| 单词 | invent |
| 例句 | To fill the gap between 660 B.C. and the earliest historically documented Japanese monarchs, the chronicles invented 13 other, equally fictitious emperors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So am I. You know my ancestors invented soccer in China over four thousand— You’re from Singapore, dude. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They fear to swallow a great hoax in public, a hoax already refused by Karhide, a hoax perhaps even invented by Karhide. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have lied, invented a new job, or simply said she wanted to move. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was one of the greatest time-wasters he had ever invented. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Parts of it are always being changed, by a ceaseless activity to which all of us are committed; new words are invented and inserted, old ones have their meaning altered or abandoned. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s because cell phones weren’t invented way back then,” Oliver said, then ducked and ran to the front door when Mama aimed a piece of cookie dough at him. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I was never sure if Ruth had actually invented the secret guard herself, but there was no doubt she was the leader. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘No doubt you can,’ retorted Sam, ‘and I daresay there’s more truth in some of them than you reckon. Who invented the stories anyway? Take dragons now.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His chosen instrument was the Tesla coil, a high-voltage transformer invented by the visionary physicist Nikola Tesla in the 1890s. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Like the lightbulb, for instance, was technically invented by Sir Humphrey Davy in 1811, but his lightbulb sort of sucked and burned out all the time. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The system, known as servi-cha, or service car, was invented in the late 1990s by government and military elites to milk cash from traders who needed to move themselves and their goods around the country. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When societies do adopt a new technology from the society that invented it, the diffusion may occur in many different contexts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s stupid to try to pick them up by hand. That’s what they invented vacuum cleaners for.” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z I’ve spent the last hour in her bedroom, letting her knock herself out with every hair appliance ever invented. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Did writing systems spread by being copied, or did existing systems merely inspire neighboring peoples to invent their own systems? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A few seats away, Dana is beaming with pride, like she invented me or something. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Let us pass over the time I spent alone in the woods that evening, playing games that children invent to amuse themselves. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Still, I couldn’t let the matter go entirely—T. Ray thinking I was so desperate I would invent an invasion of bees to get attention. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if she’s inventing new ways to steal sympathy from her friends—new diseases to feign to make them more loyal. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Many different types of music notation have been invented, and some, such as tablature2 , are still in use. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Anything can be said about them, invented about them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t I take medicine,” I said, “and then pray to Jesus to thank him for giving us the doctors who invented medicine, because medicine is what makes you feel better, not Jesus.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They were called CCs because they were invented by a group of breakers who called themselves the Crazy Commandos, and not because the move looked anything like a c. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Instead, we break the problem up into bits and invent a number of partial theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At suppertime my mother came in to ask if I were ill, and being too slow-witted to invent an ailment, I got up and went down to the meal. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Longstreet, who had invented a transverse trench which no one would use, filed the matter forcefully in the dark cavern of his swelling brain and rode into camp. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was too big to steal and its owner refused to part with it to the sick widow with eight children whom Mack invented and patronized in the same moment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time Naima cleaned the rickshaw, she imagined scenes the rickshaw painter might invent once these panels faded. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z “I guess we’ll just have to invent more ways to say it,” she said. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of technological innovations and political institutions as well, most societies acquire much more from other societies than they invent themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right. We don’t know who first realized that those meanings were there, but did the similarity, the association, exist before they realized it, or not until then? Did they invent it or discover it?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I was just learning my letters and figured I knew just about every word ever invented, but that word I’d never seen. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z But don’t run away with the idea that Harvey invented the scientific method. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “George and I invented them — seven Sickles each, a bargain!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “Go back to the early 1800s in England, before some pervert invented machinery. What was life there?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He paced, paused, spoke, and paced behind his palm-leaf altar, giving every impression he was inventing his Biblical parables on the spot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Before that the gym here had been an old, dingy room, with a handful of mismatched dumbbells and decaying equipment that looked like it was made about a year after the wheel had been invented. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z On the twenty-ninth morning, her class discussed the isosceles triangle as if it had just been invented. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The spectacle that the twins had invented when they became aware that they were equal was repeated in honor of the new arrival. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z So maybe what we call imaginary time is really more basic, and what we call real is just an idea that we invent to help us describe what we think the universe is like. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z More precise dates did not come in until the 1950s, when Willard F. Libby, a chemist at the University of Chicago, invented carbon dating. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So when this friend tells my wife, she says that it’s about time they invented something like that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nontechnical proofs are there already: available to be used rather than needing to be invented. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I want to tell Mom that Glenn Burke was gay and that’s why he never got credit for inventing the high five. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z ‘My father says Tonsil Ticklers were invented for dangerous prisoners in jail,’ he said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And how can I invent my version of the story, without my crooked vision? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet none of these things exists outside the stories that people invent and tell one another. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mayans and the Aztecs did not even—except for children’s toys—invent the wheel. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure people did question whether Italian printers were quite the right people to legislate on the meaning of everything; but on the other hand, resistance was obviously useless against ajamily that could invent italics. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “Is that named after Mr. Peruke who invented it?” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people, as Alvaro demonstrated during one night of revels. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For instance, we are regularly told, “James Watt invented the steam engine in 1769,” supposedly inspired by watching steam rise from a teakettle’s spout. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think you officially have every baking utensil ever invented,” Papa said, looking at the clutter of the kitchen. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z When our genes could not store all the information necessary for survival, we slowly invented them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Isn’t hot coffee a wonderful thing? How did people get along before it was invented?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the purest black you could imagine, Sanders said, the kind of clock-stopping black that God must’ve had in mind when he sat down to invent blackness. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Ancient Native Mexicans invented wheeled vehicles with axles for use as toys, but not for transport. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He invented the lie just before arriving in South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Before the doctor and midwife could arrive, she hid Nfvea’s head beneath the bed, to avoid having to invent awkward explanations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He invented, for example, a player organ: an organ which, like a player piano, automatically played music according to the information conveyed by pins on a turning drum. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Why was its printing method invented around 1700 B.C. in Crete and not at some other time in Mesopotamia, Mexico, or any other ancient center of writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mind-numbing games like that were invented to take your mind off the fact that nearly 3,300 people die in car wrecks every single day in the United States. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Of course, Newcomen could have invented all this and more; after all, he worked on his new engine for some fourteen years before he was ready to put it into public operation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z That was the name of the game I invented. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Since there was thus no inherited shared root meaning “gun,” each Indo-European language had to invent or borrow its own word when guns were finally invented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mouzaive had invented an instrument he called a cryptochromometer that used a protein extracted from birds’ eyes to detect the presence of magnetic fields. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z And however rapidly technology may invent new uses for insecticides and new ways of applying them, it is likely to find the insects keeping a lap ahead. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How did you refer to this something before facts were invented? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In her lighted corner, pillows propped behind her, Laura sat up inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z When the Agricultural Revolution opened opportunities for the creation of crowded cities and mighty empires, people invented stories about great gods, motherlands and joint stock companies to provide the needed social links. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “They're just torture devices invented by men or mothers or something.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He had no errand in the courtyard at all, but merely invented one that he might find out whether I put his precious wineskin into Gebu’s hand and tell me to wait for another tomorrow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z On the drive home, try as they might, her daughters could not engage their mother in conversation, for inspired by what she had just seen, Laura had begun inventing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z This number was so large that the Greek system of numeration was unable to handle it; Archimedes had to invent a whole new method of denoting really huge numbers. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But why were Eurasians, rather than Native Americans or sub-Saharan Africans, the ones to invent firearms, oceangoing ships, and steel equipment? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most compelling incentives yet invented have been put in place to deter crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z They knew he was lying, Emenike who made up stories of rich parents that everyone knew he didn’t have, so immersed in his need to invent a life that was not his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One highlight was the very silly “Lost Navigator’s Dance,” which they’d invented themselves, sure to bring laughs. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The scientists, although they happened to call them magicians at the time, invented almost as terrible things as we have invented—except that we have become accustomed to theirs by use. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z People from the conlang community sent letters in their invented languages using beautiful calligraphy. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But this time her own story was too strong to give way to an invented one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z To understand why, we must travel north to Scotland and begin with a brilliant and genial man, of whom few have ever heard, who had just invented a new science called geology. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She suspected that Judith had invented the irksome procedure just to keep her busy, and in a burst of resentment she poured in the remaining cupful all at once. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Once a device had been invented, the inventor then had to find an application for it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Actually,” said Jake, “mouthwash wasn’t invented until the late eighteen hundreds....” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The hair spray that can hold it down has not yet been invented. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The fruit cup was invented in the Valley of the Heart’s Delight, by Del Monte. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps Brand and Cooke, lacking interests that could absorb them, fuming like children over trifles, simply invented their hate of each other in order to have something to feel deeply about. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My PE teacher was a dude and missed the memo that tampons had been invented and that periods didn't last for three consecutive months. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Genes were a mirage invented by the bourgeoisie to emphasize the fixity of individual differences, whereas, in fact, nothing about features, identities, choices, or destinies was indelible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Nor was Galileo, when he invented the hydraulic press, working on some new, practical problem that only a competent engineer could tackle. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It was like learning a new language, except there were nearly two hundred unfamiliar letters, and you had to invent your own words a lot of the time. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When she was little she believed that Mo had simply invented a mother for her one day because he thought she'd have liked to have one. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z She began her sound effects career collaborating with her husband, Arthur Nichols, who invented the first sound machines for radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Harry turned slowly on the spot, and his surroundings seemed to invent themselves before his eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z While I lay there in bed, waiting for the time to come, I did a lot of inventing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the same time in that strange world through which she’d come to get here, the subtle knife was invented. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Athena was not distinguished in that line, but she invented the flute although she never played upon it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And if Poe were alive, he would not have to invent horror; horror would invent him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z My father had always said I had an active imagination, and I was good at inventing stories and games. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay back and tried to invent a story about why my mother had owned a black Mary picture. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If we felt compelled to account for these, we would have to invent explanations that would of necessity be false. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The stove in there was called a Franklin, after Benjamin Franklin, who invented it with the help of a mouse—which Marly told Joe right away. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Porcelain, a fine-grained translucent pottery, was invented in China around the 7th century A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And so she began to invent a more appropriate life for herself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Great-uncle Edisto pushed his glasses up on his nose and smiled like he had just invented a new thought. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “What would you rather do, stay behind the grill or run Hercules Hot Dogs someday? You’re the one that invented them anyway.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Inside, I hoped he didn’t have anything to do with the key, although I couldn’t help inventing that it was for his jail cell. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In a millennium or less, a comparatively short time, they invented their own writing, astronomy, and mathematics, including the zero. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If Native Americans had proceeded at the same rate in inventing or acquiring grafting techniques, they too would eventually have domesticated apples—around the year A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The solutions that Sumerians invented before 3000 B.C. were reinvented, halfway around the world, by early Mesoamerican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, there was the cultural framework within which science was invented. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Who had time to be inventing silly things! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z So when More invented the term ‘mechanical philosophy’ he was playing his part in importing the new terminology into English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One reason why there were so few independent origins of writing is the great difficulty of inventing it, as we have already discussed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Children can draw simple shapes and textures to express sounds and compositions that they’ve invented, or can read the work of another child who has written in this type of notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They parroted “Space Boy” and invented semicreative variations of their own. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When Monsanto, or some other corporation, invents a new type of corn, it belongs to them and they can charge farmers for the right to grow it. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In fact, she didn’t invent it at all. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The necessary methods, implements, and facilities appeared rapidly in the Fertile Crescent after 11,000 B.C., having been invented for dealing with the newly available abundance of wild cereals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone—an economist or a politician or a parent—has to invent them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The one about the guy who invented the high five.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “I know you’re the inventor, but I invented the greatest acorn picker in the world and it’s ready to go.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I'm pretty sure Freak can invent stuff with it if he feels like it. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z By all accounts, Jack did not furnish a single word to assist the poor players, who were forced to invent or to omit whole passages. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Nobody else in the village had seen any such boy, and the police were quite sure that Frank had invented him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “But it sounds like it was invented while you were at school,” Harry persisted. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z I started inventing things, and then I couldn’t stop, like beavers, which I know about. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When it comes to evidence, the new science was not inventing new concepts but recycling existing ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They invented new tools such as stone scythes for harvesting wild wheat, and stone pestles and mortars to grind it. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was younger I even invented one but— SCORPIUS: I had one of those too. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "But he invented a product that eliminates foot odor. Here, I've got a sample in my briefcase. I wish I had more. You two could bathe in it." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z A practical woman, she could not invent stories and told only true ones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Invoking special vital forces or inventing mystical fluids to explain life was unnecessary. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The shabby theatrics of the war reports, the voice that forced morsels of invented hope down people’s throats, did not interest him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, all the ill wishes he could invent were not powerful enough to rid him of Gebu’s stubborn presence here in Thebes. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The films often had the opposite effect: Despite the mountains of evidence, many Hitler Youth told themselves that the films were exaggerated, if not invented by the Allies as propaganda intended to defame the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Back in 1972 Crosby invented a term for this biological ferment: the Columbian Exchange. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When Glenn Burke died, the man who invented the high five could barely lift his hand. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z The block tower could be any or all of them, and we had invented stories about the worlds that might exist inside each of their walls. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Ty opens the door, and the room is tiny twin beds and nothing else except this girl and her entire freaking family and what seems like every instrument ever invented. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I set it down only so that newcomers to bumdom, like teenagers in new-hatched sin, will not think they invented it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Countless amateur thinkers took a crack at the problem, as did anthropologists and archaeologists when those disciplines were invented. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Joe had gone east and was helping to invent a new profession called advertising. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Some kids stood in a little circle out back, beatboxing and freestyling, inventing brand-new ways of putting one another down and sending up wild cheers when a dig found its mark. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Weary told Billy about neat tortures he’d read about or seen in the movies or heard on the radio— about other neat tortures he himself had invented. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ve invented a pill so married women don’t have to get pregnant. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Reynie did take a route that made it difficult for him to be seen from the Institute grounds, but if he was spotted, he’d invented a good explanation. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I’m always inventing stories to write in my notebook or imagining I’m traveling to the Seven Wonders of the World. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "I invented it forty-one years ago. Had this lightweight, skin so thin would start bleeding if his mother kissed him. Lightning Lou Epp, real good little—" "I need a headguard," said Red. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I doubt he invented the Wolfsbane Potion without considerable hard work!” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z In the early 1900s, Madam C. J. Walker, an African American, became a millionaire by inventing and marketing hair care products to black women. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z As to this case, if you will have scratches, we say that, for anything we know, you may have accounted for them, assuming for the sake of argument that you have not invented them?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The Ancient Greeks invented one of the most influential instruments of all time: the organ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She did every single thing she had seen the midwife do and even invented some of her own. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The delusion was deeper, in the core of my mind, which invented in the very moment of occurrence, then recorded the fiction. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Dessert as the extremely sweet end to the meal was invented because so much sugar was available. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The art of critical editing was invented there. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Nick, “the funny thing is, even though I invented it, it’s not my word anymore. Frindle belongs to everyone now, and I guess everyone will figure out what happens together.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They created the most effective public relations campaign in history, inventing techniques that we use to this day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Listerine, for instance, was invented in the nineteenth century as a powerful surgical antiseptic. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Violet looked for objects with which she could invent something. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z As he stepped out into the yard under the sun, Seth wondered how much of what he had heard had actually been something chasing him, and how much had been invented by his flustered imagination. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He reached over and touched Violet’s arm, bringing her out of her inventing thoughts. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The Strasbourg clock was built in the middle of the fourteenth century—but the mechanical philosophy was invented three centuries later. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Taylor is already dressed and in makeup, and she stands in the wings doing some awkward vocal warm-up that she invented herself. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in China between the second and sixth centuries, paper, ink and printing with carved wooden blocks were all invented, permitting many copies of a work to be made and distributed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew it himself—the top drawer had been invented by Mordred—and the knowledge did not make him happy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He occupied himself by inventing the differential and integral calculus, making fundamental discoveries on the nature of light and laying the foundation for the theory of universal gravitation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even good at them, but give me a football and an empty playground and I could invent last-second triumphs that would bring tears to your eyes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “This is where we used to invent the sounds,” she said wistfully. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Yes, before the DVR was invented, we actually had to insert a VHS tape into a VCR in order to record anything we wouldn't be home to watch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z There was no knowing how much of this legend was true and how much invented. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I invented a secret admirer for Cap named Lorelei Lumley, a seventh grade student-government groupie, who slipped perfumed love notes through the vents of his locker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z However, it was not invented in response to any demand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson had not yet invented the expression “the revolution of 1800” to describe the Republican ascendancy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Can I do my report on the guy who invented hamburgers?” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn’t actually invent anything. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But aside from inventing a Latinate name for a vague principle, Wolff could provide no further specifics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Attempts to develop a new language by first inventing the grammar and spelling never seem to result in a language that people find useful. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Her mom invented this recyclable paper coffee cup that holds in heat but keeps the outside from burning your hand.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Today they were playing superhero baseball, which was a variation Jack had invented on the theory that superheroes, too, needed organized sports. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z If the word belligerent hadn’t been invented, it would have been invented for my uncle when he drinks. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z So, too, science itself is an invention, but Newton did not invent gravity, he discovered its law. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He imagined that somebody had told Eze something similar—you need to collect art, you need to learn about art—and so the man had gone after art with the zeal of an invented interest. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Republic, and cane sugar has been replaced by other sweeteners invented in the Age of Science, this one substance forever marked our history. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “It was — a library book,” Harry invented wildly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Ever since chemists began to manufacture substances that nature never invented, the problems of water purification have become complex and the danger to users of water has increased. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The second is that societies lacking the invention find themselves at a disadvantage vis-a-vis the inventing society, and they become overwhelmed and replaced if the disadvantage is sufficiently great. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Activist pastors from South Korean churches invented the escape trade in the late 1990s and early 2000s, hiring border operatives who greased the palms of North Korean guards with cash donated by parishioners in Seoul. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Marc Andreessen did not invent the Internet or the World Wide Web, but he certainly played a historic role in helping to bring them alive and make them easily usable tools. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z This is the charming and imaginative little fable the boy invented. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There just wasn’t sufficient reason to invent, for example, the telescope when you had an astronomical theory which, with extraordinary mathematics, could fit the appearances. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z ‘That goes without saying. We Romans invented parties.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Willard Libby was in the process of inventing radiocarbon dating, allowing scientists to get an accurate reading of the age of bones and other organic remains, something they had never been able to do before. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z His father was a mechanical engineer who had designed or invented a new drill bit for oil drilling, a self-cleaning, self-sharpening bit. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z “The woman who invented it was a saint.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s a famous restaurant,’ Reyna said, ‘in the middle of Old San Juan. They invented the pina colada here, back in the 1960s, I think.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Many of us recognized that a new kind of magic had been invented, and we wanted to be a part of it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “That’s the story of the man who invented the world’s most famous handshake.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “Oh God. Do I have to? The lies I’d have to invent!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that was how it really happened, way back when—some primitive man tried to spear fish and it didn’t work and he “invented” the bow and arrow. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that she still inquired of people if they’d eaten yet, odd as it sounded; Ralph invented his grammar on the fly; even Theresa struggled to put her Chinese thoughts into English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no evolutionary reason for them to ever invent romance. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For Violet, who never knew the girl, only her picture and the personality she invented for her based on careful investigations, the girl’s memory is a sickness in the house—everywhere and nowhere. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It has happened before, many times, before color was invented, and the hope of Heaven has always been a metaphor for the achievement of this particular state of grace. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Vitruvius described something like perspective painting, but the Renaissance invented a new combination of subjectivity and objectivity, the situated viewer and the vanishing point. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z All I wanted was to fall asleep that night, but all I could do was invent. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z North Korea called itself the Worker’s Paradise, but even as it professed allegiance to communist ideals of equality, it invented one of the world’s most rigidly stratified caste systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Without copying anyone else, she had invented her own curious personality, which I envied even more than her artistic ability. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The Egyptians, who had invented geometry, thought little about mathematics. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Anyway, I'm sort of glad they've got the atomic bomb invented. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She was always more comfortable in the kitchen, inventing new twists to Abuela’s classic recipes. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He tilted back in his chair and surveyed his legion of digital friends—invented names, profile pictures of cartoon characters or frowning cats. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Elizebeth’s own favorite term for her profession was cryptanalyst, a word her husband invented. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Probability theory was invented to help rich aristocrats win more money with their gambling. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “You take it, and get inventing. It’s for the joke shop.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Surrounded by alphabets he could not understand, he instead independently reinvented a syllabary, unaware that the Minoans of Crete had already invented another syllabary 3,500 years previously. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One hour of answering questions about batty old wizards who’d invented self- stirring cauldrons and they’d be free, free for a whole wonderful week until their exam results came out. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Leo wished he could invent a time machine. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I stopped playing the songs I knew and started inventing new ones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Quite early on my trip, however, I invented a method for washing clothes which you will go a long way to better. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When the children grew up, they in turn invented words which they couldn’t tell their children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Q: How is it possible that humans invented something as amazing as an airplane and something as awful as a nuclear bomb? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The flute was invented by Athena, but she threw it away because in order to play it she had to puff out her cheeks and disfigure her face. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z It helped them invent and explore and build and become strong. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the argument can be reversed to reach the same conclusion: the long winters at high latitudes leave people with much time in which to sit indoors and invent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She had lied about many things, but she’d never invented stories about a father. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But the new game she had invented of punishing one or both of them each time they were beastly to her made her life more or less bearable. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, he did begin Ford Motor Company, but he didn’t invent the car. He perfected the moving assembly line, which was a very clever way to build a lot of cars fast.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The man who invented Bacon’s cipher was Sir Francis Bacon, an English scientist and statesman who lived in Shakespeare’s day. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I wish ice cream had never been invented. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Most of the day Chester had spent inventing hopping games to try to keep himself entertained, but they didn’t work, really. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't need to ask who invented that, put that one up thinking Yes, to too much, too long. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was my dad’s idea. He says it’s a new art form he just invented.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z In our history it was some horde of furry little mammals who hid from the dinosaurs, colonized the treetops and later scampered down to domesticate fire, invent writing, construct observatories and launch space vehicles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Without Ernest’s energy, his serene self-confidence, and his charismatic command over the scientists and engineers inventing the separation process, there would be no Y-12. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Though he didn’t have exponential notation, he invented something comparable, and his calculations were essentially equivalent to the following. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You kids just like to invent more work for me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a frill on a dress. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She glared at me as if all the stuff Artemis had just said was my fault, like I’d invented the idea of being a guy. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I invent a pill that will allow you to drink seawater, and another that will erase the effects of either twelve cups of tea or seven beers and two scotches. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z One minor modification that readers will already have noticed is that the Semitic and Greek g became the Roman and English c, while the Romans invented a new g in its present position. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I dunno why they never invented this in my world. We got some things better than you, but this was better than anything we got.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But he’s a smart man too, Will. He showed me a new kind of windmill he’s invented—goddamest thing you ever saw.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When tourists complained about the horrible beasts stinking up our village, we learned to simply shrug and say, “When screechers were invented, Mother Nature made them scented.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He also invented something called the “gunpowder engine,” which influenced the development of another machine, the steam engine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “FYI, women build and invent lots of things. A woman invented the circular saw in the eighteen hundreds,” I say. