| 单词 | army |
| 例句 | “So does half the army. Germans and Russians alike.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a picture of my father standing next to the Pakistan army’s chief of staff. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z We each get hold of a whole army Ioaf and wrap it up in newspaper. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The tabloids waxed nostalgic for the good old days of WWII, when the enemy all spoke a foreign language and the army went somewhere else to fight. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z An American reporter remarked on the army of Hitler Youth. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Our robot had an army of animals at her command, and she asked them to bring every robot part and rifle back to the airship. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The largest of them showed the last survivors of a defeated Valyrian army passing beneath the yoke and being chained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Washburn is cut off from the rest of Grant’s army, with no hope of rescue. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Is he a fighter? Frank, you’re looking at General Tyson of the Cyclops army. And by the way, Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Pearl Ann stood with a bevy of women bragging about their sons and nephews in the army and all a-twitter over the coming New Year’s festivities. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Wiping the nose of some wailing newborn or collecting newspapers or listening to presentations from army nurses or darning another sock? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then the Titan lords army exploded from the Labyrinth. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z There were no road signs, not one; they’d all been taken down or blacked over to confuse the enemy in the event Operation Sea Lion was successful and the German army came swarming inland. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He spoke with the king's voice, commanded the king's armies, drafted the king's laws. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They might not be as efficient, but anything was better than a mindless army of slaves. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The guy was too busy trying to feed breakfast to an army of starving Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z After only two days, Gerhard receives his draft notice on bright red letterhead, ordering him to boot camp at the army camp in Reibeck-Gesthacht to the north of Hamburg. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you kill some of them? The tails make good meat. I could show you how. We learned in jungle training when I was in the army.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cousin, did you fly in any planes in the army?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Then they all got to yelling about foreigners, the army takeover, and somebody thrown in prison which if you ask me is at least a more favorable subject than rats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in order to make sure that we left no rubbish behind, he’d have us form a line, like a company front in the army, and march across the picnic ground. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Such quick, arbitrary, effective, and wholesale annihilation fazed the surviving ant armies not one whit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Every evening the war correspondents report on the difficulties, the courage and the fighting spirit of the army. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z They were wearing green army uniforms, and Richard wondered why soldiers would make such a spectacle of themselves, dashing in like that, until he saw how red and wildly glassy their eyes were. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Nothing will remain of the armies of the living and of the dead, of the dreams of the gods and the bravery of their warriors, nothing but ash. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Fabulous jeeps! Fabulous army! Too bad you’re losing to a bunch of peasants firing slingshots!” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I was asking Headmistress if we could be relocated, and she looked at me and started laughing. We are the last. All the schools in Umuahia have become refugee camps or army training camps.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For the first time in his life he realized that he wasn’t born to be a delinquent but actually had some smarts, or else the army was filled with exceptionally stupid people. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Abigail described the decision to resume negotiations with France as “a master stroke of policy” because it averted a French war and removed the rationale for Hamilton’s army at one fell swoop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Cyrus had decided that even though the army was not perfect, it was still the only honorable profession for a man. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was the King's uncle and commanded the third army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “The Erudite won’t have an army. The Abnegation will stop dying. This will be over.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Soon after they left, two Inka ran to Pizarro, claiming that they had just fled from the invading army. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When they arrived at Actium to set up headquarters at their camp on the south side of the strait, they found Octavian’s army camped on the opposite bank. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z His parents had a farm near Hays and his father was proud of him being an officer in the army. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “They are training an army of ten million.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then Marcus came out of his dented front door next to the garage, wearing that green army coat he always wore. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The halls are filled with seventh graders wearing white coats, army fatigues, dashikis, and a kimono. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Mackay told us that the Children’s Crusade started in 1213, when two monks got the idea of raising armies of children in Germany and France, and selling them in North Africa as slaves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The army boys, we, got one; the rebel boys had the other. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z While the gods fought each other to a bloody standstill, an army of monsters would rise in the north. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I wear the army trousers our caretaker gave me with a thin collared shirt Tess found in a garbage bin. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The army of Poseidon marched into the throne room. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When an army captain asked them to disperse, they stoned him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z By fall dozens of seamstresses were working full-time transforming thousands of these old army clothes into capes, slacks and stylish coats. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Bureaucrats, party officials, army officers, and other well-placed government elites ended up stealing about thirty percent of the aid, according to estimates by outside scholars and international aid agencies. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The army will halt their march when we can get word to them; otherwise, they would be walking willingly into the armed teeth of the goblin kingdom. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Then screaming a mighty scream and swinging two swords over my head, I charged the leaders; I released my bloodthirsty army and my straining war-horse. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Is he making a city, or an army?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He kept his army gun in his room, standing in a corner, loaded. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Mission completed, Morgan returned, in a Redcoat uniform, accompanied by six British soldiers—all true deserters, won over to the American army by Morgan. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And Julia stood by her husband’s side during the 1850s, when he was discharged from the army and failed in a succession of businesses. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “A small weakness,” Fremantle went on cheerily, “of which I am not proud, you understand. But one sees so little whisky in this army. Amazing.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z About a month ago my uncle visited us when he got a pass from the army. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I wanted to see whether the army has any discipline these days. Good boy. I knew it would be good for you. You’re a man and a soldier, my boy.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She wore the belted army uniform and red armband of the Red Guards. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A fierce battle cry rose from the sea of avatars around us and they all surged forward, converging on the Sixer army from every direction. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He refused to let his army enter and loot the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Within four weeks, the army said it had taken back the city. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Within a few days we learned that Mr. Rice had volunteered for the army and would be leaving for the war soon after Christmas. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The early-morning station at 125th Street had the first of the army of black workers headed downtown to sort mail, to carry bags, to push racks through the busy New York streets. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Kendra imitated his movements, impressed that his hours of playing army were finally paying off. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The term originated from an army report of May 24, 1861. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They wondered how the Lord of this realm maintained and fed his slaves and his armies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They work with their husbands and sons, whether fighting in the army or sitting quietly on stony slopes to watch the border. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Yet they walked all that day and most of the next before at last they reached the fringes of Lord Tywin's army, encamped west of the castle amidst the scorched remains of a town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Nearly three months later, the German army was defeated by the Russians at Stalingrad. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “I like the sound of that. My army.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In their Noise, I can hear just these thoughts about the army, about running from it instead of defending the town. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Tom is meeting some of his army buddies for a drink and Evie’s down for her nap. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z A kick from a steel-capped army boot caught him on the backside, lifting him an inch or two. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the camp of Cluny the Scourge, the rat army was girding itself up for war. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And oh, how I yearned for the day when armies of black peasants would invade the white world, and butcher, guillotine, hang, machine-gun, bury alive and drown in hot lead every bad white man alive. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Vendors hawked strings of Amber orbs the size of pomegranate seeds next to enormous ruby-red orbs big enough to cook soup for an army. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As an army of workers cleared the stage, unhooking power cords, removing instruments and equipment, Armpit and Ginny were unsure of what they were supposed to do or where they were supposed to go. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Well, the rebels says we can’t carry firelocks with their army. Heard this from a sutler. You hear this?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z What are these men doing in an army? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The Union army had never caught him in action—he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The sight of that enemy army had shown him what they were up against. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The streets were filled with the hurry-scurry of a moving army, splashing through mud puddles. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They were stunned to see that the Twenty- fifth contained black soldiers from a new branch of the army known as the USCT—the United States Colored Troops. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Soldiers fled the army until there were only about three thousand men left. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “If you look at it one way,” she lowers her voice to a sad and uncomfortable sound and says it again, “if you look at it one way, we led an army into Farbranch.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Army forked over the death record of Sergeant Sam Shilsky, who died in February 1944, but the details of his service record were gone forever, lost in a fire of army personnel records. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The forest was seething with an army of wild animals, distracting the robot, luring the terrible thing deeper into their trap. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Again I met the Irish chap and we discussed world happenings, the vast armies of unemployed, the rising tide of radical action. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We settled in Bonetti Ranch, where we had lived in army barracks off and on for the past few years. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z As said Pomp, we looked like an army of phantoms, marching upon those roads. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z —Plutarch Prepared to put up a fight to prevent Cleopatra’s return to power, thirteen-year-old Ptolemy assembled the royal army near Pelusium—a fortress city on the eastern bank of the Nile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Between the armies there was a serious racial enmity. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What is meant by an "army corps"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of the brown landscape, like a dark stain, were three black old-fashioned cars and twelve army trucks strung out behind. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The men spread the jam on the bread and drank their wine, discussing politics and war and armies over the stacks of money on my master’s desk. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Your Highness and Your Highness’s army will all move forward together, but you will meet and speak with the Evil One alone. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The last thing on earth Gilbert de la O wanted to do was join the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The doors burst open and what seems like an entire army of Exclusion Guards marches in, roughly pushing through the crowd. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Armies combined together in such a fashion are much better than a purely auxiliary force or a purely mercenary army, but are greatly inferior to one’s own troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The Titan army had set up camp all around the UN complex. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “There are so many rumors flying around, the army probably wants to put a stop to the panic.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The whole country was moving, as well as the army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “Colonel, tell your men. General McClellan has assumed command of the army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later the army of the West was all assembled on the Pelennor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z From their clothing they’re originals, people that got turned during the first dark days back during the war, before the armies realized that they had a bigger threat to fight than each other. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I knew it was his handsome son, Ramfis, a full colonel in the army since he was four years old. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All they had to use for room dividers were those army blankets, two of which were barely enough to keep one person warm. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z This resulted in poverty and hunger, which made them desperate, so they formed a revolutionary army to fight for what they needed. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I told Chiron about the Triple G Ranch—how Quintus had bought his scorpions there and Geryon had been supplying Kronos’s army. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The Soviet army was drawing closer, and the Germans were throwing their energy into covering their tracks. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “They know that Mount Othrys is rising in the West. They know of Atlas’s attempt for freedom, and the gathering armies of Kronos. We have voted to act.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When Grant became general in chief of the Union armies, he could have made his headquarters in Washington, D.C. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The army did nothing to defend their master. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well, suppose there’s a slight doubt that the boy should be in the army and we send him and he gets killed.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I returned, holding the heavy bag at the bottom so it wouldn’t split, Dad and Brian were arguing over the plastic jack-o’-lantern filled with green plastic army soldiers that Brian wanted to bring. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And, as Washington later remarked, Boudinot had “better opportunities than most other officers in the army, to obtain knowledge of the Enemy’s Situation, motions and...designs.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks for bringing the armies of the Underworld to save us! Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was Afrasiyab riding his horse, sword drawn, leading his army. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They were old cannons from old wars, now just army decorations. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I thought about the picture Rachel had drawn in my dreams—an army at the base of die Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell where they were coming from because of the echo, but it sounded like an entire army was approaching. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He did two years of night school at City College in upper Manhattan—working during the days to make ends meet—signed up for the army, served his time, and applied to Harvard Law School. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Cleopatra sent her soldiers to guard strongholds on Egypt’s borders, expecting Mark Antony’s troops to engage Octavian on land, but Mark Antony no longer had an army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He is the most beloved man in either army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Both armies will have to stay well back for the parley. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z A single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Our assault on the Sixer army will begin tomorrow at noon, OST. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I was in the army almost four years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Forty years it had taken, rising like a great shadow on the shore of the lake while Harren's armies plundered his neighbors for stone, lumber, gold, and workers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Tea Cake found that he was part of a small army that had been pressed into service to clear the wreckage in public places and bury the dead. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z An army officer hurried to get at the rear of the white line. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “She slowed down the army on its way south. Now it’s up to us. We’ve got to get the gold eagle and these weapons to the legion.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Some brief remarks of my own, appended to an account of this batde, and perhaps others this army has fought. Some notes as to the tactics.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I heard that one voice, the army guy, but that was my voice, just me trying to motivate myself. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I would pretend I was seventeen and join the army. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z This man, as I said, having been named by the Syracusans commander of their armies, immediately realized that mercenary forces were useless, since their condottieri were men like our Italian condottieri. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z And so she rode behind him, beneath the shadow of the Bloody Gate where a dozen armies had dashed themselves to pieces in the Age of Heroes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was an expedition like that of an army without weapons against an impregnable fortress, an army which at the same time had its hands tied behind its back. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was, in Kayode’s demeanor, a withdrawal of spirit, a pulling back of his army of warmth, because he sensed very well that she had made the choice to shut him out. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The ground between the two armies grew less every moment. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The suit is rather tight and short, I have grown in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She was dimly aware of the army of monsters swirling around her, but after their initial roar of triumph, the horde had fallen silent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was tension; some army officers had already been arrested. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If it is correct, he suggested, perhaps the army’s budget for armaments ought to be cut stringently. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Below her, the enemy army dissolved into chaos, monsters screaming in pain and outrage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Stop babbling, Pastor Ambrose, and go and join the army! How is your speaking-in-tongues helping our cause?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The war would last just long enough for the Biafran army to gas the Nigerians to kingdom come. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Finally Mrs. Coulter said, “Very well, I’ll tell you. Lord Asriel is gathering an army, with the purpose of completing the war that was fought in heaven eons ago.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Protected by the mighty power of the Screaming Eagles, we walked to the army staff car waiting at the curb. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d assumed that the cussed army spirit which whitewashed rocks in the face of annihilation would prevail. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Encamped inside the shield wall was the entire Sixer army. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They reduced matters to such a state that in an army of twenty thousand troops, one could hardly find two thousand foot-soldiers. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He was the gruff and unsmiling head of the Connecticut 5th, Paul’s army company. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Ordinary peaceful creatures were usually panic-stricken at the sight of Cluny the Scourge at the head of his army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z To make sure that workers at state farms do not shortchange the military, the army stations soldiers at all three thousand of them throughout the harvest season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Briares did the same with all one hundred hands, which sounded like an army marching three steps forward. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “The army will come here and kill everyone who don’t join it. That’s it.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z That is, I am to understand, what actual men of honor do with armies. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I asked about the break through and he said that he had heard at the Brigade that the Austrians had broken through the twenty-seventh army corps up toward Caporetto. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “By night, or under cover of mist,” said Adam, “a whole army could creep over hill and through forest without being seen. ’Tis from the north and west that we look for trouble. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Others seemed to be regular living mortals - some in togas, some in modern business suits or army fatigues. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He had been a West Pointer, had left the army to become a lawyer, a prosecutor. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Two Englishmen, an army major and a judge, had been kidnaped recently by the Irgun, the Jewish terrorist group in Palestine, and were being held as hostages. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z An army jeep is parked sideways to block the road. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Instead, army engineers arrived unexpectedly on November 24 with sledgehammers and blowtorches and reduced his precious accelerator to scrap. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The exhausted army of his enemies, who had diced the night before, now spent the hours of darkness sleepless again, standing to arms or in their councils. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Him and the other fellow I could see riding east, but they’d need an army of fence spotters to patrol even one ranch. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “We didn’t come here to join any army.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And yet there was the pressure of that great blue army behind him, building like water behind a cracking dam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, you’re not. If you want to shut him up, then beat him. He’s just a brute from the king’s army—don’t waste your strength on hating him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I sat in my bedroom, knocking the army men one by one off my windowsill. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He loaned us an army tent, which we pitched with his help. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The daily small army of runners each got ten percent of the money they turned in, along with the bet slips, to their controllers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Others established factories and warehouses to make and store supplies for the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Popper also flooded a part of the cellar floor for an ice rink, and here the penguins often drilled like a sort of small army, in fantastic marching movements and parades around the ice. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z When Caesar stayed with Cleopatra in Alexandria, his role had been that of a general in charge of an occupying army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He had run away from Austria with his bride to avoid being conscripted into the army. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You recruited half the school to bug him, and he turned them into an army of volunteers.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z We had walked through two armies without incident. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z For a year while I was at the camp, Met Bong told me everyday the Youns were attacking Cambodia and that the mighty Khmer Rouge army would defeat them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Spike is marching in place like a soldier in Queen Bey’s army. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The tales about Goldstein and his underground army, she said, were simply a lot of rubbish which the Party had invented for its own purposes and which you had to pretend to believe in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Out on the road the troops were moving in a great mottled stream: Longstreet’s First Corps, the backbone of the army, moving up behind Powell Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the documents that circulated at Fort Monroe was an army plan to be executed in the case of an atomic attack. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Now that the capital was at risk, the army planned a counterattack. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No one seemed physically injured by their encounter with King Gorger’s army except Aurora and himself. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Washington took charge of the rebel army at Cambridge, Massachusetts, on July 3, 1775. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A wall of force shimmered along the fissure line, separating Kronos’s vanguard, my friends, and me from the bulk of the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He galloped through the crossfire of both armies, inspiring his men. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then ghostly clothes enveloped it—a muscle shirt, camo pants, and army boots. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Anyway, Jack and Sarah journey across the forest, defeat a troll army, rescue the fairy princess, battle the evil hobgoblin king and queen, and return the world to the sunshine. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z He seemed to be rolling back the unlimited power of the army. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The government would issue suits to civilians, too, eventually, but the army wanted the first ones. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They organized the Hitler Youth as an army, complete with regiments. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When the colonial armies invaded, the Zulu charged into battle with nothing but spears and shields against men with guns. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I didn’t think he would have said it when he first came into the army, or even when he first got into the squad. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fellow in the army told me there’s valleys in California—miles and miles—and you can’t find a stone, not even a little one.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “And he only has the two children, not an army. They are young enough so you could be a real mother to them and you are young enough so you could give him even more.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The armies drew back on either side and in the space between, Paris and Menelaus faced each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Where there should have been an army of carpenters, masons, glaziers, plasterers, and painters, I saw only empty shells of buildings, already falling into disrepair after a few weeks of neglect. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On March 12, 1938, Hitler ordered his army to march into Austria, a country that had a large ethnic German population. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Imbuing violence with holy meaning,” wrote the historian Iris Chang, “the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I could look down through the woods and see, far below, with the sun on it, the line of the river that separated the two armies. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t feel comfortable leaving you and your army to dole out justice as you see fit,” says Johanna, “but I will certainly send someone else to Amity with a message.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It would have to be quite entertainingly written, however, since, though there’s happily a small army of readers interested in verbal niceties, relatively few are interested in similar but often more important numerical nuances. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was climbing to the ruins of a palace where an army of ghosts had gathered. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The enemy army foil back before him like he radiated death, which of course he did. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “What does an army deserter know about bunkers?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Chincha elite, afraid to take on the Inka army, always chose compliance over valor, and were rewarded with plum positions in the colonial government. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Standing armies struck him as inherently dangerous and expensive items. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Here they were at the heart of Tartarus, facing an impossible army—she would take any comfort she could get. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z ‘They need you here. There’s still an army to defeat. Besides, the prophecy -’ ‘He’s right.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The army had moved all day in enemy country and they had not even known what was around the next bend. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The river was more dangerous than any army they could assemble. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lee said, “I like to go into battle with the agreement of my commanders, as far as possible, as you know. We are all members of his army, in a common cause.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Grant is general in chief—the commander of all the Union armies from Virginia down to New Orleans. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Even as the army was being disbanded, much to Adams’s credit and relief, the cost of raising it landed on the voting public. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Hatchet said you were supposed to lead an army.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z They made Chess think more of military flags, as if some invading army had taken over and wanted everyone to know. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I sensed a wave of fear roll through the armies below us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z At that moment I feared my father’s wrath much more than I feared Bull Connor’s fire hoses, army tanks, and attack dogs. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It isn’t usual to make complaints in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z An army private shoulders his recoilless rifle as American troops leave the village of My Tho after setting buildings on fire, 1968. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z It seemed that an army was thundering up the stairs. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Z and her army of associates had only a few days left to smooth out any kinks in the library’s complex operating system. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Though Gold didn’t know the details, David Greenglass was an army sergeant assigned to Los Alamos. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z With a sigh, MoMo settled into the enormous bed and watched the state-sanctioned news, which told of the army’s resounding defeat of the mountainside rebels. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z We drove by redbrick buildings and white buildings, an army tank with a big white star painted on it, and long, iron cannons. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I so believe you with your black army jacket, black jeans, black high-tops.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Within days of my departure for the army the police were at my parents’ apartment, looking for me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She was certain that if Cluny’s army overran Redwall, there would be enough treasure to keep even the greediest creature happy for life. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z ‘Fugitives from Cair Andros have already reached us. The isle has fallen. Another army is come from the Black Gate, crossing from the north-east.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I had come to the army as an escape from my life—as many men did, I suppose—and though I’d had a complex and rougher childhood than most, I was still virtually unsophisticated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Complains bitterly about the handling of the army at Gettysburg, is later given a command of his own: the Army of Tennessee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fully dressed in army uniform and carried a backpack and a waist pack full of ammunition. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The enemy army was closer now, entrenched only a few hundred yards outside the palace. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Outside rushed the armies of the rain, and lightning flashed against the window. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “And so you joined the army, and it saved your life,” I’d finish the story for him, trying to water down my voice, take some of the sting out of it. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They were quickly named the Truck of Many Colors and Staff Car, the latter a battered olive drab army surplus sedan. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z At night, Mia pushed the bags into the footwells and laid a folded army blanket across them and the backseat, forming a bed that could just hold them both. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He’s one of those dudes who feels like there’s no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Now here they were, alone again, while their friends might be dying at the hands of a monster army, and she was throwing a fit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z King Aerys had named him Hand and given him an army, and he meant to prove himself worthy of that trust, of Rhaegar’s love. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa and his army came to be at Cajamarca because they had just won decisive battles in a civil war that left the Incas divided and vulnerable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The monstrous army swarmed him, but the Maeonian drakon flattened everything in its path, sweeping its tail and spraying poison while Damasen jabbed at Tartarus, forcing the god to retreat like a cornered lion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was a brief volley; a few rebels who could not hold their fire, terrified at the approach of their King’s army, let loose a round without harm to any. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z If it had not been for the cordon the army had formed around Alexandra, there would have been a massacre of whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Half my army is made up of unbelievers,” Stannis had replied. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Groves, the son of an army chaplain, was a West Point graduate who tipped the scale at three hundred pounds and was not shy about throwing his weight around. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Woody brought in another army bunk and tick mattress, up next to Mama’s. