| 单词 | London |
| 例句 | “The great loops of London have fallen to our enemies.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She married a great Whig politician, and was a famous London beauty for many years, but this portrait was painted before that, when she was still unmarried. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Catherine’s got a busy day, she says—three meetings before afternoon tea to discuss relocating into a royal residence more centrally located in London, since she’s begun taking up more duties than ever. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Your parents have moved back to London, I assume?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Enoch had spent his formative years in London and claimed to still know its streets, so he led. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Customarily, en route from Montclair to Nantucket, we spent the night in a hotel in New London, Connecticut. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z How she went to see Henry V at the RSC and Arthur was starring, how she pushed her way backstage and shook off her security to disappear into London with him and dance all night. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I had a World Cup in London at the end of the week, so I flew in a few days before to meet with cultural attaches and representatives from the United States embassy. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But we noted down what other foreign steamers would leave London with the same tide, and we satisfied ourselves that we knew the build and colour of each. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I guess London Bridge is not falling down.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z ‘I has never dared to go hide and sneaking around London in my life.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The booklet told of how Lenin and Gorky were walking down a London street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z London was soon far behind them, replaced by neat green fields that gave way in turn to wide, purplish moors, a great city alive with cars like multicolored ants, villages with tiny toy churches. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He was sixty-eight years old but announced, “I intend to live for more than half a century, and at the end of that half-century London will be trembling lest Chicago shall surpass it....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He had left his notebooks back in London, but he had so much in his head anyway. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite our haste, it took us two full days to reach London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Although I was sad to leave my friends in London, I was now embarking on what was to be the most unfamiliar part of my trip: military training. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was tired—she hadn’t been able to sleep on the bus ride, and she was on London time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z As he was in London, he is in Paris, unenthusiastic, apathetic. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Boss said to send everyone to New London.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Three mothers with seven children, all from the Hackney area of London, had been billeted on the Tallis family. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In a way, the words are curiously weightless, for the environmentalists tend to live in, or at least reflect views from, rich places like London, Berlin, or San Francisco. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After Dublin, I went to London, where I had a three-hour meeting with Mrs. Thatcher. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I spent my last night in London discussing these issues with Yusuf. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So I sat down on the ground behind the dustbins in the little garden that was in front of 45lc Chapter Road, London NW2 5NG, and it was under a big bush. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On one occasion I drove to the eastern Cape to resolve a dispute involving Alcott Gwentshe, who was running the campaign in East London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Madam,” I pressed, “I have it on the best authority that among the finest mantua makers of London, the pannier is no longer the mode.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I was born in London, on April 3, 1934, but soon my parents moved to a house just outside the city. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “My mother would have had no objection, but my father hates London.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He used these to calculate life expectancies for each age group, and to estimate the population of London, which he concluded was 460,000—not, as had been claimed, 7 million or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He had returned to Montreal, argued bitterly with his wife for two weeks, packed two suitcases, and flown back to London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Rochester had himself written the direction, “Mrs. Rochester, —— Hotel, London,” on each: I could not persuade myself to affix them, or to have them affixed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The KGB had just promoted him to rezident of the KGB's London station, putting him in charge of all spying operations in the British capital. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is identical to an office that occupied a similar space in London, and then another in Vienna, before it was moved here to Basel. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the days before we were due to reconvene, I wrote papers for a set of London University examinations for my LL.B. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Hooper had gone to London for a day with his father. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “He was studying in Italy when he discovered the others there. They were much more civilized and educated than the wraiths of the London sewers.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Unfortunately, I have a pressing engagement in London.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z That was a bornb that went off in the middle of a big train station in London the day after Aunt Penn went to Oslo and something like seven or seventy thousand people got killed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “If only you could see the lovely reading machines we used to have in London!” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z At seven that last night, our whole group was scheduled to entrain for London, where, as rumor had it, we were to be assigned to infantry and airborne divisions mustered for the D Day landings. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “No. The Bishop, he’s called. I think he’s the bishop of London, maybe. Or maybe somewhere else. You just write their name and send it to him.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He knows Dorus doesn’t approve of these long walks, and it is quite hot out, but he’s making so little money, there’s no other way to get to London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “The London of my youth,” Carlisle added, from a few feet behind us. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z From there they’d gone to London, then to the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But you can’t get to London without money and that’s why he hobbles up to us that Friday, the day before Confirmation. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Instead of the London Eye, I had snapped some legs and headless bodies of the people near where we’d been queuing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “We told you, darling, Maxim had to go to London,” said Beatrice impatiently. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One day, she left him a note on the bathroom sink: I have been invited to an academic conference in London. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We’d sit in the window—she was at work in London so there was no danger of her walking past and noticing us. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1856 he became head of the natural history section of the British Museum, in which capacity he became the driving force behind the creation of London’s Natural History Museum. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It would be impossible to imagine a more revolting exhibition,” said The Times of London. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I’ll be...Where did you go to college? London? Paris? You didn’t get that kind of education here! Where did you go?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And he said, “Yes, but where in London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He would be running with the boys down Pudding Lane or across London Bridge, playing tag among the shops. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z After nearly 17 years in London, he returned home to Philadelphia on May 5, 1775, in the wake of the scandal over the Hutchinson letters. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "I walked to the library by myself in London," I say. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All of London she hadn’t yet seen, all of England, all of the great wide world—and to feel free, powerful, and yes, entitled, to witness and understand what was out there. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z If she goes to London, I’m going too. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The New London oil camp houses seemed naked and homely by comparison. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Bring these two individuals back to London with you.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one day, James’s mother and father went to London to do some shopping, and there a terrible thing happened. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I don’t mind, because just as Em in no great hurry to get into London in the morning, I’m in no hurry to get back to Ashbury in the evening, either. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The tentacles of South African security forces reached all the way to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Solicitor—for just before leaving London I got word that my examination was successful; and I am now a full-blown solicitor! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The man identified himself as Archie, and as the two settled into a more peaceful conversation, he revealed to Bloom that he had spent a decade in London serving as a rich man’s bodyguard. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z June passed, and the days lengthened into summer, plague had died out, but with its going went many of the people of London, even some of the monks. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z In his maturity, Handel converted this artistic response into action, becoming one of the founding sponsors, alongside artists Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough, of Thomas Coram’s Foundling Hospital in London. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But he always liked to get visitors alone in the billiard-room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I was glad to see the sun, for in superstitious fashion I looked upon rain as an omen of ill-will, and the leaden skies of London had made me silent. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The London Eye managers have fixed a camera into position, so that a good shot of everyone is possible against a backdrop of Big Ben. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When he questions his instructor after the show, he is told the matter will not be discussed until they return to London at the end of the week. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Baby’s London, in her tiny unformed voice, sounded like bonbon. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He tucked the pages away and, back in London, continued working on the problem of finding a place for his growing family to live. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z This, he thought with a sort of vague distaste—this was London, chief city of Airstrip One, itself the third most populous of the provinces of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “How do you know she was in London, sir?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Bobby was conceived in the afternoon, on a sofa littered with rubber teething toys, after the friend learned that a London pharmaceutical company had hired him, while Ronny cried to be freed from his playpen. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A glum dusk was settling over London when Obinze walked into the bookshop cafe and sat down to a mocha and a blueberry scone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Without any other leads, they traveled into London and, hidden beneath the Invisibility Cloak, searched for the orphanage in which Voldemort had been raised. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It’s the largest and most magnificent cathedral in London,” said Millard, “and if my hunch is correct, it’s also the nesting place of Miss Wren’s pigeons.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “I do. I mean, I don’t go to the police, but I go into London, the way I used to, at the same time and everything, so that she ... so that she won’t know.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Finding a piece of land in London wasn’t easy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Jabavu had been awarded a baccalaureate in English at the University of London, which seemed an impossibly rare feat. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet these were only minor cities in their day, whereas London was the greatest commercial capital the world had ever seen. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Kayode was throwing a hasty party in their guest quarters while his parents were away in London. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He’d checked the Virgin Atlantic flight schedule and knew a plane was leaving for London at midnight. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Even though it was so close to London, it was quiet, very rural, at the edge of the earth. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And every hour they came closer to London. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Francis and I were already in London when the scandal reached the Royal Society. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The idea of going all the way to London seemed like a fantasy of the night: Jordan College—sanctuary—safety—that was the priority now. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The competition was to take place on the outskirts of London at a private boys’ school in an area called South Croydon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then he snapped everything in sight, including one of Kat and me together, with the London Eye behind us. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1983, the surge in superpower hostility had made life in the KGB's London residency even more oppressive than usual. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At just the time that Henry Cavendish was completing his experiments in London, four hundred miles away in Edinburgh another kind of concluding moment was about to take place with the death of James Hutton. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The programs from shows in Chicago and London are in a separate binder. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The first time she lived in Flushing was decades ago, after leaving London, when she had first settled in America with her husband and two daughters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I got back from Germany I went to a secretarial school in London. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z So they decided to consult Dr. Henry Holland, in London, who had attended Annie’s birth and had become their family doctor since Charles’s father died. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I might apprentice myself to a merchant in New Haven or New York, or even London, to learn the art of trade. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As the Earth was the center of the greater universe, so London was the center of our miniature universe. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Reaching for the model Big Ben clock that we brought along from London, I set an alarm for ten minutes from now. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘Because it was right after you gave us that ticket. Salim went up the London Eye. But he never came down again.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can hear ships at sea. Madrid. Brazil. London. I heard India once. Here at the edge of the city, so high in the house, we get superb reception.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ron says he’s going to be in London in the last week of the holidays. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z By the time he was twenty-seven, he had offices in New York, Boston, and London. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen her late that spring when she and his sister Catherine stopped in London on their way to and from a trip they took together to Paris. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The two young men were staying at the Leaky Cauldron in London, preparing to depart for Greece the following morning, when an owl arrived bearing news of Dumbledore’s mother’s death. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z They talked very little about their trip to London. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Old London Bridge was soon passed, and old Billingsgate Market with its oyster-boats and Dutchmen, and the White Tower and Traitor’s Gate, and we were in among the tiers of shipping. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I resumed my old underground ways in London, not wanting word to leak back to South Africa that I was there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had in fact seen a matinee pantomime at the London Palladium during which Lola had spilled a strawberry drink down her frock, and Liberty’s was right across the street. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At school, people kept asking Phoebe about her mother’s business trip to London. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Failure to contain Pauling might result in a London press conference with Linus expounding peaceful coexistence. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I was glad to get away from those students when I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in London. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were rules for crossing London streets, but she took no notice, and when anyone shouted, she fled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Her features were clear-cut enough to justify the poems written to her in London and even here in Boston, comparing her to a classic goddess. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For several months during his childhood there had been confused street fighting in London itself, some of which he remembered vividly. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The chuckling faded with the first telegrams from London: Baring Brothers & Co., the powerful London investment house, was on the verge of closure. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Vincent’s sister Anna is thinking of coming to London to work. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z That means he asked them if he could have a job in London, and he was leaving. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lafayette failed to kidnap Arnold, who slipped away and, in later raids in Connecticut, burned warehouses, ships, and much of New London. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Sherlock Holmes and Watson are followed when they are in London by a man in a coach with a black beard. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In 1914, as war broke out in Europe, he began working as a statistical analyst in the City of London. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The time finally arranged, however, had overlapped my visit to London. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z At one point, she describes a time just after my parents were married when they were living in London and my eldest brother was still a baby. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Something called London by somebody called Pennant, six volumes bound in red leather—massive books, two feet tall. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two of Sir Henry Baskerville’s boots go missing when he is staying at a hotel in London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She needed to be in London the next day. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Decades after first touching the Americas, London’s venture capitalists still hadn’t figured out that New England is colder than Britain despite being farther south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z London is such a diverse city, with a large Southeast Asian Muslim community. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Only once, when their connecting flight in London was delayed, did they leave Heathrow and take a double-decker bus tour of the city. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, he died before he could conduct the experiments and both the idea and the necessary equipment were passed on to a brilliant but magnificently retiring London scientist named Henry Cavendish. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The proper title of the Royal Society, founded in 1660, is The Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z ‘This is the middle of London. It’s called Hyde Park. I know exactly where we are.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in the winter of 1840, Henry wrote that he had been elected as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, and he would be abroad for about eight months. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Night-long vigils were held for us at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not wish to know why Jack spent so many consecutive nights in London. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His route takes him through the streets of south London up to the Thames, along the river until he crosses it to get into central London and to Goupil’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Two days before she would arrive in London, Jule was on foot, trudging up a San Francisco hill with a heavy statue of a lion in her backpack. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I knew that if one continued south a week or so, one would end up in the vicinity of London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The tower was silver and tall and I could see Salim was impressed with London because he looked at the tall buildings with his eyes wide open and his mouth open. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He rolls off the bed and flips it, resetting the needle, and the second side picks up on “London Luck, & Love.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He wished he had known it was lying there the ten days he was in London, waiting to be read. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z When they reached London, Captain Clarke lodged Essie with his mother, who treated her in all ways as her son’s new wife. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Private radio with a direct line to London, New York, Tel Aviv and many other stations. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I made a good amount of money, especially around Halloween, when I’d give my ‘Haunted Tower’ tour around the Tower of London.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z And Sherlock Holmes says he will stay in London, but he travels to Devon secretly and does investigations of his own. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Find out how many people live in a city like Dallas or Toronto or London or Paris. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “If you was paddling to London,” said Alice, “and the river was normal and there wasn’t no flood, how long would it take?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z You may not believe it, but when I was eighteen I used to win prizes and medals from the Royal Photographic Society in London, and from other places like the Photographic Society of Holland. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Witsen was a member of the prestigious Royal Society of London, one of Europe’s first “scientific” groups. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z London's fervent condemnation of capitalist society, his glorification of the primordial world, his championing of the great unwashed—all of it mirrored McCandless s passions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone in his smoky, dirty London house, Charles thought about love and romance and what went with it. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the best solution he can come up with, knowing that in a few weeks the circus will be hundreds of miles away, leaving him alone in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As the radio program went on, I learned that Hideo, born in London and raised in Tokyo, had taught himself how to code when he was eleven. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Was this a customary incident in the life of a solicitor’s clerk sent out to explain the purchase of a London estate to a foreigner? Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Today, in the taxi, as I crossed London at walking pace in the freezing rain, I thought of little else. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z "Is that the London way of giving a compliment?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “His father passed away last year/5 the woman said, in a lower voice. “This is our first vacation in London without him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It might be that we should have to stay in London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The landscape was changing as they got further down the great flood towards London. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Carlisle was born in London, in the sixteen-forties, he believes. Time wasn’t marked as accurately then, for the common people anyway. It was just before Cromwell’s rule, though.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Kainene tells me you are going home to London soon?” she asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The registration clerk in London wonders if I have just been to Switzerland. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That year there was an unveiling of a statue of Charles in the Natural History Museum in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I made a stop in East London and spoke to a few ANC people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The war filters in over the radio, remote and crackly, the voices from London fading through the static. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, they are about one hundred and ninety miles from London, a considerable journey.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z She offered him a lemon drop from the little silver tin she’d been carrying around since London. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange combination to absorb — the everyday concerns of the town doctor stuck in the middle of a discussion of his early days in seventeenth-century London. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There were two boys found in London in 1887, young Jews, just children. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Even with the expanded railroad, the trip from London to Shrewsbury was a long one; it had to be made by train and carriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "He doesn't, any longer. The boy grew ill and died while Mr. Shakespeare was here in London. I doubt that he's ever forgiven himself." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “People from London, you know. There used to be tremendous parties.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If my wife was here neither of us would ever want to go back to London, I reckon. We’re both country folks, really.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Hooke himself died on 3 March 1703, and his funeral was attended by all the Fellows of the Royal Society then present in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z We had a layover in Kenya, then in London. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A few days later, he walked with it into a London building which, from the outside, looked like a church, steepled and grave, but inside was shabby, harried, knotted with people. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And he said, “So, why are you going to London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z ‘It’s the fastest. And the easiest if you don’t know London.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Berg spent some time in London studying atomic physics. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The host sat himself down beside the friar and asked how things went in London. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Two earthquakes struck London in March 1750 and convinced many Londoners that the end was nigh. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "Touch. Your point. So, how do you come to be in London?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z After the appendicitis scare, the British Broadcasting Corporation invited him to London to appear on a show called Chess Treasury of the Air, and he spent about ten days in England. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A serial killer in London, preying on women. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Christy's down in London and he's always calling to ask for money and dad tells him he's not a Bottomless Pit and to get lost. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, you could stay in London and still be idle. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The highlight of her stay was her appearance, arranged by friends, at London’s popular summer concert series the Proms. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z They decided that Charles should send them a paper, and they would present it together with Wallaces essay to the Linnaean Society in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They fly first to London, and then to Calcutta via Dubai. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Or, ‘In London, the food is much finer!’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And everyone knew that Gage had the right to send any man whom he believed a leader in this revolt against England to London and the parody of a trial, certain death on the gallows. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She might not even have gone for a sail, but just wanted the night at the cottage as a change after London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “The local news isn’t on yet. I’m watching CNN. They just showed London. The rally is already over there, but it looked huge.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I got them in London,” he said, and too late realized he’d made a mistake. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Judging from Dr. Bright's accounts, the men of London dressed in splendid clothing, all ornamented and embroidered, and spoke in a civil and cultured manner. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For instance, she would have liked to be at London—in the Tower perhaps. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She obviously had a practical cunning which Winston lacked, and she seemed also to have an exhaustive knowledge of the countryside round London, stored away from innumerable community hikes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It is only about 24 hours’ sail from the Dardanelles to here, at the rate the Czarina Catherine has come from London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My father was an engineer with a job in London. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At her dock on the River Thames in London, Endurance became a major tourist attraction. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z They were looking for an apartment, and after a long search, my father found one in a London suburb. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He had been staying at her London flat for five nights. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Readers of The Times in London were told that what was otherwise an “imposing ceremony” was “rendered ludicrous by some of the luckless sallies of that poor President Lincoln.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The reporter said that New London had built the most expensive rural school in the world. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The day after he reached London he set out to follow her north, but the trains were impossibly slow. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A symposium of many of the most important figures in the field was convened in London under the auspices of the Royal Society in 1964, and suddenly, it seemed, everyone was a convert. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “You can drive a hundred or two hundred miles outside London and not see a single kestrel,” reported another. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Two ballpoint pens with silent streetscapes and red London buses that floated up and down in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I imagined a great anvil-shaped cloud forming over southeast London and hot air rising in convection currents. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z She was braver than anyone in the hotel, braver than all of London, braver than ordinary by far. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Europe’s invaded countries set up governments in exile in London, the capital of the United Kingdom, to make war plans as a group of “Allied” nations fighting together against German aggression. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z ‘If you hadn’t suggested going to the London Eye, this would never have happened. You and your bloody bicycle wheel in the sky!’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z On their way back to London they stopped at the Television Corporation’s factory at Brentford. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z London radio, which we listened to every evening, announced encouraging news: the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, the preparation of the Second Front. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom says, “I’ll need an extra day or two for travel. She found a great deal on a hotel in London.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “If London is where all the wights are, won’t going there be walking right into their hands? Is that a good idea?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z With a packed lunch in hand, Emma and Charles took the train back to London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The commanding officer announced that the two visitors were a reporter and photographer from the Daily Telegraph in London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Baghdad is rather out of things. I think I should prefer a post in London if I can hear of a suitable one.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z He was back in London only two days before he rang up to say that both he and Rosy found that their X-ray data strongly supported the double helix. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Will soon come to London,” said I, after casting about for a precise form of words, “or summon me anywhere else?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘They are all going to London until this insurrection, as they call it, is over. The Unicorn leaves at dawn tomorrow. Gage has given permission.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z French officials warned the Americans that their most secret information, including word-for-word reports on their conversations with Beaumarchais, were showing up in London within days. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I thought I would need someone to look after Toby when I went to London because I couldn’t take him with me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But now, back in London in 1838, he truly was scared. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maurice went back to London, saying that he would soon measure the critical reflections. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z To be in London, which I had always believed to be the heart of civilization. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The circus arrives near London for the first visit in some time, and the afternoon before it opens there is a knock on the door of Marco’s flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Americans were intensely aware of the power that the sugar lords wielded in London. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Cigarette smoke billowed out like fog in Jack the Ripper's London. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He sees Theo and the rest of the family, and he brings Anna back to London with him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Graunt compiled statistics for the number born and dying each year, and the causes of death, from the annual bills of mortality that were published in London. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The relatives in London thought he looked “uncommonly well and stout,” though that was often misleading. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The London dialect became the standard of education, government, and business, and it was also the dialect of better-educated and more affluent speakers throughout the Anglosphere. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z ‘For half an hour you did nothing but stare up and watch the London Eye go round?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And I worked out that the numbers were the numbers of the pages where you could see a bigger-scale map of that square of London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They skip forward several years after that: suddenly Megan is twenty-four, living in London, working as a waitress in a North London restaurant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps my wife won’t like London; then the sentence is banishment & degradation into indolent, idle fool.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex can feel a buzzing static electricity in London this morning, millions of voices murmuring about him and Henry and what might happen next. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And, if possible, she must not be allowed to go rampaging about London either. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “The Germans could destroy all of London if they succeed,” Wilson said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “If that is who I think it is, I know for a fact he is in London at the moment, so perhaps this is not as immediate as you think.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Dud gives him a leg up onto a red London mailbox, and the Devil sets about painting a mental picture—the technique known as enargia. devil: I’m God. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z “Case considered,” came the immediate reply from London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And she said, “So you’re going to London on your own?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Back in Tehran, my mom was only nineteen and had spent the last year begging her overbearing father to send her to university in London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z If only she knew London as well as she knew Oxford! The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He had studied physick at Cambridge and practiced in the city of London before coming north to Yorkshire. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Charles, Erasmus, and their London friends discussed these problems over dinner. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them seemed to be closer together, since yesterday, partly because they had been to London together, but also, Kingshaw decided, because of his own going away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z We had stopped in the New London restaurant for lunch, and it had seemed a respectable enough place. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a Georgian house, not unlike the Mount, in a small village called Down, about sixteen miles from London Bridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He keeps waking up in DC, and Henry keeps waking up in London, and the whole world keeps waking up to talk about the two of them in love with other people. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We were en route from Montclair to New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Frank, Jr., was left behind by mistake in a restaurant in New London. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He lived alone, in a nondescript apartment near his lab in London, and in a spare, white modernist cottage that he had built for himself in Brighton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They went to Sardinia and Scotland and rode on the upper deck of a London airport bus as it skimmed below trees. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In 1794, Washington had sent Chief Justice John Jay to London to negotiate a realistic bargain that avoided a war with England at a time when the United States was ill prepared to fight one. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The master’s trip to London was moved up so that he could deliver news of the setbacks to the Parliament and King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He was standing six metres away, in the same clothes he’d worn on the day at the London Eye, minus the jacket, talking into a two-way radio. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they returned to Lagos, her father said, with that intimidated awe he had in the face of the well-educated, “She has BA London First Class.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This was the forerunner of the Royal Society, and it was through Katherine that Robert began to make the acquaintance of these men on his visits to London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “And maybe we should. Can you imagine? Just you and me in London?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “The only thing commoner here than plain-looking middle-aged ladies are flocks of pigeons. And you want to search all of London for one flock in particular?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Listen: I’ll fly to London right now and pull you out of whatever pointless meeting you’re in and make you admit how much you love it when I call you “baby.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z If they had not gone to London, after all, or if Mrs Boland and Hooper came out in search of him, they would first go down into the village. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “So you were never in London before?” said Mr. Wemmick to me. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He split his time between his apartments in London and New York, farmhouse in Provence, seaside home in Malta, and fifteen-thousand-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He tried to squeeze out some childhood memory that should tell him whether London had always been quite like this. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He insisted that Alice, Nellie, and Howard were with “Miss W.” in London, and that if the police would only check his story in detail, the mystery of the children would be solved. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "I can assure you the Holy Grail is quite safe in London," said Ishtar. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In perfect German, the radio announcer says jauntily, as if he's announcing a tennis match, "This is BBC London with the German news broadcast!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Even if Mom goes through with her plans to visit London, she’s going to go as an American. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Charles wasn’t completely sure he liked London himself. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung her around by the wrists and said, “Jeez, it’s like a movie. Can you believe we’re in London? Everything we know is on the other side of the ocean.