In The Stranger the protagonist, Mersault, has a chance meeting with an Arab, a stranger, that results in Mersault’s killing the man. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It was my job,” I mutter and head straight for the doors when the meeting is over. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I hate senate meetings. When Octavian gets talking...” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She hates these meetings but comes out of loyalty to Mom. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Shortly after the Boston meeting, Jim went to WHO headquarters in Geneva. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was talking to her: “I told you. It’s something your father brought home from a citizens’ council meeting.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

And if you are worrying about Black Riders, I can’t see that it is any worse meeting them on a road than in a wood or a field.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For some time after their visit to the church belfry it had been impossible to arrange meetings. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

"You could be brave, too. Just think about it. Come to our next meeting." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Within minutes of meeting each other, Ma had beaten Pappa with her umbrella because he took her seat on the bus. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We heard stories of the police escorting Inkatha members to meetings and on their attacks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After her meeting with Babbage/Mr. Quisling went downhill, she completely spaced on the fact that while she may have lost The Gold-Bug, she still had The Maltese Falcon and its clue. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I went to the mass meetings when they were at churches on the other side of town, where people wouldn’t recognize me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The car was late meeting us—the driver had to avoid an unexpected patrol—Paul and I stood for half an hour shivering and stamping around in the drainage ditch where we hid the bicycle. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Does she know the reason I'm meeting with the queen? The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The group met for over five months in formal meetings, and there was much correspondence and phone exchanges between them as they began lobbying the Icelandic government to consider Fischer’s case. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“At the meeting. He’s older. All the men are at the meeting. But my mother didn’t go. The mothers don’t always go. She’s in the grain room, packing grain.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

For nearly six hours up in the clouds, we couldn’t stop talking about meeting our mother, going to the People’s Center, and getting to know Sister Mukumbu, Sister Pat, and even Crazy Kelvin. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“One needs no artistic education to see this memorial for what it is, a black scar,” he testified at a meeting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The day of the meeting, nearly one hundred people squeezed into the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing room. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He told them about the meeting in Matsika’s study, including the eerie moment when he had looked into the General’s mind. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

You have a busy life, and these meetings are a quite unnecessary addition to your burden. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me—I’ve got to go to the meeting. I hate meetings, but this one’s important. We’re finishing up the schedule for the Plan.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Almost every day he was criticized in struggle meetings. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally I saw the New Shiloh Baptist Church, which the newspaper article had mentioned as the site of community meetings about the Henrietta Lacks museum. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“And when I crossed ‘AIDS, women, and poverty,’” he told his audience, “the message said, ‘There are no studies meeting those specifications.’” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

DRACO: Well, I, for one, think this meeting a sham. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

He was always meeting one of them—crawling naked on a floor or engaged in a game of marbles or even on a dark street with his arms around a girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The meeting in Oxford did not do much to further serious discussion about science and religion. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Unit meetings are held on certain nights which are kept secret for fear of police raids. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unbuttoned my coat right away as I walked into the meeting. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Lawrence, who had demanded the urgent face-to-face meeting, had come bearing news of an extraordinary breakthrough in that field. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And he rode out over the drawbridge into the morning light While they had crept through the corridors of Castle Chariot they had made a plan about meeting King Bagdemagus. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned back to the computer as the meeting broke up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the first day of their meeting the old man clung to him like an evil genius. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I was being prayed for mightily at Wednesday night prayer meetings, I was not told of it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two months I had weekly meetings with Professor Steinberg. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Here is forty cents. Now don’t get lost! And be back at our regular meeting place by the pigpen very soon!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A far more important outcome of the Rookery meeting, however, was Olmsted’s recognition that the architects’ noble dreams magnified and complicated the already-daunting challenge that faced him in Jackson Park. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Young girls sighed at the thought of meeting him and mothers longing to have him as their son-in-law fought for the honor of having the family as their guest. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the cabinet meeting ended, the president followed his usual routine: receiving visits from friends and job seekers, reading his mail, and catching up on paperwork. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would suppose he had been sitting here next to me for some minutes without my noticing him, so absorbed had I become with my recollections of meeting Miss Kenton two days ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Pretty, too. What harm is there in meeting her? And her father is in politics also. Who knows where it could lead?” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In April, she was even asked to represent the Coast Guard at a high-level meeting of U.S., The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Stay right there, Roz. We need to have a family meeting.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Now, meeting these sweet people, I knew right away it wasn’t them Cletus was ashamed of. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He collapsed at a Jewish National Fund meeting and was rushed to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital by ambulance. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She looked at my mother and said, “There’s a union meeting next Wednesday at the church on Frame Street.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After a time, she found that she was with child as a result of her last meeting with Siddhartha. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

A meeting took place in the highway patrol office in Cache County, the same second-floor office where Rindlisbacher had come immediately after the accident. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I reach under my chair to pick up something for our meeting—I had it down there as a trump card. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Not only my decision in respect of our evening meetings, but also that episode in my pantry, if one felt so inclined, could be seen as such a 'turning point'. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Once we reach our meeting place, Pithy leaves and goes her separate way. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And I love being a stay-at-home mom. Despite the weird politics at PTA meetings.” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was no way to avoid meeting him on certain occasions. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, in anticipation of meeting Babbage, she double-checked her bag for school, making sure she didn’t forget The Maltese Falcon. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“We need to go find this guy’s coworkers. He said they were meeting farther down in the bunker. So we need to find our way to some stairs,” the man said. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Pampered by her many servants, she attended meetings. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pierre told a good story: one meeting of his secret society had, he assured Boyle, been disrupted by disgruntled employees who had blown up the castle in which the society was meeting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The meeting went on all night and we emerged at dawn and found a newspaper vendor selling the Rand Daily Mail: the Nationalists had triumphed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later.—At the very outset of our meeting a great personal relief was experienced by both Van Helsing and myself. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After the meeting was adjourned and the girls had gone, Sticky and Reynie climbed into their bunks. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Matthew, David wants to set up a meeting with your supervisor to discuss one of the serum developments. Last time Alan completely forgot about it, so I was wondering if you could escort him.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Lucy Stone did not attend the meeting, and she objected to excluding men from the organization, arguing that her husband had worked as hard as anyone else for women’s suffrage in Kansas. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

After I’d been meeting with Professor Steinberg for a month, I wrote an essay comparing Edmund Burke with Publius, the persona under which James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay had written The Federalist Papers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They had touched upon something deeper than protest, or religion; though now images of all the church meetings of my life welled up within me with much suppressed and forgotten anger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It filled him with possibility, this chance meeting with a stranger, and the thought of the paths on which it might lead him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

She vanished after that meeting in the bar, lost in the warrens of Mombasa, and by now she has probably died of aids. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee and her dad were going to Los Angeles, but her mom, at the last minute, had to go to New York for a meeting. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of the possibility of escaping public words, the possibility that awaits me in meeting the intimate. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went out with two boys before meeting Carl and insisted on their politeness and reserve. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When the meeting finally began, Kissinger immediately started lecturing about tensions in the Middle East. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We would have to depart from the democratic pro-cedures, outlined in the ANC’s constitution, of holding conferences, branch meetings, and public gatherings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood outside the ymbryne meeting room for a while, listening to muffled voices through the door, but I didn’t go in. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

After I had been in my new cell for a few days, I asked the commanding officer to arrange such a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Driving home that night from meeting Walter's family, I thought of the story in a whole new way. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

One day, I was at the Head Office meeting with Colonel Willemse when I saw Jimmy outside the office of another official. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll change that the next time we have a meeting. It was wrong. Psychologically wrong. You were right to leave all that in the plane—absolutely right.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then the family was on him again, resurrected by the sound of Ben’s skull meeting the wall. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the room quieted down and she called their meeting to order, she made the first Operation Beiderman suggestions. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Every night he also has to attend the same propaganda meetings that Chou and I do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tribe did not serve as a permanent political framework, and even if it had seasonal meeting places, there were no permanent towns or institutions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shanti, true to her word, scheduled a meeting with Coach Harper. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You meeting any nice girls at school, son?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Without waiting for the GAC meeting to end, he packed up and left the capital. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt was also looking forward to the meeting with Müller. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

At the meeting, I spoke in tribute to Oliver as the man who had led the ANC during its darkest hours and never let the flame go out. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Imagine the meetings that were held in this room,” said Spurge, through a full mouth. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

The Moras knew many people, almost all of them interested in such matters, who gradually began to attend the Friday meetings, to which they brought their knowledge and their magnetic fluids. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all grateful for the help, but as the spring of 1989 approached they all made the same request at the end of our meetings: Help Michael Lindsey. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to talk to you before your meeting. We left things kind of...um...I wanted to squash the weird.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I’m thinking maybe Sandy will feel sorry for me and postpone our big meeting until after winter break, which starts tomorrow, when he mouths at me My office, and gestures toward the door. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“You may well be surprised, Miss Bennet, at such an assertion, after seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our meeting yesterday. Are you much acquainted with Mr. Darcy?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Delilah was positive she wouldn’t be meeting Death today. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“If the Russians demonstrate a Super before we possess one, our situation will be hopeless,” he wrote in a frantic memo for a 1949 meeting on research priorities at Los Alamos. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In a meeting with Le Duc Tho, Kissinger quipped that he had accomplished the impossible: he had unified Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Then came a chorus of rifle fire, screams, and broken glass, and a mad scramble overtook the meeting hall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But not long before the meeting began, Charles became too ill to attend. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a League meeting in thirty minutes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, Mom is spending her days at the clinic cracking backs, and Dad is meeting with other teachers and professors to ready a makeshift school, beginning with the younger kids. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

At these meetings members pay their dues, are given party tasks, are instructed in the party’s interpretation of world events. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode through the Central Plaza and the large Auditorium where public meetings were held. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

We began meeting clandestinely on Saturday mornings at Ellis Park or some private court in the suburbs, where he gave lessons. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC was then holding meetings every Sunday evening in Freedom Square, in the center of Sophiatown, to mobilize opposition to the removal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The full tech crew had been called for a Wednesday meeting, and they were all squeezed together backstage. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Comrades stood inconspicuously on guard about the meeting hall, at the doors, down the street, and along the hallways. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went over to the kid and somehow calmed him down, got him focused so the meeting could take place. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

On the Thursday afternoon of the second week in April, I was sitting at a meeting of the student council. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

She looked at me in an awed kind of silence usually only seen on three-year-olds who are meeting Barney for the first time.Then she shook her head, as if to clear it, and spoke. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s true she made her first meeting—Tues. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

On meeting my eye, he said plainly, by a momentary and silent pause in that attitude, “Indeed? Singular!” and then put the handkerchief to its right use with wonderful effect. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been hard to organize everything without her knowing, but now the day has almost come, so we can stop whispering after church and having private meetings without her. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She and Odenigbo would sit down and talk properly, and this time she would make sure that they did not circle each other without meeting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The day N and I were meeting at Perk. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Atzerodt told him many details about the plot to kill Lincoln, the kidnapping plot, and the conspirators’ final meeting on April 14. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped for another moment, then asked: “Don’t you have a meeting with Endovier’s treasurer? I wouldn’t want you to be late, especially when you came all this way to meet with him.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

After several disheartening meetings with our board, it had become clear that we had no support in the state for the project. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

She also sent Anthony a letter, which she wanted her to sign, inviting Douglass to speak at the upcoming National Woman Suffrage Association meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There must be a large organizational meeting to kick off the campaign.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t dare risk meeting her. But I should like to talk to her very much.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I requested a meeting with the colonel after his appointment and visited with him shortly I thought about this moment for a long time afterward. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“At the conclusion of the meeting,” the Americano said, “you will all receive a sack full of groceries with samples from the major food groups.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had not heard him come up the stairs, and besides, I did not think he would come up because the church council meeting was still going on downstairs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

And within a year of our first meeting we were living together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

For months the small city of Selma, Alabama, had been the scene of mass meetings, protest marches, arrests, and violent confrontations between black voting rights demonstrators and white law enforcement officers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the wild dogs near their feet yipped, and she looked down at it before meeting his gaze again. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“I’m bringing my grandma’s mandoo to next week’s club meeting,” I explain. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Now, the village can’t move the day after a baby is born, so they had to call another meeting of the elders. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Darling,” she answered, “the best source of information in the entire Corps is in the middle of an “O” wives meeting. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought back to their first meeting, four years earlier at a lecture hall in Cambridge, where a group of Bengali poets were giving a recital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

When I returned his call to arrange a meeting, I could tell Shoto was an emotional wreck. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

It was smaller and friendlier than most homeowners’ meetings. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to discuss something with her and Dad, and asked for a meeting. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“At the meeting,” I said, and then I paused, suddenly self-conscious. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I told him we were meeting often, almost twice a week. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what, he wondered, had the Klan actually accomplished for white working people with the endless meetings and bitter fights against desegregation? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The young women were “spellbound” when they found themselves face-to-face with their national hero, who personally invited them to join the others signing up at the Zhukovsky Academy meeting point. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Black ministers would be arrested if they allowed mass meetings to be held at their churches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is absolutely no chance for Fiona to help me during the morning classes, and at lunch she rushes off to some meeting. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It’s late—they got into New York after nine, hurtling into crisis management meetings for hours. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Then Finn said, “I’m meeting Petey at the Chat n’ Chew later. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought he was asking if that was the student she was meeting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We reach the bottom floor and walk past a large meeting room full of people dressed in black and white. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How did the meeting go with the lawyer?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He certainly did add ‘spirit’ to the meetings, and ‘a tone’ to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped by his house to discuss my meeting with the D.A. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Had the Chevalier meeting really been that innocent? Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows that this meeting will have, as he will tell her later, “far-reaching consequences.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I shove it in my back pocket without meeting his eyes. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s been a busy week, what with meeting Maya and Joaquin and all.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

As he described it, it had been two parts frustration to one part reward: He’d spend weeks planning a community meeting, only to have a dozen people show up. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Without meaning to, I’d memorized it We arranged a meeting in Times Square. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was a Wednesday, only an hour before Liam and the others were meeting to discuss a new camp liberation strategy, before Clancy was finally ready to see me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Some seek him out, and the meetings and dinners that follow herald the formation of a kind of club, a society of lovers of the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her parents were focused on Chief Okonji, nodding eagerly as he told a story about a recent meeting with Prime Minister Balewa. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She helped military families and defense workers find suitable places to live, played the piano during the USO’s rollicking singalongs, and coordinated a calendar of Girl Scout troop meetings and military rallies. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But I found that such a meeting was anathema to ANC leaders in Natal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she, for greeting, called from the meeting ground her lord and master, Antiphates, who came to drink their blood. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth’s meeting with Davis’s men not only provided funding for his conspiracy, it forged a direct bond between himself and the Confederacy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“We needs find out where this address is; I gots to stop in this store to ’range for meeting the boy who gonna let us know ’zactly where our folks is at.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The sounds of forks meeting plates, of serving spoons meeting platters, filled the dining room. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

But today, I’m meeting my family in the parking lot out front. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

"Good thing this meeting wasn't held in my restaurant, I'd go broke passing out free tea, if you call this tea." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget the student council meeting after school. Link wants everybody to be there.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I was still looking at it when Mr. Powell puffed up the stairs after his meeting. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Japan’s Big Six leaders gathered in Tokyo for an emergency meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good-bye,” he said, holding out his hand, “it’s been a lot of fun meeting you.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The evenings that I might have spent with Danny I spent instead at student council or committee meetings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The cell steward arranged meetings, organized political classes, and collected dues. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interview woman is delirious at the good fortune of meeting both sister and daughter of the heroine of the Fourteenth of June underground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father had a big envelope of them that he always took to these meetings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody shuffled out of the meeting room and into the rotunda. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

And, when her mother’s cousin, Uncle Osita, came from Umunnachi to tell her that she was being summoned to a meeting at her grandfather’s compound, she did not tell Odenigbo about it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The increased light led to my first face-to-face meeting with a witch doctor. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not attend these meetings, which dragged on for both the remaining negligence case against the state and the civil rights case against the caseworkers in federal court. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His efforts to arrange a match at Belmont had not only fallen through, they had greatly diminished his chances of ever securing a meeting between the two horses. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Earlier in the meet, a much-anticipated meeting between Kentucky Derby winner Lawrin and Preakness winner Dauber had to be canceled at the last moment when Dauber suffered a minor injury. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the track, Smith lifted his binoculars and watched as War Admiral pulled around the far turn, meeting with unexpected pressure from Masked General, who carried twenty-eight fewer pounds. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Were talking about the student council meeting after school,” Caroline explains. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Hey, sorry to interrupt, and I’m totally with this—we can talk about it on our run today, but I gotta get out of here. I’m meeting a...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Padre de Jesus walked me out when the meeting was over. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had last had a holiday in 1948 when I was an untested lightweight in the ANC with few responsibilities beyond attending meetings in the Transvaal executive and addressing the odd public gathering. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he gets a work call and stays in the car to have a meeting while we get our custard. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

The female upperclassmen did not approach me or make any real efforts to be my friend, so I only went to the meetings sporadically my first year. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

