There is a kind of alchemy to it, when one human touches another and makes the aloneness less terrifying. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There was a color photograph of a long-haired woman, wearing a red spangled costume that covered even less of herself than the bathing suits the gringa tourists wore in Señor Aguilar’s swimming pool. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Our society may be less creative, and not just in the arts. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The thing Wormtail had been carrying had the shape of a crouched human child, except that Harry had never seen anything less like a child. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I wished my arms could fold up in more places so I would take up less room. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He’s beaten me before, but that matters less than knowing he’s a good, fair opponent. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think we drove for about two hours, but it might have been less, before the truck slowed, and turned, and finally came to a stop. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were dozens of theories, more or less realistic, depending on the mood of the moment. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Molly couldn’t care less about Jack’s prowess on the soccer field, but smart she respects. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

For some reason it makes people seem so much less real when I look at them. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I thought I was dying, too, and yet there I stood, battered and bruised but more or less fully functioning. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I stopped by his basement often in those first few months, then less and less as time went by. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His adrenal gland, by degrees, ceased jumping its several secretions into his bloodstream; his heart slowed to normal, his breathing became less frantic. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

As Washington shrewdly noted, the invisible ink would not only make “communications less exposed to detection” but also would “relieve the fears” of agents carrying the innocent-looking messages. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Current Mr. O’Doyle was much larger, with less hair and red peeling skin from sunburns. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The air is less hot, signifying evening's approach. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Haven’t you read Jane Austen? English people are more uptight than us, not less.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Several lesser nobles in her pew laughed silently. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Was that why he was being forced to help them in this life, in the form of a pigeon, no less? Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was a useful man, but she liked him little and trusted him less. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But going forward, this will be less and less true. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

We all felt a little ridiculous but somehow no less horrified, because even though the heads weren’t real, they represented something that was, hidden beneath the rubble around us. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was less sure that I would ever be able to write a good book. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“A bit like my fear of killing someone,” Queenie said, “but less specific.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I liked to learn of her: I saw the part of instructress pleased and suited her; that of scholar pleased and suited me no less. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

No less than three members of the extended Ford family ended up winning Rhodes Scholarships. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Knowing it would not be fast or easy, and wanting, deserving nothing less, grimly, patiently, he waited for death. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the days went on, she became less anxious about Mr. Marsden’s state of mind, much preferring his coolness to the rosebud smiles and little pats she had endured before her illness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“God, you’re naive. I guess this explains how that League woman was able to trick you into thinking you were something less than a monster.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

All day in school, there’s a kind of charged feeling, and it seems to make the work less boring and the teachers funnier. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

My delusion detector went off less and less while I was around Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The more I think about it, the less sense it makes. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Alex had been underwater for less than a minute, but already his lungs were feeling the strain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

But he wept for El Patron, who deserved pity less than anyone but who was closer to Matt than anyone in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dean rejected this audacious plan, in part because he was unconvinced that a second lab was needed at all, much less on Teller’s megalomaniacal scale. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

If a wheel strikes against a stone or other impediment, while in quick motion, it turns the cart with a violent jerk, and often throws them down with more or less injury. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now we saw even less of him. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Still, though, I find that I care a bit less than a softball captain on the news probably should. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I am always less fortunate than Robert. Has he been imparting tender confidences?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

I usually abstained completely on the job, much less matched a subject shot for shot. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cow was waiting to be milked and fed, but gave only half a can of milk—less each day, but better than none, which was what it would be soon. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sentences of less than ten years for adult defendants, even in this era of harsh punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Other riders Sansa did not know; hedge knights from the Fingers and Highgarden and the mountains of Dome, unsung freeriders and new-made squires, the younger sons of high lords and the heirs of lesser houses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Nathan realized how hard it was going to be to convince Uncle Jet to participate in a diagnosis meeting, much less an N’daa. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The guests were never less than courteous to one another, but for all that, a rather tense atmosphere, charac-terized largely by distrust, seemed to prevail at this stage. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I have done all this myself,” he said; “and I will give the Fleece to no man less brave than I.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Jackson, weighing less than 100 pounds, slid down the bank and met with an open mouth the ice she had craved all her life. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

She should have known better than to wear that loose shirt—a cotton one, no less. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Everything is more or less up to the judge. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The less money Mr. Flanders spends, the fewer bills he gets. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The exciting synergy of institutional life in an all-purpose national metropolis was deemed less important than the dangerous corruptions likely to afflict a nexus of politicians and financiers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The more she wrote, the less sure she became. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Why, may I ask? It’s not going to make you any less bored. And we might as well start calling it Three Questions, because it doesn’t take you five anymore.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

But I could also imagine this: Margo picking these books up at various garage sales, buying every travel guide she could get her hands on for a quarter or less. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It must have come from the Indian Ocean. They used to kind of embed it in the glass. That wasn’t made less than a hundred years ago. More, by the look of it.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The horse had to learn to be less patient, not more. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess it’s just dawned on everyone that opening night is in less than a month. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

They sang so joyfully loud that Ms. Katz from across the hall tapped on their door’s window and motioned for less volume. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“A rock is a good thing, too, you know,” he said, speaking less gravely. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If one passed by the Earth, it could not “stop” the Earth’s rotation, much less start it up again at twenty-four hours a day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The work on the frame was less than half-finished and so tangled and knotted he could imagine no one ever continuing it. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

And with some telephone calls, in less than half an hour about fifty of Temple Seven’s men of the Fruit of Islam were standing in ranks- formation outside the police precinct house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been hoping for something less noticeable, but it was too late to request an exchange now. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

And his uncle laughed and said carelessly, “You are under a good heaven. There are men less rich than you who hang from the burnt rafters of their houses.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“The more stitches the less riches; the more stitches the less ...” “The introduction of Our Ford’s first T-Model . . “I’ve had it nearly three months.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then you figure how much less forty-six is than fifty. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t make it any less stupid or rotten a thing to do. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then among the greater casts there fell another hail, less ruinous but more horrible. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She had a vision that the same cycle was destined for her less than day-old child. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a month she’d come to feel like they were best friends. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But each time he said it, he believed it less. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Residues on fruits and vegetables tend to be somewhat less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Often, between train rides, Enrique prefers to sleep alone in a tall clump of grass, away from other migrants, knowing it will make him less of a target. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem drunk, but this crudeness was new; he was a little less precise in his movements now, his voice louder. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Da up and gone—at work, he said, though the money he brought home was less each week, and he’d stumble in after midnight reeking of hops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The experience of possessing them lasted for less than a day and it threatened him with speedy death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longer he spoke, the less he stumbled over his words. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone seen as being less patriotic than expected was suspected of being a Communist, a Communist sympathizer, or a Socialist—a slight ideological variation of Communism. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Without dragons, how could she hope to hold Meereen, much less win back Westeros? / am the blood of the dragon, she thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The only plus is that the farther we retreat into the earth, the less shrill the sirens become. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He missed his old Liberian teammates, and he seemed less committed to the Fugees. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then I laughed, too, just because people young and old are more or less the same everywhere. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The choir, noticeably less of a group, had discarded their cloaks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Soon both of them would be his, the greater light and the lesser, and Freya the lady, who was more beautiful than either the sun or the moon. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Special knowledge did not make a slave any less a slave—you were neither freed or paid. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

But the speeches of the less forceful players were still lost. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I am less certain about their complete lack of enthusiasm for political issues. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“That, Mr. Hickam, is trigonometry. In due course, we will get to wherever it is your usually less supple mind is trying to take us.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two men walked more or less side by side, feet echoing on metal and concrete. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If you never tell, never speak of it, will it become only a dream, less than a dream, a nightmare half-remembered? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what was easier or less lofty about that name, but I was well into elementary school before I became comfortable spelling either. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they promised him one salary and paid him less when he finished. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By spending less than a minute with the summary and the introduction, I was soon at the figures showing the locations of the essential atoms. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Going to school is less of a problem, ’cause that’s when the city sleeps, but on my way home, it’s a whole other story. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She was covered in soot and her dress was charred at the edges, but at least she seemed more or less together. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

They were to “run” the social scene once the senior yearbook girls graduated, though seniors cared less about the social hierarchy the closer they got to graduation. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Their fierceness and savage temper, however, did not grow less; they had no laws or courts of justice, but each one did as he pleased. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if they were just Claremonts, you wouldn’t have so much luck. It’d sure as hell be less confusing—it’s the name everybody knows them by anyway!” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he looks up, it’s a less obstinate Olly staring back at me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the research points to a very interesting dynamic: The reason people are spending less time in each app session isn’t because their interest in news is declining. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had, although the glow of victory remained intact for less then twelve hours. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moving, under what appeared to be government protection, to an area less directly threatened by the war seemed not such a bad idea at all. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been really active in church only a year or less, and that was because the children were grown now and took up less time and less space in her mind. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They keep telling me I should talk less, mind my own business and be more modest, but I seem doomed to failure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But the engineers also spent time designing strategic rockets under defense contracts, something perhaps less politically correct to advertise: Trident missiles, ICBMs, Minutemen. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the changes of the next hundred years were to be far less remarkable than the changes of the previous hundred years. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Tell me you think I’m stupid and ugly and I swear this would hurt less.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Well, to charge them less rent would be unethical.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t feel any less confused when he blushed and pulled his Chinese handcuffs out of his pocket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The less visible the 101st, the more we suffered physical and verbal abuse. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people worse off and we can surely spare a little from what we have. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was less talk and laughter at dinner because the TV was on and my cousins took their plates to the living room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

To many residents Stith seemed less interested in solving their problems than in taking the heat off Greenberg. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It replaced the manuscript, read more or less in isolation from other texts, with a book which could be consulted in a library, surrounded by competing authorities. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Rum won’t help. If he put more rum in barrels and less in...” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she wiped each piece with a soft cloth, she said, “Next time win more, lose less.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its bottom was less stony and more earthy, and slowly its sides dwindled to mere banks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I was less afraid of what they would do to my mind than I was of what Rudy might do to my body while I was under the influence. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

These are the terrestrial planets, our family of worlds, the planets more or less like the Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t it a pity that we didn’t meet under less extenuating circumstances?” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

At home the effects were no less disturbing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dead in less than a day. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Virgil would rather have less if it tasted better. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t take a sou less, so help me.” The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wanted something less fruity than the truth, but truly, what is gayer than a woman who languishes away in a crumbling mansion wearing her wedding gown every day of her life, for the drama? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Conrad’s voice was less enthusiastic than usual, but still he made his chase for the phone until he was ordered to halt. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing Miranda liked less than sitting around without an audience. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It took even less time to gather up my belongings than it had for my life to be signed away. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lately that voice was getting a little less loud. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

To travel a shorter arc requires less time but more fuel. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the test takes me less than an hour. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I moved around the neighborhood now with more independence, less tied to my parents. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

However a person feels about abortion, a question is likely to come to mind: what are we to make of the trade-off of more abortion for less crime? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Frodo waited patiently for a while, then he spoke again less sternly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The work was less physically demanding than logging and allowed him to be outdoors. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every minor spell he had cast with it so far that day had seemed less powerful than those he had produced with his phoenix wand. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s because they knew less: they had the ability to sort through what they knew and find a pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“We used the spring snare to snag that chimera last month. I don’t really like repeating ourselves. Makes us look less innovative than—” He stopped himself. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Putting Percy in the Fifth would make him less of a threat, and Octavian liked to keep all his enemies in one place. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I need to speak to Tom, to get things straight in my head, because the more I go over it, the less sense it makes, and I can’t stop going over it. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guards who stood at attention wore elaborate white uniforms accented with silver fur and less than intimidating silver lace. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, he enabled Major Major to double his output, for John Milton was so much shorter than either his own name or Washington Irving’s and took so much less time to write. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“This is not just vanity, Commander. The closer the match, the less interference from the actual eye.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Newt said it takes forever just to become a Runner, much less the Keeper. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And Miz Africa, learn what words you can, but learn to keep your mouf shut, ’cause Clay, that hellhound, got less patience than his daddy!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You may or may not be aware of the events that occurred in the parking lot yesterday afternoon...” begins Mr. Bontaff, who then proceeds to tell us even less than we already know. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The less involved he is, the better. If you both hadn’t been so stupid, we would have. I’m trying to keep you safe, don’t you see?” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"More or less like the old couple that was evicted?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomson, had demonstrated the existence of a particle of matter, called the electron, that had a mass less than one thousandth of that of the lightest atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than no time he could be down to the arch. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never in my life laid eyes on a real fishing pole, but I’d learned from Nan that, when it came to strangers, less truth meant less trouble. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As his absence sank in, I said Otto’s name less and less frequently, finally calling only every minute or so. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a less than a minute, I’m by her bed, placing the glass of cool water on her nightstand. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

They were less books than notebooks, filled with rambling transcriptions of his own internal conversations that ricocheted off one another at unpredictable angles. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He can make each face a solid color in less than four minutes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’d have spent a little less time watching the action from the back of the auditorium. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nothing should tempt her to go, if they did; and she regretted that her father’s known habits would be giving her refusal less meaning than she could wish. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Getting students to understand the musical differences between phrases is actually less challenging than you might imagine. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Two more baths follow in other, less offensive, concoctions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ingold led them, the same who had admitted Gandalf and Pippin less than five days before, while the sun still rose and there was hope in the morning. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Little and less, Your Grace, but those were her words.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

What else had I, who’d known and loved you so long, missed, that he’d discovered after knowing you less than a week? The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There was only opportunity for one blow at a time, so they more or less took it in turns, King Pellinore striking while Sir Grummore was recovering, and vice versa. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But all of this seems less and less possible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Marsha and our team were thrilled, local officials in Baldwin County less so. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They all bore more or less the same expression, one of expectancy mingled with apprehension. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was even less food now since the bombing by the Russians. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

A prince would trouble Lucinda not a whit, and a squirrel prince would trouble her even less. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he heard about a restaurant in the “Inland Empire,” sixty miles east of Los Angeles, that was selling high-quality hamburgers for 15 cents each — 20 cents less than what Carl charged. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

Further, the research showed, the “quality” of the interaction fell, too, with the parent less likely to be engaged or even look at the child when they do interact. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The path seemed to switch directions constantly but overall we were now headed more or less in the right di-rection. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

People will say it’s sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dad’s face went from brown to pale to green in less than a tenth of a second. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

In Virginia, for example, fees paid to court-appointed attorneys for representing someone charged with a felony that carries a sentence of less than twenty years are capped at $428. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The doctor enlisted the help of Evenks, native hunters and fishermen, who lived less than thirty kilometers away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Mom started working less and sleeping more, and she wore pajamas around the house, which she’d never really done before. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Aunt Helen and the cousins had acted cold and rude from the moment Ophie and her mama arrived in town, because it meant less space for them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Hermes cabin was a lot less crowded now, because most of the unclaimed kids had received signs from their godly parents. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It took me less than a minute to run down to Miss Volker’s yellow house which was glowing under the morning sun as if it had been carved out of melting butter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But the ancients, including no less a figure than Euclid, believed that we see by virtue of rays somehow emitted by the eye and tangibly, actively contacting the object observed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only the lazy rich who had to share with those who had less. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The beatings grew less frequent, and became mainly a threat, a horror to which he could be sent back at any moment when his answers were unsatisfactory. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It was on the Southside, and the less heard about the area the better. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She watched the sun set in the ocean, and she knew she had less than a week to live. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were cold and rather rough, a stranger’s fingers, but her face was familiar, although it had looked younger and less anxious in the photograph. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Before the advent of blind auditions, the percentage of women in major symphony orchestras in the United States was less than 5 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Also, the interest on our stock dividends will be less than we had projected. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

So now he was waiting to finish his sentence, of which less than two years remained. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Wall was no place for a woman, much less a girl of noble birth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In less than ten minutes it was over. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it was a dream—from a blow to the head, no less—and likely meant nothing at all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It happens only once a year, but it’s never any less stressful. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Searching for precedents, the foresters could remember other scourges of spider mites, though less dramatic than this one. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She will be gone for one year—less, with luck—or she will bring her children to be with her. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lucas’s house sat less than a half acre beyond the vegetable garden to our right side. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