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z ‘So I invented a fourth difficulty level: idiot mode. It makes the corns so stupid it’s funny. They always choose exactly the wrong thing to do.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen-year-old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Yet its light and loving scent gave her a sense of security and she smiled at the sun, dressed, and put her mind to inventing boots. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Can you just invent millions of people? he wondered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Many musical styles have been invented that mix Western and Non-Western traditions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But I guess that if the Latin word for feather had been frindilus instead of pinna, then you probably would have invented the word pen instead. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent a good deal of time alone in his room reading Jules Verne and Edgar Allan Poe and inventing things. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In England, the famous scientist, Professor Foulbody, invented a machine which would tell you at once, without opening the wrapper of a candy bar, whether or not there was a Golden Ticket hidden underneath it. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s the story of the creation—and theft—of the deadliest weapon ever invented. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z That shouldn’t surprise us: people 6,000 years ago couldn’t possibly have had a word for guns, which were invented only within the past 1,000 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z "They all have their mileage cut to under under ten thou before they're offered for sale. And to think I invented that all by myself," he added proudly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z I had invented a quill pen out of a peacock feather, but stopped writing with it when I saw that it waved like a one-eyed slough plant. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “That reminds me of Chase. Last time he was over, he helped me with the supper dishes. Nearly talked my ear off about how he was going to invent a washing machine for dishes someday.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Right here, now, as I invent myself, I’m thinking of all I want to tell you about why this book is written as it is. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Amazingly, they had invented the wheel but did not employ it for any purpose other than children’s toys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They invented excuses to touch him, to see if he was still himself, still warm. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There is no B and V for us, no P and F. I always thought someone must have invented certain words to torture us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I invented you!” he bellowed as Cockerell chased him around Capricorn’s chair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z This arises from the fact that her ancient military practices were not good, and that there has existed nobody capable of inventing new ones. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z People who refused fatalism because they could invent small resources insisted on culpability. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanley's fa-ther was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z I mean, my father was Thomas Edison when it came to inventing punishments. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A doctor in Boston had invented a new drug to treat leukemia. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they had invented certain imaginary games to entertain themselves on rainy afternoons. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In mathematics Pascal helped invent a whole new branch of the field: probability theory. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes I wish someone would invent a pill so David’d wake up one morning without autism, like someone waking from a long coma, and he’d say, “Jeez, Catherine, where have I been?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z "Gentlemen who invented pharmacy. Don't try and fool me on Paris." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps tomorrow someone will invent a theory consistent with everything else we know that circumvents paradoxes on such matters as simultaneity, avoids privileged reference frames and still permits travel faster than light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your parents would be glad you didn’t. Satyrs would only teach you bad manners. I think they invented them.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Whatever the reason, the German troops at the front invented a name for the young women of the 46th Guards, who bombed them so relentlessly, three hundred times a night throughout the war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Our favorite pastime was playing a game we'd invented called Random. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Every one of these children could execute giant steps, baby steps, scissors steps, and a few other absurd locomotions invented by Ruth May. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You might also decide, since they had quite different attributes, that one of them was merely invented by the priests. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence had invented a superb instrument for smashing atoms, but while he was preoccupied with making the tool better, the quintessential small-science lab had stolen the prize from under his nose. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z In reality, even for the most famous and apparently decisive modern inventions, neglected precursors lurked behind the bald claim “X invented Y.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That’s not my fault either. I didn’t invent it; I just bought a little of it while under the impression that the telegraph company would keep me informed as to what it was doing.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z But the process of inventing new ways of fusing Western and Non-Western music continues today in countries all over the world. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For me, the importance of all this was that I began to realize that the large chocolate companies actually did possess inventing rooms and they took their inventing very seriously. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, having no more territory to explore, they invented ways to leave their homeland, first on wings and later on rockets, until finally, in July 1969, they touched the face of the moon. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Trained as an electrical engineer, in the 1920s he had invented a machine known as a differential analyzer: an analog computer whose digital offspring would dominate the information age. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He did so by inventing a serviceable method for artificially driving subatomic particles into the nucleus with enough energy to give physicists a clear picture of what it was made of. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Asked to describe and classify mammals, he scribbled down an incomplete and absurd system of taxonomy—omitting categories, inventing others, lumping kangaroos with beavers, and pigs with elephants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He next started to invent separate signs for each word, and again became dissatisfied when he had coined thousands of signs and still needed more. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the game we played every afternoon ever since that day one of us invented it— I can’t remember who—I think it was me. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Cuneiform writing, the remote ancestor of the Western alphabet, was invented in the Near East about 5,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Genghis Khan must have invented some magic arrows, then,” I said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I started to invent future homes for us, I’d type through the night and give them to her the next day. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “But it’s a bit invented as well. Without people to see it, it would just be...it might as well not be there at all.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Invented—now that’s why I have no time. I’ve invented a little slot that lets a necktie slip around freely in a stiff collar.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The hill people had a warped, yet sensual, mythology invented to explain to themselves this mumbo-jumbo that Lillian had embraced when she married the pilot from the Midwest. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Several of the tools used in this process, such as the stone reaping knives and grindstones, were similar to the tools independently invented in the Fertile Crescent for processing seeds of other wild grasses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He has invented a trench and a theory of defensive warfare, but in that courtly company few will listen. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They look that way when you don’t know much about them—all of those tubes and wires and valves—but mostly the combustion engine hasn’t changed that much since it was invented. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z If a pilot were ever taken prisoner, his captors could use the knowledge that he was married to torment him by inventing stories about his wife. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And now there was a crazy person in the ship somewhere with the most dangerous handheld weapon ever invented. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When the horse ran poorly, Pollard skipped over the disappointing race notes and invented tales of Preservator’s impressive feats, dreaming of bad-luck excuses to account for the horse’s losses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The wheels invented in Mesoamerica as parts of toys never met the llamas domesticated in the Andes, to generate wheeled transport for the New World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They acquired healing lore, mastered and invented ceremonies, learned the numerous divinities in the Hopewell pantheon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I invented excuses to stroll down the aisle—which Baba acknowledged with a playful smirk—and pass the Taheris’ stand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z First in the traditional way, by memorizing the text and the commentaries, and then inventing all sorts of questions that Rav Gershenson might ask me. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Some she had invented to entertain her children; others were old folk tales told to her by her own mother and her grandmother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course that was long before I invented wine and became an immortal. I fought side by side with the gods and some other demigod...Harry Cleese, I think.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The word ecology was not invented until more than fifty years after her death, but once again, Maria was ahead of her time. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “It isn’t. It’s because my dad died the most horrible death that anyone ever could invent.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Languages are invented by the people who speak them, who tend to care more about what is easy and what makes sense than about following rules. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Except they don’t need to because their grades are already beyond an A. I think PPC had to invent a new grading system for them and Maddie. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I invented personalities for the objects on my dresser and set them up on blind dates. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I have to tell how it happened, so I invent a story and I almost believe it myself. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He had invented his business—the circuit route through the small towns, the short stay of each girl, the discipline, the percentages. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was almost nothing about me that wasn’t in his book, that didn’t trap me into being something invented by someone else. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The smoking evil wasn’t invented in Prophet Muhammad’s days—if it had been, I believe he would have banned it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing more mysterious than failing to invent the wheel would be inventing the wheel and then failing to use it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That task was evidently so difficult that there have been only a few occasions in history when people invented writing entirely on their own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Harding says he sleeps better at night knowing there are girls like me to invent those satellites.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at Sal, who was concentrating on his basketball like the whole concept of bouncing had just been invented and was really very amazing and deserving of attention. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The tricky, unsolved thing is how to get the polymers to arrange in membranes and invent replication. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In their settlements of the Tigris and Euphrates valley, they also invented the city-state, formal religion, writing, mathematics, law, and, to a large extent, architecture. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe Glenn Burke hasn’t gotten credit,” she says, “because maybe Glenn Burke didn’t invent it.