‘It cannot be doubted that we witness the meeting of dear friends,’ said Théoden. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Like I said, I’m not even a big sports dude, but actually meeting somebody who played in the pros was big. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He returned with the bundle that they had collected from the Tattered Prince at their second meeting. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Carvie Oldham, head of the Durham Housing Authority, was also a frequent caller, notifying the Klan leader whenever a particularly contentious meeting was scheduled so that the Klansman could attend and back up Oldham’s position. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Elton’s engagement had been the cure of the agitation of meeting Mr. Martin. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

‘Mr. Lome, needless to say the Observers will meet tonight. There are private decisions to be made before the mass meeting tomorrow at nine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four times a week after dinner, the new people sit through an hour or more of meetings. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the time checking as much equipment as we could, just as we had agreed to do months before in meetings with the various experts. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father had planned a big old prayer meeting as a welcome ceremony, to prove that God had ensued us here and aimed to settle in. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that Ged lifted his scarred face, meeting his friend’s eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had covered the blackboard in the office with “meaningless words and symbols” and began to conduct the meeting in what she seemed to feel was normal fashion. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“No. It’s the brainstorm of a woman named Ruby Archuleta who runs a garage and a plumbing business south of town. Apparently the meeting they had in their church was her idea too.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those people who were meeting partners from different Houses were edging through the crowd trying to find one another. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The four girls were all sitting about, hands folded as though they were at meeting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There were some pretty stormy times,” recalled one of the men years after the meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Usually I loved greeting and meeting with all the furry creatures, but my mind was stuck on Fig and the grim possibilities my research had revealed. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Are we still doing D.A. meetings this year, Harry?” asked Luna,who was detaching a pair of psychedelic spectacles from the middle of The Quibbler. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting her at seven outside the fire station.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton later recalled that when it came to running the meeting, she and her friends “felt as helpless and hopeless as if they had been suddenly asked to construct a steam engine.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

A Sunday prayer meeting/protest on the City Hall steps attracted a crowd of 450. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I brought that bag along with me into the meeting, to keep it that way. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

God crackles over the intercom and tells Mr. Freeman he’s late for a faculty meeting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The deacons’ meeting on Wednesday night was as awkward as a deacons’ meeting could get. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Overwhelmed judges tried to manage the proceedings with bench meetings while dozens of young men—most of whom were black—sat handcuffed in standard jail-issued orange jumpsuits in the front of the court. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They were unfailing in their attendance at the secret meetings in the barn, and led the singing of Beasts of England, with which the meetings always ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

But after my performance at the council meeting, I had a feeling Mr. Burke might best be avoided. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

What a strange meeting on a strange night. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had no intention of ever honoring the contract he agreed to during the Circle Justice meetings. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Each meeting was considered a Healing Circle but had a different name, depending on what was being discussed and who attended. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Anyway, our meeting with Miss McDaniels is the first day we get back from vacation. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Back in January 1684, after a meeting of the Royal Society, Halley had fallen into conversation with Christopher Wren and Robert Hooke about planetary orbits. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Because that’s where Camel’s son is meeting us. He’s taking him home.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I have always had perhaps too high a regard for the importance of face-to-face meetings and of my own ability in such a meeting to persuade men to change their views. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke those words about meeting Cecile, he was long-faced and serious. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lin had not been invited to the meeting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Some nights they slip away for meetings, and I can see lights on in the storage shed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This, the last meeting, started with the punch bowl on the table instead of ending with it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are too injured to be of much use to me, so your execution will occur at the conclusion of this meeting.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

If Barack or I had a meeting in Blair House, located just across an already closed-off part of Pennsylvania Avenue, they’d sometimes request that we take the motorcade instead of walking in the fresh air. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The woman most confident addressing the crowd was Lucretia Mott, with her long history of speaking within her Quaker meetings. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then she says we’re meeting on Friday at Saint Sarah’s place for a last practice. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It was as if you went to a meeting with someone and the person showed up naked. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next afternoon I take the bus home, because Tiny is busy at the student council meeting. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Many of the congressmen arrived late, but Butler had invited members of the press, so the meeting room was crowded. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"The Woman Question. My pamphlet, 'On the Woman Question in the United States,' will be your guide. And now, Brothers," he said, his eyes sweeping around the table, "the meeting is adjourned." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Free African Society is having a meeting about the fever. It should prove a lively gathering. I’ll return in time for supper.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Charter Members, he and I, had to open every meeting by jumping ourselves. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They change the ballots,” said Blanca, who was at the meeting, sitting on the ground among the peasants. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I delayed meeting him until finally, it would have been too shameful to resist any longer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For example, the fraction demanded that the Daily Worker and the New Masses, official periodicals of the Communist party, be put on sale at all meetings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the men gathered in the room saw the benefits to such a system, it took several more meetings to overcome the mutual distrust caused by years of bitter rivalry. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In October 1941, Oppenheimer attended his first meeting of the Uranium Committee. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want you to make sure that these people are at the meeting, that you tell them how the thing can be made safe, so that they really understand.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

All such news, important and trivial, was carried to the thirty, meeting secretly at the Green Dragon. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heather’s first Martha Project is to decorate the faculty lounge for a Thanksgiving party/faculty meeting. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn't told my parents about meeting Principal Psoriasis from Sequoia. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He was an old friend of Uncle’s and usually dropped by our place for a snack after he and Uncle had gone to the meeting. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have someone meeting you?” the women asked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Look,” he finally told the men in the meeting hall, “you’ve trusted me before. All I’m asking is that you trust me now. I know what I’m doing.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He always tried to get to a meeting spot a little early, just to have a look. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, we all filed into the gym again for a town meeting. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“If you change your mind, you can still join. The real meetings don’t start until next week anyway. Ms. Bethune has a lot of cool stuff planned for this year,” said Anh. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

On October 21 Briggs presided over the so-called Uranium Committee’s first meeting, with Szilard, Teller, and Eugene Wigner, another emigre Hungarian physicist, on hand as technical advisors. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I paused for a long moment, and then made the mistake of meeting his gaze. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I will leave tomorrow because I must attend an umuada meeting. I will return at the end of the week to fetch her.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His mouth held little moisture, but deliberately he dredged up spit from deep in his throat, all the while meeting the bear’s intense gaze with one of his own. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The meeting house smells of good things, so I push aside my worry that God will strike me down when I walk through the doors. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“If he wants to take on the job, tell him to send one of you with his answer. I will then arrange a meeting with my client.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

That was when Vannevar Bush emerged from a meeting at the White House with the treasured initials “OK-FDR” scrawled on a single sheet of paper. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

This was their last day before meeting their fate as toads, and she had to make sure Valley was okay. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She sneaked out to the weekly meetings held in a dark and grimy cellar. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

At what was supposed to be my father’s last Council meeting before he took his family north, it was decided they’d make one last-ditch effort to talk to the Governors in the capital. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Those images did not represent me, or the black girls I was meeting at school. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But we do not need to imagine such a meeting. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Year ago they held meetings to decide what to do; if they disagreed with an officer, they stopped and argued. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the pillow production line was again rolling smoothly, the meeting began. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting with carpenters this morning, but I will talk to you more about it this afternoon.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I simply slipped my papers into my brief case and left as though going downtown for a meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Alexander. Had I known you were involved with my grandson, I would have insisted upon a more formal first meeting.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

By not going to my locker in the afternoon, I avoided meeting someone who must have been very angry, as he or she broke the lock and shredded the contents of the locker. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Bragg this meeting seemed the final straw in his relations with Crick. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

How they all had laughed when her stays burst in the middle of meeting with a loud pop! Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On reflection he did not fancy a second meeting with the giant Poisonteeth, whether it was alive, dead, or just pretending, as Poisonteeth often did. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At one morning meeting, Ted gravely informs us that there has just been “an incident” and that the perpetrator is no longer with us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So, the chance of meeting someone in the middle of the Pacific with whom to trade my cigarettes did not strike me as an obvious prospect.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The same lunchtime activities and rallies and club meetings still take place. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Olmsted himself had said of Jackson Park: “If a search had been made for the least parklike ground within miles of the city, nothing better meeting the requirement could have been found.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Some of the students from Georgetown have been meeting with the Howard kids,” he said. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rickshaw drivers dress better than professors here, Ashoke, who still attends meetings with his adviser in a jacket and tie, thinks frequently to himself. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her first thought on meeting him had been: ordinary. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just then Sierra burst into the meeting room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Father and son alike shed happy tears at this strange meeting between the dead and the living whose love had been strong enough to bring him down to the world of death. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That I’ll hold you back from meeting other guys. That I’ll lose you, even as a friend. I’m so scared of that.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe I tricked most of the kids into coming by dropping Link’s name, but he’s turned out to be the star of the meeting. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

He arranged meetings for Farmer and Goldfarb in Washington, D.C., including one at the White House with the First Lady, Hillary Clinton. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Every meeting, the people who had been there before returned, bringing friends. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before long, we were meeting in private chat-room sessions at least once a day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, maybe it was, because my mom told him loads of times to go to AA meetings—but he never went. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I was surprised that I was looking forward to the long walk from Sequoia Middle School over to the district offices where I had my second meeting with Mr. Dell Duke. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I told him about my letter to the commissioner of prisons and my meeting with Coetsee. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then that same cow took and stepped in her mouth when she was a baby and left it wide and flat with her chin and nose almost meeting. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In the elevator I imagine a bird decorator who’s wearing my dad’s glasses—the funky rectangular ones he wears when he has a meeting—and flipping through a bird-size binder full of twig samples. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At the meeting when the cuts were announced, a mother of a Truman student asked if the cuts wouldn’t just dig the community into a deeper hole. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Though always routine and un-eventful, these meetings tend to follow a certain thespian formality. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you kidding? How could I miss it? The very first meeting of the High Five.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

But as these meetings were extremely dangerous and thus infrequent, the High Organ would often take decisions that were then communicated to all the other members. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Peo-ple’s Forums were similar to the town meetings that candidate Bill Clinton held in America on his way to the presidency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Civil rights activists have created a national movement to save affirmative action, complete with the marches, organizing, and media campaigns, as well as incessant strategy meetings, conferences, and litigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Law school had seemed abstract and disconnected before, but after meeting the desperate and imprisoned, it all became relevant and critically important. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The youth meetings continued in the church’s sanctuary. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Each month, the Hitler Youth headquarters sent letters to the leaders, spelling out how to run the meetings. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what got into me, but then I said to her, “And maybe you can come to the next Tourette’s support meeting with us.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And she told all of us to be at the table for a family meeting. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“I just wanted to see how you were. I have to go to a meeting,” he said, and she knew he was lying. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I got to the meeting room, there were already a bunch of kids inside, and they all looked like they knew each other, and almost none of them were brown. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

He said the meeting had gone well, but the next day, he’d found a note tucked in with the morning paper. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The letter said that “state and county officials are planning to attend,” and that “they are currently working out an emergency relocation plan that will be presented at this meeting.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four girls, still dressed in their pretty go-to meeting frocks, watched him with fascinated, admiring eyes. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the secret meeting place of the great City Hall politicians. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that was an utterly conventional kind of war: two heavily armed and organized forces meeting and fighting in an open battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wish Don Walter were here now, but he’s out at a meeting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the meetings the men would be smoking, talking loudly, almost shouting their opinions. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until my meeting with the lawyer, Omar Faisal, a light of hope had begun to enter Sohrab’s eyes like a timid guest. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Nazario had taken me along as evidence that the meeting had actually taken place. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I like seeing you like this,” she says, her eyes meeting mine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Journeys end in lovers meeting, she thought; it was my own choice to come. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The meeting you just left, that’s what it was about, wasn’t it?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Tiny Cooper has brought me to a Gay-Straight Alliance meeting to hook me up with a girl. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

“Okay,” Phoebe said, “an agenda is a list of things to be discussed at a meeting—” “So maybe it’s for your dad,” I suggested. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The director of the school musical had set up a meeting to discuss the responsibilities of the house manager. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were reports that farmers, after meeting state quotas, would be allowed to keep and sell food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I mean, how are we supposed to attend the meeting if they don’t announce the time?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Had not the lab proven its worth to the AEC by meeting the agency’s ever-greater demands for more thermonuclear tests? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Mama had come to school for some kind of parents’ meeting and sat next to his mother. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The superintendent is apparently meeting with parents at Midtown this coming Friday,” Sonny says. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

For once, the cabinet meeting was free of crises, battle news, and problems requiring the president’s immediate attention. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes. She said she’d never thought about it before because she and Justin were meeting their friends on those double dates they used to take.” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

His eyes turn distant, those familiar walls going up until he’s looking at me in the same way he had during our first meeting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Even some of the black employees weren’t always sure upon meeting her if she was black. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Within minutes, he had secured the promise of a surreptitious meeting and disappeared before the L’Arche seniors rejoined their daughter. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

One night a Jewish chap appeared at one of our meetings and introduced himself as Comrade Young of Detroit. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

We began to go with my mother to the Adventist meetings that were held further out in the country. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get Captain Brannon to my office pronto. He’s out on the flight line. And pass the word that there’ll be a meeting of all officers in the ready room at 1500 hours.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dylan was stealing classified files using my security codes and Quinton found out. It’s actually what Quinton and I were meeting to discuss when we were taken.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Immediately upon being informed of the hay cart incident, the Abbot had insisted upon calling a special council meeting of all Redwall creatures. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She pulled her hoodie sleeves over the tips of her fingers, still not meeting his eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I wish that you would let me alone. I am addressing a political meeting tonight, and I must organize my thoughts.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I only have a minute. I have to head down to the coast for a meeting.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t I go to the editorial meetings?” she asked the engineers. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He tries listening in on his mom’s meetings, but they can’t hold his attention, and Zahra bans him from the West Wing. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ve had meetings and important things to read,” Dorian said, panting. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I loved the history of Ethiopia and the story of the meeting of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I spoke at local meetings and tried to sensitize people to the need to insist on accountability from law enforcement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Kondrachev organized chess competitions and planned tours for famous Soviet musicians—activities that offered the perfect excuse for traveling about the city, scouting out quiet meeting spots, and arranging clandestine rendezvous with DIOMID. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I would also tell her about Miss Franny and the bear, and about meeting Gloria Dump and believing for just a minute that she was a witch. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My dad makes me go to those meetings—where they plan what to do to get you’all kicked out of school.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why not just make it a public meeting?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And then suddenly I knew what this meeting was about. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting Styx tomorrow, whether you want to or not!” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Our last meeting was held the day before school let out for Christmas. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“When you get here, don’t wait around. Jump in. Start doing stuff and meeting people.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It can also mean the leader of a meeting. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Take Highway 14 west to Spring Green. We’ll be meeting everyone at a place called the House on the Rock. You been there?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

If I could get back behind the fire line, I could avoid meeting up with the Careers. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later in The New York Times, Sammy Dean Parker and Kaye Bacon said that as a result of the meeting they now had a new attitude. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had spoken extensively with both Coetsee and Dr. Barnard about this meeting, and they had always advised me to avoid controversial issues with the president. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to go to some kind of meeting at the mayor’s office. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

He touched his fingertips together, the thick fingers meeting delicately, his face without expression. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you sure we shouldn’t be in the Situation Room for this meeting?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I missed my dinner meeting and my dinner. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

I can tell that Janae is looking for something interesting to say, as if she didn’t just come down from upstate after meeting new people and having new experiences and learning new things. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

We dropped the hats off in the library then filed into the auditorium with kids and parents to watch some of the principal-approved talent show before meeting up with Mrs. Hidalgo. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

The secretary of the local branch would find that certain men were no longer attending meetings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten of the twelve members of the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Standing Committee convened in the capitol, the meeting called to order by their vice chairman, Curtis Oda, a Republican and insurance agent. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, fine,” he said, not meeting her eye. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She had called Michael a week ago to ask him to read his story at the meeting. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

For the next meeting, André, dressed in the uniform of a British officer, was to arrive via a British warship, the Vulture. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I think you know what I mean. Somewhere there is a tempter, a serpent, so to speak, and I had to keep them from meeting.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Chester was a regular customer, who knew nothing of any meeting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was in fact discussing the silver, and how Lord Halifax had been suitably impressed on the evening of his meeting with Herr Ribbentrop at Darlington Hall. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bull Meecham had met Ogden Loring at a PTA meeting and had come home with a single remark: “Any man who teaches a girls’ course like English is bound to be a pansy.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I made it to the meeting spot, Chi-Roy and Miig were already there, each with a wild turkey strung up in the lower branches of a maple. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Not long before Henrietta’s first exam, TeLinde presented his argument about carcinoma in situ to a major meeting of pathologists in Washington, D.C., and the audience heckled him off the stage. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that random white dude that used to roll with your granddad? I didn’t see a lot of him, but I remember meeting him once or twice.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Now fourteen, Helmuth graduates into the Hitler Youth proper, though he skips the meetings as often as he dares. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course you can. Look at all you’ve done lately—going to the meetings and the movies and coming here all the time. You can even come to the festival. You can do anything.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It struck her how quickly the meeting had unfolded, how little time it took to confirm four of her family dead. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I tell my parents I’m meeting Ayesha, but it’s a lie, and it’s for their own good. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