For the third round, excitement in Belgrade was so great that fans filled the large hall to capacity in less than half an hour. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted nothing less of Daisy than that she should go to Tom and say: "I never loved you." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, one can say that for the most part the initial Indian-European encounter was less of an intellectual shock to Indians than to Europeans. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We call it paraffin at home, but the Americans call it kerosene, and that is more or less what the word sounds like in French and German too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Though this was less than I had been offered for the cafe job, I accepted it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a school friend ate at our table, my father spoke less than usual. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sing Sing had between 700 and 750 “security employees” at a given time; 34 percent of these officers had less than a year on the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had said this more or less to himself, but then we heard, as though in reply, a voice call outside: 'If s George Andrews. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She understood with a dread that was like a blinding whack to the side of her head that what she was witnessing was nothing less than a courtship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

They were entering a stretch where the wrecked equipment along the road was more or less continuous. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Your readers know a lot less about your subject than you think they do, and unless you keep track of what you know that they don’t, you are guaranteed to confuse them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I smiled back, much less radiantly, keeping my upper lip down over a coal-black G.I. temporary filling showing between two of my front teeth. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

A lot of things happened to us in less than a year, I thought. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I will not accept anything less them maximum effort. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would never let one in our house, much less cook it for a celebration. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Clover treated the hoof with poultices of herbs which she prepared by chewing them, and both she and Benjamin urged Boxer to work less hard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Under a building? Please, Percy. The Labyrinth is huge. It wouldn’t fit under a single city, much less a single building.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The smoke burns my lungs a little less. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

All in all, finals come and go with much less fanfare than Alex imagined. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The first answer is that Copernicus himself was less of a revolutionary than is commonly supposed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And maybe less basic research—maybe considerably less. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think she was a woman because there was less hair on her face and she was shorter than my ogre, and I think he was a man. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute it had set once more in the west and then, without any pause, risen again in the east. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I grow lighter, less dense, and larger... larger... exploding outward into the sun. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He’s had some experimental sex in his lifetime, but it never occurred to him to consider if such a thing existed, much less if Henry was jetting around with it alongside his dental floss. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t care for her holding my hand; I am as tall as she is and a good sight less of a scaredy-cat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At home, life was less noisy than it had been. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men did not often threaten Belwas, it would seem, and less so girls a third his size. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And while children born out of wedlock were common during this time, children who grew to manhood in less than two months were not. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And we were no less relieved to be getting out of Lobuje. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Fossilised human bones are no less hard to interpret. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember fleeing upstairs to my room and getting undressed and into bed without so much as opening my diary, much less making an entry. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

I hate this fog, I hate this place, and I am less than fond of Griff. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Monsters are variations from the accepted normal to a greater or a less degree. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By 3:52 p.m., less than two hours after Miele’s first symptoms, his artery was reopened and Slater implanted a stent to keep it that way. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

How ridiculous is the notion that I’ve made another human being feel like less of one? Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what I told them. We shouldn’t judge food until we try it. Just because it’s different doesn’t mean it’s less delicious. Same goes for people.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Three babies in less than two lonely years I had. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was less idle talk each time I came. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s not like the quiet of the swamp, which is never quiet obviously, just less Noisy. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Though there were less than two hours of light remaining, the grandstands were filled with spectators. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

McSouthers was not a stupid man; if only he was less obsequious—and less of a gossip. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slow means less chance of stepping on some rotting board and tumbling to her death; fast means maybe making it to the other side before the whole thing crashes down. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The words are less a command and more an invitation when Dakari says them. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure which one I dislike less—the goofy loser who can’t fire a weapon, or the kid who can kill two men in cold blood and not break a sweat. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

They dangled their feet in front of passing horses to intimidate them, and when less inspired, they shoved and punched one another and grabbed one another’s reins. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It should open most of the gates up there. They used the same key for all of them. It was less work.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Can we go somewhere a little less rank to open it?” asked Akimi, trying to breathe only through her mouth. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Lock up criminals for longer, so that they have less opportunity to do the rest of us harm. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought all that in less than a second. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Well, then I say The Gold-Bug is just a silly game. Does that make it matter any less to you?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Oddly, most climbers on Everest knew less about Ngawang’s plight than tens of thousands of people who were nowhere near the mountain. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas is less than two weeks away, but Mr. Watson has been in the holiday spirit for months. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Drifting on the water, the Corona bearing down on him in the fogbound night, he figured he needed less than thirty seconds to haul himself up his mast. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was no place to sit except on the beds, but then, on a regular workday there was no leisure time except the less than three hours between supper and curfew. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

This place was seeming less and less like a place every moment. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

There is much less certainty regarding the beginning of the end of Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Squatting is way better for you, with less chance you’ll get hemorrhoids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

How could a hippie who knew less than nothing about parties organize the middle school bash of everybody’s dreams? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was less certain about what he would do if he ran into Olanna at the seminar. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was less than he’d asked for, but the trafficker took the thick wad without counting and backed toward his bike. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you pretend to be less than you are,” she says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s less surprise than it is concern. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Taking care of your little sisters is helping. It gives your mother one less thing to worry about.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was more or less constantly irritated with everyone else. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was no telling what other invisible creatures I was out here socializing with—snakes, frogs, fish, a whole river world of biting bugs, and I could have cared less. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t make me want to reach out and touch it any less. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, Milton had had the business appraised and was met with a shock: the Zebra Room was worth less than when Lefty had acquired it in 1933. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

You would think the universe would be cooler about taking care of those with less. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Stop teasing me,” she said, but the red string did look nice, and her wrist somehow felt less bare. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

And she took it away again, immediately afterward, so that it would be no less splendid on the Sunday of the great dinner that was officially to punctuate the revival. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I got one and sometimes more than one, but my track record in the survival department is far less admirable than my performance as a jobholder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not of so ungovernable a temper as Lydia; and, removed from the influence of Lydia’s example, she became, by proper attention and management, less irritable, less ignorant, and less insipid. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

You know how a health bar makes you less hungry, but don't really make you full? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Ebright, trying to swing perceptions the other way, said less, but was more direct when he said anything. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She cracked and settled under the girl’s footfalls, and felt a little less lonely. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

To me, less than a span away from the streets of Tarbean, it was a marvelous meal indeed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pull my shoulders back, open my eyes wide, and try to feel—and look—less exhausted. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I no longer had the strength to grab a sturdy peasant girl by the waist and swing her up onto my saddle, much less rip her clothes off and enter her against her will. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps there is some unforeseen problem to interstellar spaceflight—although, at speeds much less than the velocity of light it is difficult to see what such an impediment might be. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the subject of this chapter — the Power of Context — is no less important than the first two. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Battle could be only slightly less dangerous than this preparation for it. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A computer geek who explains himself through Dickens is less remarkable a phenomenon than one might think. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With less than four liters between us and the day already warm, the long haul between water sources promised to be at the very least uncomfortable. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

None the less, however, was it a surprise. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The less you knew, the less people suspected of you—and perhaps the more they told you. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Early food production was less competitive with hunting-gathering in the Americas than in the Fertile Crescent or China, partly owing to the Americas’ virtual lack of domesticable wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dragons did not mate with the beasts of the field, and Targaryens did not mingle their blood with that of lesser men. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The year before the society had backed a costly flop called The History of Fishes, and they now suspected that the market for a book on mathematical principles would be less than clamorous. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then we continued on through the skinny pines, more open fields, a little less than half a mile before we crossed the old wooden planks. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Scott Fischer’s expedition had no less than two correspondents filing online dispatches for a pair of competing websites. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow lay in bed, thinking, This is my first bed as a free man, and the thought gave him less pleasure than he had imagined that it would. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

On the lower level the trains were running much less often. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julie saw little of Daniel that summer and even less of him after school started. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My toast popped up, less burned this time. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She had smell and touch and taste to help her, but touch and taste could be perilous when grinding poisons, and with some of the waif’s more toxic concoctions even smell was less than safe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time Mrs. Richardson’s mother, Caroline, was born in 1931, things were less rural but no less idyllic. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. Less . . . less messy, and more magical." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Converging on these towns, relos have segregated themselves, less by the old barriers of race, religion, and national origin than by age, family status, education, and, especially, income. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To many Brazilians, Acre seems scarcely less remote—when I first visited, a friend in Rio de Janeiro could hardly believe I was going there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Coffee drinkers are less likely to commit suicide than noncoffee drinkers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I could have it in the palm of my hand in less than a minute. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

“I don’t even know where I was three days ago, much less why this Minho guy would find a dead thing called a Griever. So back off!” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

There was both more and less to see each day. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Look, I know you were less than thrilled when I showed up, and I know he’s a working man and all, but he’s an old man and he’s in bad shape and he needs help.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

There’d been a time when he and his brother had shared everything with each other, but that was happening less and less lately. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The animals were exhausted, and the men talked among themselves less and less. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The question of what makes someone — or something — persuasive is a lot less straightforward than it seems. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The out-of-state newcomer, rich and headstrong, contented herself with luxury and even less of their company. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

"He crept down the kingsroad in the night, and now his host is less than a mile north of here, forming up in battle array." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She tells me I need to take the bus to the airport because it’s much less likely that the narcos will pull us over. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The life of a peasant is less secure than that of a hunter-gatherer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I got a gun in my truck that will make a lot less mess.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I understand. I would expect nothing less, my earnest and good young friend.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They hope it will get them off the hook, or at least allow them to plead guilty to a lesser charge, should a critic ever try to prove them wrong. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Bloom was afraid of these neighbors, feeling simultaneously superior and less of a man. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Few years, maybe, in other places of less royalty,” my father answered. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Yet already he was near recovery, while the more light-hearted Bluebell seemed even less the worse for the dreadful catastrophe that he had survived. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jupiter’s moons made this arrangement rather less implausible than it had seemed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

When he was less than thirty feet away, Robbie stopped, and seemed about to speak, but waited instead as the inspector and the other policemen approached. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

If smart people are parodying it, that’s a sure sign that some less smart people are believing it. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m more or less safe from him, and him from me, I can recall him with fondness and even in some detail, which is more than I can say for several others. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now there weren’t any places left, just separate houses with separate televisions and separate telephones and less and less dropping by. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In my opinion, anyone who isn’t moved by it is less than human inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was unnatural and uneasy, but if it worked again tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, perhaps I would become less afraid. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Soon we were looking at newcomers with a fearful eye, wondering with each fresh arrival how much less there would be. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’d spent my entire life feeling less than those other people at school. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or was their tenure somewhat less cynical, more a matter of improvisation, motivated by the distant but vague object of forging a lasting harmony between Greek and Egyptian? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

The desire for a quick and easy method of killing unwanted plants has given rise to a large and growing array of chemicals that are known as herbicides, or, less formally, as weed killers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Each time, El Patron looked more frail and his mind seemed less in order. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cracking jokes, drinking Monday to Friday, though a little less now, and walking the poison out to make it in time to worship the good Lord on Sunday. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Slowly her tongue was begin-ning to thaw; her words were less blurred. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hold my silence, knowing the less I say the more control I have over the situation. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Making Rose feel bad made those feelings inside of me feel harder, less like a real person. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Besides, while he’s a whiz with that trident, it’s a weapon less suited to the jungle than my arrows. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black teacher and her colleagues, including the principal, made less money than the school’s white janitor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her clothes were a kind of shibboleth to me; they signaled that she was not a gentile, and for a few hours I felt less alone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the end they finished the harvest in two days’ less time than it had usually taken Jones and his men. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And the crazy thing was that it felt less crowded, not more, once they added the new person. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

No less an authority than Oliver Cromwell is said to have remarked that there would have been no Irish rebellion ‘if there had been an Earl of Cork in every province’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

You hone yourself into a body, nothing more or less than a body. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem to have any time for Effie Wilcox, whose tongue flapped at both ends, bin she had even less for newspaper reporters who think your business is theirs. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the more I think about it, the less I like the idea of going back to work,” he said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The event was less elaborate than the parade, but it, too, generated press coverage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I would fain exercise some better faculty than that of fierce speaking; fain find nourishment for some less fiendish feeling than that of sombre indignation. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The feather tickled my hand, but as for making me less nervous, nope, it didn’t do a thing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was more to do and less time for relaxation—not that Ernest could ever keep still for long— and a weaker constitution to hold it all together. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Guiteau left, but he came back less than a week later, presenting his card to the usher as he had done before. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He had had to keep some distance away, but as the morning passed, they became more and more absorbed in each other and paid less attention to the landscape. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chubs and I were less enthusiastic about getting back into the swing of things. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She remembered that Mol- lie was going to lead the Grand March at the Fourth of July picnic with no less than Harry Forbes, State Senator. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the short North Country summer passed, Edwin’s visits grew less frequent. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She had gotten dressed up and now, at least on the face of it, appeared less glum than before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re not really holding him for anything. He more or less just got here.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also had red hair, but of a deeper, less offensive color than Red’s. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each of these ideas has been proposed, some of them more or less seriously. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meet would end in less than an hour. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Tommy could not agree less that any of this was his parents’ fault. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The harder I wish, the less I eat. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel could not help noticing, with reluctant admiration, that although Bigwig had lost his temper, he was apparently in no hurry on his own account and seemed less frightened than any of them. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found herself pushed inside, where the noise was much less, crowded into the back with three others in bug-eyed masks. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She felt completely comfortable in her presence, and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was only to be expected on all scores that Bellerophon should seem less mortal than divine. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Me an outsider in my own family, always lesser than my big brother, the apple of my parents' eyes? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Once she got going, the climb was less difficult than it appeared. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Gradually, as most of the other girls in my grade began to undergo their own transformations, I began to worry less about possible accidents and more about being left behind, left out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Somewhere down the road, when they were older and less passionate, when their desire for one another had staled and worn out—then where would they be? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

To save money both of them were eating less. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I who had promised nothing, who knew even less, whose body was as confusing as the rock and roll lyrics accompanying the trucker’s hand pumping up and down to words yelled, not sung. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though she was so much less little than he was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didi did not show any less interest in her boyfriend or any more interest in me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guard’s gloomy sulk made it clear he couldn’t care less. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even in his terror it was as though he could feel the pain in his own body, the deadly pain which nevertheless was less urgent than the struggle to get back her breath. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The economic basis of Polynesian societies consisted of more or less self-sufficient households, but some islands also supported guilds of hereditary part-time craft specialists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered how Laertes had learned of my disguise and rued the change in my brother, who cared for me less than for his own reputation. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Especially for the innumerate, a few vivid predictions or coincidences often carry more weight than much more conclusive but less striking statistical evidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She arrived less certain about what she was dealing with. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He thinks all I want is a woman. Any woman. So you, then. He says you’d be less likely to give me trouble.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The tallest being Rachel, at five feet six inches and the full benefit of Miss America posture; the shortest being myself, two inches lesser than my twin on account of crookedness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But technical expertise counted for next to nothing on Everest, and I’d spent less time at high altitude than virtually every other climber present. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

After that I think we went back to talking in a more or less friendly way, and then before long we were making our way down the footpath in the half-light back to the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, even though the sun was shining high in the sky, the world seemed less bright. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And so it was that in less than a month's time, I had a drum but no drumsticks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The chances of winning are less than a tenth of a percent. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He would be lucky to answer a single question correctly, much less all of them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was more or less taken for granted that a Captain would be made a Boazer in recognition of his talents - if not a School Boazer then certainly a House Boazer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are the chances he would have gone to Harvard Law School, much less become president of the United States, if that had happened? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Even with their big, fancy house on the corner, those Darcy boys couldn’t care less about what’s happening on this block, much less this neighborhood. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Of course, she looked less like her now, without the black paint across her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Aru considered herself extremely lucky if she remembered to brush her teeth at night, much less floss. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was the sort of thing she said just before she left, and it bothered me, because it seemed as if she wanted him to be meaner, less good. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

As the summer wore on, I spent more and more time studying Science and less and less time practicing the piano. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The more I hear about luxury barges, the less terrible death begins to seem,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Now, instead of an illegal procedure that might cost $500, any woman could easily obtain an abortion, often for less than $100. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Had she spent less time shopping around, she might have bought more. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He wished that he had been less resentful of Mama’s strong-smelling soups. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