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z One of Freud’s closest friends, a surgeon named Wilhelm Fliess, invented biorhythmic analysis, a practice based on the notion that various aspects of one’s life follow rigid periodic cycles which begin at birth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The model looks like a latticework corkscrew invented by a madman, or an impossibly fragile spiral staircase that might connect the human past to its future. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z All of this may seem very arbitrary, but it's important to remember that medieval mode theory, just like our modern music theory, was not trying to invent a logical system of music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We know him as Giordano Bruno, but he liked to invent long names and titles for himself, names, it was said, longer than his body. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The word “integration” was invented by a Northern liberal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, it was thought for many decades outside Italy that Silbermann had actually invented the piano, such was the oblivion into which Cristofori’s effort had fallen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In your fifth letter you asked, “What if I never stop inventing?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “The food’s boring. There’s no music. We’ve invented eight thousand games and outgrown them all, some of them literally. Why not grow into something?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Those were the good days, when Blanca and I worked hard to invent new people. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Design, create, and invent for individual and unique situations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Previously Hall had invented a machine capable of typing in Braille, the Hall Braille Writer, which he never patented because he felt profit should not sully the cause of serving the blind. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “He invented flow as we know it,” I say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “And I could have a large inventing studio,” Violet said wistfully. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z If the Japanese had invented football, this is how they would have played it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, she has extra Potions lessons with him,” said Harry, inventing wildly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He was also inventing a new literary genre. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Upon learning that Hall was the man who had invented the typewriter she used so often, the girl put her arms around his neck and gave him a huge hug and kiss. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He invented a part of a threshing machine, better, cheaper, and more efficient than any in existence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "He wanted to create fragrances. We Arabs invented the perfume-making technology, you know. Distillation, steam extraction from flower petals. He kept a kit back at the deli." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There had been boar’s head and venison and pork and beef and mutton and capons—but no turkey, because this bird bad not yet been invented. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s a pretty good cook, and a couple of years ago she invented a snack food of her own. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “A gesture that began with Glenn Burke, the man who invented the world’s most famous handshake.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z I wonder sometimes if she invented my father in a fever dream. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Or this bit about Nick: “Everyone agrees that Nick Allen masterminded this plot that cleverly raises issues about free speech and academic rules. He is the boy who invented the new word.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally recognizing that words can never hurt, but sticks and stones can sure break bones, they invented the Abdominal Snowman. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z But in Maria’s time, nearly two hundred years before photography was invented, documenting research was much more difficult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In Silvester the Second a famous magician ascended the papal throne, although he was notorious for having invented the pendulum dock. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For the physicists of the atomic bomb program, Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945, complicated the moral and ethical issues connected with the device they had invented. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Fern,” said her mother sternly, “you must not invent things. You know spiders don’t tell stories. Spiders can’t talk.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Lots... of programs use the Internet: electronic mail, for example, was around long before the global hypertext system I invented and called the World Wide Web.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Francis Bacon invented the fact; from Bacon the fact entered the English language and was adopted by the Royal Society. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In effect, the leadership of the revolutionary generation lacked a vocabulary adequate to describe the politics they were inventing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Such complex inventions were usually acquired by borrowing, because they spread more rapidly than they could be independently invented locally. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I figured a person could not invent himself into a "Crooked Jerome," but had to be bom that way. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z His lips moved silently for a moment as he invented. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Dad says it’s where Great-Uncle Jim used to weld things together to make new equipment and invent things for his farm. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “You hadn’t invented the NeuroLink yet when this happened, did you?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She invented “rest time,” a period of endless inactivity stretching out after school and lunch, in which we were ordered to stay in our beds, under our mosquito-net canopies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘If you mean, inventing all that about a “present”, well, I thought the true story much more likely, and I couldn’t see the point of altering it at all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I’ll leave out a bunch. No matter what strange combinations you leave, they always invent something delicious.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “One for us and...and one for this guy, Glenn Burke. The guy who invented the high five.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She’d invented a new pattern of curves, lines, and squares in her mind while doing her chores. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z He wished they would go away, because nothing was worse than someone wanting you to talk when the words you needed to say hadn’t even been invented yet. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I say that nobody in Europe or Asia ever invented anything—they got it from somebody else.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In fact, Gassendi points out, when the microscope was invented both the pores in the skin and the legs of the mite became visible, thus confirming the validity of earlier arguments to prove their existence. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He tried to solve his financial problems by inventing something that would make him rich. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z As a senior in high school, Sasha was still inventing languages, hanging out online with other “conlangers”—people who construct languages of their own. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They invented endless variations: but nobody who performed a variation had not also performed the basic experiment. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z At Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, he helped invent a new device for measuring the velocity of a cannon-fired shell, essential for accurate range finding, winning a patent for the work. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “And you’re not the only one who hates high school, you know? You didn’t invent that.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I'll tell you one thing, it made me feel a little weird, but whoever invented track got the whole gun means go thing right. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Emma got the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals involved, and they had a contest to see who could invent the most humane but effective trap. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexander Graham Bell, famous for inventing the telephone five years earlier, suggested using induction balance, with which he had worked while perfecting his invention. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They had to invent for themselves the equipment suitable to each new habitat they encountered. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They invented a sign language for hands and feet. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Tuve moved on to an electrostatic generator invented by a Princeton University engineer named Robert Van de GraafF. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z One of the symbols that popped up looked just like the levels of Q-Bert, one of the best old video games—I didn’t realize Led Zeppelin had invented Q-Bert! It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z This is why they invented drugs for heartburn. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He had unconsciously invented a game which brought his own athletic gifts to their highest pitch. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes I invented another game, which involved singing and dancing as well as storytelling. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeus made him give them back, and he won Apollo’s forgiveness by presenting him with the lyre which he had just invented, making it out of a tortoise’s shell. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Thayee says the British invented high tea, but Indians and Pakistanis perfected it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z “Couldn’t remember all the goblin rebels’ names, so I invented a few. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z January 2 comes faster than any second day in any new year since they first invented calendars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z It need hardly be said that the subtlest practitioners of doublethink are those who invented doublethink and know that it is a vast system of mental cheating. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Klaus was too tired and despondent to speak, and Violet was holed up in the inventing area of her mind, too busy planning to talk. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Trying to invent our version of the story. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young man, Blaise invented a mechanical calculating machine, named the Pascaline, which is similar to some of the mechanical calculators that engineers used before the invention of the electronic calculator. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Sex seems to have been invented around two billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Which was quite probable, whether she invented it or not. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do they have to be invented?” asked Milo, who seemed surprised at almost everything she told him. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z I tried to invent or imagine such a stout, snappy phrase. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But their ignorance also worked in our favor: it allowed us to invent code names for people we wanted to talk about and pretend that we were referring to family members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, every little boy thinks he invented sin. Virtue we think we learn, because we are told about it. But sin is our own designing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But a grappling hook was all Violet could think of to make without a proper inventing laboratory, and time was running short. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z As Adams explained it, the French philosophes had invented the word, which became a central part of their utopian style of thinking and a major tenet in their school of folly.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Aside from inventing the Herculean frankfurters, my brother had little interest in the family business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The chicken nugget had not yet been invented. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Persians have mastered the ancient and noble art of the awkward family photo—in fact, we probably invented it. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be cool if somebody could invent a bubble- talking machine before fifth grade starts in a couple of weeks? Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Two years later he invented the differential calculus. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a name for what she was doing, a word that had just been invented: counterintelligence. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She told me that it was a cap that has a flap of cloth attached to cover the neck, named after Sir Henry Havelock, the man who invented it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had never existed; he had invented it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He must have invented something revolutionary back home. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z "Nonsense. Surely I can see him whenever I like. After all, I invented him!" Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Silas just did a big report on the baseball player who invented the high five. What was his name again?” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z She would invent little tiny radios the size of a green pea that people could carry around and stick in their ears. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z With an instinct for the regrettable that was almost uncanny, he invented chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Great. I should have installed a smoke screen that makes the ship smell like a giant chicken nugget. Remind me to invent that, next time.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On sunny days, we’d invent fun activities like the “Trying Not to Laugh” game, which we’d play on the covered patio behind our house. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z "First you need to invent a time machine," I say. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z A girl Julia's age sat on a pony under a big tree, before color was invented. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I was relieved, because I hadn’t invented her. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Chalk it up to some invented disorder and adjust my meds accordingly. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The Spaniards counteracted this threat by inventing a pretext to seize the tlatoani in his own palace, making him first their captive and then their puppet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Had no idea Benjamin Franklin had invented all that stuff—a stove, glasses of some kind, the first post office, and his own university. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think you could invent something that would help us escape?” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Democritus invented the word atom, Greek for “unable to be cut.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For even more possibilities, try a web search for "exotic scales"; or try inventing your own scales and using them in compositions and improvisations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For a bunch of hairless apes, we’ve actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We were watching Marty invent a game called Struggle of the Dying Warrior. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I invented a book that listed every word in every language. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Nor is it a new thing for man to invent an existence that he imagines to be above the rest of life; this has been his most consistent intellectual exertion down the millennia. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They invented sins that would satisfy teachers without provoking draconian punishment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Don’t ever invent something for the lieutenant just because you think it’ll make the questions stop. Only tell the truth. Okay? Promise me.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Seeing that it had worked for me, my sisters invented similar stories, and together we announced that the Sedaris Trio had officially disbanded. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His lessons consisted of an endless series of distractions all invented by him so that the subject of mathematics would never have to be discussed. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But Brahe and Ursus did not invent the priority dispute; rather, they cared about priority because mathematicians had been taking it seriously since at least 1520. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “To me,” Woods said, “it looks as if someone invented it, and the technique spread to the neighbors.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She believed, for instance, having learnt it at school, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Bill Russell invented blocking! He helped the Cs win eleven championships and was MVP five times!” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z She invented a way of dipping the chimneys in a big can of kerosene she had in the basement. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The typical economist believes the world has not yet invented a problem that he cannot fix if given a free hand to design the proper incentive scheme. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Standing on the edge of the holding ponds, they gave the young fish silly names, and invented personalities for them. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “In the old days, Ariadne’s string guided Theseus out of the maze. It was a navigation instrument of some kind, invented by Daedalus. AndChris Rodriguez was mumbling about string.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He was able to rent an ancient mansion that had belonged to one of the great saltpeter fortunes before they invented the synthetic substitute that had shot the whole industry to hell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If God had amused himself inventing the lilies of the field, he surely knocked His own socks off with the African parasites. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, each society on a continent represents one more opportunity to invent and adopt a technology, because societies vary greatly in their innovativeness for many separate reasons. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At first she invented rhymes about the tundra and sang them to tunes she had learned at school. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z For an awful moment I was afraid we’d come to the wrong island or, worse yet, that the home was just another thing my grandfather had invented. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z They settled down an appreciable amount, and began inventing obscene verses to “Tinker Tanner.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z My dad invented the concept of Simon logic, and I can’t seem to outgrow it. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z In the spirit of their shipboard con game, they continued to spin out false histories for themselves, inventing brothers and sisters with plausible names, cousins with moral shortcomings, in-laws with facial tics. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z 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 I feel so grateful to the man who invented the “Traveller’s” typewriter, and to Mr. Morris for getting this one for me. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z We invented it when our stomachs were grumbling to each other. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Those were the first things she would invent. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Her voice was rich, modulated, each word pronounced as if she were inventing it. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At each new discovery, I said “Oh” as if that were the only word for joy that had been invented, but when I looked at my bed, I said, “Ohhh.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though I didn’t want to, I started inventing. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I’ll happily invent a meal and make up a bed on the floor, just to hear the kindness in their stories. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was probably meant as a joke, but the guy’s father had invented the stuff, so maybe not. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And having changed the names, it became easier to transform the circumstances and invent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He sketched for her the new fan blade Samuel had invented for the windmill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “The whole idea of time-sharing only got invented in nineteen sixty- five,” Gates continued. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Radar and I sit up front, and we try to keep from worrying by playing a game we’ve just invented called That Guy Is a Gigolo. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Not only did Cheryl live in the projects but she also survived an ordeal that is so horrific, it seemed like something invented in a horror movie. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z After becoming crippled with polio, Midgley invented a contraption involving a series of motorized pulleys that automatically raised or turned him in bed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But after a few days, my grandmother began to invent gadgets for me in order to make life a bit easier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They played Dungeons & Dragons and then left the twelve-sided die on the floor and invented magical battles of their own. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z 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 “He’s the producer who invented World's Scariest Police Chases and Cops.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In the coming years she would invent dozens more. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s like my sickness was invented out of the much-too-thin air that I’m breathing. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z You may be inclined to agree with the writer Calvin Trillin when he wrote, “As far as I’m concerned, whom is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You need to invent better lies,” the girl said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z 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 But Dewey, and some of the other investigators, seemed not to credit his story, and behaved as though it were a tale he’d invented to mislead them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so inspired by my find that I invented an Indian tribe, the Coalhicans, and convinced the boys I played with—Roy Lee, O’Dell, Tony, and Sherman—that it had really existed. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He invented an orchestra for the occasion, a combination of instruments never before gathered under one roof. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Or we invent new swearwords together, words that suggest an unspecific dirtiness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His father was heir to the Vanderbilt railroad and oceanic shipping fortune; his mother’s father had invented the fantastically lucrative Bromo-Seltzer. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As a student, frustrated by the limitations of conventional mathematics, he invented an entirely new form, the calculus, but then told no one about it for twenty-seven years. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She wished she could invent something that could take them out of there. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “Now, the first thing you should know is, the Italians, we invented the game of bocce.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I'd always hated it when a teacher forced us to invent something on the spot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He invented outrageous stories of the perversions of various Popes; informed them of little-known points of Catholic doctrine; raved about Vatican conspiracies, ignoring Henry’s bald refutations and Francis’s muttered asides about social-climbing Protestants. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone he did not give it away for free. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Society of Sentient Insects had gone and invented ‘people repellent’ spray. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The Babylonians, like many different cultures, had invented machines that helped them count. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A population of 4,000 was able to survive for 10,000 years, but with significant cultural losses and significant failures to invent, leaving it with a uniquely simplified material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Winning the Cracker Barrel peg game is not pathetic. It’s a triumph of the human spirit. Come on. You invented this idea.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And last of all, he wanted the new clock that he’d invented to be used in all games. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This fixed distance between a note and its higher self is something that occurs in nature - we humans didn’t invent it, we just found it to be lurking behind all musical sounds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In my mind I invented snmyhymns, as I call them, my own perverse hymns that can be sung equally well forward or backward: Evil, all its sin is still alive! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the last few decades, we have invented countless time-saving devices that are supposed to make life more relaxed—washing machines, vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, computers, email. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It took seventy years for that answer to establish itself, but once the telescope had been invented and turned into a scientific instrument it was the only answer with any chance of survival. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mom, Dad, and I had cake and ice cream and played Monopoly, which Dad declared was the greatest game ever invented. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She had to be careful not to say anything obviously impossible; she had to be vague in some places and invent plausible details in others; she had to be an artist, in short. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Whoever invented these boots should be shot because once the boots got ahold of your shoes they wouldn’t let them go for anything. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Brittney is the kind of person for whom active verbs and modifiers were invented. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z When and where was the language of the fact invented? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z To decipher the structure of DNA, Wilkins had decided to corral a set of biophysical techniques invented in nearby Cambridge—crystallography and X-ray diffraction. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I have reason to think that Joe’s intellects were brightened by the encounter they had passed through, and that on our way to Pumblechook’s he invented a subtle and deep design. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Still other devices, invented to serve one purpose, eventually found most of their use for other, unanticipated purposes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The gene, he argued, had been “invented by geneticists” to support a “rotting, moribund bourgeoisie” science. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Fitzgerald wrote, “So he invented just the sort of Jay Gatsby that a seventeen year old boy would be likely to invent, and to this conception he was faithful to the end.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z These data, from the last few decades before the telescope was invented, were the most accurate that had yet been obtained. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately, Brother Rufus had a specific compound that he had invented some years back to deal with such emergencies as summer stings. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z After all, Annabeth’s mom, Athena, had invented the chariot, and my dad had created horses. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z As Shin stood beside his mother, the guard invented a punishment for her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In English there was an alternative: Robert Boyle invented the term ‘the corpuscularian philosophy’ in 1662 to cover both ancient atomism and Descartes’ new corpuscular theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Higgs boson may or may not actually exist; it was invented simply as a way of endowing particles with mass. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was originally invented in the late 1960s in an attempt to find a theory to describe the strong force. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I think saints all lived before high heels were invented. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad told me about him. Goddard invented the first liquid-fueled rocket.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “I invented you when I was seven,” I said, “and that means I can un-invent you now.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It is the kind you invent in your head because you need to. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Godwin was a bishop and a crackpot; he seems to have believed that he had invented the radio. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It shows that the most obscene figures are not the ignorant ranting racists, but the legal minds who front for them, who “invent” for them the legislative proposals and the propaganda bulletins. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I invented a memory trick to help me with this one: What did Caesar have for breakfast? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dad wasn’t there, we invented our own games. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She waged a campaign to invent a more humane trap for game-hunting. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had eyes only for the old man who had invented him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When not sleeping or studying, Thetans were fond of video games, constructing and solving elaborate puzzles, playing, inventing, and reimagining board games, and pretending to kill one another as part of live-action Mafia games. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z English philosophy has always been thought to be peculiarly empiricist; on this account, it seemed that England had created and invented the culture of the fact. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I invent a story about her life and pretend I'm telling Madeleine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Wasn't radar invented in the Second World War?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z So I invented a Black Box Yellow Pages, which is a phone book that’s made out of the material that they make the black boxes on airplanes out of. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Since Galileo, of course, all sorts of new languages have been invented with which to do science, including algebra, calculus and probability theory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No names have been changed, no characters invented, no events fabricated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented airplanes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I offered her what I could of me, inventing a story around the basic reasons why I was in El Paso. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I retreat into the imaginary world of Soledad, inventing more twists and turns to her story, eager to write it all down before I forget. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If the telephone had not yet been invented, his sister would still be knocking at the door when she heard him sneeze. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At age thirty-nine he’d already invented the first technique for suturing blood vessels together, and had used it to perform the first coronary bypass and develop methods for transplanting organs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The technique of baking clay in a kiln, it seems, was not invented until later. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z How could he know that this old man had invented him, made him up out of paper and ink, made up his face, his knife, his evil nature? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z It wasn’t easy, answering all Mother’s questions and inventing an excuse to explain my nap to Father. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Parks asked him about police protection, and Malcolm X laughed, “Brother, nobody can protect you from a Muslim but a Muslim—or someone trained in Muslim tactics. I know. I invented many of those tactics.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There are plenty of enterprises where we invent the rules and we change them when we want to. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She hated whatever that thing was inside her that made her invent such whoppers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Although it would be several years before I finally saw one of these films in the video show, they started to influence many of the games we invented back home. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I didn’t know exactly when cars were invented, but I figured that was like prehistoric times—back when people watched black-and- white TV and hunted dinosaurs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She no longer had the heart to invent for her cousins the thrill of the first night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The invertebrate eye was invented into an optical instrument at the MBL, opening the way to modern visual physiology. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The center of the town could be saved for a weightless recreation center, where all sorts of new games could be invented. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The barometer had only recently been invented, and Descartes was one of the first people to suggest that what it measured was the weight of air pressing down on the surface of the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We talk about our talents; they tell me they both invent things, which makes my supposed interest in fashion seem pretty weak. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z They had discovered the X ray, the cathode ray, the electron, and radioactivity, invented the ohm, the watt, the Kelvin, the joule, the amp, and the little erg. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Now, over here,” Mr. Wonka went on, skipping excitedly across the room to the opposite wall, “over here I am inventing a completely new line in toffees!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Since he did not know any English and could identify only the most famous cities and people, he would invent names and legends to satisfy the children’s insatiable curiosity. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Though he was not in danger of being enslaved in France, he suffered through a series of conflicts with others who claimed they had invented his process. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z So I’ll invent my own ways to tell him what I long for, and what I can give. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The pilots became so adept with the tap code that they started inventing shortcuts, a kind of low-tech texting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only later, in 1629, was a satisfactory technical term invented to identify unambiguously this new entity: it was called ‘the terraqueous globe’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Southern colonies did not hesitate to invent ways to extend the terms of servitude, and the planter class accumulated uncultivated lands to restrict the options of free workers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Important, crucial, final things, and here was their own mother, who didn't have a second to help them puzzle any of this out, inventing gadgets to make life easier for the American Moms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z On reflection, Cahokia’s dissimilarity to other cities is not surprising; having never seen a city, its citizens had to invent every aspect of urban life for themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We trekked all over Mica, past hundreds of grassless stone-and-cactus front yards, through the Tudorized shopping center, skirting the electronics business park around which the city had' been invented a mere fifteen years before. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you did your presentation on the guy who invented the high five,” she says. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z For all societies except the few past ones that were completely isolated, much or most new technology is not invented locally but is instead borrowed from other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And even if the Sapiens lost the first round, they could quickly invent new stratagems that would enable them to win the next time. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When we invented agriculture, we had to take care to plant and harvest our crops in the right season. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, I’m pretty sure that’s why they invented the Internet,” Tab said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Everyone knows that the Ancient Greeks invented the Olympic Games; for the Greeks, though, it wasn't just running, nude wrestling and hurling the javelin that were important. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Whoever invented neckties must have never gotten into fistfights. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, the great man would pick up my newly invented chocolate and he would take a small bite. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “My mom invented it, but Poseidon created horses out of the crests of waves. So they had to work together to make it complete.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “So I can stop inventing how he died. I’m always inventing.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I invented a postage stamp where the back tastes like creme brulee. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Max says, “Alexander Graham Bell, who invented the telephone. I did a report on him.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’d heard that, so I invented my own mixture, adding other ingredients to keep it from stinging.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z My superhero was supposed to be Donut Man, the best superhero anybody ever invented. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The informer, Floyd Wells, might easily have invented his story; such tale-telling was not infrequently undertaken by prisoners who hoped to win favor or attract official notice. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The question Vergil asks himself over and over again is: ‘Who invented…?’; and he runs through a seemingly endless chain of topics, such as language, music, metallurgy, geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He should definitely stick to easier things, like sewing people’s limbs back on or inventing new substances. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z If my sister Rachel and Mr. William Shakespeare put their heads together to invent an extravagant despot, they couldn’t outdo Mobutu. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was something I had invented, a game you could play by using my Harmonee city like a 3-D board game. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Let’s just get you to Pianopalooza. Who invented that crazy name, anyway?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It was a pretend playmate I must have invented for company. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “That’s the key. Archimedes also invented a massive claw that could swing on a crane and pluck enemy ships out of the water.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Either that, or he could invent a Slap-Leo-in-the-Face machine to punish himself, though he doubted it would hurt as badly as the look Annabeth was giving him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Someone invents something and puts it to use. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From India, Muslims learned of the zero, which allowed them to invent what we still call “Arabic” numerals. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They didn’t know their birthdays so had to invent them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z You couldn't just go around announcing that your mom was Athena, the goddess who invented the loom; Most people would lock you in a rubber room. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon bebop musicians began dispensing with the blueprints of the standard songs and instead invented their own chord sequences and melodies - highly complex ones at that, sometimes derived from the note combinations of unusual chords. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Naturally, the Japanese were not the sole ancient people with pottery: it was invented independently at many different times and places around the ancient world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Tasmanians had no contact with other societies for 10,000 years and acquired no new technology other than what they invented themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she set down her bag, and, glancing around casually, took a few minutes to focus her mind on the character she’d invented: a friendly, absent-minded tuberculosis patient on her way home from the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I have been driving since automobiles were invented. Let us go.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The bacterium which causes tuberculosis was discovered not invented by Robert Koch in 1882. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He used to think he could use electricity to invent a movable light, if he studied hard enough. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He smiled as he talked about what a good “horse trader” Billy was, and how he loved animals, and how he had bought him every piece of sports equipment that had ever been invented. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of female Finnish pirates invented it back in the fifteenth century, and named it the Devil’s Tongue because it twisted this way and that, in a most complicated and eerie way. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Murra invented a name for this mode of existence: “vertical archipelagoes.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ever since backpacks were invented, no one—ever—in the entire school system, grades K through twelve, carries a book bag, especially a leather one. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z They declined to invent the wheel because it looked like nothing but trouble in this mud. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We have invented slogans like "Three strikes and you're out" to communicate our toughness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Yes, that’s what it is, but who invented the word, who first used it, and how has the meaning of the word changed since it was first used?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “I brought this from headquarters. It’s not something we invented here. Were you there when they attacked Candor?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z We invented an American-feminine speaking personality, except for that one girl who could not speak up even in Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernie was looking rather grumpy; determined to outshine Harry for once, he had most rashly invented his own potion, which had curdled and formed a kind of purple dumpling at the bottom of his cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “He knew he invented the high five and that he was gay.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z It was a woman who invented white crane boxing only two hundred years ago. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We have seen that science is an enterprise we have invented and agreed to play by certain rules. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Maybe in the word you hear echoes of Jamaica in the 1930s, when Rastafari was invented. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z In that year, Galileo started observing the night sky with a telescope, which had just been invented. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I curse whoever invented adolescence and ask God to keep me upright and odor-free for another eight minutes. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Over the course of Ember’s history, various clever people had tried to invent a movable light, but all of them had failed. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Of course Father Mulrooney was so old, electricity probably hadn’t been invented when he first learned Latin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The guns seemed to address this country, which invented the streets that secured them with despotic police, in its primary language—violence. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “It isn’t Rockefeller, Vanderbilt, or Carnegie. Your daddy didn’t invent Coca-Cola and I didn’t recently discover King Solomon’s mines.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And Enoch, who did not die but was taken away by God and made into the angel Metatron, kept God’s throne, invented the art of writing, and communicated God’s word to those on Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They were better suited to improvisation, for they had been invented for just this purpose—to pass the hours in creative fun when the weather closed in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Questions to write down: When were toy guns invented? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Not even her mother could have invented such a machine! How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z As I walked up, I held the railing tight and started inventing things in my head: air bags for skyscrapers, solar-powered limousines that never had to stop moving, a frictionless, perpetual yo-yo. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I’ve read a hundred tales of heroes and the trials they face—what harm if I invent one and pass it off as truth? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Gregory says you were a good guy, always inventing things. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “We have big, beautiful brains. We invent things that fly. Fly. We write poetry. You probably hate poetry, but it’s hard to argue with ‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I gave up the idea of the biographical sketches and settled finally upon writing a series of short stories, using the material I had got from Ross and his friends, building upon it, inventing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Three hundred years ago in Lyra’s world, someone invented the alethiometer. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Another stumbling block to doing as he pleased was the very idea of chivalry or of civilization which Arthur had first invented and then introduced into his own young mind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To force traders to pay, North Korean security forces invented a new twist on labor camps of the sort that Shin was born in. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z For Mal had just invented something delightful—or at least something that he found delightful, which is altogether a different prospect. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He had invented what he imagined was fried rice, frying the rice in groundnut oil, and had half hoped it would send them both to the toilet in a hurry. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He invented and built a threshing machine and moved through the bottom farms in harvest time, threshing the grain his own farm would not raise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Lumière. These French guys who basically invented movies—they made the camera and showed the first film—a bunch of people exiting a train station...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The older I got, the more I realized that my happy-Mom memories were often fabrications invented to make me feel better about her being chronically unhappy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Typical of Mud People to invent a complicated explanation for a simple phenomenon. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “You are sick of prosperity and indulgence. Cannot you invent a few hardships for yourself, and be contented to stay?” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z People were talking long before they invented writing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And still and all I knew that we were something, that we were a tribe—on one hand, invented, and on the other, no less real. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually two other Cavendish scientists invented a more powerful proton-beam device, while in California Ernest Lawrence at Berkeley produced his famous and impressive cyclotron, or atom smasher, as such devices were long excitingly known. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The girl couldn’t talk, couldn’t communicate at all except in the inadequate sign language she had invented—a language even her mother only half-understood. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometime in the eighties they invented pig balls, for pigs who were being fattened in pens. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z We are, almost all of us, descended from people who responded to the dangers of existence by inventing stories about unpredictable or disgruntled deities. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrug like it’s a dance move I just invented. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Or worse yet, one that Father had invented himself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z There was a section for inventing and a section for building and one for scientific study and one for botany and one for the study of magic. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Taking a deep breath, he forced himself to practice a habit he’d invented to settle down after a bad dream. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “What about the time you almost drowned trying to catch fish with that new kind of net you invented?” Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z They will invent what they need to survive. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We thought we invented all of it in Salinas, even the sorrow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She herself invented a wonderful door-opening device made out of wires and springs and pulleys, with heavy weights dangling on cords, and soon every door in the house had a door-opener on it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z They are subject to all the sicknesses of other fowl, together with some they have invented. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The deerstalker hat was invented by a man called Sidney Paget, who did the illustrations for the original books. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Violet had very few materials with which to invent something, and she didn’t want to wander around the house looking for more for fear of arousing the suspicions of Count Olaf and his troupe. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z She and Lyra would perish by the means she herself had invented. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He invents a machine to slice carrots: lift a lever, nineteen blades drop, and the carrot falls apart into twenty neat cylinders. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In a flash she invented a lie and up went her hand. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Temple, the Chinese invented the mold- board plow by the third century b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If vacuum cleaners had been invented in those days Polly would have thought it was the sound of a Hoover being worked a long way off—several rooms away and several floors below. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “The Chinese are reputed to have invented rocketry. Something called ‘Chinese arrows’ are mentioned in Europe and the Middle East as far back as the thirteenth century. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “So he didn’t invent it. He discovered it.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z She developed the capacity to guess an astonishing percentage of the cards in a deck, and invented games of fantasy to play with her brothers and sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But they let it run its course, fulfill itself, and never invented ways either to alter it, to annihilate it or to prevent its happening again. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I recall the sensation of the town feeling painted around me and of feeling invented. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot. And I GOT the scrawny. Narcissus? He’s such a loser even the Underworld didn’t want him. He couldn’t get the ghost girls to date him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They began to invent humorless, glum jokes of their own and disastrous rumors about the destruction awaiting them at Bologna. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Somewhere in these streets, plastic was invented, X-rays were discovered, continental drift was identified. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And if you don’t have a weak spot, he’ll invent one and poke you anyway. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I lie here and ask myself, Just how many things do I have to invent in my head to survive this? Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He also invented several useful objects, including a drip coffeemaker, thermal underwear, and a type of range still known as the Rumford fireplace. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He turned to tell Ron this, but Ron’s face had gone oddly slack, and next second Ron was yelling, “Did I tell you I’ve invented a broomstick that’ll reach Jupiter?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z |
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