On “one” I heard the unmistakable flap of wings and then saw Miss Peregrine’s head—her human head—pop up from behind the sheet to even more uproarious applause. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

They were all afire now, Maid and Mother, Warrior and Smith, the Crone with her pearl eyes and the Father with his gilded beard; even the Stranger, carved to look more animal than human. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“The human body produces at least one hundred watts of electricity a day,” Hideo replies. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I became what I was meant to be, too large for chairs, too strong for hugs, too big for human life. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Alice was gone and, seeing no other humans, he followed the scent of the game. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Sphinx, half human, half lion, was constructed more than 5,500 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop hitting poor old St. Paul—and give your heaviest raps on the head of every Nabob—man or woman—who does injustice to a human being—for the crime of color or sex!!” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

With Hector balanced on my hip, I position myself as a human shield near the door while simultaneously keeping my eye on Lenny’s nice lamp, ready to leap for it if necessary. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, we are paying too little attention, and respect, to the built-in durability and sheer power of the human organism. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“As your dæmon,” said Balthamos, “I shall translate for you. I have learned many human languages; I can certainly understand the one they speak in this country.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But they all sounded like witches’ brews: the plasma of chickens, puree of calf fetuses, special salts, and blood from human umbilical cords. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Such cooperation was one of the important trademarks of Homo sapiens, and gave it a crucial edge over other human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a human funnel with Francie and her brother making the small end of it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Safer is not a what. He’s the twelve-year-old human standing right behind you.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At first I think it’s the wind howling spookily in the trees, then realize it’s a human sound. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And then, only a few million years ago, the first true humans emerged. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So do the chimps.One day, perhaps quite soon, scientists may not need to use animals for testing drugs and for learning about human diseases. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the 1980s, human geneticists begin to use these techniques to map and identify genes linked to diseases, such as Huntington’s disease and cystic fibrosis. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Without someone guiding us,” Zeitoun finished, “wouldn’t the stars and moon fall to earth, wouldn’t the oceans overrun the land? Any vessel, any carrier of humans, needs a captain, yes?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

This allowed scientists to begin mapping human genes to specific chromosomes by tracking the order in which genetic traits vanished. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The tribunal set forth a ten-point code of ethics now known as the Nuremberg Code, which was to govern all human experimentation worldwide. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A human enticing a sheep from its flock with a soothing voice and then butchering it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But we humans now represent a new and perhaps decisive factor. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment, I think Cardan is going to run the human man straight through. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There he intended to sell all of his cargo, including the human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” I call after, “but while the toxin is effective, no human will be able to occupy the planet for quite some time.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She reached down to touch the hot, wet, moving mass, surely smaller than anything human, and could feel that it was human after all—fingers, toes, nails, nose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hear only the buzzing of flies feasting on the human corpse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it illustrates an enormous subject of great importance: human diseases of animal origins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When he realizes I know something about snares, he shows us a simple, excellent trap that will leave a human competitor dangling by a leg from a tree. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The five major human groups to which Africa was already home by A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That might have seemed like a good idea when he rigged it up, but every time a wave hit he was washed away, then smacked back into his control board like a human paddleball. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Nowadays the humans had instruments for measuring anything, so if there was any time-stopping to be done, it had better be fine-tuned and precise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s a little rudimentary, but this book helped to teach me what it is to be human,” he says. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I like this, patron. In union there is strength, as Father Jose Dulce Maria says. If the hens can overcome the fox, what about human beings?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sex is a normal part of the human experience, but unfortunately many people attach a great deal of shame to it.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

In her hearts, she had never and could never make that choice—humans over her own kind. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It is in the sterilization of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

When we had watered all the hives of Tiburon and sprinkled enough sugar to cause a human being to gain fifty pounds, we drove home hot, hungry, and nearly drowned in our own sweat. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That kind of immortality is not for us humans. It would just drive us mad.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It probably arose from a virus of monkeys and was transmitted to humans by mosquitoes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Using a gun like Guiteau’s, he shot into human cadavers that were about the size of James Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At some point, Gale and Beetee left the wilderness behind and focused on more human impulses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I whispered, remembering the black moods that pulled him away from me, that I’d always interpreted as well-justified frustration — frustration at my weakness, my slowness, my unruly human reactions. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hitler also spread hate by promoting the belief that Germans were a superior race of humans called Aryans. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

No one—no one human—could move that quickly; it was as if he were no more than shadows and wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The sides of my neck tingled in the place where humans once had gills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The other two were driven by harpies, who are basically demonic human/chicken hybrids with bad attitudes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even we humans have achieved the dubious technical dis- tinction of being able to make our own disasters, both intentional and inadvertent. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This familiar gesture of human friendship that I have become so unused to is made all the more unfamiliar as he chops the air with the knife. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So arithmetic was a warm and human thing to Francie and occupied many lonely hours of her time. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What, I can’t call you and talk, voice to voice? Have a human connection?” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

War came to the land where I lived with humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Their ordinary moments—answering the door, cooking in the kitchen, dancing to Adina Howard—assaulted me and expanded my notion of the human spectrum. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And though the American Medical Association had issued rules protecting laboratory animals in 1910, no such rules existed for humans until Nuremberg. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

When they decided to use me as the first human test, they were reasonably certain that there was no physical danger involved. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But from the chimps’ point of view it is no different to take a human baby than a baboon baby. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fve read about how they would torture, starve, and mutilate people’s bodies to something that was not recognizable as a human being. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ordinarily, nobody got excited about it—it was human nature. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At present, the earliest unquestioned evidence for humans in Europe stems from around half a million years ago, but there are claims of an earlier presence. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet changes in the human condition that mark this road, decisive though they are, seem incredibly slow-paced and gradual when measured against the events of the last 5,000 years. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of even greater importance was what the human pioneers did in this new world. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work of a human, the work of nature; clay from the earth, a branch from the sky. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

If I wore them, they’d disguise the human roundness of my own ears. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Most fields of human merchandising value nationwide brand identities,” he said. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Even the photographs I had seen were usually devoid of human inhabitants. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Volk had spent a decade searching for Ice Age humans in New Jersey. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Another man reached up and scratched his nose—the most human thing Thomas had seen any of them do. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I talked to my various human rights and refugee groups about ways I could get more involved in the future. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Both American and foreign students utilized him as their prototype for human development, spiritual dedication, and equality. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But obedience is only the Second Law of Robotics—and the First Law of human safety came first. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Although medical opinion is divided on the question, much evidence exists to support the view that similar effects may occur in human tissues. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Since Neanderthals and Denisovans contributed only a small amount of DNA to our present-day genome, it is impossible to speak of a ‘merger’ between Sapiens and other human species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I'd never been so jealous of any human being before in my life. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The females have two breasts on the upper chest that look startlingly human, with pale nipples. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Whatever. Good at math and a human lightning rod—that’s what you call cool?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, coming closer through the still summer night, the clatter of hoofs, the rumble of a coach, was a sickening, hair-raising howl... the howling of a human wolf pack. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clinical symptoms of the disease served as a reminder of the fact that Ebola is related to certain kinds of flu-like illnesses seen in human children. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If “forest primeval” means woodland unsullied by the human presence, Denevan has written, there was much more of it in the nineteenth century than in the seventeenth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We know of countless later instances of magic which require only the crudest and most schematic kind of representation, such as two crossed sticks for a human figure. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fish learned to drive and the humans lived in the sea. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

It looked almost as dependent as a human being for some acknowledgment of its existence. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her damp cheeks glistened like the pumpkin-colored wood of the table where Pax’s humans ate their food, brilliant against the white of her sleek throat. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We make our human chain and close our eyes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He also looked more human than a typical giant, without the dragonlike legs of his larger kin. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In human populations exposed to urethane or related chemicals there is a possibility that tumors will develop in infants through prenatal exposure, as Dr. Hueper has warned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mercer, he reflected, isn’t a human being; he evidently is an archetypal entity from the stars, superimposed on our culture by a cosmic template. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I...I’ve been sick for many years now. For humans, it would be about thirty years.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought I heard a tiny voice coming from a little insect body. It sounded almost human.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was looking around now, wondering which naked human being was Billy. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see that he had no experience with a human infant, though he was sure and facile with lambs. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But as is true of all humans, they were stunned for one day, admiring on the second, and on the third day could not remember very clearly ever having gone to any other school. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The hopeful question is sometimes asked, “If insects can become resistant to chemicals, could human beings do the same thing?” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The evidence for a localized origin of modern humans, followed by their spread and then their replacement of other types of humans elsewhere, seems strongest for Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was prepared to use whatever means to speed up the erasure of human prejudice and the end of chauvinistic and violent nationalism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was but one method for obtaining this life-energy: ritual human sacrifice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That the Moon went around the Earth had been believed for all of human history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

My peanuts, before my very eyes, changed into human beings. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“A number designed to rank my intelligence in relation to the entire human population,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The result, a compact treatise titled Generation of Animals, would serve as a foundational text for human genetics just as Plato’s Republic was a founding text for political philosophy. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Both parties heartily endorsed it, and to acknowledge that low-wage work doesn’t lift people out of poverty would be to admit that it may have been, in human terms, a catastrophic mistake. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first shot of the Civil War was fired in South Carolina, where our bodies constituted the majority of human bodies in the state. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The human mind is simply not up to the task. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She traced a line around her navel where her elilith would be if she were a human girl. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the walls between the arches hung tapestries woven with scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, tales of gods and humans transformed by love. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They could remember and repeat long passages of human speech, so they were sent into rebel areas to capture our words and return them to the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was red-hot, and a puff of smoke rose from what I guessed was a little scrap of human tissue that had been stuck on the blade from her last operation. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Well,” said Curie, with deadpan irony, “how proud your sponsoring scythe must be to have the first perfect pupil in human history.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

No humans are here, but they are approaching. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I could think of was that Mr. Robert was probably the only human being who’d ever put his mouth on a dog’s nose. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

No previous human species had managed to penetrate places like northern Siberia. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t she a human being like you and me?” my mother asked, and proceeded to prepare a meal for the crazy woman who, meantime, kept scratching herself till she bled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They became the first immortal human cells ever grown in a laboratory. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

From this angle, it was easy to see that the large black stones on top of the hill were arranged to look like a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

When one is concerned with the mysterious and wonderful functioning of the human body, cause and effect are seldom simple and easily demonstrated relationships. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These beings weren’t human, but they were people, she told herself; it’s not them, they’re us. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought so! This place is completely different. The humans have even managed to change the shape of the coastline.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Like dogs all across America, Fred was glued to his human’s TV, watching the new episode of Dog Squad that had just started streaming that night. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You may think that music is a luxury, a plug-in to make human life more enjoyable. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Cabot Searcy would not give up his “quest,” as he called it, for the truth behind modern human existence. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“If humans are so swell, who did that to her?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Chapter 1 provides a whirlwind tour of human evolution and history, extending from our divergence from apes, around 7 million years ago, until the end of the last Ice Age, around 13,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As a result these Japanese beetle programs have caused shocking destruction of animal life and have exposed human beings to undeniable hazard. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

With his shield activated, he was invisible to the human eye. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

As Lund had in Brazil, British scientists discovered some strange-looking human skeletons jumbled up with the skeletons of extinct Pleistocene mammals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The rest of the humans were in the field. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

A lot of human suffering comes from our emotions—fear, shame, worry, or regret. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

His arms no longer looked like human limbs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“A few monsters, a couple of human horrors to suit the present company?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Arm felt faint as he watched the human and inhuman spirits gather. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted a bath and a new bed and a drink and a little human commerce, and I thought to find it on the Connecticut River. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hear you, human. What can I do for you?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The Yunkai’i claimed that she fed her dragons on human flesh and bathed in the blood of virgins to keep her skin smooth and supple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Finally, small human populations are also susceptible to nonfatal infections against which we don’t develop immunity, with the result that the same person can become reinfected after recovering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It just galled her to think they’d been beaten by a human. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The njuzu girls were coiled up in the depths, watching her with bright, human eyes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first human footprint on a sandy Australian beach was immediately washed away by the waves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually, it doesn’t smell like human sewage; it smells of human sewage, because whenever it rains, the sewers overflow and the collective waste of Central Indiana dumps directly into the river. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That it’s possible to create a cure for polio. That it’s possible to sequence the human genome. That it’s possible to find a way to reverse aging. That science can change the world.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

But of all of music’s contributions to the human condition, its ability to create social cohesion and communicate emotion has ensured its longevity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“They say, Sparrowhawk, that a man favored by a wild beast is a man to whom the Old Powers of stone and spring will speak in human voice.” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

His shape-shifting became so fluid, he could start an attack in human form with his sword and finish as a lion, raking his claws across a katobleps's snout. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It was Mack who pried open that crate, Mack who bought me, and Mack who raised me like a human baby. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It’s good to think he may have made his way south down the long leg of Italy and found human companionship in a village or small hill town, safely remote from the capital. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

In theory, it could amplify itself around the world in the human species. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last a white policeman was stationed behind the privies to keep the children away and our course in human anatomy was postponed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Okra has too much pride to do tricks for mere human beings,” Mary Anne stated officiously. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His discoveries with the telescope would by themselves have ensured his place in the history of human accomplishment. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am so cowardly. I will not put my finger in any human pie.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out the spider- webbed window of that bullet-riddled car at brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, one and all, my human family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In a minute. He didn’t care anything about those Africans. They could have been rats. He was in a laboratory testing himself— proving he could work on human dogs.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not know anyone—besides the human resources manager at my father's work—who had one car, let alone three. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Their proposals to set fire to the grand staircase or sculpt the governor's head out of human feces had all been rejected. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It was the “greatest feast of the year, the victory march of the human soul.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Ganesha is one of the oldest and most familiar Hindu deities, possessing a fat human body, four human arms, and the head of a cheerful-looking elephant. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A human head beneath a cakebell at the end of the counter. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

His emotional support human, and that all this was just a way to keep his mind off his mother and the fear of a school bus swiping her again. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Most of them have a dignity about dying, denied to human beings. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is possible that the experimenters wished to see whether human beings lacking continuous sexual potentiality would remain intelligent and capable of culture. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

They showed a video clip of volunteers sifting through the wreckage for human remains. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Why,” said Michael, opening his mouth very wide, “they’re full of human beings!” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“You have to realize that it’s human nature to want to score,” Akhi explained. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

A tiny change in its genetic code, and it might turn into a cough and take out the human race. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d be lying if I said the human bat’s comments didn’t get under my skin. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Lastly, I felt that a right more immediately deeper than that of politics or race was at stake; that is, a human right, the right of a man to think and feel honestly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In humans the same is observed for children raised without physical affection—usually in institutions—where they are clearly in great pain. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, at school, I still kept plowing along, practicing drums, writing journals, completely bagging all of my homework assignments, and faking human interaction with the people around me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At dusk the drums of calamity began; their grave, throbbing rhythm came clearly through the night, throughout the night, each beat, each tattoo, echoing the mighty impotence of our human endeavour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in one far corner, alongside a font bubbling an eerie mist, was perched a human skull! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, the purposeful act of ending human life was considered the most heinous of crimes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She was mimicking what she’d seen the gardeners do — after all, she’d spent more of her life with humans than with bonobos. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Those jungle words have no meaning to civilized humans. I suggest you keep your opinions to yourself!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to “a human being with his skin removed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She began to wonder if any humans had ever managed to disentangle themselves from a fairy contract. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe that’s the best of all good things that can happen to a human. Let’s hear your story, Lee.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He preferred to view his men not as units but as human beings. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

About the only thing I have not eaten is human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the children devour the tasty morsels, it’s revealed as human flesh. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

They grew flushed and spotted and thick-tongued and tired and slow-moving near unto the lower limit of what is generally thought to constitute a living human body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The newly minted “human geneticist,” Josef Mengele, would soon rise to become the most epically perverse of Nazi researchers, whose experiments on prisoners would earn him the title Angel of Death. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I know a boat ain’t really alive, not like a human being is alive. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The darkness was black, complete, and Ugwu imagined the spider’s hairy legs, its surprise to find not cold underground soil but warm human flesh. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

By this time Aeneas, who in the earlier part of the story seemed as human as Hector or Achilles, has changed into something strange and portentous; he is not a human being. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

If early humans had inhabited Europe during the Ice Ages, they must also have lived in the Americas at the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As the throng of people moves, I let myself be taken away by the human current. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

In this chapter, we will examine the following questions: Is music innate to humans? Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