For not only were the numbers becoming wholly unmanageable, but the further one got from 1776, the lower the revolutionary fires burned and the less imperative the logic of the revolutionary ideology seemed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I will, Highness,” Yellin said, adding, “but I don’t know where my cousin is—I went looking for him less than an hour ago and he was nowhere to be found.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He needed no less than a rebel version of the Underground Railroad that transported runaway slaves north to freedom. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first day of my suspension and I’m beginning to feel less sore from the fight. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I exulted at having a dorado at the end of my line— I would be less keen if it were a tiger. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s maybe fifty yards to the cafe, maybe less. When did I ever take the car?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt like she spent more time working now than ever before and got less sleep. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Her brother couldn’t care less that they were moving again. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And in some strange ways, the experience made me better, not less, equipped for college. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is a different Elizabeth, less confident, more like...me? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two yards from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a yard across. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took the Windblown less than an hour to strike their camp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

So she sat quite still, and talked less than usual. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Sputnik, some experts declared, was nothing less than a technological Pearl Harbor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s only been since we started middle school—ever since she got popular—that Savanna’s become less nice than she used to be. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The less resourceful Neanderthals found it increasingly difficult to feed themselves. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a new sensation for her, but no less excruciating. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

His own parents, in some mood of perverseness or resignation, had agreed to abide by a naming done to them by somebody who couldn’t have cared less. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had a lot of nineteenth-century stuff by Thomas Hardy and people like that, which was more or less useless. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I fight, they must do the same, or they are less than dwarfs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was no tension here at all but a battle between equals, with Reb Saunders losing only a little less frequently than his son. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I could not conceivably care less,” Lydia said. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Twelve and a half million—that’s what the new Conditioning Centre cost. Not a cent less.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Away from the riverside, Cahokia was hardly less busy and imposing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute, all her clothes were dry and folded. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

An entire ear of teosinte has less nutritional value than a single kernel of modern maize. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I feel we’ve lost energy. I don’t think we’re as determined as we were twenty years ago when King died. We have become less tolerant and less supportive of those who are less fortunate.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She might have been trying to banish agonized thoughts of her previous tail gunner, who’d also been killed, less than a year ago. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Deborah sat with his mother, watching him with eyes that were no less patient and reproachful. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He felt his leg become less firm where she had touched him, and he pushed back against her, but she threw her arms around him and bore him toward the ground. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

But Sister Lucia, an elderly, corpulent nun, is less trusting than the others. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her mom has a short, less unruly version of Elizabeth’s hair and sky-blue eyes instead of Elizabeth’s brown. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

And the more I began to appreciate what she did for my family, the less her accent and hyperactivity bothered me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was going to the one place she wanted to go even less than that. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

To my relief, the afternoon was less taxing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was less suicidal than regretful, less fatalistic than meditative. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

It’s less about the mechanics of the traps than the psychology behind them. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the town was more or less affected by the skater. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Christians had only one god, but he was said to be all-powerful, commanding all lesser gods. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

It would not have been proper to take a less senior comrade and put him on the High Organ simply because he was not a Xhosa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s obviously not jealous of my girlfriends, but I sometimes wish she were less okay with me ditching her for weeks without thinking twice. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Their entire visit lasted less than fifteen minutes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The slant of the line showed he was swimming at a lesser depth. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent my life learning to feel less. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This pain is different, less like a stab and more like a crackle, crackling in my brain, spotting my vision with different colors, blue, green, red. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then cotton started going down, down, down, until now in 1845 it was bringing only five cents a pound, and the slave traders gave less than five hundred dollars for young strong slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right in by the wall was where the wood had the most support and was less likely to creak. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He argued ceaselessly for economic empowerment, carrying along in his wake less progressive blacks who were still getting used to the idea of direct action for even social goals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

My hobby is less tedious, if as strange. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The more she wailed about Pong drowning, the less likely the villagers would listen to Nok and start searching the riverbanks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

We made it in less than forty minutes, as we were practically skipping. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Then surely you can sing no less than they, for you have a soul.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Now I’ve got him pinned with my knee on his xiphoid, making it hard for him to breathe, much less move. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He said, with even less conviction than before, “We’ll be back to throw them out, I promise you.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She was worried, worried that I would think less of her for pandering to the whimsy of some paranoid lordling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The choice is less odd than it may seem. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her name was now Sally Gustafson and she lived in a pleasant blue house on the less expensive side of the lake road. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t feel that I am separated from you, Marmee dear, or that I love you any the less for loving John so much,” she said, clinging to her mother, with full eyes for a moment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other, less innocent things scuttled out of their way as they climbed. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody, not just Negroes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Some were old enough to know their names at least, but Lazlo was just a baby, and an ill one, no less. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour, I was done with the job, and the only trouble we had was getting the hogs to leave the tree after I was finished. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

An example of a difference that is less significant than it may initially appear is the “fact” that Jim Crow was explicitly race-based, whereas mass incarceration is not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The flow was less strong and as he rubbed the side of his hand against the planking of the skiff, particles of phosphorus floated off and drifted slowly astern. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would send me a payment each month, and one less mouth to feed right now would help the family too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every one of those days, from dawn to dusk, had been more or less the same. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Ah, somewhat less than two hundred and fifty, sir, as of yesterday. Countin’ the officers.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, we played Lotería as a family with less and less frequency. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If a given suspect is a knock-kneed weakling, he says, he is less likely to be the culprit than a great big bruiser with Hate tattooed on his forehead.* Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Grandma was less likely to poke around in there. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means, more or less, “people of the land of rubber.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We tried to drink even less water today, and my throat started to feel dry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Julie was always angrier, always less content, and nothing over the past few months had changed that. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

By the time he was back I was more or less myself. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Good, you’re awake. I trust you’ve healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and a little less miserable.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“I found them in the house,” I said, because I didn’t have time to think of a less weird answer. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Your mom will be less likely to give you a hard time about it if you at least try.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Three minutes,” we replied with a good deal less gusto. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At issue was nothing less than the path black Americans should take in their search for dignity, equality, and prosperity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

We drove for a little less than three hours. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Only it more or less wore off in a couple of hours.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

"Here, then. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond these differences are others that are no less real because they are intangible. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Again she leaped back, but less far and with less alarm this time. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be on the same bus together, but it will cause less suspicion if you don’t sit together.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s working—the amount needed to kill fifty percent of the population is increasing, meaning it’s becoming less effective. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To meet once a week seemed to him much less regular, entirely too haphazard, bordering on carelessness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most days Olmsted was driven by carriage through the countryside, “every day more or less on a different road,” to view gardens, churchyards, private parks, and the natural landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

If ‘yes,’ my captain will sail him here to you, and I will have to content myself somehow with a lesser bride.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

In less than twenty-four hours, the whole trip had become pointless. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

It is true that a stronger job market may make certain crimes relatively less attractive. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

In an effort to keep me noble, she was paying me less than she'd paid her previous assistant. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They were sitting, five of them, around a table in the room that served as their common room, living and dining room, bar, recreation room, and more or less everything else. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as they knew—and I’m sure they knew, because Jeanine knows how to spread news—I died less than six hours ago. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bishop gave a few key details, namely, that Reggie would be leaving in less than two weeks. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

That credit card preapproval, with her name correctly spelled and elegantly italicized, had roused her spirits, made her a little less invisible, a little more present. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then, less willingly than Bilbo, Frodo told of all his dealings with the Ring from the day that it passed into his keeping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what to say to him, how to make him feel less embarrassed. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“That could not have been less helpful to our present situation,” said Enoch, “were it a story about cats on the moon.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

SO she had little time for games, and even less time for identity crises. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a huge galactic computer, a repository, more or less up-to-date, of information on the nature and activities of all the civilizations in the Milky Way Galaxy, a great library of life in the Cosmos. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their children were like distant but exposed wounds whose aches were no less intimate because separate from their flesh. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Khmer Rouge are less likely to recruit him if they know he has a wife who will give sons to the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is there thread anywhere, talk less of the money to buy it?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were due at the first of ten inaugural balls in less than an hour. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The train would arrive in Wolf Point in less time than it’d take bread dough to rise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Allow me to say just one more thing to those of you receiving lesser badges today,” Chief Crowe continues. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Liam went on to say something else, with a lot less disgust, but I couldn’t hear him over the roar in my ears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But I’d be less than honest if I didn’t admit that the best thing about him was the fact that he took the heat off me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

That had been less than twenty-four hours earlier. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The folks at Sears keep their files in such good order that I bet I could start from nothing and find whatever I needed in fifteen minutes or less. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or she went to New Hampshire, to see her mother, who’d been more or less depressed and homebound for the last three years. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After all, I had seen men dragged from their platforms on this very corner for saying less virulent things, and I had seen many crowds dispersed by policemen, with clubs or on horseback. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Inside it’s pretty authentic, except that it looks too clean; and it’s less forties than early fifties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

His farm, like about two-thirds of the farms in the state, occupied less than ten acres—unviably small by the standards of developed nations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Not enough. You didn’t say you’d be living in another country in less than twenty-four hours.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my dad left us this last and final time, my mom earned her Realtor’s license, but because the housing market is less than booming, she part-times at a bookstore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes everything except the house had been turned upside down. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

After knowing me less than three days Wil had gone out of his way to help me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Then he said a few vague things about friendship and the friendship of kindly people to those less fortunate than themselves. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this position I was further away from the edges of the boat and less ex­posed to wind and spray. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The official announcement—the fourth in less than two years—was considered true for almost six months because nothing further was heard of him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Not to their faces, of course, but she was less servile in their presence than the others. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it looks less like a stove than a machine hammered together out of some other machine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lifeboat slid off the bow wave and missed the tanker by less than two feet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Because he cares less about them he makes better trades. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not that they took it away from us. We just got less of it for anything that isn’t test preparation.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He claimed he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine, all in less than a minute. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She was not going to let them down, or offer them anything less than her best. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

This night was more typical than less; the winds whistled constantly and the candles constantly needed relighting, and some of the more daringly dressed ladies shivered. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Use fewer for a smaller number of individual things; use less for a smaller quantity of one thing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been less than a week since the blackmail conversation, but Martin intercepts me on my way back from the lunch line. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I felt less alone, but little comforted, for an unknown and solitary journey lay before me still. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If my reading was less accurate, the computer would start adding numbers in place of the zeros. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That extra half twist meant I’d have to master a very tricky blind forward landing, but it would put less stress on my calves. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Through the crack in the curtains it all seems less certain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Tally prayed it would be slightly less freezing late in the day, after the sun had had a chance to warm it up. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Older children cheat more than younger children, and those from stable and happy homes cheat a bit less than those from unstable and unhappy homes. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually I began to fear him less and actually looked forward to his visits. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Sí, this would be the safest way, less danger of being caught by la migra. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

The black workers at Sparrows Point made about eighty cents an hour at most, usually less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That makes two requests for Peeta’s death in less than an hour. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

There were less than twenty-four hours until the launch at the Science Museum. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

And over time, Ethyne’s eye drifted less and less toward the forest, and more toward the Tower casting its shadow over the Protectorate. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Alas, it does us no good, my friend,” Taran said, “unless we could turn north again and cross where the river is less wide.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

It made the house seem less real, or something. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is about 80 percent less than I normally would in an 18-hour period. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was an adventurous reader and theatergoer, but less so an adventurous person. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Festoons of holly and mistletoe hung all around the walls, and no less than twelve towering Christmas trees stood around the room, some sparkling with tiny icicles, some glittering with hundreds of candles. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And they couldn’t care less about my good grades, not when I walk around looking the way I do. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On March 26, 1922, less than a month after Stepson’s death, an Osage woman died of a suspected poisoning. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was an inborn talent, requiring none of the trying cabalistic study to which her Uncle Marcos had applied himself with far more effort and far less effect. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, gas cost less than twenty cents a gallon, but that was a lot then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seems different from the others, less affected. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I figure it’s less painful to go back to school. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the stores are smaller with less flashy signs, and all of them have stands outside selling beach towels and sunscreen and Styrofoam coolers. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I scan the hillside; the fire is less fierce above, but we’re not at the stream. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Vetch looked at him, not quite as he had used to look, with no less love but more wizardry, perhaps. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was less furious at God these days, thanks to Dad’s recovery. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We agree that it’s the same for everyone; not only for us here, but everywhere, for everyone who is of our age; to some more, and to others less. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That does not make it any less frivolous an endeavor.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But I heard no bad news, so I assumed things were more or less all right. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although she was less active than she had been, Stanton did write articles and help Anthony prepare her speeches. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t make it any less terrifying. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Well, maybe we can do some things to make it less boring for you. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

They had less than half the distance left to go. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Grace and Carol are browner, less pasty; their features are farther apart, their hair lighter. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smallest living things known, the viroids, are composed of less than 10,000 atoms. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late twentieth century, two megatons was the energy released in the explosion of a single more or less humdrum thermonuclear bomb: one bomb with the destructive force of the Second World War. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the river continued through the throat at less than sonic speed—that is to say, less than the speed of sound—it became compacted in the divergent section, bound in turmoil, and inefficient. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For if its democracy looks less democratic than ours, its courts look far more so. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It might as well be me because I have nothing to lose, less than nothing, in fact. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Gran was picking me up in less than two hours. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

They had rested rather less than five hours when they took to the Road again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He ate sensibly and had less of a belly than his son. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He’d looked at the banking app less than an hour ago. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But this fact does not make her less lovely —if you can afford her. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And me and Jack, we couldn’t care less. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

And second, singing was becoming less constrained by the three- or four-part structure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

"If you don't know, you won't make much of a prentice, much less a player." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eva would accept nothing less than excellence in school, because she saw education as the only antidote to their poverty. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would sometimes sing while washing, which made the water seem less icy. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less and less mass, more and more energy. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I do remember the mountains and mountains of snow that fell while I was there, the same white, only beautiful, less sterile. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A less helpful sergeant was there in his place. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the rocky coasts of Easter, Pitcairn, and the Marquesas, and the steeply dropping ocean bottom and absence of coral reefs around those islands, are much less productive of seafood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought it made us look friendly and less suspicious, but in doing so it left us open for a customs check by any military and police patrol boat. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I felt blasphemous even to think it, much less say it out loud. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t speak to me of those worth less Márez and their friends!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leary was being mobbed by people who didn’t look like cops, but I couldn’t have cared less. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They waited a long time for the trolley, which ran less often that early in the morning. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dimple got the impression that Celia was even less of a morning person than she was. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“A little less talk, a little more action...Let me see you try...” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It had taken me less than a day in that place to see that hatred and terror came in circles, and that they fed off each other. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It’s still there and bigger now, but less round. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They knew more or less what would happen to them if they got caught. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I strummed a minor chord that sounded even less appealing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And above all, I wanted to be less alone. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if gravity had less of an effect in the darkness. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I found myself less able to conceal the evidences of stress, in my uncomfortable borrowed tuxedo, and with my less-than-extensive knowledge of dining etiquette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The baby weighed less than Precious Coins, but was a lot more grief. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

When at last the motion ceased, survivors enjoyed just three minutes of calm before a second shock came, only slightly less severe than the first. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The little boy had been portrayed well, but as for the rest...the less said the better. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Though I knew there was human suffering out there, it wasn’t like there was a tragedy scale where some things outranked others, or that care given to a bonobo meant less left for people. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Before long the street began to seem less like the path to the river than like a descent into hell. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