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z As a consequence, during so much time and so many wars waged during the past twenty years, whenever there has been an army made up completely of Italians it has always made a poor showing. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z She’d been chased across a chasm by an army of spiders. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She told the Amazons about Reyna being their praetor, and the army of monsters that was marching south. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I wanted to crawl into a hole and hide, and I could tell the enemy army felt the same way. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There were piles of things spread out along the tracks, as if they had been dropped by a fleeing army. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Clyde came to work at one of the Ford car factories, on the assembly line where they made parts for the machines the army used in the war. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Did you come with the army I heard thumping around earlier?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z With Millennium Challenge, then, Blue Team was given greater intellectual resources than perhaps any army in history. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The colonizer armies, militias, and rangers knew that obtaining the land would be easier if, in addition to attacking Indigenous people, they destroyed Indigenous towns and food supplies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He also began to be feared even by those he kept around him, so that a centurion murdered him in the midst of his army. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z An army of Sixers stood in front of me, and several different gunter clans surrounded me on all other flanks, brandishing swords and guns and weapons of powerful magic. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z After Trujillo became the head of the army, he got to talking to some people who didn’t like the old president. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the officer’s contempt is not, as in other armies, avuncular theatricality. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarah and Jack and the clover elves are just about to celebrate their victory over the troll army when an ogre kidnaps Jack and sweeps him off to the hobgoblin king’s castle. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z And then she spun on her heel and stalked out behind her terrible, heartbreaking army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z We talk about Sam’s older brother, how he’s in the army and how she misses him and prays for him every night. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Along the back wall, near the Ping-Pong and pool tables, several army cots had been set up, and in the corner was a pile of sleeping bags. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The United Nations estimated that about eight thousand people were killed, most of them murdered by the Haitian army and its paramilitaries. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then he said, “In this unusual war, women not only supported the army by their work in the rear, but also fought with arms in hand.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z But in the mornings, the news would come not that the army had gained ground but that the Taliban had slaughtered two or three people. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It would be a few months before Farmer encountered Jon Carroll, the army captain, in the central plateau, and I got my first glimpse of the American doctor and his thoughts. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I inspired my army, and I fed them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Jeanine and her army of Erudite scientists and Dauntless traitors walk in just as I wipe tears from my cheeks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “He is now gone into the army,” she added; “but I am afraid he has turned out very wild.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Leningrad, Russia’s old capital, was under attack and had been blockaded by the German army since September 8, 1941. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Your army turned tail and ran howling into the river.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “My boys are well trained. We are not like those dirty rebels you people called an army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He even managed to get Nate a frontier shirt, one of the tie-front shirts most of the men in the army wore with pride. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z At one point, Lee pauses to write a letter to Confed- \\ erate president Jefferson Davis, saying that his army is in retreat and can no longer defend Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Troops on land stood by to engage Octavian’s army once Mark Antony’s ships broke through the blockade. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z For the most part, the followers were young, out-of-work men, who proudly wore the brown shirts of Hitler’s private army. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He offered Gabinius—the Roman governor of Syria, a kingdom under Rome’s control—a huge sum for the loan of his army. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Jews were also slaughtered as this volunteer army of “Christian soldiers” headed to the Middle East. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z His army is still on the march toward the kingdom of the goblins, and yet Ghohg has not been destroyed as promised. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He crawled under his bed and dragged out a dusty crate filled with green army men. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Lee said, “Longstreet proposes that we move our army to the right around the enemy flank and interpose between Meade and Washington.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Promptly at six A.M., the two armies begin to march. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “You have your RAF chappie wearing a beret. I really don’t think so. Outside the Tank Corps, even the army didn’t have them in 1940. I think you’d better give the man a forage cap.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If that army got to the top of the hill, we would be overwhelmed. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The storm troopers were a private Nazi army feared for their aggressive brutality and violence. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I shall have all my devoted servants returned to me, and an army of creatures whom all fear. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Mom said the army had turned her younger brother Will from being a “nice kid” to being a “confused jerk.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In addition to the tiny shacks, substantial wood, brick, and stone structures were begun as well, and an army of workers emerged to do the job. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z A Chinese grandmother leads an army of thirty thousand guerrilla warriors against Japanese invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z ‘No, sir. Just a mite jumpy. No good for army work nor even just hacking about Boston.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate Congress—I hate the army—I hate the world—I hate myself. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “That Tom’s friends from the army don’t really exist? That he made them up? That he’s actually off with some other woman?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Atawallpa dug his way out, escaped to Ecuador, reassembled his army, and drove his foes south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Still, Emily thought they should consider themselves lucky to have evacuees because at one point it had looked like the whole house was going to be requisitioned for use by the army. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At the battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee in February 1862, Grant and his army delivered the first major victories to the Union. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z And why didn’t he go off and join the army, like everyone else white who used to work here? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Why do you look out? Do you wish to see the greatness of our army? We are the fighting Uruk-hai.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z If the spy was right the army was in great danger. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama is trying too hard, which is probably a result of Mrs. Kluckowski sitting at the back of the room, arms folded over her chest like a cranky army sergeant. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They challenged the sole Mexican waiter, Salomon Paniagua, a former Mexican army officer who, everyone agreed, looked Greek, to stand with them. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Franz, a devout Christian, had spent most of his adult life in the army, stationed in Shanghai and Okinawa. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on a tombstone, he leaned slightly upon his standard and viewed the army in training. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The store owner had crossed Fazlullah and had helped the army. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the end we watched 300, a war movie about 300 Spartans who protect Sparta from an invading army of like a billion Persians. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z By the time Werfel got to the bottom of the mountain, Spurge had joyously greeted his nation’s army. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z His criticisms both of the war as it had been conducted and of the army organization as it persisted were irresistibly penetrating. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Colonel Smith did have an army chaplain to dine with him that day. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “And I have bigger fish to fry than your army,” I said with a whole lot more confidence than I truly felt. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Between her update and the previous story, I am able to mark my paper map to show the relative positions of the opposing armies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She quadrupled her already fabulous record and she was awarded the fairest prize of all— a ride in an army airplane. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Temp put on a burst of speed for the end of the bridge, and Tick turned to face down the army of rats alone. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Stars and Bars that people regard today as the national symbol of the Confederacy is actually a battle c , „ , flag that was used by Confederate armies, not an off!- Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Parzival here still hasn’t told us how we’re going to get past that shield, fight our way through the Sixers’ army, and get inside the castle.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Under this pretext, without showing his aspiration for imperial power, he moved his army to Rome, and was in Italy before his departure was known. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But in the end, the army got its way-—and got its man. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I said, “Is that the way they eat in the army?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We have armies here, here, here, and here. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Only now, a whole army of those rumors was marching by. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z During the day they trained, playing football on the beach in army boots to build up their legs, and then at night they had the drills. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But never was there any hint of cowardice in Adam’s army record. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After checking on Trampita, Mama and Papa spread a green army blanket on the ground behind the Carcachita where we all sat to eat. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Said I, “We are an army that but waits to be mustered. We shall join whosoever doth free us first.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Robert is just twenty-one, with a thin mustache and a captain’s rank in the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Before leaving the bus terminal, I stopped at an army recruiting stand and asked how old you had to be to join the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “But the army is conscripting all our young men.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He thought of the approaching army of rats. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mom ran out of the room and came back with one of the army- surplus blankets I hated because the wool was so scratchy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Ambrose is pretending to be a pastor to avoid the army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He escaped from the Russian army and snuck over the Polish border and married my mother in an arranged marriage. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is the army going to protect us?” someone shouted out, but Doha couldn’t see who it was. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Washington had just made Church the chief physician of the army, at a salary of four dollars a day. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But even if that shield does drop, to reach the castle, we’ll still have to fight our way through the largest army in the OASIS.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He marches back to Persia with an army and a wife, and smacks Chobin so hard for wrecking everything that Chobin flees to Fergana, which is like saying he runs away to Mars. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then several eyewitnesses from the battle described the weird sound Grover had made, which drove the Titans army back underground. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His dissolved army will soon turn over their guns and battle flags. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In addition, Native American armies had no animals to oppose to horses, whose value for assaults and fast transport gave Europeans an overwhelming advantage until some Native American societies themselves adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When first he came to Dragonstone, the army of stone grotesques had made him uneasy, but as the years passed he had grown used to them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An army she was nonetheless prepared to meet. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Scott offered Lee command of the new army being formed to fight the Confederates, which also meant Lee would be promoted to brigadier general. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Our spies among your loyal subjects tell us that only very few want another war, and that word is starting to leak out that the army is on the march right toward the goblins. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Even though she was due to fly back to Birmingham, Dr. Fiona stayed on and arranged to have me airlifted to another army hospital, this one in Rawalpindi. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Fortunately for us, the Ethiopian army would not cross a crocodile-infested river. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Bearing clubs, spears, bows, lances, slings, and copper axes, brilliant in cloaks of feathers and silver breastplates, their faces painted in terrifying designs, the Inka army plunged into the forests of the northern coast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “An army of temperamentals. It isn’t an army, it’s a gentlemen’s club. My God. Remember when old Powell Hill wanted to fight me a duel, right in the middle of die war?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The small bands joined us, but sometimes armies of equal or larger strength would fight us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And a young Congolese man named Joseph Mobutu, who’d walked barefoot into a newspaper office to complain about the food he was getting in the army. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon another thousand or so townspeople joined the small army at the station. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “She’ll be back all right. With an army of them things.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He always wears an army T-shirt and old blue jeans, the thick, medium blue kind from back in the day. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z On June 22, 1941, Hitler broke a peace treaty and invaded the Soviet Union, sending his army storming across the huge nation in a battlefront that stretched for over a thousand miles. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Think of it as being in the army, said Aunt Lydia. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Marching through the forest like an advancing army. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “If we can get to the other side of the herd, then it’s between us and the army, isn’t it?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z There were the armies of reference clerks whose job was simply to draw up lists of books and periodicals which were due for recall. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He carried on his back an old army rucksack with a blanket roll tied across the top of it and he tapped along with a peeled stick for a cane. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z He tried to keep the disappointment out of his voice as he heard his oldest friend from his army days on the other end of the line, calling from California. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He also discussed his desire that black people, especially those who had served in the Union army, be granted the right to vote. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A few straggling strings were still blowing up from the box, but most of the army of unleashed tampon strings were fading into the distance. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z A small army unit, based next to the train station, was out catching migrants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But having a cruel and bestial spirit, in order to practise his greed upon the people, he turned to pleasing the armies and to making them undisciplined. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But my pop was talking to these two seniors that said they were interested in maybe joining the army. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z People who lived in Murphy Homes felt like prisoners, kept in check by roving bands of gun-strapped kids and a nightmare army of drug fiends. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They gathered armies and made the cities recognize the need for allegiance. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the summer of 1948, Earl V. Shaffer, a young man just out of the army, became the first person to hike the Appalachian Trail from end to end in a single summer. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The armies of the dead clashed with the Titans monsters. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z We took jars for water, potatoes to roast, and army blankets and hiked up Bair’s Creek one Friday afternoon to a nice little knoll at the base of the mountains. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Live or die, they were going out like an army. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was wearing boots which looked like army boots and there were 5 bracelets made out of a silver- colored metal on her wrist and they made a jangling noise. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Top branches rubbed together now and then, their Up up ahead that was singing about Napoleon’s army of fifty thousand men climbing up a hillside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He’s old and tiny but sits up super straight like he’s the general in a wheelchair army. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I, too, craned to see out the portholes, examining the scenery not as a tourist but as a strategist, looking for areas where a guerrilla army might hide itself. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Two days later, when the rebel army of tiny soldiers had passed through Kilanga and we could go home again, that is exactly how we found our hens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, so many soldiers in the Continental army fell during the epidemic that revolutionary leaders feared that the disease would bring an end to their revolt. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Why are they coming after you so fiercely? Why is a whole army chasing you across towns and rivers and plains and the whole stupid planet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Lee will order the bridge burned immediately after they cross, preventing the Union army from following. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Now they would have to deal with an angry army that was young, poor, militant, and mostly female. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “He said something I couldn’t understand. Hell, Colonel, I can’t even understand them Johnnies, and I’ve been a long time in this army. ” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And while views of the surrounding mountains and deserts were spectacular, the army built high fences around the entire lab—making the scientists feel like prisoners. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think God’s got nothing to do with yer army,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The army could swoop in one night and massacre everyone, doctors and patients, she thought. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z In the center of the room was his bed, actually an army cot, which was lit by a naked light bulb hanging from the ceiling directly above his pillow. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The German army had taken everything—cars, petrol, radios, animals, food. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Hardly a week after black schools reopened, units of the police and the army started raiding classrooms, arresting students. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was clean and airy, but startlingly basic, and presumably would be like an army barracks at night when it was full of hikers and their equipment. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Depending on how that talk goes, our two armies may well rush at each other for days of savage bloodletting. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z These questions would not be answered by the armies that defeated Nazi Germany. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Marine Corps, air force, army, and navy units at various military bases around the country stood by to enact the commands of Red and Blue Team brass. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A self- made man, the illiterate, illegitimate, neglected son of an army captain, he ached with dreams of wealth and chivalric glory despite the fortune he had already acquired in the Spanish colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “The blow to morale was more of our own doing than anything the enemy had accomplished with its army. We were defeating ourselves.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z If they did, I’d be stuck on Frobozz with no way to leave, while the entire Sixer army closed in on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Jason sensed an entire army of venti swirling above him, too angry and agitated to take physical form, but hungry for destruction. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The army of farmers seized Trenton and later proudly paraded some of their 900 Hessian prisoners through the streets of Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Old World armies did not fight in the winter; New World armies were expected to do the same. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Shepherd was an acquired taste: He told tales in novelistic form about his childhood in the Midwest, his life in the army, and his adult misadventures in New York City. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Longstreet paused, then he said patiently, “Would you like us to move the whole army out of the way and let you go first?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She rode her chariot straight into the Titans army and crushed everything in her path. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z So, the next day, with Magistrate Tiger and his entire army prepared for destruction, the emissary led the way to the home of the happy family. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The horrible armies were on the point of joining battle, to dispute the imaginary boundary between their glass trays when Merlyn came to his rescue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a lot of talk all at once, about the Russian military hospital where they’d all found work, hoping to be evacuated with the army. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Somewhere else in the world, a mad king sent out his army. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “From the south. A small garrison in Moat Cailin can play havoc with any army coming up the causeway, but the ruins are vulnerable from the north and east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “In your army jacket? All right, but I hate to get your blood on it.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The army of skeletons rushed forward, swords out, guns clicking to full automatic. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He thought there would be more very soon, that perhaps even now the entire army was up. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With the onset of the Korean War, he enlisted in the army, serving as an artillery sergeant, calibrating guns being fired on enemy infantry. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The only buildings here were tiny log- and-mortar cabins, replicas of the army’s shelters. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors that service in the military was no longer voluntary, that everyone between the ages of twenty-two and forty had to serve—most of them in the army’s new Psi branch. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Driving the car at high speed was John Paul Vann, a retired army colonel, now working as a civilian advisor for the government. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “It’s not the army, is it? How could they be in front of us?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He ordered Tallmadge to set up a spy ring that would provide such important secrets as the size and location of British military supplies and “the health and spirits of the army, navy and City.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul told Nate that he’d been in the army for more than eighteen months, and stationed here in New York City since May. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t blame you. You had a giant king on your side, plus an army of wolves and Earthborn, and you still couldn’t beat us.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Well done, squirrel. Very clever indeed. I could use someone like you in my army. Somebody smart, with brains like yours.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Why is that good news? I have an army who wants to kill me cuz I’m not a killer.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Though the weather was still quite warm, they all wore tightly belted army uniforms. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Some may have doubted the wisdom of confronting a trained, professional army with a homegrown militia. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The giant’s army cheered—until the Amazons changed course and headed straight for the monsters’ intact eastern flank. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Our army will protect us,” a villager said. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He is one of the few high officers in that army not from Virginia. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two soldier boys in green uniforms who didn’t look any older than Uncle Darnell—high school cap and gown one day, army boots and basic training four days later. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the custom of rampaging religious mobs or conquering armies running riot, that morning in the Heart of Darkness the posse of Touchable Policemen acted with economy, not frenzy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen an image of Polybotes’s army about to invade Camp Jupiter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I’m going to study those ancient scrolls we got. There’s got to be all kinds of new weapons I can make. We’re going to hit Gaea’s armies with a whole new arsenal of hurt.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the army, they didn't even accept volunteers younger than that. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Some months later, I happened to be traveling in a car with a serving army officer of some seniority and Col. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Pouring onto the avenue, taking cover in doorways, behind vehicles, guns blazing, hoarse voices shouting commands as they prepare to meet an army of Peacekeepers marching toward us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z By the beginning of 1968, another larger ANC detachment had entered Rhodesia and fought not only the Rhodesian army but South African policemen who had been posted to Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not an army, but it is a resistance. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z When a dashingly-clad officer addresses such a frumpishly dressed bum, he scolds him, as an officer in any army must. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyhood on uncles’ farms, in the Philippines for two years, then with drunk abusive parents back in Minnesota until I could run away to the army. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z All Mance ever did was lead an army down upon the realm he once swore to protect. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And all of the ballyhooed techniques used by the armies of market researchers at CBS utterly failed to distinguish between these two very different emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Other times, the echoes had a life of their own, so every footfall became the tread of a ghostly army, and every distant voice a ghostly feast. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Seeing that army seemed to have triggered some kind of memory, leaving him shell-shocked. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z A professional army would also be less expensive than using mercenaries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Colonel Rondon was the superior officer of both the murderer and of all the other enlisted men and army officers on the expedition,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “Well, I think you could forgive her for that,” Yishan said, “considering she was running around the army camp for you pointlessly.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Octavian pointed out that Mark Antony could now raise armies and reward his veterans with land from his own territories instead of needing to come to Italy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I'm clothed in a brown pair of army trousers, and my bare chest and arm are bandaged. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Finding a ticket is difficult for most people now that the trains have been taken over by the German army for their own transportation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sure, Prentisstown was as awful a place as you could ever not wanna paint it but how can it suddenly be an army? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The day was murderously hot and there was no wind and the dust hung above the army like a yellow veil. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The artist gives the ragtag army imaginary uniforms and weapons. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the street corner, an army officer yelled orders at four soldiers building a barricade out of logs, large stones, and barrows full of dirt. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I was married, a US citizen, an army veteran, and a teacher. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I pushed tuna casserole around on my plate and didn’t say much while Bertha told us about some friend of hers whose son ran off and joined the army. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Freed from the troubles of war and death—he would send no more armies of young men to die—Lincoln dreamed of the future. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he was assigned to an army rescue crew. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The regular army had to protect the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Fresh and shining in the army fatigues Sweet had washed and pressed, he had tramped along feeling ready for anything. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Marching up the side of the mountain, from the beach where the Princess Andromeda was docked, was a great army. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Kleist had broken his own arm to avoid recruitment into the people’s army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Carol comes to my house and takes it all in—the unpainted walls, the wires dangling from the ceilings, the unfinished floors, the army cots—with incredulous glee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Spurge did look, and he saw that there, in the midst of the plain, a goblin army was on the march. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “Alas, I hope he was eaten by monsters. Much better than being recruited into the Titans’ army.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “I answer to the King’s army. I’d be right pleased if you kept fetching the water. Makes my life easier.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He could feel the Gray army beyond the hills. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t just that CBS News ‘stonewalled’ after the fact, it was arguably that they couldn’t keep up with an army of dedicated fact-checkers. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Each of the presidents, dictators, and generals had brought his own protectors, and of course the Alacrans had hired a small army for the party. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When he first joined the army, he kept to himself, convinced that someone would surely realize he wasn’t who he claimed to be. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Later in the war, he acted as one of the Union army's most senior doctors, influencing the surgical treatments of wounded soldiers. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were lower class, uneducated Japanese who been taken from their homes in Japan and forced by their army to work building the air field. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I had forgotten about the grenade in the side pocket of my army shorts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “No offense, Coach, but there’s a big difference between the way the army treats you and how they’d treat me.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He had wanted to develop a professional army to enhance US prestige in the eyes of European countries. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The Humbug sighed with relief, and Milo and the princesses prepared to greet the victorious army. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z A flock of crows storms toward me, an advancing army of outstretched talons and open beaks, each one squawking, filling the air with noise. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “Lee,” he said, “suppose we send a boy to the army and he is killed, are we responsible?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As Wright’s men reorganize to prepare for the next stage of attack, the rest of the Union army strikes. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Then he made peace with England and sent an army to crush the rebellious people of Saint Domingue. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He told her about his life at the army camp—how he got to be a corporal. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As the gray and silent army marched past, led by Jody, the animals stopped their feeding and their play and watched it go by. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z By April, Hitler’s armies were in complete collapse. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Millions will die in this final battle, but the army assures me we can win. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I suddenly remembered that An Yi’s uncle used to be a mechanic in the army. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at Ford’s Theatre, the manhunt for Booth almost ended before it began when one man, an army major, rose from his front-row seat to pursue the assassin. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been in the army for nineteen months and had less than five months of service left to fulfill his two-year military commitment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He hoped this would be the blow to crush Lee and his army once and for all. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Since the beginning, the army had allowed the laboratory to operate on the campus of the airfield. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I looked all over the house for Henry and found him sitting by himself on an army cot, in the basement, in the dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Not until Haven,” she says, “which we have to hope is big enough to handle an army.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Mark me well: with all the armies of the kingdom at your side you could not gain your liberty on your own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z They were about to march into the middle of an enemy army. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But the family soon broke up, moving to jobs in other towns and cities, to the army, and Esequiel was alone. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Battle of Chancellorsville was a fight that, by any normal measure, ought to have been won by the Union army in a rout. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z An army tank led me into urban battle once; a swimming pool turned me into myth; I’ve left my body in order to occupy others—and all this happened before I turned sixteen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The special festivities held enough distractions, with so many people milling around the train depot, that no one noticed Ned Gillen at the army recruitment station, signing his name on the dotted line. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But at that moment, Seward’s son Augustus, a career army officer, enters the room. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Selitos could only stand and watch as the army crept closer in secret. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z General Baligant’s army is already most of the way to the border, cooling their heels and dusting their epaulets while they wait for your orders. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The entire ghostly army had him surrounded, gradually forcing him toward the edge of the glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Before the Ecuadorian army could bring calm using tanks and tear gas, several people were killed. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Serakeen wants him to lead a great army or some such.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Morrison carried the suitcases outside to a waiting army car. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you say there were Amity in an army?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z General William Tecumseh Sherman, in charge of the army, called for order and trust that the legal system would deal with Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I have to try to get out, I thought, and if that doesn’t work, then it is back to the army. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Lancelot was acknowledged to be the greatest fighter in the army. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, when I left the army they let me keep my rifle,” Uncle said. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I thought about my dream of Rachel’s sketch—dark clouds closing on the city, an army gathered around the Empire State Building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was an army of adults, whose motives and movements I just couldn’t understand and who made no effort to understand mine. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Blew up a bridge and failed to stop the German army.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Keeping up the big house on the corner required an army of servants, and her mother’s entourage forced them to maintain twenty-four-hour shifts in the kitchen. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some,” allowed Homeless Harry, “not many. Rhaegar’s sister has dragons. Rhaegar’s son does not. We do not have the strength to take the realm without Daenerys and her army. Her Unsullied.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “There won’t be a second coup. There’s a little tension in the army, but there always is a little tension in the army. Did you have the goat meat? Isn’t it wonderful?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The army was still coming in, marching by moonlight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But the hoots and hollers of the boys in the woods behind us rushed ahead of them like ghosts clearing the path before an army. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “My father has an army to do that for him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Just enough time for him to take off the marionette’s army uniform. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z With so many Russian women joining the army as foot soldiers so they could fight in World War I, it’s no surprise that several of Russia’s first female aviators also went to war. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Your Grace, I have known the bloody flux to destroy whole armies when left to spread unchecked. The seneschal is right. We cannot have the Astapori in Meereen.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He expected more good news about the surrender of additional Confederate armies. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Without these defects, states that have enough strength to take an army into the field are not lost. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z According to a spokesman for the British army, Woodall served as a pay clerk. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We huddled together and covered ourselves with army blankets we had bought at a secondhand store. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z If Poet’s estate did exist, it was sure to be a shell of its former self, stripped and plundered by the German army. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He had an early interest in mathematics, and though he spent some time in the army, becoming a cavalry captain, he soon turned back to his true love of math. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In response, Milošević’s army unleashed a wave of destruction and brutality on some sixty towns and cities in Kosovo. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The British finally made a move toward the end of August, rowing half their army across to the Long Island in flat- bottomed boats. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father put me in the army, in the West, against the Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To many German people, the vast army of working young people looked impressive. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Unlike his brothers, who had joined the army after high school, Habib had gone to the university. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z ‘You flapped that sheet on purpose—just for the fun of seeing me sit in a puddle and ...’ ‘And to keep my horse out of the army.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thalia was great at giving evil looks, what with the punk clothes she always wears—the ripped-up army jacket, black leather pants and chain jewelry, the black eyeliner and those intense blue eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The chief’s messenger and bodyguard, Mister Ngwata, stood at the door in his short pants and army boots, dressed as a policeman. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z On her first day in triage at an army hospital in Vietnam, Lily Lee Adams was told to stay out of the way, watch, and learn. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z They are volunteers: last of the great volunteer armies, for the draft is beginning that summer in the North. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo’s outfit was identical to the one he’d worn the day they first arrived at Camp Half-Blood—jeans, a white shirt, and an old army jacket. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was here that his army had put ashore, and there on the highest hill that he built his first crude redoubt of wood and earth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I looked back and saw them standing there, staring after the kid in the green army coat, who was still walking in the other direction. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Nico wished he still had the sceptre of Diocletian, but he doubted a legion of dead warriors would make a dent in this army. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The armies of France, therefore, have been mixed, partly mercenaries and partly her own troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The Confederates thus outnumbered Rosecrans’ army by as many as twenty thousand, and they handed a terrible defeat to the army that had so cheerfully set out upon its march in June. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In this city, “control” means needles and serums and seeing without seeing; it means simulations, like the one that almost made me kill Tris, or the one that made the Dauntless into an army. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z While Tucker stepped out back for his break, I commandeered his condiment armies. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In 1532 Pizarro and fewer than two hundred men captured Atahualpa, the Inca chief, who had an army of fifty thousand soldiers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The moment of whirling brought him face to face with what seemed to his excited senses an army of white men. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z For rescuing the royal treasury and enabling Zosma to pay its army and avoid war? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, like an army lined in marching formation, they are there. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The young lady who was in the backstage anteroom told me, “It sounded like an army had taken over. Somehow, I knew. I wouldn’t go and look. I wanted to remember him as he was.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What about the African elephants with which Hannibal’s armies crossed the Alps? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So Will opened the window wide and ran out at the head of the army of ghosts; and then began the strangest battle he could imagine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Consequently, three thousand devices were collecting dust in army warehouses. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Pizarro hurriedly convoked a military tribunal, which quickly sentenced the Inka to execution—the theory apparently being that the approaching army would not attack if its leader were dead. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A young woman could join the army, but she didn’t have to. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Do you want me to go on? There are battles coming up, remember? Sohrab leading his army to the White Castle in Iran? Should I read on?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Though they are far more experienced, army surgeon Dr. Charles Sabin Taft and Dr. Albert King defer to their younger colleague because Dr. Leale was first on the scene. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They rallied at the doors of the Empire State Building, and the enemy army was momentarily thrown into confusion. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Intriguingly, the two chieftains of the Republican opposition, Jefferson and Madison, had never served in the army. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z John looked down the line of these armies of darkness, army upon army, and his soul whispered: Who are these? Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Sergeant Maples became a master with time and after the war taught kendo techniques to the army rangers at Fort Sheridan. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Or so it seems to his father as, on a fan-cooled veranda, he entertains apocalyptic thoughts of marching armies, a new dynasty, the end of society as they know it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The bodyguard slung him over a horse as he exchanged greetings with other members of El Patron’s private army, lounging by the stables. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Japan that struck first, in 1937, sending its armies smashing into the rest of China. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It is an army of remarkable unity, fighting for disunion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "You could hire an army of common sellswords for half the price, and that's for a merchant. I don't dare think what they might ask for a princess." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But Neubauer was drafted into the army and sent to battle against Russia. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z They traveled on overland and water routes the Indigenous peoples made, and ultimately, they used those routes to move their armies in wars against Indigenous nations and other European nations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The army was mutinous; the factory workers galled; inflation ran amok. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes my own little brothers—unaware of what it really meant—would pretend to be Taliban militants or army soldiers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It came about that he was consulted in matters of army organization, in officer relationships, in personnel and equipment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Before awed spectators, the army fought pretend battles, with guns, tanks, communication battalions, motorcyclists, and cavalry. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z "The comet led me to Qarth for a reason. I had hoped to find my army here, but it seems that will not be. What else remains, I ask myself?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Colored stone tiles representing different armies and sea monsters shifted around as the forces changed position. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Only to be ambushed by this army of little jerks! Your awful spawn! How many do you have now? Can you remember which ones are yours? The brats are gawping at my guest!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I just wished I had been with Atahualpa and his army when the conquistadors fired off that blunderbuss. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In every direction, I saw sprawling, dense forests and I dwelt not on the greenery but the fact that there were many places a guerrilla army could live and train undetected. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The army sent ten thousand more men, and the fighting raged on and on, night after night for a year and a half. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Unless they unleashed Death and made it back to camp, the giant’s army would flood into the valley. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Most of the slaves were prisoners of war—rebels who survived the butchering blocks and endless lines of Adarlan’s armies. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Smoldering ruins and the sporadic whistle of artillery greeted the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Corps of the Union army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z To our disappointment, he pulled out a canteen, a helmet, and a lot of army things. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Seen from a distance, clustered densely around the white plastic box containing the long serpentine lines of army ants, turning to each other and murmuring repetitively, they seem an absolute marvel. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And an army of gods charged down from on high. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A recluse story contained more sense, but Royal thought the army part was claptrap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “And when you grow to be big telkhines, will you make weapons for his army?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I expect I might not do too badly in that army of yours. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z What I saw made me shiver, partly because the army was so huge, partly because I recognized the place. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z They built up a big army and a navy and attacked other countries around them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone knew the rumors: Luke and his army of monsters were planning an invasion of the camp. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Scattered among them were armies of tin soldiers, steam engines, and sailing ships with carved sailors—and in the middle of this chaos sat a boy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “That there army from cursed town,” he says, still driving along like we’re talking about vegetables. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He saw a lone warrior standing on a stone bridge, facing an entire army massed on the far side of the Tiber River. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Okay, now I’m interested. Be nice to have a booty-kicking army of pagan zombies on our side when we enter the House of Hades.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z In contact with the skull, an army helmet transmitted images directly into the brain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Like all the highland armies' that have ever marched against Gramarye, they were distrustful of each other. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Millennium Challenge, in other words, was not just a battle between two armies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Though the army helmet obscured Milton’s present vision, it gave him a pretty good picture of the future. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This was the energy that directed the armies of the law in Harare. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Boston is a terrible confusion- first the King’s army, and now Washington’s.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, the army decided the hill was not a significant military target, and abandoned it. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The British officers I knew were confident the American army was fallen apart. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His family had collected enough ancient armaments to supply an army. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Doherty unrolled his wool army blanket and ordered his men to lay Booth’s body upon it. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A whole army of incompetent cellists could not have made this sound. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Kerry the avowed left-winger who decided to protest the Iraq war by getting a bunch of guys to dress up in drag and go down to the local army recruiting office to enlist. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He brought war into the world: battles are begun by throwing a spear at the hostile army, dedicating the battle and its deaths to Odin. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The British army in northern France was “making strategic withdrawals to previously prepared positions.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Now, with Lee’s army out of Petersburg and the Union army in control of the city, Grant asks the president to meet him there. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He closed his eyes and thought of Meade, out there, gathering the army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while Joe took a pocket Bible from the green serge army shirt he wore and began reading the Psalms to himself. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And this ragtag group was about to battle the most powerful army in the world. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The Twentieth Maine would stay in position until Fisher’s brigade came up, but in a few moments he heard them coming—extraordinary, he had not expected anything quick to happen in this army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the American army had managed to survive the Battle of Brooklyn. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Woody was out of the army by this time and looking for work. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The army would not recover from this day. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviet name for the fight to drive the German army out of their nation during World War II is the “Great Patriotic War.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z I thought all of the soldiers were men until I made out a line of women in those green army uniforms and boots. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “If you could go back to the army, you would, wouldn’t you, Eb?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z By early 9 if 3, the Soviet army had finally halted the massive German invasion just short of the Soviet cities of Stalingrad, Moscow, and Leningrad. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When the United States entered World War I, some 2.7 million men were drafted into the army, and more than 300,000 volunteered for duty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Now he rode on the back of the hay wagon with his five hundred followers, a mighty army of rats: sewer rats, tavern rats, water rats, dockside rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z When I told her I was going into the army, she cried. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘In some legends, Nike had an army of little victories she could send all over the world to do her bidding.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At first, a guerrilla army picks off enemy outposts and interferes with communications, but then, if it gathers strength, it must eventually move from hit-and-run attacks to a massed engagement with the enemy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Now Jody marched seemingly alone, with high-lifted knees and pounding feet; but behind him there was a phantom army with great flags and swords, silent but deadly. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The general goal of both the regular army and the irregular colonial forces was to destroy Indigenous communities. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Cotter was persistent, however, and thanks to his efforts the American Embassy persuaded the Nepalese army to attempt a helicopter rescue in the Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “How much will they avail her when all these armies close about her city like a fist?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He did not know Kainene had talked to him from Pakistan and did not remember her ever mentioning a friendship with an army officer whose first name and surname were the same. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I wanted to be in the army once.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had heard the neighbors talking about her; the story was that her parents had given her to a visiting army officer, as one would give kola nut to a guest. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “When you went in the army, did you write to your father?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Pat, a vivacious college beauty queen just two months graduated from Virginia State College, was marrying her college sweetheart, a young army corporal named Walter Kane. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z ‘I’ll get shot? Hell, what do you expect in the army?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mack was wearing an old army overcoat, and Duke noticed that he didn’t have his crutches with him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In November 1966, he was inducted into the army and the following April was sent to Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Titan army ringed the building, standing maybe twenty feet from the doors. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I also see what looks like an army of nannies toting backpacks. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z After De Soto’s army left the Caddo stopped erecting community centers and began digging community cemeteries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then he mounted and rode alone back to his camp to begin the turning of the army, all the wagons and all the guns, down the narrow mountain road that led to Gettysburg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While Bob fended off the army, Percy would hold the elevator button and make sure Annabeth got to safety. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her grandmother warned her, “Don’t mess with that boy, his eyes green, his army suit green, and his car green. You can’t trust him.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z By that time German officers and soldiers were fleeing, doing their utmost to avoid capture by the rapidly approaching Soviet army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He entered the army in 1964 when it became clear that if he didn’t join the military and get off the streets, something serious was going to happen. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as he graduated from high school in 1968, Scruggs signed up for the army and was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Lee plans to have his army slip out of Petersburg and escape south to the Carolinas before that happens. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t know the army was so desperate that they’ve lowered their requirements in intelligence as well as age.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The German army was so far superior to ours that we didn’t have a chance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I got ready to defend, but before Kronos could strike, a dog s howl pierced the air somewhere behind the Titan’s army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z In the silences between jokes about Leper’s glories we wondered whether we ourselves would measure up to the humblest minimum standard of the army. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Grant says that he expects word from Sherman any minute, saying that General Joe Johnston and his Confederate army in North Carolina—its last army—has finally surrendered. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But the former slaves in what became Haiti defeated the French army. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The army and the people are “one will and one hope.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Thalia Grace stood behind them, holding back an army of hellhounds with her terror-invoking shield, Aegis. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But that’s not what the researchers discovered Many policy analysts write as if the obvious way to deal with armies that commit human rights violations is to invade them with our vastly superior military forces. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The general of the air army that they flew with thought that the joke was on the enemy, and said that the new mother should be given a medal. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I told you, we’re not joining your stupid army,” I said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was being hounded by the Gestapo, the police, and the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The army recaptured Lumumba less than fifty miles from our village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Percy, Beckendorf chose a heroic death. You bear no blame for that. Kronos’s army will be in disarray. Many were destroyed.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Grandfather found a small bag of roasted coffee beans the thieves had overlooked, and he cooked a pot for us, army style. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let me up,” he said, then stood and faced the army of serpents. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z For socks, they had to wear portyanki foot wraps, squares of linen cloth like those used in the Russian army since the seventeenth century. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And now Stalin’s army is closing in and people are panicking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She rapped us all on the tops of our heads, one, two, three, and said, “Look at my young’ns,” as if there were an army of us. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I look behind us, by instinct, as if the army was just waiting there for us to move on. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When he was young he’d wanted to go into the theater: in the army he used to act in military vaudevilles. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The army didn’t want to pay for a child soldier’s medical care. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z What was interesting about this little insight was that I could see the army had a point, but it still seemed like a sneaky trick to perpetrate on all those simple country folk. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a strong, motivated, hardened American soldier was drummed into Oshiro and every member of the Special Forces until they were the elite force the army expected. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Davis had been a Confederate scout during the Civil War when he came face to face during battle with a scout from the Union army. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Often I walked beside my horse to travel abreast of my army. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Two British doctors happened to be in nearby Rawalpindi, and the army brought them in to consult. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Colonial leaders had to assemble their own armies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At the corner the old man, wrapped in an army overcoat, his feet covered with gunny sacks, his head in a knitted cap, was puttering with a stack of paper bags. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington could slow down Howe, but his ragged army had little chance of keeping the British from sending troops from New York to occupy Philadelphia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how the army that was up there would come down. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z I helped her straighten up, noticing all the bottles of pills, lined up on the table, a small army of brown plastic soldiers with white caps. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When we had to impress other armies—marauders, columns of refugees filing past one another, boy gangs following their martial arts teachers—I mounted and rode in front. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Aeneas came back with a large army of Etruscans in time to save the camp, and furious war raged. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish to demonstrate more fully the failure of such armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “You know, I never thought much about black people before I got into the army. I don’t think I was prejudiced or anything — I just didn’t think much about black people.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I half expected to find an army of security guards waiting for me outside, their guns leveled at my face. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “Darling, please be sensible. It’s not deserting from the army. It’s only the Italian army.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z After half an hour they sat down on a rusty seed drill and watched the defeated army walk by. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I wish I knew where the army was,” I say. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “I went to find an interpreter job, and I ended up in an office with the occupation army.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z She stuck a hair ribbon in the place. she whispered as the feet of an army of girls could be heard thundering up the staircase. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Werfel said, “But this—this is an elfin army cutting up goblins.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z In a cruel irony, it was not the Union army that laid waste to the city. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The metal of the arches turned fluid and flowed closed, as they had not done since Skathis’s time, cutting Minya off from the bulk of her army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Polish army, no matter its bravery, proved unable to stop the flood of German soldiers who had crossed into Poland and quickly moved east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He knew that when the time came he would join the army, and he knew it was pointless to begin the argument again. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z After the army’s attack, which lasted for days and ended in many deaths, Fazlullah made one of his strangest announcements: He declared war on the government and called for people to rise up in violence. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He put his feet into his army boots and began lacing them up. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The movement of the armies was a diagram: a black arrow tearing vertically southward, and a white arrow tearing horizontally eastward, across the tail of the first. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The army doesn’t give out passes and then say ‘Come back when you’ve had enough, hear?’ A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The enormous phalanx of the Permian band, led by the ma-jorettes in their black velvet costumes, unfolded like the Russian army in a Victory Day parade in Moscow. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Impressed by what they saw, the earls introduced cannons to the English army, which adopted them enthusiastically and already used them against French soldiers at the battle of Crecy six years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In war, his father had told him once, the battle is over in the instant one army breaks and flees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the background Hades fought from his black chariot, summoning wave after wave of zombies out of the ground, but the forces of the Titan’s army seemed just as endless. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The south was clear for now, but the flanks of the enemy army were swinging around. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He thanks General Grant and the army for their struggle, and promises to have a national day of celebration very soon, with a great parade through Washington. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z It might have been the distance, or the army of trees and undergrowth muffling it, but it seemed harmless. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Uncle George had run away to be a drummer boy in the army, when he was fourteen years old. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Raising his hand, Mr. Flux silenced the rowdy rumbling from his troops, who had to outnumber Otto’s army three to one. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She sent whatever she and other family members learned to her son Lieutenant Charles Darragh, who was in Washington’s army at Whitemarsh. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z That morning, at the tower at Trinity, Oppenheimer watched as scientists and army engineers worked together to attach a steel cable to the test bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Creating that army was the largest organizational achievement in American history up to that time. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His ugly green army bag lifted on his back along with a rifle. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z So Lee ordered his army to stay, dig trenches, and fight. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z But Werner has crossed the edge of the field, where he steps on a trigger land mine set there by his own army three months before, and disappears in a fountain of earth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Space and time were on his side if he could keep the army united until the British will collapsed. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Half wore army uniforms and half civilian clothes. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z One day in May the army announced that it had sent paratroopers into Mingora in preparation for a face-off with the Taliban there. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That, Bundy said, or an all-out invasion of North Vietnam, which would probably draw in the Chinese army and turn into an even bigger calamity. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She was wearing her favorite green army uniform, and the belt around her waist made her look even plumper than usual. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With the approval of the Continental Congress, three armies were mustered to launch an offensive against the Seneca and any other Indigenous nation that opposed the separatists. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The German army wasn't prepared for the brutally cold Russian winter. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Well—” he was squinting—“I see no reason to delay. It’s their army I’m after, not their towns.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Irish army is looking for boys who are musical and would like to train in the Army School of Music. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Peisistratos called out: “Read us the sign, O Menelaos, Lord Marshal of armies! Was the god revealing something thus to you, or to ourselves?” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t supply foreign warships with fuel, for instance, and you couldn’t ship guns to foreign armies. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “He helped us. He put my brother in essential services in the army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had on his regular green army jacket, but he was wearing gloves and had a hat pulled down over his ears. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z At that time, however, it was more important to us that Egypt was the only African state with an army, navy, and air force that could in any way compare with those of South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon returning to Germany, he was drafted into the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z "A political paper! Too bad the war will soon be over. The army could use soldiers like you. With your mind, you'd make a smashing officer. It's too bad you will have missed it." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There were a few hundred other black soldiers in the army. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The smaller the army, the more it has to whip itself up into a frenzy. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But its army was badly equipped and Russia lost nearly two million lives, fighting mainly against Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The marine colonel and the army colonel both left. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Harvey's agents managed to cultivate informants working inside the East German telecommunications offices, in order to find out which cables were used directly by the Soviet army and secret services. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A gray, canvas bag, as large as a loaded army duffel bag, hung from the ceiling on a long chain. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Encircled by her army of angels, she drifted across the avenue to photograph a juggler, while I hobbled off toward home, a clear outsider in a city I'd foolishly thought to call my own. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If the remaining Clock Watchers at the ice cream shop were the only ones who hadn’t gone to his side, then Mr. Flux had a small army. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z "You'd put a river between the two parts of your army." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Chella daughter of Cheyk of the Black Ears had gone ahead to scout, and it was she who brought back word of the army at the crossroads. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “They wouldn’t get into the army,” he concluded. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They met and married in Sophiatown, but one year later the army came in and drove them out. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The army of the Zulu king, Shaka, began a bloody campaign to conquer the land surrounding his kingdom, and this path of terror and destruction caused millions to flee. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z We heard the army before we saw it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “My brother joined the army in the beginning.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Back at my desk, I line the pills up one by one by one, like a little blue army. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For every clever person who goes to the trouble of creating an incentive scheme, there is an army of people, clever and otherwise, who will inevitably spend even more time trying to beat it. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Okay, you can have my army, but you have to marry my daughter Maryam.