In the Age of Sugar, when slavery was more brutal than ever before, the idea that all humans are equal began to spread—toppling kings, overturning governments, transforming the entire world. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Gregor saw the bodies of rats, humans, roaches, spiders, bats, and other creatures he didn’t even know lived in the Underland, like mice and butterflies. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Getting animals used to the presence of humans is at the heart of the art and science of zookeeping. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have humans who dangle on ropes twining from the tops of tents. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

But it doesn’t have to end up with rhinoceroses and human beings and whales. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I... my lord, the men would never... giants eat human flesh, I think ... no, my lord, I thank you, but I do not have the men to watch over such a creature, he...” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“It’s real literature, the kind of human story people will read in two hundred years,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s this totally false map of the human tongue. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Vali’s human shape fell from him, and where Vali had stood was a wolf, foam flecking its muzzle. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Everything is collected and reused: old clothes become scarves, old food is dried and saved, and human waste is remixed as topsoil. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’d never met a Muslim until they came here, looked one of us in the eye, and realized we are human beings who laugh and cry, like they do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

In his business, he observed human nature and came to certain conclusions about it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the use of DDT, and its potential health risks to both animals and humans, that grabbed the public’s attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Cane was probably first cultivated by humans on the island some five thousand years or more before the Greeks. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

For a tree, communication is just as complicated and miraculous as it is for humans. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But he understood the stakes of the mission, and he told Hoover, “I am human enough and ambitious enough to want it.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

This is something I really wanna go to ... for networking reasons and just for personal exposure to fellow human beings who would be mostly friendly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was probably because the pig’s internal organs looked exactly like human organs. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And how foolish must one be to be reassured by the information that no bear has killed a human in Vermont or New Hampshire in 200 years? A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a powerful realization about the importance of our individual lives, the impact we have on each other, and the diversity of the human family. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Part of the answer is that actual humans experience a little more “friction” than marbles do, and the poorer they are, the more constrained their mobility usually is. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The latter willingness is one so strongly programmed into us citizens of modern states, by our schools and churches and governments, that we forget what a radical break it marks with previous human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wind Being waved goodbye, and its human form disintegrated into strings of wind carrying cactus flower petals and sand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Besides Sumerian cuneiform, the other certain instance of independent origins of writing in human history comes from Native American societies of Mesoamerica, probably southern Mexico. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If a Pogrebin is allowed to tail a human for many hours, a sense of great futility will overcome its prey, who will eventually fall into a state of lethargy and despair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is permissible to say this sort of thing about humans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the way, the custom, and it was the merciful thing, to give an unnamed, imperfect infant back to the earth before its spirit had filled it and made it human. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Staring at it dissolved its outlines, but within a few paces it had taken on a vaguely human form. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That it was not the other way around is especially surprising, because Africa was the sole cradle of human evolution for millions of years, as well as perhaps the homeland of anatomically modern Homo sapiens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When it was decided that people needed to die in order to ease the tide of population growth, it was also decided that this must be the responsibility of humans. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t changed much since last winter, maybe because satyrs age half as fast as humans. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The placidity of her countenance along with the smoothness of her skin made her face appear like a mask, with living, human eyes behind it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The statue’s head was tilted back so the bronze Mr. Lemoncello could squirt an arc of water out of his mouth like he was a human drinking fountain. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the way that the human mind can do, somehow I slid over admitting to myself the ugly fact, even as I began dealing with it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Jean Devèze, a recent French arrival, condemned Rush with a passion: “He, I say, is a scourge more fatal to the human kind than the plague itself would be.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was curious that when he was in one of these black passions he seemed to pass out of human life. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is said, in the Book of Enoch, that two hundred angels led by Azazel, the keeper of God’s throne, came to Earth after falling in love with the human women they had watched. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Buying something is only half about getting something. The other half is all about human contact." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

I got up and stepped between the human bundles toward the door of the train car. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many people thought it wasn’t enough; but the angels were only human, and it’s hard to build a new world without making people angry. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But, by working through each action-unit combination, Ekman and Friesen identified about three thousand that did seem to mean something, until they had catalogued the essential repertoire of human facial displays of emotion. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Pax trained his nose to the humans’ camp, which, as always, tortured him with its rich food scents. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he said, Copernicus was acknowledged by all astronomers except those who “were a bit slow-witted or under the superstitions imposed by merely human authority.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a modern human can tell her friends that this morning, near the bend in the river, she saw a lion tracking a herd of bison. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is much more important than human genius is the development of technology, and it is no surprise that the start of the scientific revolution ‘coincides’ with the development of the telescope and the microscope. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Her laughter would make it easier to accept my social isolation and human freakishness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the direction of an older bear, the human prisoners were building a shelter out of driftwood and scraps of canvas. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Those lost in the memory serum haze are gathered into groups and given the truth: that human nature is complex, that all our genes are different, but neither damaged nor pure. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Like things weren’t bad enough? What kind of human are you?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The archive reflects the human need to document every deed and directive, to place a veil of administrative tidiness over the disorder of famines and plagues and natural disasters and crimes and wars. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Heavy, angry hands all over his body; loud, angry voices robbing him of his being, of being a human being. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Playing marriage counselor to the zebra / human couple and other ill-sorted pairs, we can recognize at least six groups of reasons for failed domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t want me to go,” he said, “I won’t You know I have never loved any human being except you.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

You see her hand-drawn illustrations of the human mouth, the tongue, the upper and lower palates, the uvula. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The decaying human form cannot sustain the power of spirit for long. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, of the 2,500 kinds of mosquitoes that infest the world, almost 400 of them are capable of transmitting diseases to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

No human metal had gone into the forging of that blade. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As a result human biology has evolved as an adaptive mechanism to conditions that have largely ceased to exist. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers in different fields have summarized conclusions about the nature of music and culture after many years of observing human behavior and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“Then are you stronger than human beings, or weaker?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“They have peace with both humans and rats now. They do not want to unseat it.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were figures and faces, some human, some monstrous, and they had some kind of life and lightness to them, like the person who had drawn them could give them breath if he chose. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Then they passed a massive red crypt decorated with human skulls on iron spikes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Turn Percy back to a human or else!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m beginning to think you’re a twisted human—or no human at all.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was much too powerful to have been made by a human. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Thousands of kamikaze planes, suicide boats, human torpedoes, and midget submarines had been prepared by our enemies. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not offering his body as a human sacrifice again just because his father could not exist in the center of chaos. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Europeans act more human, or humane, whichever the right word is. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Being understood is a fundamental human need,” Dr. Legs said. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A biologically sound zoo enclosure—whether cage, pit, moated island, corral, terrarium, aviary or aquarium—is just another territory, peculiar only in its size and in its proximity to human territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trust that through his words we may come to honor and respect all members of the human family as he did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my saving human connection—my oxytocin receptor, as it were—is George, the nineteen-year-old Czech dishwasher who has been in this country exactly one week. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop eating them. Learn about their behavior. Respect that they have been here far longer than any of our human relatives,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

They weren’t humans to me, neither were they black. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

How was it that she went sailing, like a human version of their brass vase, out the bedroom window? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The measurement of variance and heredity in humans, Galton reasoned, should unlock the secret. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

It denotes the first fever of human pair bonding. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I walked putting heel down first, toes pointing outward thirty to forty degrees, making the ideograph “eight,” making the ideograph “human.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Refers to how human minds have to be living conduits to the Holy Spirit, akin to radio antennas. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Project Mercury was designed to do that, but again the Russians got there first, and put the first human being into orbit. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the point, Terrance’s brother had never received his human portion of sentimentality. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And you’re constitutionally unable to love or understand any son of God who says a human being, any human being—even a Professor Tupper—is more valuable to God than any soft, helpless Easter chick.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Animals much like modern humans first appeared about 2.5 million years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Early in the morning, Maya arrives with many other humans. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“You said — to use it against another human was —” “Dumbledore wants you taught what it feels like,” said Moody, his magical eye swiveling onto Hermione and fixing her with an eerie, unblinking stare. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they would be treated like human beings,” Mama said. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like talking to aliens pretending to be human. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He said Easter gave human beings their highest hopes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel gross and incredibly human. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

That social structure is ideal for domestication, because humans in effect take over the dominance hierarchy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first Lyra thought it was another child, but coming from inside the semicircle was a horrible high wailing that wasn’t human at all. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thereafter, the garbage preserved at archaeological sites rapidly becomes more and more interesting and leaves no doubt that we are dealing with biologically and behaviorally modern humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is a particularly funny thing to read human traits in animals, especially in apes and monkeys, where it is so easy. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When humans died, their souls clung invisibly to their bodies for as long as they could—a day or two—and then they lost their grip and were claimed by the natural pull of evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All of us have been driven nearly mad by our wives and sweethearts, but King Pelles was aware that there is a tough streak in human nature which generally prevents us from being quite driven. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is the time when humans have begun to sail the sea of space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those morning games satisfied the senator’s need for human contact. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sensible that I should speak and join the frolic, I opined that I should like to hear their especial call, having never heard human imitate that animal’s cry. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Pax remembered that his humans were most linked together on those evenings, and with their harmony he could let down his guard. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And now she was talking to him in a way that was not foolish and childlike, designed to entrance, but instead was human and pained and adult. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And if ever my faith in the essential saintliness of humans becomes tattered, I shall think of that evil-looking man. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally picked one up, realizing that if these cups had survived, a human body would leave more than traces. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The first is basic human greed and its close cousin, envy. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thought comes that Western civilized, scientific, technologic society is a standing proof of human progress, in having risen above such imaginings. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bark of the willow tree is extremely bitter, but early humans learned to make tea from it anyway. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We try to imitate girls we see in the human world, girls in magazines, girls we see on movie screens in air-conditioned theaters, eating candy so sweet it makes my teeth ache. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Spirit Bear wouldn’t show itself now that it knew a human was around. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But many of the big seeds, notably those of the annual cereals and pulses, are edible by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But now, the sun and the bossman were gone, so the skins felt powerful and human. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The former is beyond human capacity, and the latter is almost so, and is becoming more nearly so as the Machine’s experience increases by the second.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He was like a human skeleton, down to less than a hundred pounds, but he was still a relatively young man, and his hair was black and curly and oiled with Vitalis. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They hated the humans, but they also wanted to be them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For the entire project to succeed, each individual part of the mission—the hardware, the software, and the human—had to function according to plan. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It hit her with a wave of nausea that she had been wrong, all these years, to hide her empathy for humans and all that they’d endured. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their children resembled mine in all ways except the superficial one of skin color, as indeed they resembled all children of all humans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only drawback in that freedom is that without it one would not be a human. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The emergence of hiv was subtle: it incubates for years in a human host before it kills the host. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this moment, he’s just a human walking home on Henry Street. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“I have human instincts — they may be buried deep, but they’re there.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The weight of the young man’s arm took on a quality of something beyond human flesh. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mostly I saw monsters, but there were some human mercenaries in combat fatigues and demigods in armor, too. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But in the end they kissed each other good night and both were left with the feeling that the other was an extraordinary human being. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amazingly, however, they had heard no voices, met no other humans in the woods, nor were chased by patrollers who were looking for runaways. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as woodpeckers specialise in extracting insects from the trunks of trees, the first humans specialised in extracting marrow from bones. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I walk on with Sophie through the kitchens, past the human servants I am not saving, aware of the futility of my actions. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The sound of them rises and falls, a steady tide of human voices. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Not only does he hate me and want to kill me, he no longer believes I’m human. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

From sunrise to sunset humans sowed seeds, watered plants, plucked weeds from the ground and led sheep to prime pastures. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because that’s one mean human. I think he has magic of his own.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She'd also heard that bears laugh and cry, just as humans do. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Two planets are nearer to the sun than earth, but neither Mercury nor Venus is fit for humans. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The establishment was pretty trashed, and there were forty humans out for the count. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Speaking broadly, their solution was not to clear the forest but to replace it with one adapted to human use. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We thank all of our distinguished international guests for having come to take possession with the people of our country of what is, after all, a common victory for justice, for peace, for human dignity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gorilla line apparently split off slightly before the split between the chimp and the human lines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After all, when one thinks about it, it is not such a foolish thing to indulge in - particularly if it is the case that in bantering lies the key to human warmth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

All human beings are capable of the sort of intellectual activity that tracking requires, and when we investigate a problem we are engaged, as the realists claim, in a sophisticated version of the same activity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I’d rather trust a bunch of humans not to hunt a species to extinction than trust an LEP consultant, thought Mulch. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

More important, a specific part of the brain of humans and other primates — the region known as the neocortex, which deals with complex thought and reasoning — is huge by mammal standards. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Even so,’ she said, defending her own race, ‘I think it’s rotten that those foul giants should go off every night to eat humans. Humans have never done them any harm.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to give the journey a design, and everything in the world must have design or the human mind rejects it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am only human and sometimes I get tired. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s too violent, it doesn’t contribute to human goodness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

These were the beings who had fallen in love with human women, with the daughters of men, so long ago. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Unlike maize or manioc, peach palm can thrive with no human attention. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Earlier, when Bargh had gone to the committee at NYU that approves human experiments, they had made him promise that he would cut off the conversation in the hall at ten minutes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Anatsou prefers his tricks, but...but he supposes the human girl’s logic is sound. She has won Anatsou’s game, and so...” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

And because the Texan aeronaut was one of the very few humans Iorek had ever esteemed, he accepted the man’s last gift to him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure. So can we agree, a secret needs a human agency to know it, or at least write it down? A holder. A keeper. Emma Ramping! What are you whispering to Abigail?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“What do you mean? She accepted you as another human being.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their work had focused on aviation; after all, airplane cockpits were the place where human beings were most acutely confronted with new technologies, powerful ones that taxed our neurological limitations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I heard some girls talking. Apparently, Ruby wanted to go to Edie’s Halloween party. For reasons beyond human comprehension, she wants to be friends with that little brat.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Gram saw them, they had butterfly wings and hats and tunics made with bits of thread and spare buttons they had managed to pluck from unsuspecting humans who wandered too close to the forest. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When you put it in words it sounded reasonable; it was when you looked at the human beings passing you on the pavement that it became an act of faith. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I would remember to dissemble for short periods, then I would forget and act straight and human again, not with the desire to harm anybody, but merely forgetting the artificial status of race and class. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is one of the most humbling aspects of being human. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Dr. Gazzaley says that attention is also “absolutely critical for all high-level functioning,” a cornerstone of what it means to be human. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The people are growing hungrier every day. The Sapa Inca is asking if it is time for a human sacrifice to appease the gods. We will ask the spirits tonight.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

It was the first really universal law of nature ever propounded by a human mind, which is why Newton is regarded with such universal esteem. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It radiates an atmosphere of respect for the work of one’s hands and mind, of human dignity. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buried in textbooks and scientific papers, these insights would be ignored by powerful political forces that would soon embark on the most perverse forms of human genetic manipulations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I am staring at him, and his face morphs into abstract shapes, and I think, This is reality; everything is made of shapes; no one is human; language is shapes. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The fugitive bulletins made them a requirement in his line of work—Homer maintained a thorough collection—and current affairs generally upheld his theories about society and the human animal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If heredity too had a universal natural law, then it was likely influencing the genesis of peas as much as the genesis of humans. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Ariston, in turn, was something of a reformist within the Stoic school, holding that studies of nature and logic were a waste of time because such truths were fundamentally beyond human understanding. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“I need for her to act like a human instead of a monkey. Do you think you can tame a savage?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of them would grab a cat or a poodle—the wolves sometimes taking pets as large as Labs and collies, not to mention livestock and now and then a human. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In Ka’apor-managed forests, according to Balee’s plant inventories, almost half of the ecologically important species are those used by humans for food. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We bring with us all the riches of the human mind and soul. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If the dates are correct, are they really associated with human products, rather than just being a 15,000-year-old lump of charcoal lying next to a stone tool actually made 9,000 years ago? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hunters expanding southward through the Americas, encountering big animals that had never seen humans before, may have found those American animals easy to kill and may have exterminated them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to photograph some of our clients in order to give the life-without-parole sentences imposed on children a human face. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Certainly,” said Bogert, irritably, “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow him to come to harm.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

She looked at the ground and added, “It’s too hard to be human.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But he was also curious about the things that made all human beings tick. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the air was full of the roar of traffic and the hum of human beings. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently they sang an ironic twist on traditional human comedy song “One-Eyed, One-Horned, Flying Purple People Eater.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