At lower temperatures, however, when colliding particles have less energy, particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced less quickly—and annihilation would become faster than production. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Laurent seemed to catch my scent less powerfully than James, but awareness now dawned on his face. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She told Mama Tataba we could get by on things that looked less like kinfolk. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I, however, a tropical bird, was cold—cold one way outdoors and cold another way indoors, ceaselessly and more or less thoroughly cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Although the public wanted to see Bobby back at the board, his absence from chess for less than a year was not an aberration. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The bomb had hit the road less than eighty yards away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But there were less than five billion people on the planet in the late twentieth century. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was no less a spy for that. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Abandoned buildings were seen less often, die naked children vanished, the bravos in the doorways seemed more sumptuously dressed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“The South Tower burned for less than an hour. Then, it collapsed.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had less than five minutes to get up to the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was another instance, and not the last, of Cavendish intuition and resourcefulness outplaying labs with more soaring ambitions, superior resources, and, perhaps, a touch less vision. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Antelope is more or less our daily bread. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be a daunting task just to enter the Inner City, much less find the palace and the king. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Latinos, however, were significantly less likely than whites to have illegal contraband in their vehicles. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But the unfortunate truth is that blanket spraying is resulting in more ragweed, not less. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I think there’s less of a chance I'll be expected to cry in the audition if there’s, like, fewer people in the scene. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Sam’s best-friend slot had been vacant for less than two hours when Vanessa had slithered in—and not a day went by that Vanessa didn’t remind me of that. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A fair number of courtiers, slaves and others were still moving about here but this only made the two girls less conspicuous. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe so,” she finally says, “but I thought it might be less painful this way. I hate saying good-byes, you know.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The farther we rode, the less houses there was and the more buildings until the houses quit altogether, leaving one building or store or shop after the next. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

How could one or two or even a mouthful of angry tooth roots meet a wagonload of powhitetrash children, endure their idiotic snobbery and not feel less important? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t afford to be less than ruthlessly honest with myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The academic courses—math, science, law—at school became less demanding for her group. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Inside the camps, however, workers had been paid less than twenty dollars a month, even if they were doctors! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, other perhaps less spectacular work is concerned with viruses. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Probably, Matty decided, Mentor’s skin had been tanned by the sun, as his own was, and this made the birthmark less visible. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“He likely got a lot less than he wanted for it,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His voice was soft, as though faded, and his accent less debased than that of the majority of proles. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I cried out as though from the pain of my side, and Alice came to ease me into a less agonizing position. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so sad that people live on less than a dollar a day in Africa. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The more I realized this, the less tense I became. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Neither did the early farmers understand that feeding children with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, and that permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His name was Francis Almones and he had a sad life, for he always made just a fraction less than he needed to live. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this view, Americans care less about emulating the top tier than about simply having a fair share of the bounty and a chance to carve out a place for themselves in society. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

How could anything less deserve to be destroyed? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got a whiff of my pits, slapped on some deodorant, and changed into something less pungent. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Anyway, Chris,” Seven says, “DeVante’s got a point. What makes his name or our names any less normal than yours? Who or what defines ‘normal’ to you? The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Once more at home, I would grow less aware of that fact. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terryl was miffed that Kaylene was thinking about suggesting to the judge a lesser sentence than she and the prosecutors wanted. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Indeed, they looked less like plants than thick, black, giant slugs, protruding vertically out of the soil. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But the more Marcus tries to prove that he’s the life of the party, the less I believe him. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The people who ran it couldn’t have cared less whether or not you showed up to do the work they offered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then why do I let Alan’s taunts make me feel small, less than? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s going to apply for a new position, one with less travel. And your grandmother’s going to visit more often.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It's hard to tell if the ambient light is less or more than it was yesterday. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The farther it is from me, the less likely it’ll get me, if something comes crawling out.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Before turning to those regions, however, we must consider two related questions arising in regard to any area of the world where food production never developed independently or else resulted in a less potent package. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was less pale, I decided — flushed from the snow fight maybe — the circles under his eyes much less noticeable. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Such behavior, the journal said, “would be called treason in countries less enlightened and more arbitrary than ours.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Think of your two less cups as a long-term investment,” he tells Garrett, who at this point could probably run his own company based entirely on Dad’s cheesy business analogies. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell her there are people at school who have her back. And I’m one of them. But you know, less sappy than that.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

The more weight composers gave to the junior notes and lesser chords, the more they allowed the harmony to lose its sense of familiarity, reassurance and comfort. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Balekin I like less well,” I say, and she rolls her eyes. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Here was someone even less courageous than I was. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When these new interests and values are recognized and institutionalized, geek lads may have more status and feel less like aliens in their own schools. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

With each passing generation, the sheep became fatter, more submissive and less curious. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

More or less, we all call out and let ourselves in. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

On the other side of the road, to his left, the houses were also handsome, though less expensive and on a smaller scale and with no docks or boats or gardeners. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe Father Cham's gift was less ordinary than he thought. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The quarry was on a hillside, not the calm and pleasant Chamundi Hill, but another, lesser hill, bare and rocky, with here and there a few clumps of prickly pear. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The epidemics often were not even known to Europeans, still less deliberately caused by them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

In her palm is my pendant necklace, the smooth bumps on its surface scraped and dirty but still more or less whole, the necklace part lying in a pile in her palm. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She swung up the bow and loosed the arrow in less than a second, and the Cardinal fell choking and kicking to the floor. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The key step was for one side to cast the other as less than human, as unworthy of respect or decent treatment. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

While blacks did win the right to vote when the Republican Party came to power three years later, and even served in various offices, the interregnum lasted less than a decade. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I started to hang out less with Sapo, who had already dropped out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

But that didn’t make things any less awkward when it was just him and me in the locker room. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Even a uranium bomb–the most energetic thing we have produced yet–releases less than 1 percent of the energy it could release if only we were more cunning. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She is always more or less in the background. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day that July, less than two months after Anna’s murder, Lizzie stopped breathing. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But the bongs became less and less frequent and finally Dad put away the pencil. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d said the cut was bad, but the way she’d joked had made it seem less terrible than what he was looking at now. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m more or less recuperating from an illness. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t spend my nights with her. Aside from last night, I’ve only visited her once, and she was less than warm, don’t worry.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I’m ready. I’ve got less than one semester left. How much more could I possibly need to know to do this? Put me in, Coach.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Between Alyssa and me, I am the lesser of two evils behind the wheel. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The unlikeliness of Harris’s bombshell—she was a grandmother, no less, without PhD or academic affiliation—prompted both wonder and chagrin. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Karhiders do not read much as a rule, and prefer their news and literature heard not seen; books and televising devices are less common than radios, and newspapers don’t exist. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Coop will be here in less than thirty minutes!” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

They looked much younger and less stern than she remembered them. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Others, people like Darnell and Walter's family, would be returning to less comfortable homes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Her mom sent her and Michael out of the house, into the yard, which Terryl thought had less to do with any enlightened parenting philosophy and more to do with keeping Danny happy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The new cluster is a memory, nothing less. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The back of the camp appears less heavily watched. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Like the real Krum, the model was slightly duck-footed and round-shouldered, much less impressive on his splayed feet than on his broomstick. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Adoption of food production may have been rapid and wholesale in southeastern and central Europe because the hunter-gatherer lifestyle there was less productive and less competitive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The burn in my legs feels less like exercise and more like a dreadful punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The big difference between these numbers matters less than one might expect: a few thousand square miles of farmland was enough to feed the millions in the Maya heartland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The less immense, more finite items, of a size allowing the mind to get a handhold, like nations, or space technology, or New York, are hard to think about without drifting toward heartsink. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A scientist who replaces murine model with rats and mice will use up no more space on the page and be no less scientific. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It made him feel a little bit less like that other Rochester Rocky—in Arizona, who was probably still having to stay brave for his little brother and sister. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her face seemed less angry and I thought I even detected some remorse. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

There the white Snowbourn, joined by the lesser stream, went rushing, fuming on the stones, down to Edoras and the green hills and the plains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Brian had more or less arrowed the plane into the water—through the trees and down—and it was a miracle that he hadn’t been killed. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Did we repeat the experiment, we should instead inoculate in the leg, which, being further removed from the pneumatic, electrico-aetherial, and hydraulico- vascular machinery, is less likely to lead to internal corrosion and fatality, viz. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Part of him was disappointed, because that was one less weapon they had at their disposal. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

My father’s response was more or less typical of that of other men in the yard. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess we could help other less fortunate orphans. Unless you’ve had any ideas about our project?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was not until the plane was less than ten feet from the ocean that, miraculously, Alcock was able to pull the aircraft out of the stall and avert certain death. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be mad at me,” she said, her voice quiet and much less Lindsey than usual. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I like to be surprised, but if I could supply your answers with confidence, I might miss you less. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Several days after the shooting, Garfield felt less pain in his feet and was able to get some sleep at night. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He saw her in the village as well, but noticed her less there because he was generally in the company of friends. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

How could it be that the more I saw of my parents, the less I knew them? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Since Washington had no children of his own—the Father of His Country was almost certainly sterile—he was less vulnerable to charges of hereditary aspirations. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure I know how to be a captain,” I said, wishing my voice sounded less serious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Like everybody else, I more or less assumed it was going to be Edna. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Frodo looked at the stone, and wished that Bilbo had brought home no treasure more perilous, nor less easy to part with. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dr. Donald Kilgore with the Lovelace Foundation reported that the women performed well and complained far less than the men did. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

Be kind to those who are less fortunate. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He figured if Haley Daley wasted time retracing steps he and Andrew had already taken, she would find nothing new and become less of a threat. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

He knew even less about things than she did. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

To listen to the coaches, it was hard to believe Permian had won the game, much less by a 35-7 score. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

So, if the energy density between the plates is less than the energy density far away, it must be negative. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

We've come to an intersection where three streets cross each other, veining off at odd angles so that the sightline cuts off after less than twenty-five meters. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The taste was no less foul, but water was water, and all of them thirsted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And no less astounded would be millions whom I did not know—who had gained during my twelve years with Elijah Muhammad a “hate” image of Malcolm X. Even I was myself astounded. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This goat is less than a year old; she has a very long life expectancy.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed that night, trying to ignore the shuffling coming from less than a metre away. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither the owner of the property nor anyone else need be charged with a crime, much less found guilty of one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The more I think about the matter, the less enthusiasm I have,” he told Knight. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But you never saw anybody looking as scandalized as Grandma was at these old birds in their union suits and less. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The more divided we are at home, the less likely the enemy is to negotiate at Paris,” he said. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I have to, more or less, crawl into the barrel, headfirst. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

He grew up in his father’s castle, far from the sight and smell of suffering, much less the experience of it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I probably experienced less culture shock in Morocco than I had when I first arrived at Duke. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

But the overall course of history might have turned out more or less the same. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, they’re less ready than before the Quarter Quell announcement, because the following morning another hundred Peacekeepers arrived on the train. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute they’re all lying on the floor, curled up, groaning and cursing. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Turner grew less and less hopeful the farther they went, and he wondered what he would say when they got to the asylum. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One is quite capable, of course, of working out these destructive passions in more vulgar and less efficient ways. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

My only lead, my only clue, and a decision to make in less than a second. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Old Bear paused for a moment before he said, "Are there any among you who wish to leave our company? If so, go now, and no one shall think the less of you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The tunnel smelled somewhat less intensely of urine. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But as I scroll through the pages, I suddenly feel less certain. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I’m sure that Branwell already knew, because I thought there was more spring and less shuffle in his step when the guard brought him out. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A faint fecal odor greeted him, though less overpowering than he’d expected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve asked him why I get paid less than anyone”—anyone at her level of seniority is, I think, what she means—“and he says, ‘Well, if you could just vacuum . Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No problem. But you know, Joaquin just probably needs less people talking to him and more people listening to him.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

My stride through the Langa streets was slower and less frantic than it had been. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

By now it all seems more or less welded together by its own decay. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So what if they can barely keep it together around regular friends, much less boyfriends. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

But Nina remembered what Matthias had said: As you moved deeper into the rings, security actually tightened—it just became less visible. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to pick up the trail again a day later when her ankle hurt less, but the rains had washed everything through, eliminating whatever footprints they’d left in the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I attended Benjamin Cardozo High School in Bayside, Queens, and while I had been a good student in the ninth grade, the following year I more or less dropped out. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She addresses a woman whose aging face is less familiar to Yolanda than the child's facsimile. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A little less than a year ago Sam had thought Leon Longbridge was the man who had confiscated Frightful and taken her from him. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The mass is less ornamental; it has been ‘modernized,’ tampered with, demythologized, deflated. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“For this, I suggest a term of imprisonment in Azkaban lasting no less than —” But there was an angry outcry from the surrounding benches. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But telling Emma about all that wouldn’t make it any less scary. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The first Stormbreakers would have already begun leaving the plant, and in less than twenty-four hours the prime minister would be activating them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon heard before she did, and became a leopard and knocked her over, making her less of a target. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

But I was nowhere even nearly prepared to face the freakish fact that there were two people in the world who had less talent for drawing than either Bambi or R. Howard Ridgefield. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Travel to the Moon and you will be much lighter but no less massive. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘But wanderers in the Riddermark would be wise to be less haughty in these days of doubt. First tell me your right name.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“These petitions are signed by 100,000 men and women, who...ask nothing less than universal emancipation,” said Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who presented the petitions on behalf of the Loyal League. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He seemed to flop a little less for a second or two. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I gotta meet the man who raised Mateo into the dude I fell in love with in less than a day. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“We’ve just been told that we have less than an hour left,” he said, “before the Oakland police move in.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I keep thinking if I could just stick out less, if I could learn to walk and talk like the kids around me, maybe I would fit in more. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could not have known, who came home with nothing, to nothing, to four years less than nothing. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, as the room went black, I was suddenly hyperaware that Edward was sitting less than an inch from me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

How haunted they all were by the past, Eril-Fane no less than the rest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If I keep my eyes closed, it hurts less to talk. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I think these people have started to put less Coke in the bottles,” Amaka said, holding her Coke bottle back to examine it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't know. Something’s not right, but I haven't figured it out yet. Can you make it any less blurry? By moving the projector closer to the wall or something?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

If Helen or Theresa had walked into the room as he was talking, so that he had had to hang up, he probably would sit around less. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the real world, Feldman learned to settle for less than 95 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The tunnel was some way behind; the Cleft a couple of hundred yards ahead, or less. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Increasingly, though, there’s evidence that watching TV—and, especially, watching junk food ads on TV—promotes obesity by changing mainly what and how much people eat, less so by changing how much they move.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sam added that nowadays a band or someone would compare themselves to the Beatles after the second album, and their own personal voice would be less from that moment on. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Myth number three: MDR was less virulent and contagious than regular TB. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The larger black community in Durham was less than enthusiastic about the vigil when they did learn about it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mother fell silent, and less than a minute later I was obliged to kiss her good-night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Chemistry, too, became more scientific and less mystical as the eighteenth century wore on. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It took Evan half an hour to drag his loaded wagon to the town center—a distance he usually traveled in less than five minutes by bike. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Around her in the smoke, the trackers laughed and told ribald stories that would have made a lesser woman flush with embarrassment. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I presented what is more or less the account current when Dobyns arrived in Peru. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then everyone laughed, Bull with less relish than the others, but he quickly recovered his lost momentum. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I was lulled by the words of Saruman the Wise; but I should have sought for the truth sooner and our peril would now be less.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Willem smoothly kisses both of my cheeks and offers me his place on the sofa, moving to a less comfortable-looking chair. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

You would see me less and less and like me better. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Indian set off at the slow trot typical of his race, and she remained in the house with the other servants, whom she feared far less than that strange individual with the courtly inclinations. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels less like a competition and more like the way a class should be, all of us working together. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Padva insists on making her a less formal version of the ivory-and-black gown in peach and cream, finishing a sketch in a matter of minutes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Only a fraction of the candles are burning, but the sight is no less resplendent as they illuminate the twisting black branches, casting dancing shadows over the striped walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

To their dismay, the teenage leaders found their troops shockingly out of shape, overage, undisciplined, and less than enthusiastic. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The decision struck me as well-intentioned but generally impractical, and it did little to build my confidence in the campaign team that now more or less ran our lives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

That would have made me sound less like a maniac. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight years later, here they are, with a baby, no less. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Produce them at once or by God I’ll have you shipped somewhere a great deal less pleasant than Wales!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He would have been less alarmed if Harrison had cooked with the orange itself, but to cook with the peels was like choosing the hairy skin of a goat rather than the meat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

If terrestrial bugs could live on Mars, he thought, why not in Antarctica—which was by and large warmer, wetter, and had more oxygen and much less ultraviolet light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In truth, though, he was less certain after his macabre dream. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“I have been spending less time at Chandresh’s residence,” he says, handing her the card. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As more and more nonwhite students arrived on campus, less well prepared, many of them chose to believe that they were, in some cultural sense, minorities. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think a smaller time frame makes it any less unwise.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“I was sent overseas as a pilot, and I should be flying more combat missions and spending less time on my duties as a mess officer.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Tired of invoking God through the three-legged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Johnson gently pushed McNamara out of the Pentagon, giving him the prestigious but less controversial job of president of the World Bank. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The roads I take start to get less busy, and I get all turned around, unsure of whether I’m supposed to go left or right. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