When Nali woke him, she told him that the diagnosis meeting for Uncle Jet was going to be in six days, this coming Saturday evening. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

When Susan was at the guidance counselor meeting about Michael, she said that Michael once told her that she was the prettiest girl in the whole world, braces and all. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Inspired at mass meetings by the testimony of elderly people who walked great distances and poor families who donated money for gasoline, protesters kept walking and vowed to do so until justice came. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I wondered what the other diners would think if they knew why we were all meeting. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

For years, the women had worked on abolition, temperance, and other social reforms, but they had no experience organizing a meeting of their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is a line straight from one of my father’s lectures at our weekly meetings. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“The meeting’s at seven thirty in the evening,” said Mrs. Kilgore. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Girls don’t go to the meetings,” Katherine’s male colleagues told her. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Which meant that each year, during budget meetings, Peer Communications was on the chopping block. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

On the other end, she’s in one of the arena’s meeting rooms, a makeshift office with her core team. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Well, as I am on my meander home from that last Forum meeting, of which the topic was “Popularity versus Principles,” I am in a philosophical frame of thinking. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Never ma'am—just yes, with eyes meeting eyes enough to show respect. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

She said, “Not too long, please. I have calls to make before the homeowners’ meeting tonight.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It offered similar group activities, but children and teenagers still flocked to the Hitler Youth, finding its marches, rallies, and meetings irresistible. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to look at his work schedule, and he’d left his laptop on, because he’d run out late for a meeting. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

We left the meeting and agreed to meet once again before the Christmas break to make sure everything was in order. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

We go beyond the classroom, meeting now and then just to talk. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Keufer says future meetings of the order have been postponed until further notice. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The harder part was seeing the selfishness inherent in making that choice, knowing that it had required hours of advance meetings between security teams and local police. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Few temple meetings were held, for instance, without the minister looking down upon some freshly shaved bald domes of new Muslim brothers in the audience. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've been useless for a week, driven around for appearances and meetings, lucky if I’ve made a single meaningful contribution to any of them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I decided to take advantage of the meeting. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Break up that prayer meeting!” the white straw boss yelled. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the day Seabiscuit settled in at the Detroit Fair Grounds, Pollard was in North Randall, Ohio, sweltering through August at a middling racetrack called Thistle Down Park, which was wrapping up its summer meeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know what else to say, so I walked away, back toward the band’s planned meeting spot. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I’ll be skipping the League meeting tonight, and forever, for that matter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Another Louisiana man, Johnny Lee Ball, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after meeting with a public defender for just eleven minutes before trial. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I was meeting men and women whom I would know for decades to come, who were to form the first sustained relationships in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Protest meetings and demonstrations were being held throughout South Africa; people carried signs declaring “We Stand by Our Leaders.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Howard Clement’s highly visible role at the meeting that night, there was no doubt in his mind that Ann was more influential in the poor black community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Claudette and her classmates got out of school early that Wednesday because of a faculty meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Years ago it was a warehouse to store coal, but when it fell into disuse, it became a meeting place for illegal trades and then blossomed into a full-time black market. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

None of them even use the toilet—one of those prearranged meetings. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

We knocked on doors in the Cabrini-Green housing project, went to community meetings, and canvassed programs that worked with single mothers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The meeting was called to order and began with the Pledge of Allegiance. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Master came home from a meeting early that evening. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here, he pats one of the juggling boys on the head, like he already knows him from Juggling Union membership meetings. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Delivering the news that Richmond has fallen would be a delightful way to kick off their meeting. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know if she’s upset at the news she just heard or at suddenly realizing that I’ve been listening in on the men’s secret meetings for months. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Or the fact that I am only an arm’s length away, meeting her stare. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

The meetings were held in the basement of Wharton Hall, a harshly lit, windowless room, paper plates, pizza cartons, and soda bottles piled on a metal table, folding chairs arranged in a limp semicircle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps more important, he’d beaten Fischer in their last three meetings and had more wins against Fischer than any living player. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My dad went around the city meeting friends and giving them gifts in red bags. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

But of course, it had been like this from his very first meeting with Fudge on his very first evening as Prime Minister. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Jefferson defended himself by claiming that his consultations with Bache were not clandestine meetings; he had met with Bache many times, true enough, but he was not, as the Federalists charged, “closeted” with him. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Mark and I thought we’d go to the store while you were meeting Maya and Grace.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The East River, meeting the Hudson near its mouth, is quiet and motionless as the mist. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We had a couple of meetings, the first with the family and then once alone,” he says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I did not see the meeting that Uncle and some of the elders had with the demons who ran the city. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Cry about it at your stupid club meeting?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s in a meeting. That's all I know. It’s not like I’ve memorized his schedule. I’m just supposed to do all this cataloging by myself, I suppose.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Recently he had a chance meeting with a first-generation Vietnamese American engineer. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The meeting was an exploratory one and I understood that nothing was going to be resolved that day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I told you the Latin Club was meeting today—and then I missed the bus coming home.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to look again. And you were busy with the meeting.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It surprised her, how many men and women were in Abba, gathered at the square for the meeting, crowded around the ancient udala tree. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once I was on my flight to Los Angeles to tape The Ellen DeGeneres Show, though, I forgot about my noble cause and started to feel more nervous excitement about meeting Ellen. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have someone notify you about the patrols, and our first council meeting is on Friday at ten in the morning, so I’ll be seeing you soon.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Hideo returns to his meeting room without looking back at me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When Charles received word of the reaction at the meeting, he was relieved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, they turned to Lucretia Mott’s husband, James, and asked him if he would preside over the meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Maybeth’s teacher had wanted a meeting with Momma that Momma wouldn’t go to. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In November, not long after Park was assigned to the textile factory, four Bowiwon guards paid a surprise visit to the prisoners’ nightly meeting of self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I never guessed that just meeting people and talking to them could be tiring, but it really was. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat through several meetings of the club and was impressed by the scope and seriousness of its activities. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even dreamed that we would go to the meeting, and afterward things would calm down considerably at school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father would drive in his old black touring car, sometimes taking me, to meeting places all around the Lansing area. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

After seeing my psychological report I set up another meeting with the shrink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was meeting new people and they were having fun! Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I change the station when she come back from her lunch meeting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Whatever it was, now was not the time to leave me out of a meeting; things were too urgent in the district. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not a usual meeting time for them, but she couldn’t help hoping. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The white people in meeting audiences would throng around me, asking me, after I had addressed them somewhere, “What can a sincere white person do?” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The two leaders scheduled a summit meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, for November of that year. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Pay attention, woman! I just asked if Bess is coming tonight. If she leaves without Coop and me meeting her, we will have to disown you.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“What did happen at that meeting with the undercover flatfoot?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brademas quiets everybody down and signals Daniel to start the meeting. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“If you unchain yourself and come with me, I can guarantee a meeting with our current chief, as well as other members of the department.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

With that the servant of the Prince came and led them to the Houses of Healing; and there they found their friends in the garden, and their meeting was a merry one. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“He’s finishing up a meeting, Grace,” said his secretary, “but you can wait in his office.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Time after time, I would explain what meeting I was at, why I was there, and what was discussed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunday afternoon Mr. Lapham was not only going to the second service, as usual, but there was to be a meeting of the deacons, a cold supper afterward, and a prayer service at the pastor’s. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

De Klerk called for an urgent meeting with me and read to me from documents he claimed had been confiscated in the raid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have a meeting set up next week. I have a lot to do before that, though. And it’s only a preliminary interview.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

His dates with Joyce devolved into bleak meetings in the cafeteria, where they mixed catsup with hot water and called it tomato soup and rounded out the meal with soda crackers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, Korovin had managed to shake his pursuers before his meeting with Blake. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the company of others, we exchanged only formal courtesies, arranging private meetings with our looks and with letters passed between us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

There is something I never got around to telling you during our brief meeting. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Stella got back home, she ran immediately to her mother, her eyes meeting her father’s. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The PAC often refused to participate in meetings that had no overt party affiliation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a police car screeched to a stop, we stepped out into the street, meeting it, hailing it to ask for directions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

So the meeting played into wise old Franklin’s hands. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother insisted that we invite the grouchy woman to our meetings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The church became a central meeting place for Civil Rights leaders to get together and discuss the issues of the day and to plan freedom strategies. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We cannot know how many secret meetings and political dinners occurred in New York during the late spring and early summer of 1790. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The next day the Oak Ridge directors gathered to hear his findings, but right before the meeting an army colonel warned Feynman not to discuss any secret information about how the atomic bomb might work. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prepared as best I could for the meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father only came to the Clinic twice, citing business obligations, but from those two meetings it is apparent that he is a dominating presence, a “self-made” man and former naval officer. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” she says finally, her eyes meeting mine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“We often tailed each other on our way to secret meetings,” recalled Feklisov, “to make sure we were not being followed.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the game, Mr. Lyons called a team meeting in the locker room. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Do I have to go to all these meetings?” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“Nice meeting you too. Thanks for the gift. I can’t wait to make something.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I attended meetings where black youths sought ways to get hold of submachine guns and grenades with which to storm white kindergartens and schools and shopping malls in the name of liberation. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

We would learn that Ralph could never let a meeting end without dropping some final dramatic insight, observation, or prediction. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terror of meeting the thing again on dry land. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

But there is no “we” at this meeting. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, when they were in a meeting, he sent a note fluttering down to her: “My dearest—I sit here studying your features. You are perfectly beautiful!!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Still, Ted makes no mention of her departure at the morning meeting of her last day, nor does he thank her privately or wish her well at the end of the day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So how come were invited to the meeting?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

After PE, where Coach put me and Jenna on separate basketball courts for scrimmages, Jenna took off for her after-school newspaper meeting and I headed to the library to study with Audrey. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But then he remembered meeting his wife's cousin and her cousin's husband, Reinhold Barth. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

During lunch breaks he would often give impromptu lectures; he loaned me books to read, recommended people for me to talk to, meetings for me to attend. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told her about the eejit pens and meeting the Farm Patrol and how he had to go to the hospital. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the official meeting begins, the women eat and sip tea, and catch each other up on the community happenings. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In the daylight, I recognized Mrs. Huckaby, Central High’s vice-principal for girls, who had been present at several of our earlier meetings with the school board. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get my harassment log from the bedside table and look at the calls, comparing them with the meetings arranged on the phone. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had to be a huge meeting or a celebration; there were a lot of people there, and they were all wearing the Klan’s sheets and masks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At this bush meeting we agreed in principle on a five-year government of national unity in which all parties polling over 5 percent in a general election would be proportionally represented in the cabinet. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, then it looks like the meeting is over. I should probably get going.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"No, sir, I didn't know about any meeting." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a Soviet agent in Chicago made contact with Hiskey, the meeting was observed by FBI agents. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I followed everybody else, and I figured out that you have to go through immigration and pick up your luggage before you get to the meeting point. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a teacher’s meeting, and the vote of support was unanimous. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

As Coin adjourns the meeting, Haymitch asks her if he can speak to me privately. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When the phone rang, the stewards were tied up in meetings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As poverty became a growing problem in the new republic, he called the meeting that organized the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association, and was elected its first president. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first part betrayed nervousness—it did not come to the point, but conveyed an invitation to participate in a meeting on proteins to which he had decided to add a section on nucleic acids. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

This is formal Mom; this is Mom in a business meeting, her favorite self. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

In a curling, fading copy of the Forest City Courier glued on the back wall was an article about the local literary club who discussed “The Negro in Literature” at one of their meetings. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Protocol for telling an employee about their End Day involves an administrator calling the Decker into their office “for a meeting.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Miguel put off his thesis and his political meetings, because he and Alba wanted to be together every hour of the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s hold a meeting,” Molly said, and sat down on the grass. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Taking an audacious step, he booked a train east, got off in Detroit, and somehow talked his way into a meeting with Will Durant, chief of Buick Automobiles and future founder of General Motors. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When else in her memory has her father been called to the director’s office for a two-hour meeting? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After one of their meetings, Lydia and Dill set out the few blocks to Riverbank Books. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s just where they plan strategies and hold meetings and stuff like that.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Much good sense was talked and the tone of the meeting was that of creatures who were determined to win at all costs. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I walk straight to the office for my meeting with Principal Jenkins. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Not only were both suspended for the rest of the meeting, but the officials recommended that the state racing board ban them from all California tracks until January 1,1939. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bewildered, the delegates stumbled and groped their way out of the meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“The boy must be meeting his friend,” Minli realized, and unable to control her curiosity, she crept to the window to peek. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, you’re right. All the desis in America have regular meetings about being more Gandhi-like, and we spin our own cotton, too. And all the Arabs here know how to ride camels, right?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

They walked through town together, meeting other officers, shouting to be heard over the roar of the helicopters bringing in artillery and ammunition. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Mighty blocks of ice, gripped between meeting floes, rose slowly until they jumped like cherrystones squeezed between thumb and finger,” Shackleton wrote. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As a single man with no family responsibilities, he could meet with these experts, go to scientific meetings, and visit museums and libraries whenever he wanted to. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

After his displeasure had reached a certain point, the three of us rubbed our bruises and called ourselves to a womanly sort of meeting. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the room blurred, white and hot, until all she could see was Tanin, resting easily behind her desk, her lips meeting and parting, sending words into the air like sweet, toxic smoke. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could easily imagine this meeting, the gravity of my father as he sat across from my sister, the reverence and power in his words. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. We’re going to have a meeting. First thing this morning.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

But if Zola is an angel, then maybe she knows where the heaven is and where the angels are meeting, and maybe she knows what the rules are. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sense of the meeting ran like this: military threat or no, if we are going to stop this agent, we’ve got to throw everything at it that we’ve got. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sounded more hopeful about an impending meeting than I would have imagined, especially after the last one. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“He is in meetings, señora,” the guy huffs. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

“The time was ill spent,” I said, “if it delayed our meeting.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

We’re having the meeting at a small church not too far away from my house. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“But she is employing the literary conceits and techniques of a novel. And the meeting you speak of has already occurred—you have been reading it for the past quarter of an hour.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The inn’s rustic luxury fulfilled the sorority’s need for a quiet, reflective setting for their meeting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

What is more, their meeting produced very little that would calm their fellow citizens. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

It might have been that Father secretly took the meeting and the successful repairing of the horseless carriage as a test, but did not want to tell me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vacation grew longer and the meetings in the school- house continued. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The five riders liked the idea and agreed to have a second meeting at the golf club, each man bringing two riders with him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—no. I’ve got a meeting on. How about Monday? Hank, do we have anything on for Monday afternoon?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The leaders sure weren’t going to invite a pregnant teenager up onstage during a mass meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“We aren’t supposed to be here, so I’m going to keep this meeting short. Some of you—Zeke, Tori—have been helping us for the past few days.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

That evening, Shin went with his mother to an “ideological struggle” meeting, a compulsory gathering for self-criticism. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Everyone agreed to that, and the meeting was adjourned just as the period ended. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that we prime the pump to get all the air out, our eyes meeting as we wait for the formula to make its way down the tube. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Yep, my mind and soul and heart had a quick meeting and voted to shut down for a few repairs. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The morning’s meeting with Detective Gaskill proved to me that the police are taking me seriously. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They considered it dangerous and vetoed my meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was eager to facilitate a meeting between me and the full group. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Booth presided over a meeting of some of the conspirators he had recruited over the previous months to strike against President Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Church Committee found notes from secret meetings of the National Security Council and President Eisenhower. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seems that Webb and Forbes started missing cheerleading practices and meetings. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Our principle trouble,” Gold later said, “was to decide whether Klaus, for some reason, was unable to keep the meetings if he was still in New York, or whether he had actually left New York.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catt had remained dedicated to traditional lobbying—privately meeting with legislators and the president to persuade them to support suffrage—whereas Paul’s campaign had been designed to humiliate the president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer and Goldfarb flew to New York for an emergency meeting with Soros and asked the philanthropist for more funding for Russia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And Mom and Dad signed it and went to the big town meeting? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I will produce a stronger proof. Let us set my daughter in Hamlet’s way, and we will secretly observe their meeting.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

After a long day of meetings, Truman stopped the Soviet premier as he was leaving the conference room. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was quite a climb, but we made it without meeting a single person on the way because everyone was using the lift. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

“I think I might know someone who would be very interested in meeting you...” he said slowly. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Lucky you. I have a stressful meeting to go to after this.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time in our relationship, as a kind of closing frame to our first meeting which had ended in my flight out of the classroom, I fled up the stairs. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

About seventy-five people from the community gathered in EJI's meeting room, where we screened the film. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was to me a painful meeting, for it brought back all poor dear Lucy’s hopes of only a few months ago. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

We called a meeting—indeed, a whole series of meetings, extending over more than a year. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The song was about him meeting his girl under a lamppost. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