By far the most exotic cargo, however, was human. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The thing that attacked the human brain the way the man named Anton had described in the barracks. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How it must disappoint them: that they would never be human. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left her dogs to run wild and tended every need, cared for the humans she loved and, although she never would admit it, loved even more than she loved her dogs. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He let us be human again; in all the inhumanity about us, he let us be human again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He should build a Lego zombie. With somebody’s eyeballs and human brains dripping out of its mouth.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Hobbes stripped the human personality for any capacity for love or tenderness or even simple fellow- feeling, leaving instead only fear. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It would all be true, the accusations that we were lower types of human beings. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He confessed that for years he had been in personal touch with Goldstein and had been a member of an underground organization which had included almost every human being he had ever known. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Whatever was twisted or diseased in the human soul was present in that room. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Where monsters crawled out of their dark places and were found dead in northern villages, or were somehow reborn in the soft little bodies of human babies. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A 1999 human rights report said that migrants trying to make it through Chiapas face “an authentic race against time and death.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I may be an advocate for free speech and human rights in public, but with my brother, I admit, I can be a dictator! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the early 1980s, the South African government began making minor reforms in an attempt to quell international protest over the atrocities and human rights abuses of apartheid. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

One of the dogs is a Malinois, imported from Belgium for her keen ability to smell human sweat and saliva, even from outside closed cars with their windows rolled up. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering, each rabbit, as he pursued his own fragment, was sensitive to the trend of the whole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not like that. It’s not even human blood.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Unsaid behind that brief exchange was the one thing they never spoke of: the shortness of their lives compared with those of humans. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

There have been tool-making ‘humans’ on Earth' for around 2 million years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Farmers, on the other hand, lived in artificial human islands that they laboriously carved out of the surrounding wilds. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I look like a human being and I still have to hide from everyone,” Håkon said. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And so every time an interesting new virus appears in the meat factories, the scientists take samples and craft them into viruses that can infect humans. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Who had ever, in all human history, offered to young writers an audience so vast? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

While conditions varied from plantation to plantation, the majority of slaves lived a twilight existence in which no area of human relations or personal dignity was sacred. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

On the one hand, many individually unlikely steps had to occur in biological evolution and human history for our present intelligence and technology to develop. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had seen dead lizards and possums and raccoons, but he’d never seen a human animal, like Sounder, dead. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, there is the whole question of my identity, and, more than that, my human dignity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eight or nine digits, the local telephone number would exceed the human channel capacity: there would be many more wrong numbers. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wood took up Loomis’s proposal to work in the developing field of ultrasonics, which involved sound waves with frequencies inaudible to humans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for we would know the mind of God. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Life-forms never seen by the human eye lie in wait for a challenger.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

To this day, the first human case of Ebola Zaire has never been identified. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a slickery swoosh, a tiny human being slid right into my arms. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Over time, weather and earthquakes and perhaps human malice had buckled most of the walls, but their overall layout had been preserved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole is a paradigm, a human institution possessed of a life of its own, self-regenerating, touched all around by human meddle but constantly improved, embellished by it. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gey took any cells he could get his hands on—he called himself “the world’s most famous vulture, feeding on human specimens almost constantly.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“The best fielders are human baseball magnets,” I say in my Webb voice. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

In facial structure and skin color, Aborigines certainly look different from Europeans, leading some late-19th century authors to consider them a missing link between apes and humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The human trunk can be attacked front or back. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1915 occupation, the police in the city really knew how to hold human beings trapped in cages, even women like Manman who was accused of having wings of flame. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In China, there were concubines — not what she wanted to be at all, but which proved human nature capable of different sorts of marriage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This insight has since been applied upward to the stars, and sideways to many subsets of the human family, with great success and invariable opposition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judges sided with Pauline—she was real to them, human, not a piece of property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

We prefer, none the less, to recognise human nature as we find it displayed in the everyday behaviour of the civilised majority in modern life—imperfect, no doubt, but certainly cooperative and frequently benevolent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a long and unprotected life I have seen and heard the vomitings of demoniac humans before. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When it comes to people, sometimes it’s a matter of taste, like these cookies. We like some more than others. That’s not bad. It’s just human.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe they know too much about the victors, especially the ones who’ve been celebrities for ages, to forget we’re human beings. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There must be ways of putting nucleic acids together that will function far better—by any criterion we choose—than any human being who has ever lived. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin might have said there was no difference between humans and clones, but everything in Matt’s experience argued against it. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why would a king of efrits concern himself with mere humans?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When did I go from human being to baby machine to fill your space? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“No! For the deed of killing defies justice, both human and divine,” I argued with a fervor that matched his own. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we don’t know how the brain works in detail. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not tolerate each other, they do not imprint on humans, and they are not instinctively submissive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Every human culture rejoices in the fact that there are cycles in nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Customers arrive in human waves, sometimes disgorged fifty at a time from their tour buses, peckish and whiny. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he goes into the last phase--the human virus bomb explodes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's got more neck braces and false teeth than she knows what to do with, and her drawers and closets overflow with human hair. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But even with the errors, the machines processed the transonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flows and trajectory analyses in a way that surpassed the upper limits of human ability. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He feels that he is a first-rate dog and has no wish to be a second-rate human. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the uprising and the liberation, the humans had been kept very busy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I stated that the food was unfit for human consumption. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said at the outset of this chapter that societies classified in the same category are not all identical to each other, because humans and human groups are infinitely diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the hatred she had for humans was deep and fair. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The argument rests, of course, on certain assumptions about the core of human beings, and is necessarily speculative. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was no more than a sore in the earth, broad and chaotic, gouged out by human fingernails, ounce to pound to ton. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The American journalist threw out questions to El Jefe about his policies regarding political prisoners and the recent OAS charges of human rights abuses. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I became a student once again, and learned about what keeps satellites in orbit, and about how weightlessness affects the human body, and about how to fly machines without wings. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to be as human as you can be?” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I commended these three men as individuals, not as representatives of the court or of the state or even of their race, but as exemplars of human decency under adversity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘These look more human on top, too. Not all scaly and green and stuff. So do we talk or fight?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In short, the variable outcomes of the Austronesian expansion strikingly illustrate the role of food production in human population movements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boys became cautious as humans always are, faced with a new situation. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the plant the change is highly disadvantageous, but it facilitates harvest by humans—the grain waits on the stem to be collected. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In human affairs of danger and delicacy successful conclusion is sharply limited by hurry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then, in the corner of Jason’s eye, a blazing comet streaked upward from the ground with a high-pitched, almost human scream. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If a general rule of inheritance lurked behind the data, it was that human features were distributed in continuous curves, and continuous variations reproduced continuous variations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hence the methods developed in some of these other fields may also prove useful in the field of human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed: whether from our long association, or from many dealings with human beings, and whether one kept silent or spoke to cloak one’s thoughts, he always knew the heart of the matter. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never been human—he knew that. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was simply what it meant to be human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

But then all that human breath was bad for the paintings. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

There is still no type specimen for modern humans. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He conceded that the era of the American Revolution had been “a memorable epoch in the annals of the human race,” but the jury was still out on its significance. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Winston could not remember ever to have seen a passageway whose walls were not grimy from the contact of human bodies. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Easy for you to say. You human persons are always flip-flopping about. Changing this plan. Changing that plan. All that flexibility is simple for you.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

His face was so bruised and swollen that he hardly looked human. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing ever rode the Gytrash: it was always alone; and goblins, to my notions, though they might tenant the dumb carcasses of beasts, could scarce covet shelter in the commonplace human form. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“You are a pretty human,” she said, voice dripping with honeyed flattery. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was fully realised that though the human beings had been defeated in the Battle of the Cowshed they might make another and more determined attempt to recapture the farm and reinstate Mr. Jones. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

One respect in which rabbits’ lives are less complicated than those of humans is that they are not ashamed to use force. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was sitting near the foot of my bed in human form, which was why I hadn’t noticed him yet. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Men have repressed us too much. We're expected to pass up too many human things. But do you know another secret?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I feel good—necessary and tired and alive. julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it’s engineered to “humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her fingers and palms became damp, shrinking at the ghost’s thick short hair like an animal’s coat, which slides against warm solidity as human flesh slides against muscles and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw no one—no human or vehicle—until a police cruiser pulled up behind them a few blocks from the office. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A part of me knows this isn’t right, but for this tiny moment I need human comfort, and Jake’s arms give me that. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Adams concurred that the reunion in heaven would permit them to laugh at their human follies and foibles, though he would talk with Franklin only after the great man did proper penance for his sins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Along the way, he also worked out and published the first tables of human mortality, the scientific basis on which life-insurance premiums are calculated. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rat regarded the three armed humans with amusement. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

If we cannot understand how this works, we are not likely to get very far with human society at large. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the entrance of his hole in the morning and made penetrating squeaks that are inaudible to the human ear but can be heard deep in the earth by other gophers. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the queer mass of human destiny, the determining factor has always been luck,” Mr. Turner observed, raising one eyebrow to Miss Riley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Here the cabinets were designed to keep human beings from coming into direct contact with Nature. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had he always been so terrified of humans? Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s called The Tree Man because he had such a severe case of human papiloma virus of the skin that thirteen pounds of horn-like warts had to be removed from his body.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The label seems to have unpleasant connotations, such as that human creativity counts for nothing, or that we humans are passive robots helplessly programmed by climate, fauna, and flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I asked Mother why they didn't act like that, she said it was because they were decent human beings, members of the Baptist organization, who understood we were equal. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The fox had learned the meaning of many human words, and he heard him use one of them now: “NO.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

With this unique ability to penetrate the unknown and rare talent for expressing it through art, the artist-shaman gained control over the forces hidden in human beings and nature. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

What would I say to them, that she was irresistible and I human? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He may have been thinking not just of himself, but of human survival. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You know, some people think it’s bestiality, for a Wookiee to love a human,” Daisy said. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Roy scoured the fringes, looking for a trail or some human sign. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I jumped up and shouted: “Shut up! Leave him alone! He can’t understand. He can’t help what he is... but for God’s sake, have some respect! He’s a human being!” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

There would then have been no galaxies, stars, or planets on which human life could have developed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there has been, at some point in history, some great power whose elevation was exempt from the violent exploitation of other human bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

‘I has told you five or six times,’ he said, ‘and the third will be the last. I is never showing myself to human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Harlem was a human body, then 125th would be its pumping heart, throbbing all the time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“She talked of humans with strange skills that were awoken by contact with the supernatural. Some could harness strength, others could change the weather. A few could even heal with their voices.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Satyrs mature half as fast as humans, Percy. Grover has been the equivalent of a middle school student for the past six years.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Prehistory was a phase of evolution during which humans learned how to maintain themselves against a hostile environment. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can I have a minute to be human?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She looked down and realized she’d just put her shoe through a human rib cage. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Elowen came after her, vowing that she would put her own hands around this human’s throat. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Loyal Muslims could be taught that a man’s accomplishments in his life outweigh his personal, human weaknesses. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How lethal these lawns may be for human beings is unknown. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I don't watch, but I can hear the snarls, the growls, the howls of pain from both human and beast as Cato takes on the mutt pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The idea that such a tiny creature could kill a human was considered preposterous in Nott’s day. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

They felt against their backs a colossal and excited human weight which they could only resist for a matter of seconds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know you were so concerned about me or my humans. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I realized that my classmates cared when they saw the images of human rights abuses and war. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the mall is a ring with benches where humans can sit on their rumps while they eat soft pretzels. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

When an Atuot person died, he came back to Earth as a lion, with a great hunger for the human flesh he once had. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

They now pushed and floated, like human driftwood, near the harbor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jefferson's version of a classless American society was therefore a pipe dream, because the source of the problem was not European feudalism but human nature itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the beams of his library he had painted sixty or so quotations from the classics, all emphasizing the vanity of human life and of human aspirations to knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Most of the divers just looked like insects, indistinguishable in their masks and regulators, but there was one shot that felt human. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“You call that human? I’m going to do all I can to see that you never come here alone again.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

If white sharks were heading north, what if humans had to adapt? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Since then, the claims of the postmodernists notwithstanding, we have learnt to develop reliable knowledge, even though we as human beings have continued to be as fallible as ever. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

We vuvv have long respected human hope, even when it seems foolish or...” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But there were human beings down there, whatever was left of them after a couple of hundred years, still sitting in their blackened cars, as if still trying to escape their fate. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It waren’t like no human sound atall, it was a kinda wail and a moan and a yell all stirred up together. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I remembered with an ache certain dishes in France and Italy touched by innumerable human hands. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sucked in a deep breath, his lips drawing together to a point, until he looked more ferret than human. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On another channel, the pundits talk about how lazy humans are, and how if they’d just go out there and get jobs, they’d be much happier. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I must go personally to purify this thunderbolt in the waters of Lemnos, to remove the human taint from its metal.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

And the seventh face . . . the Stranger was neither male nor female, yet both, ever the outcast, the wanderer from far places, less and more than human, unknown and unknowable. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A human heart is the size of two hands clasped together. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

When the powerful are made weak, when they are revealed to be human, to have hearts, their diminishment is nothing short of terrifying. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

He hated them with a passion he didn’t know a human could feel. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

So much for the distinction between authentic living humans and humanoid constructs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a great amount of the research is of little or no use to humans. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, human beings who shared its habitat found it annoying because of its sheer numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Next time you’ve got a problem just tell me, and then we’ll sit down and talk about it like civilized human beings. Okay?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way, he said, that he could be replaced by a computer, because salesmen need that human touch, that twinkle in the eye. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each history in the sum over histories will describe not only the space-time but everything in it as well, including any complicated organisms like human beings who can observe the history of the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Writing has evolved de novo only a few times in human history, in areas that had been the earliest sites of the rise of food production in their respective regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His Son Jesus came down t’ earth ’n’ put on human flesh ’n’ lived ’n’ died t’ show us the way. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Most white Americans denied any taint of racism and really believed that in this land we judged every man by his qualities as a human individual. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I need to prove to you that my parents really were human. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“When humans completely ruin the Fourth World, it is up to us Holy Beings to start again.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As it loomed up, it seemed to the fox to be as large as the house his humans lived in. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The world does not revolve around humans or around any other particular group of beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dragged behind a whale trying as hard as it can to get away from the human beings that hunted it. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

She wanted to consume every human, god, and demigod that dared to walk across her surface. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it is human nature to seek out hidden things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Spiders don’t eat human food. But it does attract what we do eat,” Spider said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

If architecture is “the art of shaping space to human needs and aspirations,” then Stonehenge more than meets the test. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not know what humans are; or perhaps you could say that it knew only too well what humans are: it knew that humans are meat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

First of all, there had never been a rock there before, and second, the man did not look exactly human either. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do not have human servants at Madoc’s estate, but I have seen them in other parts of Faerie. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The planet of humans and dogs spins and sails, spins and sails. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

And my voice has dropped so low most humans can’t register it. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

These, Bono illuminates for me in asides, and for the first time, I fully comprehended the magnitude of human story in our endeavor and the intricacies stashed like clockwork behind the regularity of our uniforms. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Because these seeds are edible, human beings took these annuals and helped them spread across the globe. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Yet another misperception people have of mathematics is that it is limiting, and somehow opposed to human freedom. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked out of place among humans, like an ogre in a storybook. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the way you humans talk about the abstract one. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There were reports of human illness, thought by some to be related. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Any person who claims to have deep feeling for other human beings should think a long, long time before he votes to have other men kept behind bars—caged. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were savages it was true; but they were human, and the ambushing fears of the deep night were coming on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am bleeding and sobbing and near hyperventilating, and I have never been so thankful to see another human in my life. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

For them, human beings are barely visible to the naked eye. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Did you know that toxoplasmosis and campylobacteriosis are transmitted to humans from the fecal matter of cats?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever the reason, something had made me human in his eyes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The human part of him had just been flushed away. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the normal chemistry of the human body there is just such a disparity between cause and effect. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pulling his chariot were four horses made of wind, each constantly shifting from equine to human form, trying to break free. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I understood what he had meant when he said that experimental psychology had nothing to do with the human mind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Even if animals can’t suffer like human beings, there is no excuse for the cruelty that goes on in our factory farms and feedlots. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

What humans were capable of came as no surprise to Roscuro. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Just as in the Americas, in Australia all of those few candidates except the red kangaroo became extinct around the time of the continent’s first colonization by humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only human form with dry feet was that of Daniel Chester French’s Statue of the Republic—Big Mary—which stood hidden under a silo of canvas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

By the end of the seventeenth century, preformation was considered the most logical and consistent explanation for human and animal heredity. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I know he tried, and he’s still trying, and he’ll still make mistakes sometimes, because he’s a human being, and I’ve learned now that this is what human beings are always destined to do. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The capacity to recognize syntax, to organize and deploy words into intelligible sentences, is innate in the human mind. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Call it the human spirit, trying to rise. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He poured the human teeth out on the table. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night, as I drift off to sleep, I wonder about the wasp, if there’s an insect heaven, if it’s the same as human heaven. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His may be the last human voice that I will ever hear. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