By about half a million years ago, human fossils had diverged from older Homo erectus skeletons in their enlarged, rounder, and less angular skulls. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"And the colored stripes tell time, which is very handy if your electric clock stopped. Each stripe burns exactly one-half hour, more or less. Twelve stripes, six hours." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name I carried with me throughout my youth was attached to me, more or less accidentally, by Mistress MacGregor of the orphanage. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

So in September, he starts using less expensive paint, pigments that are less finely ground. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I ask Kimberly, which is more or less the opposite of asking her to leave. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Always an open-minded person, she became more tolerant of Charles’s views, and she seemed to be less concerned about his lack of faith. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it seems that the more crops we plant, the less food rations we receive. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was more—and less—than that. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I make sure the food is put away, Helena checks the house for mistakes, and my people have disappeared in less than a minute. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

When an auction for Osage oil leases was held in Tulsa in 2012, three leases sold for less than $15,000 in total. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She not only had learned a lot about boats, but she was less afraid of water. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after that, in less than two weeks, would come the glorious start of the season on the first Friday night in September. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were denser, the ground less manageable, and the wildlife—judging by the sounds and smells around me—had changed. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Even if it had been less dangerous, it would still have been difficult to find time to meet. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

If he could walk at least thirty miles a day, he could make it in a week or less. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world.—Every savage can dance.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Choosing a less densely covered area of the ceiling he aims at the spot, and as he throws he lets out a bloodcurdling scream which would not be out of place in a bronco-busting rodeo. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the people in this room will make life less painful. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I crept away from the Weylin house, moving through the darkness with even less confidence than I had felt when I fled to Alice’s house months before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“My daddy says being on the road ain’t fit for a dog, much less a kid, how come you don’t just go back to your orphanage?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They reminisced over Bailey’s teaching me to walk when he was less than three. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re beating us twenty-nine to twenty-eight with less than a minute to go. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

The further out she got, the less stable she became. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The ground between the two armies grew less every moment. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Every part of him went into a panic, and if he’d been less shocked or numb, he would have struggled. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

She pays more attention to me now than ever before, though she smiles at me a lot less. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Enrique has less than 50 pesos on him, only a few coins that he has gathered begging. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

It challenged its listener less, required less effort and, as a non-threatening background accompaniment to other activities, it became ubiquitous in a way it could never have been before. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I watch the sky, hoping for one less opponent at dawn, but nobody appears tonight. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Some friends and allies, including Howard Hiatt, felt Farmer should be spending more of his time on worldwide health campaigns, much less in clinical practice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He still had the same snarky attitude as when he had impersonated Brer, and it didn’t irritate me any less. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Well, from all of your stocks and bonds right now, over fifty thousand dollars. It’s less because I took out my commission, but I will of course reinvest it.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

The war broke out and was over before a single safe-suit was ever issued to a single soldier, much less to a civilian. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about how the Indian schools work, but I’ve heard they’re less focused on teaching folks how to kill the dead than they are civilizing them, whatever that means. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

In the morning's bright light the young lady seemed more human and less ethereal. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

As far as Kepler was concerned, elliptical orbits were merely an ad hoc hypothesis, and a rather repugnant one at that, because ellipses were clearly less perfect than circles. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to the time stamp, Sorrento had sent the memo just after eight o’clock, less than five hours ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Let us pray and cover the roads with the blood of Jesus,” she had said, and he replied that the roads would be safer, less slippery, if not covered with blood. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour, the fence-line telegraph had alerted the whole town that I was in trouble. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although I feel I am less comfort to them than they, in their bereavement, can recognize, they have allowed me to be of help to them in many small household matters. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The guard who had met him at the door seemed less certain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For samples of a given size, the narrower the confidence interval—that is, the more precise the estimate—the less confident we can be of it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it is more or less taken as modern gospel that profound scientific truth frequently accomplishes the opposite of what Epicurus recommended, costing us peace of mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But instead of bringing the whole book in which the game was published, Fridrik simply brought a copy of the few relevant pages so that he’d have less to carry. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

This one is shorter than Wal-Mart’s and apparently aimed at a rougher crowd: Am I more or less likely than other people to get into fistfights? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was snow from time to time, always a treat, and hail, less of a treat, and sometimes sultry, muggy vapors that smelled of growth and decay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Indeed, sumo is said to be less about competition than about honor itself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Six days later the valley received ten inches in less than twenty-four hours. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She has never seen a dwarf before, he realized, much less a dwarf without a nose. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Marriage, as he’d thought of it, was the end of a story, much like a Ph.D., except that the marriage story was shorter, and less work. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

A humane society truly concerned about its children would worry less about oddballs, computer games, and clothing, and more about creating the kind of schools kids would never dream of blowing up. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blood slowly trickles from them, making them look far less deadly than they are. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

There are possibilities of using less toxic sprays or, better still, of introducing microorganisms that will cause disease among the budworms without affecting the whole web of forest life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In general, I was less interested in the redecorating and inauguration planning than I was in figuring out what I could do with my new role. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The pages were serving the food with the formal movements of a ballet Wine bottles were being placed on the tables, but ale, being less respectable, was being put beneath. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, less than an hour, I think. Maybe even only about half an hour from when Crazy Horse and his men gave the signal.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Oh, well, there is that,” he said, sounding less sure of himself. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mudd remained calm and did not betray the secret known, at this moment, to him alone: America’s most wanted man was hiding in a farmhouse, less than five miles away! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn't, even though I had connections, even though it was less dangerous for me than for her and Mina. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

His breathing grew less and less heavy and rapid until he could no longer hear it, then so slow and steady that the consciousness of breathing left him entirely. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

At least there was one less “teammate” in the locker room to deal with. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He looked up at me shocked ’cause I’d never asked to play a game with nobody in the house, much less a counselor. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Sustained by her aunt’s visit, Kit was able to face the morrow with less panic. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset I try to hypnotise her, but alas! with no effect; the power has grown less and less with each day, and to-night it fail me altogether. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The latter option seems somehow less lonely, especially if I can find one of my favorite programs—Titus or Third Rock from the Sun. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, if you could please notify everyone, it would be helpful—and one less thing for me to manage right now.” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“How much less can you sell it for?” we have to say. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bringing down a woman was not like to awe any northmen, if she knew the breed, and her worth as a hostage was less than naught. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The fight lasted less than a minute and a half. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Zach were a less confident person, he might have been terrified, and in fact, the part did scare him in the beginning. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He went on: “It was no use. Your reading was right. There’s just no way I could have got less than 300 rs.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

All it can do is to make whites less committed to change, make them go it alone. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It made Finn a little sad that every answer made the crash sound less and less interesting. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Each day as she felt the chicks develop, Frightful heard less of the commotion. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They sent out colonies, had dealings with the less powerful without increasing their strength, put down the powerful, and did not allow powerful foreigners to gain prestige there. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

That—as strange as it may sound—Branwell was less accepting of it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why I was happy I was working at the Dollar Store in Irvington: I was less likely to be seen there. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Many of the lecturers’ children clung tightly to him, as if the tighter they held him, the less likely he could break free and leave Nsukka. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A lot less than the white historians say we did,” Grandpa Nyles explained. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

We were limited by lesser facilities but not by what we could read or think or dream. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more he learned, the less he would have to fear, until finally in his full power as Wizard he needed fear nothing in the world, nothing at all. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Every night he polishes Frederick’s boots for him until they shine a foot deep—one less reason for a bunk master, or Bastian, or an upperclassman to jump on him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The age difference will matter less and less.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Him, the Frenchman . . . and the Pole . . . They beat me . . One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. “ Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, I was still writing, but the marks on paper made less and less sense to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Feeling a little less than fresh, Doc?” says August. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“It was less than a minute,” I say, for both our benefit. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her life meant little and less to him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had rather less sympathy for the uncle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Her face and eyes looked older, less scared. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She had been inside the dream for less than a minute—two mere spans of the great seraph’s hand, paced forth and back—when she realized that she had a smile on her face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"You, Sikander, aren't a god, but you have the benefit of being more or less immortal, so the sea's properties won't affect you. And Mo's already dead. The worst is over for him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Jorah looked no less ferocious as he scowled at the crowd that filled the bazaar. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He decided to empty the rubbish bin altogether—less risky that way—and took the bag out to the wheelie bin in front of the house. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I think of Madoc’s grim expression, jaw locked, doubtlessly unused to children, no less human ones. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It would all be simpler and less bothersome if he would have really operated Lew Pants and put in an eight-hour day as manager. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slowed to a fast walk, hoping that a muddy and bedraggled American boy who was not running would attract somewhat less attention than one who was. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He was not certain of the date, but he could not have been less than ten years old, possibly twelve, when it had happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The news that he had less than a year to live seemed a matter of little or no concern to him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

As a consequence the troopers were swamped with calls from people claiming to know the hiker's identity, so they were even less receptive to Westerberg than they had been to Gallien. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My parents are going to wonder where I am, so I turn off the lights and head back upstairs, feeling slightly less alone. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The intimidating figure stared down at me with disdain, as if I were less than a piece of lint on his coat. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I rarely meet anyone who knows what the languages of Zambia are, much less who can read them.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I try to push against it, but the more I fight, the less I can breathe. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It is much less exciting than the first part, but many listeners have already been spooked. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“More or less, when I was little. Sometimes, even now. You know, it’s being with old guys like Stew that diminishes you. “ Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though dwarfs had thick skins, they were extremely sensitive to sunlight and had a burn time of less than three minutes. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The working part is doing the things you wouldn’t do ’less you were forced to. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Such a person interposes between himself and reality nothing less than a labyrinth of attitudes. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Now that I was thirteen, it took less than this to embarrass me. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I see,” he said, replacing his spectacles and looking quite as though he saw much less than he had a few minutes before. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I clung to the fact that these words were, despite their coldness, less harsh than the words he had spoken to me in the barn. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

He imagines patients might be less likely to donate now: “They probably want to maximize their commercial possibilities just like everyone else.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

He might have been handsome had his features been less set, or his eyes, behind the glasses, less expressionless and blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But what earthly luck could have produced this black coat, made it stop — could have made it talk Shanghainese, no less, could have turned it right before his eyes into a sister, his sister? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Independence they found they were not entitled to any government benefits like job reservations or bank loans at low interest rates, because officially, on paper, they were Christians, and therefore caste- less. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look cute, but still a little hood, a little less polished. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She used to always talk about books with her mom, but that seemed to be happening less and less with everything else going on in their lives. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No place in town had more gimcracks, doodads, and gewgaws crammed into less space in a more orderly fashion than Onofre’s spread. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Double negatives, ain’t, and other nonstandard forms soon became stigmatized by their association with the less prestigious dialects of English used by its poorer and less educated speakers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When I got inside the visiting room, the family had less than an hour left with Herbert. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

With kids, he took a less direct approach. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The fighting grew no less desperate at the end of the war, which meant that no one was safe—not even from their own regulations. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Instead you trade them, one good one for three or four of lesser value. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This is less true when we turn to experiments. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of course, what Doc Kelly said didn’t make the Danvers hate the Gantrys any less, and that hatred had those boys drawing blood until Mr. Kennel came and yanked them boys apart. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it had much less initial influence than The Spring of the Air. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Well, do you? Do you know yourself so much less than I do?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

If Grace had said that she had been arrested for running an elephant-breeding program in her backyard, Maya would have been less surprised. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Menelaus, at first the less successful, was notably prosperous in his later years. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was it really less than a week ago? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think your lessons were a great deal less academic than mine.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I just worry that it might become less effective, over time.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Being with Pearl made the world feel bigger, even as being with him made Pearl feel more grounded, less abstract, more real. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m only telling you this because you’re my son and I want you to know the truth and nothing less. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I rest my case. Rumors of rumors of rumors. Can’t trust yer sister to get her own name right much less any useful info.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a small wall, less than three feet high, on the sides of the building. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many risk factors for chronic diseases are now more common among the less educated than the better educated. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

It was less painful to discuss what had happened now. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

My usually less supple mind was trying to figure out how high our rockets were flying. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Parker says, “Let’s do that again from the top. More breath, less brass.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He’d surely get less this week at his job at the mill, assuming he still had a job when Mr. Smitherman returned to work, she thought furiously. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On December 18, less than two weeks after Pearl Harbor, the members of the S-l Committee met again in Washington. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Her rotund figure dressed in hospital gown and slippers at the head of the demonstrators inspired many less committed Hayti residents to battle on. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

And like the grebes, the pheasants, the quail, and the robins, they are less and less able to produce young and to preserve the continuity of their race. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Another study suggesting falling attention spans found that we are even spending less time with the apps on our mobile devices. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

And, to be honest with you, the very life he has led has created in him a frame of mind which makes him expect much less of this Court than you will ever know. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thought you said you couldn't care less about them.' The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The less she went to work, the more bottles started showing up around our apartment, like long-lost cousins who never leave, all of ’em with the labels torn off. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The crack epidemic, which had ravaged African American communities in places like Detroit and New York, was only just reaching Chicago, but its course was no less destructive. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“And then we have to be home in less than an hour.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

There couldn’t be babies without other babies who had lived an hour or less after birth. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought it would make me seem less cool if you knew that he was my friend, so I kept him a secret. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

And how I'd feel like I was less than everyone else. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The next week we initiated our first go-slow strike on the island: we would work at less than half the speed we had before to protest the excessive and unfair demands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to see anything about any of us except our most engaging qualities, which he cultivated and magnified to the exclusion of all our tedious and less desirable ones. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m dead serious. How can we trust this shank after less than a week? Quit voting me down before you even think about what I’m saying.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Omakayas liked him less with every day that passed, and wished desperately that someone, Old Tallow or her Auntie Muskrat, perhaps, would ask Mama if they could keep him. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then she kissed him on the cheek and said, “You’re wonderful. And if any of them think you’re less than wonderful, they don’t deserve you.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists have demonstrated that the first farmers in many areas were smaller and less well nourished, suffered from more serious diseases, and died on the average at a younger age than the hunter-gatherers they replaced. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A person would have a difficult time standing up on Jupiter, much less jumping around. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Five. Look at the fine cloth. Here, feel it. Not a sucre less than five.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t remember a day with less humidity. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all know he couldn’t care less where the party’s on. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

His predecessor, being a less well-balanced man, came to an evil end as shall be reported, but Alfred has triumphed over his environment and has brought his environment up with him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be a fine...way to decide,” said Slant, “with less of killing.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

There they can be fruitfully active in less risky work: illustration, typographic design, industrial design, and interior design, for example. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If they had been less aggressive, less calculating, we might have been able to defend ourselves. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Pricing the same goods for less than the competition. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He learned about acting from Mora, but more so how to teach it in an atmosphere of “complete trust and honesty. She accepted nothing less.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Here he comes,” Margo whispered, and I didn’t know what she meant until, out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a shirt- less Jason Worthington wiggling out of the basement window. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

And she knew that the trains were offering discounted fares that weekend, so transportation would be less expensive for marchers who didn’t have much money. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Other protogalaxies with weaker gravity or less initial rotation flattened very little and became the first elliptical galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were still some farms here and there, but less and less of them, even as he watched. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The only place she would have less value would be China. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Plus there was one less whaler in the world. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

After a night’s sleep, his scar was less vivid. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I hoarded it preciously, but less than two weeks later it became totally worthless. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was one less thing I needed to get out of the way. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

My poor older sister had a special talent for making herself less attractive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Others, evidently, showed less concern for Germany or her inhabitants, but were of the opinion that the economic chaos of that country, if not halted, might spread with alarming rapidity to the world at large. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