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And then I thought I would need money if I was going to go to London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z MI5 agents immediately arrested Blake in London, and he quickly confessed to spying for the Russians. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Late July was a good time to get out of murky, hot, dirty London, and Charles loved the Staffordshire countryside around Maer, which “was very pleasant for walking or riding.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure he will not leave London before he has found them. Who is to fight Wickham, and make him marry her, if he comes away?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Dad wheeled the car around frantically and sped back to New London, breaking every traffic rule then on the books. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had once some thoughts of fixing in town myself—for I am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lucas.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes,” he said after a moment, “the Manderley ball was generally an annual affair. Everyone in the county came. A lot of people from London too. Quite a big show.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “It turns out Kainene and I have a mutual friend in London. Did I tell you about Wilfred at the Spectator?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He comes out of the hospital carrying a cane and limping all over the place, all over London, not knowing who the hell he is. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z When he comes back to London, he goes to work in a new gallery that Goupil’s has bought. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Mr. Jaggers,” said I, by way of putting it neatly on somebody else, “has the reputation of being more in the secrets of that dismal place than any man in London.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “That can’t possibly be true. Doesn’t your father have family in London?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The rest of the family went up to London, as did Parslow and a few other servants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I wore them in London on weekends, and that's what I plan to wear on school days here. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He spent the next six months under house arrest in South Africa before slipping out of the country and going first to Lusaka to see Oliver, and then to London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he didn’t mind that the flight had been delayed in London and that this stop at Kano to change planes before going on to Lagos would delay him even longer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her mother had sent away to London for the lamp. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z “That we tour London’s loops and hope to find someone still at home? And what would you say the odds are that the corrupted, who are looking for us, would leave all those loops unguarded?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She would order a new wig from London. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the next week the first drafts of our Nature paper got handed out and two were sent down to London for comments from Adaurice and Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Sensation even in London,” thought the reporter when, on his return, he read the words. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He got to London, where he stayed with John Slany, a shipbuilder with investments in Newfoundland. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I have lived most of my life in London,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In spite of his continuing ill health, Huygens made a few more foreign trips, including another visit to London in 1689, when he met Newton. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z And then I mentioned that I had promised Branwell that Margaret would fax the letter to London so that Summerhill would have it when they opened their offices on Monday morning. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the district of Sydenham in south London, at a place called Crystal Palace Park, there stands a strange and forgotten sight: the world’s first life-sized models of dinosaurs. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Here, let me start it off,” he said, reaching into the pocket of his London Fog and producing a package of cigars. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved all the walking paths around the house—so much bigger than his tiny garden in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The only part I actually remember with my own eyes is standing in a really nice German suitcase store in London as my dad shopped for a new set. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Richard sat still on the sofa; he remembered nothing of what had happened in London. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z ‘It was in London and we used to go for walks all around there.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The new job in London is not in a gallery; it’s a stockroom that supplies stores with wholesale reproductions of popular and famous paintings. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She was blonde and pasty white, and she had lived in London, which was in England, quite some time ago, judging from her clothes, and she coughed. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In 1981, I learned that the students at the University of London had nominated me as a candidate for the honorific post of university chancellor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, one reason my grandfather supported the union was that it meant my mom would ditch her plans to move to London. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I had been to London with my mother the week before to buy the school clothes, and I remember how shocked I was when I saw the outfit I was expected to wear. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed a PR win—not at home, where the reoccupation of the Rhineland had been immensely popular—but in London and Paris and New York. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I used to tell Marcus that all the history of London is right here. These aren’t rocks and stones beneath your feet, you know. They’re what is left of the city over thousands of years.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As the six million visitors to London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 were prophetically promised, the future was about two things: technology and the world beyond Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I’m going to stop wasting money going backwards and forwards to London on pointless train journeys. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was decided the next day that before Benton left, he would be introduced to Rameel’s family, who had been staying in London but would be returning to Addis Ababa for the summer months. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z He remembered a story Papa had told him, about a time Slash was in London. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z On July 1, 1858, Darwin’s and Wallace’s papers were read back to back and discussed publicly in London. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “This tart tastes better than one I had the last time I was in London.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Our futures did not seem to be in London. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z But he was in Cornwall, at least a five-hour drive from London, and with the alarms sounding, the armed guards, and the razor wire, he’d never make it out of the complex. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I would remember it the next day, when I boarded a plane in Salt Lake City, and it would still be on my mind when I landed in London. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “As soon as the plague is somewhat quieted in London, a messenger will be sent to thy father. Meanwhile, we shall care for thee.” The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Unless you’re planning a trip to London, forget you ever saw them. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he set about the laborious task of transcribing it into code and addressed it in an ordinary envelope to an insignificant part of central London. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In London and Paris in the ensuing months, they could keep their eyes open for KGB trails and interview the Russian spy at length. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And I realized that the same is true of the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z People in London were going to bed and people in Tokyo were getting up. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That was all London was beyond its center, an agglomeration of dull little towns. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Even the air she is breathing into her lungs is unmistakably crisp country air, with not a hint of London smog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He claimed that nothing he had seen in Paris, Rome, or London was as perfect as the Court of Honor. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then I did TV pieces, traveling with a crew throughout parts of London. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Tobacco grew well in Virginia and sold well in England, and finally there was hope that the colony would make a profit for the Virginia Company of London. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The first part of the journey was to London. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z She'd notice, for example, that a bookstore in London had an overdue account of seventeen dollars. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z It started when Ellie moved to London and decided to become English. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They even carried a little feeling of holiday with them almost like the hops- and strawberry-pickers from London and the Midland cities of England. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was keen to elide the differences between ancient Rome and his own London, as well as those between Verona and Canterbury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But now, in 1838, it was more expensive to send a letter outside of London, though that didn’t matter to Emma or even to frugal Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As they came closer to New London and the busy Thames River, Route 1 became increasingly cluttered with restaurants, bars, quick food chains and shopping plazas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z That copy-now in the library of the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court in London—had previously been owned by his friend and Shakespeare’s, Ben Jonson. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The first awareness that external or environmental agents could produce malignant change dawned in the mind of a London physician nearly two centuries ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “She remembers the last ball they gave at Manderley, and she has never forgotten it. Will you be hiring a costume from London, do you think?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z London is an absolute spectacle, crowds cramming the streets outside Buckingham Palace and all through the city, draped in Union Jacks and waving tiny flags over their heads. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Good. You had better try him in his own house. The way shall be prepared for you, and you can see his son first, who is in London. When will you come to London?” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z One or two, on horseback, he claimed had come from the royal court in Westminster, close to London. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z University College London, which was known as the godless university, where great men were thinking great thoughts—but were not being trained, as at Cambridge and Oxford, for the church. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The orange glow from the night-sky over London crept into the room and cast a glimmer of light on to its walls. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘This is the end, do you understand? What you do in London does not concern me. You can live with Favell there, or with anyone you like. But not here. Not at Manderley.’ Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t reckon they’ll find you till the train’s back in London,” he said quietly. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He climbed the wooden pole, tapped into the electrical wires, powered up his radio, and sent information on Ger- man military movements to British intelligence officers in London. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shocked he’d made it all the way to London without being caught. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Erasmus wanted him to come up to London and go on to Shrewsbury with him. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he read physics at University College, London, and had commenced work on an advanced degree when the war broke out. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, in 1936, I was summoned back to Head Office in London. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s at the Ministry in London, isn’t he?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The name Stead was well known in America because of Herbert’s more famous brother, William, the former editor of London’s Pall Mall Gazette and recent founder of The Review of Reviews. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “The one I’m staying with. He said I hadn’t seen London if I hadn’t seen the RSC. And you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t see what’s so amusing about London,” Olive said with a frown. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The train comes to an abrupt halt, brakes screeching alarmingly, at the signal on the London side of Witney. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Huygens became one of the first foreign members of the Royal Society on a brief visit to London in 1663. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He is a demolition expert and the Barracks was the local name for Barrington Heights, the tallest tower block in our South London borough. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A week after he had sworn on her death certificate that she died of another stroke, a relative alerted the police that Friedgood was about to leave the country for London. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The campaign spread throughout the Witwatersrand, to Durban, to Port Elizabeth, East London, and Cape Town, and smaller towns in the eastern and western Cape. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “One last vacation before you die: London or Rome?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She looked ten times more alive than most of the people one meets in London. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The climate was not with me, however, for a group from the house caught the Clyde steamer at Tarbert and the next morning we were in London. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I see in The Times they had it well over eighty in London yesterday,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Only two years after Blake's return to London, MI6 transferred him to its espionage station in Berlin. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Starvation made the people of the world take notice and sparked protests and demonstrations in London and Moscow and Czechoslovakia. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “It’s eight-thirty here. That means it’s already early Saturday morning in London. Summerhill offices are closed until nine A.M. Monday, Greenwich Mean Time.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His friends would come down from London, and he would make contact with country neighbours, he would consolidate his position in the area. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The circus has arrived near London, the train creeping in just after nightfall without drawing any notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And he wants Theo to tell them about him, about how well he’s doing in London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Anyway, leaving New London would mean leaving Wash. The thought of that punched through her every idea of happiness. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z One day, the Martians landed a spaceship near London. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Ever since I could remember, I had heard Dr. Bright and others speak of London in tones usually reserved for talk of the Heavenly City. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But I used to hide in the back of the school theater in London and watch Mrs. Campbell test aspiring actors. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Firstly.—We must differentiate between what he did in London as part of his general plan of action, when he was pressed for moments and had to arrange as best he could. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It is a philosophy that worked for me in the poorhouse, on the streets of London, and at the orphanage. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But Laxmi was always on the phone with her cousin these days, who was still in bed, whose husband was still in London, and whose son still wasn’t going to school. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And in his final months, they came back to him, hundreds of them, from Boston, New York, California, London, and Switzerland; from corporate offices and inner city school programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z London, from the twenty- fourth floor, lit up like frost on glass. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When he got back to London, Charles received a note from Emma, reporting on the success of the bazaar. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She started referring to periods in her life as “before London” and “after London.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I tried to take some hope from this, but secretly I was wondering how far I could get from London in three days. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “London is vast, and there’s no lost and found here for peculiar children.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “Travel to London through whatever year it is here?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “We have to get to London, and quick!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z As a surprise for George’s tenth birthday, Aunt Daisy took them to see the Tower of London, where they used to chop off your head if the king didn’t like you. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z “I am going to London, Miss Pocket,” said I, “and want to say good-bye to Miss Havisham.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I thought of Jack London not putting a final period on the last sentence of the book as Martin lost consciousness and drifted into death. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Mr. Barris picks up a pencil and writes a London address beneath the printed name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He seemed not to notice, but remarked that the smuts in London were not quite so bad as they used to be when he was a student here. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z This very creature that we pursue, he take hundreds of years to get so far as London; and yet in one day, when we know of the disposal of him we drive him out. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He was going into London for the day to see some people. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z More to the point was that Linus Pauling was coming to London in May for a meeting organized by the Royal Society on the structure of proteins. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Winston was taking part in a demonstration in one of the central London squares at the moment when it happened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Marco arrives at Mr. Barris’s London office only a few minutes before his scheduled appointment, surprised to find the normally well-ordered space in near bedlam, full of half-packed crates and stacks of boxes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Only a few months ago, she and Curt had gone to England for the Glastonbury Festival, and later spent two days in London. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Hoping to bomb the British into submission, the Nazis increased their attacks on London in a terror campaign dubbed the Blitz. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I heard Aunt Gloria’s voice saying it was me that had suggested going to the London Eye, when it hadn’t been. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even so, you must go. There are cities enough: Canterbury, Great Wexly, Winchester. Even London.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He put his forward propeller into gear and headed the machine towards London. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his mom were at the farmers’ market, the one down by Jack London Square. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I took the train into London and went to the library. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Crookshanks took quite a while to recover from the fireworks, and by the time they entered London, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were all severely scratched. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was curious, but when you said it to yourself you had the illusion of actually hearing bells, the bells of a lost London that still existed somewhere or other, disguised and forgotten. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “The thing is to come closer to central London. You’re too far away from things, in Essex,” Wale said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We kept watching the London Eye go round. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When the first commercial public concerts started taking place in London the net widened to include merchants and tradespeople, a development in which England very much led the way. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘Dibs on London!’ yelled a ghoul at the next table. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because Rodin was known to MI6, the Soviets assigned Blake a new KGB contact, Sergei Kondrachev, who worked in the Soviet embassy in London as a junior official in charge of cultural events. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At breakfast the next morning, before Mr Hooper went to London, there had only been looks, passing between him and Mrs Kingshaw, and the talk of an outing, a surprise. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z One day soon after the 2012 London Summer Games had actually transpired, I was out shopping with my friend Habiba in a department store at the shopping mall. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z And I said, “I’m going to live with Mother, in London.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The word out was that the New London had just tied up last night and would be unloading. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus Salim had given me his savings, so I had more than enough to buy two London Eye tickets. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasional excursions to Milan or Paris or London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The master left for London with much muttering on the part of his wife. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was nice that I got to know my father a bit better during that year when I was in London. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Our Olanna has just finished her master’s degree. Master’s degree at London University! It is not easy!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Lyra was intoxicated; not about the North this time, but about London, and the restaurants and ballrooms, the soirées at embassies or ministries, the intrigues between White Hall and Westminster. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The doors were open, and inside she found stuffed animals and fossil skeletons and cases of minerals, just like the Royal Geological Museum she’d visited with Mrs. Coulter in her London. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After leaving Dublin, I took a quick tour of London, but I couldn’t wait to get to Paris to meet Zlata’s cousin, Melika. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z And it doesn’t have to be in London because I don’t like London and there are universities in lots of places and not all of them are in big cities. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “You don’t need to go all the way to London for no doctor,” said one of the Gypsy men. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Back when Vincent drew some pictures in London, they were bad. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And I said, “No. Mother is in London.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Lot of people in London,” remarked Sir Grummore, with a wild surmise. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He was married now, to a Punjabi girl, and they lived in London still, and every year they exchanged Christmas cards with Raj and Mina, each couple tucking photos of their families into the envelopes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The sirens droned on, a soprano counterpoint to the bombs’ relentless bass, their pitch so eerily human it sounded like every soul in London had taken to their rooftops to cry out collective despair. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He had long made up his mind to Jane Fairfax’s going out as governess, and could talk of it cheerfully, but Mr. Knightley’s going to London had been an unexpected blow. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “I suspect I left London for much the same reasons that you and your sister travel so often,” Mr. Barris says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When the day came for me to go up to London for this interview, my Housemaster told me it was ridiculous for me even to try. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Because it was a market day, the road was crowded with people and animals going toward London. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, laying his hand upon my arm, and smiling openly, “this man must be the most cunning impostor in all London.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Planning is for the world’s great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Another implies that the food is not cooked on the premises and instead is imported from the best restaurants in London, paid extra to stay open for the late hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Fact is, after we finished unloading the New London, I didn’t work so often. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I traveled to London to write a dissertation on English Renaissance literature, I was finally confident of membership in a ‘community of scholars.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z When his classes let out at two, Wash ran to the grounds of the New London school. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He had come back the first time from London without notes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Darwin was fortunate that the regular reviewer for the London Times passed off the book to Huxley to review, which meant The Origin got a rave review in that most important of papers. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The citizens of London sent fifty million pounds, to keep the menagerie up, and the ladies of Britain constructed a pair of black velvet carpet slippers with the Waifs initials embroidered in gold. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “She won’t tell any of us. There has never been such a secret. I believe she even wrote to London for it.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At first she wonders what on earth Chandresh’s assistant is doing in Prague, as she has never seen him outside of London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Do you suppose them to be in London?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z And Mother spoke very slowly and she said, “We are going back to Swindon because if we stay in London any longer... someone was going to get hurt. And I don’t necessarily mean you.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Why would there be women in London who look like your mother?” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Anyway, he said he’d get some books sent down from London. He told me he had a box at the post office...” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And my new goal was to make it to the 2012 Olympics in London. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z My only memory of her is early in the morning in her apartment in London—she’s smiling and reaching out to take my box of KittyBix. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The south bank of the Thames was like a poor reflection of the north bank, a sort of lesser London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Kondrachev was the only Soviet official in London who knew Blake's actual identity or his role in British intelligence. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z So when I got back to London, a year after setting out, I had been all around the African continent. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Turned out I knew more about London than most Londoners. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A new poster had suddenly appeared all over London. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the “Red” and “Blue” books, Whitaker’s Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and—it somehow gladdened my heart to see it—the Law List. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The circus is preparing for a stretch near London, having recently departed Dublin, so there are a handful of performers present. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In my last I told you about our London visit, how kind the Vaughns were, and what pleasant parties they made for us. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or that he did not give her the use of their own instrument—which must now be shut up in London, untouched by any body.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I looked out of the window to find thick cloud covering London. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z When she wants to know if I’m from London, I say cheers and aye up and bangers and mash, in what I think is a pretty convincing accent. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I passed and returned to London, where Drew had a job and we’d rented a flat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a typical Bach fugue, such as the ‘Gigue Fugue’, the tune to be imitated would be much longer than the four notes that begin 'London’s Burning’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z A cousin in London had sent them as a twelfth birthday present, even though Calder’s birthday wasn’t until the end of the year. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Back in London, Blake slipped quietly into his new routine of spying on England for the KGB—all the while pretending to spy on the Soviets for MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z They drove in damp clothes toward London and stopped at a pub to eat fried food. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z After a day, Oliver left for London, promising to join Robbie and me in Ghana. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Ironically, amid such intense suspicion of the British, no one seemed to take note of the double agent inside the KGB's London residency. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Last night, his mother had told him about London. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I saw at once that Falconer was no stranger to London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z In early February 1944, more news reached London and Washington: The Germans were beginning to empty the heavy water machines. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And she said, “So, why are you going to London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z London was never steamy like this, and both of us are sweating. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When we went up in the London Eye with Dad the next day, I’d noticed a time when you could put a disguise on with nobody noticing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And we would have sat up here talking no doubt, she telling me all she had done in London, like she always did.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “We could be sitting here, somebody from New York, London, Boston, San Francisco, all live. And maybe the implementation is in Singapore, so the Singapore person could also be live here... That’s globalization,” said Nilekani. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z None of us had eaten since our train ride to London, which seemed eons ago. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He also made a stop in London to give a speech to the Royal Geographical Society—ending once and for all any doubt about the existence of the Rio Roosevelt. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z She and Emma were friends; they had made that trip to Paris together, stopping in London on the way back. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z At this time molecular work on DNA in England was, for all practical purposes, the personal property of Maurice Wilkins, a bachelor who worked in London at King’s College.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Jule listened to the accents of the theatergoers: London, Yorkshire, Liverpool. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “From over there—New London—born there. My uncle’s in the service and two cousins. I guess we’re a kind of submarine family.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top of the ride, Kat says London looks like toy-town and the cars on the roads below look like abacus beads going left and right and stopping and starting. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The D.H.C. for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z And inside the front cover there was a big map of London with places on it like Abbey Wood and Poplar and Acton and Stanmore. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was something rather sincere and pathetic about her going off to a shop in London and buying me these books because she knew I was fond of painting. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z One night, after Forrest had been staying with Jule in London for a week, he bought the two of them tickets to see A Winter’s Tale at the Royal Shakespeare Company. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Still, Beatrice had taken the trouble to go up to London and to buy the books for me. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw a team of security people, standing by the barriers, checking hand luggage, sweeping people with hand-held explosives-detectors, like they do at airports and at the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, coming out, I nearly stepped on my lead soldiers, which Grandpa had ordered for me from London, England. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A young man with a London Eye T-shirt, a member of staff, stood at the door beckoning us to come out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, how much would it be to get to London?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Some of them, living in London, had promised to help Marian when she arrived. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z From, maybe, a few sleepy allies in London. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z All the bells of London were ringing the hour of Nones. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z I read The Irish Times and The Times of London because that tells me what the King is up to every day and what Elizabeth and Margaret are doing. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z And then the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony crackle from the speaker, followed by an announcer who says in crisp German, "The BBC London presents the news in German." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I told him about that first World Cup in London where Candace and I had sat with our notebooks watching the competition. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Then I took Toby out of his cage and put him into the pocket of one of my coats because the cage was very heavy to carry all the way to London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I also knew that in London I would be able to obtain literature on guerrilla warfare that I had been unable to acquire elsewhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was almost up when we got to the New London. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think you’re a couple of old rogues, but you may well have something,” Wilkins wrote from London on March 18, 1953. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Both of the women were eager for a reunion: Stanton and Mott had not seen one another since their time in London eight years before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It was by a rather popular writer named Mr. Dickens, who lived in London and published stories in the magazines. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z And the whole book was a big map of London, but it had been chopped up so it could be made into a book, and I liked that. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m late. I must go. I hate it but I must. The ship sails soon and London is far.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z One of the first assignments I had as a council member was a series of speaking engagements at local schools in London about my journey as a minority member of Team USA. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But back in foggy, dirty, cramped London, she reconsidered. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The farther we got from the train station, the more evidence we saw of the bombs that had been raining down on London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The clipping is a theatrical review, an article carefully removed from the London Times. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Stapleton tells Doctor Watson to “go straight back to London instantly.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Charles stopped again in London for a longer visit with Erasmus and other family before heading home. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The other says, “Ran off yesterday. With the rest. London.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z According to Professor Bill McGuire of University College London, "you wouldn’t be able to get within a thousand kilometers of it" while it was erupting. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z An example from history concerns the great outbreak of cholera in London more than one hundred years ago. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Already, on the walk from the station, the May sunshine had made him feel dirty and etiolated, a creature of indoors, with the sooty dust of London in the pores of his skin. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I’d looked up information in the library and in our Encyclopedia Britannica, but I still felt I didn't know London well enough. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “London! Where even the rats wear top “Oh, I didn’t go on about it that much,” Enoch said. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He’d never be able to drag his trunk all the way to London. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z After another visit to Maer, and more talks by the fire, Charles went back to London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides that portion reserved for travelers there was an almonry overflowing with the poor of London, seeking food and clothing. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z We’d spoken to the strange man at the London Eye and perhaps that was why we were in such trouble. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as the expedition was announced, 5,000 would-be explorers rushed to the expedition's office on New Burlington Street in London to join. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Not many people travel there these days, but once this was one of the most popular attractions in London–in effect, as Richard Fortey has noted, the world’s first theme park. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The museum, in London’s Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells died six years later in London, a few weeks before his eightieth birthday. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z It was two o’clock in the morning, London time, when they got Sulzberger out of bed and on the speakerphone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Ordinary people aren’t like the woman in the experiment outside London. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Instead of destroying London and its suburbs, as the Martians did in the novel, Koch’s aliens would create mayhem in the New York City area. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I told her she could see her friends in London, but Manderley was mine. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They had lived in a house in London for four weeks, once, and then left very quickly, because of something his mother did not like, some unpleasantness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z And when I got to the window I said, “Is this London?” but there was no one behind the window. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Come,” he said at last, “tell me of London and of the house which you have procured for me.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “The friend of the director is in London?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If this is but Leicester, I thought, what must London be like? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z I’d like to spend a year in Paris and London learning the languages and studying art history. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I’m enclosing a poem by Auden on the death of Yeats cut out from an old London Mercury from last year. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I start for London, Miss Havisham, to-morrow,” I was exceedingly careful what I said, “and I thought you would kindly not mind my taking leave of you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Even the simple chore of buying milk was new to me; in London we’d had bottles delivered each morning to our door. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z As the fall progressed, I remained ensnared by bacterial matings, often going up to London to talk with Bill Hayes at his Hammersmith Hospital lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “All right...Two: you stole her from her crib and you’re taking her to London to sell.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We play “London Bridge Is Falling Down,” me for the first time, fumbling to follow Madge’s slide positions. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z And two ballpoint pens—the top halves filled with water in which a cut-out collage of a London streetscape was suspended. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they went to England, for sure, since they didn’t even have the same friends in London. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I laugh, remembering the teeming streets of London, with carriages and horses and people and hogs all vying for space on the cobblestones. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In 1825, aged just twenty-one, Owen moved to London and soon after was engaged by the Royal College of Surgeons to help organize their extensive, but disordered, collections of medical and anatomical specimens. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I got on the train and went into London. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This World Cup competition was to take place right outside of London. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z While they had been talking, the train had carried them out of London. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Although the two women exchanged letters, it took eight years for them to follow through on the promise they had made in London to hold a women’s rights convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Thanks to his studies in London, Headmaster often shifted back and forth between Bangla and English, but he always seemed to mangle English proverbs and expressions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Forget that she sometimes wore a diamond crown and that I’d flown to London on the presidential jet; we were just two tired ladies oppressed by our shoes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “He received an urgent owl from the Ministry of Magic and flew off for London at once.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z High-roads, and telegraph poles, and the monotony of passing traffic, the slow crawl into London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Wash’s father was already principal of the New London Colored School, so that was the end of her teaching. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The fury and hatred bubbling inside Harry seemed to blaze white-hot, but he would rather have been immobilized all the way back to London than tell Snape why he was late. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “I cannot see that London has any great advantage over the country, for my part, except the shops and public places. The country is a vast deal pleasanter, is not it, Mr. Bingley?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z I’m quite keen to hear more about it when you are in London. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Besides San Francisco, only small sections of London and Rome stay in the mind as the City. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all the talk of London,” Bear said, “as well as the court at Westminster.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z But this man was in a London Underground uniform and this meant it was his job to help lost passengers. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Maurice was told that Pauling was in his pasture when I passed through London on my way to Switzerland for a Christmas skiing holiday. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Yes, yes,” Emma said quickly, “had something caught in my eye, was all. Now, everyone gather your things. We must go to London at once, and see about making Miss Peregrine whole again!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The two spies then went over procedures for future meetings in London and for setting into motion Blake's new career as a Soviet "mole" inside MI6. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘He didn’t get lost here. He got lost two days ago. At the London Eye.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z London to LA, then LA by bus to Vegas. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Emma and Charles found that London’s whirl of noise, dirt, crowds, and foggy, smoggy air was getting to be too much for them. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand how we are meant to compete when the circus is going to travel, and I must remain in London. I shall have to do everything remotely.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The sun is, for once, bright over London when they step outside, flooding the stands around them, which have already mostly filled with spectators. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z And Tar licking Marcus’s face on the beach, and Billy burying his brother, and the theatre in London, and the painting of the angel on the ceiling, and the generations that followed . The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Kat and I watched as a black London cab pulled up outside our house. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Let’s be Salim, Ted. Let’s both imagine we’re on Euston Station. Let’s retrace his steps. In our heads. Remember. He doesn’t know London well. He has a travel card. Right?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He had risen early, breakfasted almost alone, and had spent the morning going over the notes of the case that was recalling him to London. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z In London, I was only allowed to go to the library and the park across the street alone. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In London we were enrolled in different schools because Sunny's so gifted. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Let him come, let him come, and then when his arm is out far enough, when his nose is extended, I will chop it off with a chop they’ll feel in London. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days of May, before the story from France was fully understood, before the bombing of the city in September, London had the outward signs, but not yet the mentality, of war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Six weeks earlier, Jule arrived in London for the first time. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Our magnificent theater teacher in London didn't even know I could act. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The ballpoint pens with London’s streets in them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Nearly six years ago, before leaving for London, I had watched her die on that bed, had found her playing with her excrement in her final days. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The other four men were taken to London to prepare for the job. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They brought Nebraskan wheat to Tokyo, Brazilian bananas to London, American scrap metal to India. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The crowds around the London Eye were thinner than yesterday. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z And I said, “London’s a long way away and I don’t want to take him on the train because I might lose him.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I think London looks like London and the cars like cars, only smaller. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It smelled as though scent scientists had engineered it to give off the whiff of walking past a high-end rare book dealer’s shop in Paris or London. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z By then, what was to become the longest continuously enduring scientific society in the world had already begun to meet in London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In the winter of 1807, thirteen like-minded souls in London got together at the Freemasons Tavern at Long Acre, in Covent Garden, to form a dining club to be called the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The competition was tremendous now, but the day after she was ninth a three-page letter arrived from Westley in London and just reading it over put her up to eighth. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z My uncle, a senior consultant surgeon in a huge London hospital, came home most weekends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He is to stop with me then, if he can; he says he has work to do in London which may take him some time. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Bolvangar might have been on the outskirts of London, and children might have been arriving all the time, for all fire interest Sister Clara seemed to show. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “My flatmate doesn’t know that I’ve lost my job. So I go into London, as usual, and I go to libraries, to job hunt, to work on my CV.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And anyway, he could hear the sound of children in the distance, which would be the little white kids at the New London school, hollering through their first recess of the year. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Life in nature was a struggle, just as in the crowded, poverty- ridden neighborhoods of London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Maxim had to go up to London at the end of June to some public dinner. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was summertime in London and the night was not cold, but don’t forget that Sophie was wearing only her thin nightie. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Since he had to be in London late in October for another reason, he dropped a line to Maurice saying he could come by King’s. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “London Bridge” might go as far back as the Middle Ages in London, as it describes the disrepair of the famous bridge. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We stood together, jostled by passers-by, and watched the strange man disappear into the crowd, just as he’d done at the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Known as Alderman Sugar- Cane, he was so successful that he became the mayor of London and a member of Parliament. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z If he lives in London he may know people who have consulted the medical practitioner and astrologer Simon Forman, who uses magic to help them recover stolen goods. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The students of London University elected me president of their Students’ Union, in absentia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The trip from London was an unexpected gift from his boss, Professor J. T. Randall. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The American gymnasts, famously nicknamed the Fierce Five, had just won artistic team gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, ahead of the gymnastics powerhouse nations of Russia, Romania, and China. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “The result would have been that we would have obliterated London but still would not have conquered the world,” said Karl Wirtz. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Calls came, long-distance from San Francisco to Maine . . . from even London, Stockholm, Paris. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Three days later, word of the ascent reached Queen Elizabeth on the eve of her coronation, and the Times of London broke the news on the morning of June 2 in its early edition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Once I got back to England I got a job at the London Zoo. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At his sentencing for treason in a London courtroom, George Blake was given one year in prison for each of the British agents he was known to have betrayed to the Soviet Union: forty-two. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But now that he was in London on his own, maybe it meant he was brave. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He recalled that it was Jefferson himself who had first encouraged him “to write something upon Aristocracy” when they were together in London thirty years earlier. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After a year at Oxford, I went back to London and an absolutely fascinating job. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z After talking it over, he and Emma had agreed that they would begin their lives together in London, for Charles still had much to do in the city. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Eight minutes later, a new edition of The Hourly Radio was on sale in the streets of London. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They were flying over the six kilometre zone of park-land that separated Central London from its first ring of satellite suburbs. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They had not been socializing much in London anyway. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My departure, three days after the New Year, nonetheless had been fixed by Murdoch’s arranging for me to speak at a London meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z In the summer of that year, Halley visited Flamsteed in London, and he assisted him with observations, including two lunar eclipses on 27 June and 21 December. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She supposes that you are far away from London, in Shropshire. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The plane takes off and I watch London disappear beneath a bank of clouds. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was on the phone with her dad, who was in London for a business deal. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “But it would be nice to be direct for a change, I sometimes wonder if any of us remember how. Why did you leave London?” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He saw an article that talked about special classes in the new school that had just been built in New London with tax money from the oil companies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z King James has granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to send men to the New World, to Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “She's loose in London. And with Uncle Andrew. I wonder what on earth is going to happen now.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Your mother and I are in London, too. After the police couldn’t find you on the island ... anyway, it doesn’t matter, just tell us where you are and we’ll come get you!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z In addition to his New York home, he had an apartment in London, and one in Rome. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The gray afternoon was fouled by the soupy London fog. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He was described to me as an eminent, learned Muslim, a University of Cairo graduate, a University of London Ph.D., a lecturer on Islam, a United Nations advisor and the author of many books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, ma’am. I’m set with this, thank you much. I got to be heading back to New London here in a minute. Just a quick visit.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen enough of it. My parents have moved from London to Saudi Arabia to Hong Kong to Germany. Everything’s constantly being uprooted.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Like Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet bubble, London was the center of a speculative mania about the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We’ll be back about a week before term starts and we’ll be going up to London to get my wand and our new books. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The following evening they board a Pan Am flight to London, where after a five-hour layover they will board a second flight to Calcutta, via Tehran and Bombay. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Scattered about London there were just three other buildings of similar appearance and size. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z A London physician, John Snow, mapped the occurrence of cases and found they originated in one area, all of whose inhabitants drew their water from one pump located on Broad Street. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It looked as if a comer of the London Eye was emerging from my shoulder. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Citing his years of experience at sea, he presented himself at the offices of the National Antarctic Expedition in London. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z At eleven a.m., she shuttled to the airport and checked her bags for the night flight to London, business class. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z His mother said, 'I am going up to London for a day, with Mr Hooper.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, “just to keep people frightened.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In London they sang for Queen Victoria and the Prime Minister, William Gladstone, who invited them to breakfast with him. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z During his first conversations with her, when they first returned from London, she had sounded so different, so full of certitude. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Troops marched through London on their way to quell riots in Manchester, passing by 12 Upper Gower Street. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z London speech no longer felt so foreign on my ear or on my tongue, and I'd learned to ignore the clamor of its streets. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Now France had fallen it was assumed that the bombing of London, the softening-up, must soon begin. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Harry turned to the back cover of the book and saw the printed name of a variety store on Vauxhall Road, London. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And all the time there had been a small fortune belonging to him, buried deep under London. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z To do this, he had to be in London, especially so he could use his considerable charm to convince the experts to hurry up. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On August 24, 1940, the Germans attacked London, the capital city of Britain. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In a matter of microseconds the image would appear on the screen of Mrs. Jones’ computer in London along with the time and location from which it had been sent. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The radio had started squawking the moment they’d entered London airspace and had only stopped when Mr. Grin turned it off. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Because I’m jolly well not turning it over to some filing clerk in London. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z My mom's journey across the globe started when she flew from Tehran to London to spend a couple of days with her brother. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It is implied that anything might take you to London or Saint Kitts, but if you live in Paris, it must be because you hate the United States. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He returned to London and confirmed that his most recent crystallographic data, as well as Franklin’s, clearly supported a double helix. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One report places him on an ocean liner bound for London in 1934. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "Landor, you mean? That was the bank robbery—London and Commercial." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z My favourite thing to do in London is to fly the Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’d just arrived in London after being rescued from the burning island...” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z A voice, speaking English with an elegant Hausa accent, announced that the passengers from the London flight should proceed to board the flight for Lagos. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Maurice would come up on the 10:10 train from London the following morning. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z So they had her in daycare in a neighborhood in London that didn’t like new people. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Hugo's accent'd gone just a bit less posh and just a bit more London. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Especially after they hear Namontack’s report on King James, whom he met while he was in London. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Prospero the Enchanter has not graced the London stage in some time, and the booking is for a single week of performances, with no matinees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Revolution in Science / New Theory of the Universe / Newtonian Ideas Overthrown” declared the Times of London in a historic headline. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The children pile aboard witch planes that prowl the skies at night, capable of traveling to Zambia and London in a single minute. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie had sent a special message to London, advising that French troops had marched out of New France and built two forts in the Ohio Valley, land claimed by Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But George Blake's espionage career didn't come to an end on the day he was led in shackles to Wormwood Scrubs prison, outside London. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We play through “London Bridge,” and it sounds like Madge is the only one playing the right notes. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I can’t lace getting up, getting dressed, getting onto the train, going into London, wandering the streets. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “Prior to 1863 there wasn’t an underground system in London at all.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The rise of a middle class - and a growing, wage-earning working class, as London’s industry expanded - was to have a greater effect on changing musical tastes in Britain than the whims of aristocratic patrons. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He bought a program, the kind you can buy in London theaters that’s full of photographs and gives a history of the production. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At the end of the summer they move out of the Loyer house, and soon after that, Anna finds a teaching job and moves thirty miles north of London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A current favorite author was Francis Newman, a Latin professor at University College London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Slash escaped from London that night, and was soon back at sea. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon in April 2016, the two of us took a helicopter from the American ambassador’s residence in London to Windsor Castle in the countryside west of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She told him, with the suppressed laughter of a person impatient for the punch line of her own joke, about the telemarketer who thought that London was in France. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Well known as a writer, scientist, and publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, he had moved to London in 1757 to lobby, first for Pennsylvania and later for Massachusetts and Georgia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She said that the London Eye management policy states that children are not supposed to ride without an adult accompanying them. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In my own case, studying under the auspices of the University of London was a mixed blessing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew what she was getting into, because she had been imprisoned for picketing when she lived in London several years before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The Scots are being slowly pushed back and we are gaining ground, since receiving the added help from London and the nearby towns. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Deborah yelled on the other end, “I told you London cloned my mother!” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Would his parents leave him and go back to London? The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z "I was fifteen. Yes, New York. But we lived in London before that, and briefly in Ghana. And first in India, where I was born." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My surmise is, this: that in London the Count decided to get back to his castle by water, as the most safe and secret way. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z My London showing earlier in the season had been disappointing, but the last six months of training had made a difference. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Two weeks prior to his scheduled flight to London, he was notified that he would not get a passport. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z And I said, “When is the train to London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Seven weeks earlier, at the end of April, Jule woke up in a youth hostel on the outskirts of London. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Their families know each other. We ran into him when we first got to London.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Finally, in 1973, David Robinson at Kings College, London, used Carter’s and my results to show that the conjecture had been correct: such a black hole had indeed to be the Kerr solution. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, in all ways but one, a typical trip to London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1683, Halley, Hooke, and Wren were dining in London when the conversation turned to the motions of celestial objects. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They could follow it for a while, then they’d have to go on the Turnpike to get over the Thames River, to New London. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know him,” I said, “he came here the day you went to London.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But, after all, they were in the Antarctic, not Hyde Park in London. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Now you tell us what you was doing in London, Lyra. We had you down as being took by the Gobblers.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It is an American food. I will make it for my master to bring here when your madam comes back from London. I know she will like it.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On the other hand, he had lived his whole life in West London and had visited the museum often enough. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In the end, although Senghor did not then provide us with what we asked for, he furnished me with a diplomatic passport and paid for our plane fares from Dakar to our next des-tination: London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And bouncing on her flat heels, full of coffee and nerve and code, was Eva Seiler, Berlin’s interpretive liaison with London, soon to insinuate herself into the German-speaking underworld of Ormaie. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The man at O’Riordan’s Travel Agency says he can’t get me to America by air unless I travel to London first, which would cost a fortune. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “I could apply to Cambridge and DJ in London. Yes!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as they climbed higher and higher, London unfurling below them like a gray-and-green map, Harry’s overwhelming feeling was of gratitude for an escape that had seemed impossible. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was said that you could walk from Oxford to Bristol in one direction and London in the other, and never leave Jordan land. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Handel’s first eighteen oratorios in London theatres were packed- house affairs. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Travelers from London be few since the plague,” he said. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z How exciting—I now had enough money, along with the small amount I had saved while in London, for a round-trip fare to Africa! My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think it would do any harm if I quietly let it be known down in Kerrith and in the county that a London doctor has supplied us with a motive,” said Colonel Julyan. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Unlike the stucco row house I’d lived in in London, this house, fully detached, was covered with wooden shingles, with a tangle of forsythia bushes plastered against the front and sides. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “The food is monotonous and salty, the commoners stink, and the storms will not cease. We will sail back to London at once. Who is with me?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A few hours before my flight from London, I wrote to my mother—as I always did, as I always will do—to ask if she would see me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z My old branch was two blocks from our London flat, and I went almost daily. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z For by being near London, they could use their wealth to influence members of Parliament, and could even run for office themselves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Along the walls were portraits: Merchant Lyte in his handsome, healthy youth; Lavinia, painted long before in London, as regal a child as now she was a young woman. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was to knock Quisling unconscious, drive him into the mountains, call Britain for a plane, fly him to London, and put him on display in a cage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bear pointed out London, Flemish, and Italian merchants, identifying them by their particular garb or badges. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the road takes you to London, but London is a whole night's drive from Wall. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Again, his instructor refuses to answer any of his questions until they return to London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Oh, yes! They left Brighton together on Sunday night, and were traced almost to London, but not beyond; they are certainly not gone to Scotland.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z He thought she was Jewish and rich and owned a London flat. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The crowds that daily left London, left it only to play Electromagnetic Golf or Tennis. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will help you be closer to the circus,” Isobel continues, “and it will give me something to do for the duration of your challenge. When it’s done I can come back to London.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even if you had gotten on the plane, you would’ve been caught when exchanging flights in London. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “London: where every day’s a holiday . . . for the trash man!” hats!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly without means, his father began casting around for boatbuilding work on the London waterfront. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z "We grew up in London," my sister says, and she already sounds more American than she had on the plane. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Or my mother, telling me that she’ll be in London next week, she’ll drop by the office, we can go for lunch. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z And then someone sat behind the window and she was a lady and she was black and she had long fingernails which were painted pink and I said, “Is this London?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I loved being in London visiting art galleries and going to concerts. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z MI6 invited Blake to London for a gentle interrogation about his years as a prisoner. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z International headlines took aim at the United States, with one London newspaper taunting that "the Americans have made fools of themselves." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Trust Dumbledore to come up with something like this . .. but he’s in London . .. I’ll be far away by the time he gets back. ...” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z But the train to London would take only about another hour. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Sander pointed out the roofs of the queen's London residence far off to the west, and the Tower prison to the east. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was just him, the sky, and London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z While waiting for my connection out of London, I found a phone booth that worked and punched in the number Piper sent me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z London’s air is, on many days, pea-soup thick, the coal smoke from factories mixing with fog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You may get cheated, robbed, and murdered in London. But there are plenty of people anywhere, who’ll do that for you.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z They would see their grown children who lived in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Haukelid relayed the details to British intelligence in London, saying that the job would be tricky and might result in the loss of civilian lives. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, Mr. Tallis was expected from London at any moment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the London office, Mrs. Jones sat waiting while Alan Blunt read the report. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There is no sign of life, intelligent or otherwise, in places we call Washington, New York, Boston, Moscow, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo and Peking. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how can we ever figure how far west of London we are—when we’re here—and London is away off somewhere else?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was always difficult to determine the age of a London building. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z "Her parents are in London for one year due to my daughter's stage career, and they've sublet their Manhattan apartment. So Anu will be coming to stay with me." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Air and light and miles of London, all to ourselves. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I have it. Let’s go to the London Eye.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley’s navigational equipment was down to one compass, his sextant, and his tables—and of the twenty-four chronometers he had taken with him from London, he had only one remaining. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Mundungus will probably be in London by now. There’s no point yelling.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Let’s all go to London, then, and see the new King!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I never shall get to London if I don’t hurry. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s very well, thank you,” I said, “he’s gone up to London.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The train jolts and scrapes and screeches back into motion, the little pile of clothes disappears from view and we trundle on towards London, moving at a brisk jogger’s pace. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The hearing will take place on April 20th, and we ask you to present yourself and your hippogriff at the Committee’s offices in London on that date. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z After Esther Handel presented a further twenty-one oratorios in London. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z "Well, here we are, Frith,” said Maxim, taking off his gloves, “it was raining when we left London. You don’t seem to have had it here. Everyone well?" Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z During the later part of the campaign, riots broke out in Port Elizabeth and East London in which more than forty people were killed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you did, nobody in London would know.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Whenever Kayode returned from a London vacation, flush with relevance, Emenike would ask him about the latest music and films, and then examine his shoes and clothes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We know that Halley’s wife was Mary Tooke, and that the wedding took place in St James’ Church, in Duke Place, London. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I kept thinking of Salim, seeing his face with his lips turned up, fading in and out of the spokes of the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only set a bomb outside the prime minister’s house in London,” replied Hugh. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If Alex was going to reach the Science Museum in London in the fifty-nine minutes left to him, he had to be on it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z No, they are just frozen historical accidents: the “correct” forms are those that happened to be used in the dialect spoken in the region around London when written English first became standardized several centuries ago. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In London it was easy to survive on my own, rummaging in garbage for my meals. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z "Baba provides just fine! So many of his friends in London still can't find permanent jobs—he found one as soon as he got here." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She speaks with nostalgia of the years her family had spent in England, living at first in London, which she barely remembers, and then in a brick semidetached house in Croydon, with rosebushes in front. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “It’s ever so much grander than you described it, Enoch. And oh, did you describe it! For seventy-five years: London, London, London! The greatest city on Earth!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z ‘Your boat leaves from London Docks in six days,’ he said. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ll be shipped across the country at the end of this month, and on April first there’s to be a special ceremony at the Science Museum in London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z This is the same Princess that defied the bombs in London, the one that is brave and heroic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They repeat this routine in the following evenings, though the circus does not remain in Munich long, once the news arrives from London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was my first time in London, but I was so nervous about the competition, I hardly paid attention to the world speeding by outside the taxi window. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z By the end of the second week, I more often haunted my living room, but the Gravedigger rained medication on me like the London Blitz. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Science, we are to understand, was one thing in Florence, something quite different in Paris or London. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “What do you think? We are all going to London for a great tournament on New Year’s Day!” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I also opened a bank account, rented a post office box, and bought a plastic bowl and a spoon at Woolworth’s, a store whose name I recognized from London. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I stared at the tube map of London. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The vaulted roof seems to stretch up forever into the inky London sky, and beneath it the room is arranged like a city square somewhere in Florence, climbing columns and towering altars and archways. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z We came to the suburbs of London about three o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Small boats slipped out of their winter moorings, and one day a bustling cheering crowd thronged along High Street to greet the first sailing ship up from New London. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z And can we actually disaggregate the work of a journalist and keep part in London and New York and shift part to India? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z During Franklin’s long stay in London he had become well aware of British Secret Service tricks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From Saint Hilda’s they applied and were accepted to University College, in London. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I says to myself, ‘If I ain’t a gentleman, nor yet ain’t got no learning, I’m the owner of such. All on you owns stock and land; which on you owns a brought-up London gentleman?’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I sold it to the British consul. He told me he would put it in a museum in London.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had never been to Boston before; I thought it looked like the London I had never seen. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’m coming up to London with you in the car.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If I were her I’d fly straight to London and shoot them both,” she announced one day. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I imagined a whirlwind, dark and swift, and in the middle of it a gentle oval-shaped stillness, shaped like a bicycle wheel seen from an angle: the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Because we is meant to be in the middle of London and suddenly we is in green pastures.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thinking it would be nice for them down at New London if the weather held up like this. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z So we had to shift within London three times. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I said coldly, in German, “What possible reason could I have to pretend to be Berlin’s interpretive liaison with London?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When we arrived in London, we tumbled into three taxis and went clattering across the great city to King’s Cross, where we got on to the train for Newcastle, two hundred miles to the north. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m on the 8:04, but I’m not going into London. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Every old prison I’ve seen since, from the Tower of London to Philadelphia’s massive and abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary, has inspired a similar fascination. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a sister married to a Mr. Phillips, who had been a clerk to their father, and succeeded him in the business, and a brother settled in London in a respectable line of trade. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Especially not after he has heard from Namontack that King James is a short, flabby, weak man with no teeth and the strongest body odor in London. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But Germany’s bombing campaign against London and other British cities backfired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He skims the opening pages that are filled with polite inquiries into his own days in London, remarks about how she misses the city, misses him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In London he had been far too old to run: now, he ran at a speed which would have made him certain to win the hundred yards’ race at any Prep school in England. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z But there’s one map I can read, which is the one of the London Underground. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z From there, they were sent to London, where they were reprinted. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps London would be overwhelmed by poisonous gas, or overrun by German parachutists aided on the ground by fifth columnists before Lola’s wedding could take place. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Home was the Mount, a large, square brick house in Shrewsbury, a quiet market town in the county of Shropshire about 150 miles northwest of London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was like this Which meant that I had to go to London to live with Mother. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Arthur Lee became suspicious, but while he was pointing a finger at Bancroft, Franklin learned from his agents in London that Lee’s own private secretary was a British spy! George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I grew up in an orphanage in London. Horrible place.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Except that she lived in London and I’d never been to London before. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Now that Maxim was safe in London, and I had eaten my biscuits, I felt very well and curiously happy. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-one days after leaving London we steamed into Mombasa, the coastal port of Kenya. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She recalled caring for Maria as a nine-year-old girl just arrived in London. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z When they do begin to say their goodbyes, Celia is embraced no differently than anyone else, and given several invitations to meet for tea while the circus remains in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Look up the background of some of your favorite children’s songs such as “Ring Around the Rosie” or “London Bridge.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In some cities, London and Vienna among them, the opera was immediately banned. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “The real story is dead boring. I grew up in London with me mum and dad, sister, brother, and a parakeet named Benny Hill.