For now, there are rules dictating our interactions with the human world—those rules could change. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The human societies of those two formerly joined landmasses were in modern times very different from each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The composition of the human species is infinitely more diverse than most humans suspect,” she began. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Celaena had once met a young woman from that cursed land, and though she’d turned out to be both cruel and bloodthirsty, she was still just a human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog leaned against her and whipped his tail against her black stockings, happy to be in contact with a human being again. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remember, he’s fighting us. He’s on his guard. The only way we can catch him is to outsmart him—and, within his limitations, he can think much more quickly than a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Turner figured he had had enough of Robert Barclay’s tormenting propositions, more than enough to satisfy any human being, and he said so. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

I hoped the Mist would keep the humans from seeing it clearly, because what I saw would’ve caused panic and riots across the entire United States. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

If that is the case, the lineages of all contemporary humans can be traced back, exclusively, to East Africa, 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If I get started I have no self-control. My son Will says I talk to trees when I can’t find a human vegetable.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She missed being little, when they were the all-knowing gods of her world, but at the same time, seeing them as human made it easier to see herself that way, too. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m like a human baseball magnet,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

The fire, in addition to consuming buildings, sidewalks, and trees, had also taken a human toll. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The steep decline of these numbers over the centuries suggests that, for one of the gravest human concerns—getting murdered—- the incentives that we collectively cook up are working better and better. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Technologically primitive peoples were considered evolutionary vestiges of human descent from apelike ancestors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

We can now “read” human genomes, and we can “write” human genomes in a manner inconceivable just three or four years ago. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Researchers, absent the urgent need to know why radar operators fell asleep, started a new generation of more formal, deliberate experiments, trying to measure the capabilities of the human mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Dessie’s friends were good and loyal but they were human, and humans love to feel good and they hate to feel bad. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

People have been using human waste as fertilizer for centuries. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He would have advisers. Not even a human brain is capable of governing without assistance.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“If he can’t talk like a human being, how do you expect him to take pictures?” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

To supporters of Darwin's recently published theory of evolution, the find proved that the ancestors of modern humans had lived during the Ice Ages, tens of thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Brother Daniel was talking of the last moment we knew of in Mary’s human life, her Assumption. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The study of human history does pose real difficulties, but those recognized historical sciences encounter some of the same challenges. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Once we evolved into humans, things got pretty interesting. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Now Dr. Touch and the Sensations will play the traditional human song ‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love.’” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was light and watery, like a newt, but all of her parts were human. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Like Aristotle, Wolff imagined that the embryo contained some sort of encrypted information—code—that was not merely a miniature version of a human, but instructions to make a human from scratch. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, the number of possible individual human beings is vastly greater than the number that have ever lived: the untapped potential of the human species is immense. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking and writing involve very different kinds of human relationship, and only the one associated with speech comes naturally to us. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Without Haynes’s ice-free corridor, it is hard to imagine how humans could have made it to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It reinforced my belief that among white South Africans there was that small minority that really believed in love, freedom and human dignity for all. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Human minds, for all we’re learning about them, sometimes remain mysterious, human acts inexplicable. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the future, Holmesy. It’s not about hacking computers anymore; it’s about hacking human souls. The file is in your email.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, perhaps at least some humans in any large area of the globe would have been receptive to the experimentation that led to domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then they ran me through a kind of human car wash—a series of machines that soaped, scrubbed, disinfected, rinsed, dried, and deloused me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Devastating as the destruction was, it would be the human stories and the human suffering that would best define what would become known as the Great Molasses Flood. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

McCormick nevertheless volunteered to go there to try to collect some human blood and bring the strain back alive to Atlanta. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around 13,000 years ago, as glaciers melted rapidly all over the world, conditions in Japan changed spectacularly for the better, as far as humans were concerned. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before the show was over, all the humans were checking their buzzing and binging phones. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Perceptions shaped her; proving her only human, a social being. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are a thousand little movements on a human face every second, a thousand different quivers of a leaf on a tree, a million tiny things the real world has that the virtual world doesn’t. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The trails were wider, deeper, straighter, more businesslike than the human trail, and they reeked of buffalo urine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember it well — it was a very long time ago, and human memories fade.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“So I touch this thing in my lap and it’s like—this warm object that feels just like human flesh.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It seems that this idea could explain many of the observed features of the universe, such as its large-scale uniformity and also the smaller-scale departures from homogeneity, like galaxies, stars, and even human beings. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ask and Embla were the father and the mother of all of us: every human being owes its life to its parents and their parents and their parents before them. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Only Russian women went directly into battle to fight and kill other human beings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“But there are differences. The social studies I’ve read . . .” “They don’t deal with any basic difference in human nature between black and white,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for a couple of stunned hours with the rangers, she hadn’t seen human faces in what seemed like years. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Had a sort of human print in it. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life is like a memento mori painting from European art: there is always a grinning skull at my side to remind me of the folly of human ambi­tion. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have heard many stories about other villages where people have eaten human flesh. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long before the invention of the World Wide Web, cognitive scientists modeled human memory as a network of nodes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She seemed more human, but still somehow wrong, like they’d gotten the souls mixed up and put the wrong one back inside her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Why Miss Sadie had call to send me all over God's creation to dig up plants never intended for human use, I can’t say. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

And to hear David talk about it, it's like it all happened because a long, long time ago people tried to mess with human nature and ended up making it worse. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Because, apart from the human animal, the chimpanzee is the most fascinating animal of all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But that was just the amount required to make a human girl euphoric and energetic. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Hoagland, the human black cloud, had noticed this too, mentioned it sometimes as indicative of our good camaraderie. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they did, and as the stones fell they took human shape. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not like the pavement used in any human city; this was white stone, perfectly cut in long rectangles. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Saving society money is a travesty if the cost of that savings is in human lives. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are, as humans, heavily socialized to make a kind of rough approximation between cause and effect. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why had she been allowed to become gradually less than human and at last ... Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since that day, the wild pigs have distrusted all humans, and whenever they see a person in the forest, they think he or she is there to avenge the hunter. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The babies and parents were grumbling, but softly enough that none of the humans could hear. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

As a teenager reading African parasitology books in the medical library, I was boggled by the array of creatures equipped to take root upon a human body. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its mask was a real, grimacing human skull with sunken eye sockets. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was even a yellowed human skeleton in one corner of the room: Mo did not know if it was real or not, but right now it was creeping her out. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

You’d look at this house and never know there was a human being living in it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wished never again to see a human face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Politics was not my game; the human heart was my game, but it was only in the realm of politics that I could see the depths of the human heart. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After we get the first load started, Pattie morphs into some kind of human tornado. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But I want to say to you that the murder of Emmett Till was a cowardly act and a brutal and unnecessary killing of a human being. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I have to act through humans, as spirits always do, so both of us will have to look for a weak spot in the Gondwannan defenses. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Linda asked, just as Mark said, “Grace punched a guy? She looks like the human equivalent of a kitten.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“No,” I told her as I focused Grandpa’s camera, “you didn’t. They just gather the bones. Only humans bury their dead.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were all a little blockier than the human parts they were meant to correspond to, but they were recognizable. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Anatsou wanted to play a little game. He wanted to know if the humans would follow his funny trail to come find their lost treasures. Did the humans like Anatsou’s game?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I had expected bombed-out buildings and instead find myself confronted with broken human bodies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It is as unprepared for this jungle as its human siblings are. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They make a mockery of the usual sentiments about the pricelessness of every human life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whoever had thoroughly grasped it would be safe from human influences. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Big domestic mammals further revolutionized human society by becoming our main means of land transport until the development of railroads in the 19th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like twins, but they weren’t human. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across—hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Again he directed the wand at the surrounding trees and bushes, searching for a human outline, for the glint of an eye, but he could not see anyone there. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Wind Being’s human form unraveled and stretched into a long stream of air. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Inscriptions, papyruses, books time-bind the human species and permit us to hear those few voices and faint cries of our brothers and sisters, our ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, it's not an ideal way to grow crops, because it spreads disease: Human waste has pathogens in it that, you guessed it, infect humans. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

By cell count, humans are approximately 50 percent microbial, meaning that about half of the cells that make you up are not yours at all. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was never any simple, intimate, human kind of conversation between him and his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing, or iron tools. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many scholars vehemently reject this theory, insisting that both monogamy and the forming of nuclear families are core human behaviours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mariam remembered him telling her that on the screen a human face looked as big as a house, that when a car crashed up there you felt the metal twisting in your bones. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I thought I might implode if I didn’t talk to another human being about the events of my new life, especially the parts someone my age wouldn’t be allowed to see in the movies. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

For humans, there was a good biological reason to enjoy sunsets and long walks on the beach, candlelight on the mistletoe. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Foaly was a paranoid centaur, convinced that human intelligence agencies were monitoring his transport and surveillance network. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

When humans burned down forests and thickets, this also helped wheat. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the human being whose dead face stared emptily back at her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m illegal. No matter how you play with the words...I’m illegal. I don’t even know if I’m human.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Well, he’s only twelve years old. And that’s young, even for a human.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Stone tools indicate human arrival as early as half a million years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It became possible, for the first time in human evolution, to develop economically specialized societies consisting of non-food-producing specialists fed by food-producing peasants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although he died in 1562 at the early age of 39, he made his mark on human biology in two ways. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He lounged on his throne of fused human bones, looking lithe, graceful, and dangerous as a panther. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t understood it because, after all, clones were like dogs and cats, and humans loved them. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Based on what we know now and can reasonably imagine, there is absolutely no prospect that any human being will ever visit the edge of our own solar system–ever. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Still the mercenary continued to claw his way toward the door, shrieking and moaning, sounding more animal than human. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Livers infested with these worms are unfit for use as human food and are routinely condemned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The discovery of the New World had fatally undermined any claim that there are some things on which all human beings can agree—here were societies practising nudity and cannibalism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

You will come to understand the nature of life and what it means to be human before you are permanently charged with the taking of life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“It sounded like a cry, almost like a human—like a baby.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the chemicals in these Earth defoliants killed most fish and mammals too, as well as humans. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Human beings who ate infected beef also got the disease, although there were no human cases reported in the United States. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“The exact amount of human variability,” he wrote, could be explained by rather obvious extensions of Mendelian genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The same technology has been applied to human beings, with other kinds of rewards, and the results have been startling. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Riding Arion, Hazel felt powerful, unstoppable, absolutely in control—a perfect combination of horse and human. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And humans had the cassava roots all to themselves, since pigs, porcupines, and other animals wouldn’t touch them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It nauseated him to see Harley’s body jerking and twitching in the sagging barbed wire, with hands and knives so greedy for human flesh. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

These are the best that four billion years of evolution could produce, containing the full complement of information on how to make a cell, a tree or a human work. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like she waited for the greatest question to ever come out of a human being. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Spirits raged and swirled inside her, hungry to find this arrogant human who’d enslaved so many of their own. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

If true, that finding would suggest parallel evolution and multiregional origins of modern humans, rather than origins in a single Garden of Eden. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They claimed that they didn’t hunt humans. They supposedly were somehow able to prey on animals instead.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“When Miss Peregrine turns human again, she’ll be able to send you back. If you want to go.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Music fulfills all of these criteria, and is definitely hard-wired in the human brain. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The madam was broad-minded and modern, adept in the trajectories of human desire. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

At the end, the sheriff marries the woman who owns the saloon, which is a watering hole for humans but not horses. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Doesn’t that constitute a perfectly controlled experiment in the evolution of human societies, forcing us to a simple racist conclusion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His head and upper body became hairy like a wolf But his lower body was still human. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They worked diligently, hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But in spite of his immense wisdom and his mysterious breadth, he had a human burden, an earthly condition that kept him involved in the small problems of daily life. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

That’s why psychologists try to understand the minds of murderers and rapists, why social historians try to understand genocide, and why physicians try to understand the causes of human disease. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai uncovered her eyes and found Great Ellen restored to human form, the excoriating hawk gaze replaced by a piercing but compassionate human one. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Did hiv crash into the human race as a result of the monkey trade? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once they got here, the incomers from Dad’s novel decided to surgically remove their wings, in order to blend in better with human beings. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

All day, I watch humans scurry from store to store. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

It’s illegal to sell human organs and tissues for transplants or medical treatments, but it’s perfectly legal to give them away while charging fees for collecting and processing them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

His chest rose and fell like human bellows. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was gold and one was silver and one was made of human ears. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His story was vetted and scrutinized by former prisoners and guards from the camps, as well as by human rights lawyers, South Korean journalists, and other experts with extensive knowledge of the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But after four thousand nights among them—in their homes, on their skin—Sarai knew humans in a way the others couldn't, and she'd lost that easy ability to hate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Similar limitations on the resources accessible to existing human technology prevail in the regions of the world recently occupied by other bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Which, of course, had been full of aliens that liked to eat humans. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Here is the first sentence in my essay: What Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet is that you better be careful who you trust. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Because humans are complicated beasts, the monster said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

A blue haze of human breath and dust blurred the intricate bracing of the ceiling 246 feet above. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On these occasions, a human audience was welcome, but entirely incidental. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I steered myself toward the end of the hallway, imagining the light I saw there came from the sky, the outside world on the planet of humans and dogs. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animal's squeals were high and horrible, almost human in their distress. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One day, a still day when the hot air hummed, the humans came. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“This image reminds me of the human costs of war and why no one has ever used nuclear weapons again. We’re done.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

In 1871, when Horace was twenty, Charles finally finished his book on the origin of the human species, The Descent of Man. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’m going to play it safe and go read—and, hey, there’s Ruby! You two can enjoy the degeneration of human decency without me.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The mindless contents of commercial television and the integuments of international crisis and internecine warfare within the human family are the principal messages about life on Earth that we choose to broadcast to the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am expressing my feelings, Johnny. That is what being a living, breathing human being is all about. Hello?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

To like what we know and to distrust what we do not know is an age-old human trait. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was beautiful but unearthly - her eyes too bright, her features too delicate, her smile too cold, as if she’d been studying human smiles and hadn’t quite mastered the art. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Just for a second I saw a dark shape in the morning sunlight—a human silhouette against the brick wall, a shadow that belonged to no one. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Borelli treated the body as a system of levers acted on by the forces exerted by the muscles, and analysed geometrically how muscles in the human body acted in walking and running. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The rocky hole he lived in was to him like the worst nightmare of imprisonment would be to a human being. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

The reason for the hatred is understandable, maybe even human, but that doesn't make it right. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Looked at another way, it is a work of art, an expression of the human spirit, with its unbounded hunger for the ideal, for beauty, for purity, for grace. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He rested his head in one hand in a very human gesture. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the humans had such a low opinion of them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have evolved to live with human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

All human drugs work on bonobos, so whenever his wheezing kept him awake at night I gave him precious cough syrup I bought from the US embassy commissary. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For 2.5 million years humans fed themselves by gathering plants and hunting animals that lived and bred without their intervention. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hrdlicka had seen the Neanderthal skeletons, which did not resemble those of modern humans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The portal into the human race may well have been a cut on this unknown person’s hand. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If only Nemur would look at me as a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the human characters moved up for a second bow. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

How it took red toenail polish for a black woman to be considered a real person, how she wasn’t real just from the fact that she was once a human, a daughter, a mother. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots: between peoples with farmer power and those without it, or between those who acquired it at different times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was standing on two legs just like a human. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

There was nothing in the room that could have been human remains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Dwarf hair is radically different from the human variety. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The vuvv responds, “I repeat that human love lasts until the end of time. If it does not, it is not love.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What makes it a great deal more difficult to imagine is that everything which human beings would consider to be above the water level was fringed with all the colours of the spectrum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way, human beings and grasses also have been partners. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But apparently the machine had a purer soul than any human. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The 14th Quartet might, for him, be a communication announcing, “Beethoven here,” answered, after passage through an undersea of time and submerged currents of human thought, by another long signal a century later, “Bartok here.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the Big Top Mall, some stores sell new things, things like balloons and T-shirts and caps to cover the gleaming heads of humans. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

People seeing you as a Muslim saw you as a human being and they had a different look, different talk, everything. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s something very strange and touching about humans. An android would never have done that.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

This insect infests about a third of Africa, posing a menace to human health and preventing the keeping of livestock in an area of some 4% million square miles of wooded grasslands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Van Valen explained this idea years later, saying, “HeLa cells are evolving separately from humans, and having a separate evolution is really what a species is all about.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t argue that they should be treated the same as human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