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And there was what seemed like a whole army of Winn-Dixie employees running around waving their arms just the same way the store manager was waving his. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “All I saw was an army,” said the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It rained steadily and the army of the Bainsizza moved down off the plateau in the October rain and across the river where the great victories had commenced in the spring of that year. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Hiskey suddenly found himself drafted into the army and shipped to a remote military base in the Northwest Territories of Canada—far from atomic bomb secrets. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At first light, Meade’s infantry will chase and find Lee’s army, then harass them and slow their forward movement. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Thalia and I pulled helplessly at the bricks while a ripple of ugly laughter ran through the Titans army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He’s an army man, with some kind of big coat on. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z One army abandons the field almost immediately after the first blow has been struck; its opponents declare victory and are rapidly joined by deserters from the other side. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "Oh, no," said the first girl, "it couldn't be that, because he was in the American army during the war." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “Now he thinks I’m a creep because I’m in the army.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And out of the gate an army came. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “If his death pleases you,” Luke said, “will you let our armies cross your territory?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I found out that he was never in the army. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The army of demons and rakshas—many of them now little more than melted lumps on the lobby floor of the museum—vanished in a puff of smoke. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Are you going to stay in the army?” he asked. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Stanton had the War Department and Union army to run and the reconstruction of the South to plan. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After the war, the army gave back the Gypsies’ horses, and the goats, no longer needed, disappeared again into the forest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She didn’t have an army, so she found one in Dauntless. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even South Vietnam’s large army, which was supposed to patrol and protect these areas, avoided the enemy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He could look out his bedroom window and imagine the blue and gray armies crawling across the land. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They wood would not let Papa be in the army. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z A small army of agents tracked down every name the Russian man had handed over: They were all genuine. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Their victory over Germany's armies brought peace to Europe. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Criminal armies seem to arise from a couple of processes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Because the armies were angered by Alexander’s softness, which I discussed above, after Alexander’s death they elected him to imperial power. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In this army Lee was always easy to find. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Like an army of mystical beavers repairing storm damage. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z A ripple of alarm passed through the army. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No doubt the old lady employs people who work on it constantly, a queen’s army of worker bees. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He heard admiration voiced for a brilliant young officer named McClellan, who had been put in top command of the army in the East. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The deception plan called for the French and American armies to seem to be forming for an attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to the square wearing our army shorts and the crapes that had been given to us. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The last checkpoint we passed that day was manned by soldiers well dressed in complete army gear. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was a good thing two of Kainene’s stewards had gone off to join the army and only Ikejide was left. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t think it was going to happen, but I finally get papers in the mail about joining the army. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The army came marching in about four hours after the earthquake. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ray called out each move like a captain in the army. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would come in with a commissary officer looking for lime or nails or leather or all the hundreds of things armies need. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The people are fighting the Fascists in many places—even the army has joined the fight. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z No way of knowing where the rest of Meade’s army was. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He remained in the army, helping to implement Reconstruction policies that guaranteed the black vote. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They were “an army of farmers” too hungry to fight. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Many Ulster Scots went on to become soldiers and officers of the regular army. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I asked, so sure in my illusion that I risked making him talk, risked even making him talk about the army. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z His teeth—an entire army battalion in a mouth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At one of these ends there was an enormous camera on wheels, and a whole army of Oompa-Loompas was clustering around it, oiling its joints and adjusting its knobs and polishing its great glass lens. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Of the battle he says: No blame can be attached to the army for its failure to accomplish what was projected by me. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust rose smothering the air, as from nearby there marched up an army of Easterlings that had waited for the signal in the shadows of Ered Lithui beyond the further Tower. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Young Griff arrayed his army for attack, with dragon, elephants, and heavy horse up front. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Teleki’s association with the Hungarian uprising against Austrian rule in March 1848, a revolt that was crushed by Imperial armies and followed by a punitive policy of Germanisation, led to him being sentenced to death. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Lying in his bed, Adam was enlisted in the army as a private in the cavalry. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I was seventeen and ready to join the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Willie tried to enlist in the army and was turned down; whereupon he threw up his job with the milk company, came home, announced that he was a failure, and went to bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They have the power of judge, jury, police, and army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We broke out more C rations, the canned stuff the army passes off for food, and shared them with the lads. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z General Pemberton, completely surrounded by Grant’s army, had been cut off from all supplies and had been starved into surrender. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z On September 14, the army took control of the momentarily independent Republic of Congo, and Lumumba was put under house arrest in Léopoldville, surrounded by Mobutu’s freshly purchased soldiers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day she was processed out of the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Over the past seventy- five years, they’ve learned to be self-sufficient, turned their citizens into an army, and built a new society with no help from anyone. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But that morning they received a statement from the army—one General Groves had prepared weeks before. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “We beat them. You listen to me and you be happy, Todd Hewitt. We’ve spent all this time outrunning an army and guess what? We outran them.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They expected the ANC to give them an order to battle the police and the army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their presence didn’t help; their stores and homes were still destroyed by the Serbian army. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They said the northern armies were not far behind us and that we must keep moving. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “My sister and my dad don’t like people going into them and knowing who they are,” said Inam al-Mufleh, Luma’s younger sister by eleven years, now a researcher for the Jordanian army in Amman. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The army did not have enough professional soldiers to carry out Knox’s orders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The end result looked to Thomas like an army of drunk guys had done the work, but it was solid enough. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Known as Wally, she was a flight instructor at Fort Sill, an army base in southwestern Oklahoma, when she picked up the Life magazine featuring Jerrie Cobb. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Although we continued to hope the German army would soon be defeated, we couldn't begin to know what would happen next. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Two Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, look over the army in 1775 in Massachusetts. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Of course I do. I was in the army, wasn't I?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z Grandfather had taught me a bit about swordplay along with his other army lessons. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A glass of beer stands in front of me, I've learned to drink in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked him what he learned from the army, he said he learned discipline, brotherhood, and most importantly, how to box. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z “We were brought up to believe that women were equal to men, and we thought that we should be allowed to go into the army, too,” Polina argued. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z When I got to the last army man, I didn’t set them up again right away. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He often wished that his army thought as he did instead of being just a mob of incompetents. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z By 642, the armies of Muslim conquerors, along with the arguments of the Muslim faithful, took the religion all across Syria, Iraq, parts of Iran, and Egypt. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Here the army halted and spread out in a line, and there was a great deal of rearranging. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z It was instead that an ominous picture was congealing in his mind of patriot soldiers being fleeced by an army of speculators whose only loyalty was to their own profit margins. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Montez in a blue army uniform, trudging along toward battle with an old rifled musket, shoulders slumped. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “No. I was always stepping on them. He must have had hundreds. A whole army of them.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Now there are wars in the south, killings in the north, rumors that foreigners took over the army and want to murder Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl’s jacket, an old army one, was covered in pins and patches. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Many years later there were those who still insisted that the royal guard of the intruding queen was a squad of regular army soldiers who were concealing government-issue rifles under their rich Moorish robes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “If the army’s all about you, what does he want with me? Why was he shooting at me? I don’t understand it.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z And from that evening onward the Nazgûl came and followed every move of the army. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I wasn’t, and the army was the place I was going to get away from all the questions. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The least desirable alternative is getting out,” insisted General Harold Johnson, army chief of staff. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The next day, Sarah and her George moved to a house set aside for new mothers attached to the army. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hear him rooting in his army surplus duffel bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z By the time you get this letter, I will be on griffin-back, flying out to meet you and the army. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z There were only a dozen or so tents, nowhere near large enough for an emperor’s army. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Following the invading German army, mobile killing squads of the SS, called Einsatzgruppen, had swept through the villages of eastern Poland with the sole purpose of murdering Jews. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z John listens and applies himself but says he wants to go into the army first. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z As I drove, I imagined the hiding places of General De Wet’s army and wondered whether they would someday shelter African rebels. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s because you didn’t want to be in the army no way,” said a fat man. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “About the army and how it is to be a soldier.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Had Africa’s rhinos and hippos been domesticated and ridden, they would not only have fed armies but also have provided an unstoppable cavalry to cut through the ranks of European horsemen. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My own grandfather thought “a hitler” was a kind of army tank that was helping the Germans win the war. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z A witch friendly to the Church reports that he is assembling a great army, including forces that may be angelic. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Instead, she drew her knife and stared at the army marching toward us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z MacArthur then pushed his luck, sending his army across the 38th parallel and racing toward the Yalu River. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Not only that, but the Portuguese army went out burning villages to the ground, to put a damper on Neto’s popularity. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of ceding to the army a project in which the foundation had such an immense stake stirred Fosdick’s proprietary blood. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The rebels hope to hold on long enough for Lee’s main army to reinforce them. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He just hoped that when it opened there wasn’t an army of green-suited thugs waiting on the other side. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z By spring 1940, the German army was prepared to strike again. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z On June 7, 1790, Secretary of War Henry Knox told an army commander that the frontier was so extensive that it would be “altogether impossible” to defend. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They have as solid a faith in their leader as any veteran army that ever marched. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather’s there in an old British army uniform, feeding the machine dollar bills, but it takes a lot to buy a gun and we’re running out of time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In a renewed offensive, the army advanced under the Inka’s personal command. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For a moment, at least, we were the flank of the army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We saw bodies of eleven- and thirteen-year-old boys in army shorts piled by the river. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “I wish we had a whole army like him, but he is the only one.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A few days later the main army, which had sailed down Chesapeake Bay, arrived. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He feared the day he would be taken and enlisted in the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Tell them about the armies that are approaching.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster army was enough to make anyone despair, but Hazel realized that something else was going on with Percy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It’s better not to know why people want to avoid the Syrian army. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On June 7, 1987, Sheriff Tate led an army of more than a dozen officers to a back-country road that they knew Walter would use on his return home from work. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z ‘I feel like the whole Russian army marched through my mouth in its stocking feet.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z From the depths of the hay cart the rodents of the Warlord’s army watched their Master. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “He’s leagues away, dead or dying. Let winter do its worst. A few more days and the snows will bury him and his army both.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They want to impress him so he will bring in the British army.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The more geographically knowledgeable of the prisoners sketched maps in the dirt, charting the Soviet army's advance. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z He was about to finish college and assumed he’d be drafted into the army as soon as he graduated. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To me, not going to college meant that I would join the army of black laborers sweating and grunting their way through midtown New York. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to be a rabbi. Vasya said she wants me to stay in her guard and one day be the captain of it. She wants me to lead the army’s archers.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z There were a couple of iron cots with bare springs, one against either wall, the mattress pads rolled up at the foot of them in army fashion. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They shot pictures of Bull Connor running around shouting into his megaphone like a well-seasoned war general . . . fighting an army of laughing, dancing children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Briony had heard a know-all porter saying, with what sounded like satisfaction, that nothing now could stop the German army. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Enrique guesses there are more than two hundred migrants on board, a tiny army of them who charged out of the cemetery with nothing but their cunning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They were about someone called a chaper, a snatcher or kidnapper, who dragged men off to the army. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But at age seventy-four, the president, CEO, and commander in chief of this here army still has the power. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The army began kidnapping citizens who they suspected were against them. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I wanted very much to tell the old man that I was busy attempting to form that army, but I could not. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As MPs stood guard to make sure we didn’t start another fight, we, the army boys, went to the kitchen to look for food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The Confederate attempt to destroy supplies and arms to keep them out of the approaching Union army’s hands has escalated out of control. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Haitian army had overthrown Aristide’s new government after only a few months in power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “The more of us who go into the army, the sooner the war will be over, the sooner you and Mama will be out of here.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The Austrian army was created to give Napoleon victories; any Napoleon. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He was talking to them like they had just joined the army or something. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Just as a German rifle butt had been about to crush Louie’s head, the German army’s commander in chief had halted the attack, and Louie had talked the general into sparing his life. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “An army travels on its stomach,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He sat alone on his horse in the night and he could feel the army asleep around him, all those young hearts beating in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Molly shrugs off her army jacket and hangs it on the black iron coatrack in the corner. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z George Washington was fighting a war with a visible army and an invisible army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped in the road and lighted a cigar, looking around him at the tents and the wagons, listening to the rumble and music of the army in the night. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He rose to his full height, as if she, about the size of Mama, were the general of some invading army, and said, “Too young!” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z With the battle over for the day they sat in the moonlight and talked, and before they parted the Union scout revealed secrets about his own army’s position. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Unknown to the boys, the relief army would never come: It had already been destroyed by the Russians. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Or in the army, diving out of airplanes. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z She was still a prisoner, for starters, with Minya’s army preventing her from leaving her room. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then the army boys will come a-marching down the road saying a song in French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeletal army that had come to kill us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z More scared than when Papa swore he’d send George to the army school, far from everything and everyone. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Let the jeeps come, let a whole army come. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z With Vietnam on fire the army was taking everyone they could get, but there was no guarantee I could be a journalist like Hersey. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He saw a soldier once that was run over by an army lorry and that’s what he looked like, salmon. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z When Sapo walked in the guy sitting behind the counter quickly rose to attention, like he was in the army or something. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z You may be shocked by their youth, yet they are typical of the small army of young men that make up a major proportion of the population of our prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He verified that Haitian army soldiers were shooting armed demonstrators, entering urban hospitals and threatening staff, sometimes executing patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z When I was in the army: always came whenever I was tired. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The soldiers roam our village daily, looking for young, able-bodied men to recruit into their army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of the menacing green of army uniforms, the shine of boot and gun, he saw a brown caftan and flat slippers and a familiar face that took him a moment to recognize: Miss Adebayo. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “There was an army post here,” his grandpa said, waving his arm in an arc. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Out back was kitchen, larder, pantry, dining room—and the cot covered with army blankets made it bedroom too. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, if there is nothing else to decide by. But in your case it is obviously the man who first took his army to the frontier.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z That night, Dad dragged a pile of old army bags up from the basement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My two older brothers were at a higher risk of being forced to join the army because of their ages. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “And how is he going to do that if he does not have an army?” the old man said. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The modem army, smaller and increasingly high-tech, was getting quite choosy about its recruits. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And to the right, that huge Redcoat army was on the march. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z There was enough for a small army, and it bothered him and he couldn’t pin it down—how or why it bothered him. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Miss Whitlaw had already folded her tent with the help of some of her neighbors, and carted it off to the temporary army depot. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z At 12:42 an army green rounded the corner and stopped a few blocks down the road. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Imagine, if you can, three million armed soldiers and an army of tanks and guns and bomber aircraft, all hurling themselves in a ferocious attack across the United States from Maine to Florida. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z So they marched the army into parliament and reorganized it once again in Mobutu’s favor. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “The army’s gonna be more interested in us than it is in them.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He’d been in East Anglia with contractors seconded to the army, building coastal defenses, which was why he was so late coming to the hospital. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Everybody had begun to look alike, dressed in surplus War Department clothing—pea coats, knit caps, canvas leggings, army earmuffs, and wool khaki pants. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s over a year away, and what would the army want with a conk-headed hustler like me in the first place? X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the enemy army advanced down Fifth Avenue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I saw spears, javelins, and banners—the trappings of an army. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “But they’re out of commission for now. The problem is, this is only a fraction of the Sleeper’s army.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Early in 1945, we knew that the Soviet army had liberated Auschwitz and Kraków. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z If we made it that far, the pursuing armies would not follow us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The chances were pretty good the whole army would end up fighting each other rather than the enemy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Join your brother in the army of the Lord! Pray the redemption prayer and be freed from sin!” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z If someone were to reply that anyone who bears arms will act in this manner, mercenary or not, I would answer that armies have to be commanded either by a prince or by a republic. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z All week long the RRG had boasted of great successes in Russia, one battle victory after another, with little or no German losses as the German army advanced on Smolensk. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z When I could sit up again, my mother brought two mirrors, and I saw my back covered entirely with words in red and black files, like an army, like my army. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Meade wanted to pull the whole army out. Had a meeting of corps commanders last night. He really did.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People come up from home to see how the army was doing, to deliver a package to a son, a brother. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If Gaea was that powerful, and she had an army of giants at her side, Percy didn’t see how seven demigods could stop her, especially when most of the gods were incapacitated. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z None of us sleep at all, knowing that an army, led by the king himself, will be here by sunrise. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Rival rebel armies had destroyed the city, and soldiers roamed the streets. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z I had come into the army at seventeen, and I remembered who I was, and who I was had been a kid. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Julius Caesar’s army wouldn’t have left such a mess after crossing the Rubicon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I turned my back to the army marching on the other side of the glass and said, “I think we should run.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I do not believe you can suspend army ants away from the earth, on plastic, for any length of time. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn watched the cornfield as if expecting an army of monsters to burst from it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Others said with long hours and a little dedication, you could learn to control the weather...or even create an army. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z That’s what Mom always says, about the army, about my brothers, about everything. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z An army of tears surged up from his gut. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Nothing like this army has been seen upon the planet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dazzled as he was, Cortes was also aware that with a single command Motecuhzoma could order his army “to obliterate all memory of us.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “This life is killing me, Chuck,” her mother saying in a voice hoarse with tears while her dad stood in his army greens, quiet as always, his hands worrying the edges of his hat. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z How one snuck into America and became a citizen, and the other joined the army and died for our country. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z At this supreme moment, the people cheered the man who, after a shaky start in office, learned how to command armies, brought down slavery, and become a most eloquent and moving speaker. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was in Asia, where Pescennius Niger, commander of the Asian armies, had himself proclaimed emperor. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “They robbed me! They took my army cap.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If your daughter is as innocent as you d have us believe, why must you have your army present when she faces her accusers? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z War was declared officially on December 4, and twelve days later, the Pakistani army, weakened by having to fight three thousand miles from its source of supplies, surrendered in Dacca. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Miig wore army pants, alternating between two identical pairs, and layers of brown and green sweaters. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z "So you would counsel me to do nothing until the dragonspawn has landed his army on my shores, is that it?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Already Salva could tell that because of his army experience and because he had a gun, Uncle was seen by the group as a kind of leader. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His worries were on target: the virus, not the British, stopped the Continental army's drive into Quebec in 1776. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Tyson is fine! I’m sorry he’s not here. He’s a big general now in the Cyclops army.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He had lain down in the Churchmouses’ bed for a well-earned rest while his army was going about its allotted tasks. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He mounted attack after attack on the broken armies of France and England. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One hive became two, then three, then an army of angry lumps. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no idea who organized them, or where the revelers came from, but they always came, along with food enough to feed armies, and every sort of decadence. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Maybe the American army will be there to protect them,” the vice-consul said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Who was to say the skin- changer would not make his own pig army? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Soon,” the General said, “I will show you, Luke, soldiers that will make your army from that little boat look insignificant.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z For centuries after, people imagined that they could discern ghostly samurai armies vainly striving to bail the sea, to cleanse it of blood and defeat and humiliation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Kekrops looked around at his army, now reduced to six guys. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He left office in March of 1797 with the resounding cheers of his huge army of supporters and the howls of that much smaller pack of critics echoing in his ears. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Fifteen miles from shore in Rhode Island, Giovanni da Verrazzano found trees so widely spaced that the forest “could be penetrated even by a large army.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There he found a letter the army had left for him. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Three soldiers of the Syrian army lean against it. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Two hitches in the peacetime army completely unfitted him for war, and he had learned enough method to get out of it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A minute later Ophelia saw what in Haiti is called kouri—a stampede of people in the street—running for their lives, pursued by army trucks mounted with guns. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Without going near Rabscuttle, he must tell him to hurry ahead, reach the rabbits in the warren and warn them to block all the holes and stay inside until King Darzin’s army was destroyed. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A man might well die easier after the army has given him just one such stroke of luck. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Through all that the Reb cannon were firing steadily and smoke was filling up the hollow between the armies and no one could see the motion of the troops. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The priest ultimately bribed a Haitian army colonel to remove Farmer’s name from the list. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Two months later, at the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an army sergeant named Joseph Pesek woke up early. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu knew that an army contractor had donated some corrugated iron for replacing the blown-off roof and that volunteers were camouflaging it with palm fronds. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Cold crawls up my body like an army of ice spiders. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In his memoir about six years in two of the camps, Kim Yong, a former lieutenant colonel in the North Korean army, says the appeal of suicide was “overwhelming.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “No. Not unless you want me to alert the rest of the army.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It looked like an army gun, a carbine I think, with a square magazine sticking out of the bottom. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They fanned out in all directions, like an unpaid army of newsboys shouting, “Extra!” Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The estate agent told her that an army officer had lived there during General Abacha’s regime; now the house was tied up in court. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Of course, others stood out, too, like the guy who had chosen to wear army boots along with his coat and tie. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another army appeared on the ridge —hundreds of warriors in black-and-gray camouflage, armed with spears and shields. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was after the catastrophe, when they shot the president and machine-gunned the Congress and the army declared a state of emergency. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The army remained, but the shops reopened, women walked freely in the markets—and I beat Malka-e-Noor for first place! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Mostly, though, he dealt with this army of guys who combed the neighborhoods looking through garbage and stuff people had thrown out that might have some value. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Over and over they explained to him what a fine job he had and what a glory it was to be part of the British army. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Springing down among his army, the Warlord waved the banner high overhead. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The bodies of both armies lay scattered thick upon the grass and stones where they had fallen. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson told them to go upstairs and get their gear and get on the German army bus waiting outside to take them down to Griinau for the race. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The conference was officially opened by our host, His Imperial Majesty, who was dressed in an elaborate brocaded army uniform. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “How did we get so far ahead of the army? How come if I’ve been here five days we ain’t been overrun yet?” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He was maybe two feet away, wearing the same green army jacket he had worn the day before. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I asked him if he liked the army, and he said it was okay. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit down beside him and DJ LouOw sends someone over to hand us microphones, which makes me feel mighty, like I’ve been handed Excalibur in a battle my army was losing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Then Big Ma said, “Oh, no, you re not. Take that army hat for show-and-tell and be glad you have that. And that your uncle is home.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Late on the second evening an army truck pulled up beside us, and a man threw us suddenly into the back, where we landed across laps helmets rifles. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It upheld the army’s decision to limit the movements of a racially select group of citizens. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Garfield intended to remain in the army until the war was over. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Lawrence had mentioned the possibility that he might look to the army for the funding necessary to complete the cyclotron, even if a government grant would mean devoting the machine chiefly to military research. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Every moth, every wingbeat carried the oppressive burden of the ghost army, and of vengeance, and the weight of another Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I was so worried about the army coming and nobody listening to me.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z But Maria grew frustrated because the soldiers who fought alongside her were miserable about the way the war was going for the Russian army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The army is “the people, the state, and the party,” says the government, which no longer describes itself as a communist state. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You will be the first soldier in my army,” I told him. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the first week in September 1941, as the German army surrounded the city of Leningrad, Marina gave a speech at a “women’s antifascist meeting” in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The first was Papa in what looked like a little army outfit, complete with matching cap. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As impossible as it is to think of marching an army that far on empty stomachs, it is Lee’s only hope. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z He crossed the road at the head of his army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I don’t get why they have it out for us. I mean, when they were trying to mind control themselves an army, sure, but now? Seems useless.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But work on the farm had to go on although armies faltered and leaders fell in disgrace. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, through intense indoctrination, beatings, and desensitization, its army cultivated and celebrated extreme brutality in its soldiers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z By December 1942, as another harsh Russian winter began to settle in, the Soviets managed to get the German army surrounded at Stalingrad. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z You could defend this place against an army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked it over and asked me if I really wanted to be in the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They say the Youns marched into Cambodia only three weeks ago, on January 25, and through their artillery power and army defeated the Khmer Rouge, sending Pol Pot and his men running into the jungles. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He could face an army of monsters, but as soon as Hazel showed him kindness, he wanted to break down and cry. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The northern armies got the best of most battles because they had more soldiers and guns and all of the airplanes. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of us were in fatigues, the army’s work clothes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the hill went, the flank of the army went. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But this diverse army of experts now marched out a phalanx of hypotheses to explain the drop in crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In spite of his efforts to please the Emperor, in the summer of 1630 Wallenstein fell from favour and was dismissed from his key post as commander of the army. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The Syrian army doesn’t check papers like the Protection Units. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But the army’s decision to evacuate was also upheld by the Supreme Court. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of his army slept in the choir loft or the lady chapel. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The earth goddess’s dreams were so powerful, they cast shadows across the cave walls—ghastly shifting images of Nazi armies raging across Europe, Japanese planes destroying American cities. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As they rode along, he proposed to them every situation in which an army might find itself; he heard their opinions, expressed his own, and backed it up with reasons. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The German army was now closing in on Moscow, and hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers were desperately trying to hold back the invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z She had faced a whole army of monsters. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z My uncle and his old stereo and his army of battered CDs lined up on the kitchen counter, two stacks of cooking pots as bookends. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “But why isn’t there an army of people waiting here to take care of us, throw us overboard? Shoot us with those darts?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “They cross with the army’s blessing and return after making good money.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "I want you to make Father bring his army to King's Landing." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the afternoon all the army will be here. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In Diary of a Red Army Woman, the fictional pilot Tania is furious about the German army’s destruction of her village and the murder of her family. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Even sur- A Union army ambulance team practicing the gathering of woundedfrom a battlefield. geries were performed at the patient’s home. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Wallenstein seemed an ideal benefactor and protector, a powerful man whose positions included commander of the army for Ferdinand. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Nabis, Prince of the Spartans, withstood a siege by all of Greece and by one of Rome’s most victorious armies, and he defended his native city and his own state against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Before I went into the army I had thought about being a writer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore his blue army coat with the brass buttons, and he had bold, merry blue eyes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The army’s paramilitaries had massacred scores of voters at polling places. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “My great-grampa wore one of those when he went against the army,” Sam said, the sound of his whetstone against steel punctuating his words. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Down below them, an army was on the move. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Across the cyvasse table, the man behind the alabaster army pursed his lips in disapproval. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At first, the evening news puzzled her, a litany of fires and shootings, because she was used to NTA news, where self-important army officers cut ribbons or gave speeches. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “But they’ve got battle lines and the approach is real narrow and the army’s at least the rest of the day away, maybe even tonight, too, and I swear that can’t be a thousand men.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He knew she was thinking of Tom, away somewhere in Kentucky or Tennessee with Grant’s army. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Salva hadn’t seen him in at least two years, because Uncle had been in the army. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank’s archers shot gryphons out of the air and caused chaos in the main body of the monster army across the chasm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some time ago there was an army theatre in these parts. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And a small army of Sixers was now pouring through it, swooping into the club on jet packs, firing blaster pistols as they came. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of contagion was very likely not De Soto’s army but its ambulatory meat locker: his three hundred pigs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He wore an army baseball cap with the flap turned back, like Nick Yew. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z As they leave by the front, an army of men enter by the back and return carting bleachers, seats, and ring curbs, which they fling noisily into lumber wagons. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The British army finally appeared—four thousand Redcoat soldiers, marching in endless lines. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Then, within minutes, the army’s gunfire began in the outskirts of the city. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She showed him the clothes that were folded over her arm: a new pair of jeans, a white T-shirt, an army fatigue jacket...wait, those were his clothes, except that they couldn’t be. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He must leave to join his army and continue the pursuit of Lee. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Your spy was correct in his reports. Had it not been for that report, this army might have been destroyed in detail. I thank you.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Excellent! An army could march up now and he wouldn't hear it!" muttered Dustfinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Our water is the Appalachian wilderness, our boats, the army surplus jeeps we count on to navigate our washboard roads and the hairpin curves across the mountains. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After Adam joined the army and Cyrus moved to Washington, Charles lived alone on the farm. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z What historian Barbara Tuchman called the emperor’s “wooden-headedness, in the special variety of religious mania” is often said to be why he didn’t order his army to wipe out the Spaniards immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If he had to do something, though, better he build a bunker than join the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As it was, because of our being in mourning for Granny, Mama wouldn’t let me so much as follow the army downtown, much less beat the drum. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The rest of us are thinking about the army that will soon descend upon these children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z These were appalling scenes, compounded in January 1944 by the retreating German armies looting and destroying the historic galleries, mansions and palaces of the tsars. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “You know, where Horatius and his two friends defended the city from an invading army? Now, there was a brave Roman!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And if he wasn’t, George knew he’d be shipped off to that army school for sure. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z It could be hiding anything—an ocean, a bottomless pit, an army of monsters. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z ‘Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And the past flared again in Longstreet’s mind, and the world tilted, and for a moment they were all one army again, riding with old friends through the white dust toward Chapultepec. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He just talked about the army—like always.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z To enforce his absolute authority as the leader, or Führer, of the Nazi regime, Hitler created his own private army composed of fanatical Nazis called the Schutzstaffel, or SS. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He then set up headquarters in the county’s courthouse, where he mobilized his army of recruits. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She quickened her pace on the dusty stretch that led to the main road, but five of them, all in tattered army uniforms, soon surrounded her. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He would continue battling the German army until the end of the war. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The men streamed by: nightmare army, faces gray and cold, sick. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Shelling from helicopters and cannons fired from mountaintops was the army. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Had Millennium Challenge been a real war instead of just an exercise, twenty thousand American servicemen and women would have been killed before their own army had even fired a shot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z With its formal closure thousands more workers joined the swelling army of the unemployed, and homeless men took up residence among the great abandoned palaces of the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The army of Elfland is on the march even now, and shall be at the Bonecruel Mountains within a couple of days. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “He’s more or less formed his own private army. He’s acting as if he’s got something to hide.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “An army is made of soldiers. These creatures were born to be weapons. They were born to serve the soldiers of Djel.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As I mentioned, these wizards command great armies of children to do their witchcraft, and each night they prowl the villages for fresh recruits. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z And in an army camp in southern Taiwan samples of resistant bedbugs were found actually carrying a deposit of DDT powder on their bodies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, nothing separated the mighty Sixer and gunter armies but open ground and empty space. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He also wanted her to help him here in Canada in raising recruits for the small army of men that he would need for this enterprise. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a whole army coming after me and Viola. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Hell, it’s a Jim Crow army. All they want a black man for is to dig ditches. And in the navy, all I can do is wash dishes and scrub floors.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I’m alone except for Beetee, who still lies in front of me, being sustained by his army of machines. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The sunlight disappeared, the bloodbane seizing control of her mind again, and Celaena found herself before an army of the dead. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z South Vietnam’s army couldn’t hold on by itself. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You have an army who wants to make you a killer.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Here among these blackened granite outcrops General Fremont made his stand against a Mexican army, and defeated it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Both armies stared, dumbfounded, as the forty-foot-tall gold and ivory statue came in for a landing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Maybe there was an army rule that men about to go overseas couldn’t write letters. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Her father had once said of Walder Frey that he was the only lord in the Seven Kingdoms who could field an army out of his breeches. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Now,” Geryon said cheerfully, “we’ve had the tour. Let’s go back to the lodge, have some lunch, and send an Iris-message to our friends in the Titan army.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z So they sometimes make the runaways serve in their army before they be truly free. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But Sam wondered what such young boys were doing in an army of mighty men. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A few blocks east, the monster army shouted and jeered as the helicopter came into view. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The army gave him a month’s leave before sending him overseas, and de la O went home to see his friends and family. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Anchel is dead. Daphne is dead. The rats found Shed, Fangor. King Gorger has launched his armies. They come for us,” gasped the woman. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Arnold, a thirty-one-year-old Confederate army veteran and former schoolmate of Booth’s, was arrested based on a tip. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When Levi Jr. turned four, Mary Jackson filed an application with the Civil Service, applying both for a clerical position with the army and as a computer at Langley. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Is it clear why I have said that the American white man’s malignant superiority complex has done him more harm than an invading army? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Confident in the devices, the British army had already distributed eleven thousand of them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Intensive postwar lobbying by truck manufacturers and armies finally convinced the public of its own needs and enabled trucks to begin to supplant horse-drawn wagons in industrialized countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The army hadn’t won, but it had at least driven the Taliban into hiding, if not away. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This was Japan’s eighth largest city, and the location of an important army base. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing this army camouflage shirt, a brown cap, and the weirdest grin that could fit on a human face. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, if I had to, I would move on to keep away from the invading army. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But when it comes to armies, they are not a match for others. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Undiscouraged, Tilcajete rebuilt itself on a better defensive position and acquired larger armies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The man with their leads stuffed in the pockets of his orange fleece is Dr. Atchley, the Kansas University psychologist, an introspective former army captain turned scholar. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I know that my grandfather reured from the army as a master sergeant. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Invading armies will go door-to-door, taking even our condiments, yet my father will tough it out. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In April and May of 1940, Hitler’s armies snapped up western European nations including Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, and finally, in June 1940, France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To do this sort of work, Jones and Allen had to mobilize an army of helpers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I wasn’t saving any money, the way I figured I would when I first got into the army, but I figured that might come later if I made sergeant. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the Roman army seemed to be getting ready for a complete takeover. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The playroom was army green and had nothing in it but a long trough with drinking spigots in rows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A small army of soldiers took two months to catch and hang Nat Turner. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z George Washington was an officer in the Virginia militia, the small army that Dinwiddie controlled in the king’s name. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The brass horns and booming drums marched the soldiers onto army trucks covered in the same green material as their uniforms and army bags. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In 1946, the army decided to make Langley Field the headquarters of its Tactical Air Command, one of the major commands of the US Army Air Corps. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In unison, the armies of my enemies let out a fierce battle cry and charged toward me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The army wanted a body count of enemy dead—he’d provide it. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I’d burrow under my covers, wondering if a whole army was shooting at us or just a couple of soldiers on the riverbank. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, he will—and the best-looking soldier in the army. When are we going for the azaleas?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet, Sam Adams protested, this rising up of an army of a thousand from the very soil of New England had badly frightened General Gage. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z During Adams’s second year in nursing school in New York, a recruiter from the army came around, soliciting student nurses to join. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But half the army elected to stay behind with Agamemnon as their corps commander; the other half embarked and pulled away. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A formidable army, Latins and Rutulians together, were now opposed to the little band of Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for a couple of army jeeps the parking lot was empty. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Called “werewolves,” the young commandos sabotaged army vehicles, pouring sand into gas tanks. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He pointed out the place where the First Minnesota had made the charge that had the whole army talking. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Victor Vaughn, acting surgeon general of the army, has witnessed firsthand the effects of the influenza at Camp Devens, a military camp near Boston. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z A guy in army fatigues walks past us, holding a small duffle bag. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A horrified A. P. Hill realizes that his army is being crushed, and he jumps on his horse to try to stop the disaster in the making. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The Prussian aristocracy was serving in the German army, fighting for their land and titles. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The Serbian army holed up in Kacanik, but two weeks later, on April 9, a swarm of KLA militiamen attacked the Serbian soldiers there. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It is still possible, of course, to run an army with larger groups. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You cer- ♦Cemetery Hill. tainly don’t mean—sir, I have been under the impression that it would be our strategy to conduct a defensive campaign, wherever possible, in order to keep this army intact.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d worked in the army as an emergency room tech in Korea and at Fort Lewis in Washington. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He forced his memory to move beyond the hand to the arm: it was clad in olive drab, army cloth. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “It was funny. I could not believe the army would show it. The entire audience was in the middle of the war taking casualties every day.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Listen, we figure the Titan’s army will have trouble getting up the elevator. They’ll have to go up a few at a time. And the giants won’t be able to fit at all.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Spread to the horizon was an army of monsters—flocks of winged arai, tribes of lumbering Cyclopes, clusters of floating evil spirits. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But Abe said that he was a special breed from Asia, trained by the Chinese army, and that his jaw was strong enough to bite through metal. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t feel clean. I’m not fit for you. Don’t be sorry. I’m in the army. Don’t go near my father. Good-by, Aron.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In late 1791 the War Department put Major General “Mad” Anthony Wayne in charge of restructuring the army units under his command so they could function as irregular forces in Ohio. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Some were barefoot and others wore army boots. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And Longstreet had said icily, cheerily, “It will be where it will be. If you cannot find the headquarters of this whole army you cannot be much of a spy.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A good part of McClellan’s army, as well as Pope’s, the papers admitted, was disorganized and hopeless. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Capturing Lee’s army is of the utmost importance, but both Grant and Lincoln also believe that a Confederacy without a capital is a doomsday scenario for the rebels. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “One of my scouts just reported they’ve crossed the Harlem River. There was no way to hold them back. The army ...” She shrugged. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He mourned the fact that he could not be a permanent soldier because of his wooden leg, but he could not imagine any career for his sons except the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Romans sneaked up behind Ptolemy’s encampment and pushed his army back to the banks of the Nile. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z There had been a running argument since the formation of MK as to whether the countryside of South Africa could support a guerrilla army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you really think I’ll be able to do that—defeat an army?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need an army of warriors to come and unfasten the locks, kill our captors, return us to our homes, and bring our families and friends back to us, alive and smiling.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or”—she leaned in close, squinted, and whispered—“what if he’s an alien sent down to probe us before the invading army attacks and eats all of our brains?!” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z And while I am very much in favour of forming an army of well- informed punctuation vigilantes, I can foresee problems getting everyone to pull in the same direc-tion. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Adam went on, “I came out of the army like dragging myself muddy out of a swamp. I wandered for a long time before going home to a remembered place I did not love.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The giant’s army was arrayed to Percy’s left and right— centaurs with bull’s horns, the six-armed Earthborn, and evil Cyclopes in scrap-metal armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By the time the goblin lookouts see the army coming, it will be too late. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Any force attacking Lee’s army will be exposed to fire while wading Sayler’s Creek. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The camps were organized along military lines and often supervised by army officers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Then, from all corners of Hrothgar’s sphere of influence and from towns beyond—the vassals’ vassals—an army began to form. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z These rulers had two major concerns: first, that a foreigner might enter Italy with his armies; second, that no one of them should seize more territory. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z When she and a group of students and professors went to volunteer for the war, she was told that the army didn’t draft women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He could not get over the feeling that the young men he passed to the army were under sentence of death. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the young impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe fighting the British. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee was right about that: a man who could not control himself had no right to command an army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the rebel houses that were occupied by the British army had burned to the ground. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The British could have captured most of the American army, including General Washington! I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Master’s cousins came for a few weeks and slept in the living room until they left to join the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It could have been the army, to justify the computer searches and the other ones, the door-to-doors. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z But the other army is just boys that live around here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode out into the open, into the land between the armies. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After Ugwu brought the glasses, Special Julius said, “Have you heard that Harold Wilson is in Lagos? He is bringing the British army to finish us off. They say he came with two battalions.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His speeches were once described as “an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As she came away, two young army officers, medics from the military hospital on Millbank, gave her a friendly smile as they brushed past her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He demonstrated the courage and resourcefulness of the underdog, and the power of a less sophisticated but patriotic army against a tested war machine. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Riverrun and easterly Rock had called their banners, and armies were massing in the pass below the Golden Tooth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A German measured Billy’s upper right arm with his thumb and forefinger, asked a companion what sort of an army would send a weakling like that to the front. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the King’s army having been called away to fight the war, there were only a handful of personal guards to defend him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Even before President Wilson mobilized United States troops, Swift had been called on for meat to feed the massive European armies that already had been battling for several years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In March, Dacca had been invaded, torched, and shelled by the Pakistani army. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Upon learning that we had all fought for the so-called army, in different parts of the country, we calmed down and talked about what bases we were from. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But they didn’t need the Divergent to march out of our city like an army to fight injustice and save everyone, as Edith suggested. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z In any other setting, the Sixer army would have appeared formidable. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “It requires a strong will to manipulate a simulation, last time I checked. Weak- willed is mind-controlling an army because it’s too hard for you to train one yourself.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They are sold for profit; the rebels inform us that the sale shall reimburse owners and fund commissions and weaponry for the rebel army, that the criminals might more efficiently defeat us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was headquarters of the Patriot army in New York. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had been keeping a countdown on how many mote months it would be before they could force him to join the army, but we knew they wouldn’t do that. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As the army retreated to safety he was the last to go, willing himself to walk slowly as if that were the way he had planned it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But no man anywhere, no man at all, as if the whole army had suddenly sunk into the earth. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Hamilton reasoned, the government would not automatically cease functioning if an enemy army captured the capital. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z My mother had lots of army men over there for me, and I would just sit playing all day. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "He could not lead an army even if my lord husband gave him one," Dany said. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An army of horsemen stopped at our house; the foot soldiers in the distance were coming closer. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these former child soldiers, rescued from their armies, had mostly recovered and been widely embraced at American colleges and universities, where many of them had thrived. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The next day, Hitler lied to the German people when he announced that Polish soldiers had fired upon the German army. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A fat and happy army, roasting meat and fresh bread, telling stories in the dark. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then an army officer climbed out of a truck and told us all to leave the Queen Emma bridge. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day, the massive Russian army reached Berlin’s northern suburbs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He walked past the army recruitment booth and the Liberty Bond table, over to the Daughters of the American Revolution. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “It worked, but just barely. I don’t think it was strong enough. We need as much help as we can get. And we know that he is getting his own army ready.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Skahaz was convinced that somewhere in Meereen the Sons of the Harpy had a highborn overlord, a secret general commanding an army of shadows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Stimela” is not a political song, but in the context, it became one, for the implication was that the train contained guerrillas coming down to fight the South African army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel my tongue slowly begin to throb as the heat of the peppers crawled over it like an army of tiny fire ants. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “About the army getting bigger as it marches.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It was dated before I even left the States, so I guess the army’s still using the Pony Express. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Her procession of women and attendants and newsies trails her down the hall like an army of ants. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We were driven to the track in an army automobile, feeling more solemn and golden than at a good funeral. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In 2015, after American women soldiers stationed in Afghanistan complained that the army still did not provide boots in women’s sizes, the United States Congress suggested it might be time for a more up-to-date policy. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "He has quite a large army, he can do that. Nor is he the first. Is he?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’d need to hire another army of bodyguards.Wealth such as Opium possessed lured criminals. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1881, when he was sixteen, Rondon joined the army and earned a scholarship to the Military Academy in Rio de Janeiro, twelve hundred miles away from his home. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He shook his head—not an army uniform, but a brand-new three-piece suit, his paycheck from his office job tucked in his coat pocket. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z And so despondently Merry now stood and watched the mustering of the army. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z So Agamemnon spoke to both armies, declaring that Menelaus was victor and bidding the Trojans give Helen back. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s nodding his head and pushing his front feet in a direkshun not only away from the road but in the opposite direkshun from the army. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Later she caught a reference to a schoolmaster who was too strict, or perhaps it was an army officer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If a prince holds on to his state by means of mercenary armies, he will never be stable or secure. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Why, they were as much an army as I am a butterfly. I’d have stood a better chance fighting with crawlers.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing an olive cap and army fatigues, and his curly, graying beard floats below his chin, elongating his tired features. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Lewandowski has discussed it all with us at great length; in the army there are no secrets about such things. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z While retreating from Moscow, Napoleon’s army was whittled down to almost nothing by a harsh winter and an equally harsh Russian army. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “The army has bigger fish to fry than you and your sister.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z But how long can you hold against Lee’s whole army? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He victuals himself and his little army by sending out small sail with landing parties to seize upon such provisions as are necessary—flesh and fowl—from rebel farms and plantations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z But his clutter is fascinating: guns, tools, army clothes, even a radio of some kind, which he keeps in an army footlocker. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z There were armies of flies of all kinds buzzing round their ears, and the afternoon sun was burning on their backs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And the principal foundations of all states, the new as well as the old or the mixed, are good laws and good armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I looked up and through a broken window in one of the library’s blackened walls I saw two army trucks enter the stadium through a fallen gate. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been a soldier in the army in the Great War and that, of course, was how he had received his title. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was no use, and now she could not sleep, and the wind was buffeting the walls of their tent, keening like an army of ghosts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Several times already he’d been ordered to the office of the army censors. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She was wearing this knockout tennis suit, and here I was in my black jeans and army jacket. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z After the German army had passed through an area, the commandos rounded up the Jews and herded them to the outskirts of town, where they were forced to dig mass graves. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “People in my community fought in the army.” Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z When the German army invaded and conquered Poland in September 1939, more than three million additional Jews came under Nazi control. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He indicated his bag on the carousel—a green army surplus duffel—and let me pick it up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Jack’s father had served in the army for two years and was clearly worried. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “The army was blessed ...” But he ran out of breath, closed his eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But a man gets used to that sort of thing in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And the boy with no brother stands alone in the center of the city gazebo, an army of zombies approach-ing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “The army your girl’s been talking about has been spotted marching down the river road,” Doctor Snow says. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Maya polities were not large enough to maintain standing armies; instead both Kaan and Oxwitza’ mustered short-term militiamen to fight wars. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But mostly what we talked about those days was the army and the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He remembered what Osha had said the day that his brother had led his army out of Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z After the glowing news—Biafran troops were flushing out the last remnants of the enemy, Nigerian casualties were high, mopping-up operations were concluding—he would fantasize about joining the army. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With Jackson gone he was the rock of the army, and Lee felt a new clutching in his chest, looking at him, thinking that this was one man you could not afford to lose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d stand at the door and watch them go; and I wondered, if I went for a soldier, which army would I join? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to a report from the FBI, army intelligence officers knew all about Oppenheimer’s past associations with Communists. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Spurge stopped for a moment, looked back up toward Werfel, and called out faintly, “Archivist! It is the elfin army! They’re here!” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The army chaplain said a few words and a councilman from the mayor's office thanked the soldiers for their service. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The Union armies usually chose the landmark nearest to their own lines, like a river or a stream. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z His slight frame contained every cause of an army’s defeat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Secretary Stanton attempted to coordinate the efforts of the local police force, detectives, and the army. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They also announced that the Arab armies had begun their threatened invasion. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z She wondered how many of the ghosts in Minya’s army had been used that way by the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z From my crawling days, Grandfather had taught me all the tricks of the American and the British armies, and quite a few from the French. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So tell me about this peculiar army of yours,” Emma said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Most of Cluny’s army had an eye to promotion; not only for prestige—there were the extra shares of loot to be considered. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The counselor reviewed my army experience and something clicked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But it was a kid, all right, maybe eighteen, dressed in a droopy old army jacket, dungarees, and boots. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing on deck, leaning casually on the rail, was a Norwegian man in a Nazi uniform—some Norwegians were Nazi sympathizers who aided the invading army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They are sitting in camping chairs and drinking malt liquor, a volunteer army facing off against the enlistees in the streets. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Some friends who had undergone rehabilitation with me had already rejoined the army. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As soon as the Army of Northern Virginia began retreating from Petersburg, Grant had ordered part of his army to head north -9 8 K- and capture Richmond. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z At the end of three days, he sent us to Oujda, a dusty little town right across the border from Algeria and the headquarters of the Algerian army in Morocco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Another rebel, the only one dressed in full army gear, agreed with him. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z But when such an alliance cannot be avoided, as happened to the Florentines when the Pope and Spain went with their armies to attack Lombardy, then a prince should join for the reasons given above. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “General Pickett’s record at West Point is still the talk of the army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Chapter Eleven in an army uniform, squatting in the jungle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Just because Lee had surrendered his army did not mean the war was over for Stanton. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He means the free elections, bad presidents now put in power properly, not by army tanks. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At least my grandfather had been able to join the army and go fight them. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He could not guess their number in the gathering gloom, but it looked to him like a great army, many thousands strong. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Mama Oji, leave Pastor alone! First let your husband go back to the army he ran away from!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As the crowd of looters made its way down Twelfth Avenue, a cry suddenly went up: “The army is coming! The army is coming!” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The size of the army and the fewness of the roads did that. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Octavian’s position on the north side of the strait gave his army full access to supplies coming from Italy. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I think about the word army and how it’s making my stomach clench. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z When that other man had come this way, an army had followed close behind him, the great host of the north riding to war beneath the grey-and-white banners of House Stark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Meereen and Yunkai have made peace.. The siege is to be lifted, the armies disbanded. There will be no battle, no slaughter, no city to sack and plunder.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It would have to be worse than that dip-dip-dop More Scold thing they use in the army. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z An army, temples, guilds, schools—they’d had to rebuild it all. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Hrothgar himself did not boast, but his poets sang his praises all over the land of the Danes, and men came flocking to join his army. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling with the Red Army to the front, Grossman saw the panicked population as people left their homes and tried to escape the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The day after, being the third day since they set out from Minas Tirith, the army began its northward march along the road. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then he came towards the table and stopped, standing to attention before me as though reporting to an officer in the army. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Then one afternoon Hughie came in with an army cot which had a torn canvas. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And I can see the anger focusing itself, not on the army, not on themselves for being unprepared despite Viola warning ’em for days, not at the world for the state it’s in. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He discovered he was already well adapted to an army regime, to the terrors of kit inspection and the folding of blankets into precise squares, with the labels lined up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Yesterday, three 'unicorns’ and a small army of princesses showed up at my daughters’ elementary school.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z He was able to maintain armies with money from the Church and the people, and through that long war he laid a basis for his own army, which has since brought him honour. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “The Allegiant have formed an army,” I say, pointing at the screen on the left. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She heard Howe’s top officers discussing what sounded like a plan for a surprise attack on Washington’s army. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions when the army stops to rest, men simply crumple to the ground and sleep. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The amount of medals Franklin D. Roosevelt had either hung around my neck or pinned to my front would have supplied the army with enough metal for a tank. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He should never have stopped speaking to her because of an army officer he did not know. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She wished for an army of people to stand behind her, swords at the ready. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He considered himself part of the British army and was always bragging about what ‘we’ were going to do to rebels. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The lousy chow they got in the army? Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they openly patrolled the streets of Mingora with guns and sticks as if they were the army. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In Rome, Italy, he joined the pope’s army and eluded capture for a year. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Slung over Rex’s shoulder was an army surplus backpack, filled with Stroh’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z ‘You build machines. How can you not know what an onager is? It’s just the biggest, baddest catapult ever used by the Roman army.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Madu is an old friend and I’d like you to meet him. He’s just come back from an army training course in Pakistan,” she said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When Papa got old enough, he wanted to decided to join the army. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Let it wash a man’s crop out of the ground year after year, and them up there in Washington spending fifty thousand dollars a day keeping an army in Nicarauga or some place. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In them, he saw a strong army of cheap labor. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Andrew said things had changed when he returned from the army—do you mean in that way?” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The reds and yellows of common flame warred against the emeralds and jades of wildfire, each color flaring and then fading, birthing armies of short-lived shadows to die again an instant later. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z An army of geese to kill each other?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Many packed up instantly and began to move west, terrified that their village would be next to fall into the hands of Stalin's armies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was 1966, and Robert was a member of the elite Special Forces of the army, known as the Green Berets for their distinctive headgear. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Mark Antony’s army set up camp on the south side of the strait. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z “We will build army,” said the folding man. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Had a sudden army of cicadas arrived already? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There, an army officer at a roadblock stopped us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Far more horrific was the German army’s assault on Stalingrad, which began in August 1942. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If they wasted time searching through Alaska looking for the giant’s lair, Gaea’s armies would destroy the Romans... and Percy’s other friends, wherever they were. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was likely that the two boys were with Grant’s army; the fighting, especially at Donelson, had been bitter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In June 1940, France, having suffered devastating losses in battle, signed an armistice that allowed the German army to occupy much of Northern and Western France. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Brave little Tick, who had flown into the face of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We also see how the leader of a modern state would seek a more reliable way to deploy muscle to advance its interests, namely by developing a well-trained modern army. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She could have easily taken out an army of chickens if they ever attacked her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In December 1776 Washington’s battered army, driven from New York, was scattered along the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From the north, the enemy army crashed into the Party Ponies, and our lines broke. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Our only hope for survival might be in building cities deep underground like the one Dad said the army built to protect the president and all the self-important government people. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Martial law enabled the army to assume the functions of arbitrator in the controversy, but no effort at conciliation was made. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The highest-ranking men of the British army had taken over the empty rebel mansions. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The monster army cheered for the Minotaur, but the sound died when I dodged his first swing and sliced his axe in half, right between the handholds. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Z chugged the water, then headed down the hall toward his room to grab his father’s old army duffle and the letter that had arrived last week. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His mother picks them up for him every once in a while at the army surplus store when she’s in Annapolis. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Chuckie” was a derisive term coined by infantrymen, using the army’s spelling alphabet where a word is assigned to each letter of the alphabet. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z But he certainly didn’t desire that an army invade the oasis. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His original army jacket had burned up months ago. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Tucked away in Tututepec, 8-Deer assembled a private army, staffed it with many relatives, and in a series of swift campaigns seized dozens of neighboring villages and city-states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I just looked in my shield. There’s an army—” “Heading south into Central Park,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “This way!” and off he runs, thru the bushes and off on a track parallel to the river, away from the army. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Nettles were everywhere, the vanguard of the army. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “Listen to me. There’s no better opportunity for a black boy in this country than to join the army.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z All of the boys wore army shorts and green T-shirts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z From there, it’s just a short march to High Bridge, a stone-and-wood structure wide enough to handle an army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There had been calls for the removal, even the court-martialling, of the general concerned, but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z “His friends from the army. Have you ever actually been introduced to any of them?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z As the German army rolled across Poland and into Eastern Europe toward Russia, the SS Einsatzgruppen slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Jews in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and western Russia. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In the spring of 55 BCE, Gabinius’s army marched on Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z At midnight the armies arrived at the antlered hall. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus maybe the army really is caught far behind, really will have to wait behind the creachers. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The daughters will never know and the old man won’t mind because he’s only half conscious most of the time worn out from all his years in the English army in India. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The army has the perfect word for everything, did you ever think of that?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not an army. Those were just the posse sent after our young pups here.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Someday he would have an army of them, but getting the bloodlines perfect was a slow business. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She gestured at the army of ogres, who were getting increasingly bold, shuffling closer and closer to the house. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z John Harrison Surratt was eventually tracked down through Canada to Europe, where he served, under a false name, in the pope’s army. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was high on the summit of Round Top, higher than any man in either army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z While you fumble your way north, trying to find me, my armies will destroy your precious camps—first the Romans, then the others. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z They resembled the men I’d seen in army pictures on TV and on the movie screen. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z That kept me at his mill and out of the army. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t want to be on the road when the Turkish army arrives. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Later they told us the story of how, during the First World War, the British army had taken all their horses, and for a while they’d had none to pull their wagons. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I thought they must have been sent ahead from the third army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “One of the guys from my army company is now the vice president of a bank. Another owns his own law firm. And another is a judge.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Did you fight in the army or for the rebels?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Yet from morning till night we work in the scorching sun, growing food for the army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I look around the room at the small army I’ve assembled. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z An army lieutenant then climbed up onto the roof of the station where there were four machine-gun emplacements aiming at the crowd and called for silence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For a while we traveled with three other refugees from the invading army, a Dinka woman and her two daughters. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Lobel wrote a long letter to his father, telling him that he was sorry about joining the army. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As they plummeted, Jason saw a vast army of monsters spread across the hills - cynocephali, two-headed men, wild centaurs, ogres and others he couldn’t even name - surrounding two tiny islands of demigods. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Praise for the girl who survived the Seam and the Hunger Games, then turned a country of slaves into an army of freedom fighters. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Below them, the army began to march south again, but the giant Polybotes stood to one side, frowning and sniffing the air. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But why was he so far ahead of the army? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Beatrice couldn’t make out whether they belonged to an army or were simply common thugs. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Longstreet could bring up his people and hold this place and we would shelter the army back in the mountains. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fear as palpable as a cold front washed over the demigod army. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Shortly thereafter Arthur was drafted to serve in General Pershing’s army. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The two men stood there hammering at each other until the army got to its feet with a roar, and no decision, wanting it both ways. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She asked Edgar Derby if he wasn’t awfully old to be in the army. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The man Fern thought was our uncle was a soldier in a green army uniform. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z This host her son had assembled was not a standing army such as the Free Cities were accustomed to maintain, nor a force of guardsmen paid in coin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The book was later confiscated by the German army, and it was eventually found in the basement of a castle in Germany by American soldiers in 1945, just before the Nazi surrender. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘I don’t believe they’ll move the army all the way out to the Berkshires.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He could already see himself—walking up to her while dressed in a crisp army uniform, a grin on his face and a bouquet of roses in his arm. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z His chain smoking gave him a chronic cough, causing army doctors to declare him “permanently incapacitated for active service.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The national colors of Brazil toppled into the army, squashing a dracaena. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I pulled my Swiss army knife out of my pocket and must have opened and closed it a hundred times. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Only here, where the King in the North threw back every army that tried to cross the Neck, did the rule of the First Men endure. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z You can see the tall pines standing like an army of zombies along the shore, with stars for eyes and the wind moving their ragged arms, but they can’t find you. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z When the Haitians defeated the French armies, Napoleon lost control of the world’s most productive sugar islands and with it his dream of great sugar profits. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z And a rebel army might be advancing on Washington at that moment! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The papers suggested that perhaps it was Beauregard who, by managing to save the remnants of his army, had won something approaching a victory. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He later participated in military campaigns by the Union army to defeat the Confederates in Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z My dad said that it was a good thing that I had entered the army, that I would be all right there. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But the formation of the women’s air regiments was kept quiet at first, because very few other women were being taken into the army in combat roles yet. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "He will lead no armies while he rots in a dungeon under the Red Keep." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It is an army of seventy thousand men. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He had turned away from Richmond, and now, for the first time during the war, a Confederate army was penetrating into the North, into Shadrach’s home state of Pennsylvania. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z If I had seen him smile over the red ruins of Rhaegar’s children, no army on this earth could have stopped me from killing him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I used to ride in the army but I've never bought a horse. I'll have to follow you in my car. Excuse me for just a minute." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z We don’t hear no more whispers from the army, if that’s what it even was, but there ain’t no point in finding out for sure, is there? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Frank explained what had happened with the ghostly legion and the army of monsters—how Nico had used the scepter of Diocletian, and how bravely Jason and Piper had fought. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The army general was serving as interim president until the UN could organize elections. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Without help, the army of South Vietnam could not hold out much longer. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What does Shad think about it that General Grant is the top man in the army now? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time the Lost Girls returned to the beach, the sky was the color of wet slate and an army of angry clouds massed along the horizon, awaiting further instruction. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z My father was the president of predictability, probably something he learned when he was in the army. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In World War ll, in the USSR, nearly twenty air armies were stationed throughout the country. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Yes, I can see the rebel army pouring into the Circle, driving the refugees back onto the avenues. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The temperature and humidity inside the army facility were so intense that slipping outdoors into the 100-plus degrees of the central Virginia June summer invited relief. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The Party Pony army exploded into our midst in a riot of colors: tie-dyed shirts, rainbow Afro wigs, oversize sunglasses, and war-painted faces. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He wore army trousers and shirt and polished boots, and his braces hung free at his waist. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Footsteps thundered down the hall, and the door was slammed open by an army of Keepers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Frustration crawled through her like an army of termites. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He went to various army missile schools and intelligence schools and communications schools. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Sixers had dispersed their grand army across the globe in a bold attempt to blockade all 512 copies of the Zork playing field. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Certainly not the same army that had already hurled him into harm’s way. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “It became routine for us as the corn ripened to pull all-night guard watches because the army would pick us clean,” he wrote. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I was standing alone in the center of a scorched battlefield, with several different armies arrayed against me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Following a skillful amphibious landing, more than 75,000 American and South Korean troops punched forward against the North Korean army. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It wouldn't be long, they said, before the army would reach us. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In August 1861, he became a colonel in the Union army, taking charge of a regiment of about a thousand Ohio soldiers, some of whom were students from the Eclectic Institute. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He’d lost his belt and was wearing a piece of rope around his waist, and his hat wasn’t an army hat but just an ordinary fur cap. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere beneath them lay the bodies of King Gorger, his army of rats, and Henry. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence said hang it, we ought to be die first ones in, we’d probably give the Rebs a disease and be more useful than any other outfit in the whole army. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you survive the process, you will be able to pass unnoticed among the armies of Tartarus. It is hopeless, of course, but if you are determined, then come. I will show you the way.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I looked up and saw a not-too-biggish kid in a green army coat. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He would ride south to join a Confederate army still in the field. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Japanese American Citizens League were being called inu for having helped the army arrange a peaceful and orderly evacuation. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth was wearing new clothes—jeans and an oversize army jacket. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There was smoke, clatter, mud, and confusion, as if an army were massing for an assault on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Later, when Ser Corliss Penny wondered aloud whether an entire army had ever frozen to death in a winter storm, the wolves laughed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "No amount of heroism or discipline by an Inka army,” Hemming wrote, "could match the military superiority of the Spaniards.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Just before his army physical, he ate a fistful of candy bars; thanks to the consequent soaring blood sugar, he failed the physical. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I knew I was going into the army, but for me that was a kind of defeat. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One was dressed in a sleeveless army shirt and jeans, his head tied with a red cloth. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “He lost his sight in the army. There was an explosion in the barracks, Lebanon or some place like that, and he was blinded.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “What an odd thing—to be in the Italian army.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Atahuallpa was in the middle of his own empire of millions of subjects and immediately surrounded by his army of 80,000 soldiers, recently victorious in a war with other Indians. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The bulk of the monster army was on the opposite side, howling in frustration and throwing whatever they could find, including each other. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z But I do not have a small army. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He remembered, from his reading, descriptions of besieged medieval castles, and armies of men with bows sending so many arrows that the sky seemed thick with them. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He seems to have been at the gates when we arrived: I expect he came to watch his splendid army march out. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Throughout human history, centralized states with metal weapons and armies supported by dense agricultural populations have swept away sparser populations of stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But for a long time after he’d finished reading, I thought about that army of ants, how they were coming together. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z I still remember the bite of that first sip; it was worse even than army coffee, which was nearly brain damaging. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, since he was considered effeminate and a man who let himself be controlled by his mother, he was despised, and as a result the army plotted against him and murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In my study sessions, Colonel Tadesse discussed matters such as how to create a guerrilla force, how to command an army, and how to enforce discipline. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s what happens to deserters in my army!” he cried, and tossed the crippled figure into the grass, where it writhed grotesquely as the others fell upon it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Cluny was being borne upon the plank in the midst of his army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He was a bit older than me, but I had talked to him a few times at the cotton mill, before he left for the army. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z While the gods are divided, fighting each other in this mortal World War, he will send forth his armies to destroy Olympus. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Vonetta took off like a foot soldier in Miss Trotter’s army. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z “We know where the entrance is now. We can set up a defensive line and wait for them. If an army tries to come through, they’ll find us waiting with our bows.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They had run because they were in double danger: from the war itself and from the armies on both sides. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A man in army trousers came running down the path toward the boats, shooting at the soldiers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z I follow the road back to the army, that’s where I go. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Here in the northward regions were the mines and forges, and the musterings of long-planned war; and here the Dark Power, moving its armies like pieces on the board, was gathering them together. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Outside on Tremont Street he could hear the clumping of army boots. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee said, “General Hill knows I want no fight until this army is concentrated.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As his army marched east, city after city surrendered before him, until by 245 he reached Babylon without encountering serious resistance. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z It’s amazing what an army of animals can do. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z While the Maori achieved some stunning temporary victories, they could not maintain an army constantly in the field and were in the end worn down by 18,000 full-time British troops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He said when he was in the English army in France the Germans sent gas over which made him so sick they had to take him to the hospital. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The army stood in long uneasy ranks for a moment, and then, with a soft sigh of sorrow, rose up in a faint gray mist and disappeared. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Disease could wipe out an army quicker than any battle, he had heard his father say once. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He thought it was his fault, didn’t he, Shady? Because he helped Ned raise the twenty-five dollars to join the army underage and then Ned was killed. Because he thought he was a jinx.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of April 18, 1775, a young boy who worked at a livery stable in Boston overheard one British army officer say to another something about “hell to pay tomorrow.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “There wasn’t enough evidence to charge him with a crime,” JT explained, “but my father made him join the army. He’s only seventeen, so my dad had to sign an extra form, but he’s gone.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Smallpox also ruined the British plan to raise an army of slaves and indentured servants by promising them freedom after the war—the disease killed off most of the “Ethiopian regiment” even as it assembled. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I thought a Patriot such as yourself would welcome the chance to contribute to the army.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z So she brought her army of dragons into the belly of the mountain. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the army was doing nothing about it but looking busy. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was a member of die army that would march against his home, his sons. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what army’s that, Wilf?” she says, the voice missing a little. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Oh, for an army, terrible with banners and swords! Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z First come the scattered lights of the ships at anchor, massed at the city’s doorstep like the campfires of an invading army. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Hodge had been an army surgeon during the Revolutionary War, and while stubborn and crusty in his ways, he was a respected physician. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The arena was cleared and the blood was being raked over by a small army of slaves. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Well, do what you can. The little things. See to the water. Once the army is gathered in one place all the wells will run dry. See to it, George.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I peek through the crack in the door to find men and women in army fatigues arguing as they huddle over a Battleship board game. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z And now Russia’s army was headed right for us with their allies, America and England, blowing wind into Stalin’s sail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z "There we were put up in derelict army huts," he recalled, "but our living conditions were reasonable." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Bert and his parents packed a few belongings and then climbed into an SS army truck filled with Jewish families. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z An army of giants, all intent on getting their cauldron back. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He’d given up long ago trying to act brave for the old army vet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A full army of Amazons stormed into the warehouse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “There really were only five men,” I say, tho the word army is echoing round my Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “They told us to run to the army barracks. Those madmen were chasing us like runaway goats, but once we entered the gates of the barracks we were safe.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In late October 1969, Adams flew to Vietnam and waited at an army base for her assignment. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Ah, it was more than a Eurasian army that had perished! 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z These army thermometers are not made for old soldiers. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember kicking it there solo, listening to my pop preaching about the army, staring at all the black scuff marks his boots left on the court. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Pupo, the head of the army, just wasn’t there to announce the liberation over the radio, and instead, Trujillo Junior has taken over, and it’s a bloodbath out there. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z North they flew, beyond the river, Drogon gliding on tom and tattered wings through clouds that whipped by like the banners of some ghostly army. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t know how the Hunters were doing, but the right flank of the enemy army was now between them and us. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t really think that—anybody who joined the army to fight wouldn’t be a coward, but I was still angry at him. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I figure if they don’t take no rowdy dudes, the army had to be pretty cool. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, as I have said, a new prince in a new principality has always instituted an army, and the history books are filled with such examples. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The track installed additional mutuel windows, constructed about a dozen bookmaking facilities in the infield, opened up all vacant areas of the clubhouse, and hired an army of extra personnel. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1948 I joined the army—the recruiting officer gave me a break and upped my test. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we could have ordered the Inca army to capture the gold-crazed conquistadors and saved the Inca civilization, and history would have been different. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was the commander of a vast shadowy army, an underground network of conspirators dedicated to the overthrow of the State. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The last thing he wants is for his army to give in to their hunger and rush the train. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The government—Papa often just called them “they”—wanted to induct the “loyal” men into the army, so they needed to figure out who was a loyal American and who could be discarded as disloyal. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I hear your brother faked his age and joined the army. Are you picking off his girl?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He came out of the army and went back to El Paso without any idea of what he should do. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z No power could hold this army back, no water disperse them, no fire consume them. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z You saw emptily, lying on your stomach, having been present when one army moved back and another came forward. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z When supper was over, Uncle George went outside the door and blew his army bugle, long and loud. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In Soweto the police were an occupying army. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had wanted to enlist in the army, to fight in World War I, but he had been barred because of a recent surgery. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The Nazi army would kill us all, gun us down and leave us for dead before the war ended. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Robert E. Lee has spent the afternoon on horseback trying to find his own army. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Since as hunter-gatherers they did not produce crop surpluses available for redistribution or storage, they could not support and feed nonhunting craft specialists, armies, bureaucrats, and chiefs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The British army was hardly marching down Wall Street, but ten ships had docked downriver on Staten Island. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was old army cavalry, Kentucky-bom, raised in the Indian wars; he was slow, he was careful, but he sensed something happening, a breathless something in his chest. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The unstable ground at the edge of the canyon had given way, bringing the whole army down after him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Madu told me today that the army has nothing, absolutely nothing. They thought Ojukwu had arms piled up somewhere, given the way he’s been talking, ‘No power in Black Africa can defeat us!’ Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Outside the door sat four army jeeps, engines running, in case a quick getaway be- came necessary. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as we see the thugs preying on little old ladies and fleeing when the cops show up, we appreciate how an army composed of such men would operate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As soon as England declared war on Germany, my father joined the army to help fight Hitler. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew our teacher wasn’t talking about a cold house or the army. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Mama took an old green army blanket, tore it in half, and lined the box with it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Depends on if the rumors of the army are true or not.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z A white mob lynched Private Charles Lewis in Hickman, Kentucky, when he refused to empty his pockets while wearing his army uniform. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “And we showed that Americans are willing to fight the most powerful army in the world. We showed that we can hold our ground.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z They could not imagine the world as the size of a piece of paper spread over a blackboard, in which whole armies were reduced to the head of a pin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He said he had deserted the army for self-imposed incarceration in “a giant, demented prison.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Not just any soldiers, either: these were troops of the Imperial Guard of Muscovy, the most ferociously trained and lavishly equipped army in the world, and one sworn to uphold the power of the Magisterium. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks we tried to live our lives as though nothing had changed, as though an invading army hadn’t conquered us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z And the army never learned to bunch its troops into tight formations, as the Greeks did at Marathon, forming human masses that can literally stand up to cavalry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There I gave up my street clothes and was given a set of old army fatigues with the insignias ripped off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z When Mr. Lincoln wanted to know about the army, the real army, not those prancing dummies in gold braid, he turned to Private Trask. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In war—and to put down a slave rebellion was the most glorious call to arms—the patrollers transcended their origins to become a true army. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z For him to be exempt Pa has to pay 625 guilders for a replacement—another man will join the army in his place. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Leading the army right to us,” says the birthmark. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z It’s all ranks, being a boy, like the army. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He bit into the bread that tasted of army canvas, and tore and sucked at the sausage. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z With its leader dead, the army scattered in disorder and the way to the sea lay open to the heroes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He said Devil One was supposed to get his so-called operatives to convince the army men to go against Lumumba. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When Uncle Darnell said “draft” he meant he was going into the army to fight the war. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She needed to meet with him face to face, but Ptolemy’s army blocked her path to Alexandria. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The Titans army was recovering from its shock. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He recruited his army from the foulest criminals ever vomited up by corrupt prison systems anywhere in the world. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the wife of an army officer spit at the protesters and tore down the banner. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Their bayonets hung by the sides of their army trousers as they stood still, with their helmets underneath their arms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “It was an army of individuals! They walked off their farms and walked to the War!” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Ted Hall sat with a group of soldiers in the back of an army truck on the edge of the Trinity test site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee said abruptly, impulsively, “I cannot imagine what’s become of Stuart. I’ve heard nothing. You understand, I know nothing of what’s in front of me. It may be the entire Federal army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind them came the bulk of the army—a black sea of creepy-crawlies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Sasha’s best friend was Michael, a tall, gangly kid with sandy-blond hair and thick glasses who always wore a gray beanie and a green army jacket. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Somebody else had to, surely—someone besides the German army. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He said, “I did a lot of healing in the army hospital, Delphine. Some on the way down here.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Fremantle could feel the presence of that vast army; he knew it was there, thousands of men, thousands of horses, miles of cannon, miles of steel. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt her Mist disguise burn away until she was just Piper again - one girl in the midst of an army of giants, her jagged bronze blade like a toothpick compared to their massive weapons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If I marry Hizdahr before the sun comes up, will all these armies melt away like morning dew and let me rule in peace? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She told him an entire army—several hundred rats, at least—had invaded the land of the spiders. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She looks different from how I remember her, dressed in her soldier’s uniform and heavy army boots, her long dark hair swept back under an olive-colored headscarf. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, an undying army would overrun Camp Jupiter. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Boston was the headquarters for the British army in America, Paul explained. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Battles against giants and dragons, battles against black wolves with red eyes, battles against armies of men led by great wizards. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z While Spassky was supported by a small army of helpers, Fischer basically toiled alone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At last the trumpets rang and the army began to move. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The others didn’t pay him as much attention as they did when the rebel dressed in the army suit spoke. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Near her, a skinny man in old jeans and a battered army jacket was playing the saxophone. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The armies move north through the heat and the dust. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “In ancient times, two great Roman roads met here. News was exchanged. Markets were held. Friends met, and enemies fought. Entire armies had to choose a direction. Crossroads are always places of decision.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And anyway, when you join the army or navy in any country, you're paid to risk your life. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Cluny, this is between you and me. Your army will not interfere.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “At present,” he observed, “there is no more prospect of seeing a French army here than there is in Heaven.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “We went over that. There are members of the English tribe in the army, of course, but none of them is a close friend of the Matsikas,” Arm said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z One friend used to like to annoy me by saying, “Taliban is good, army not good.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the army of monsters got thicker and angrier. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He collected an army, captured the King’s city and put him to death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The concrete of the court was cracked everywhere, as though an army of robot jackhammers had trampled through. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z An army truck took Fujiko and her five daughters to the Amity Harbor ferry dock at seven o’clock on Monday morning, where a soldier gave them tags for their suitcases and coats. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her family had run right between the two armies. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He had come prepared to admire the grand achievement of Burnham’s army of workers but instead found himself troubled by what he saw in the stark frozen landscape. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Yes. Plum too. He had all that army insurance.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was coming to regret leaving the Yellow City untaken after defeating its army in the field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mustered an army of a dozen men and two women in about an hour. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If there were an invading army, the Maw-Gate could grind them to pieces. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z During the Vietnam War, John and Marti Peterson spent three perilous years together in neighboring Laos, where John trained and advised a guerrilla army to fight the communist insurgency there. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Papa talked him out of volunteering; Woody waited for the army to induct him. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He was probably sending an army of the dead after me right now. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z On the corner, several storm troopers, or the SA, as members of Hitler's private army are called, are passing out white leaflets that announce a victory parade through downtown Hamburg that night. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Turned out, Heritage was in such bad shape that he was no longer of any use to the army, and the soldiers released him from their grip. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Hitler’s armies invade, by means of pink chalk arrows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When she finally did sleep, her dreams were filled with archaic words and long-forgotten faces, with Wyrdmarks that glowed blue, with the king, and with a dead army summoned from the realms of Hell. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He had been an army officer his whole life, and was happiest when serving under General Washington. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One soldier ordered Farmer to say “Long live the Haitian army.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Zimbabwe was in a full-fledged economic crisis: There were riots in Harare and Bulawayo—the government called in the army after people started smashing windows at grocery stores. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Longstreet said, “He knew how to fight, Jackson did. A. P. Hill is good too. He wears a red shirt when he’s going into battle. It’s an interesting army. You’ve met George Pickett?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Other Confederate armies remained in the field in some Southern states. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter to her that our uncle had gone to the army hospital to get himself cleaned up and off drugs. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I judged them against the country I knew, which had acquired the land through murder and tamed it under slavery, against the country whose armies fanned out across the world to extend their dominion. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The Tribune argued that the only greater gathering was the massing of Xerxes’ army of over five million souls in the fifth century B.C. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Her son, she said, who was in the army. How friendly such things make strangers feel, don’t they? She talked away all the time the man clipped, and diverted my mind nicely.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Compton was even more infuriated to learn that the army had invoked his name to justify its action. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z While the mob looted furiously, word came that several army trucks were headed in our direction. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence feared that the failure at Y-12 would destroy the army’s confidence in the entire bomb project, with billions of dollars—indeed, the entire war effort—hanging in the balance. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z By summer’s end, the Allies forced the German armies back across France and Belgium and liberated Paris. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Vietnam might have been a different place, but the army hadn’t changed. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But all of his bold resolve would have come to nothing without the vast indigenous army whose leaders believed they could use the Spanish presence to catalyze the destruction of the Triple Alliance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Theseus led his army against Thebes, conquered her and forced her to allow them to be buried. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z See if you can find daddy’s army dog tags and wear them whenever possible. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But because most manufacturing plants were in the North, it was better able to supply its army throughout the war. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z For five days Buford had been tracking Lee’s army, shadowing it from a long way off as you track a big cat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slithering behind her, they sounded like an army of football players shuffling with sandpaper on their cleats. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Each weekday morning Durham’s white neighborhoods were invaded by an army of black women—all dressed in identical gray-and-white maid’s uniforms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The night before I left for the army we had sat and talked about what we were going to do in the future. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This unnatural army was entirely untrained, but what did that matter? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Its skin glistened like wet army camouflage—brown flecked with green and yellow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I was in the army. Fought in Vietnam. First Battalion, Sixth Infantry. My position was rifleman.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Warlord leaped down from his rostrum and seized the trembling miscreant, booting him forward into plain view of the army. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Anticipating this ruling, the army’s Western Defense Command had already announced that the mass exclusion orders of 1942 were being rescinded. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not just science that made this new world, it was also the state, which was busy taxing citizens, borrowing money and putting armies in the field. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were unloading boxes from army trucks while others, with rifles slung over their shoulders, walked around belting out orders. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He had Lee in a vise: Lee had a larger army in front of him and a larger army behind him. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They head off to the nearest army truck where Protection Units supply fresh water from huge drums. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z A new army of warriors drove a herd of cows over the cliff at spearpoint. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an old large galvanized pot she had picked up at an army surplus store in Santa Maria. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Report relates that the slave-driver General and his rebel army fortified Dorchester Heights, across the harbor from Boston, in but one March night; and once thus positioned, they commenced shelling the town. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “But how could the police and army do such things?” he asked angrily. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z In a psychological blow, Mutal captured the effigy of a Kaan patron deity—an enormous supernatural jaguar—that its army carried into battle. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Besides our obligatory discussions about the power of Pol Pot and his army, we live together in silence. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Cyrus Trask mourned for his wife with a keg of whisky and three old army friends who had dropped in on their way home to Maine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z One of the most famous speeches of modern times was the one made—apparently extempore—by a British army officer on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I go to the army and somehow I save her, even if it’s changing my place for hers. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z For maximum effect the army must be seen marching boldly up to the very gates of the Abbey in full array. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z A call- up of soldiers had been announced, and units of the army had been mobilized and stationed in strategic areas around the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z To perfect their army and make me a killer, they were going to murder Ben. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Alexander left his son gravely ill, with only the state of the Romagna secured and with all the others up in the air, situated between two very powerful enemy armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He did not inspire the South to fight on, prolong the Civil War, or win the battles the Confederate armies had lost. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was a battle between two armies, and we think we know how to make sense of contests like this. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The soldierwives would too, for they belonged to the ■* army of servants who would work at the birthday dinner. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z To that end, I have organized a squadron of twenty mounted griffin-riders to take you out to join General Baligant and his army. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z When Ned had finally come on the scene, Rhaegar lay dead in the stream, while men of both armies scrabbled in the swirling waters for rubies knocked free of his armor. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was told that if your parents were dead, you could probably join the army at seventeen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “You know I kept trying to join the army when this war started,” the bearded man said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The army was gone and the city abandoned. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had said anything about army tanks. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When they looked at him doubtfully, he mentioned the army general who was Efik, the director who was Ijaw, the minority soldiers who were fighting so brilliantly for the cause. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had been the old army’s leading authority on the rifle; he had written a manual. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to go back to the army.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z One evening in 1958, a handsome thirty-three-year-old army captain with a ready smile and a rich bass voice ambled into practice. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He’d moved with them to the American army’s winter camp, in Morristown, New Jersey. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The price of a pair of boots is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough ham sausage. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Not in a city occupied by the Continental army. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z A mass that’s gotta be the army, marching its way forward, so far away I can only tell it’s them at all cuz it looks like dark water flowing into a dry riverbed. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z They looked anxious but not surprised when he told them about the giant’s army closing in on camp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The next day the Oak Ridge directors gathered to hear his findings, but right before the meeting an army colonel warned Feynman not to discuss any secret information about how the atomic bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Luke was still out there, gathering an army aboard the Princess Andromeda. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Thirty years earlier, army bulldozers had scraped everything clean to start construction. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The mettle that it takes to look away from the horror of our prison system, from police forces transformed into armies, from the long war against the black body, is not forged overnight. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z They knew this because the entire Sixer army was now encamped around the castle. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Once again, the SS-HJ was reorganized and sent to Hungary to slow the Russian army as it advanced toward Germany from the east. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z As it did so, a sudden, fleeting image came to the boy: an army, with its swords at the ready, riding into the oasis. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I led my army northward, rarely having to sidetrack; the emperor himself sent the enemies I was hunting chasing after me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was your daddy’s hero. Sometimes I think he went into the army just so that Ernest wouldn’t have to. He took the hit.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Viewing Lomanitz as a dangerous leftist, they plotted to remove him from sensitive nuclear research via the simple expedient of drafting him into the army. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lee writes another letter to Grant, asking for “a suspension of the hostilities pending the adjustment of the terms of the surrender of this army.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z They Would talk of heroes who had defended the island, of armies and saints who had stopped there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The kind my pop said they had to dig during training for the army. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z He dispatched an army of collectors to the shores of Lake Calumet, where they gathered twenty-seven traincar loads of iris, sedge, bulrush, and other semiaquatic plants and grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the predawn darkness, the storm churning above Serra strikes with the wrath of a conquering army. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We watched anxiously as people we knew were drafted into the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The air armies were set up in divisions, each with its own job—for example, bomber, fighter, or ground attack. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Outraged, Chile rolled its army into the area. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘If Kekrops comes back in two minutes with an army of giants, then no.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z A whole army was fleeing to the coast, armed with cigarettes to keep the hunger away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “There’s no right side. The gods never cared about us. Why shouldn’t I—” “Sign up with an army that makes you fight to the death for entertainment?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z When the Two Kings charged, the Targaryen army shivered and shattered and began to run. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Poor, dead boys in army uniforms from every era, their pale skin even whiter in death, clung to bridges and passenger cars, their grasping fingers reaching out for the memory of life. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Cobbett was an Englishman who had been driven from his homeland because of his attacks on corruption in the English army. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I said, “You can stop them, though. Right? You can kill them? You can call the Orkin army or something?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Invading armies would always burn a city down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was scattered gunfire; army helicopters whirred above the township; word circulated that armoured police cars had cordoned the ghetto once more. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd sensation for a man who was the leader of a nascent guerrilla army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The men on the Comer were southern working men: plumbers, carpenters, painters, drunks, con artists, retired army lifers from nearby Fort Knox, tobacco workers for Brown and Williamson, and some just plain ol’ hustlers. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And at the checkout lane, the armies rolled smoothly down the long black road that disappeared under the counter. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of myself, of what had become of me, of how I was after I joined the army. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z A gallery in New York exhibited a collection of 2 million live army ants, on loan from Central America, in a one-colony show entitled “Patterns and Structures.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan did not hold much by anything connected with the army. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt one day this valet would be commanding an army or managing a prince’s domain somewhere, for only the most promising boys become valets for the king. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Based on their experiences in the Great War, people assumed women and children would be safe, but able-bodied men would be conscripted into the German army as forced laborers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z When I won over a goodly number of fighters, I built up my army enough to attack fiefdoms and to pursue the enemies I had seen in the water gourd. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I do not know why Richard went into the army, because he did not seem to be the type. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The door was opened by a young man wearing army pants and a pajama shirt. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “I—I think so. But against an army of those ogres—” “Yeah, it’ll be tough.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Early in July, the German army made a huge effort to take control of the front in this region. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Most folks had fled, afeard to be caught between two angry armies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can talk but you can’t read and write well enough. You got to have an education to be a captain. Why don’t you go in the American army?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Finally, he gave them a detailed account of Kidd’s time in the army and his later activities. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Well, I hope it’s soon. I’m getting bored. What’s the use of having an army if you don’t get to use it?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “Pupo is the head of the army. He was supposed to announce the liberation. It looks like he failed us.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z So they decided that Hershel would continue alone to Narewka, and my father would return to Kraków and take his chances with the occupying army. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Lot’s slowly approaching army was so much more numerous than the King’s forces that it had been necessary to resort to stratagems. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother had hung woolen army blankets to divide the Imadas’ cramped room in half and had given them, on their wedding night, two cots adjacent to the stove. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “If I should start a stone rolling,” he thought, “the whole Welsh army will be upon my neck.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z He for one would advance into the army step by step. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Fighting for freedom, the former slaves defeated the armies of first England, then France: Europe's two most powerful nations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Just as the army of monsters came over the hill, a Sopwith Camel swooped down out of the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “We couldn’t hurt living creatures, that’s quite true. But Asriel’s army is going to contend with other kinds of being as well.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Eric and I had watched enough war movies to know that if we ever got into the army, we were going to go airborne. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Boldly, they carried the suitcases past army patrols, the police, and the Gestapo. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Narcissa knew that the only way she would be permitted to enter Hogwarts, and find her son, was as part of the conquering army. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z For one German army loaf there are fifty tins of canned beef over there. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, nothing like that. It’s this. ‘What did you give father on his birthday just before you went in the army?’ East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As we ran, I could hear the disorganized sounds of an entire army trying to jump out of the stands and follow us. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The giant looked around, as if just noticing that a big portion of his army was missing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The British army could occupy Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and it did. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Because female doctors were not commissioned as army surgeons, Edson worked as a military nurse. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Territorial empires directly occupy territories with their armies, throw out the old rulers, and annex the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “General. If there is not some discipline in this army . . . there are good men dead, sir.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington viewed the uprising as a direct threat to the authority of the federal government and called out the militia, a massive thirteen-thousand-man army, to squelch the uprising. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He had other groups of green army men scattered on the floor. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The army covered twenty-two miles the first day, by the reckoning of the guides Lady Sybelle had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not until he reached Menotomy was he once again following the tracks of the defeated British army. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was stiff-limbed and awkward, half a hubcap tall, dressed in army fatigues. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I spent sixteen months on Okinawa, where I served with a unit of army engineers. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Without guards or army escort, despite the danger that might still lurk in Washington, Stanton and Welles rode in a carriage to Ford’s Theatre. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rumors of an army are a powerful thing,” I say, not chewing my dried meat well enough before I swallow and coughing up a little bit of it. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “Come down from your schist, demigod. We must take you to our mistress’s army. They will reward us. They will kill you slowly!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Some of his friends had been with the army at that time. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Two years after the meeting in Alligator Woods, on August 29,1793, the leading French official on Saint Domingue realized that there was no point in opposing Toussaint and his armies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He could already be all the way back to the army by now. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Felicia slips her hand down the front of her army fatigue pants. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to deliver it straight to the army. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The boundary of a weather pattern, often moving across an ocean or landmass, is called a “front,” just like the line that marks out the edge of an invading army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On July 4, 1942, while most Americans were celebrating Independence Day, the Nazi saboteurs were transferred to a jail in Washington, DC, under the custody of the army. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Most of the others were only biding their time, waiting for the armies of Volantis to arrive. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z We compare the size and quality of each army’s arsenal. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Such bureaucracies were essential not only to governing large and populous domains but also to maintaining standing armies, sending out fleets of exploration, and organizing wars of conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The man is surrounded by an entire army.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Penelope didn’t look up as Ophie passed, but the ghost in the army uniform did, raising his bottle in silent toast to Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the weeks that followed, watching Judith, Kit began to understand how the gray shadow that was her Aunt Rachel could once have been the toast of an army. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Philip of Macedon was made captain of their army by the Thebans after the death of Epaminondas, and after the victory he took their liberty away from them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “They didn’t have wings. They weren’t beings of fire. Like the seraphim, though, there were six of them, three male, three female. No army, no servants. They needed none,” said Eril-Fane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Near them a black and khaki army of labourers was busy revitrifying the surface of the Great West Road. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “I fought for the army. The rebels burned my village and killed my parents, and you look like one of them.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “The builder, Daedalus, was a genius. But the point is, the Labyrinth has entrances everywhere. If Luke could figure out how to navigate it, he could move his army around with incredible speed.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “An army coming that may or may not know all about how we’re preparing to meet them.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Soon, the army took charge, and by 3:00 PM, I was in an ambulance on the way to a helicopter that would take me to another hospital, in Peshawar. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Some men who could have avoided the army enlisted, and others objected to the war on moral or religious grounds and took the walk up Golgotha which normally comes with that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Down by my feet I had laid out all the Japanese army souvenirs Dad had shipped home from the war. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was the ghost’s beloved face, matronly and broad, with her round red “happiness cheeks,” but there was nothing happy to be found in her affect, as flat as all the ghosts in Minya’s army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "I heard the German army isn't doing well in Stalingrad," I say, quietly so the neighbors won't hear, my contribution to this awkward dialogue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Adam complained, “You never punished him, you let him live his life, you praised him, you did not haze him, and now you let him stay out of the army.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then she remembered that everyone around Helen had been slaughtered by the invading Greek army. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z No mention that since then more than twenty thousand Americans had died in Vietnam—all to achieve a lousy deal that allowed North Vietnam’s army to stay in the South, making a lasting peace impossible. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z First, always, always try to have what the army calls “situational awareness.” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z We worried that an approaching army vehicle would mistake us for terrorists and shoot us in the back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In retrospect, Fenn told me, “One of George Washington’s most brilliant moves was to inoculate the army against smallpox during the Valley Forge winter of ’78.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Your Radiance,” he moaned, as he fell to the marble at her feet, “the armies of the Yunkai’i descend on Astapor. I beg you, come south with all your strength!” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Once I had figured that of the seven months I had spent in the army, four of them had been standing around waiting for something to happen. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “He joined the army so he could go to college. Smart kid. There weren’t nothing I wouldn’t do for that boy.” The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z "The lad's got no army but them gold cloaks, and he's ruled by a eunuch, a dwarf, and a woman," she heard a lordling mutter in his cups. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “He wouldn’t need any clothes in the army, and they don’t want gold watches there either. Everything’s brown.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And there was always the danger that a voracious army of ants would swarm through, eating up their specimens and leaving trees and bushes “clean as the handle of a broom.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They had overestimated the speed with which they could defeat the Soviet army and underestimated the will to resist not only of the Soviet troops but also of the Soviet people. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Is he an army captain, a police captain, or a navy captain?” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z He agreed to send in an army plane to pick up Eifler and Heisenberg and fly them over the open Atlantic Ocean. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A green army tank, all alone in the long shadows of morning, its enormous treads clanking against the asphalt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had his own army cot up there in Dublin with sheets and blankets and a pillow. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In her green tank top, her beige shorts, and her hiking boots, she looked like she was ready to climb a mountain—and then fight an army at the top. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Two hundred men were not an army, but you didn't need thousands to hold a castle as strong as Winterfell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The enemy is here, General. We did not want the fight, but the fight is here. What if I ask this army to retreat?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Khouy, who is only sixteen, does not want to, but Pa says he must to stay out of the Khmer Rouge army. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no banners to call, no army of retainers, no great stronghold, no holdings to speak of, no prospects of a great marriage. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And Lee read, “ ‘Dear Father, I’m in the army. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At about noon the next day, an army truck bumped and bounced very slowly down the dirt road leading to the Trinity site. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She gestured to the file on the table and added, “I’ve just got the contract to supply army boots for the battalion in Kaduna.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z For four days, the Army of Northern Virginia has eluded the army of General Grant. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z So it was kind of ironic that the part of the army I got enlisted into was the one trying to provide it for everyone. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “General Stuart,” Lee said slowly, “you were the eyes of this army.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They would join the army reserve or the auxiliary police like her, and protect what was theirs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Pa was about to grab his green army bag but Uncle Darnell reached and got it, as if Pa was too old and too weak. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z It was strange to see the army in Swat. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The northern armies controlled much of the homeland of the Dinka. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been full of spit and vinegar about the bayonet the army had given him. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Cleopatra knew that getting past Ptolemy’s army would be difficult, if not impossible. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He was little more than a boy and had only recently joined the magistrate's army from a small, poor, faraway village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z It was a proud moment, for these men had volunteered for duty in an army I was then attempting to create. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But I think Thursday morning we were moved to the golf course at the Presidio, another army base slightly to the east of the Golden Gate. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the master of this vast army. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In the year following 1939, the German army, under Adolf Hitler, had taken control of almost every country in Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z All the while, Washington the general was using the discoveries of Washington the spymaster to move toward the moment when he could hurl his army into a battle that would decide the war. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z You all recall the recent bon voyage celebration for the army recruits from the Manifest class of 1918. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Through Petersburg ran the railroads by which Lee’s army received its supplies; if Petersburg were taken, then the cry of “On to Richmond” would at last be fulfilled. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been a big deal in the army—a major in the Special Air Service, Australia’s equivalent of the Green Berets. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z There were some British batteries up with the third army. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He wore a green army coat every single day, no matter what the weather was, and had a tattoo of an eagle on his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z As soon as Pompey boarded the boat, the army escort stabbed him to death. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z He is not one for breaking rules, as it violates his army training. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “What do you care for the armies of Adarlan?” he replied. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “I asked to see you to ascertain upon what terms you would receive the surrender of my army.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z "Yeah. Strange to see army trucks around here." The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z He came back from France when Tom and Daisy were still on their wedding trip, and made a miserable but irresistible journey to Louisville on the last of his army pay. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z And what if the settlement knows we’re the reason the army’s coming and they decide to turn us over to them? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He was a child; the army and the Taliban were on a collision course with our home and all he cared about were his little birds. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He joined the army and got killed in World War IT, my brother Sam. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With the robot’s building expertise, and the small army of helpers, construction of the second lodge didn’t take long. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Except for a few items picked up at an army PX, the clothes I still possessed had been chosen for a subsequent visit to the Italian Alps. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The German army continues its advance on Leningrad. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z And the army took him, and Littmus went off to war, just like that. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He has opposed the invasion of Pennsylvania, but once the army is committed he no longer opposes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shall we go? Your army awaits your coming.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the work continues as armies of undertakers and volunteers tend bodies in makeshift morgues. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She was the first person I told about going into the army. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t know what was going on, but we could see soldiers running along Pademba Road and army trucks speeding up and down in front of the prison area. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Almost 150 years before Columbus set sail, a Tartar army besieged the Genoese city of Kaffa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We can give you such piles of treasure,” he said, “that I have nothing left to pay an army with. Then you’ll be safe.” Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ice Court had been built to withstand an onslaught of armies, assassins, Grisha, and spies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Malachy writes from Dublin to say he’s fed up and doesn’t want to spend the rest of his life blowing a trumpet in the army band. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The army and the police were relentlessly efficient. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the army’s wanton destruction in November of five Japanese cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lee had 61,000 men in his army and was assisted by another of the Confederacy’s legendary commanders, Stonewall Jackson. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A manhunt was in progress at the beach and an army of men scoured the whole island, including the black-gum swamp at the northern end. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “The disaster which had overtaken the army was in full view,” one of his officers will later write. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I was resting and eating my lunch on the side of the river when the Ethiopian army attacked us with bullets, mortar shells, and grenades. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d love a peek at the Ephemerides, the official war diary of the Macedonian army’s campaign through Persia, and basis for much of Eratosthenes’ eastern geography. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z What little scrap of audacity caught the attention of an army officer on the road? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed a big lawn that had been turned into a huge army camp. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z Out on the road the army flowed endlessly eastward, pouring toward the great fight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still more foolish to come without an army if he meant to challenge the usurper. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Grandpa Louis died four years after he’d come home from liberating Italy along with the all-black army, according to Big Ma. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Tucker huffed and went back to building his armies. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z They should have been organizing an army, not Nazi death trains. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z To protect Khouy from being conscripted into the army and Laine from being abducted by soldiers, they are married quickly in a quiet, secret ceremony with both sets of parents giving their blessings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "No army has ever won Russia, not even Frederick the Great or Napoleon." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z They are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It was similar to the trucks that he had seen at the SAS camp—it could have been army surplus. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was the engine of a bomber from the northern armies. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Project Jamboree. Dear old Dad’s been training himself a special army using all of the Reds they took from the camps. So you can see why...” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It tells the story of a place that was working iron and steel so far back that it made cannonballs for the Union army. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z With Cleopatra’s help and the support of the allies, Mark Antony raised an army of more than 100,000 men. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Viserys had been a boy of eight when they fled King's Landing to escape the advancing armies of the Usurper, but Daenerys had been only a quickening in their mother's womb. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “My father was content to wait for the day that Prince Viserys found his army.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Pa does not fear the Khmer Rouge soldiers will want Meng to join the army because he is physically weak, so Pa allows him to stay unmarried. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The room fills with a small army of elected officials, all of whom wish to witness the historic moment of Lincoln’s death. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z From their kitchen window, they could look into the distance over rolling farmland where armies had marched during the Civil War. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The novelty of horses, steel weapons, and guns undoubtedly paralyzed the Incas at Cajamarca, but the battles after Cajamarca were fought against determined resistance by Inca armies that had already seen Spanish weapons and horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Joe with his Henry Huggins look, tall Benny with his long hair and trumpet case, Ellie with her army jacket covered in pins, her long red hair sticking out from under her hat, and me. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Montez’s mounted trike battalion was assigned to Grant’s army. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She couldn’t stay in Reno and she couldn’t go with Shig to the army’s training camp in Louisiana, so she voluntarily re-entered camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z It hadn’t surprised him that army testing had shown he would make a good medic. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “If this begins the ancient prophecy, we don’t have resources to send an army to these Doors of Death and protect the camp. I can’t imagine even sparing seven demigods—” “First things first.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Later, it would be said, they turned into the band of swords- women who were a mercenary army. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The single image that doomed our hopes of getting a Greek into the White House: Dukakis, wearing an oversize army helmet, bouncing along on top of an M41 Walker Bulldog. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He will see him feared and respected by everyone, and not hated by his armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But he realized that he could not do this with all of his spies, so he put an army officer in charge of the civilian spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He now was fashioning a device by himself, without an army of technicians and engineers, working on a laboratory bench at home. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Cain, soldier in the king’s army. I hail from the White Fang Mountains.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They’d heard the part about the army, but none of the rest. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z His intention was to collect an army to march against the city. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he had begun to write down lists of all the world’s evils, as if he were building up an army of words to fight some heavenly battle. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z I sure could because suddenly coils and coils of Jude’s hair are slithering in my direction like an army of serpents. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Lee continues to plan, still looking for a way to save his army and get to the Carolinas. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Our chances will be better of finding an entrance to the Labyrinth. We have to make it back to camp before Luke and his army.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z An army general made a tour of the hospital with half a dozen consultants at his side. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z That night, at supper, someone remarked casually that since the army needed ammunition, wouldn’t it be proper for the ammunition factories to stay open on Sunday? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “His army papers—” “They could be wrong,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if whole armies were on the march, though for the most part they were hidden by the reeks and fumes drifting from the fens and wastes beyond. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Was there an army of spiders after them? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z If you studied physics at Harvard, then you know how to talk to an army general who did engineering just down the road at MIT. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Belching exhaust, the driver saluting or warning with a series of blasts on his horn, it is an old army bus, the official name brushed over with paint that doesn't quite match. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Minya’s army was waiting just inside the open door in Sarai’s room, ready to ambush the humans the moment they landed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "This was right in the middle of the war. The US army had taken Baghdad, but things were really dangerous." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z At that precise moment it was two of those same creatures who stood on the fringe of Mossflower Wood, spying across the common land to where Cluny’s army was exercising. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His smart-fitting army uniform made him look straighter, leaner, and the sleeve had a skull-and-bones image next to the half of a yellow sun. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “The bloody flux has been the bane of every army since the Dawn Age. Let us distribute the food, Your Grace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An army of servants were scurrying around the table like ants, sorting, counting, and polishing what Penelope was certain must be a mine’s worth of silver. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He turned to the armies and shouted, “PREPARE FOR BATTLE!” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There were six more seasoned soldiers—all of them thrown out of the army for questionable behavior, which must have been truly questionable, given that Adarlan’s army was notorious for ruthlessness. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The crowd surrounding the Commons had swelled to include the entire army and every soul in the city except for Madam and Becky. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Islam’s march into Europe ended in 732, when the French defeated the Muslim armies at the battle of Poitiers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The armies were packs of hounds, as it were, whose struggle with each other was to be commanded by Masters of Hounds, who took the matter as an exciting gamble. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the same room on the same date in 1861, one hundred and four years earlier, President Abraham Lincoln had signed a bill freeing slaves impressed into the service of the Confederate army. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked through the Wood without speaking, but their steps seemed as loud as an advancing army. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had been sworn into the army the day before. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He brushed his hand over his head and put on a black hat like the kind the police or some army men wear. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan, and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z That was what the government—the army, of course—wanted. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Minya’s army appalled her, but what would have happened today if it hadn’t been here? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Malloy always said the army was okay, but it was the war that messed him up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Major Henry Rathbone, seated in the box just feet away from the president, was an experienced army officer, familiar with the sounds of gunshots. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z With armies, big ones, and cannons and flags and drums and dress parades! The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z My parents were asleep down in the streets somewhere while a monster army surrounded the building. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Expecting to engage with Octavian, Mark Antony needed to pull his army and navy together. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z But then the duchess married el comandante, a former general in the Chilean army who wore his uniform every day. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The decisions were made by the army captain, who each morning collected an extraordinary levy for the defense of public order. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As it happens, there is no such thing as a Long Range Mountain Reconnaissance Unit in the British army, and Woodall never served as an instructor at Sandhurst. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Washington marched into Boston, liberating the city, and then led most of his army to New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Defense Intelligence Agency, and Walt approached this man, an army general, for advice. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Derby had pulled political wires to get into the army at his age. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z What the hell, are they sending in the army? All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z What time was he due at the fort and why had he hitched rather than caught a ride in an army truck? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was staying in the army because he wanted to stay in the army, not because of duty or anything else. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He runs into the house, gets a loaf of army bread and holds it up. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no room in God’s army for the coward heart, no crown awaiting him who put mother, or father, sister, or brother, sweetheart, or friend above God’s will. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The English invaded to silence these questions, and they were sure they would easily win—after all, their army and navy were the best in the world, and they were fighting against mere ex-slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z "Nor can we take it by siege, without an army on the far bank to invest the other castle," Helman Tallhart said gloomily. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Though they were nice, my immigrant neighbors could see no connection between their personal habits and the armies of mice and roaches aggressively occupying the building. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They looked more like an army of Robocops—black paramilitary outfits, helmets, automatic rifles. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Robinson, a wounded veteran, was serving as an army nurse, keeping watch over Seward as he recovered. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s where my Jasper is— down in Cuba someplace, serving in the Spanish army.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And when it was known that the police, or the army, or whoever they were, would open fire almost as soon as any of the marches even started, the marches stopped. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson was an army veteran who had tried five times to register to vote, without success. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z So each spring he set forth with his army and each autumn he returned, and year by year the kingdom grew larger and more prosperous. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “Washington and his army of traitors will soon be crushed.” I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He escaped and awarded himself the rank of captain in the army of Smith. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It would be hard enough to sneak past two armies and not get stolen again by someone who would tear up my pass. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Soviet women soldiers waged a private battle against men’s underwear the whole time they were fighting their invading enemy, the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Rocky had reasoned it out with him; it was impossible for the dead man to be Josiah, because Josiah was an old Laguna man, thousands of miles from the Philippine jungles and Japanese armies. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The real plan was for the two armies to link up in New York but then actually head south to Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He left unsaid his real concern,- that the appointment would put half the armies of the realm into the hands of Lannisters. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was smaller than Mychal, but he took up more room—Davis’s gangly limbs occupied space like an army holds territory. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Cersei only hoped he was not so foolish as to go racing ahead of his army. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Since good laws cannot exist where there are no good armies, and where good armies exist there must be good laws, I shall leave aside the arguments about laws and shall discuss the armed forces. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The Germans were now in full retreat as the American armies marched toward Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z When Hood came up from Georgia and through northern Alabama into Tennessee, he did not claim to have defeated Sherman’s army. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z She could have made an army then, and cut down the Godslayer and all the others before they ever reached the nursery. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It furthermore counseled islanders “not to talk carelessly of army or navy maneuvers which may be observed.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “And who, exactly, are we going to convince to help us wage war against the entire Sixer army?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It helped that his clothing and his woolen hat, stolen back in Gilju, were the dark green of army uniforms. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z With every step you take, there is an army of women watching over you. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The attacking armies slowed, emerged from their crouched positions, and watched to see what he was doing. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z "My brothers and uncles and cousins have armies," she told him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Prime Minister Lumumba says no, absolutely not. He has asked the United Nations to bring an army to restore unity.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In an unused upstairs bedroom, she found a man in an army uniform crying and drinking from a bottle that never emptied. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z It was not only the German army and air force pursuing him now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If necessary, Tyson could summon an army of Cyclopes to the camp’s defense, and Ella and Rachel Dare were already comparing prophecies, trying to learn more about what the future held. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Not alone. He’s no match for Gaea. That would take a massive quest... an army of the best demigods.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It was Adam who needed the army to make a man of him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tartarus swept his hand toward the monster army, beckoning them forward. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z A Roman governor could raise a huge army and mobilize the extensive fleet. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z In the early part of the war’s fourth year, General Grant was placed in command of all the armies of the United States. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z They tell tales of Pa forming his own army, trying to recruit more soldiers to fight the Khmer Rouge. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The consummation of these deals represented an important victory for private enterprise, he pointed out, since the armies of both countries were socialized institutions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He kept his army Bible close, and read it every day. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Scott thought that Robert E. Lee, in 1861 a colonel in the U.S. army, was the best soldier for the job. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As a result, a fierce competition developed between the SS and the SA, who trained newly enlisted army soldiers. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the battle of Cajamarca recounted above, 168 Spaniards crushed a Native American army 500 times more numerous, killing thousands of natives while not losing a single Spaniard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The army said they were holding him so they could identify the gunmen. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Also on the list are the punitive armies of Rome, the fecklessness of Byzantium, Ottoman indifference, and British gunboats. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Below us, the army from the Princess Andromeda had stopped in amazement They were staring at Luke’s broken form on the rocks. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When such organizations become big enough, they can look and act a lot like full-blown armies. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I admire your scholarship, but that is an elfin army on the attack. This was carved in celebration of an elfin victory.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z We run past one, then two small, empty settlements, places that obviously heeded the rumors about the army better than Carbonel Downs did. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z “And in America, Pa, you would not be forced to join the army?” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It carried a small army: one hundred former U.S. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Too many times, Allen had seen up close how racism worked in the army. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z He couldn’t have moved if Jorge had shown up with an army of Keepers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon their terror will overshadow the last armies of our friends, cutting off the sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It would take place in cities as often as on battlefields, be fueled by ideas as much as by weapons, and engage cultures and economies as much as armies. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Oppenheimer couldn’t work on the Manhattan Project until he got security clearance from the army. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I ducked down one street after another, trying to find a way to the river, but the army had erected barricades at the ends of most of the roads to keep out the British. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As the forest’s warning became louder, more plangent and strident, William’s buoyant mood shivered, quailed, and fled like a routed army from the field. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I did, and I found I had been accepted into the army. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “As is Abnegation. I am sure that once the remains of your old faction are absorbed into the Dauntless army, Candor will cooperate and we will finally be able to get on with things.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "Even if they could bring an army through the mountains and past the Bloody Gate, the Eyrie is impregnable. You saw for yourself. No enemy could ever reach us up here." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “What an interesting perspective. But it is far more likely a goblin army cutting up elves.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Russian forces stopped the German advance just short of Moscow, but the two massive armies were still slugging it out along a battlefront stretching 1,500 miles from north to south. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A swarm of giant black army helicopters darkened the sky overhead. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Was he going to continue stumbling all around the country, hesitating, bumbling, waiting week after week with an army mired down in disease-infested marshes? Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “In fact I haven’t spoken to her in weeks. She’s gone silent. With these armies passing through—” “You want me to check on her,” Percy guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z There was an exercise period on the roof and because it was cold we wore big army jackets. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Until he looked down from his highest battlement and saw the ranks of Rand Allastair’s army of fell men and Accursed approaching to lay siege to his walls, he meant to enjoy life.... The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The density of threads rising from the assembled army was almost overwhelming, and Anya gaped at them. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The boy took the old army blanket off the bed and spread it over the back of the chair and over the old man’s shoulders. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, Che was killed in Bolivia while trying to lead a rebel army against the government. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z |
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