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I wet my lips and play “Jingle Bell Boogie” and “London Bridge Is Falling Down.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I am only taking one change of dress; Lucy will bring my trunk to London and keep it till I send for it, for it may be that ... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It quickly won international acclaim and ran for weeks in London and Paris. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The abolitionist wing of the Methodists circulated his pamphlets on Sunday morning and London periodicals published his arguments without rebuttal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I’m used to doing things for myself, I go round London on my own all the time. How do you get to this Diagon Alley — sir?” he added, catching Dumbledore’s eye. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She is called the Queen Mary,” said Abilene’s father, “and you and your mama and I shall sail on her all the way to London.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Which was how we decided on the London Eye. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, he had been to London with Mr Hooper, the uniform had been bought. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I sometimes listen to the Dutch broadcasts from London. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z His cousin had visited from London and given him some pounds. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I heard the rumble of the buses, the hooting of taxis, that inevitable tireless London roar, but I was not part of it. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And he said, “So, how precisely were you going to get to London, then?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z So the dispute between Reinier de Graaf and Jan Swammerdam over the discovery of the egg within the ovary, which began in 1672, was referred to the Royal Society in London for adjudication. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The following morning, we set out for London. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He gave us his card, with his address in London and his club and his business address, and as we got on the bus he handed us each an envelope. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z I don’t care if I have to walk from one end of London to the other.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z That my walk across London ended at the church on Clapham Common, and that a cowardly Briony limped back to the hospital, unable to confront her recently bereaved sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In London, night came too soon, it hung in the morning air like a threat, and then in the afternoon a blue-gray dusk descended, and the Victorian buildings all wore a mournful air. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z "Remember when you used to take us to the London Zoo or to Trafalgar Square, Baba?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps Mama was performing the preliminary protections now that Olanna was in London and would bury the medicine in the yard to keep it potent until Olanna came back. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And I said, “Yes. I’m going to London to live with my mother.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The London Times of Great Britain pointed out the folly of the United States in the face of serious international threats. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t you remember what the dog told us? Miss Wren came to London a few days ago, when she heard that her sister ymbrynes had been kidnapped.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z For two days afterward, there was so much fine dust in the atmosphere that one could read a newspaper at night by scattered light in the streets of London, 10,000 kilometers away. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z London was a cold city, paved with wet stones. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z We laughed like mad, strangely giddy, half in disbelief that we’d made it this far—across the water, through the woods, past snarling hollows and death squads of wights, all the way to London. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You do not seem to realize that one may have friends awaiting one’s arrival in London, and that a day’s delay upsets arrangements and causes a lot of annoyance.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Gwentshe had been a successful shopkeeper and had played an important role in organizing East London for the stay-at-home of June 26, two years before. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the East, and it drove still, as if in the East there were an eternity of cloud and wind. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z There’s an awful screeching outside as the London train stops at the signal, like nails on a chalkboard. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He then travelled on the Continent for several years, before settling in London, where he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1573. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She knits, talks on the phone with Aunt Louise about their London trip—which they’re still secretly planning—and reads her citizenship booklet. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z In London, most people were used to Indian accents, even if they didn't like them much. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If it should be, and he came to London, with his teeming millions.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There are no decorations except for a single poster for a movie called Jump London. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Fifty members of the British Parliament had staged a march in London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Gallien wondered whether he’d picked up one of those crackpots from the lower forty-eight who come north to live out ill-considered Jack London fantasies. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z July 30: Of all the sea books I've been reading, the book that has taken me over is Jack London's Martin Eden. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I had to travel to London and, at a certain time in a certain place, drop a small piece of chalk and tread on it,” she explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He went on, “I work mainly in London. You speak English?” he added in that language. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, we stayed in London while Baba traveled to Singapore, Malaysia, Cameroon, and the Philippines on short-term engineering contracts. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z About twenty or thirty of them a week were falling on London at present. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “I know nothing of the large parties of London, sir—I never dine with any body.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z “What my son means to say is that we’re keen on improving the level of education at New London Colored School. Sure want to be a credit to the county.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z After losing his wife, his children, his medical practice, and most of his fossil collection, Mantell moved to London. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I suppose London...but no, I have no idea.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the days where you could be hanged in London from Tyburn’s triple-crowned tree for the theft of twelve pennies, the Americas became a symbol of clemency, of a second chance. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Mr. John died yesterday was a week, at his chambers in London.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It was ahead, ajar, and cigarette smoke billowed out like fog in Jack the Ripper's London. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he said quietly: ‘Up to the last moment—up to the eleventh hour, we will beg the Governor’s permission for the ships’ return to London with their cargo. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In Handel’s London, the vogue for adult soloist castrati was short-lived, and Italian-style opera itself soon came up against stiff competition in the shape of what we would today call jukebox musicals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In the course of eighteen months Bruno published six books in London, all of them written in Italian. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The telegrams from London have been the same: “no further report.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Swell ladies and gentlemen that Terrance had met on his travels, as well as a newspaperman from London come to report on the American scene. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s not that I can’t wait to get into London to start my week -I don’t particularly want to be in London at all. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Their lives were full of plans he made—Cozumel for one night, London for a long weekend—and she sometimes took a taxi on Friday evenings after work to meet him at the airport. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Somewhere to the north of London lived a man called Baker who had never heard of us, but he held our future in the hollow of his hand. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When the train give a jerk and stopped in London, the man who was sitting ’crost the way from us got off. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He said, ‘I shall be away in London a good deal. I cannot live here the whole time, even in your holidays.’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z "But I guess you have pretty big doings yourself over in London." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z There were one hundred and seven boys waiting to be interviewed when I arrived at the Head Office of the Shell Company in London. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the school year, when it was time for her to return home to London, the two of them had openly declared their love for each other. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Some were fencing terms, some were peculiar to London, some were the jargon of the players' trade. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Besides, after that nighttime visit in London, I'm not interested in attracting a dangerous audience. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In June 1909, Alice Paul met Lucy Burns at a London police station after they had both been arrested for participating in a protest. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “No . . . I just got to London by train a few hours ago.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I’m sure your parents didn’t mind. Ah! Ah! You have been coming first since we started class one. Chinwe said her father took her to London.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It is only in this last version that my lovers end well, standing side by side on a South London pavement as I walk away. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I said if he met me at the London Eye and helped me and my mate Salim carry out this joke we were planning, we'd give him a tenner. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z While she was in London, Stanton visited with Angelina and Sarah Grimké, her abolitionist friends from New York, but she was most impressed by Lucretia Mott and the work she did as an activist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We roll into Witney station and out again, the train starting to pick up pace as suburbia melts into grimy North London, terraced houses replaced by tagged bridges and empty buildings w'ith broken windows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z After that we spent months at the Head Office in London learning how the great company functioned from the inside. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The Daily Telegraph of London offered an atypical reaction to the impending match: “Imagine that you can hear the end of Schubert’s ‘Unfinished Symphony’ or Beethoven’s 10th, or see the missing arm of Michelangelo’s Venus. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The loss of income made London rescind some of the taxes it had imposed on America. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At the start of her third week in London, Jule went to Madame Tussauds. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He lived with them now; it was Jonathan who answered my phone call from London. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he was worried about the formation of the eye and other complex organs even back when he was still living in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s just come back from London, my good man, and she likes her rice a certain way. Fried rice, I think. I’m not sure you could make something suitable.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Robin felt as though the Hall were as long as London Bridge, for when he entered all was quiet, and his crutches seemed to make a great sound on the stone floor. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The message was received in London, but it didn’t sound right. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I know that stretch of the North Sea very well because the train from Edinburgh to London goes that way, and I was up and down all year when I was at school. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Since in several days I was to go up to London to see Bill Hayes, the sensible course was to bring the manuscript with me for Maurice’s and Rosy’s inspection. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z While staying in a posh London hotel and attending the theater in the English king’s own box, the royal couple and most of the rest of their party came down with measles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Shakespeare, perfectly sensibly, imagined ancient Rome as just like contemporary London but with sunshine and togas. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z "But take your time, Ranee. The girls have clothes from London. And maybe they can wear the salwar kameez outfits my mother sent." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In London, where the river Thames arches away from the city near Belgravia, one might begin a walk at Vincent Square, the trapezoid-shaped park that abuts the office of the Royal Horticultural Society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z No demonstrations at all took place in Durban, Port Elizabeth, or East London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe London could be seen, covered with a new kind of fog. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they devise a plan to persuade Goupil’s to champion their favorite artists not only in Paris but also in The Hague and in London. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every message to London has to be laboriously encoded and delivered on a bicycle to a hidden wireless set 10 miles from here. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z During a trip to London, Luke admired the royal horses and asked to have riding lessons. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Would it be all right if I gave you some letters? They’re to my wife’s parents in London.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I told him that Margaret would be faxing it to London first thing Monday morning. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We decided on Newcastle because we know people there and London is too hot right now, too many marriages happening in London, yeah, so we don’t want trouble,” one of them said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On this visit, he spoke also at the London School of Economics. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z That was close enough so that Charles could get to London in about two hours and come back the same day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Witnessed at the Tower of London, 20 November, in the twelfth year of our reign. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Our house outside London had been sold, so we went to stay for a while in the lovely old manor house where my father had grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The engagement ring on her left hand glints in the muted London morning. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z They were to fly out from London so that she and Salim could visit these relations they hadn't seen in years called the Sparks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1662, for example, John Graunt published the numbers dying in London, the cause of death and his estimate of their age at death. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On July 24, 1912, one year after Galton's death, the first International Conference on Eugenics opened at the Cecil Hotel in London. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Rice from South Carolina or quintals of fish from Marble-head; money even from London, for there was much sympathy in England for Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z London approached, villages giving way to towns giving way to unbroken tracts of suburbia. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z "But we moved to London when I was nine." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He dashes into Newbury Comics, buys himself London Calling and Talking Heads: 77 with his birthday money, a Che poster for his dorm room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As we headed out of London by the dismal Westway, he gave me his condensed version: no property law, therefore no capital, therefore no wealth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He had the Invisibility Cloak he had inherited from his father — what if he bewitched the trunk to make it feather-light, tied it to his broomstick, covered himself in the cloak, and flew to London? Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Did your parents ever talk about ancestors in London?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z As La Belle Sauvage floated more and more swiftly down into London, the tide was nearing its height, and the consequences for the little canoe were serious. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I found myself in a strange deserted city—an old city, like London—underpopulated by war or disease. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Over the centuries, the engineers and builders of the Corporation of London had learned to make the outward flow of the river and the inward surge of the tide come together more or less smoothly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z It was late at night, but people hadn’t left the bars south of where he was, out toward Jack London Square. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I tried to tell her and Aunt Gloria about our trip to the London Eye but Kat started coughing and Dad said we had had a very pleasant walk by the river. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z George Pocock had written to his father, Aaron, saying that he might be stopping by to pay him a visit in London. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Charles had been spending hours at the London Zoo watching Jenny, an orangutan. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way back to New London, Beto lay still in the bed of the truck, the certainty of his father’s disappointment holding him down like stones. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The cool air from a front across London fanned my forehead. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z She could go to London and find a job—it was what her father expected of her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My mother was faced with the cost of passage to England, room and board and living expenses, and tuition at the University of London. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She had brought him here, and now, she was going to London with Mr Hooper, she looked at him, and did not understand. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z William and Mary actually gained the throne as a result of a full-scale invasion of Britain, seizing London by force, even if it was largely bloodless and welcomed by many. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In July, Queen Alexandra made a royal tour of inspection of Endurance at the dock in London and presented Shackleton and his crew with an inscribed Bible. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Pinned to her blouse was a tag with words and numbers stenciled in large print: 115-201 London —»Sheffield Olive watched the girl cry until her own eyes began to shimmer with tears. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “Somewhere near Barnet, north of London,” said Frank, giving him the paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Lawyers for German insurance giant Allianz Global Investors, Lloyd’s of London, and several other reinsurers filed suit in a London court against the Korean National Insurance Corporation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Fireworks exploded across the night sky, and glitter rained down over London. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “No, I don’t, actually. I left them with Marco in London. I meant to keep copies on file but I must have forgotten.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There were cholera outbreaks all over England—from Liverpool in the north down to Oxford and even into East London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty miles away, at King’s College in London, Franklin had little interest in building models with toys. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Franklin and Deane sometimes sent Bancroft on missions to London, not knowing that this gave the double agent a chance to report in person to the head of the British Secret Service. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan bought us new pajamas and laid them out on our beds for when we arrived, tired from the long flight and the drive up from London. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The boy grows up in a town house in London. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had heard the clatter of a helicopter taking off and knew that Herod Sayle must be on his way to London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “I was saying to Maxim a few days ago we ought to have a record season. We shall be able to send a lot up to London.