As striking as these effects of barriers on crop and livestock diffusion are the effects on other features of human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In taking the veterinarian’s oath, she had pledged herself to a code of honor that bound her to the care of animals but also bound her to the saving of human lives through medicine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here the evidence is circumstantial, as it must be since we do not experiment on human beings, but it is nonetheless impressive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“When a bat and a human bond, they swear to fight to the death for each other,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the net result has been to bind the Earth together, to decrease provincialism, to unify the human species and to advance powerfully our knowledge of our planet and ourselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be difficult to explain to a dog the good and moral purpose of a thousand humans gathered to curse one tiny human. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One hundred and forty-six people, exactly the number of Monitors on each ship, is all it takes for humans to continue with enough genetic diversity in case the rest of us die.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In human years, he was barely fourteen, just a year older than Hazel, but that didn’t tell the whole story. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He sits for hours on end drawing the human form from antique casts, and also from nudes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They did not appear to be human, not creatures of this world. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only one capable of conjuring such chaos. Yours. A human created Mr. Flux.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

She said she sometimes wondered if maybe bats are better human beings than human beings are. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If he hadn’t been wearing human clothing, Anya suspected he would be nearly impossible to see. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

And they would rather see Prince Jones followed by a bad cop through three jurisdictions and shot down for acting like a human. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

All humans—including me—would be wiped out, just like the dinosaurs. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Alone—free—the human being is always defeated. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps this was why the human traffickers had picked this dock in the first place. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As her family continued to squabble over money, she grew impatient with the world of human society—so full of suspicion, prejudice, and greed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You may notice your fangs getting longer and you may have a sudden desire to devour human beings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As boats arrived in Saint Domingue from France, slaves learned that a revolution was going on in the name of human rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Very soon the moon shone and the nightingale sang over two horses and two human children, all fast asleep. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Ancient objects produced by black hands . . . refined by those black hands with results that no human hand today can equal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, it was a human voice,” said Ron. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“What do you expect of President Wilson? That human icicle,” complained Mrs. Schillinger. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But the universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as long as they could still see Africans as property, they could not treat Haitians as equally brave and courageous human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

On the fifteen-minute walk to the Würzburg station, the young soldiers can't decide whether to treat us like humans or dogs. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Mesoamerica would deserve its place in the human pantheon if its inhabitants had only created maize, in terms of harvest weight the world’s most important crop. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My senses told me that Tillie had coughed and spat into that pot, but my heart told me that no human being could possibly be so filthy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faster than any natural human could ever move. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He makes me feel that before the experiment I was not really a human being. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But they didn’t know what effects any of this would have on humans: Would it cause cellular changes, or even cell death? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

We sent photographs of humans from all over the world caring for one another, learning, fabricating tools and art and responding to challenges. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it comes, always—the overseer’s cry, the call to work, the shadow of the master, the reminder that she is only a human being for a tiny moment across the eternity of her servitude. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Not that the affluent are any better—I mean, human nature is human nature. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I feel like just a hand-me-down human being! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Instead of Star Trek trivia, they could probably tell me about every application of a weapon, yet could never even begin to fathom what it feels like to actually end a human life. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The expansion’s remaining thrust began when the Lapita potters sailed far eastward into the Pacific beyond the Solomons, into an island realm that no other humans had reached previously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is not a food for human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Rumors flew that the spikes were coated with human feces. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

It grabbed hold of her and before the slave part of her caught up with the human part of her, she was bent over the boy’s body as a shield. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He'd told me all about human traffickers who offered to deliver people to the safety of the West—for a price. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

‘Imagine it please. This human bean who says he is fifty has been fast asleep for twenty years and is not even knowing where he is! Not even doing anything! Not even thinking!’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the art and all the thought of Greece centered in human beings. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They didn’t know he mixed human blood with it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Clearly, however, there is a profound difference between human and animal imagination. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this human truth has an especially grinding force here, where identity is almost impossible to achieve and people are perpetually attempting to find their feet on the shifting sands of status. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I had lost hope in my white fellow human beings. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe no human beings had been there for a long time, but lots of things liked to live in cool, dark caves. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Debris swirled in the dark waters—a deflated birthday balloon, a child’s pacifier, a little plastic bride and groom from the top. of a cake—all the remnants of human lives cut short. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

No matter what race we are, what ethnic background, sexual orientation, or what views we may have, we are all human. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The “sterilization of failures”—the weeding and culling of the human genetic garden—haunted him with its many implicit moral hazards. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There was a terrible sound in his ear—terrible because it was human and yet without words. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was used to having other human beings right next to me, so I slept in my mom’s bed most nights. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was as though a chimpanzee had demanded to wear human clothes and to eat at the same table as people. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai used to tell them about the things humans did together, and it had been so scandalous, so remote. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And this touches me, somehow, even more than the presumptive lie about his assets: that this place he has described as so morbidly dysfunctional could amount to a real and compelling human community. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reader, you may ask this question; in fact, you must ask this question: Is it ridiculous for a very small, sickly, big- eared mouse to fall in love with a beautiful human princess named Pea? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

As he watched the eyeless face with the jaw moving rapidly up and down, Winston had a curious feeling that this was not a real human being but some kind of dummy. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"Excellent! You almost look like a human being now!" says Flavius, and they all laugh. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Being on my own over the past two years has brought me close to being a victim of human trafficking, and closer to being dead—and that was even before the Tap-Out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“And your friend didn’t want the dragons to get attached to a human. Smart move. So where are the dragons now?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Of course, the Americas in aggregate are anything but small: their combined area is fully 76 percent that of Eurasia, and their human population as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was about as black as a human being could get and as thick as he was wide. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe next time we go out to eat you can order something like a normal human being.” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To date, the oldest living human being is somewhere around three hundred, but only because we are still so close to the Age of Mortality. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Maslow’s pyramid seemed to imply that I was less human than other people, and most people seemed to agree with him. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Xan’s black, beady bird eyes did not roll as well as her human eyes rolled, and alas, the gesture was lost on him. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

They were human from the waist up, palomino from the waist down. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

What most people referred to as “the human condition.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

A human stepped in and clicked on a beam of light. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I wonder if his personality is anything like his human namesake’s. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

If Levi-Strauss is right, myths are constructed by a universal logic that, like language itself, is as characteristic for human beings as nest- building is for birds. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone would think he was just a little human being in a furry suit. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sandy said this sculptor wasn’t human, um, what does that mean anyway? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A few years later, at enormous cost to the humans, it was built. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Several hundred bats and humans sat on elevated bleachers that rose up around a central stage. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, as humans we can and sometimes should learn to rise above our instincts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If it was a museum of human freaks, I thought, he could be the first display. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was the chill of knowing they had used something they loved—the study of physics—to build the deadliest weapon in human history. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to make sure that he tells the truth to the rest of your humans,” Pet replied. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But the incarnation of Christ restores to human beings the possibility of salvation, reopening the gates of Eden, which had been closed against Adam and Eve, and opening to believers the gates of paradise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The typical accident involves seven consecutive human errors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

On screen, Root followed the human into his conference room. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t human, he might become something even better. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is knowing what that message is, but they is loving it just the same.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Confided in, trusted, one given human being who they believed was different. As you said, special.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Thomas screamed, louder than he’d thought possible for a human being to scream. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Theater is a collaborative exploration of the drama of the human condition, and those who are outsiders often are the best people to reflect on that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

His evidence was mounting and profound; this was something different, this device that captivated the human senses, and, in a way, recognition of the risks required neither science nor proverbial rocket science. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, any human beings who were observing the cups would be living in a universe in which disorder decreased with time. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

People employed by Gregarious Games during this period say that Halliday frequently locked himself in his office, where he programmed incessantly, often going without food, sleep, or human contact for days or even weeks. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The expedition was sponsored by the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford University, and it was going to survey an area in which they hoped to find evidence of early human settlements. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swatted at his eyes and snarled in rage, a guttural sound that was barely human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At one end sat Chiron the centaur, his equine posterior collapsed into his magic wheelchair so he looked like a regular human. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He will just find another human willing to make a bad bargain. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s almost time to go “Also,” Minerva adds, “Padre Ignacio condemns fortunes only if you believe a human being knows what only God can know.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But if she is so powerful, how could any human succeed?” he asked. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Kappa feeds on human blood but may be persuaded not to harm a person if it is thrown a cucumber with that person’s name carved into it. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Seed Collector, we will need to cooperate,” Wind Being said, its human body forming from strands of sand and flat discs of flower petals. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Like a government diverting money from defence to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older she got, the more human her parents seemed, and that was one of the scariest things in the world. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He appeared to be fully human, but from the way the dolphins fell back before him, he was clearly the leader. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was human nature, and when that happened, she would be even worse off than before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Under Cushing, John studied pituitary syndromes in dogs and mice and contemplated X-ray irradiations of humans. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Instead, it treated the Mormon ideology as a chapter in the larger human story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Roy watched in wonderment as more and more kids slipped out of the crowd and began joining hands, forming a human barricade around Beatrice’s self-buried stepbrother. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rapid spread of microbes, and the rapid course of symptoms, mean that everybody in a local human population is quickly infected and soon thereafter is either dead or else recovered and immune. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen human foibles that have resulted in temporary maiming or momentary loss of life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This was an axiom in videogames, and would be until humans invented true artificial intelligence. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The only celestial body that doesn’t orbit August the Sun is Daisy the dog, and that’s only because to her little doggy eyes, August’s face doesn’t look very different from any other human’s face. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The grilled meat smoke still hung heavy in the air, but Pax could only get a general scent of the humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If the inclinations toward slavery and racism, misogyny and violence are connected—as individual character and human history, as well as cross-cultural studies, suggest—then there is room for some optimism. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and catch my own reflection in the mirror across the room: a human girl, hair tousled, eyes feverish, a pool of blood forming at her feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The relatively slow reaction time of humans “wasn’t clear until the pressure on people started to rise.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

As humans, music is an innate part of our existence, as we all possess the physical mechanisms to make and process organized sound just as we do language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

The stars, the black skies affirm his humanity, his validity as a human being. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed the individual chirps of human beings almost as much as those of his cricket. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next shot shows mobs of people flowing like a human river down a winding mountain road, and disappearing beneath a forest canopy. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Bring out the boy, and show us he is nothing but a human child.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They did not at all fear taking our lives because they didn't think of us as human beings. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She was getting the act cheap, and she had to admit that die bird was very good, a skilled and professional performer who almost made up for the act’s human deficiencies. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adarlan could take their freedom, it could destroy their lives and beat and break and whip them, it could force them into ridiculous contests, but, criminal or not, they were still human. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

They were intermittently abundant in the sprawling camp, which used few pesticides, relied on human waste as fertilizer, and supplied no water for cleaning privies or taking baths. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Up until then humans had displayed some innovative adaptations and behaviours, but their effect on their environment had been negligible. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her crow hunted mice these lean days with more savage intentions than when merely keeping them away from his family of humans. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Similarly, throughout human history farmers have tended to despise hunter-gatherers as primitive, hunter-gatherers have despised farmers as ignorant, and herders have despised both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“For those of us who take our vow of austerity seriously, conclave is the only time we allow ourselves the luxury of fine food and drink. It reminds us that we’re human.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

So while I do believe Miss Duncan is a fine instructor, I do not believe that she is human. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“While my parents worried about the threatening clouds of war, I believed my Hitler Youth teaching that war was a necessary cleansing process for the human race.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first time that White had helped to end a human life. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Hence one has to suspect that the charcoal samples dated from the oldest human occupation levels consist of post-Clovis charcoal infiltrated with older carbon. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were the eerie moans and whirrs of machinery coming from the Grievers, sitting there as if enjoying the little trap they’d set for the humans. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

But what the song did to the two humans was nothing compared with what it was doing to the country. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

To us, the things that stirred mortal human emotions are incomprehensible. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This warm, devoted circle of people was always on the front lines of the struggle, working to ensure the rightful equilibrium of human rights—not just domestically, but globally—“by any means necessary.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I consider the park bench for a minute, but mostly I think about the different kinds of animals and humans that go through the park at night, and I decide to head home. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

As human beings, were born believing that we are the apex of creation, that we are invincible, that no problem exists that we cannot solve. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Unwanted babies and children may be slain, and there are even cases of religiously inspired human sacrifice. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been complaining about being dehydrated for at least an hour and human life meant the possibility of water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He still looked human, but his face was ghoulish. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“My beautiful Fleece. Prize of my collection. Take it, cruel human. Take it and go in peace.” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and the rise in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can say only this—that everything I learned about human decency I learned here. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps that makes me a little bit as human as my grandfather. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A place with more room, and humans who care about you.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

At first and for a long time it seemed to Wang Lung that he wished to see no human being but only to be alone on his land. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Working as COs, he said, would make us “students of human nature.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small handcar rested on the tracks, its iron pump waiting for a human touch to animate it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Today it covers more acres of the country than any other living species, including human beings. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When a. filovirus begins to amplify itself in a human being, the incubation period is from three to eighteen days, while the number of virus particles climbs steadily in the bloodstream. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He keeps working on perfecting the human figure using all these media and opaque white paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

How lighthearted, how human he seemed as he laughed now, his seraphic face untroubled. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“With data. For a while now, I’ve been working on developing the perfect artificial intelligence, an algorithm that, when implemented through the NeuroLink, can fix our flaws better than any human police force.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Other star systems are accessible to the human species, but only after great effort. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The third R of the physiology of genes is a word that lies outside common human vocabulary, but is essential to the survival of our species: recombination—the ability to generate new combinations of genes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Between 600 and 400 B.C., this great revolution in human thought began. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, as I said, by the time the chimps are five to seven years old they can no longer be part of a human family. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The extensive publicity about Garfield's slow, agonizing death shined the light on the role of microbes in human health. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was human nature, and Jule had spent years training to make herself especially good at it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was the language of survival, a myth that helped us cope with the human sacrifice that finds us no matter our manhood. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Honestly, Oscar was a better person than any human I had ever known. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Easy access from the air, but remote and desolate for land-bound humans. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She had the wonderful ability of being able to make all who knew her feel that they were special to her as individual human beings. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From within a cat howled in reply, but no human voice accompanied it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The staggering cruelty of the human race seemed to sink into her blood and bones. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Hence I have much empathy with students of human history for the difficulties they face. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked more human now, less like a caged animal. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Prior to the cognitive revolution, humans of all species lived exclusively on the Afro-Asian landmass. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are dozens of humans drifting through their chores, lost in sickly dreams. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don’t see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

‘So what I is trying to explain to you is that a human bean who says he is fifty is not fifty, he is only thirty.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took years in the crucible of human experience to value the gentle people one meets in the eye of the storm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forming a human barrier, they stopped the streetcars in their tracks. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were low bluffs, rock and sand and dunes that dimmed away out of sight, but no sign of any human habitation. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her memories of her mother were all secondhand, borrowed from the humans she visited in the night. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Its vaguely human body sank onto its haunches, and it slid its long front arms across the stone floor. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The crawlers had numbers—huge numbers, compared with the humans. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a high-pitched wail, a sound that couldn’t have possibly come from a human. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here’s a fun fact,” Mr. Chang says, “if humans bomb the planet with their nuclear arsenal, the only life left on Earth will be cockroaches. Only they can survive the toxic fallout.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Flux’s bent knees straightened, lifting the rest of his body to a standing position in a way no normal human could ever manage. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was as though she were telling them they had done wrong to approach this human animal, and should now stay away from her. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

When humans heard the news, they believed it. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We formed a long line, each boy taking hold of another boy’s hand until we were stretched out like a long string of human beads. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

So can animals suffer if they can’t think like human beings? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Despite their many differences, all human species share several defining characteristics. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This business of saving souls had no ethics; every human relationship was shamelessly exploited. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ran as Robert said they did, wilder than antelope, smarter than elk about human beings. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vanderbilt swung the gates open and unleashed a human stampede. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A store is where humans buy things they need to survive. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

For me, it had always been important that people see Barack as human and not as some otherworldly savior. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A fiendish rage animated him as he said this; his face was wrinkled into contortions too horrible for human eyes to behold; but presently he calmed himself and proceeded— Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d heard that most human civil wars started as fights between Greek and Roman demigods. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This place is designed to remind us again and again that we’re not really human. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Under wild conditions those are members of their own species, but captive young herd animals also see humans nearby and imprint on humans as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since then, the dove has been able to give epilepsy to humans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There weren’t too many animals on the planet that were capable of eating a human and I had conflicting thoughts about this. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