David and I exchange friendly words when the meeting is over, and then I slip out while the others are still sipping coffee and walk back to the hotel. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In late November 1954, CIA director Allen Dulles emerged from a meeting with President Eisenhower with orders to develop a top secret aircraft. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tara remarks that they seem to have more productive post-dinner meetings when he is there, though he offers only occasional suggestions as to how the circus itself should be regulated. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Our meeting ended shortly afterward, and when we were walking back to our cells with the major, he said to me, “Mandela, were you struck by the behavior of Bram Fischer?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m in the middle of a meeting. I’ll talk to you tonight.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

No mention was made of it at their meeting. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He made his way to Chicago for an S-l meeting at the Met Lab, so tormented by back spasms that he had to be carried into the session in a chair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I had never met him before except to shake his hand in line after a mass meeting. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Washington gave Genêt what amounted to a diplomatic cold shoulder, meeting with him very briefly, but refusing to discuss the subject of United States support of the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“A meeting? What sort of meeting is going on at this hour?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

For Riddick, directing a charrette was a cross between leading a marathon revival meeting and walking a tightrope for ten days straight. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her interest in the proceedings of the meetings increased in direct proportion to her proximity to them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

I attended the next unit meeting and asked for a place on the agenda, which was readily granted. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tipped her head toward Pearl, again without meeting her eyes. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Washington, DC, where she’ll spend three days meeting her senators and the members of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, thanks to Olivia. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She said it was a long time since we had seen each other and that there was no sense in doing anything before the meeting we had already planned. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow had figured out within the first few minutes of meeting Mr. Ibis that his expected part in any conversation with the funeral director was to say as little as possible. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Her gaze remained on the Klansman until Bill Riddick walked up to the microphone and called the meeting to order. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t do anything until you hear the regents’ side,” Ernest told him, and scheduled a meeting for the physicist with Neylan. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

At a mass meeting, King announced that, until the Supreme Court’s order arrived, “we will continue to walk and share rides with friends.” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In any city, wherever I go, making speeches, holding meetings of my organization, or attending to other business, black men are watching every move I make, awaiting their chance to kill me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the conclusion of that first meeting Fletcher took Caesar’s three bowls and told him to return next week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In addition, as the highest official of our district before the Cultural Revolution, he was often taken as a companion target to struggle meetings against his junior officers. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we just keep going with the meeting?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

And besides, if I’m really going to go through with this meeting, somebody should know where I am. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Tuesday nights, the prayer meeting came to my grandmother’s house, and I was always excited, for two reasons. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“No, he has an important meeting with the Chamber of Commerce scheduled for four thirty. He wouldn’t miss a Chamber of Commerce meeting for a baseball game.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

They did, however, agree to come to the January 10 meeting in Chicago to confer again and examine the chosen ground. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The meeting was not monitored, a critical difference from nearly all of our other visitors. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a church meeting in rural North Carolina, Fuller watched, enthralled, as McKissick played to the “Amen corner,” encouraging the listeners to shout out agreement with his words. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Think you’ve said enough for one meeting. We need to talk and decide what to do—without you here.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I get dressed up for these little meetings too. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I asked George Bizos to represent me, and a meeting was soon arranged. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And he was talking to Apple. Probably intimidating her out of coming to the meeting,” said Thorn. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“They called a meeting; I wasn’t invited to that one either. The lawyer Bloom, he got up and explained the dam, the conservancy district, and your role in this town.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two and a half years, the tape machines picked up nearly four thousand hours of meetings and phone conversations—including an excellent record of the president’s imminent showdown with Daniel Ellsberg. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The Coalwood Women’s Club invited us to speak at their monthly meeting in the room above the post office. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“But he isn’t just going to speak, is he? This is a prayer meeting, too, right?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a photo of Antoine Thomas leaving the Tangerine County Municipal Building with the caption “Star quarterback Antoine Thomas leaves emergency meeting of the Tangerine County Sports Commission.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her father’s palace she had watched them from her childhood, their stormy meetings, the black clouds they summoned and the wild red lightning. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day before our meeting the letter was delivered to Mr. de Klerk. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did cities on the ocean, cities with two rivers meeting in the middle, cities with one big river that bent, cities with bridges, crazy interchanges, circles and boulevards. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The schoolhouse was the meeting place for music, for debate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I got there, I found a kind of meeting. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Boyfriend? Anyway, he came to see me when I was here earlier, meeting with the winners of Insomnia Con.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“You have no idea what is happening, Perseus Jackson. I will let the General enlighten you. You are going to do him a great service tonight. He is looking forward to meeting you.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On receiving the notice of the Westing house meeting, Judge Ford canceled her remaining appointments and hurried home. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

On their feet at once, 430 the suitors took the road to the sea beach, where, meeting the black ship, they hauled her in. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The encounter with Europeans was thus a meeting of long-separated cousins. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was usually a union meeting on Saturday morning, so I knew he had to hustle to make it to the Cape on time. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A chance meeting of strangers, and the end of the world unfolds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I arrived the meeting was in session, just as I expected, and word had been left that it was not to be disturbed by anyone. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the phrases he minted were “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” “their finest hour,” “the few,” “the end of the beginning,” “business as usual, ” “iron curtain, ” “summit meeting, ’’ and “peaceful coexistence. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next meeting, I brought in some of Momma’s letters cut into a Dresden plate pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, the school’s athletic director entered with news: The coach was boycotting the meeting, “holding the line,” they were told. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after my homecoming, the regent summoned Justice and me to a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A meeting of the ANC executive took place afterward at which a few of us asked for a report of the earlier meeting with the white liberals. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When an associate meeting is announced over the loudspeaker that afternoon, I decide to go, although most of my coworkers stay put. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back home, you’d only see that many people at a town meeting or something. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jacobs attended city council meetings, but only sporadically, which was a good thing, in C.P.’s view, since Jacobs’ diatribes left listeners with the impression that the man was unhinged. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Ivy's home from her meeting and calling for me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

He presented Lawrence’s application at the board’s upcoming meeting on April 3. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The same way you avoid meeting the eye of an old lover at a formal dinner, or that of an old enemy sitting across the room in a crowded alehouse late at night. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“We need something soon. A week, at most. I’ll send Keenan to give you a specific date. Don't miss that meeting.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

When the mother and father were gone, Will brought the whisky in from the forge and the clan had a meeting in the kitchen with whisky passed around in round-bottomed jelly glasses. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The church buzzed with whispers of concern, and some said the meeting was about to become “an abolition affair.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I thought meeting you would help him, if he would see that his work has shaped real lives, but... I’m very sorry. It is very, very embarrassing.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The meeting was dismissed and everyone except Newt and Minho left the room in a hurry. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Carroll Ringer says a few chairs away and I look up at her and smile, thinking Because I wouldn’t dare wear old clothes to a meeting and neither would you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He seemed to be taking this meeting far more seriously than he’d taken the one he had with my mother and me. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Digory knew that he couldn’t possibly break in on so solemn a meeting, but there was no need to do so. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

“No. He’s never here. See you at the next meeting.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Soojin flips her long black hair off her shoulder and acts like she is meeting me for the first time. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“We’re supposed to be meeting the squadron at the club for drinks right now. Then we’re all driving over to the mess hall together for the ball.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Commandant’s put a tail on you. He’s trying to work his way through the crowd. We can’t risk a meeting now. Do you have anything for us?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

For Mrs. Larkin, who hasn’t been feeling herself of late, the elixir went down fairly easy the day of the Women’s Temperance League meeting. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You said you were ready to hit the street. Let’s go downtown and finish this meeting.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Rab had been eating bread and cheese all through their first meeting—and that was long ago. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I’d be more upset about it if my mind wasn’t still focused on meeting Billy last night. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Tom is meeting some of his army buddies for a drink and Evie’s down for her nap. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the meeting, a network of two thousand women set off on a nationwide mission to collect signatures on a petition urging Congress to pass the Thirteenth Amendment, abolishing slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Would you be interested in meeting me for a cocktail somewhere?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Nixon claimed to be unconcerned by the protest and spent the day at the White House meeting with four of his top advisors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She loved meeting all my human and animal friends. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The African Americans who come to our meetings are the ones who write poems about Mother Africa and think every African is a Nubian queen. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I think back to the intensity I’d seen on his face during our first meeting, when he was talking about his newest creation, about his passions. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was the first commanding officer to spurn such a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Also, Leo kept thinking about his meeting with the revenge goddess Nemesis at the Great Salt Lake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The ease and rapidity with which this meeting was set up made me suspect that the government might have planned this rendezvous ahead of time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never considered that Spares didn’t have their own meetings, but she supposed it made sense. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Hilly’s been down at the coast, wouldn’t dare allow a meeting without her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

During the meeting Luke kept kicking a desk, but I mouthed, Ice cream. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Twice since I came to Greenwood, he’d left at night for Council meetings and came back late, long after I was asleep. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

“They’re upset. Because it was inside the school, not outside. There’s going to be a parents’ meeting next week about it at school.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

At prayer meeting she moaned and sighed over Cholly’s ways, and hoped God would help her keep the children from the sins of the father. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was not even half an hour, and was friendly and breezy until the end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several large spiders were scuttling over the ground on the other side of the glass, moving in an unnaturally straight line as though taking the shortest route to a prearranged meeting. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Cicero called a special meeting of the Senate, to which—adding to the theater—Catiline had the brass neck to show up. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The next day was Tuesday, and I was meeting Liz at the rock crusher. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the meeting broke up, there was still one boy Trout had to deal with. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think you had better not say anything to the others about meeting this woman.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Not meeting my eye, she kept stabbing at her canvas. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t at the meeting, isn’t thinking of arenas but something else. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She could hear the voices of the meeting ahead, behind a closed door: men’s voices in muted arguing. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just thinking about tomorrow’s meeting, I feel so excited. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

On Fridays, back in Chicago, we had a standing date night, usually meeting downtown at a restaurant called Zinfandel after we’d both finished up work. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ginny did not seek another one-to-one meeting with Harry for the rest of the day, nor by any look or gesture did she show that they had shared more than polite conversation in her room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The taboo against women speaking in public did not apply in Quaker meetings, where women were encouraged to speak freely. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Grandpa was laughing so hard he hurt—rocking back and forth in his seat, grabbing his stomach, slapping his leg, flopping his arms, and shouting like somebody getting religion at a camp meeting. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It only increased her foreboding of the meeting that lay ahead. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I have not yet seen one good reason for the abandonment of all our meetings,” Anthony wrote to a friend. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The spring I turned sixteen, Mrs. Diamant began sending me to the monthly shop owners’ meetings. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

As the meeting progressed—and grew heated—the attorney who previously had wanted to accept Holmes’s mortgage stepped out of Chamberlin’s office and entered the room where Holmes waited, ostensibly for a drink of water. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

On Wednesday evenings twice a month she attended a meeting of her book circle, five other women who enjoyed discussing Benito Cereno, Flowers of Evil, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Jane Eyre. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When we wore out those memories, we went on about the Ankton sisters and their swinging dresses, and about meeting Mean Lady Ming for the first time and being afraid of her. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

A special meeting was called and a motion was made to reelect an executive secretary. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king had barely said anything to him over the past week, and Cain’s name hadn’t been mentioned in any of their meetings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Almost every day and sometimes all day, the mass meetings at Old South Church went on. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The upcoming meeting would be particularly exciting for us because we had placed an article in the local newspaper about it. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to have another meeting with the district attorney, Tommy Chapman, but this time we’d be going in armed with a court order to turn over police and prosecutorial files. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Now I force myself to concentrate on meeting up with John. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

McKim had opened this meeting with a wandering talk about the fair and its prospects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Shortly before the scheduled removal, a special mass meeting was planned for Freedom Square. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Right after lunch there was a game of blitzball which took most of the afternoon, and right after dinner there was the meeting of the Super Suicide Society of the Summer Session. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma took us in, waved to Papa, who was in the middle of a meeting, and hugged Jaja and me in her tight way before leaving. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid,” he admits, meeting my eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

On the eve of a joint meeting of all the task forces in October 1955, Strauss cautioned Lawrence against any attempt by Stassen to co-opt his reputation for the cause of disarmament. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“He will be meeting us. We have twenty minutes. Gather your things. Now!” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Much to the surprise of the men running the meeting, both resolutions passed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Cletus had dropped by on his way home from prayer meeting. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

He succeeded in getting WHO to agree to sponsor a meeting of drug companies; they would be urged to produce more second-line drugs, and competition would drive down prices, Jim thought. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This was the first time, since our first and last meeting, that I had spoken with him and, I was reasonably sure, it would be the last. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the first curfew bell, the woman in charge pronounced the meeting adjourned until the following Tuesday, and the girls broke into a buzz, gathering their sewing things together and putting on bonnets to leave. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said these things with a sly grin, knowing they would confound me as I mulled them until our next meeting. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

I know it's stupid, and honestly, at this point, I spend about half my waking hours imagining us meeting in person for the first time. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

This time it was a joint meeting in Berkeley of the AEC, the General Advisory Committee, and the heads of the government labs. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But protesters rejoiced in a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church, a celebration tempered by the realization that they would have to keep walking at least until the city’s appeal reached Washington. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Except for their brief meeting with the children, Number Two had not left her computer, nor Mr. Benedict his desk, for hours. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It took me five minutes to decide that maaaaybe going to the meeting was a bad idea. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He found himself talking in a way he usually didn’t, and when their time ended and she got up, often to join her father at a meeting, he felt his feet thicken with curdled blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Stimson brought these warnings to a meeting with FDR on March 15. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The possibility of the young man’s coming to Mrs. Goddard’s that morning, and meeting with Harriet and pleading his own cause, gave alarming ideas. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Quincy, having already heard about the meeting that night, put a finger to his lips and shook his head, at the same time glancing at the heavy, lonely figure of Otis. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At our meeting, we told him that we intended to organize a Youth League and a campaign of action designed to mobilize mass support. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jia Hong-yu, our district’s most famous Red Guard leader, had returned from Beijing and would give her report at a neighborhood meeting. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our last faculty meeting was essentially a seminar on Donovan Curtis. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“My meeting at the county office is scheduled now. I’ll be talking to them the day before Barrio Fiesta. I wish it was sooner,” she says. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The meeting hall was crammed with goblins who had brought with them as many two-legged creatures as they could find. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The songs, the corridos became sad, and the meeting of the people from Texas with my forefathers was full of blood, murder, and tragedy. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zahra is waiting in the hall with her own bag and a freshly pressed suit of Alex’s, a sensible navy one that she has apparently decided is appropriate for meeting the queen. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So I kind of traumatized her and had to have a meeting with my parents and the teacher later about my story. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her late-afternoon walks had not concealed her meetings with a boy her mother had long had intuition of. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The report issued by the committee following the October meeting was as uncompromising a brief against the Super as any that would emerge from a government panel. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He pulls his forehead off the wheel, but still stares straight ahead not meeting my eyes. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

That meeting was one of the other rare times that Frank got out of his chair and left the house. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then, learning that Oliphant was heading across the Atlantic for a meeting on radar, Thomson asked him to make “discreet enquiries” about the American reaction to the documents. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He saved every dime he made as a truck driver before meeting Ma. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Anthony called the first meeting to order, and Stanton was elected to serve as president. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I figured me and Cooter would both get to eavesdrop on the growned folks’ meeting. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Hopefully, meeting Jopie and Lies will get them excited about starting our new writing project—and reaffirm the power of the written word. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Game studios aren’t exactly known for strict dress codes, but even they must have some sort of etiquette for meeting the top bosses. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of their briefings with the brainy fellas had happened upstairs, though she was not invited to attend those meetings. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“So much for the big team meeting. Looks like it’s just us again.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“For a short stretch only,” said Fudge, not meeting Hagrid’s eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“And why didn’t you mention your meeting with Miss McDaniels, anyway?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The message of my first meeting with the aristocracy was clear. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“All right. We’ll conduct a test. You pretend that you’re me and you’re meeting someone for the first time. Now walk up to this imaginary person and introduce yourself without laughing.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Eric is meeting us there,” Caroline said, “since it’s bad luck for the groom to see the bride before the wedding.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The meeting adjourned a few minutes later and Mrs. Terry invited everyone to have some refreshments before they left. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji had only gotten four hours of sleep last night and didn’t have the energy for a breakfast meeting, but his mom had insisted. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

But this meeting is not supposed to be about earmuffs or headphones. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

I headed back for Ras's meeting with a bold swagger. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reporter thanked Miss K for letting her visit—good story—great angle—sorry she couldn’t stay—mayor cutting ribbon for opening of new auto-parts shop—meeting of the school board. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Following Cole’s acceptance for Circle Justice, preparation meetings, called Circles of Understanding, took place. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

When he took meetings around the borough, he wore a wool flannel three-piece. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

During that meeting, the tall, stocky, grim-faced Blossom breathlessly instructed our parents not to come with us to school the next day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, she says she has a late meeting and to go ahead and eat without her.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

And just like that, the robot was meeting her neighbors. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The Poe manuscript had been turned over to the police at Portsmouth Square, and Emily had no idea what to expect from the meeting. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

