the book. You think someone hired him to steal it?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He planned to install the kiln in the basement and hired a bricklayer named Joseph E. Berkler to do the job. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I’d been hired to be the executive director for the brand-new Chicago chapter of an organization called Public Allies, which itself was basically brand-new. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A week later the Apache left for California and they hired their cousin Pinkie again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I was hired at eight dollars per week and promised a raise of a dollar a week until my wages reached ten. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he wanted to know if I had hired an attorney. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z One owner hired a full-time nurse to care for workers and their families. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But she was hired, and on the way out of the place she bought ten cents worth of chocolate and a little modeling clay set for George. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z After our friend from New York hired a secretary and had his cards printed, Black approached the mark with a proposition. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if Coach had maybe hired some Mafia dude to take out Rowdy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Love Simpson was the first woman Grandpa ever hired. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Early one morning they hired a boat to row them into the Ganges River, a waterway sacred to Hindus. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The creditors now hired an attorney named George B. Chamberlin, counsel for Chicago’s Lafayette Collection Agency, who had been pestering Holmes ever since he failed to pay the furnace company for improving his kiln. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cassie’s dad was our new principal, hired from upstate after the old one had a stroke. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The rickshaw repair shops in Naima’s village always hired a boy or two as helpers. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z In one of the tottering piles in my office, I found the logs from the private detectives hired by Whitehorn’s estate after his death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All the stores had been unloaded, sledges and dog teams had been hired and were waiting to go; everything was ready and nothing was moving. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z No one hired me to sell the best products. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I was no longer worried that hired killers were going to leap out and assault me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In May, Lucas was hired for three stupid jobs. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Willie went with the hired men to help in the gathering and boiling of the sap. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His father always hired tutors or research assistants for him whenever Charles had to do a major paper or report. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Williams wasn’t the first black engineer hired by Langley, but the couple of black men who preceded him had come and gone so quickly that not even their names remained in the institutional memory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “We met at a party. Out in Jersey. She and I was both hired to entertain.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z But with lower-wage Indian reporters, who can be hired in large numbers for the cost of one reporter in New York, it can now do that from Bangalore. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I’d been doing odd jobs for Mr. Smith and his family for years, having been hired to do everything from babysitting his kids and giving them piano lessons to attempting to train their untrainable puppy. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Yet it is hard,” she sometimes thought, “that this poor man cannot come to a house which he has legally hired, without raising all this speculation! I will leave him to himself.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Well, I said, ‘‘Hair is hair,” and I went into a little place off 135th and Seventh Avenue and said, “I can give permanents,” and the woman hired me and gave me a chair. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the mid-1980s Kelling was hired by the New York Transit Authority as a consultant, and he urged them to put the Broken Windows theory into practice. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the direction of Mollie and her family, Anna’s estate also hired private detectives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Madam hired the cook from the City Tavern to prepare the meal. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Later I asked questions and found that the water boy was missing; I ran to the office and was hired. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She hired a team of high-priced private tutors, something I did not. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The corner drugstore ran smoothly and profitably, although one woman in the neighborhood observed that he seemed to have difficulty retaining the young and typically attractive women he often hired as clerks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The old grannies my mom hired to look after me while she was at work? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “A hired bully is the same as a confession of guilt. I have nothing to be afraid of,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby was conceived in the afternoon, on a sofa littered with rubber teething toys, after the friend learned that a London pharmaceutical company had hired him, while Ronny cried to be freed from his playpen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The War Department hired women to pose as mannequins and stand in the windows of Norfolk’s Smith & Welton department store, their task to entice other women to apply for war jobs. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z That summer, the team of operatives hired by Mathis began to infiltrate Osage County. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Problem is, nobody worth a toot come for the ad. People come in here, they say they know silk, but they don’t know nothing. Just hoping to get hired and fired. Get a day’s pay.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Nelson-Rees had since been hired by the National Cancer Institute to help stop the contamination problem. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Montgomery City Lines bus company hired tough men to command their buses. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The food was served first to the men and then to the women guests, and last I ate with the women who had been hired to help with the cooking and serving. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The salary was generous enough to support a wife, and I was honored to be hired by a world-famous university, and so I obtained a sixth-preference green card, and prepared to travel farther still. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The old guy who is being hired as a people greeter wants to know, “What is time theft?” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She hired her time, and so she always had a little money of her own. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “The town’s really divided over this, and it’s only made worse now that SmartMart hired Arletta Paisley as their national spokesperson.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I’ll bet they just hired the Mafia to dump them into the East River, along with the body of whatever city planner thought MetroCards was a good idea. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Burnham admitted later that he had hired Pretyman for the job “largely on account of his great friendship for John Root.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She still had her hired girl and plenty to eat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with plaster on the outside and a village artist had been hired in a good year once to paint upon the white plaster a scene of hills and bamboo. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z By the time we reached the bank of the Thames, Nick had hired a wherryboat and was well out into the river. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Since the burial, Brown had hired a lawyer and had tried unsuccessfully to contest the will. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We hired a receptionist and tried to figure out how to survive. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As Ophie arrived back in the empty kitchen, she started to think that perhaps she had misunderstood the intricacies of life for the hired help of Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z After being appointed director, in 1921, Burns had bent laws and hired crooked agents, including a confidence man who peddled protection and pardons to members of the underworld. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Whoever made it must not have hired someone like her dad to fix the errors. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She’d been eight, and her elementary school principal had hired some dude named Amos the Amazing to entertain them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She later discovered that Mr. Fields had been hired from a museum in Boston to update the local practices. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had been hired while still on probation after doing time, and he was passionate about keeping young people out of prison. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z "But I had no idea that was why I was hired," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Not long after our parents left, Miss Lilian hired a caretaker, a lazy old man named Jimmy Watts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z And because he hired two women, he has to partition it. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z She hired a local woman named Minnie whose sole job was washing the laboratory glassware using the only product Margaret would allow: Gold Dust Twins soap. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He ordered laborers hired by the city, called scavengers, to clean the streets of decaying garbage and dead animals, since their vile smell might well be causing the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She had been hired not as William’s equal but essentially as his assistant, at roughly half the pay. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the end, the duke hired Joe’s father to run the kennel, he let Joe keep Lassie, and Lassie had puppies. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In its place his wife had hired gardeners to create an azalea garden that was supposed to be gorgeous. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Jones never finished college, so when he was hired in 1934, it was as a subprofessional scientific aide, the category that most women fell into. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z And he hired a PR person named Kathy who answered and made and returned a lot of phone calls and then typed up itineraries for interviews and appearances. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z With Eugene Torre’s assistance, an Icelandic lawyer—Thordur Bogason—was hired to represent the child, and soon after the attorney petitioned the court for a DNA test in an attempt to prove Bobby’s paternity. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z To add to the confusion, there were all the new properties and painted backdrops our hired men had constructed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, he’d just finished his first year of law school, and normally we only hired second-year students for summer positions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The logging companies hired full-time hunters who fed entire logging camps, taking ten or fifteen deer each week and fifty wild turkeys in one month. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Millet hired actors to play Columbus and his captains; the crew would consist of the men who had sailed the ships to Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z One honest employer confirmed the truth in these worries: blacks were hired “solely on account of the shortage of labor....As soon as the situation clears itself no more colored help will be employed.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z His mother came down in a hired auto, in a fur suit like an arctic explorer’s, and saw him off in a twenty-five mile wind and a steady drove of ice floes like dirty sheep. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She had hired him twice before to get my father out of trouble. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, I met them. You don’t have to worry about them, Jane. The funny thing about rich folks is they never remember the hired help. I assure you, my secret is safe.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Six years later, she was hired as resident liaison at the Durham Housing Authority. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “And I’ll see to it that they are not just hired, but that they are treated equally,” she says. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mr. Sleegers has been hired as night watchman, and tonight a carpenter from the underground is coming to make a barricade out of our white Frankfurt bedsteads. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The gardens soon filled with birds whose legs had been laced together, waiting their turn to be decapitated by the two butchers specially hired for that purpose. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The track installed additional mutuel windows, constructed about a dozen bookmaking facilities in the infield, opened up all vacant areas of the clubhouse, and hired an army of extra personnel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days the upper classes hired champions to fight it out—which came to the same thing. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When she had large dinner parties, a Swedish cook was hired and the heavy work was done by the old white rummy she shared with the Goodwill Industries. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Alan Gould of the Associated Press promptly hired her to cover the Berlin Olympics as a reporter, though in fact her pieces would be ghostwritten. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In no time at all men began to arrive, offering their service as hired hands, because I paid well and gave them meals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the woman in green—Scythe Rand—emerged from the kitchen, bringing with her a man Easley’s wife had recently hired. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Like they'd been hired to kill her in a past life. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He hired me on the spot for forty dollars a week, in cash. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was an attorney hired by the Shaw family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Lowe— arguably the world’s pre-eminent all-around climber—was hired to be Sandy’s personal guide, a job for which he was paid a substantial sum. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “If I could buy the furniture now hired for me,” said I, “and one or two other little things, I should be quite at home there.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z One turkey was destined for our table, one was for the hired help, and one was for the poor at the other end of town. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The same day he was hired, Baba and I went to our eligibility officer in San Jose, Mrs. Dobbins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Pete was seventeen and the hired boy around their farm—picking cotton, cutting cane, chores like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I, uh, hired someone to find you some years back.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z There was no laws that said I couldn’t work, but no one hired me either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So he hired his first home care worker—a theology student named Tony—who helped him in and out of the pool, and in and out of his bathing suit. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z King George had hired eight thousand German soldiers to fight alongside the British. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On the New Jersey side, guarding Trenton, were Hessian soldiers hired by the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then a few weeks ago, Julian started spreading this ridiculous rumor that Jack had hired some “hit man” to “get” him and Miles and Henry. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Hoping to speed up matters, he hired a dozen Chamisaville Pueblo Indians to help with the digging. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Loma’s face flushed red as her hair, she was so mad, and she flounced off acting like a store-owner’s daughter to a hired hand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A different system was used at the textile mills, which, with few exceptions, hired only whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z These were the adzukulu, or grave diggers, who are hired to do the job of digging and burying. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Are you sure they weren’t just hired to scare you? Rough you up a little to teach you to mind your betters?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Later on, the Friedmans also hired a woman named Carlotta as a day nurse to help out. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I could always get hired back later, but it was nice to just be back on the farm. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The next morning Howard hired Workman, but only for the San Antonio. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The couple went on bicycle rides and for a time kept a hired girl. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “As soon as you left the campaign, it started. He hired a firm that hired the hackers who got the surveillance tapes from the Beekman.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Finally challenged in the classroom and on the water, he excelled in both areas, and when he graduated in 1926, Washington quickly hired him as the freshman crew coach, and then as head coach. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Baba hired the same nursing woman who had fed me to nurse Hassan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He had told her he was going to see about being hired out on a new job. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They had hired the Zeitouns to help with the renovation of a house they’d bought, and immediately the two couples had clicked. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Day could also have a sponsor who hired him to pull this stunt. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Outside there were men who’d been hired to remove the family’s possessions. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In 1995 he was making his third attempt on Everest as a client of the American company that had hired Kami. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Then when this harvest came he and Ching alone could not harvest it, so great it was, and Wang Lung hired two other men as laborers who lived in the village and they harvested it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z How the two women had come together was a mystery, but this much was definite: Mrs. Castro had hired Angela to burn Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z So Chacko hired a van to transport the body to the electric crematorium. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He would never forget the time he was working out in the fields with a hired hand, an elderly black man named Ivy, when the man set down his hoe and sang “Dixie.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother and I, as I have said, wrote the invitations; and runners were hired to take them throughout the city and the countryside. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, you hired him,” she says with this fake lightness that scares me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z We’d hired a caterer to add to the food my mom cooked, and a bartender to set up and serve the drinks. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The men who hired them were for the most part moral citizens intent on efficiency and profit. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lurvy, the hired man, heard the noise and came up from the asparagus patch where he was pulling weeds. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Ashoke has been hired as an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the university. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "You send hired knives to kill a fourteen-year-old girl and still quibble about honor?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After graduate work at Penn State and the University of Chicago, he was hired as a Harvard professor at age twenty-five. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z "So now I know where I am," I said, "and with whom —" "Don't twist my meaning. For all of us, the committee does the thinking. For all of us. And you were hired to talk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw the bulge of pregnancy under the virginal veil of the bride as she stepped into the hired carriage. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He hired three more girls, and bought sewing machines for all of them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He built brick houses for his workers, hired a teacher for the school, and raised the standard of living of everyone on his lands. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, when he hired the Sicilian, he was convinced it was best that someone else do her in, all the while making it appear the work of soldiers from Guilder. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Bancroft had also been hired by Franklin, who had arrived in Paris to head a three-man commission that would represent the new United States of America in France’s royal court. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma and Charles’s son George came; he had hired the medium, a Mr. Williams. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He avoided our company, preferring to spend his time with his drinking companions, mostly hired men from the less reputable theatre companies. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His name was George Cherrie, and he was one of two naturalists that the American Museum of Natural History had hired to accompany Roosevelt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z In all, the INS has hired more than 5,600 additional agents since 1993 to expand its forces along the southern U.S. border. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “He’s my hired hands,” she said with a chuckle, and as we had done before, we held the pen between my hand and hers and managed to scrawl out a signature. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On September 19 he hired a horse-drawn carriage and began visiting patients again. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We reached Clarksdale and hired a taxi to the doctor’s office. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Ti Fifi got on the phone and hired a private ambulance company in Port-au-Prince—Sam’s Service Ambulance—which owned a shiny old recycled ambulance from the 1970s. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They were preparing cars for the crusher, which Dad had hired for later that week. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z To help them, Doha’s father hired Gunwoo’s mom to clean and take care of the clinic. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z It occurs to me that, just as the Carthaginians hired mercenaries to do their fighting for them, we Americans bring in mercenaries to do our hard and humble work. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He hasn’t hired a smuggler because she hasn’t asked for one; she hasn’t said yes to coming because he hasn’t hired a smuggler. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He was the hired and she was the hirer. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They struggled for their own commissions and in the meantime hired themselves out to other more established firms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Mr. Sims was angry with me because I missed so many weeks from work. He said he didn’t know where I was, so he hired someone else.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z She was told that they never hired new readers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Anxious to rescue in the course of a few months what had lain in ruins for years, the patron hired every man, woman, old person, and child who could stand on his own two feet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He always does when hired to restore any house of worship. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My financial aid package at Princeton required me to get a work-study job, and I ended up with a good one, getting hired as an assistant to the director of the TWC. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Who hired her?” the old woman demanded, struggling upright in the bed. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z When the officers turned away, he ranted more to the group of black men assembled who’d been hired to sit his family out on the street. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z One week ago, the same girl disappeared, and Mrs. Janssen hired me to find her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “I do like this new woman I hired,” Mom says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z He kept his job at the bakery and hired two young men to work the cart during the hours he was delivering bread. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z They always hired colored kids to help out for the summer. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I didn’t know the man behind the counter, because the hardware store had been bought and the new owner hired people outside of Norvelt. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We also hired Michael Smith, a talented interior designer we’d found through a Chicago friend, to help us with furnishing and redecorating the residence and the Oval Office. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The next day Pilate was hired as a washerwoman at ten cents a day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z I had overheard my parents say that The Ancestors were due in town today with a famous big city lawyer they had hired. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He hired thousands of men to clean streets and ordered police stations opened at night for men seeking a place to sleep. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, and I am proud to say, young ladies, that my husband is one of the men hired after you all shut that meatpacking industry down.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On Main Street I saw a sign in a cafe window: Dish Washer Wanted I went in and spoke to the manager and was hired to come to work the following night. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Is that who you meant—the hired man?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, with his reputation as a no-nonsense leader as well as the grueling work, Rondon had to pay his men six to seven times more than the going rate for hired workers. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I try to forget that he has an entire floor as big as my house and hired help that looks like me. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z When she got the position, she turned up on the same day to thank the people who hired her and forgot about the clock. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The older brothers hired themselves out to other farmers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The next summer, when Dad was hired as a consultant by a washing machine company, we went through the same procedure with the washboard and hand-wringer at Nantucket. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I never expected to be someone who hired others to maintain my image, and at first the idea was discomfiting. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Wyatt had hired Terryl and had watched her become a tenacious victim’s advocate. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Unaware that Salomon was a Son of Liberty, the British hired him to translate for officers handling Hessian troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought only of doing what I had been hired to do. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “He probably hired those boys to attack you so you’d feel indebted to him.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Froelick tried acting and modeling without success before Houseman hired her to type scripts. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A house was rented, a matron hired, and provisions carted to the door of this new city institution. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Parker told me that he always hired seniors the summer before their last year in school. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The Eberts hired professional gardeners and various domestic troubleshooters—plumbers, electricians, and handymen arrived in step vans to do their dirty work—but the Crows always hired neighborhood people. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I figured on getting back and getting the hired girl with the hearse, but he beat me,” the Big Hill undertaker said. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He has hired you to tell him what he needs to know. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Achmad, an Indonesian government officer, was acting as the boss, because he and I were organizing an ecological survey for the government and had hired Wiwor and Sauakari as local assistants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was twitchy and paranoid, bad enough at interacting with other people that my parents hired a tutor so that I only had to go to school on days I felt up to it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The private detective the judge had hired was still investigating the heirs, so tonight's project would be the Westing family. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z By getting hired as a CO I effectively circumvented their prohibition on visiting the training academy and the prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Nathaniel Blackwood, the high-priced criminal defense lawyer hired by his dad, told Cole he might be tried as an adult. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Then I’ll get another interview somewhere else, and another, until I get hired,” Dad said. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The theory eventually circulated that Boori Ma had once worked as hired help for a prosperous zamindar back east, and was therefore capable of exaggerating her past at such elaborate lengths and heights. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The air of “anxious effort” that suffused the park reminded Candace Wheeler, the designer hired to decorate the Woman’s Building, “of an insufficiently equipped household preparing for visitors.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time there was a couple with many cattle, but only one son. Their neighbors became jealous, so they hired a witch to put a curse on them.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Eratosthenes knew that the distance between Alexandria and Syene was approximately 800 kilometers, because he hired a man to pace it out. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We pulled the first job that night—the place of the old man who hired Rudy to sprinkle him with talcum powder. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Would she have been hired before the advent of screens? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The world left him thoroughly alone in this, although Ishmael and two other boys were hired that June to clean the cages with wire brushes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z If she had been born colored, not a soul would of hired her to clean up or cook, either one. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He is hired to watch the paths, to make sure none of we Haitians escape. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Justin’s master often hired him out for masonry work and a sympathetic employer made arrangements with the railroad on his behalf. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Classic style ignores the hired help and looks directly at what they are being paid to study: All children acquire the ability to speak a language without explicit lessons. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I got back from the hospital today. The doctor told me to rest, but I took Eugene’s money and asked Kevin to take me to the park. I hired a taxi and came here.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They’d also hired a caretaker to live in a trailer parked near the house. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z She couldn’t speak it, she hired teachers who did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he could hardly afford it on his salary, he’d hired a driver for the day. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z His housekeeper, Johnnie, was still on her Christmas vacation, and he had recently hired a temporary housekeeper. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the hired lamplighters, most of the city’s 662 whale oil streetlamps remained unlit, the surrounding areas cast into a gloomy darkness. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I had no idea how long Ambrose’s hired killers had been following me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kainene hired two carpenters from the refugee camp, made sketches on a sheet of paper, and, back in the car, told Richard, “I don’t trust them to make a decent table.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z "You are accused of sending a hired knife to slay my son Bran in his bed, and of conspiring to murder Lord Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Abigail spied him in the field that July of 1801, working alongside the hired hands, swinging his sickle and murmuring obscenities at his political opponents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For days, the house was teeming with Baba’s hired help. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He quickly realized that in order to get hired or promoted, you needed to know someone in the Nazi Party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He gave me Ashe’s money as one would give a hired assassin his fee. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z At the fair he took her on the Ferris Wheel and hired a gondola and walked with her on the dark fragrant paths of the Wooded Island, in the soft glow of Chinese lanterns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Every driver understood from the day he was hired that his main job, other than driving the bus, was to enforce the Jim Crow rules. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Next, he hired four men who knew the wilderness. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years before, Dad had been hired by Utah Power to dismantle hundreds of utility towers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There was a man known as Hig Phillips down in the southern part of the county, and the story came out that he had hired a substitute to go to war for him. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I must’ve had some modicum of talent, because I kept getting hired, but I wore my shirt and tie like an imposter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After the bicycle, my mom hired contractors she knew through the real-estate business to build her a separate house in the backyard, like a little servants’ quarters, and she moved in there with Isaac. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “I will find Zero. I’m going to finish the job you hired me for.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In fact, of the two hundred fifty workers Schindler hired in 1940, only seven were Jews; the rest were Polish gentiles. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The cocker spaniel was sneaking up on him from one side, Lurvy the hired man was sneaking up on him from the other side. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The Wind Witch was the ship Father had hired to take her home . . . still waiting! A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He also has his hired agents out searching, but his efforts to send and receive messages are hampered by the lack of telegraph lines through the Maryland and northern Virginia countryside. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He gave serious consideration to the possibility that Lydia had hired them as plants. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Who hired you to kidnap the Princess? It was someone from Guilder. We found fabric indicating as much on the Princess’s horse. Tell me that man’s name and you are free. Speak.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She arrives at an inn and gets hired as assistant to the cook. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Our work is badly delayed because teams cannot be hired in sufficient numbers.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Fearing that my family might think I was finicky, I lied to them, telling them that the white woman had already hired a boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That was when the city hired Benjamin Latrobe to design and construct Philadelphia’s first waterworks. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “And she said, ‘I was hired by the family of the hunter you squashed.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Teaching the surgery to local doctors and offering its gift to the colored population was part of the reason he was hired. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We just better pray—” A few days later, Harriet was hired out again, as a child’s nurse. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When the miners went on strike, coal operators hired gunmen, including sheriff’s deputies, to assault, arrest, and blacklist workers and evict their families from their homes. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z The school has even hired extra security to try to catch the culprit in the act. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z She hired three seamstresses to sew her a new wardrobe and included a heavy skirt and thick woolen cloak for me in the order. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They fenced them off, boarded them up, and some even hired security firms to walk around the perimeter and make sure no one was looking to survive on corporate-sponsored vacancy. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He worked awhile in the mines and then hired on with the high school as a custodian. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z "What were you hired to do and when and what did you find out? Tell us everything you know." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z "He has tried, Illyrio, I promise you that. His hired knives follow us everywhere. I am the last dragon, and he will not sleep easy while I live." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “A sweet man,” Gerris said afterward, as he and Quentyn made their way down to the foot of the pier where their hired hathay waited. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mercenary fighters were nonmembers hired on short-term contracts to help the gang fight turf wars. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Shortly after I got there, around 1939, she hired a new man who had just come to New York from North Carolina named Andrew McBride. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z At that point, the Transit Authority hired William Bratton to head the transit police, and the second stage of the reclamation of the subway system began. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He disclosed that he’d never really been hired to solve the murder of Anna Brown; in fact, he’d been asked to conceal Bryan’s whereabouts on the night of the crime. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was smiling and looked confident, but he had a line of hired goons standing behind him to back up his authority. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Tom’s father hired a carpenter to construct the gallows near the southern wall of the prison, the only place where the ceiling was sufficiently high. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was obvious why IOI had hired him to lead their lackeys. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Vincent hopes that he will get good enough to be hired. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But not considering such troops reliable, he turned to mercenary forces, judging them to be less dangerous, and he hired the Orsini and the Vitelli. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Yes, she made twice as much when she was a waitress but that place closed down and at her age she’s never going to be hired at a high-tip place. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He hired our da as a dishwasher and took us to a neighborhood like no place I’d ever seen—tall brick buildings packed together on narrow streets teeming with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Anthony wrote hundreds of letters of invitation to prospective members, and almost single-handedly raised the money, hired the hall, and organized the speakers for the group’s first meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Past experience taught them that blacks were last hired, first fired, especially true for black women. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She was holding back on the arrest in the hope Angela would make contact with the person who hired her to do the hit on Nicole. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z The 1999 drug bust incarcerated almost 15 percent of the black population of the town, based on the uncorroborated false testimony of a single informant hired by the sheriff of Tulia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The observatory was some distance to the north, and Lee Scoresby hired a dog sledge and driver. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Another gunman was hired to assassinate Kelsie Morrison’s former wife, Katherine Cole, who was Osage and had agreed to testify for the prosecution. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Eventually, Mother was hired by a woman who had several small children. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You wouldn’t understand, Eugenia. Not until you’ve hired help of your own.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But my boss’s wife had hired him not just because she knew him from the old days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew who this was: Fenrir Greyback, the werewolf who was permitted to wear Death Eater robes in return for his hired savagery. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z After that, Georgie and I couldn’t keep up with the hired men. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Brodas hired her out to a man who kept her out of doors. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The primary therapist had been hired by Nicole’s mother and paid for by Nicole’s father at nine hundred dollars an hour, which is what it costs to have a psychiatrist make house calls. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z My hired helper worked beside me, and neither of us being expert we were well splattered. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chandresh just hired her to be the illusionist for the circus.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Let me guess. He’s hired you to do his homework for him.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosecutor was a criminal attorney hired by the state just for this case. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The same morning he was released from jail, he went out and got himself hired by a company called Tropical Rescue. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We ran out of the house, leaving her to be found by the hired man. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z After authorities failed to investigate—“They never would have done anything,” one of Lewis’s relatives said—her family hired a private detective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Naw, I was hired girl to her before I was married,” Grandma said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z So occasionally she hired someone to pull up the dog’s mercury and the Jack-in-the-hedge so that her favorites could flourish. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She knocked off a master’s degree in mathematics from Atlanta University, and then taught school in Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee before coming to Langley in 1943, where she was hired as a P-l mathematician. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Helen, meanwhile, hired a plumber, scraped the loose paint so it wouldn’t hang, walked Ralph’s file cabinet into the back bedroom to hide the crack. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama had a fit when Papa told her about Hosie being hired. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Or that Louis V. Gerstner, the former IBM chief executive, hired a Boston litigator to help him push through a plan for a large new house on his $11 million waterfront plot? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z When Mom called the taxi company, the owner told her that he’d hired a new driver the day my father got arrested. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Ms. Simon shows a video clip of the diversity trainer the school has hired. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z In the small powerboat he’d hired, Bud Schlesinger rode the wild water, scouring the chaos all around with his eyes, and trying to calm the fears of the owner. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His wretched uncle had a whole crew of muscled bullies he hired to collect money from people who owed him. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Already, Luma has hired two teachers to work with her players. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The room had been used the winter before by a teacher who had been hired for the three winter months, a term during which Jethro had gone to school for only a few days. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z We were hired to work in the house of a well-known businessman. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He hired the model right on the spot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve got too much education. If we hired you, you might cause trouble among our obedient workers. We don’t want a mutiny; this is a peaceful country.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One of Mr. Chris’s hired men, before Fritz, used to gather quarts and quarts and sell ’em to an Italian in town and make a mint of money every fall.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z The boy he had recently hired to work part time showed up early. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A bond grew between the two women, and Block hired Maria and Johanna to help create a painted record of her botanical collection. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His moving collective consisted of him, a dented bread truck, and a group of full- and part-time helpers hired according to availability and the size of any given job. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “What’s going on?” he said to the boatman when he returned the hired boat. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew what it was like to be hired out. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “And yet you fired the Polish woman I hired before her first day was over,” he said, his chiding tone playful and indulgent. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Everything had to be improvised, a great many hands hired and taught to do the work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “A crew of us have been hired by some folks down there who are buying up all the empty Norvelt homes and adding ’em to their own Roosevelt town.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z With the help of Uncle Morris, I was hired as a machinist at US Electrical Motors and enrolled in classes at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z My parents had accounts with the various airlines and were hired to repair bags the airlines had damaged. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was true; his father had just hired two apprentices and contracted work out to smaller smiths. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Anna’s guardian, the Reverend Dr. Black, had hired a private detective who had come to Holmes’s building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z By the end of 1919, Curtis had fired the entire striking police force and, as he said he would, hired a whole new one. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He had hired me as a restoration apprentice, trained me, even sent me to the best school. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Veteran East Computers left for permanent assignments in the tunnels, and no new girls were hired into the pool to replace them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So I hired a teenager, Puerto Rican, who said he knew where he could get a shovel. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The album was a collection of construction photographs taken by Charles Dudley Arnold, a photographer from Buffalo, New York, whom Burnham had hired as the fair’s official photographer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Durant liked what he saw and hired him to set up dealerships and recruit dealers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he entered the country illegally, he was soon hired as a dishwasher in a restaurant. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z A bunch of surly security trolls had been hired to guard her. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Yet even as he said the words, he remembered that chill morning on the barrowlands, and Robert's talk of sending hired knives after the Targaryen princess. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Hicks and the other owners hired guards, passed out guns, and sent men to patrol company boundaries. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z One day when I arrived at work, I found they had hired a white kid to work after school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The present building was designed in the late nineteenth century by the same Philadelphia architect whom Washington Duke had hired to build the Main Building at Trinity College. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The chairman of Truman’s English department recognized a passion and potential in Volpe and hired him in November of 1969, a few months after the school year started, to teach English. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z On two occasions, the contractor hired a group of Mexican aliens. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Their partnerships were known as “white-shoe” firms — in apparent reference to the white bucks favored at the country club or a cocktail party, and they were very particular in whom they hired. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z David’s parents have hired a big, nasty, expensive lawyer. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z So later on, the ranchers hired men to patrol on horseback, carrying .30-30S in saddle scabbards. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I find Mom pacing around the living room, on the phone with the movers—the ones Ben couldn’t believe we hired when we aren’t even moving furniture. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I pick up my sack and say, cool as you please, “Look like they hired ’em ugly before me too.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had hired a classmate of mine from Harvard Law School who agreed to join our staff and moved to Alabama from his home in Boston. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Frank told me that the same fellow on 123rd Street who had hired him to deliver a package had offered him money to beat up a junkie who owed him money. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “He also wanted all the men who had been cut off last time to be hired back because it had been done wrong.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you were pressed into work with the others and hired yourself out.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Laura had hired a locksmith to install good locks on all the bedroom doors after the house had been broken into once while they were away. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Another Greek hired him as a dishwasher at his coffee shop in the Bronx. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But the Shibayamas were owners of a respectable house, and it seemed to them that Fujiko, the daughter in question, could do better than to marry a hired hand in America. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z His mother had hired a lawyer for the hearing and—in a twist that surprised only Ocean—it turned out that he was just too well-liked. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Soon a rumor started spreading that I was really an undercover assistant principal hired to keep kids in line. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z The feast took precedence, unless you had a pass to go into town to sell crafts or had hired yourself out for day labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z There was a man in it, and Billy assumed correctly that he was the man who had hired the cripples to do this thing. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They hired him anyway and six sheep disappeared right after that, during a dust storm, Pinkie said, but he had a new harmonica and a blue pearl-button cowboy shirt they’d never seen before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Neither had the others the county hired, one after another, too many now to remember all their names. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Dad made sure the company he hired strung lights over the covered wagon that marked the entrance. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Before long, he and Regina hired another immigrant just off the boat to help with the children so Regina could sew full-time, and then another to serve as an apprentice. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "Mr. Amber, you were also hired by Judge Ford, I assume to find out who everybody really was. Did you investigate all sixteen heirs for the judge?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He helped on the battlefield by starting a propaganda campaign aimed at Hessians “and other foreigners” hired to fight for the British. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Yes, the man wore an honorable legend: After he hired himself out from his master for weekend labor, he had purchased the freedom of his wife, then his children, and finally himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Hotels hired extra security to patrol the grounds and beaches. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Because I had always noticed this house, I found it remarkable when, through the recommendation of a casual acquaintance, the new owner hired me to work three days a week as her personal assistant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Her one asset is music, so our father hired her as Starry's music teacher. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or it was now known that the crime was the work of killers hired by ene mies of the Kansas Wheat Growers’ Association, a progressive organization in which Mr. Clutter had played a large role. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kim’s kids do supervised TV, only PBS. So if she hired you, you would need to be completely present and monitor what goes on, especially with Morgan.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Look," I said slowly, "a man I know told me about the job; MacDuffy hired me; I worked this morning for Mr. Kimbro; and I was sent to you by Mr. MacDuffy." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Belgium, and hired soldiers left over from the Bay of Pigs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She stares out the window, waiting for the carriage that Theo will have hired to bring them home. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hideo has indeed hired a few hackers in the past—to help him work out bugs inside Warcross—but they were way more experienced, and probably with no criminal records. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He hired Joseph Stanley Brown, age twenty-two, as his secretary. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In one of his first stores, a half-wide fruit and vegetable shop on 173rd Street off Jerome in the Bronx, he hired a few black men to haul and clean the produce. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The carriage he'd hired would be waiting outside, ready to take him to the jail. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After fencing, one of the hired men, a former apothecary's apprentice named Richard, instructed us in the art of painting our faces. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Stand on one foot and then the other reading the whole danged board, and seems like everybody got something to sell, or want to be hired, nobody wants to buy. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a hired nurse, the wife of one of the turnkeys, and her countenance expressed all those bad qualities which often characterise that class. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Ned hired an express company to collect her trunk and saw her to the station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They could carpenter, so Jody hired them to go to work on his store bright and soon the next morning. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Ophie saw how quickly and easily the Carutherses hired and fired help, and it once again lit a fire of anger in her that her and her mama’s fortunes were so out of their control. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Professor Sahib and I have hired private investigators.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Once she hired a young boy to pull up those plants and he pulled up the ivy by mistake. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The denomination of the preacher the company hired automatically became ours too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It looks like they hired the Mad Hatter to decorate. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If anything, he’ll keep trying now just to shut Marv up and see the look on his face when he gets hired by someone. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s like I hired them, Brian thought, looking at all the fallen poplars—just to cut them down for me. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The dark web is where hackers congregate, drugs are trafficked, sex is sold, and assassins are hired. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z So Lee put his balloon and equipment into storage and with his dwindling gold hired a boat with a gas engine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The company hired young blacks with college degrees—nearly always the children of an already elite class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “When I first hired you, all I wanted to do was stop a hacker whom I knew was trying to stop me. I didn’t know that...” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Along with other industrialists, Swift and his confreres hired thousands of women to fill jobs vacated by men fighting overseas. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The eager young Sherpa wasn’t chosen that year, but he remained in India and was hired by Shipton for the 1935 British Everest expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I told her that she better believe me or she would get to the Behavioral Center and find out that she and Mr. Branwell and the attorney they had hired couldn’t get in. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Sherpas we’ve hired are the best in the business,” he told us. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I’d never seen any photos of this room, but its layout and contents had been described in great detail by the movers hired to clear the place out after Halliday’s death. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After he was discharged, he rejoined his family and took a job as a policeman in September 1861, becoming one of the first 150 men hired when Washington, D.C., formed its brand-new Metropolitan Police Department. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There he chatted with a young teacher named Isabel Hussey who had just been hired to teach at the school in the fall. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He’d been willing, even eager to risk capture and execution as a thief and hired gun. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The foundation hired architects and construction crews to complete the extensive renovations. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "When does a wight get to be a hired man?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When I was first hired out as shepherd t’other side the world, it’s my belief I should ha’ turned into a molloncolly-mad sheep myself, if I hadn’t a had my smoke.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Once there got to be too many bonobos, she hired local women to be full-time ape mothers. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Then he said, with the gravity of the very drunk, “You’ve hired a coward. What would he do if I hurt you, do you think?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z We were stunned by this, and dashed back to our hired car and told him to drive to the next station. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a bad beginning, but hell, I was being hired by Brother Jack, if he still wanted me, not this Emma woman. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He hired a chemical company to fumigate the fields. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z At the courthouse this morning, it was just the three of them, plus a photographer who Linda hired for the day. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I hired a Negro youth to come and help me clean up my parents’ house so it would be spotless for the new owners. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But I had precious little in common with any of them, and there was no forgetting that I had been brought along as Jann’s hired help. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The hired men had stayed back with the horses. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Joseph’s father has hired a lawyer,” she said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The two had been hired by furniture maker Herman Miller, with whom they had worked before, most notably on chairs called the Ergon and the Equa. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z William also had several Jewish colleagues in the SIS, most of whom he hired himself. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He had been hired as a machinist, but gradually the range of his duties widened. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z "So you feel you're ready to move from prentice to hired man. Are you quite certain you've learned everything you need to know?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z A hired gardener helped them with the harvest. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He became so proficient in his studies that, even before he graduated, he was hired to teach classes in Greek, Latin, algebra, and penmanship. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Another guy I knew really did threaten to have his personal enemies killed by hired gunmen after the war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For upstairs they hired the smallest, lightest busboy they could find. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Blankenship hired a private grief counselor to come to their house to meet with Lydia and Dill. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z He opened it at six in the morning, with a newly hired staff of two, Eleni Pa- panikolas, in a waitress uniform purchased at her own expense, and her husband, Jimmy, as short-order cook. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z |
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