How I knew there was a human being there was not clear to me then. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's only so much time a day that you can spend being terrified of something before your instinct to feel natural human emotions would kick in. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It kills humans with swift efficiency and with a devastating range of effects. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had indeed been an awful strain on him; and had he not been forced to his task by more than human considerations he could never have gone through with it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’d never had such a powerful, immediate connection with another human being before. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I knew you were amazing, Janna!” she says, as if being like her immediately catapults me into another class of human beings. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the world, the carrying capacity for humans is limited. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They went as far as they could to the place where no human could go beyond, and his little footprints were mixed in with bear tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I do know. You are one hundred percent human.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The stench of human waste, urine, rotting wounds, and strong rubbing alcohol surrounds me, permeating my clothes, skin, and hair. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as the traffic light turned green, I told him, “I don’t mind shaking hands with human beings. Are you one?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But human ways are hard to learn, especially when you’re not a human. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

He understood he was only a photograph of a human, and that meant he wasn’t really important. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as fer human goodness—men’s hearts is jest as black today as in the Roman times when they nailed slaves to crosses by the hunderd and left ’em there to point up a lesson.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here was the true Great Spirit, the divine thread connecting all human endeavor—if you can keep it, it is yours. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I mean there is one time when a robot may strike a human being without breaking the First Law. Just one time.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Indeed, against the backdrop of scientific endeavour and machine-like precision there was a very human emotion that enriched every note of Handel’s solo arias in opera and oratorio: compassion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Of course it is a language. It is not a big language like human speech, but it is large.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carry, half concealed within their medical terminology, stories of such human tragedies as that of two young cousins in Czechoslovakia, boys who lived in the same town and had always worked and played together. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I will offer my sands and support. In return, if I ever need assistance from either the water monster or the human, I shall expect them to help me.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I’ve watched many humans watch me, but never have they looked so happy. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

That experience has made the difficulties in devising a scientific approach to human history familiar to me. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Carrie, remember, was the one who read poetry, studied Latin and Greek, talked cultured, believed in human excrement, and put mourning dye on Mary Toy’s hair for Granny’s funeral. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I developed a mental image of reporters as human ferrets— steadily sniffing, darting, probing for some way to trick me, somehow to comer me in our interview exchanges. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tickle him, though — this little bonobo has never had direct contact with humans, and I’d like to keep it that way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Back up and say that again in human words.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were no longer mere pictures in a textbook, but living humans in front of me. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, the irony is that humans, like the animals in Animal Farm, do not work equally. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all of my detail leaders, he was smart, trained to be hyperaware at every moment, a human sensor. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A single human virus bomb had walked into the hospital’s waiting room and exploded there, and the event had put the hospital out of business. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the heads were wooden, nearly human sized and huge eyed, but the bodies were of a wild variety of materials. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell them that he was the first human being aside from my mother who had ever made me want to talk about the things that scared me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

His humans would peel these layers, one by one, and study them. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The fact of insecticide storage in the germ cells of any species should therefore disturb us, suggesting comparable effects in human beings. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Everything Kaede had been taught led her to believe that the Xi had no interest in humans anymore. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is an appeal we humans have felt before. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Your heart is a stone, Capricorn, a black stone with about as much human sympathy as a lump of coal, and you are very, very proud of that.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her avatar lost its human form and dissolved into a pulsing amorphous blob that changed its size and color in synch with the music. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

For medieval Christians, the existence of such a chain of humans provided a most powerful and original understanding of original sin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Eventually, typhus microbes discovered that human body lice offered a much more efficient method of traveling directly between humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It is thought that the virus went through a series of very rapid mutations at the time of its jump from primates to humans, which enabled it to establish itself successfully in people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But. A human child. A living child. I mean. I mean, I mean. This is a graveyard, not a nursery, blast it.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

If mother buffalo was glad to see the fence-hopping human again, she didn’t show it. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad says that’s how the first human caught a fish, by watching what the birds did. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Did this human not know that the Black Tortoise was forever? When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Acromantulas and Manticores are capable of intelligent speech but will attempt to devour any human that goes near them. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is a simple ceremony. Many bats and humans gather. You stand face-to-face with your bat and say a vow. Like so,” said Luxa, extending her hand and reciting a poem. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But in Epsilons,” said Mr. Foster very justly, “we don’t need human intelligence.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other humans, having no knowledge of the presence of androids among them, had to be protected at all costs—even that of losing the quarry. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The Greeks believed that studying music would produce better, more tolerant and nobler human beings. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Each one was bent at the knee and ended in a bare brown human foot. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She was just being a decent human being. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

And if they could talk to animals, and the animals could talk to them, what didn’t they know about human beings? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the world, I may be Malala, the girl who fought for human rights. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In fifteen seconds, he was leaping directly toward the two humans in an unsteady canter. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

That melted corpse was hardly even recognizable as a human being. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

For me, growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fadi read that Clive’s trademark photography style was “capturing the essence of human diversity, cultures, struggles, and joy.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if it’s worse to spend all day in my room, or struggle through my classes and be forced to speak to other human beings. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nor should we forget the cruelty to animals who are used just so that we can satisfy our human desire for knowledge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

This was one of the truly epoch-making achievements of human history. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were humans, cyborgs, demons, dark elves, Vulcans, and vampires. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He came down from a height where no human eye could see him, landed on the girder, and took off again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

He has seen the Martians feed on humans, and he has hidden to survive. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

And these humans wouldn’t stay complacent for long. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Obviously, this was not because they had become more human but because they were under orders and because they were afraid. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Face-to-face with those whose lives hang in the balance, they are far closer to the human tragedy occasioned by the drug war than the legislators who write the laws from afar. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Nemur’s constant references to having made me what I am, or that someday there will be others like me who will become real human beings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, a domesticated animal is defined as an animal selectively bred in captivity and thereby modified from its wild ancestors, for use by humans who control the animal’s breeding and food supply. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

These were the first signs the expedition had found that indicated humans lived along the River of Doubt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The mammoths of Wrangel continued to prosper for a few more millennia, then suddenly disappeared about 4,000 years ago, just when the first humans reached the island. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was to be a justifier, my task would be to deny the unpredictable human element of all Harlem so that they could ignore it when it in any way interfered with their plans. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such vicious noise, such contorted faces, they were barely human in their horror. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Matt could read and write, climb hills, play music, and do anything a real human might do—all because El Patron loved him. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On closer examination, it merely proves to reflect the ubiquitous role of geography in the transmission of human culture and technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In order to do this, he needed to use blood serum from human victims. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If it won’t respond to humans, then it will have to be killed,” Dorian said offhandedly, and a spark went through Celaena. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Studying data on human structural limits compiled by Finnish mathematicians, famed track coach Brutus Hamilton penned an article for Amateur Athlete magazine stating that a four-minute mile was impossible. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Because she will not think we are a threat. We are three humans with a tiny little dagger.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And slowly a discussion begins—as Morrie has wanted all along—about the effect of silence on human relations. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said Luke wasn’t a fish or a piece of dirt either, he was a human being and could make his own decisions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ll know I’m not human when they see me play basketball,” he says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

On extremely cold days, the towns are covered in a fog caused by the breath of humans and animals. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout, “White Power!" when nobody will shout, “Black Power!" but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And whenever he passed humans—” “The humans would pass out,” Nico said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

But the way he’s looking, I wonder if it’s just weird to see us together, redcap general and human girl. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The debate over the commercialization of human biological materials always comes back to one fundamental point: like it or not, we live in a market-driven society, and science is part of that market. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But in the meantime two scientists had developed a theory about HeLa that sounded far more like science fiction than anything Rifkin had come up with: HeLa, they said, was no longer human. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

And then one day one human tells another human that he doesn’t want to walk to school with her anymore. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“In the old days, there were more. Whole constellations have disappeared because of human light pollution.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

If this is true, it would mean that the human mind is preset, in some primary sense, to generate more than just the parts of speech. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here were two successive experiments in human development, in which the environment was identical and the sole variable was the people occupying that environment. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Who was a great enough human being to come up with words for this occasion? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For millions of years, humans hunted smaller creatures and gathered what they could, all the while being hunted by larger predators. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any object, such as a human body, is attracted more strongly to a large planet than to a small one. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the increase in births still outpaced the increase in deaths; humans kept having larger numbers of children. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was not given to conspiracy theories or believing that the U.S. government willfully committed human rights violations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It is not human arrogance that has taken us in this direction, but the most natural of natural events. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But none of those tamed animals was actually domesticated—that is, selectively bred in captivity and genetically modified so as to become more useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But the Star gave the humans unnatural power, and so the lesser creatures fled, disappearing into the deep places to wait out the war. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The truth is that Aché society, like every human society, was very complex. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could punish the humans, but only once they were dead, and that did not satisfy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘You is a human bean and you is saying it is grizzling and horrigust for giants to be eating human beans. Right or left?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Would you understand what I meant if I said I was only human?” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Faustian bargain between humans and grains was not the only deal our species made. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m afraid I couldn’t like him without a spice of human naughtiness. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

His horns had grown at least an inch, so he now had to wear his rasta cap all the time to pass as human. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then they gathered humans and animals in the courtyard, poured gasoline on the little brick houses that had once been Trueba’s pride and joy, and set fire to them and everything inside them. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I should be shocked, horrified even, that we had just slaughtered a group of beings—not human perhaps, but living, breathing beings in their own right. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was the burned-out remains of a human they lifted onto the bed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And here Jule was, out on the sea, this crazy turquoise sea, with this rare, unique human being. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In unison, the owls rotated their onion-sized heads to stare at the humans who were staring at them. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the first stroke of luck I’ve had all day, my English teacher actually seems to be an interesting human being. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His seamed face showed the concern and sympathy of one human for another in a predicament every man understands. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

My uncle's voice, when he's speaking like a regular human being, is deep, but not in a scary way. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was agreed that the C.D.C. would manage the human-health aspects of the outbreak and would direct the care of any human patients. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if history had taught any lessons it was that humans couldn’t get along with anyone, even themselves. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

This was no time to indulge in human concerns or personal questions. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And seeing how “It” wasn’t even close to something I’d ever even consider discussing with another human being, I stuck with the dead boyfriend instead. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“There are no limits to human greed,” says my father. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The car, like a stoned human, stopped moving, and a piece of wrought-iron decoration shattered a rear window. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And this revolution has freed the Dreamers to plunder not just the bodies of humans but the body of the Earth itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Do people who kill start out like me, or are they a different kind of human? The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Juliet was the only human she knew who was probably more lucid under the mesmer. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked down at her for a moment, the light of dawn seeking out the color of his eyes and making him look almost human. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s had nary a word of human feelin’ fer what happened to that little girl, nary a word of thanks that Matt saved his worthless boy from his neighbors. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last letter I received from him drew from my eyes human tears, and yet filled my heart with divine joy: he anticipated his sure reward, his incorruptible crown. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a minute it hurts even more as the bandage material, the human cell whatever the hell she talked about, crawls into the wounds and makes a bind. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Since survival in the snowy forests of northern Europe required different traits than those needed to stay alive in Indonesia’s steaming jungles, human populations evolved in different directions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No! Ngozis can no longer demand human beings as payment! That custom is illegal—and it’s stupid—and cruel! I will not agree!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain always said that nothing was more responsible than doing what was in your power to make another human being happy. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t say anything back, just pretended I didn’t hear him and let Chris go on inhaling his food like a human vacuum. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Shocked by the toll in human life, critics have been quick to suggest policies and procedures to ensure that the catastrophes of this season won’t be repeated. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The animals distrusted Pilkington, as a human being, but greatly preferred him to Frederick, whom they both feared and hated. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The Short-Snout has fewer human killings to its name than most dragons, though as it prefers to live in wild and uninhabited mountainous areas, this is not much to its credit. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The human giggled delightedly, clapping her hands together. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I could see the play of human movements on the streets below the track. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That would explain me as part of the human race?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

‘You is forgetting that I is doing this sort of thing for years and years and years. No human bean is ever catching even the smallest wink of me.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nomos is the postmodern philosopher who argues that the entire landscape is constructed—that it has no essential, innate qualities, but is simply a reflection of chance and human action. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because as human beings we store digits in a memory loop that runs for about two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

All are instances of that animal equivalent of anthropomorphism: zoomorphism, where an animal takes a human being, or another animal, to be one of its kind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had rubbed his hair hard with green leaves to cover human odor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If they went hungry, it was not from feeding tyrannical human beings; if they worked hard, at least they worked for themselves. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fixed my eyes on a purple human liver that looked just like the cow liver Mom always served me because it was “filled with iron.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

So even for someone who considers a fetus to be worth only one one-hundredth of a human being, the trade-off between higher abortion and lower crime is, by an economist’s reckoning, terribly inefficient. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Gethenian sexual physiology, so far as we yet know, is unique among human beings.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

See, the All-City band needed a human service project, and a couple of the students came up with an amazing plan for one. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you expect with someone like her coming around to tempt him? He’s only human!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if they could, as if human beings could make a choice. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen brown before. Not on a human,” said Luxa, staring into Boots’s eyes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bent over and picked up from the tiled floor what appeared to be a long, mysteriously blondish human hair. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

The resulting artificial habitat was meant only for humans and 'their' plants and animals, and was often fenced off by walls and hedges. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

These alterations don’t make him appear more normal, however, but more anomalous, like a creature from an alien planet disguised in human clothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere he’d heard or read or seen that the human body couldn’t go that long without water. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His quick fingers turned the pages until they came upon an engraving of a man’s body, its skin flayed open to reveal bones, the human heart, and a maze of conduits and sinews. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a romantic poem I wrote ‘in the human style’ will help you understand,” says the vuvv. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was speechless at the man’s attitude, and at my own physical feeling of no difference between us as human beings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fur was long and lustrous, each hair seeming to be made of pure gold, much finer than a human’s, and his little face and hands were black. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For in a swift radiance of illumination he saw a glimpse of human struggle and of valor. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I was a soldier; I was an officer in the Marines, and then I earned my living as an explorer; I was as fit and healthy as it’s possible for a human to be. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Moreover, human beings were made in the image of God: a view hardly compatible with the notion that their senses were defective. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

How many separate times did writing evolve in human history, under what circumstances, and for what uses? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of poetry and beautiful clothes, such people were surely not fully human—were primitive; that’s a word the Portuguese must have used, to salve their conscience for what was to come. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

But wars, even between mere bands, have been a constant fact of human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Parrots are known to be long-lived, and among all the world’s birds, African Greys are best at imitating human speech. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Supplies aren't nearly so fragile as humans and can hit the ground really hard. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Didn’t know where he was going to begin with, poor old thing. He drank more jack-leg liquor than any human I ever saw. That was his one accomplishment.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“There’s no automatic cut-in of the vagus nerve,” Phil Resch said, “in an android. As there is in a human. Weren’t you taught that when they trained you? I got taught that years ago.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As long as I know that I am a human being, I don’t need to worry about what other people say. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the principal, underlying cause was that, as early as the beginning of the twentieth century, human equality had become technically possible. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

So it was with confidence, strengthened by pity and pride, that we decided to change the course of events and alter a human life. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess we're both so nervous about the Games and more pressingly, petrified of being turned into human torches, we're not acting sensibly. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Trolls generally converse in grunts that appear to constitute a crude language, though some have been known to understand and even to speak a few simple human words. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Not once has she killed a human being.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But even then we could not mix those chemicals together and have a human being emerge from the jar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words of these songs were composed without any human intervention whatever on an instrument known as a versificator. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Accustomed to nestling with a bedful of siblings and grannies, they fitted their privacy tighter rather than claim the haunted room as human territory. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason we say that humans have free will is because we can’t predict what they will do. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red dot was moving rapidly through the countryside toward the human population. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

There would be no need for any of the animals to come in contact with human beings, which would clearly be most undesirable. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He didn’t care how frightened she’d been, or how upset she was.— it was like she wasn’t even human!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s all science and beauty and nature, minus the messed-up stuff of the human world. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Planting their orchards for millennia, the first Amazonians slowly transformed large swaths of the river basin into something more pleasing to human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even human beings had not only an immaterial mind but a material sensitive soul, capable of a physical presence after death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“He’s human through and through. No other creature would be as selfish as he is, not fairies or gnomes or elves or giants.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The searchers unearthed two buried vaults full of quicklime and human remains. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A man—a real man, a human being—stood in the doorway, watching them approach. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He started reading news reports about HeLa cells and the contamination problem and realized it would make a great story for Rolling Stone—the perfect mix of science and human interest. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“There’s always a risk for humans to be around the cold ones, even if they’re civilized like this clan was. You never know when they might get too hungry to resist.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The collected knowledge, art, and amusements of all human civilization were there, waiting for me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He would then lead the herd into an open area of the forest where he would change back into human form, then trap and shoot the pigs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The human being, even in the midst of people, spends nine-tenths of his time alone with the private voices of his own head. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You is only interested in guzzling human beans.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary watched Serafina Pekkala with a mixture of wariness and admiration: she had never seen a human form so slender and graceful. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s what everyone does. You work out how loud you can talk, how you can sit, what things are okay to say and what’s rude. It’s called being a human in society.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Billionaire philanthropists donate their entire fortunes to fund efforts that bring Fixers to impoverished nations, making certain that every human on the planet in need is able to receive treatment. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then another front leg, then hindquarters, and then the box was empty, nothing but a metal shell with a couple of fake human legs attached. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