None had ever seen the Princess, but rumors of her beauty were continual and each was less possible than the one before. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The death of his son in 1867 more or less killed him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So the boy went to the front door, rang the bell, hoping some other less obdurate servant might let him in. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Obscure Object suffered from a more or less constant case of heartburn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The less I had to eat, the larger became the portions I dreamed of. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded, though I almost would have been less worried if Mr. D had hauled me back to camp. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Almost all the members of the force were earning less than half of what many workers had been paid for their labor in the war factories. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I believe it had to do with water conservation, with exposing less of the algae’s surface to the sun’s rays. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Best to keep all those supernatural experiences to yourselves. No use trying to convince people of things they can’t understand, much less believe.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

They expect— they want—a student less changed by his schooling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d gone less than two blocks when he came upon a scrub-covered lot with a dented work trailer in one corner. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hearing so many frightening stories made me feel less sorry for myself. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s maybe stick to the less controversial stuff. And the candy is for the kids only. No teenagers.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Terrorist activity during the storm, the committee felt, was “less likely due to the severe weather, unpredictability of the storm path and the difficulty of mobilizing resources.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Frodo was hardly less terrified than his companions; he was quaking as if he was bitter cold, but his terror was swallowed up in a sudden temptation to put on the Ring. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Yet the country barely had time to catch its breath when, less than two weeks later, the largest strike that had ever taken place in the United States began. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

But in that brief span the storm abruptly metastasized into a full-blown hurricane, and the visibility dropped to less than twenty feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And every man who falls is one less foe for the Dreadfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The skirt and blouse cost rather less than the pullover, and it was only one code set apiece for my shoes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A weathered little inn sat on the end of the stone pier where Black Betha, Wraith, and Lady Marya shared mooring space with a half-dozen other galleys of one hundred oars or less. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she discovered she was in less danger of capsizing if the prow faced into the waves. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since they’d rescued him from the bronze jar in Rome, Nico had slept very little and eaten even less, as if he were still subsisting on those emergency pomegranate seeds from the Underworld. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her tight curls were less than an inch long and jet black, except for a thin streak of natural gray framing her face like a headband. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If she set herself apart, perhaps she would be less of the person she feared she had become. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Any Japanese defeat was too embarrassing for the military leaders to admit to their immediate superiors, much less to their divine emperor. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But let’s focus less on these nicknames and more on our egg designs.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Now he could control it, more or less, and called them on purpose. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Wearing it gave her more rather than less confidence, and that is precisely what a well-chosen outfit ought to do. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Zeitoun learned that most of those brought to Camp Greyhound had been arraigned in a more or less standard fashion. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

"And he knows that things between us got...less clearly defined toward the end. And he's fine with that." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But whatever keeps wages low—and I’m sure my comments have barely scratched the surface—the result is that many people earn far less than they need to live on. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If His Excellency had not bypassed Madu, perhaps she would be less critical. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was odd, but in the deepening silence the Wart found himself able to move more silently, instead of less. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A side effect of the sleep syrup is that it makes people less inhibited, like white liquor, and I know I have to control my tongue. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Fly around on my own, and no one notices me, no one could care less. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if the Colonel could pull it off, it would be etched in the memory of everyone at the Creek, and Alaska deserved nothing less. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

There was also half a cheese that I ate, and a shirt that I stole, as it was slightly less raggedy than my own. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She was still as tall as a pine tree, but definitely a lot less scary. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Cheating is a primordial economic act: getting more for less. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Washington also rejected this request, explaining that Andre, regardless of his personal attractiveness, was no more and no less than a spy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The full moon looked less like a jewel than a yellowy blister in need of lancing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I had less than a minute before the copycats began. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I’d been living with it for less than a day myself and it was tearing me up. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

These phrases were then strung together in ways that made the letter seem more or less natural to a casual reader. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It was “good cause,” less than “probable cause,” a standard aimed at allowing the police to pursue the next level of investigation. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It seemed purely chance at first, an epidemic of good health that the less intelligent of the trainees were tempted to put down to their own improving techniques. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

And she had a whole gang of lesser demons, all dressed in matching gym suits. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

With every passing day, the standing water went deeper into the homes, made it less likely anything within would be salvageable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

A little examination and much less melancholy would have proved to us that our seeds were not the only ones that did not sprout; nobody’s did. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was nearly unforgivable, and I’ve spent the past year wondering whether it was more or less unforgivable than the person Elsbeth wanted to marry, and which one of us should apologize to whom. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

A million of them sold in less than three months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For no less under compulsion do men tell lies rather than the truth, either enduring rather than telling the truth or easily making false accusations so that the torture may stop sooner. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“And what I do remember is almost impossible to describe. It’s all much less clear than it was even a few months ago. I suppose I should have tried to write it down or something.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I knew nothing about carpentry, but I caught on fast enough that the dummkopf SS never knew the difference. Work less and conserve energy. That way, you’ll live a long life.” Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

An occasional Bucklander or adventurous Took would come out to the Inn for a night or two, but even that was becoming less and less usual. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Anything that would make me appear more like a Londoner and less like a green country woodcock, I was more than willing to adopt. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

He had no patience for giggling, and even less for Theo himself. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

My own parents’ room is less symmetrical, and also less neat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Politics had come through the door after all, more or less at Lawrence’s invitation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Maurice, can you get Iris on the booster in less than thirteen days?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside would be tombs, or perhaps something less pleasant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They weren’t rich, but by paying less tax they became respectable. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sail seemed less a shield to them and more of a fast food billboard, stained brown with her blood and yellow with her plasma where the blood chips flaked away. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it’s less true than I would like it to be. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t try to explain. I understand what you’re saying now less than if you told me the Buddha came down and picked it up and hopped around the hills with it.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was gone for less than two minutes,” the Gran sighed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was less than half a league from my cave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could not have been less in the mood for a party. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The resistance had been wiped out in less than half an hour. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The architects’ questions became slightly less challenging, more practical. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They had brought food and water with them and gave these out to the less fortunate along the way. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

When White had sufficiently recovered, he took over as warden of La Tuna, a job that was less strenuous. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He ate slowly, tasting each bite, a little sorry to swallow because then there was one bite less of the last steak. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In any case, by the hour set for the dinner, everything was more or less ready, except me. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

And the food and drink provoked people into behavior that resembled nothing less than high drama. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had grown about three inches, but he still looked more or less the same. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The fact that his suffering has been far less extreme, and has not been linked to a belief in his inherent inferiority, has not made his suffering less real. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In her memory, Marie-Laure hears the two policemen: People have been arrested for less. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

As a New York Times editorial soberly observed, “People caught in this impossible predicament are less likely to seek regular employment, making them even more susceptible to criminal relapse.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Jason had remembered his old camp’s location more or less, but all the Greeks’ magic—even that of the campers of Hecate’s cabin—couldn’t confirm that Percy was there, or anywhere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if that’s because we’re considered cannier than men, or braver, or bouncier, or just less likely to survive and therefore aren’t worth the extra petrol and parachute packing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If we remained in our section, we required less supervision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was painful just to think of it, much less say the words aloud. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This weird New England affirmative—maybe it is spelled “aie-huh”—always made me laugh, as Finny knew, so I had to laugh, which made me feel less sarcastic and less scared. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The key was less important than the recognition—or rather, who would be recognizing Petey. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Everything was just as clear as in full daylight, but there was less light to see it by, as if all the strength were draining out of a dying sun. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Each morning the hat was a little grayer, a little less red, and just as firmly on Dorothy’s head. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Belle Isle, a paramecium-shaped island in the Detroit River, lies less than half a mile from the Canadian shore. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now that I’m breathing on my own, my wall of machines bleeps far less, so I get fewer visits from the nurses. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went ice-skating less often, and when my skates were stolen, I never replaced them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

You have the time to learn everything that needs to be learned — and you have less time to unlearn it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And not only was he alive, but his breath was much less shallow. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The woman could have cared less about you.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Broadly, Terryl associated heavy media use with a lack of engagement between parents and children, and less emphasis on school. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was convinced that one day, little old Persian me would get famous and I would get to play her younger, less attractive, somewhat ethnically ambiguous sister in movies. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Forgotten was the smell of horses, the motion less waiting, the sudden terror of gale and lightning. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Danton’s Death was opening in less than forty-eight hours, and they had a late-night rehearsal scheduled. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Middleweight? What, this was so long ago gravity wasn’t as strong as it is now, or did a pound just weigh less back then?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

It had been a roudne day, a day more or less like the other days I had spent on the job as errand boy and washer of eyeglasses. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘You found Boromir less apt to your hand, did you not?’ he said softly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

He knew almost nothing of medical terms or what happened to people with severe shock, and knew less than nothing about comas. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I want to say something to calm her, make her feel a little less horrible, but a tiny black fish-eye camera attached to the ceiling distracts me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I liked those hard loyal men, but they lived in a trap there was no getting out of, and I had work to do among people I liked less. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Hush, man. Ask her. And you’ll come out of it older but not less confused.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

To be less fair, my sister did and she preferred turtlenecks, T-shirts, and flannels. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

And I could use less of you, I thought. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

‘The snow is growing less,’ he said, ‘and the wind is quieter.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Jay Cee had to flatter the more famous man at the same time as she was careful not to hurt the less famous lady. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

That conclusion is clearest for the eastern United States, where less than a dozen crops were domesticated, including small-seeded grains but no large-seeded grains, pulses, fiber crops, or cultivated fruit or nut trees. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t want to believe that the place I occupied for eighteen months was anything less than a dreamy waiting room. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Somehow, close up, he looked tired and weathered, less intimidating than he had at the meeting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Shoot-a- goose, you never know what could happen tomorrow— much less a long time from tomorrow. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But really, this woman should shut car doors with less violence. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A National Law Journal survey from the time found that in large firms African Americans made up not quite 3 percent of all associates and less than 1 percent of all partners. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

With each step, it becomes less likely, until it isn’t a possibility at all, until the only word I can think is run. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Anderson has worked on many of the most popular children’s shows, and is far less critical of television than some researchers. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

They probably don’t know what a play is, much less the different roles in producing one. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You should go with us to the Storage Room on Friday. Nick and I are going to see this band, the uh—the Maybe Dead Cats. Intellectual pop punk. Dead Milkmen-ey, but less funny ha-ha." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

It took less than a day for the cause of the crash to be determined: “fuel exhaustion.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

By an unfortunate coincidence, the waiter sat us at the table by the window where Francis and I had sat with Julian less than twenty-four hours before. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Others offered less charitable impressions, dubbing Harvey "a bloated alcoholic with the manners of a comically corrupt cop." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

No responsible statesman in the revolutionary era had ever contemplated, much less endorsed, a biracial American society. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

When we were in school, we had less siesta time and more study time, even on weekends. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, she became less functional and more mentally disabled. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A high school graduate, Dwight Blevins was laid off from his own warehouse job and ended up with another one that paid less and offered a smaller pension. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Rations are meager, but we know how to survive on less than nothing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“You’re a long mile prettier than a grape or a squash, and you needed a long mile less rescuing. I never caught an ogre so neatly before.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in goal with their innocent, goofy smiles, they seemed less likely to take out an attacking forward than to hug him and invite him over to play. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Even hearing my mom say those words makes this trailer feel less like solitary confinement. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

It had taken less than two minutes for Archer to knock one boy unconscious and pin the other to the ground. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The more education and income people have, the less likely they are to have and die of heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and many types of cancer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Could we find somewhere less crowded? I don’t feel good.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ajax—not the great Ajax, of course, who was dead, but a lesser chieftain of the same name—tore her from the altar and dragged her out of the sanctuary. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they got to the blacktop they had to turn back along the road to fetch the cart but it was less than a mile. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

After a time the hinge squeaked less frequently, then only rarely, or else, as his muscles hardened and his work grew correspondingly less exhausting, he slept more deeply and did not hear it. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Crawn would be even less so; his Moan Brothers had the guard today. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next step was launching a living thing, a dog named Laika, in Sputnik II less than a month later. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would have to hire other, less violent men to replace them because the eejits couldn’t exist without orders. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first day’s march was less difficult than Taran had feared. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

The first scientists appear, as far as their religious beliefs are concerned, to be a more or less random sample of the intellectuals of seventeenth-century Europe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

My sense of direction was hopeless; I could get lost in much less helpful surroundings. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

They had fewer provisions and less equipment with them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The more common your tongue, the less likely you are to learn others. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Why is it less important than painting? Or sculpting?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there are other less expensive but still highly reliable methods of making human beings. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But maybe I can go further back, to a less complicated time when cute was an accurate description of my grandfather and Mabel was simply my best friend. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

She was liking this challenge less and less. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Ptolemaeus’s epochal influence has had the effect of making ancient astronomy seem, to us, a lot less diverse than it was. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

But there’s another way in which our devices, perhaps less expectedly, cater to our deepest neurological wiring. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The grass was green and they'd meet and she'd be sent home pregnant, but even so, in less disgrace than I . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one my age in my country has a bank account or even dreams of having one, much less property to declare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t keep straight why some of the murderers got less than the others. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the hero’s always less than his legend. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Vernal Conclave, which was to take place during the first week of May, was less than a week away. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She’d then often go downstairs to Robbie and Terry’s, particularly as they got older and less able, to scour that as well. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a little less green than usual, but the blackberry bushes hang heavy with fruit. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

These slaves would be far easier to control and far less likely to form alliances with poor whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The community where he had lived was greatly changed and seemed foreign, though less harsh than he remembered. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Not real close by ’less you want to go as far as Galva or up to Beach.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, injuries should be inflicted all at once, for the less they are tasted, the less harm they do. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

It was odd that in the less primitive society, the more sinister note was struck. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She consulted Calpurnia, who said nobody could do anything about her shape, that’s just the way she was, which was the way all girls more or less were when they were fourteen. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It's lucky I'm ready to move on because when I hear the feet, I have less than a minute head start. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she reasoned, “like most murderers I’m full of regret. If we give them a proper burial I’ll feel less guilty about poisoning them.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

If I ate at school there’d be less dishes to wash. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, looking quite different, younger somehow and less detached. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But Melanie seemed to feel that April’s short talk with the old man had made her an authority on the subject, so she was more or less obliged to come up with an opinion. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But his mother surely would have been even less sympathetic about that. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The mayor’s voice blared through the megaphone louder but even less clear. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The air of pandemonium made me feel less certain that every-thing was under control. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Malcolm was delighted; he thought he’d be able to paddle for miles without tiring, and camp anywhere, more or less invisibly, and altogether own the water in a quite new way. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I ducked inside quickly, guessing the less Deoch saw of my expression the better it would be. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

More like burning rubber, less like rotting dead mice? she thought. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Leave this kind of life to the insects and birds, and lesser mammals, and fish. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, fences were constantly being snipped accidentally so that skinny cows, horses, or sheep might wander off their owner’s mini-dustbowls into their neighbors’ less parched fields. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Computers are cheaper and less greasy, but eternally evolving. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had never in my life seen an African typist before, much less a female one. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody knew how all that stuff got there, just that every so often it became more instead of less. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But that interests us less than what we hear of the new flame-throwers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’d never pay for us to go to any school, much less a really good school,” she said sadly. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We share a cabin that’s too small for one, much less two. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Though K.D. was my nephew according to tribal hierarchy, I was younger and far less senior to him. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had driven for less than half an hour when we came to a checkpoint; there was a traffic jam, and policemen, many more than was usual, were waving their guns and diverting traffic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time I see a bottle, there’s less in it than there was before.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The new studies of mobility, which methodically track people’s earnings over decades, have found far less movement. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Quang-ha acts like he couldn't care less, even though his single seed sprouted and already looks bigger than the others. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

To a greater or lesser degree, most members of the reporting team performed similar feats of tedious investigation before finding characters who would personify the statistical trends. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not only is it the first passage that I learned as a child, but since I utter them in every prayer, it makes it less likely that I’ll freeze and forget my lines. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It took him less than five seconds to eat an entire stem, and then he’d root around for more. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

As if it had somehow sensed there was one less barrier. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be less fog on the further side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dauntless traitors also run past us, though they are less frantic than the Erudite. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

People in show business, of course, were less inhibited by social and racial taboos. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They drove through it in less than five minutes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Among the reasons he and others have cited for the blindness of the affluent is the fact that they are less and less likely to share spaces and services with the poor. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing more. Nothing less. But I pretend, friend, I pretend. And what, may I ask, do you intend to do with the thread?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

In fact it was less than the force of Earth's surface gravity. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