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder Maxim did not stay a week or so in London and get you something decent to wear,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Fifty minutes while the plane droned over Cornwall and Devon, then Somerset and the Salisbury Plains before reaching the North Downs and on toward Windsor and London. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My mother was going to accompany me to London and see me on to the Derby train, but she had been told that on no account should she travel farther than that. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z In Charn she had been alarming enough in London, she was terrifying. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The conductor stuck his head out of one of its windows and shouted, “Eight-thirty to London! All aboard!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “They were very often away. It was Molly, my nanny, who really raised me. After they died, it was decided I would live with my aunt in London.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Trouble that we will have to bear, while the fools who gave these orders sit in their comfortable homes in London, and while Captain Newport sails safely back to England.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “And Lydia used to want to go to London,” added Kitty. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z There had been years when art filled Vincent’s life: beautiful paintings and drawings he had seen in The Hague, in London, in Brussels, and in Paris. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Once in London, and then two more times when Jenny and I snuck out of school in Flushing to catch a matinee. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Interesting! I’ve known him for a long time, since we first came to London. Him from America and me from France, could you guess?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Oh, well,” she said, “perhaps he likes it. Don’t go by me. Tell me, did you get any clothes in London or Paris?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The joint paper of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace was read in a stately room on Piccadilly Street in London. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The other two men on the diplomatic commission were Deane and Arthur Lee, who, as a lawyer in London, had spied, at great risk, for the Patriots. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On Joseph’s last day in London, he packed his suitcase and prepared to go off to his new school. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z All over London, seances were being held in parlors and living rooms and at dining tables. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z One article finds its way into a London paper, printed under the title “Nights at the Circus.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a train to London in five minutes’ time. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The Active and the Kingfisher, British men-of-war, stood by ready to blast them out of the water if they obeyed the Town and returned to London with the tea. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The landing curtains were still drawn 'cause Mum and Julia’d left for London when it was dark. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In December, after I had submitted my last essay, I took a train to London and boarded a plane. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It must be because Maxim had gone to London. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Mighty dull talk it was, too; almost all of it politics, and London politics at that, nothing exciting about Tartars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “London is a leveler. We are now all in London and we are now all the same, what nonsense,” Bose said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z With everyone thus distracted, we picked ourselves up, bolted for the turnstiles, and ran out into a bustling London afternoon. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her dark green London habit almost swept the ground. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Since early in the eighteenth century, the London watermen had also made a sport of racing their dories in impromptu competitions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Salim went down to London with his mum on Sunday. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther away another dark creature slashed through the water, and another; of course they are based in New London, and this is their home. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in London, he talked with Hensleigh about science and religion, working out his thoughts about transmutation of species, about God, and about natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z These artifacts marked the room as headquarters of the Whitechapel Club, named for the London slum in which two years earlier Jack the Ripper had done his killing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z These paintings are currently in a number of big and powerful museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the National Gallery in London. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In London, I changed planes for the flight to New York. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z It hung down from a glowering sky behind London’s tower blocks. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He endured the “whirl of noise and motion,” as Dickens characterized London in his then-current serial, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, which everyone was gobbling up in Bentley’s Miscellany, a literary magazine. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking us to show them any civility in their power. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I find my favorite hollow near the London Bridge. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I can stay in London for a while.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Next to it The Club History of London, an equally massive set, bound in pale calfhide. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “I’m going to London next month,” she said instead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Had I gone to London ... and taken you all... Had I submitted to Lord Cheldthorpe’s infamous . . .” She waved her hand. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Apparently the Junior Researcher trainees all have to attend a presentation from some really old, really famous magical scientist who’s visiting from the Bureau’s London outpost. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I wrote quickly to a shop in London and asked for a catalogue of under-linen. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z For at that very second a disagreement broke out between Baroness Hoover and her husband: “We shall catch a play in London, dear. Will that make it all right?” he soothed. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z One rumor maintained that he was a Palestinian Arab who had fomented racial unrest in India, South Africa, and London before moving to Detroit. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Marian took classes in German and French, studied with a famous teacher of German lieder, and met many people in London’s close-knit music community. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z "Well, love, we're all leaving London now. Fasten your seat belt, why don't you? I think the nice fellow next to you wants to help." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Just make sure to credit Memo! And maybe mention that he’s at Jack London Square on the weekends.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “We have to get to London before it’s too late!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And so, on this August morning, he was glad that he was leaving London and going to be for some days on an island off the Devon coast. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z In 1946, Wilkins was appointed assistant director of the new Biophysics Unit at King’s College in London. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Born in Scotland and educated in London, England, Bell moved to Canada with his parents when he was twenty-three. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His paternal grandfather had made his living handcrafting rowboats for the professional watermen who plied the Thames in London, providing water-taxi and ferry services as their predecessors had done for centuries. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In London the Darwins stayed with Erasmus, who hired three horse-drawn cabs for Charles, Emma, and all the children and their nurses and governesses to go to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I lived in north London, in Finsbury Park, in a house occupied entirely by penniless Bengali bachelors like myself, at least a dozen and sometimes more, all struggling to educate and establish ourselves abroad. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z There are plenty of good things I can think of about England: fields of heather blooming in the countryside; London’s busy, exciting streets; the chance to visit my mum’s grave. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1904, Galton presented his argument for eugenics at a public lecture at the London School of Economics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In London, Baba didn't drive much, and I can tell he's still not used to it. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She had been back from London a day, and already the glow of possibility that came after she saw the Kensington gynecologist was dulled. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z On Saturday, the twentieth of December, in the year 1606, the fleet fell from London.... Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The story was in our London papers too. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In World War II, Germany built on Oberth’s ideas and developed the V-2, a rocket powerful enough to carry an explosive warhead all the way from northern Germany to London. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago Tribune reported that increasing turbulence in global markets had raised concerns in London that a recession, even a full-blown “panic,” could be in the offing. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z At the three New London churches, there was a funeral every fifteen or thirty minutes from nine o’clock in the morning until after eight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Franklin gave Deane a letter of introduction to Dr. Edward Bancroft, the son of a Connecticut tavern owner who had done some spying for Franklin when he lived in London. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By 1914, when Endurance set sail from London, dependable and accurate chronometers were every skipper's constant companions. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z One thing I was sure of—he was still in London somewhere and still determined to have the script. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z When a casting agent went to sleep in Tokyo, a modeling scout was waking up in London. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z We were permitted a fairly wide range of newspapers and magazines, and could receive such previously contraband publications as Time magazine and The Guardian weekly from London. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His plan wasn’t fully fleshed out on what he’d do when he got to London, but he was sure he’d find a flight going to Peshawar from there. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z King George II, ignoring French claims to the Ohio River valley, had given permission for colonizing the area to the Ohio Company, a group of Virginia landowners and London merchants. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I flew to London a few weeks later. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When, just three weeks earlier, his KGB bosses had recalled him to Moscow from London, Gordievsky feared that he might disappear immediately into the bowels of Lefortovo Prison, the KGB dungeon. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z At the time, my aunt Geneva was trying to find a hotel in London, because the friends she'd planned to visit were suddenly unreachable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z We motored, I remember, leaving London in the morning in a heavy shower of rain, coming to Manderley about five o’clock, in time for tea. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When I lived on the streets of London I was a loner. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window’s encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z The Ivy inhabited its narrow corner of London perfectly. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z "Yes, yes, London. It's a large city to the south of here." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The officer was the very Mr. Denny concerning whose return from London Lydia came to enquire, and he bowed as they passed. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Apparently, London had an enormous appetite for goods of every kind, from livestock and vegetables to timber and stone. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z "Hard to believe it's only been three since we left London." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the girl’s stepfather, Henry Smith, noticed her disappearance, he suspected foul play and set out to search for her in the woods near the Negro community of Egypt Town just outside of New London. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then it sounded like he aimed his head away from the receiver to shout to someone else, “It’s Jacob! He’s in London!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She walked down the runway, the smell of London in her hair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasburgh to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yesterday afternoon, in London. I went to the hospital. You can check.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “We got them in Liberty’s when my mother brought me to London to see a show.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Emma’s very good opinion of Frank Churchill was a little shaken the following day, by hearing that he was gone off to London, merely to have his hair cut. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z When he first moved to London, he made a book of drawings for Tersteeg’s little girl, Betsy, back in The Hague. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And he got what he wanted, from an unexpected source: Sir James Jay, a British doctor who lived in London and dabbled in chemistry. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z So I collected books, museum brochures, and post-cards from all the places we studied in class, like the Tower of London and Anne’s attic. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z "Did you suppose I would send you off to London on your own? You can't even speak the language properly. I might just as well send you to Guiana." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “Hello, mates. Feeling all right, yeah?” he called in an accent straight out of a posh London boarding school by way of the Eastside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And then the train stopped and I wondered if it was London, but I didn’t move because I didn’t want the policeman to find me. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Late in January 1953, James Watson went to London to visit Wilkins. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My family believed I would qualify, and even the media was speculating that I would be going to the games in London. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The whole family came down to London Docks to see me off on the boat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, Joseph had mentioned he had an uncle in London he’d never met, and Blink insisted he get the address, just in case they were ever to really run away. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Not if she gets to London first, I think. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He did, though, travel widely, including a visit to London in 1661, and a stay of five months in Paris in 1655, when he met many leading scientists, including Pierre Gassendi. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley had braved the telephone in the village post office to order three ordinary Muggle taxis to take them into London. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The performance was uncompromisingly British, and I quietly concluded that the white-mustached figure of Bragg now spent most of its days sitting in London clubs like the Athenaeum. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “I hide in butter churn, breathe through reed of straw, while own brother killed in same house. After, I come to London to escape the hollows. But they come, too.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And I said, “I don’t know. She lives in London. I don’t know when there’s a train to London.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z By the time we got to Oklahoma, my sister had become hard and sharp, but in London she was still soft clay, and we were still friends. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z But in the twenties and the early thirties, it exerted a considerable influence over much of London and the Home Counties. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was only hours later, sitting in the kitchen, watching as the gray light of morning bled slowly through the West London streets, that Alex could try to make sense of what had happened. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “Is it because you have the prospect of a journey before you, Jane? Is it the thoughts of going to London that takes away your appetite?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z On the ride back to London, Emma started to feel better about the house in Down. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It was now my object to trace that horrid cargo of the Count’s to its place in London. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And I was on the train to London. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And the ground and the dirty buildings on either side fell away, dropping out of sight as the car rose; in seconds, the whole of London lay, smoky and glittering, below them. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z And in addition to the branch in The Hague, where Vincent will be working, there are branches in Brussels, London, and New York. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You are not going to be a rapper, sweetheart. We did not come to London for you to become a rapper.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But when his mother got back from London, she might come up and look into his room. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The last part of Mom’s plane trip was a long moment when the plane was gliding over the runway in London, just barely off the ground. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z “This evening she could easily be in Paris or London.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “Did you hear that?” asked the Lord Mayor of London. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It’s raining harder now, and I can’t face another aimless day in London. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was off, he looked younger and nicer and more like a countryman and less like a London cabman. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z In her lap sat a fashion magazine she’d picked up at London’s Heathrow Airport, where they had caught their flight for the final leg of their journey. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z When the “all clear” message would come over the loudspeakers, the family would ascend to the ground floor of their little house in Kent, England, midway between London and the Nazi airstrips in France. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z ‘They’ve found someone. Not far from the London Eye. Near the river. A young Asian boy.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I shall be composing a letter to our cousins in London, our cousins who are so well regarded by His Majesty.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z So she made me promise never to leave the flat on my own because it was dangerous and because you couldn’t trust people in London because they were strangers. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The quiet ebbs and flows after a while, the London night black and pressing in against the windowpanes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Leon repeatedly invited her to spend time with him in London. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His last public concert was given at London’s Guildhall in November 1848, a fund-raising event for Polish refugees. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Dad reminded me that London is five hours ahead of Epiphany, New York because London and all of England is on Greenwich Mean Time. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘She said,’ panted Isannah, ‘she had never seen anything like me ... not even in some lane in London.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “How long will your mother be in London?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z That she, a Texas schoolmarm, soon would be walking the streets of London and Paris still seemed an impossibility, yet Harry had promised it and made all the arrangements. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The publication made Washington famous in London as well as in the Colonies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The new headmaster was an old schoolmate of Billy’s, and Dragon’s Head was within easy driving distance to London, so Joseph could visit Albert on holidays. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z In July, with Emma recovered enough from the pregnancy and birth to travel, she and Charles took the family to London for a week. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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