So I step forward and join Caroline at the human wall. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A dead bird is an incongruity, more startling than an unexpected live bird, sure evidence to the human mind that something has gone wrong. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Question for the Notebook: When does the young human organism get a grasp of time? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In this room there was an enormous human bomb in front of them which was liable to explode and blow someone to bits any moment. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Whether the human race can actually maintain a population of five billion or more without a crash with a hot virus remains an open question. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well ... I assumed it was some kind of. . . occasion. But I didn’t think it would be some trite human thing . . . prom!” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“How can a person find something like that funny? Messing with some poor man who’s just trying to take care of his team? If you find that funny, you’re not human.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hitting a forty-mile target from a distance of 238,000 miles is about like trying to split a human hair with a razor blade thrown from a distance of twenty feet. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Globalization 3.0 makes it possible for so many more people to plug in and play, and you are going to see every color of the human rainbow take part. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

However, humans appeared on the stage at just this critical juncture and pushed the brittle ecosystem into the abyss. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed, therefore, that the human race and the world around it had existed, and would exist, forever. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We hurtled down the bridge toward Brooklyn, going faster than any human taxi. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The loud speakers in the tower of the Stoke Poges Club House began, in a more titan human tenor, to announce the closing of the courses. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I talked about the problems of the human population explosion and deforestation and starvation in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, they looked fierce and not at all human. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

With four generations per century, twenty-three centuries occupies almost a hundred generations of human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over time mutation lets animal diseases jump to people: avian influenza becomes human influenza, bovine rinderpest becomes human measles, horsepox becomes human smallpox. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

About two-thirds of the mass of the human brain is in the cerebral cortex, devoted to intuition and reason. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It occurs to me for the first time that, whether she knows it or not, she isn’t suggesting running away to be human. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Am I to take it that you are attacking even without the full moon now? This is most unusual... You have developed a taste for human flesh that cannot be satisfied once a month?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Maybe the dad did come back to the nest, once all the human activity was away, to see if his baby was okay. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But a human doesn’t run and hide in dark places, because he’s something more. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having a gun in your hand when you knowed you were gonna use it to shoot a human person made it feel a whole lot different. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem mean, it really didn’t, it seemed—a sound breaks into my thoughts, a very human sound, branches cracking: footsteps. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the book, the rabbits had come across this warren—this community—that accepted food handouts from humans in exchange for accepting that some of them would be killed by the same humans in return. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“I say it is the Ordonance of God Almighty, in the Constitution of human nature, and wrought into the Fabric of the Universe,” Adams answered. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In addition, since humans are born underdeveloped, they can be educated and socialised to a far greater extent than any other animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Realizing I am not so different, I force myself to notice the pattern of moles on the human girl’s skin and the split ends of her blond hair and the roughness of her knees. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She isn’t likely to see many humans out here, only coyotes and gopher snakes and worse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Later, walking home through a silent forest with no frightening sounds from the thick bushes on either side of the path, Kira wondered what human would have stalked her, and why. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Freedom Riders, Mr. Belafonte explained, risked their lives to benefit the civil rights of human kind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“We want to be regarded as human beings in the land of our birth. And the present political system denies us that right.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nathan shivered, thinking about all those pairs of hairy legs, those long fangs dripping with venom, and all those eyes searching for human flesh upon which to chew. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In addition, he was aware that in 1898 two scientists working separately had announced that a mosquito was able to carry the malaria parasite and transmit it to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Yet students like me do not feel welcomed here, Dr. Cook. Are we just dollar signs to you all, or are we actual human beings?” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Its founding tenets were borrowed from Darwin—but they grafted the logic of natural selection onto human societies. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is within the ability of even the most drained fairy to put a complete mind kibosh on any human alive. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He argued then that the time had come for racial justice advocates to shift from a civil rights to a human rights paradigm, and that the real work of movement building had only just begun. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And how I watched my little sister become a human torch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Hunger did not know how to find that spot on a human being. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But once my twelfth birthday passed without a single shift, the Bureau declared me ‘essentially human’ and now I’m here.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Prometheus only helped human beings to pick up the handle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"Shhh! Speak of this to no one, but at some future time as yet undetermined, I will enter that lab and become the first bionically improved human." Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of any human being in the monkey house. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of its most ardent partisans, Haynes among them, publicly conceded that an archaeological dig in southern Chile had turned up compelling evidence of human habitation more than twelve thousand years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Because visibility was so low, they had formed a human chain stretching all the way around the track, each man clocking a portion of Seabiscuit’s workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leeuwenhoek and Huygens were among the first people ever to see human sperm cells, a prerequisite for understanding human reproduction. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice carried with a minimum of vitality, as though he had come over to speak to Lane out of boredom or restiveness, not for any sort of human discourse. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

His memory was short; already human beings were back on their rightful pedestals, cornucopias of dog food in their hands. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was shaping up to be a good human, too. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

He always said human beings spent more money feeding their pets than they did feeding the world. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s called a crime against humanity because all humans co-own the responsibility never to forget it. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

There were some beings, neither human nor divine, who had their home on the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It amused Matty to talk to Frolic as if he were human. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Musical timbre is one of the most critical of all components of music, yet remains one of the most mysterious of all human perceptual attributes. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Something with wet black eyes was leering up at him, not human at all. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She had not known, until she had both experienced and observed it, that human females swelled and grew and reproduced. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They felt heavy enough together, but I thought again how Father had said about the reducto absurdum of human experience, thinking how the only opportunity I seemed to have for the application of Harvard. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning's bright light the young lady seemed more human and less ethereal. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But, being as mischievous as I am, I built a safeguard into the device so its initial use had to be triggered by a Clock Watcher or human. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My dad always told me that there are three types of humans on this planet. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They remind us that humans have evolved to wonder, that understanding is a joy, that knowledge is prerequisite to survival. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I believed he had no human weaknesses or faults, and that, therefore, he could make no mistakes and that he could do no wrong. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right. And when humans began to migrate, they took magic with them all over the world.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Still, I told him that I could not believe that human beings were being burned in our times; the world would never tolerate such crimes . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monet has been transformed into a human virus bomb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, however, we are linked in circuits for the storage, processing, and retrieval of information, since this appears to be the most basic and universal of all human enterprises. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

As long as white people do not recognize themselves in black people, whites cannot know what it means to be human. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He even imagines a local doctor dissecting the chigger, the smallest creature visible to the human eye—and thus of course impossible to dissect. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She grits her teeth and lets out a frustrated groan, more animal-sounding than human. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary biology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The noise, the rank stinks, the shouldering contact of human flesh soothed his jangled nerves. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There were no other humans visible in the campground; and we’d both had all the interaction with people from Oklahoma we could tolerate for one day. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

They must remain hidden, and give the humans no hint that they were here, or that, unthinkably, five abominations had survived the Carnage and eked out an existence here for fifteen years. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The human sound track” he nicknamed her in his own mind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Grief and remorse, compassion and duty—all were forgotten now and, as it were, absorbed into an intense overpowering hatred of these less than human monsters. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between pigs and human beings there was not, and there need not be, any clash of interests whatever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

If God on the Cross is God shamming a human tragedy, it turns the Passion of Christ into the Farce of Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just as a human being, a collection of 100 trillion cells, is typically in a steady state between synthesis and decay and is more than the sum of its parts, so also is a galaxy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was then that he decided that no human being, not even Úrsula, could come closer to him than ten feet. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The latter was an unprecedented institution in the Greek world—a place devoted not only to the religious cult of the Muses, but to advancing human knowledge in the broadest sense. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The tumblers who came next failed to move her either, even when they formed a human pyramid nine levels high, with a naked little girl on top. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jason shot out of the water like a human cannonball. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Looking at him, it was hard to believe he was a human being. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sacrificed from atop a mighty mountain, the highest place a human could reach, in the hopes that her pure and beautiful spirit would speak to Inti on behalf of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

A few inches below what she had thought would be the last layer of human habitation she hit another—a culture, Roosevelt said later, that wasn’t supposed to be there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Under the terms of our country’s founding document, slaves were defined as three-fifths of a person not a real, whole human being. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At the humans’ farm, there were always fat mice in the warm barn. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Then a little girl in the back raises her hand and says, ‘We’re all human beans!’” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

My biology textbook said that dogs can smell fear because of a chemical secreted by human glands in a state of duress, the same chemical a dog’s prey secretes. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Its sole purpose is to get six humans from Mars orbit to the surface without killing any of them. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a testament to Darwin’s scientific audacity that he was not particularly bothered by the prospect of human descent from apelike ancestors. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The hospital makes every effort to monitor all aspects of our behavior, but there’s still room for human error. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They had been nervous about the effects upon their own animals, or even upon their human employees. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The somer-keirimer cycle strikes us as degrading, a return to the estrous cycle of the lower mammals, a subjection of human beings to the mechanical imperative of rut. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Fish and Wildlife Service has found it necessary to express serious concern over this trend, pointing out that “parathion treated areas constitute a potential hazard to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Twelve massive black stones were arranged on the hilltop in the same pattern, resembling the features of a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She decided to warn them about other humans and the dangers they posed. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Not when that half-ton has to be a mass of condensers, circuits, relays, and vacuum cells that can handle practically any psychological reaction known to humans. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

They had just embarked upon the immensely difficult topic of human Transfiguration; working in front of mirrors, they were supposed to be changing the color of their own eyebrows. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The tiny robots are too small to see with the naked eye, but are capable of cooperating to eradicate any disease and to repair any damage done to the human body. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

She says, “Ivan, why is your tummy so big?” and “Have you ever seen a green giraffe?” and “Can you get me one of those pink clouds that the humans are eating?” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The sluggers were so fundamentally different from humans that it was a wonder they understood me at all. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Below the two of them was a depiction of the Hero Twins fighting a large bird, a large pig, a large rock, and a large human. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

There were no signs of human habitation in that direction. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

For the great masses of human beings who work and suffer and work until they die. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A farm of corn and soybeans doesn’t require nearly as much human labor as the old-fashioned farm full of different kinds of crops. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I was terrified of a backlash, of people asking me, ‘Are you even human?’ Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The elves were the same height as humans. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The common impression that pre-agricultural humans lived in an age of stone is a misconception based on this archaeological bias. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think humans have a four-letter word that translates, exactly.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Buffalo trails crossed the human trail on diagonals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would not enter the thoughts of any other human. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t much of a disguise, but it would have to do, on the off chance he saw another human being between Harvey’s and home. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her father had, finally, found a job, as the deputy director of human resources in one of the new banks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The road was deserted, as if there were no other human beings in the world. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

To our right, an emaciated mummy of a man guzzled ruby-red punch out of what eerily resembled a human brainpan. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The empty, horrid throne was made from human bones fused together. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a human limb. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas couldn’t believe he was still looking upon a human being—the madness in Ben’s eyes, the phlegm flying from his mouth, the pale skin stretched taut across his veins and bones. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

As Georgie had said, the man was just as tall and scrawny as a person can be, a human heron if I’d ever seen one. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Meat eating has been a part of human culture for tens of thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be afraid, human youth. Several of your ancestors have used my back as a means of travel before. I know how to make your journey safe and prompt.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the years since Yali and I had that conversation, I have studied and written about other aspects of human evolution, history, and language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

We know that many important drugs used to cure human diseases come from plants or even from insects. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Why not alter the course of that human tributary so that it fed southward? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If so, how closely are we humans related to animals? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmaster Svetozar Gligoric suggested that the cameras, staring constantly at him, may have signified human eyes peering at Bobby and distracted his attention. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Harsh for him, still more beautiful than any human voice. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Fernanda was present several times and did not see her, in spite of the fact that she was so real, so human, and on one occasion asked of Amaranta the favor of threading a needle. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘But human beans is squishing each other all the time,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I doubt that I am overstating the case here: our capacity to understand and manipulate human genomes alters our conception of what it means to be “human.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The Elgon forest towered around their campsite, a web of gnarled African olive trees hung with moss and creepers and dotted with a black olive that is poisonous to humans. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the animal life can eat it, it is safe for humans. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has brought the non-white two-thirds of the human population to rebellion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good old Butler, the only human ever to take on a troll and win. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Now, however, the concept of human brotherhood began to be assailed by people who were not yet in positions of command, but merely hoped to be so before long. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Culture to us seems the great determinant of how human beings conduct themselves; in the relentless academic debate between “nature and nurture,” it is the “nurture” school which commands greater support from the bystanders. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

A 15,000-year bond has yielded a much deeper understanding and affection between humans and dogs than between humans and any other animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was so beautiful, so terrified, so defiantly brave as he spat and snarled at his human captors through the bars. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A shelf held an African sculpture of a human hand holding an egg on the tips of its fingers, as if the egg contained something interesting about to hatch. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Recent medical research has revealed that DDD does strongly suppress the function of the human adrenal cortex. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“How could you know that? How could you know any of this, human child?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better off than he was a few centuries ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Large mammals changed that: for the first time in human history, it became possible to move heavy goods in large quantities, as well as people, rapidly overland for long distances. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Root knew from bitter experience that humans popped up when you least expected them. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Bobby looked at him and said, “Nothing soothes as much as the human touch.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In Newton’s time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge, at least in outline. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ultimately, our omnivore’s dilemma is rooted in our nature as human beings—but we’ve made our choices much harder than they used to be. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

We stood in silence for ten minutes, a human chain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Except, instead of roosters or rats, the entertainment of the night appeared to be human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The villages form a ring of human settlement around the volcano, and the ring is steadily closing around the forest on its slopes, a noose that is strangling the wild habitat of the mountain. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The human brain works hard to abstract that out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The serious, systematic study of medicine was intensifying, and to scientists the human body was like the polar icecap, something to be studied and explored. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I had returned to that period of innocence in my life, that period of exploration of the human condition. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was explaining to Alice that as far as she was concerned there was nothing more valuable to the human body than sunbathing, and that nudist colonies were the answer to the world’s moral problems. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And they can do most things that a small human child can do. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We asked courts to recognize that such a judgment cannot rationally be passed on children below a certain age because they are unfinished products, human works in progress. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"Yes it is. Anyway, I find the biggest branch and tie myself to the trunk with a rope so I don't fall off. Up here, I'm safe from stray dogs and cats—and humans." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Why can’t the officer stand and talk to me face-to-face, like a normal human being? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“What were you looking for when you turned into a human tornado?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It could be. If so, let’s wait quietly. The Brain is a robot. It’s got to follow the First Law. It can’t hurt a human being.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The doors are open, and I see a sprawl of things stolen from the human world, matchbooks, newspapers, empty bottles, novels, and Polaroids. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes expressly focusing on black and brown children, theorists suggested that America would soon be overcome by "elementary school youngsters who pack guns instead of lunches" and who "have absolutely no respect for human life." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But Hollywood knew more about human nature than we realized. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Five were human—a king and a queen, a child, a pirate or sailor, and a sorceress—the rest animals. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If they persisted, their human antagonists sought ways to exterminate them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered that Grover, like all satyrs, could read human emotions. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Uh-uh, that doesn’t fit the sounds Miss Thomas was making, you couldn’t help but look up and wonder if this was a real human bean that was making these sounds. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

The snowflakes sparkled and shimmered beyond the glass panes of the window, twirling and weaving as they flew to the ground in a waltz that was beyond human comprehension. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It’s not great, I guess, but it’s better than the cafeteria with its lights and noise and human degradation. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

But to the three doctors who refused to help with Southam’s research, injecting cancer cells into a person without consent was a clear violation of basic human rights and the Nuremberg Code. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Only this one actually had the power to end a human life. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

This time, since there had been no human casualties during the first outbreak, the Army, the C.D.C., and Hazleton jointly decided to isolate the monkeys—leave them alone and let the virus bum. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t care if I’m a monster? If I’m not human?' “ Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had not spoken with another human since the night my family was killed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“When you force humans into a subhuman mode of existence, this always happens. Deprive a man of any contact with the pleasures of the spirit and he’ll fall completely into those of the flesh.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph had no idea what she meant, but he listened as though trying to discover his essential human worth. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Taliban were in hot pursuit, and he had a lot of money riding on getting his human cargo across the border. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