None of the humans felt the featherlight feet of winged creatures alighting on their brows and cheekbones, much less the smooth intrusion of the Muse of Nightmares into their minds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It feels like a hundred years ago that I couldn’t meet her eyes, much less open my mouth. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since then, this science has developed in more or less parallel with biology, but more quietly. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feeling was less like flying than like being alone in a boat on the ocean at night. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t puff up. It’s good. Means you’re less of a target.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

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

“More or less,” I said, because I wasn’t quite sure. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Every day she sent them what she could, but every day there were more of them and less food to give them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Day couldn’t have gone far—he has less than a half-minute lead on me. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I wish I had spent my adolescence less annoyed by and resentful of her presence. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

One August day in 1862, an immigrant crew had negotiated themselves a good deal to unload a schooner when a group of blacks came along and agreed to do the job for less. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Bridge never left less than a twenty percent tip. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

If she had figure faults, her clothes concealed them; if her face was less than divine, it was hard to tell once she got done applying substances. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I thought,” he said, and cut another and another, reducing the massive thing to a pile of fragments in less than a minute. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

As pressure builds inside the skull, motor and mental skills deteriorate with alarming speed—typically within a few hours or less— and often without the victim even noticing the change. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Banks gave her such a hurt look that she wished she had been less tactless and had said she had put it there herself. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Owens himself was more evasive and less imaginative. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Even if I couldn’t do any more good than she could, I was at least less likely to do harm. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from you. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

They came less often, and flew, when they did come, less slowly, as if the search had become haphazard and no longer hopeful. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

A hand closes on mine, and it’s not the same one that grabbed mine less than an hour ago; this hand carries history. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I like that low sound—makes me feel less alone. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Meals usually consisted of a daily fast-food stop at lunchtime; everything else was more or less on the fly. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discovered that, most of the time, the chimps wandered about in small groups of six or less, not in a big troop like the baboons. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So when we conquer the Nigerians we will be the less humane?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was proud, haughty, impatient with less brilliant minds, grasping in its search for knowledge the way a conqueror grasps for power. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

At the end of August, after I had been on die island less than three months, I was informed by the authorities that I would have a visitor the following day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Gurgi was willing to give up his life for us; I can do no less for him. Above all, we must not lose heart so close' to the end of our journey.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“You chatter like a pair of monkeys,” said Kali’s husband, “with less sense. What use to talk of ‘exchange’ and so forth? Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a week, the Dauntless-born initiates will find their families on the Pit floor, or in the glass building above the compound, and do whatever it is the Dauntless do when they reunite. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The lake as big as the desert behind Lita’s house lies less than thirty meters in front of us. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“And that you have chosen a path of less resistance. You’ve even brought me something fresh, an assistant to aid in our efforts.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

It took him less than twenty minutes to find the leak. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

When I fall into the life of someone grappling, I have to mirror their strength, and sometimes surpass it, because I am less prepared. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The more time passed, the less sure I was whether he was someone I would have loved or someone I would have rebelled against. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Ama was right behind him, and altogether the window was open for less than ten seconds. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And I’d snapped back that I could care less if Howard yelled at me, which is a difficult sentiment to fully convey without access to the forbidden four-letter words. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Erudite and Dauntless forces are concentrated in the Abnegation sector of the city, so as long as we run away from the Abnegation sector, we are less likely to encounter difficulty. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She also kept an eye on less vital communications, examining up to twenty-five thousand messages a year overall. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mom never said anything about us not working, which made our strike less dramatic. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Like she was always reading things about how everything was dying and there was less air and everything was getting toxic. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

His merry eyes are a little less merry than usual. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And so, for the second time in less than fifteen minutes, I headed back to the locker room and got ready for practice. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It will be less now, I fear; for I will not leave my strongholds all unguarded. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

In his less generous moments he believed his brother had been stolen from him, that the unfairness of taking such a beautiful man so young put many things into question. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I decided to make my new home a little bit more comfortable by adding leaves to the weaved branches to make them less hard to sleep on. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was a lad of less than twenty summers, with a fine noble face and a sense of humour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was small, slender, yet less angular, more rounded than the others. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Rehearsing whimpers and groveling positions as she climbed to her lookout, she got ready to tell Amaroq how help­ less she was in his own language. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a year, we’ve become super close, and Emily is now somebody I trust completely and count as one of my best friends. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

In my family, with four of us packed into less than nine hundred square feet of living space, we’d never had any privacy anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In less than ten days the Texan cleared the ward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He was doing nothing less now, he thought, than prescribing corrective lenses for Earthling souls. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My “landlady” no longer showed people my room, but rather complained about being badgered by “people from the Palace,” and treated me less as an honored sideshow than as a political suspect. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In some areas of Egypt, flies had already become resistant to DDT by 1948; BHC was substituted but was effective for less than a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

A few buildings had advanced at a far greater pace and appeared to be more or less complete, in particular the Mines Building and the Woman’s Building. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But that didn’t make the thought any less terrifying. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“You boys must come here every night to put your feet in the ocean. This way you will be healed in less than a week,” he said. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The land was drier than elsewhere—making people less prone to malaria—and it was here, on the unused green fields, that some of the best cricket was played. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

After everything that’s happened, and I’m less than an hour from completing this thing. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

For some reason, saying that made Leo feel less agitated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This was due to two factors: I had grown taller and stronger, but more important, Fort Hare was so much smaller than Healdtown, I had less competition. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that night, there was one less name to hate. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember, I’m afraid. But I don’t see that any of us could possibly have known. Anyway, what’s a doe more or less?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It means, Jacob, that in order to accommodate less than a dozen performers, we will now have sixty-four working men sleeping under wagons on the flats.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Not yet thirty years old, with less than three years to learn the levers, Kim Jong Eun had no such advantage. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When they sailed along the sidewalks of Brooklyn lesser creatures stepped aside, respect was shown. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

This is not caused by the greater or lesser virtue of the conqueror, but rather by the different characteristics of the conquered territories. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Right now we can’t take someone who hasn’t been trained. Much less a girl in love.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shoplifting PlayStation games was less of an offense than driving with bad number plates. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He must have been short—less than five foot six—and Turner could see nothing of him apart from a portion of the back of his head. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then she heard Seth coming back less carefully than he had left. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I let myself breathe out, feeling less like one of Anatole’s schoolboys taking a scolding. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was not a pious man, the carving made him feel less alone here in this queer alien city, and it was to that he had turned in the black watches of night. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Uncle Lee hadn’t been out of jail that long, and although he came to the house on more or less a regular basis, I never saw evidence of the closeness between them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He never went downtown, much less to the outskirts of the city or the shantytowns. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Trixie was never perfectly vertical; she and the floor always met at an angle of less than ninety degrees. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite the opposite from the feeling he’d had an hour or less ago. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Should I ask for more or less money now that I’m here?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the preliminary races less than two weeks away, they still hadn’t regained their form. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Good surgeons were ones who could work quickly, removing the limbs in a minute or less. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“If we called it hanging out or something, there’d be so much less pressure. But a date, God, that’s like some huge thing to live up to.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Victoria was a Buchanan and would never duck into a sub shop, much less choke to death in a single episode. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

It took him less than a minute, and this time there was no harsh scream of rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fight lasts for less than a minute. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It made me feel less helpless to be a girl of fifteen doing what many regarded as a man’s job. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were airborne less than a half minute after the chopper had touched down. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I highly doubted a Hasidic holy man was hiding in the brick-and-metal heart of Chicago, much less that Frankie, coming from the opposing Misnagdic sect of Judaism, would want anything to do with one. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why else did I give you my ndoro/’ Sometimes I think the intelligence of people gets less every generation. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They’d more or less dressed themselves when Mr. Jack came back, just as though for the first time, and pretended to be surprised and shocked. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The type of animal you eat may matter less than what the animal you’re eating has itself eaten. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He seems to eat even less than before, and works harder than ever. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Or if we did, we talked only about the less important things, like how much we thought they’d aged, or the stuff in their house. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fulvia and Plutarch spend more time studying and less time adjusting me. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But here I was now, less than fifty feet from them, telling myself that the sudden taste in my mouth wasn’t unadulterated, naked fear. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed less of a fabric and more of a tapestry, intricately woven. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The contented rhinoceros is no less content for being among the last of its kind. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one else in the room had said anything, and it could not have been any sort of coincidence that less than twenty-four hours later Deirdre was without a job. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was no less memorable for speaking plain. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know how to be a father, much less to a kid like Charlie. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

"Why, there's me, you, the king ... al-though, come to think on it, the king tells the queen much too much, and I'm less than certain about you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Warm weather would increase precipitation, which would increase cloud cover, which would lead to less snow melt at higher elevations. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"And led by a confessed bomber, no less." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I couldn’t care less how Scythe Nehru feels. Old-guard scythes have obsolete ideas. They’re too set in their ways to see the wisdom of the Change.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Knowing that the rest of the team wouldn't want to wait for anything less than an unarguable reason like no transport, he personally sent ahead and canceled the vehicles that had been ordered. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The closer the subject is to the verb, the less likely the reader will get lost. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I more or less knew to expect him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All their previous walks had been less about exercise and more about Aunt Rose asking Ophie endless questions, a gentle inquisition that always left Ophie feeling uncomfortable and vaguely out of sorts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I scoot a few inches sideways, so I’m slightly less on top of him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The unsprayed cotton suffered less damage to fruits and later to mature bolls than the sprayed, and in twice-sprayed fields the yield of seed cotton dropped significantly. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wished he were less remote; and I anything but the creature that I was in my shabby coat and skirt, my broad-brimmed schoolgirl hat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought how much I seemed like my mother, always worried beyond reason inside, but at the same time talking about the danger as if it were less than it really was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

With the help of Mr. Curtain’s elevator, Kate figured they could be outside the Whispering Gallery in thirty seconds or less. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

However, Pygmies differ from blacks in their much smaller size, more reddish and less black skins, more extensive facial and body hair, and more prominent foreheads, eyes, and teeth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Taking in a slightly less strained breath, Diana put her hands on Z’s black T-shirt. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She looks at me with her clear eyes, and the more wonderful and sweet she is the less am I able to tell her what I want. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second factor is a corresponding, though less extreme, disparity between sub-Saharan Africa and Eurasia in domesticable plants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’d probably have to add less sugar to the next batch to even it out. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In less than fifteen minutes they came near to the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rochester, as he sat in his damask-covered chair, looked different to what I had seen him look before; not quite so stern—much less gloomy. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some of the Conversat is less interesting, with too much writing, and some of it is only charts on the wall or looking through microscopes, which we can do whenever we want to anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

During these discussions Aravis became a little, a very little, less unfriendly to Shasta; one usually gets on better with people when one is making plans than when one is talking about nothing in particular. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me that Tyler knew exactly what he was doing, that he had done this before, when they were younger and less evenly matched. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He laughs big and turns up the music, half relieved, half embarrassed, and I think with him, One less good fare to get tonight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the less desirable bedroom, because it is close to the kitchen and the living room, where people are awake and talking, and sometimes there is music on the radio. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The drum, which Gey called the “whirligig,” turned like a cement mixer twenty-four hours a day, rotating so slowly it made only two full turns an hour, sometimes less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I say, less worried about Jacqui than I am about them. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I knew my father wanted me to go back to school, but as inflation skyrocketed, we had less money to go around. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I hold even less for myself, because I had had twenty years in which to watch him, where Ellen had had but five. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, as more neurological resources are put to attending to this “relevant” information, there appears to be a decline in the neurological resources put toward attending to the “less relevant” information. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t remember much else because he came and went in less than two months. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Or was he more or less predisposed than the rest of us to lose his focus, take his eyes from the road, fiddle with his phone? A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care if Spielberg directed it. It’s a chick flick disguised as a sword-and-sorcery picture. The only genre film with less balls is probably….freakin’ Legend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“In fact, they were fast friends—which was part of the problem. However, this story is less about them, and more about their great Nemesi.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The trees were thinner now, less like the trees of giants. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

From that day on I stopped tormenting Buffo, only to give her one less part of me to copy. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Someone had distributed handbills that read: “Remember Little Rock. The people there at least had the guts to fight. Does Durham have less courage?” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s less than an hour before the lightning starts.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The reason I’m asking,” X-Ray said, “the reason I’m asking is I got a business proposition for you. How would you like to double your money in less than two weeks?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Amy’s chief delight was an Indian cabinet, full of queer drawers, little pigeonholes, and secret places, in which were kept all sorts of ornaments, some precious, some merely curious, all more or less antique. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people of the Empire expect no less of their new leader.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

"Lord Eddard did his duty, I will not deny it. Did I ever do less? I should have been Robert's Hand." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As far back as 1885, Duke had discussed less ambitious joint ventures with some of the individuals in the room, but what he now suggested was on a different scale altogether. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But, somehow, she was a little less lonely than she’d been when she climbed the stairs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

These terrorists “might even hope that National Guard and other units are less able and well-equipped to respond...because of deployments overseas.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won’t even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

They were vertical bars, smooth and no thicker than match sticks, which made them slippery to climb, but by turning more or less sideways, she was able to grip them fairly well. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she even climbed the trees and danced among the upper branches, her toes gripping the limbs as she moved back and forth, teetering a little less every day as her balance returned to her. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I cared for tobacco even less than I did for bourbon. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The game would be over in less than four hours. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The personality of Mr. Tuffett was less inspiring: he was a disappointed man, a frustrated professor of education with no sympathy for young people. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The fact that I had arrived at my desired destination by lies made it less appealing to me. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, the lower speed will give me more torque, making it less likely I'll lose traction. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less and less did society target the criminal’s body; rather, what we wanted to punish was his mind. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He loved reminding recruits that they were less important than he was. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Albert Einstein was far less dexterous with his hands than was an ancient hunter-gatherer. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t thought he was the lesser son. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The rest of the yard could care less too. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

What Protestant and Counter-Reformation reforms meant, more or less whoever you were, was a simplifying of church music so that the words could be heard more clearly. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Olanna felt less of a visitor in the house when Odenigbo came back; he pulled her forcefully, kissed her, pressed her to him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But finding a change of clothes—less than three hours after escaping the camp and before anyone could get a look at him—was an extraordinary stroke of luck. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Do you think that they, with their Battles, Famine, Black Death and Serfdom, were less enlightened than we are, with our Wars, Blockade, Influenza and Conscription? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His body was bent and emaciated to the bone, almost flesh- less. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next three days, he traveled less than a hundred miles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The response was less than reassuring—just a twitch of a stubby finger to follow. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s a gesture less of desire than of fatigue. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

That is what makes this aging-of-the-population theory of crime reduction so appealingly tidy: since people mellow out as they get older, more older people must lead to less crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The headmistress smiled tightly; she did not, her smile said, think it worthwhile to address the processes of lesser schools. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Even this morning. I couldn’t help freaking out about your hair. Guess I have to work on letting you be you. And being less uncool.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When Cantor applied for a position at the University of Berlin in 1883, he was rejected; he had to settle for a professorship at the much less prestigious University of Halle instead. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the less than two decades of their use, the synthetic pesticides have been so thoroughly distributed throughout the animate and inanimate world that they occur virtually everywhere. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Sam paid it out slowly, measuring it with his arms: ‘Five, ten, twenty, thirty ells, more or less,’ he said. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Words that Toby had used countless times before but now were less rebellion and more an exorcism. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The black eyebrows were less bushy, the wrinkles were gone, the whole lines of the face seemed to have altered; even the nose seemed shorter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The only societies that survived more or less intact were those in areas of northern and western Australia useless to Europeans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir, Cornell,” the lieutenant answered, less sure of himself. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They believed that the stakes were nothing less than the “destruction of the home.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It’s more or less something like a law. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The deviation from that line of politics on which we had been united has not made me less sensible of the rectitude of his heart: and I wished him to know this.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

One reason is they make less money than supermarkets, wholesalers, and food processors. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

On May 19, having traveled no farther west than the Toklat River— less than fifteen miles beyond the bus—he turned around. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should be crushed that less than a month into my junior year of high school, my latest girlfriend kicked me to the curb like a pair of too-small shoes. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