There were rumors going around about meetings at our churches. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was so angry that he walked back to his seat and sat down, leaving no speaker at all in front of the meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I barely said a word at the first committee meeting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She’s told him very little, except that Buckingham Palace has shut down communication channels in and out, and they’re just going to show up and demand a meeting. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Supper was held outside the meeting house, the biggest building on the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He opened the meeting with a controversial speech in which he called for our sanctions policy to be reevaluated. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been hanging out, doing our best to escape the claustrophobia of living behind a guarded electric fence—gabbing, taking circuitous walks around the camp, meeting other kids who have nothing to do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to squeal and ooh like a seven-year-old meeting Tinker Bell. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remember how I told you about me and your mom meeting up in the city? About how happy we were?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The meeting was an annual gathering place for most of the preeminent scientists of the day. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It requests a meeting between you and Ghohg at the border between our kingdoms. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Matsika is lying down. She had a bad night. The General is meeting with the President over a national emergency. I think the Gondwannans shot down a Zimbabwean airplane.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a shout from the drawing room upstairs, where Colonel Hawkins and his men had been meeting. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Grabarek ended the meeting by postponing any decision on the Bacon Street project and appointing a committee to look into black demands. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

TaShon looks at me, his eyebrows meeting in the middle of his forehead. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Then, upon meeting resistance, the young general stalls, in order to allow another cavalry division to attack. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Converts were required to attend weekly meetings and to adhere to a strict code of conduct. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Terupt always started our meetings, so we sat silent, until Anna spoke up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

All the English teachers are in a meeting today. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I can almost hear the sizzle of Gale’s tormented skin meeting the snow mixture. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she’ll wake up for a while yet. Fancy meeting you here, rat.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

With his dark brown suit, he looked like he might be going to a business meeting. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A meeting of the Rhododendron Society was announced, as was an evening of square dancing at the Grange and the birth of a son, Theodore Ignatius, to the Horatio Marches of Cattle Point. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

If we were home, she would've launched a full-scale plan with lookouts and maps and secret meetings. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But there, at Monet’s, no one knew where that meeting would lead. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“The soldiers. The ones who came to your meeting.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

As the meeting ended, the chief guard said he wanted to talk about lice, a chronic problem in the camps. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

They were setting up the great room, setting it up as if for a homeowners’ meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the meeting was over and Carter felt like working out, like working up a sweat with the gloves and the big bag. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like the editorial meetings in 1244, like so many competitive situations large and small, national and local, black people frequently disqualified themselves even without the whites only sign in view. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

My last meeting that evening was with the MK Regional Command in Durban. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The principal says they are going to have a parents’ meeting Friday night with updates from the police,” she says. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Tink said the meeting was important. Everybody’s got to be there.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The holding cells for prisoners were in the basement of the courthouse, and after meeting with Walter, I made my way upstairs to get ready for court to begin. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“How often we shall be going to see them, and they coming to see us!—We shall be always meeting! We must begin; we must go and pay wedding visit very soon.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Also, I could no longer bear the pain of meeting with contemptuous stares and oaths from black tennis officials and spectators. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spy sat under an awning, grinning with joy at the prospect of meeting Lee. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

What if I’m the only girl at the meeting? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

A venerable bank underwrote the construction of the new meeting hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

From time to time, he also had to represent U.S. interests at high-level meetings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She told him her husband had awakened with a bad cold and would not be able to attend the meeting. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“We have to go. We have a team meeting in five minutes,” Tia said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She wanted to have me privately tested, to prove that I was brilliant and that the school was not meeting my needs. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

On what turned out to be my last meeting with Luzan I went over the appointed fifty minutes. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting was in the public conference room, and when I got there after school, the school board members were all sitting at the head table, studying the folders with the architectural bids. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He turned his head a fraction toward me without meeting my gaze, nodded once, and then looked the other way. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Because if this meeting goes like I hope it goes, I’m about to change our lives. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

They rode to Lee’s headquarters, then beyond, up the ridge to where the Generals were meeting. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she telephoned on the afternoon of October first to set up the meeting, Mrs. Chatham had asked Nick to be there, too. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Father Olufemi called for an emergency meeting a few hours ago.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“So you’re going to stand there and act like this has all been in my head? All these first dates and meeting your parents and your friends and...everything.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

“Wait until she hears of my apocalyptic meeting with Miss O’Hara.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, that sounds dumb, but still, it’s so obvious to me that meeting up is a bad idea. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Sex? Oh, heavens no. They told me they would be holding a slightly rowdy book club meeting in there for the better part of an hour.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He’d e-mailed me a few months earlier in response to an article I’d published in Johns Hopkins Magazine after meeting the Lacks men. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After the meeting was over, Dasch and Burger took a bus back to their hotel. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Burnham had asked Olmsted to join him for the meeting, aware that in New York the landscape architect’s reputation exerted a force like gravity, but Olmsted could not get away. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the end, Stanton refused to attend the meeting, leaving Anthony to run it on her own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Who sent this fink into the meeting, brother chairman? Ask him that!" a man demanded. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Protocols, published in 1903, purported to be a record of a secret meeting of powerful Jews planning world domination. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

This has nothing to do with integration, but why else would we be meeting? The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

For the first time since meeting her, Penelope felt a twinge of compassion for her mistress. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The bell had just rung for lunch, and the photo club was having an all-hands meeting. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

There were meetings, which made him feel boxed in and claustrophobic. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever Father said to me, his meeting with the demon made him look doubly hard through the demons’ papers for signs of the true magic. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nali was busy with getting things ready for Uncle Jet’s diagnosis meeting. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

After my morning appointments, Rémy walks Ivy and me to the queen's sitting room for a private meeting. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry that I lied to you, but I had no choice. I had to go see Professor Thomas, and I’m glad I did, because she remembers him. She remembers meeting Marcus!” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

In the decade following the first women's rights convention, other meetings were held throughout the North and West. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s nice meeting you, Jade. I’m looking forward to getting to know you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights people from all over the city would gather there for editorial meetings. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took a couple of them and hurried back to his room, where he ate and waited until it was time for the meeting. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I join the Ecology Club, and Sarah asks me to talk about endangered tigers at our next meeting. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hold my first Germ meeting, and there are twenty-two of us, all girls, except for Briana Boudreau’s boyfriend, Adam, and Fizzy Meade’s brother, Max. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They spend their time gathered in meetings, making lists of accusations against him. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m just meeting a friend,” I said, hoping that would end it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“No one’s there anymore. Don’t you see? Since that...meeting, I’ve had the Warren keep track of movements in the Golden Crescent.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I didn’t plan on flat out asking these questions, but I did think that by getting inside the Pastors’ house and meeting Ginnie Sue, I’d come away with some idea of the answers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not know what had happened between them but, whatever it was, it happened after the village square meeting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His public performances on television and at meeting halls produced an almost terrifying effect. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the first week in September 1941, as the German army surrounded the city of Leningrad, Marina gave a speech at a “women’s antifascist meeting” in Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

For that guard they chose mostly archers who knew the ways of Ithilien and would lie hid in the woods and slopes about the meeting of the ways. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

When they finally met up at a TB meeting in Salzburg, Austria, they went out for a pizza dinner afterward. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

King already had a meeting scheduled with Johnson when he returned. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I have actually seen this record book at meetings of the Tangerine County Sports Commission. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever the prayer meetings were at our house, because my prayers were so good, my grandmother would want me to pray for everyone. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The commander in Cyrenaica not only refused to see Mark Antony, but also he executed the soldiers sent to arrange the meeting, as well as any of his own men who objected to his tactics. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Every occasion became a study situation, even the parties that sometimes followed the meetings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prayers and the meetings felt like work, and he already had sixty hours of that a week. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were differences between this meeting and the one held in the morning. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And he knew that the French would see the meeting with Wentworth as a sign that the British might end the war before France officially became involved. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed a little distracted, probably running through his schedule for the day—meetings, appointments, who, what, where. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glances around before meeting my gaze again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

“I remember the weather that day,” Mr. Bunderson concurred in the meeting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Sure was nice meeting you all. Listen, Naomi, you mind getting my blueberry pie tin when the picnic’s all over? It’s on a red dishcloth. Has a Clabber Girl stamp on the inside.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Ann headed another protest at an October meeting of the city Planning and Zoning Commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“My meeting is at nine o’clock but it’s all the way downtown,” her mother told her. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

In our meeting that day, though, I could not make the slightest bit of headway with her on the question of sanctions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d tried always to bring the most calm and open part of myself to these meetings, to lend my own strength by being caring and present, sitting quietly on the riverbed of other people’s pain. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I think we should meet again after Tris has been to the council meeting, which is on Friday. Come here at five.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t called me by name, or mentioned our meeting before in Roent’s caravan. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure as hell not meeting him, whoever he is—but I got to admit, I'm curious to see what he has to say. What if he does have plague cures?" Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“May I hope, then, that you will give this matter higher priority from now on? There will be little point in our meeting after tonight unless we have that memory.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I always had some reason to cross the river: borrowing a book from Devi, meeting Threpe for lunch, playing at the Eolian. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Most of those gathered at the meeting had been slaves at one time and knew how oppressive some of the whites around them could be. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“IDA,” said the Dutchman at the meeting, “is going to do everything we can to lower prices, by exploring generic manufacturers.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The thing is, when I was little, I never minded meeting new kids because all the kids I met were really little, too. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I had the honor of meeting Ms. Paisley backstage at her show.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

“But I won’t stop going to the meetings. You can come if you want.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He recalled that when the sun had risen that morning, he was on another continent, still a shepherd with sixty sheep, and looking forward to meeting with a girl. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of chairs made it obvious the Hearing Circle involved a lot more people than the other meetings. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Now he emerged into a sort of wide circular chamber, formed by the meeting of six different tunnels, all coming together in a star shape. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They’ll figure out what happened soon enough at the next meeting with the guidance counselor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

We all get to wear our Kappa sweatshirts to school, and go to meetings and everything. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was like meeting a fairy tale — Snow White, in the flesh. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Percy told her about the last three days—the gorgons who wouldn’t die, the old lady who turned out to be a goddess, and finally meeting Hazel and Frank at the tunnel in the hill. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He solicited an emergency meeting in Washington with Warren Weaver, refusing to divulge the subject in advance but offering to arrange government clearance for Weaver if he desired a full discussion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

And so she asked Mrs. Morales if she would arrange a meeting between herself and the girl, Angela. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door and thought he had walked into a prayer meeting. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s meeting me at the hospital,” Mom said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m obliged to you for setting up the meeting.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The meeting is in the library at three thirty sharp,” I tell the kids waiting in line at the used-tray return in the cafeteria. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When owners forget we are coming, he explains at one of our morning send-off meetings, it “means something,” like that they’re dissatisfied and too passive-aggressive to tell us. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, I called the new D.A. to set up a meeting. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Before leaving, Lincoln also shakes hands with some people in the crowd gathered in front of the meeting place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that meeting, most folks felt a little uneasy about Miss Love. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately the Wizards’ Council to which he reported his findings were unconvinced, as he had arrived at the meeting wearing nothing but a toupee that on closer inspection proved to be a dead badger. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The long lines, three and four abreast, funneling to the meeting hall, were kept in strict ordfer by Fruit of Islam men communicating by walkie-talkie. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Zed! Good to hear from you. Let me call you back, I’m just going into a managerial meeting,” Emenike said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I requested a meeting with Colonel Badenhorst and was turned down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they did errands in town together, but Charles also went off to scientific meetings or to talk to an expert about his specimens. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Infosys, he said, can hold a virtual meeting of the key players from its entire global supply chain for any project at any time on that supersize screen. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Your dad is finishing a meeting,” my mom says behind me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

I remembered Grover s story about meeting the god Morpheus in Central Park. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It told them when to begin work and when to stop, when to gather for meetings, when to prepare for a hunt, celebrate an event, or arm for danger. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He asked Mr. Ages: “Can it wait until after the meeting? An hour? We were just ready to begin again.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The room where the meeting had taken place was a shambles. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

A hundred times Edna had pictured Robert’s return, and imagined their first meeting. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

After the team meetings, the atmosphere in the Permian locker room seemed more grim and determined than it ever had been. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This he hoped would be possible three weeks hence, when he would come to Brussels for a Solvay meeting on proteins in the second week of April. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Don’t forget the human relations committee meeting tonight after school. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Advisory Board meetings were perfunctory and bureaucratic, but the ANC meetings were lively with debate and discussion about Parliament, the pass laws, rents, bus fares — any subject under the sun that affected Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a meeting in that building and I haven’t heard from him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The perfumed seneschal could well be part of this, trying to lure him into a secret meeting so he could sweep up him and Skahaz both and charge them with conspiring against the king. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the time I get there, Ms. Rochambeau has already started the meeting. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She carries the bowl toward the middle of the room, where the Amity meetings are held. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Tobias touches the small of my back, guiding me to the edge of the meeting space, behind the Abnegation. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

They had returned to their meeting place now. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Stassen’s idea resembled one that Eisenhower was quietly beginning to favor, it inspired an extended row at the NSC meeting. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Since its construction in 1911, the church had become a worship home and meeting place for most of the city’s black community. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

From Berkeley’s standpoint, the meeting came off as a roaring success. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Cluny did not relish meeting with it—he could not tell why—but the mouse kept getting closer to him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I tried not to think about him, telling myself that now that I had taught him to read, our meetings were over. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, you will remember, I hope, that I told you at the very outset of these meetings of ours that we would be entering the realms of guesswork and speculation?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

In Cairo, the day after a private meeting with the Egyptian president, Hosni Mubarak, I was scheduled to address a large meeting in a local hall. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the summer, there was a big meeting about me at school. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

We called Rachel back and changed the meeting spot to her house. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I thought about her meeting at the practice field with Mr. Donnelly and the photographer, and Shandra Thomas’s frightened run from their camera. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While she continued to manage that business until it finally sold, my dad was meeting with architects and contractors daily. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The worst, perhaps, was the meeting with the Diggorys that took place the following morning. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But I had never known him to have any dealings with churches or hold any kind of prayer meeting in his home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He might have been talking about my behavior in the meeting. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound surprises me—it’s genuine and boyish, so unlike his distant demeanor from our meeting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

We sing Hebrew songs at our meetings, but usually someone will share one from their childhood, in their native tongue. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The day after the election, May 19, was a Sunday, and a mass meeting that had been planned for weeks was held at St. Joseph’s Church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Years before, when he was leading those boys on their walk from the Ethiopian refugee camp to the one in Kenya, he had called a meeting every morning and evening. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the very first meetings I had with outside visitors and the International Red Cross, I stressed the importance of having the time and facilities for proper exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cold and proud, and spoke as if she were addressing a meeting. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would be more focused on meeting N in just half an hour, but I’m too busy being stunned by my unbelievably weird day so far. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

It’s amazing how I’m the only one who gets tongue-tied at meeting others. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The roots of the meeting had been planted more than two years earlier by the discovery of nuclear fission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"You know what I mean. What kind of meeting is this? Judith’s not even coming, is she?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Weaver sat through his lunch and dinner meetings with Sproul and Lawrence in a daze, trying not to make promises he could not keep. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

On September 10, again urged by Priddy, the Board of the Virginia State Colony reviewed Buck’s case during a routine meeting. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Fuller, who would not speak at the meeting, counseled participating neighborhood leaders to avoid inflammatory rhetoric. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Their minds were concentrated on the coming meeting, soul to soul, with God. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The list of signers included Charlotte Woodward, the only person at that meeting who would live long enough to see female suffrage become the law of the land. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“In our first meeting, she told me she hated this doctor because she never took the time to talk to her and never asked about her other symptoms,” Burkin said. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

When the meetings at Belmont and Suffolk Downs had fallen through, Vanderbilt had begun contemplating the idea again. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Right, this is an emergency meeting,” she said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when Luther arrived to pick up his jockey’s license for the track’s winter meet, he was called before old Pink Whiskers, steward Christopher Fitzgerald, who asked about the meetings. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Poor Roselle,” Ben said sadly, “I bet he’s been a wreck of a man ever since meeting up with Meecham.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He simply had no memory of the other meetings. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

We decided that I should raise the issue of the armed struggle within the Working Committee, and I did so in a meeting in June of 1961. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That event had taken place in February 1908, when a small group of twenty-three women had marched up Broadway in New York to a meeting hall. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

At two that afternoon an informal meeting convened in Rael’s General Store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He called her Betty and sent her French sonnets, as well as ardent lines about midnight meetings, written in a bold, dashing hand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The councillors had hastily scheduled a council meeting to discuss fire damage and consider the future. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Then I went and met him outside before the kids or Ms. Griegson could come out of the meeting room. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

“But the meeting is happening. I would like for you to be there.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Abuela Celia writes back to him every once in a while, but her letters are full of facts, about this meeting or that, nothing more. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the next Klan meeting, there was more talk about shooting Howard Fuller. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone from our previous meeting was there except Mr. Thompson. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Serenity and I take off on our own along the shore, observing everything, meeting gazes and waving hello to strangers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