‘Humane’ here, and in the title of Locke’s Essay, means ‘human’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“When Mr. Daniels told us about people with dyslexia...I mean some of the greatest minds the human race has ever see....I’ve been kind of wishing I could have it, too.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But the Earth is just right, a heaven for humans. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sit or lie upon the ground, arms too thin for human limb, faces too drawn for flesh, smeared white with powder. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

That’s why human men and women are the unacknowledged necessity they are. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The greatest single epidemic in human history was the one of influenza that killed 21 million people at the end of the First World War. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I could use human words to say what I need to say, this would all be so easy. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

As Turner states, the idea that the “performing arts” must always be performed onstage to be valid detracts from their use to develop and explore the emotional, cognitive, social development and human potential. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t believe that motion picture cameras ever have filmed a human spectacle mote colorful than my eyes took in. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is that about 15,000 years ago a chance mutation let the virus “jump the species barrier,” as scientists say, and infect human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“For me, yes, it would be possible, because I don’t require sustenance. But for humans? No. I do not believe it would be possible. Let’s focus on the Third World,” Wind Being said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You know, when we agreed to take you in, we hoped we could improve you—build you—make you a decent human being. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

This was the first human being other than the boy that he’d spoken to in more than a year. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“You’ve murdered a human being. They are going to put you in jail. They might even hang you!” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

No mere human could have made so much noise. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of that human history, for the first 5 or 6 million years after our origins about 7 million years ago, remained confined to Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In a little while the chaplain stepped back, and the beige crescent of human forms began to break up sluggishly, like flotsam. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And when the human beings listened to it, they secretly trembled, hearing in it a prophecy of their future doom. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The covered mounds were shaped like human heads. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If Crusty were human, I couldn’t hurt him anyway. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to wipe his nose with his wet paw and wished mouse children had to go to bed at night Eke human children. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Plants and animals don’t just sit around waiting for human beings to use them— they use us, too. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Then God spoke to Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch, instructing him to save his family and the animals from the great flood that would cleanse the Earth of the corrupted humans. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Out of the bottom rolled Uncle Lorne, choked with feathers and looking more bird than human. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

More than any scientist before him, Bateson also grasped the idea that the discontinuous nature of genetic information carried vast implications for the future of human genetics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Soon the old dog was where he most loved to be—the center of attention among some human beings. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He fought the monsters and freed the earth from them just as Greece freed the earth from the monstrous idea of the unhuman supreme over the human. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And who could say how it moved or what it could do to humans? The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no time for your astonishment, human, it snapped. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But old Grandma always used to say, “Back in time immemorial, things were different, the animals could talk to human beings and many magical things still happened.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He has gained his relief, she her payment, he merges carelessly into the human throng, consigning her back into the shadows where she worked or to the gaudy streets where she loitered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three days passed: after them, Ray Gusdorf quietly emerged from the Midnight Mountains a different human being—mature, introspective, curiously subdued. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The human girl is looking for her bag of treasures. Anatsou has two bags of treasure that he found this morning, all by himself.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“This river runs through Regalia as well. Our cattle live off the plants, but they are unfit for humans to eat,” said Solovet. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And, of course, I continued to make mistakes, as all humans do. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Similar patterns probably dominated the social lives of early humans, including archaic Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was relieved that it wasn’t human hair and strangely delighted that it was a seal. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

One of the riders pushed his horse a few steps closer to the three humans. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Men wreathed in green flame leapt into the water, shrieking like nothing human. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even the humans and bats exchanged looks of surprise. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was searching desperately for another creature that behaved as badly as the human. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Within a couple of millennia, humans in many parts of the world were doing little from dawn to dusk other than taking care of wheat plants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many animals and human species could previously say, ‘Careful! A lion!’ Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing in my vocabulary of human behavior to explain him. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

That is why you are important: there must be a hunter like me; there must be a hunter who is human, who can go where I cannot go, see what I cannot see. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

There had been a moment—she was sure now—when she had ceased to exist as a living human being. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I should scream, like any rational human being would, but when I open my mouth again, I just crow with joy. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Made me think I could speak its loud voice and make that sound sound human. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Orleanna, the human body is a sight more precious than a pair of khaki trousers from Sears and Roebuck. I’d expect you to comprehend the difference.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He’s a two-hundred-pound human wrecking ball. Did you really think I was going to stand there and wait for him to hit you again?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He had set human flesh on the table for Zeus when the god was his guest. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

One can point out that human societies and dinosaurs are extremely complex, being characterized by an enormous number of independent variables that feed back on each other. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The music slinks and rises and settles back to earth, and then the young voice of her long-dead grandfather speaks: There are ninety-six thousand kilometers of blood vessels in the human body; children! All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Was there a common set of rules, he wondered, that governed the facial expressions that human beings made? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The most aggressive rams, those that showed the greatest resistance to human control, were slaughtered first. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

A minute before she was just a scared human being fighting for its life. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

The idea was like a hunk of wood, Caesar thought, requiring human craft and ingenuity to reveal the new shape within. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The fastest object ever launched by the human species, it will still take tens of thousands of years to go the distance to the nearest star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like most humans, he didn’t like talking to clones, but he also didn’t want to anger El Patron. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the chimps, we human beings have two sides to our nature. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of the owls, either, which didn’t surprise Roy; with so much noise and human commotion, the birds would likely stay underground where it was dark and safe. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That contrast between the immediate virtues of wheat and barley and the difficulties posed by teosinte may have been a significant factor in the differing developments of New World and Eurasian human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was one of us, an American, a human. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not necessarily the human condition, I would hope, but a remediable innumeracy which results in this unfortunate tendency. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought Odenigbo’s girlfriend was a human being; he didn’t say you were a water mermaid.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The dogs and humans rehearsed for three full weeks. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Fine with me. But you don’t know human nature. You don’t know Nam.” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

These voyages of exploration and discovery are the latest in a long series that have characterized and distinguished human history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

An obvious possible answer is that they were killed off or else eliminated indirectly by the first arriving humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“A story about how humans are frightened of death. If surviving was as simple as hiding under the Invisibility Cloak, we’d have everything we need already!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The rest of those who remained were all of human stature. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I had just thrown a shovelful of dirt out of the hole when I noticed a human shadow hovering over me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Birds, humans, slugs—every animal—because instincts come from within the brain and the heart. They are hardwired, not learned but programmed into you.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Of equal importance in wars of conquest were the germs that evolved in human societies with domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A human being, hearing from a distance the noise of a crowd, can form an idea of its size. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was now impossible for any human being to prove by documentary evidence that the war with Eurasia had ever happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“This is why we’re so excited about this contest, Adam Costello. Some of the beautiful work of the human young will be exported to the stars.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had eaten boiled monkey thigh, and he had drunk banana beer fermented with human saliva. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rupa handed him the plastic decoy mask, and Baba slipped it on so that the painted human face covered the back of his head. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

Most great leaps forward in human understanding have been developments from, or arguments with, the understandings of the past. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But the unconscious mastery of language that is our birthright as humans is not enough to allow us to write good sentences. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And at night he always whined to come inside, where he could listen to his human’s breathing. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Questions that emerge from worldwide comparisons of human societies formerly attracted much attention from historians and geographers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the patio a human was crying in distress. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ravids, too—great cats with fangs like scythes—and birds that mimicked human voices, and scorpions whose sting imparted superhuman strength. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At first I am horrified by the ghoulish skinned squirrels, as red and muscular as skinless human bodies in Miss Larsen’s science book. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh. I see. I see now. But I don’t think that’s going to work out. You’re human, and humans feel anger.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

But he had decided what he wanted to do with the rest of his life: he would be a human rights activist and raise international awareness about the existence of the labor camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I believe that’s what they call the human condition,” said Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

‘He is saying, “I has never done any harm to the human bean so why should he be eating me?”’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its blade glinted with an evil gray-and-gold light where the human steel had been melded with celestial bronze. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

I decide to try out for the track team, to keep my mind from being idle, and to reconnect with my fellow human beings. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The human blitzkrieg across America testifies to the incomparable ingenuity and the unsurpassed adaptability of Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The agent rarely carried a gun on his person, and had never had occasion to fire a gun at another human being. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The simulation is using her vocal cords, but robs them of the natural fluctuations of human emotion. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

If they were happy, there was plenty of food, and humans were happy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, at least she was in human form. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He took his eyes away from the microscope and looked around the table until he found a wooden stick that had a human eyelash glued to it with a dab of nail polish. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old men, like scraggly human cigarettes with non-human cigarettes dangling from their mouths, all turned and looked. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The Huntsman reached the Queen first and bowed deeply before introducing the humans. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a human exclamation point, but carried himself with such dignity that I couldn’t laugh at him. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Thus, some mystery remains about Africa’s most surprising fact of human geography. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But what made the story remarkable, since it was written in 1932, was that it predicted the widespread use of burning jellied gasoline on human beings. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A substantial human presence on Jupiter itself is much more difficult to imagine—although I suppose great balloon cities permanently floating in its atmosphere are a technological possibility for the remote future. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when these were employed, the idea that the only human occupants of one-third of the earth’s surface had changed little for thousands of years began to seem implausible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The 1880s saw two scientists, France’s Louis Pasteur and Germany’s Robert Koch, isolate various bacteria—extremely small one-celled creatures—living in animals and humans and link them to specific diseases. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The human ear and brain are capable of hearing and appreciating very small variations in timbre. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Human ears have successfully been grown on the back of rats and then attached to the head of a human by grafting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I had never seen human beings hit each other so hard. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we shall see, the prerequisites for those developments consisted of several features of human society that determined whether a society would find writing useful, and whether the society could support the necessary specialist scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He streaked toward the woods without looking back at his humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I see human families all together, especially families with sticky-mouthed, giggling little sisters, I don’t like the way I feel. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I refuse to deal with a human who can’t appreciate quality tailoring.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Two humans with an extraordinary knowledge of fairy affairs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘I is not galloping to any human bean country,’ the BFG said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

History, it turns out, is not a human expression. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s vastly preferable to assume the shape of a bird when observing humans,” she explained. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Even today, a critical threshold in human organisations falls somewhere around this magic number. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He's a big, grotesquely ugly giant with the strength of a thousand elephants and a gigantic appetite, for human flesh especially. The usual." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It would be no less true to say that Estraven’s acts had risen out of pure personal loyalty, a sense of responsibility and friendship towards one single human being, myself. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When appointed to a council committee to look into the proposal during the summer, one councilman refused, angrily protesting, “The council knows the need for a human relations commission, and it has failed to act...” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Benevolent encounters have not been the rule in human history, where transcultural contacts have been direct and physical, quite different from the receipt of a radio signal, a contact as light as a kiss. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Any such attempt to define stages of any evolutionary or developmental continuum—whether of musical styles, human life stages, or human societies—is doubly doomed to imperfection. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby looked down at the placid ocean to his left and the green shore to his right, and shaded his eyes to search for human life. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Eric let us have a human skeleton leftover from his medical school days. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was poor Silky she was thinking of: His chestnut coat dulled with lack of care, burrs stuck in his forelock, he was distrustful of humans, and prone to bite, at least at first.... The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It meant “One should eat vegetables, not humans, because vegetables taste more delicious.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was wrong about Oakland: human beings have lived there for 20,000 years or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s a fascinating study of the degeneration of the human spirit. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Moon controlled the tides, the life cycles of many animals, and perhaps the human menstrual' period—of central importance for a passionate species devoted to having children. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The recovering Mr. Flux’s limbs and torso retracted quickly from his smooshed, flapjack form to something resembling a human. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Campbell said that a hero is an ordinary human being who does "the best of things in the worst of times." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The crawlers would make better friends than enemies, and humans shouldn’t go around insulting them. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is what I get for trusting a human,” Pond said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But the way she helped me—as no human, really, could have helped me—by breaking down the interspecies interlock and letting her mind come into my thinking...There was such care, such love. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Laboratory tests showed that the bones could be fifteen thousand years old—possibly the oldest human remains in the Western Hemisphere. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Neither of you have any appreciation for the inherent value of women as human beings.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

His father, a happy-go-lucky and reckless buck, had thought nothing of living close to human beings except that he would be able to forage in their garden in the early morning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were figures in the boat, but—he rubbed his eyes, even though he knew what to expect—they weren’t human. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As with humans, the basic plan for the adult body is furled into an embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I’ll have to bury it in him and watch as his human blood blankets him. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

When a virus is trying, so to speak, to crash into the human species, the warning sign may be a . spattering of breaks at different times and places. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For miles, out the open door, Werner sees no sign of humans save the occasional railcar capsized beside the tracks, twisted and scarred by some kind of explosion. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every living being—plant, animal, human, fay—had its place in the cycle of life and death. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, both computers, electronic and human, had performed like a dream. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

In union, they were combining to provide unprecedented service to humans. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The University of Illinois was one of the foremost places in the world to look at the interactions between humans and technology, an area of study known as “human factors.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It was the creature she’d seen in her knife blade, the bull with the human face. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their rockets had reached speeds of Mach 15 in flight, and they were confident of their abilities to lift a payload—a satellite and a human passenger—into orbit. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They were mostly self-pollinating: that is, the crop varieties could pollinate themselves and pass on their own desirable genes unchanged, instead of having to hybridize with other varieties less useful to humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m really good at drawing the human Heart now. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was unusual for daemons to speak to humans other than their own, but it happened sometimes, and she spoke now. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“How many human beings will we kill under your policy in the next twelve months?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

My motive for investigating these geographic differences in human societies is not to celebrate one type of society over another but simply to understand what happened in history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was sitting in the passenger seat of the car, looking as human as that cello I’d been drawn to two years earlier. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such was the skill of the Chinchorro at preserving human flesh that scientists have been able to extract intact DNA from cadavers thousands of years older than the Egyptian pyramids. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She knew that they were no more human than the woman she had seen in her kitchen on the day of the hunt, but this time, she did not have any desire to ask questions. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were no human signs, not a shred of clothing or shoe leather. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Because we are humans, and humans are notoriously difficult,” said Mae. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The split spread out and down, his human skin peeling away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He made it out to read, in cursive and black ink: The angels taught the humans too much. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Relativity does set limits on what humans can ultimately do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet fossils attest to human presence in China for over half a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They can’t cope with human ways as our dogs and cats can. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It could deceive humans, even demigods, into seeing monsters as harmless animals, or gods as regular people. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Thus far they had not met one single human being. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people in front of him began to part ways, to push to either side instead of toward the sounds of human suffering, and then he saw it in action. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She sniffed and bristled in distrust at the human scent on him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The human eggs that jump-started their development were always in demand, and commanded a high price. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

She would attribute it to measureless wellsprings of piety or stewardship of the phantom herds that bled out the milk of human kindness. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Are we willing to tolerate ignorance and complacency in matters that affect the entire human family? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, she raised her gaze to Pax, and in it, Pax saw the terrible things that had been done to her family by humans. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Except for the latter, these men were offered as “character witnesses”—persons expected to attribute to the accused a few human virtues. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Witches and their daemons felt no cold, but they were aware that other humans did. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the scores on those four dimensions are so different as to make you think you are looking at two different species of humans. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Then I think about how many humans might have wandered in with the same intentions, and I realize that my brain short-circuited and kicked out the wrong image. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

She’d ask her if she agreed that humans needed questions more than answers. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And other sounds came to them on the pummeling wind—the roaring beat of an engine, the creak and howl of great masses of wood being crushed together, human cries. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

If an intelligent creature that had no human feelings suddenly arrived from another planet it would not understand anything about pain and suffering. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled sizzling catfish skin and vegetable dumplings and the human odors of too many bodies living too close together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

After leaving the Mayo Clinic, Gey spent several days in New York City at Sloan-Kettering for another study, and he underwent chemotherapy at Hopkins using a drug not yet approved for use in humans. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That fact alone goes a long way toward explaining the course of human history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor guessed this was the first time any of them had ever seen someone try to come between a fighting rat and a human. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I fidgeted or complained, she reminded me that she didn’t have any memories of being human, and asked me not to ruin her vicarious fun. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The reflex-arc response taking place in the upper ganglia of the spinal column requires several microseconds more in the humanoid robot than in a human nervous system.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Instead of making humans in your mold, Nergal," says Ishtar, lowering her sword, "you could raise them up. They could be great again if we inspired them to be so." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And because their brains are so complex, chimps can do things we used to think only humans could do—like solving problems and planning ahead what they are going to do. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t let your Pap tell you ’bout the things the cap’n done to Mr. Tanner’s slaves, but believe me, that man ain’t human. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Their corpses hung limply, their faces slack or stiff or swollen with gas, unrecognizable, hardly human. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z