With Deydey home, things were more exciting, things were more difficult, things were less predictable but somehow more secure. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Now, he guessed them to be less than half an hour behind and gaining. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it had been ten years since I thought anything about any mistress, I guess, and as a minister now, I was thinking even less about getting any wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there were other changes I found less easy. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Together we counted the gold, which amounted to little less than a princess's dowry. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their path through the castle took them from the opulence outside the throne room into gradually less grand areas. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Up close, he looked less warm—almost gray. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He had learned his lesson, and in his old age he became a nicer and less selfish old man than he had ever been before. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Every time a letter arrives, Ashley is off-kilter for a few days. Her mother has been writing for less than two months, and look what tension it has caused.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“We don’t have much time, but we need you to wash up and change into something a little less conspicuous.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Far to the north a foghorn groaned, reaching them less as a sound than as a trembling in their bellies, as if their bodies were pipes in a somber old organ. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

All this happened in less than a second. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Giles de Retz had been found to have no less than a ton of children’s bones, calcined, in his castle, after having murdered them at the rate of twelve score a year for nine years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their progress down the Amazon was slow, and after paddling less than two miles that day, steep hills covered with lush green trees appeared before them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Even less weight was generally desirable, but only provided that the man had the strength to steer the boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I still finished it in less than 5 minutes. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He ran after the other two as they turned into a less crowded alley. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

In other species, less compulsively social, the members make their homes together, pool re- sources, travel in packs or schools, and share the food, but any single one can survive solitary, detached from the rest. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she drove away before I could answer her, much less wait for the part where it made sense. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

He listened as the flapping of wings and chirping of sparrows grew less and less. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“In some villages, blood has run like rivers for lesser offenses.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"Do you mean is she crazy? No. No more or less than anybody else in town." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even her feet were small; her shoes looked like they were less than half a toadstool long. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And yet, knowing it was going to happen made it no less horrible. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

But this was not something he could explain to himself, much less to the guys. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

My first job of the day, with breakfast less than an hour away, will be to open it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had managed to land an audition in Los Angeles with no less a light than Fritz Kreisler. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

But after a time the trees began to close in again, just where they had appeared from a distance to be thinner and less tangled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

But such ignoble enticements were less a factor than many critics might presume. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

When you’re down to one, use less: After Charlotte’s wedding, Lady Lucas had one less problem. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took her less than a minute to jimmy the lock open. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

If Nox died, it was one less competitor—and if they interfered, it might cost them this Test. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The train arrived at Bergen-Belsen in the morning, my seventh concentration camp in less than three years. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think it’s less painful for her than looking out the window. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman astronaut would contribute less weight to the capsule, and perhaps this was one contest the United States could win. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

People don't like to know that three quarters of their tampon strings are being buried, or that their paychecks have less to do with their company's profitability than its owner's compassion. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I make my way to a less crowded area, keeping an eye on the entrance to the gym, and those water barrels. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Family wasn’t any more reliable than marriages or friendships or blood- sworn crew, and maybe less. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in front of us, it seemed much bigger, much blacker, much less friendly than I remembered. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Eregion long ago many Elven-rings were made, magic rings as you call them, and they were, of course, of various kinds: some more potent and some less. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"If we were randomly inserted into the universe," Sagan wrote, "the chances that you would be on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion trillion." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

To the rest of the Barrel she was the Peacock, though Inej had always thought she looked less like a bird than a preening cat. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harry rolled up the letter and slipped it inside his robes, wondering whether he felt more or less worried than before. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I could tell Flapjack was raring to go, but ’less you knowed what to look for, you might not see it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I’m feeling less again, not smart, just dumb. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And if he could hold that image of the deer in his mind long enough, his stomach might shiver less and let him sleep for a while. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was known, by the time he was fourteen, to have run away from home no less than twenty-seven times. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would probably dismiss her with some admonishment to study more and play less. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I hope they learn to be less awkward.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The spring was better than the one near the headland, being less brackish and having a steadier flow of water. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, he left it up to us to figure out what an “assessment word” is—while saving no characters, and being less rather than more scientifically precise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, Herbert thought, it would be less of a problem in New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Sometime tomorrow Kara’s and Locke’s futures will be cemented, and I will become something less than genuine, like the first in a numbered series of art prints. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“There ain’t no Noise out here, less I’m the one who brings it.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Even if you do, I’ll be gone. In less than three months, I’m leaving for New York City.” The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kid couldn't keep his mouth shut for a hot second, 'less he was stuffing a snack in his face. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I cringed inwardly at the awkwardness of the words as soon as I’d said them, but couldn’t think of a less awkward way to take them back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She headed straight back towards Miss Honey's house and she reached it in less than four minutes. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be on the convoy in less than two weeks. We just need enough food to keep us going until then.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pirzada and my parents spoke the same language, laughed at the same jokes, looked more or less the same. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The flame of hope that burned in him was smaller now, but no less bright or fierce, and he tended it almost daily with visions of the pot he would make. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He would later give an interview to a local paper, estimating that during the six or so months he campaigned for Congress, he spent less than four full days at home with me and Malia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was the second time in less than a year that I was in disbelief. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“You will forgive me if I ask a few things of a less scholarly nature?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

During winter, spring, and early summer, there was much less to eat. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

With twelve Benefits under my belt, I’ve hardly seen so much as a bare elbow there, much less bosoms and shoulders. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

As always, here in this house, things seemed to look much less desperate. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

I should have asked for something less expensive; something we could afford. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For weeks he has been more silent than usual, and home less. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It missed Ben’s head by less than five feet, and tore a chunk of plaster out of the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The evolution of life requires a more or less precise balance between mutation and selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found that stabbing them through the eyes with the knife was a faster, less tiresome way of killing them than hacking at the tops of their heads with the hatchet. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re going to leave big holes for your nose. And the whole thing will be dry in less than forty minutes. You can wash your face right afterward. Promise.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Another case of men devoting their lives to studying more and more about less and less—filling volumes and libraries with the subde linguistic analysis of the grunt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want anybody to know we’re working with a stand-in. Duke will be back on the job in less than two weeks.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Tag was far less confident about jumping on other males, though. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, whites—even poor whites—are far less likely to be imprisoned for drug offenses. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“It’d be easier with us and I’d worry less,” she said gently, “if you didn’t remind me so much of myself, Jude.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s a shame when a man’s worth less than a beast.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Further conversation became impossible, and in less than ten minutes Francis was out of the Professor’s office. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

My mom, Trey, and I have been living with my grandparents for less than a week now, and I haven’t had time to redecorate. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It’s because when it comes to even the most important positions, our selection decisions are a good deal less rational than we think. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

After various lesser mishaps, Meg was finished at last, and by the united exertions of the entire family Jo’s hair was got up and her dress on. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children—one of them a mixed child, no less. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She wonders if Enrique sends his daughter less money because he is spending it on another girlfriend. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At the time, the Black Chamber had been running less than a year, and it still hadn’t found a permanent home. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I seriously don’t get how a guy who has a fine girlfriend like Mei-li, or some of the girls Diego gets with, could even look at other girls, much less mess around. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then, in less than a minute, it was gone. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder, does that make ye more or less confident in your choice?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

With the steady roar of The Beast, I become less watchful for danger—or maybe just more exhausted. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was commissioned, less than a year from that moment, I was told I was one of the youngest officers in the entire United States military. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His fellow members of the Mysterious Benedict Society were making the same attempt, some with less success than others. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

To Poillon he showed less reticence, declaring himself to be “walking on air.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Our life would be what we made of it—nothing more, nothing less. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But as time passes, it seems less likely. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I took a seat in Principal Rudin's office, which was much less impressive than I had hoped. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

And Constance’s dreams could be no less troubled—she had more to worry about than anyone. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Were they once free-living in the wild and then induced to adopt a less strenuous life on the farm? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took no less than six months of furious battle on land, on sea, and in the air. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Improvements in navigation, the lure of the spice trade and competition among rival European powers made the discovery of America around 1500 more or less inevitable. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We came to a slightly less busy side street. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

We made the last thirty meters in less than a minute, with everybody throwing grenades over the top. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up a trifle straighter—or rather, slumped a trifle less. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Meaning: He was dyed-in-the-wool on issues like abortion, and was a fiscal conservative, of course, but he was willing to consider less strict rules on things like immigration. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

To his great astonishment and mortification, Sticky saw his parents begin trying less and less to find him, instead devoting their time and energy toward the proper disposal of their newfound riches. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas was less than a week away, so naturally the mall would be a supremely unfun place to be, especially since everyone else seemed to have the same snow day idea. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But there is a second, less celebrated type of volcano that doesn’t involve mountain building. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

No kittens were growing inside, much less about to be born. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Even less is known about these people; the first widely available scholarly article on them did not appear until 2009, and new findings are coming every year. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She ate less and less, thought long into the night. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Was nature somehow perturbed less by a vacuum on top of a mountain than by a vacuum in the valley? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

In less than an hour the guests had left, and servants began to clean the detritus of revelry from the eerily silent grounds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Hugo's accent'd gone just a bit less posh and just a bit more London. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I know the world of pirated things—stolen videogames have no value because it’s cheaper and less risky to copy them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At least I would have one less worry during the rainy season—we could get our drinking water straight from the sky. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Grandfather is a Mask, and like most Masks, he’s never satisfied with anything less than perfection. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I guess we can eat less,” I said. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A dozen different sorts of meat and fish were served: camel, crocodile, singing squid, lacquered ducks and spiny grubs, with goat and ham and horse for those whose tastes were less exotic. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, miles of farmland surrounded Hatfield, even though it was less than an hour away from a major American city. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

And sometimes less than one at a time. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When they more or less gave birth to the systematic education of young people, it is worth noting that their first compulsory seven subjects were grammar, rhetoric, logic, maths, geometry, astronomy and music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It's nearly black with tarnish, but I prefer it that way; it draws less attention. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In silence Garvey moved forward until he stopped less than a foot away. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He would have to put one of them out of action in no time at all and then go straight for the other, who would be that much less unprepared. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time the kisses were softer, more relaxed, less hurried and strained. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is not the regular Baptist stipend; Our Father is a renegade who came without the entire blessing of the Mission League, and bullied or finagled his way into this lesser stipend. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The needles moved less this time, less than they had for the raw oysters. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Wouldn’t have been any trouble, Mr. Hurd. One less colored in the world.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Almost everywhere I looked the dunce caps appeared, and I filled a bag in less than an hour. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

If they were drunk, they were less likely to see reason but also less likely to catch me if I ran for it. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Reyna had been awake for less than an hour and already she was restless to get moving. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

By and large the Milagro lawyer’s articles had been fairly innocuous—generalized summaries of welfare problems, advice on how to pay less income tax, on how to apply for and receive food stamps. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a tiring field behind them and less than a mile to go Cal was in a commanding position to win. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Whoever this man was, he seemed to have less life than anyone in the cemetery. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“The trouble is that it is less impersonal.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lesser job, night-crew nurturing, assigned to those who lacked the interest or skills or insight for the more vital jobs of the daytime hours. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Modified Julian Date is simply the Julian Date less 2,400,000 days and 12 hours, putting the zero hour at midnight on November 17, 1858. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Because of the Depression, Morrie’s father found even less work in the fur business. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. It’s less than an hour walk and we won’t need to use the streetcar if we go soon.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a big yacht— looks like it was nice and fancy before the flares struck. Now it seems like it was built a hundred years ago. Can’t believe it floats, much less runs.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I thought as time passed my memories would hurt less, but grief was a funny thing. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

By now it was obvious that Count Olaf and his associates had drunk a great deal of wine, and they slouched at the table and spoke much less. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

It was for less than two weeks, he reminded himself. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Most other Polynesian islands were in more or less regular contact with other islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a bit strange, but the feeling was lighter this time, less like needles and more like a buzzing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Colonel Dent was less showy; but, I thought, more lady-like. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We may be even less willing to face the issue at first hand than our predecessors because of a secret new hope that maybe it will go away. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although he spoke less than the others, his comments were always worth waiting for. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As for myself, I cared less what happened, as long as I was left out of it. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was worried about Gram, but less about her leg than her raspy breathing. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Pantalaimon didn’t know, but he thought it was less than a day’s ride. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She lingered in her bunk throughout the month-long journey to San Francisco, with no appetite for food, much less adventure. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was liking the camp director less and less. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On this day Arkansas Governor Billy Clinton, who in less than six years will be President of the United States, greets us warmly with a welcoming smile as he extends his hand. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He dropped dead of blood poisoning less than a year ago and the boy was only twelve years old.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In less than a minute they found themselves in bed and watching, by the dim light from the night-light, the rest of Mary Poppins’s unpacking being performed. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Since the federal budget that year was less than $7 million, the critics seem to be right when they conclude that the costs were not just daunting but also prohibitively expensive. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Standing up, they probably would’ve been eight feet tall—tiny compared to the giant Polybotes or even the Cyclopes they’d seen in California, but that didn’t make them any less scary. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The less common compare to is used to show a resemblance: Compared with Oscar, Felix is a crybaby. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To her parents the camera was less impressive. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When I grasped the frame of his saddle, I could shuffle along with less effort. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Remile was quite shocked, whether by my deformity or my audacity I can’t say, but probably less shocked than I was by the sound of my own voice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

With less than a week before the execution, the next few days involved one frantic filing after the next. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“We will eat a little less then at the spring festival,” said Wang Lung. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

On Major Major himself the consequences were only slightly less severe. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It makes me feel a little better about my own problems to think that my note might make someone hurt a little less. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Here on 42nd Street it was less elegant but no less strange. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We have less than a week before the exam, Janna. There isn’t anything positive about that.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

For our purposes, however, the ultimate cause of the condition is less important than its systemic manifestation, which was a congenital inability to separate his thoughts from his feelings about them. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The intended restricted uses of early writing provided a positive disincentive for devising less ambiguous writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The total amount of energy from outside the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the ground. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

While teachers of preschool children may have a sense of the linguistic milestones for children, they are less aware of the musical milestones. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Less and less of it fell in through the roof. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sheed wondered if talking about that might make him less afraid and more like the Mr. O’Doyle they were used to. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s slightly less miserable now to be out of my cell, out of solitary, and talking to a few people from time to time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just when she was becoming less of a mystery, she became more of one. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The people get almost nothing to eat, much less to drink, as water is available only one hour a day, and there’s only one toilet and sink for several thousand people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Flights that leave on Wednesday or Thursday tend to cost less than those that leave closer to weekends. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It takes less than ten seconds to jot down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean literally. The less you remember it, the less important it will seem, and the less important it seems, the less anxious you’ll be.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

They do less work and make more money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was also less extreme in his opposition to the Communist Party than Lembede — or myself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Doha missed eating plain white rice, but he knew of so many who had so much less. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Moon material would be used wherever possible, because the moon’s lower gravity would make the trip less costly. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s not what I saw—” said the Death Eater, though with less certainty. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

His voice was barely audible, something less than a whisper. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In fact, it was rare to spend an afternoon in the house without hearing some kind of recitation of the miracle, and occasionally these recitations were less than accurate. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ancient hunter-gatherers worked much less than modern-day humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

There was less than an inch between the floor and the bottom of the cabinet, so that she could not walk properly but had to flatten herself out and crawl. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The moral, again, is that some unlikely event is likely to occur, whereas it’s much less likely that a particular one will. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Galapagos, the finches from the different islands were less like each other than birds on the mainland. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

With less than a minute to go Vondie brings the ball up the court. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Lancelot was less patient than the King, because he knew fewer of the sorrows which had happened in the early days. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was amazed at himself, going on like this, and to the goddess of despair, no less. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The other, less tangible factor is the lure of Ted’s approval. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time since I arrived, I felt a little less afraid. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They were largely conservative, less inclined to embrace revolution as a method of ending apartheid. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The patriotism of her young flight crews would be an inspiration to women serving the Motherland in a host of less glamorous roles—as snipers, tank drivers, antiaircraft machine gunners, technicians, cooks, or launderers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Would it be any less cruel to let those two German divisions down to fight with our troops? American lives are at stake, too, you know. Would you rather see American blood spilled?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We lived in a less grand style in Qunu, but it was in that village near Umtata that I spent the happiest years of my boyhood and whence I trace my earliest memories. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it’s only been less than four months, it seems so long ago. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z