A white minister stated at a union meeting, “This riot has come to us as a shock after all our idealism.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The opening mass meeting was being held at Carnegie Hall. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to take Joe Carp and Frank Reilly out to lunch to celebrate, but Joe had to buy some things for his wife, and Frank was meeting his cousin for lunch. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

At the meeting itself, her practices were praised as a model for others to follow. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When Coach Privett concluded the meeting and the cheerleaders dispersed, Celia still stood there, hands balled at her sides, jaw clenched. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I was going to say that if you were feeling better, you could wear this at my diagnosis meeting.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

That was the only tense moment in the meeting, and Mr. Botha said that he was afraid that he could not do that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the street, meeting the same situation, we easily said, “It be’s like that sometimes.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For when the Orsini realized, only too late, that the greatness of the Duke and of the Church spelled their ruin, they called a meeting at Magione in the territory of Perugia. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah! Didn’t she say something about Mr. Dimblewit bringing up Spares not being allowed in businesses or something in the next town meeting?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the excitement of meeting a man who had read Shakespeare he had momentarily forgotten everything else. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now, why do you want me at a meeting?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Valentine himself was in Chicago meeting with the banks, his two sons in tow now that they were old enough to help with the farm’s accounts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They weren’t gawking at me, unlike most of the other students, so it was safe to stare at them without fear of meeting an excessively interested pair of eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The Activities Building was the site of club meetings and branch get- togethers, an end run around the embarrassment and difficulty of finding a venue in the town that would accommodate a racially mixed group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

He wished that Major Madu had not invited them to dinner; he was not at all interested in meeting the man’s wife. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

In my junior year of high school, me and three of my close friends began to hold the meetings of what would soon become the infamous Geek Club. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having a bigger staff with very talented people made meeting the new challenges created by our much broader docket seem possible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Gather all the senior officers. I want a meeting as soon as Reyna has left on her fool’s quest. There will be a few changes in the legion’s plans.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“No need to be frightened. Hardly any of my power reaches beyond this cursed fishbowl. Besides, why would I harm someone I’ve looked forward to meeting so very much?” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But for the past few weeks, he’d gotten caught up in council meetings and holding court, and hadn’t been able to visit her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“But for days we’ve been meeting about Christmas. And you’ve been so kind to let us use your hut. If you had told us, we could have included a Hanukkah celebration,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He glances sideways, meeting my eyes for maybe the first time since Mrs. Bessermann, and the brow quirks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Others are social only in the sense of being more or less congenial, meeting from time to time in committees, using social gatherings as ad hoc occasions for feeding and breed- ing. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

According to Robert Stevenson, one of the scientists involved in the meeting, their goal was to keep the field from “degenerating into complete chaos.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the months before meeting Twinkle, Sanjeev had begun to realize this. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

These days they only risked the signal for important meetings. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning—it was a Saturday—Kevin and I went together to Archie’s for the weekly meeting of the Loyal Order of the Stone Bone. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

He was tired from his wakeful night and from the excitement of meeting someone for the first time. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

It was a simple matter for Venus to bring about a meeting between the two. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When a whole week had passed thus, the tannery officials called a meeting to announce that those who did not return to work would be replaced. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody cared when Seven lingered at the corners of those meetings, but there were some meetings where Witchlings were absolutely never allowed, and tonight was one of them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

While the school board members went to have an emergency meeting in Mr. Guareschi’s office, we tried to put Mrs. Baker’s classroom back together, since absolutely all of the desks had been knocked over. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Amid all this a remarkable meeting took place at the Free African Society on Fifth Street, just south of Walnut. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

From that point on, he would not utter another word until the meeting was nearing its end. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee had set her alarm so she could reach her mom before her mom called her, before her mom left for her meeting. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

After the meeting I met an Irish girl who worked for an advertising agency, a girl who did social work, a schoolteacher, and the wife of a prominent university professor. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waved idly in my direction and crouched down to sit cross-legged on the edge of the roof as casually as if we were meeting for a drink in a pub. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

When the meeting ended, Connor and I led a group of villagers, including all the councillors, to the hidden grove. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

It was as though the last few weeks had never happened — as though Harry were meeting Ron for the first time, right after he’d been made champion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe coming here today, meeting Petey where all these people would make up their own stories about them, was a bad idea. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

At that meeting Tecumseh had delegates with him from several nations, including Kickapoos, Wyandots, Peorias, Ojibwas, Potawatomis, Winnebagos, and Shawnees. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Their meeting was fortunate, for it let them use each other to grow on. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“No,” I said, meeting his gaze, but his stare was so rude I was forced to cut my eyes away. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

If one of us had a hard time fitting in or meeting people, we’d go to Monet’s. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And in the Linnaean Society meeting room, Charles’s and Wallace’s papers were met with—no reaction. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face appeared on one of the meeting room walls, which was really a giant plasma-screen video monitor. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Every night the moon made its slow passage over Stonetown, and every night Reynie Muldoon gazed up through the window of the drafty old house, remembering the moonlit meetings of the Mysterious Benedict Society. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Those parents don’t have to attend high school every day with kids whose parents won’t be at that meeting.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

His lordship has worked wonders to bring this meeting about, and he believes - faithfully believes - he's doing something good and honourable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

After meeting a black grammar school friend of my sister’s, I remember thinking that she wasn’t really ‘black.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

No doubt he had heard about the meetings Manolo and Minerva were conducting on our property. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The problem of where to concentrate Dr. Urey’s energy is still unsolved,” Colonel Nichols scribbled in his notes after a fraught meeting over K-25. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It was a deserted spot that Hamlet and I favored for our meetings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When she lost all interest in the schoolhouse, the sewing workshop, and the women’s meetings and once again found everything ever so lovely, they knew that she was pregnant again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one, in any of these meetings, was rough with me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Howard Fuller lived just across the street from the campus, and a contingent of students came to his door, to invite the respected activist to their meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

More than once, the scurvy swab made a panic-stricken dive over the side, preferring to swim ashore, where he would cope ultimately with Dad, instead of meeting the captain on the latter’s own quarterdeck. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they had come to the time and place for their last meeting, they would meet. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the countless meetings in living rooms where maybe seven would be a crowd; the gradually building, building—on up to renting folding chairs for dingy little storefronts which Muslims scrubbed to spotlessness. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The magician wasn’t invited to the secret meeting. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

After several hours of swinging from the oak tree in their netted trap, Jack and Sarah heard the leaves stirring and then the sound of a saw meeting rope. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“You ever come when those big-time writers are here for their meetings? Once there was so many folks upstairs, Miss Kimble came downstairs to get extra chairs.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

In concert, without ever meeting each other’s eyes, they stroked the blades up and down, up and down. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m asked to the meeting, although I don’t have much to contribute. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The Red Guards at her school held struggle meetings to criticize her almost every day. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Regardless, the culturists who called the meeting said, precision was essential in science, and researchers should know what cells they were using, and whether they were contaminated. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Carter had been doubtful about using the black box, pointing out that this was not a Vigils meeting. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"With the conch. I'm calling a meeting even if we have to go on into the dark. Down on the platform. When I blow it. Now." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then I took the deserted side steps down to the street two at a time, without meeting another soul. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She kept meeting women coming out of their flats. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wouldn’t talk to me in Conditioning or even at our team meeting at the end of the day. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was both a happy and sad meeting. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The captain calls me in for a meeting in spite of the fact that I have tried to keep a low profile. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Maybe we will not have to leave so soon. Last night at the block leaders meeting it was definitely decided that the camp must remain open until everyone has a place to go back to.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Reggie went back to the bishop’s office for a follow- up meeting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We also held weekly meetings to talk about current issues, and everyone was welcome to come and ask questions. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Straightway a meeting was called among the colored people, under the stereotyped notice, “Business of importance!” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Women who had never before heard their own voices in a public meeting discussed points of law and constitution in a manner that would have done credit to any legislative assembly.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He was a veteran, meeting every calamity with a cheerful steadiness. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief instant I think it might be from our parents, but it’s just a flyer calling for an emergency community meeting later today. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“So what all went on at the meeting at your house last night?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The emergency council meeting is more of the same: confirmation that the viruses will be dropped over the cities this evening, discussions about what planes will be used and at what times. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“What you going to take up at this cabinet meeting?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ranofer was sure it had nothing to do with a meeting place, or stealing gold from goldsmiths, or anything Heqet had imagined. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

She told them about meeting the dragon that could not fly and the monkeys and the buffalo boy. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

The left column tallies the probability, based on all past meetings between the two wrestlers fighting that day, that the 7—7 wrestler will win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His father no longer, as he had once done, led great revival meetings, his name printed large on placards that advertised the coming of a man of God. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I have any words in which to tell the meeting of the mother and daughters. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe how fast you’re growing up. I remember when you two would watch a movie together curled up on blankets in our living room. Now you’re going off on your own, meeting friends.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I thought Dan was interesting,” Patricia remembered of their first meeting, “but it wasn’t like love at first sight or anything.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He continued hanging around with Andy and his friends and attending the segregationists’ strategy meetings. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a deacons’ meeting this Wednesday night,’’he said. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She wanted to stay up and contemplate meeting her grandparents, but she was too exhausted. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rachel hardly ever comes to meetings, with three kids, working on her master’s in English from Millsaps College. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The supper conversations became ritual, outgrowing the house and migrating to the meeting house, whereupon Gloria stopped serving food and drink and let them fend for themselves. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I can’t believe I told you that. I never talk about that. Not with anyone, not even G., not even at meetings.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Doubtless there were several additional dinners, clandestine meetings, and secret sessions that have escaped the historical record. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Think about it, sleep on it. We’re having a meeting next Sunday at my place.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a few of my colleagues in the league, I even went so far as breaking up CP meetings by storming the stage, tearing up signs, and capturing the microphone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was not so long afterwards that these meetings over cocoa in her parlour came to an end. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what to expect as the guard removed his handcuffs outside the meeting room and let him walk in alone. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She had to prevent Mark Antony and Octavia’s meeting from taking place. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“We're leaving for your appointment in fifteen minutes. Your dad’s meeting us there.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The meeting’s topic was the efficacy of radiation for medical treatments of all kinds, but the impression made on Ernest and John was very different. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

A female presence at this level was such a rarity that a British record keeper later corrected the minutes of the meeting, whiting out the “s” of “Mrs.” so that she became “Mr. Friedman.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Do you have a preference for who should conduct the meeting?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Boy howdy, what I’d give to be at the deacons’ meeting after they heard about the dollar! Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

As it happens—with, perhaps, a little help from Mr. Nielsen, who may have mentioned something to the superintendent at a Rotary meeting—the Hemingford School is looking for a music teacher. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Today he simply made his way around Village, delivering notice of the meeting that would be held the following week. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

His confidence in Lawrence’s administrative and scientific abilities, which dated from their very first meeting, had only been strengthened by the success of the electromagnetic separation process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

When this fails— think the patrician George H. W. Bush’s claimed affinity for pork rinds, or any Democratic candidate at an NRA meeting—the result is often highly comical, if not cringe-inducing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I called a staff meeting for first thing the next morning. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fuchs and Gold set a third meeting for March on Park Avenue in Manhattan. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Louisa doesn’t normally eat what she calls processed foods, but she says she could never get through a tenant meeting without Oreos. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I was surprised when Theresa, not Tino, took charge of the meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would pledge his love for me no matter what and write out the plan for our secret meeting. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

June scowled and grabbed it, her eyes meeting Ivy’s as she stood back up. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He would take Vernon into town for the meeting, so I showed John how to hitch up Belle and Dimple. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, while she pulled weeds from the vegetable gardens, her mind wandered to their first meeting by the river, when she first caught his eye. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Right after her shift, she heads to her meeting at the county tax office. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

So she was actually kind of excited about the meeting! Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Seemingly Mr. Adams was calmly accepting defeat, dismissing the meeting, for now he was saying, ‘This meeting can do nothing more to save the country.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whilst I was toting my clothes and such to Cooter’s I started thinking on what was gonna happen at the meeting tonight. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

“So after meeting Kira and Bailey, I’m sure you see that you are not the first person to be anti-Jon,” she says. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At one meeting, Kennedy scrawled “coup” four times on a sheet of paper. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Thinking about the Circle Justice meetings brought Cole’s anger alive once more. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

So her mom didn’t have to feel bad that she had to go away to this stupid meeting at the worst possible time for Aimee. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I go through the notes from the last League meeting, and come across Hilly’s envelope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

On Thursday night he forgot his Socialist meeting. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basketball court is a strange patch of neutral ground, a meeting place for every element of a neighborhood’s cohort of young men. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He’s sitting on a sleek gray couch right next to the meeting table, his elbows perched on his knees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In fact it would be the most likely place in the world for meeting someone who would recognize Aravis or even himself. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t believe this is my fourth day here in Washington, D.C., and I am actually meeting Secretary of Education Richard Riley. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In the middle of a quiet block on 141st Street, inside a brownstone made of deep red shale, the Vanderbeeker family gathered in the living room for a family meeting. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Now I called this meeting in order to get suggestions. I need new ideas for the web. People are already getting sick of reading the words ‘Some Pig!’ Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

I want to organize my “social awareness” thoughts before the rest of the gang shows up for a quick fifteen-minute “next steps” meeting. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I was sad to see Ethan the fish go, but meeting his namesake had been the perfect send-off. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Maybe your father hasn’t been conducting his meetings very well.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Another series of tense, last-minute meetings took place with the president and his advisors. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But Gordievsky was already briefed on his new duties, and he recognized instantly that the meeting was a pretext for something else. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Love is two spirits meeting, joining together, holding each other, helping raise each other from the earth. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Stanton addressed the crowd on the issue of women’s rights, arguing that the topic was relevant at a temperance meeting because many people in the audience still questioned whether women should be permitted to speak. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Shin’s mother again fell to her knees at the meeting, as forty of her fellow farm workers followed the bowijidoworis lead and berated her for failing to fill her work quota. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

A few days later, Mama was leaving for one of her overnight voodoo meetings. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That birdman was a scary fellow, and I had no intention of meeting up with him again. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her tone was ominous, as though our next meeting would not be happy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The sensation of the meeting was the unexpected appearance of Linus. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He visited Disciples of Christ meetings in neighboring Vermont and New York, often preaching for money to pay his college expenses. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

These were to be “talks about talks,” and the meetings were to begin in early April. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meeting at Ector received extensive coverage in the Odessa American. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was meant to be for breakfast tomorrow, but he decided that meeting his first cricket was a special occasion. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

After their first meeting, Descartes wrote of him: “I could not believe that a single mind could occupy itself with so many things, and equip itself so well in all of them.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

"This was just one more clandestine meeting among several in a day," he said, "and the danger that I would be caught out was not very great." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coach O nodded along, and as the room began to settle down, he told the captains to take their teams off to the individual meetings. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could not sit idly by as the violence continued, and I sought another meeting with Chief Buthelezi. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the children reported meeting her, it would seem like an accident, she figured. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like men meeting a fashion model, they trained their eyes away from my body and pretended to be interested in me as a person. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As a respected and valued counselor to both kings, he accompanied them on their travels and was usually to be found by their sides during important meetings with government officials. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy paused at the doorway, trying not to think about Julius Caesar getting slashed to death at a senate meeting. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Soon after his paper was published, Coriell and a few other top tissue culturists called an urgent meeting to talk about the state of their field, which they worried was becoming a disaster. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Holly started our first quilting club meeting with what she called “The History of American Quilt Making.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled out a chair, and he sat down as if he were in charge of a meeting. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Despite my cold, Arthur allowed me to address an ANC meeting in his house the following evening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On one sunny afternoon when she had just returned from her church-ladies meeting, she rushed in to listen to our old broken radio. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Farmer was in Europe for a scientific meeting. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

After their meeting, Scoville announced to the newspapers that the man was insane and had acted alone, believing he was carrying out God's directions. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even the women at prayer meeting who cried when he sang “In the Sweet By-and-By” never tried to get him to participate in the church activities. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At night a tremendous mass meeting was held in the Auditorium, where a bronze tablet which had been inscribed to her memory was unveiled. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's what I said! I said about our meetings and things and then you said shut up-" His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

‘Here we are, home again. Facing certain death again. We have to stop meeting like this.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Many nights while her mother was hosting the late-night meetings, Ma would fall asleep listening to the women’s voices. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was bad enough sitting in the same room with them at city council meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It be like meeting other women—older and younger, living and no more breath. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Each letter of the alphabet has a rhyme about a little kid meeting some bizarre end. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I have a meeting in”-she glanced at the kitchen clock—“thirty minutes. I left my notes for the Carlson School project here.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She wore the same expression that she had done on our first meeting, when I dropped my gloves so gauchely on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She and Coach Hedge listened as Nico described his dreams, then his meeting with Hades at the Chapel of Bones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During the preparatory examination, which was to last for months, we listened day after day as African and Afrikaner detectives read out their notes of ANC meetings, or transcripts of speeches. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Mitch to pick me up at five because my mom had a pageant board meeting until six and I didn’t really feel like getting the how-to-be-a-lady/what-boys-want-in-a-girl talk from her. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Buzz Aldrin was assigned mission planning, which meant he attended all the meetings on that subject. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s driving upstate tomorrow morning for a bunch of depositions and meetings. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

The squealing of hogs being slaughtered filtered into our Wednesday and Friday meetings. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He now made a proper addition to the general atmosphere of these meetings on Hyper Base. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

But now, I had to focus on this meeting. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

On the morning of the meeting, Charlotte set off with six friends in a wagon pulled by farm horses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

These details gave the date of the meeting. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven and Poppy would often help Miss Dewey set up for meetings there...Funny that until that moment, Seven had not thought of the purple coven or Poppy in a long time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Should the meeting be canceled, he wondered, if the fever really was so dangerous? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

When he had been at the oasis for almost a month, the leader of the caravan called a meeting of all of the people traveling with him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Stewart, thank you for coming with us and setting up this meeting,” Ma said. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

They didn’t fit into the house, so the meeting was held outside and the snacks were inside. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

At their first meeting after the estrangement, Bernard poured out the tale of his miseries and accepted consolation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Well, Early, it was good meeting you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was an ancient wooden meeting hall there with a huddle of permanent dwellings around it, and wharves and jetties and an eelmarket. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a little nervous about meeting the others. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our meeting was awkward, as she knew I had been living in Brooklyn and had not wanted to see her. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are many alternative options for achieving the level of professional communication necessary without our meeting on this basis.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Never had the privilege of meeting the great man, though.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He felt paternal toward her and thought Bobby might be interested in meeting her, so he gave her Fischer’s address in Los Angeles and suggested she write to him and send him her photograph. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was glad now that he had convinced two other Klansmen to accompany him to the city council meeting on his maiden voyage into mainstream Durham politics. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting... The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Last night, all I could think about was how strange it was to be pulled into a resistance meeting. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The look of determination on her face could leave no doubt she came to this meeting to fight. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

That afternoon, while Mrs. Popper was still away at her meeting, and Janie and Bill had not yet come home from school, there was a loud ring at the front door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I almost forgot. Here is your math exercise notebook. I put the assignment sheet in it. Don’t forget the meeting tomorrow. Four o’clock in the auditorium.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinx carefully reached down to rub his left foot, hoping the meeting would end soon. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He described their last meeting, at the lecture at MIT. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That may have been fine as far as that first meeting was concerned. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the meeting, there was another race to be run. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He and Uncle Al are meeting with the railroad authority.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Woman to Woman has one monthly meeting where we all gather together, and in between those meetings we have one-on-one outings with our mentors. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Looking ahead one sees it broaden, rising and curving slowly, dwarfing the dark ridges of earth, meeting the ice-wall far above under veils of cloud and smoke and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

This afternoon the teachers have a meeting, so we get out of school an hour early. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess after the meeting he didn’t need to be so cool, he could sweat if he wanted to. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

“I appreciate you all coming by, but I’m afraid I have another meeting.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday of state championship week, the regular meeting of the Permian booster club was interrupted by numerous standing ovations. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so strange that we are meeting him now. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The makeup of the committee had changed from the last meeting, too. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

It would be like meeting someone else running away from the police in the opposite direction—you would both be caught! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the meeting, a Saturday in mid-December, there is a light knock on my bedroom door. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Within the office, a team of CIA operatives gathered at all hours around small desks, surrounded by maps of Moscow and photographs of potential meeting places and drop sites. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were more turbulent council meetings, and several incidents of arson involving DHA property. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They weren’t meeting a lot of different people like I was. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Later both brothers will refer to it as a meeting of the minds, of the time they made a pledge to each other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Billy was on his way to a Lions Club luncheon meeting. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a knock and Barb peers around the door, meeting my eyes as she holds up a sheet full of test results. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

She was looking forward to meeting the blind man’s daughter. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

People around the room started mumbling, and the meeting broke up. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I w as thinking of the violence of my last meeting with Scott, of the way he was at the end -wild and paranoiac, on the edge of madness. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then our mother is gone, back home or to a park bench, where she'll sit and read until the meeting is over. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine what a “community meeting” would look like, but my brain had nothing. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Journeys end in lovers meeting. Let’s go down to the brook.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

If I wasn’t nervous about this meeting before, I certainly am now. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Trouble arose even before Malcolm arrived, as problems developed in obtaining a meeting hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had wandered unnoticed into our meeting and was standing at the front window, looking out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that was when I made my decision about the community meeting. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

One day Papa Andrew called a meeting and announced, “Tomorrow we are leaving for the airport. We are going to Ghana. It is another stepping-stone to America. There you will meet your new parents.” Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting my friend. He’s got all the details and stuff.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know why you can’t see this,” Sahil continued, just barely meeting my eye before looking down at his food. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So, I’ll call you tomorrow morning before my meeting, okay, sweetie?” her mother was saying. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

At the meeting the next day, and at several that followed, the course of events was anything but smooth. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I hear my parents’ footsteps behind me, and Barb’s, and Dr. Hamid’s, but I look back at Will, one more time, his eyes meeting mine. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And even more amazing how quick I was called in to have a meeting with someone. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the first meeting since our disastrous retreat. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The people from the meeting drifted off toward their homes, shaking their heads and talking. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went outside to see what Makgatho was talking about, for the ANC had organized a demonstration to ensure that the meeting did not succeed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For days after meeting up with Maya and Joaquin, Grace was a mess. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I clicked out of the file and started listening to the meeting. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Throughout our meeting her manner had been guarded, as if we were being watched as well as bugged. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two family meetings in one week—and this one was upgraded to a Zamora Emergency Meeting? The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Diamant nodded and smiled when asked if I was her daughter, elbowed me to do the same, and whispered that she wished I could go to a shop owners’ meeting twice a week. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She seemed genuinely disappointed that no one had answered her signal, as if meeting David would have been even better than showing off the rapids, the ruins, and the roller coaster. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The white man started a conversation with Royal at an antislavery meeting; impressed, Wheeler told him to come to his office the next day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

For our next meeting, a minivan taxi hauls my grandmother and five big trunks to Carver School. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The next support group meeting is coming up,” I told Connor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He shared their excitement, and the dry-mouthed apprehension on meeting his father gave way to the saliva flow of excitement. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After our fourth and final meeting with Dr. B, Dad and I go out for ice cream and miniature golf. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“How do they set up meetings if they don’t have E.S.P.?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of that year, the friends reunited at the American Physical Society meeting in New Orleans, where they basked in their rising eminence and remained, evidently, inseparable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Bush proved to be a capable president, and the women successfully managed the meeting on their own. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The next Sunday, when Dad convened the second meeting of the Council, we sat self-consciously around the table, biding our time. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blanca had to forgo two of their meetings by the river in order for the young men to meet. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

By then most people had finished their church meetings, and some, still in their Sunday best, were out for a walk. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

His sister had taken the king's seat for herself—he gathered Joffrey did not often trouble to attend council meetings, no more than Robert had—so Tyrion climbed up into the Hand's chair. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I thought he had the most glorious job in the world, meeting movie stars, but I was scared of him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of us from the meetings are having a group show, of women only. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

They used the night outside meetings to play at courting. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You were wonderful at the meeting with the board. Bijan has always spoken so highly of you.” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

From the screen in his hand, Henry’s message reads, In world’s most boring meeting with Philip. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The judges will be meeting in the faculty lounge this morning to make the preliminary cut...” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I was telling you—in the agency, when they reach a point like this in a meeting, there’s always some character ready with an idea. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A political meeting? Ignatius! Ain’t that wonderful. Maybe you’ll make good in politics, boy. You got you a fine voice. What club, honey? The Crescent City Democrats? The Old Regulars?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning Johnny knew Rab was meeting the farmer at market. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twice that day already, he realized now, Major Major had come racing toward him inside the ditch; and twice that day the chaplain had stupidly postponed the destined meeting by bolting into the forest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to call a special Girl Scout meeting tonight so we can spread the word about the curse so people aren’t scared to death.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her phone was vibrating, Ranyinudo calling, and ordinarily she would have waited until the meeting was over to call her back. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Last night, Mrs. Hall and one other parent showed up at the school board meeting and complained that the Unity Valley School District has a “homosexual agenda” and made calls for three teachers to resign. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

What, did everybody have a meeting in the gym and vote on it?” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

She didn’t normally feel anxious about meeting people. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had barely said a dozen words since the meeting with Raymond Andrews and my attempts at conversation had only met with a nod or a monosyllabic reply. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lander played guessing games with the youngest one as the residents filled the meeting hall. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Years later, Joshua Colemans granddaughters would recall their grandfather saying that from their first meeting, he had a premonition that Jimmy Goble would not live a long life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

So he had started meeting with the Second in secret. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On the bank of the Silverlode, at some distance up from the meeting of the streams, there was a hythe of white stones and white wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Because N and I are meeting in a week and then maybe my brain and my heart will stop fighting. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

If we tried meeting in secret, Reb Saunders would find out about it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I shake it and give Boy21 a questioning squint, but then Coach says, “Nice to see you again, Boy21. I look forward to our next meeting.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dressed and attended the meeting that was to make the final decision to dissolve the clubs. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was driving to the courthouse with the divorce papers when she got the speeding ticket that led to her meeting my father. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

That was never determined, but not many people knew of the meeting. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After a while, the lieutenant shook hands with the two foreigners and he called over the private who was guarding the meeting. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the day he was sworn in, I wrote him a letter requesting a meeting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could meet with his KGB handlers with ease, since, as far as MI6 was concerned, meeting with Soviet agents was part of Blake's job. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had several private meetings with him at his residence, and later that year the government made its first concrete proposal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dubonnet called an emergency meeting at the union hall and invited the company to explain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually we both began feeling comfortable discussing issues that were taboo in meetings between black and white: politics, equality, freedom. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belmont officials grudgingly agreed to consider it, and there was talk of rescheduling the race for the fall meeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

For meeting the top boss in the entire industry. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

With a kind of wry envy, Hazel realized that Bigwig was actually looking forward to meeting the Efrafan assault. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. Do you think meeting a Holy Being is, you know, an everyday thing?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Moreau turns to pace a few steps before meeting my eyes again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I figured I was gonna have ’bout a hour to eavesdrop on the meeting afore I had to get back to Cooter’s home. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Szilard and Wigner, who had left the initial meeting confident that the urgency of research was understood at the highest levels of government, now came face-to-face with the natural sluggishness of the bureaucratic process. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We should go to that town meeting tomorrow,” he said with a mouth full of chips. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But it was nothing compared to the apprehension I already felt building inside me at the prospect of meeting Art3mis once we reached Oregon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Marthas held a craft meeting to make Valentine’s pillows for little kids who are in the hospital. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it isn’t Caleb and Bobby Gene Franklin. Fancy meeting the two of you here.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to send Esther to make Nescafe before I fall asleep in the meeting.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I don’t know if I’m more nervous or more excited about meeting everyone—especially Adam. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Now, this is too much! She has to start meeting people eventually,” Fozia said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The meeting resolved nothing and the boxers left for another venue while the weight lifters remained at the Community Center. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were cables from Vietnam he hadn’t seen, minutes from meetings he hadn’t known had taken place. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The meetings were usually scheduled by the government, but sometimes I would request a session. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you were brave. Like I said at the PTA meeting.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched and learned from the tribal meetings that were regularly held at the Great Place. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later today, I have a meeting with my guidance counselor, who is monitoring me for Dad. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He tried imagining meeting other Holy Beings, from the Warrior Twins era, from the Changing Woman era, from the First Coyote era. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You never had the pleasure of meeting my father.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My take on it, working in a place where physical confrontation was always possible, was that most men, meeting other men, instantly asked themselves: Could I beat him in a fight? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee Lee tells me that Lewis and Clark came with gifts and that it was a ritual to have a meeting ceremony. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Based on Chambliss’s best guess, it should have gone off around three or four in the morning, which would have prevented our congregation from meeting for church but would not have harmed anyone. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After we finished our meeting, not deciding anything else except what time we were going to meet the following weekend, the boys went home. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you meeting her mom, Mr. Garfield?” she asks sweetly, and loudly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He’d kept a framed photo of their meeting on the wall of his office ever since. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Well, if it’s such a good idea to speak up, why don’t you two ever go to council meetings?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

On Monday I’m staying after school for a National Honor Society meeting. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As president of the committee, Clarkson presided over its daily meeting and helped organize its operation. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Not only was it the obvious guess, but Maurice already had been talking in terms of helices at a summer meeting in Cambridge. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He was beginning to worry that the meeting had gone really, really badly when she pulled back, her eyes wet, a small smile playing at her lips. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’ll tell Darkness to have the diagnosis meeting during the full moon. You know, full moons are special for water monsters. They make us stronger and our songs more potent.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“I have a meeting, and I want you there to help me read the situation.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you sleep well? We are going to the earlier Mass today because your father has a meeting right afterward. Kunie, get into the bathroom, its past seven.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Osterveen suggested a second meeting to elect officers and to come up with a new name for the club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Hearing her voice made him feel even guiltier, more ashamed at how he'd handled the first meeting. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As they passed on through the village square, meeting and chatting with the villagers, Pong's senses were dialed all the way up. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Joseph Butler, the Klan Youth Corps member, attended the steering committee meeting and objected to holding the charrette at Harris. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to return to Denver for a series of meetings. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A few schoolchildren, a few milkmen and street sweepers, but otherwise, our early-morning meeting is over before I would normally even leave for work. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or did he stumble upon it while trying to stave off the boredom of an interminable faculty meeting, as he told Wideroe at their only face-to-face meeting many years later? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

My meeting with the regent had a double effect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: “To Harry Potter — the boy who lived!” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Free up Belle. We better get down there. Won’t be but a handful of folks to round up cattle with that town meeting.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“He had a meeting to go to. You know about the petition?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But the May 31 meeting was the first time that the idea of a demonstration was placed before a decision-making body of the US government. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Oh, what a strange meeting, and how it all makes my head whirl round! Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“And I love the color blue—the real bright blue like the hat May had on at the Daughters of Mary meeting. And since coming here, I’ve learned to love bees and honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was told to attend the meeting about the exhibition. Did you know that?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I should have taken you to a meeting with me to see what it’s like. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

By the end of the meeting, Connie had pushed her phone number and email address on me and I think I’d offered to serve on her committee to present ideas to the school board. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at last he set out for the meeting place. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those struggle meetings they beat her and whipped her with their belts. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A meeting was scheduled to break the standoff. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Aware of the architects’ increasing emphasis on size, Olmsted shortly before the meeting had written to Burnham suggesting ways to enliven the grounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

No. You asked her if your father was in the building for a meeting. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be in our meeting room, putting together a list of new Dewey decimal numbers from the Bibliomania cards so we’re ready to hit the ground running when the doors reopen at ten tomorrow morning.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

On April 12 Whitney finally materialized at the board meeting. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For Burnham, too, the meeting in the Rookery had produced a heightened awareness of how little time remained. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

For the rest of the day, throughout his meeting and as he struggles, afterward, to get back to work, he thinks of her. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

No, that would not require such a formal meeting. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

As usual the Negro leaders called a meeting to discuss what might be done. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

After they returned and the meeting broke up, Spencer relayed their conversation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He was absorbed in the excitement over the tea, over the secret meeting tonight. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would be speaking to him in just over twelve hours, for tonight was the night they were meeting at the common room fire — assuming nothing went wrong, as everything else had done lately. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When the meeting ended, I retrieved my bag from the club and found the address in a dark alley of Greenwich Village. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure thing. We’re meeting up over there, though, so another time.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

"No meeting, but just the same there has been a caucus and decisions have been reached even before the event is finished." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, by the end, we had even abandoned our routine of meeting over a cup of cocoa at the end of each day. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

We had just had a club meeting the week before, and we had another one scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, September 15. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But I passed several villagers, a few of whom I recognized from the council meeting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Lose two games by two points and they’re ready to hang ’im,” he said quietly at the booster club meeting that Tuesday night following the loss to the Rebels. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s really great to think that after almost a year and a half we shall be meeting again. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if we attempt to sabotage their next meeting—?” “They might burn down the Dancing Trout,” Shorty said glibly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esteban soon found out about the second half of their prayer meetings and became enraged. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

After meeting with his new employees, he turned to Beatrix Halliday, his longtime assistant, and asked, “What do you think they re saying about me?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

From the catalogue, she chose three courses with classes meeting in the afternoon. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She attended the prayer meeting for Yule May that Aibileen hosted weeks ago, but she belongs to a different church. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the king of Athens was invited to the mess hall for a ‘get to know you’ meeting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

On the morning before the meeting, Howard cranked up the pressure. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gold hurried to the meeting place, a dark restaurant. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparently—according to these posters, at least—only certain hairstyles are allowed to attend board meetings. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

As the meetings in Moscow continued, Farmer looked as if he was enjoying them less and less. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They sit on the bed across from mine, and I tell them about getting cornered in one of the Erudite laboratories the night before, about the pillowcase and the Allegiant and the meeting. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The meeting with the family had been inspiring. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They set their next meeting for September, the soonest Gold thought he could get away from work again. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he attended the meetings, he wouldn’t have to go on their terms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ventured into the occult—organizing séances and planchette sessions at home, or meeting his friends to meditate at a crematorium at night. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But I have no complaints, because this was the best student council meeting I’ve ever had. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Eighteen months later, Ana and Joaquin were still meeting in the diner every Friday after school. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I could not remember meeting them in the mountains when I was a baby. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I called a meeting for all the members and it was a lively session — conducted in Sesotho, Zulu, Xhosa, and English. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a robotics meeting this afternoon, which is why she wasn’t in ELA and why we didn’t talk in school. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Only at the end of the meeting, as the sun was setting, would the regent speak. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely the generals could come to some meeting of the minds. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One year after he joined, Karl began to skip the mandatory meetings, a decision that angered his unit leader. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I assumed she was heading toward the student center for her committee meeting before hitting the library. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The meeting will be over in the afternoon. I’ll be back in plenty of time.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

In Vietnam, the ambassador called a meeting to discuss a clandestine coup. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

When she hung up, she mentioned casually to her husband that apparently some sort of police agent had arrived in Milagro for a meeting and she wondered vaguely why, and with whom. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I was supposed to fetch you! The meeting’s started. Come on, we have to hurry.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A meeting was planned to discuss the match, with Kok agreeing to pay all the expenses for Bobby to fly, first class, to Belgium and be lodged at the five-star Sheraton Brussels Hotel. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Later that evening some men picked Grampa up for another Council meeting. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

When the chief called a kgotla meeting the people were very surprised. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Compton’s report of the Schenectady meeting to Bush asserted firmly the practicality of building a “fission bomb of superlatively destructive power” and of separating isotopes on an industrial scale for no more than $100 million. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

They wanted to prepare a “Declaration of Sentiments” similar to those they had read at other reform movement meetings they had attended, so they began by reviewing papers from other meetings. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

When the meeting was again called to order Mr. Hoo suggested they offer Ms. Pulaski a slightly larger share of the inheritance in exchange for a transcript of the will—in English. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She had sat in a few times, and she still remembered the meeting where irritated men and women talked about the northern schools not admitting Igbo children. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“They’re probably in one of the meeting areas, northwest of here.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Not only are our meetings in the same building, but also her lawyer and my interviewer are the same person? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“David has his shoes on already, and I have paperwork to do for my meeting on Monday.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved to Plymouth after the meeting and spent the rest of his life there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sea and sky meeting on a cardboard cup. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I have to make a run for it if I’m going to get to Miss McDaniels’s meeting on time. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

We’d just come from a town meeting, where the Eagle announced the school was going to build a playground by the lake in memory of Alaska. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Considering she was meeting a giant for the first time in her life, the Queen remained astonishingly self-composed. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It introduced a regulation permitting Zulus to carry so-called traditional weapons to political rallies and meetings in Natal and elsewhere. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a luncheon meeting of the Civic Daughters to plan for the Thanksgiving fundraiser for the National Negro Business League. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Kasigi held an emergency staff meeting to bring all the teachers up to speed. I don’t recommend that you mention Cap’s name to him. He gets very emotional on the subject.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The guests would gather in the courtyard in front of the regent’s house and he would open the meeting by thanking everyone for coming and explaining why he had summoned them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An Aspirant. It’s why I missed the meeting. I’m sorry.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“I enjoyed the meetings too,” said Luna serenely. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

From the United States I proceeded to Canada, where I had a meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney and also addressed their Parliament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he said, "I had the privilege of meeting your mother and dad when they had their little chat with Dr. Thurmer some weeks ago. They're grand people." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“They’re going to have a meeting—” “1 know all about it and I don’t want to talk about it.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

This statement was too radical for some of the women at the meeting, who wanted nothing to do with the women’s rights agenda. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not the accommodating police officer of their previous meeting. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the meeting I argued that the state had given us no alternative to violence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was charting out with Janice his April and May schedules of meetings and speaking engagements in the expansive war room of his Flushing headquarters. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The debacle was no surprise to several of us who had just been in Oxford for a Society of General Microbiology meeting on “The Nature of Viral Multiplication.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

At the weekly meetings, members spent hours cursing out Martin Luther King and other national black leaders, calling them Communist dupes and worse. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“After all our meetings and negotiations and compromises, I little expected something of this nature to occur! I have half a mind to leave now!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They decided to camp at the foot of the rapids, and after the tents were pitched, Roosevelt called a meeting with Rondon. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“He called and invited me to the big meeting out there.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been meeting with him ever since. If things continue smoothly, I think he’ll be my patron before the year is out.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before her face was widely recognized at City Hall, Ann spent hours walking the halls of that building, ferreting out the confidential meetings of various boards and commissions that controlled Hayti. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Letters advising these chiefs and headmen of a meeting were dispatched from the regent, and soon the Great Place became alive with important visitors and travelers from all over Thembuland. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leader stood on the platform, read the petition in his strong, clear voice, and opened the meeting to debate. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Only one thing bothered me: Since I now knew that their real objectives were never revealed at committee meetings I needed some channel of intelligence through which I could learn what actually guided their operations. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scroll through the photos I took from the beginning of the day, skipping over the ones from my time before meeting Mateo and starting with my first color photo. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The 586th added “the need to increase vigilance” to their Party staff meeting agenda. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The first enigmatic bargain concerned the expansion of slavery into the West and actually occurred in the Confederation Congress that was also meeting in Philadelphia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I first got my meds after Mom had her school meeting and took me to the clinic. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rosa Parks was like two different people inside and out of the meetings. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“I look forward to meeting them at the banquet.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The first paragraph went on to remind the lawyers that she’d been meeting with the victims’ families. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The meetings were run by leaders not much older than the other members. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The Rochester meeting sparked nationwide interest in women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Increasing family responsibilities often kept Elizabeth Cady Stanton from traveling to meetings. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She told Odenigbo about Mohammed’s letter as they walked back from the village square after the meeting. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And of course it isn’t my belly button. Would I call an emergency meeting to show you a picture of my belly button?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The meeting to discuss and vote on the petition began in the orderly, careful way such meetings had always been handled. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She refused to back down, and Henry did, in fact, leave Seneca Falls during the meeting to avoid any association with what he considered an outrageous idea. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

So although it became one of the most famous scientific meetings in history, one in which evolution and religion fought on center stage, Charles Darwin was not there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If things are going so well, where are your friends? Looks like your Council hasn’t been meeting lately.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“From Teacher Zhang. He wanted somebody to bring you a message about a meeting at school tomorrow, and I volunteered. You haven’t been to school for days. I wondered if you were sick or something.'” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He settles in almost immediately, though it takes him a bit to get used to Dr. Gachet; on first meeting he thinks him quite eccentric. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“That thing is the size of a bull, with tusks as long as swords. Ghost would go after him if he were loose, and one or both of them would not survive the meeting.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There was a monthly meeting of the alethiometer research group coming up, when they compared results and discussed lines of approach, and if she had nothing to say, her privileges might be withdrawn. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Not long before, I had written to Coetsee pressing him for a meeting to discuss talks between the ANC and the government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's what the guy said, The dog didn't make it, like the dog was on its way someplace or meeting somebody for lunch. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The meetings with city and county officials, the back-channel support from polite Durham society, the swelling membership roles, the new Klavern hall—any one of these taken individually was a significant feather in C.P.’s hood. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

In late October 1925, he was meeting with the governor of Oklahoma, discreetly discussing the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few days later, another hiker called and requested a helicopter because he was a day behind schedule and was afraid he would miss an important business meeting. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Since the 1913 procession, they had tried lobbying, meeting with President Wilson, and holding additional parades, but nothing seemed to generate political support for women’s suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Your husband was right about that meeting of kings. He said the Tiger King could not be trusted and insisted on going in my place,” the king said in a fierce whisper. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Jam shook her head, not meeting her mother’s eyes, even as she felt Bitter’s worry sing against her skin. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Even so, Dr. Xuma and other African leaders spoke at several meetings and along with the Youth League gave full moral support to the struggle of the Indian people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, I was meeting the microphones, cameras, press reporters, and other commitments, including the Muslims of my own Mosque Seven. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The marriage was a meeting of hearts and minds both. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Together, they all went into one of the West Computing offices, where Blanche was standing in the middle of the room, preparing for a 10:00 a.m. meeting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Upon our meeting, Bono expressed his happy anticipation of seeing and speaking with your mother again,” said he. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“I am not retiring now because I feel unable, mentally or physically, to do the necessary work,” she told the delegates at the meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The fact that he had showed up for the meeting had been an admission of curiosity. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standard Soviet tradecraft was to wait no more than five minutes at a pub- lic meeting spot—any longer could attract attention. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was the man Danny had been meeting in the library! The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

It could have been a church meeting if not for the white hoods and cloaks. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As part of the tradition in these meetings, Gaines and the other coaches then left the room so the captains could address the players privately. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the midst of meeting new people and making plans, I forgot that my plan is to walk straight into a battle that could claim my life. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was leaving, so I walked faster, you know, to catch up, and then I said, “Oh, hi, Colin,” like it’s just coincidence or something that we’re meeting there. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Second, they all knew one another personally, meaning that they broke bread together, sat together at countless meetings, corresponded with one another about private as well as public matters. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I can’t stay today. I’m heading to Dallas right now for an oil meeting and I’ll be gone three days,” he says. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“I thought we should have our first team meeting today. Now, I know you guys usually have basketball practice after school, so I’m thinking we can practice during lunch.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

These fireballs were brujas on their way to their meeting places. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melanie always looked forward to meeting new tenants, and today was going to be especially interesting. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think he’s someone who sees value and pleasure in a casual meeting. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A meeting to debate the matter was called in our mess hall. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us approach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt to me as though my world was getting bigger, and I was getting familiar with this big world, meeting more people and doing more things. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And Beatrice at our first meeting, looking me up and down, frank, direct, “You’re so very different from Rebecca.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In 1961, meanwhile, students meeting at a conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, agreed to form a new civil rights group. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sax arrived in Albuquerque and walked to the appointed meeting spot. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told the general that while I was looking forward to the meeting, I thought it appropriate that I have a suit and tie in which to see Mr. Botha. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had another TB meeting in Bellagio, Italy, with the Rockefeller Foundation. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Your daughter has a beautiful home. Are she and her husband meeting with their new counselor?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

On Thursday night, I go to the League meeting. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

When we called meetings to discuss our griev-ances and later had news sessions to discuss what we had learned from the paper, the PAC boycotted these gatherings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only time they touched upon the subject was when Ron told Harry about a meeting Mrs. Weasley had had with Dumbledore before going home. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The rest of the day he was busy with the Congress, the club, playing golf, his business, and his political meetings. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the physical difficulty of meeting was enormous. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That’s how he holds his cabinet meetings, walking briskly, each minister getting his turn at being grilled, then falling back, gladly giving up his place to the next one on line. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when the union meeting’s agenda finally reached new business, he stood up and made it clear matters were a bit more complicated than they at first appeared. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The reason, of course, is the upcoming meeting in which the teachers decide who’ll be promoted to the next grade and who’ll be kept back. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“So,” Father went on, “we obviously had to make the decision. Even 1 voted for Gabriel’s release when we had the meeting this afternoon:” Jonas put down his fork and stared at his father. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The first floor was absolutely quiet, and since it felt like I might be missing some meeting I was supposed to attend, I swung downstairs to the common room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He even asked if he could call his mom a couple of times during the meeting so he could have her check them. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

School Superintendent Virgil Blossom testified for a long time about the details of the school board’s plan for integration, which had taken two years and two hundred meetings to devise. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of them were more or less the same: “I’m not coming to the meeting tonight, decided to stay home.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost six o’clock, and the meeting was supposed to be at five thirty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

To everyone’s surprise, the dapper accountant agreed to attend the meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Roginski, who was my teacher for the third through fifth grades, would have meeting after meeting with my mother. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I turn left at the next intersection and start down the cracked sidewalk toward the building where Abnegation had its monthly faction-wide meetings. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is now fully two days since my meeting with Miss Kenton in the tea lounge of the Rose Garden Hotel in Little Compton. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dasch tried to reassure the FBI that no sabotage would take place prior to the meeting. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Claudia had had her fun at the museum, had had her mystery solved by meeting Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, and then had headed home with her brother, safe and sound. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The river by this time had changed color, because it was meeting the remains of the first floodwaters that had swept down out of the Arctic. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Sure, and it was nice meeting you, too,” I said. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Either way, it’s bound to be better than our last meeting, where not a single person showed up except me—and that includes the other council members. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“The meeting is now adjourned. I have a busy evening ahead of me. I’ve got to tear my web apart and write ‘Terrific.’” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

A single afternoon could hold a couple of official events, several meetings, and a photo shoot. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The rider did as told, and Seabiscuit took off with him, trying once to hurdle the infield fence but meeting with no resistance from the reins. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No—well, he knows about the Spy Club sign—he was actually the one who asked what time the meeting was.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Despite my trepidation about meeting the Nielsens, I can’t help smiling. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The small personal satisfaction he felt came from his having passed one of the most grueling tests of his career by showing the courage “to ‘stand up in meeting’ and say ‘No’ to a steamroller. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

By the end of the day, I had converted Kapwepwe, and he said he would call a meeting and make our case himself— and he did so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what I would get out of meeting with Richard,” she said. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One might imagine that a criminal defendant, when brought before the judge—or when meeting with his attorney for the first time—would be told of the consequences of a guilty plea or conviction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I won’t be here when you return. It is nice meeting you again, sir,” she said, looking at my uncle. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

At a White House meeting, the president’s top foreign policy advisor put it bluntly: “Daniel Ellsberg is the most dangerous man in America. He must be stopped at all costs.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After Hamlet was gone, I searched my memory of all our meetings. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

On certain fortunate nights there were even places to go afterwards, and I scanned the bulletin boards eagerly for these meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, these performances of Brigadoon by the local high school. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Connor and I had gone to two more support group meetings, and I got the feeling he was actually starting to enjoy them, even though he often gave Dexter the stink eye. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Hard to remember them all after one meeting in the dark. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Society matrons came as well, to attend meetings of the Board of Lady Managers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Well, look here,” said Hazel, “we’ll finish this meeting now. Let’s wait and see what we decide—that’s the rabbits’ way. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor did I look towards Wemmick until I had finished all I had to tell, and had been for some time silently meeting Mr. Jaggers’s look. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

With everything else fighting for room in my head, I must confess that Mom and Dad’s “important meeting” didn’t seem very important to me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Ivy and I have an important meeting with the queen." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

After a little while, what little awkwardness as existed during the initial minutes of our meeting had dissipated completely, and our conversation took a more personal turn. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She returned to school and finished her education, and she never again attended a revival meeting. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Sahara told me once at an ERC meeting about how the women who loved him saw him dead and then alive again. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Again, she did not mention that she dreaded her next meeting with Cecilia. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Future meetings would have to be in Santa Fe. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three Witchlings went inside the ornate Hall of Elders, where all government business was handled and the council kept their records and held their meetings. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yesterday when I left Evelyn’s office I lingered in the hallway to eavesdrop on her next meeting. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And Jerome obeyed . . . . . . while on the other cot Rex was meeting with no such resistance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

On a cool day in April, Tina and I flew out to attend a meeting of community leaders discussing youth empowerment, and also to meet a new group of kids. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“I wondered if you were going to show,” Conner said, meeting me at the door. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Notes. Yes, indeed. Notes. However, I realize that it is most impractical to leave you entirely without background information, largely because you are not people accustomed to meeting a situation without preparation.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

He did not want the meeting to turn into a power struggle between the Centers for Disease Control and the Army. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had his daily meetings, but instead of asking me to leave, he had me wait on the other side of the white curtain, where we were now conducting most of our practice sessions. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

On August 13, at an S-l meeting on his home turf in Berkeley, Ernest delivered another bravura presentation on the Rad Lab’s progress. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In March 1863, they published a notice in the New York Tribune calling for a meeting of “The Loyal Women of the Nation.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Before long, Admiral Nimitz and his generals were meeting in that tent to discuss battle plans while we Navajo code talkers waited in the corner, right there next to the top brass. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other good thing, besides fixing the Mary Rose, is that Dad is going to meetings to help him stay sober. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“This gentleman insists that he is here for your meeting.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Because the prince dragged me into a council meeting that lasted for three hours,” he said, a muscle in his jaw feathering. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She was so sad that she started sleeping all the time and skipping garden club meetings. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

They took her up like a surrogate daughter and brought her with them to revival meetings and to snake-handling services over in Jolo. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dad still hits an AA meeting when he needs to. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You know what I mean. People not really talking to us anymore because we don’t go to the Jovenes meetings and all.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

“This,” he said, “is probably the most important meeting in the history of the Department of Transportation.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had to go anyway to attend a meeting of the directors of the American Institute of Architects and planned afterward to take a train to Atlanta to inspect one of the firm’s buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Leaders organized parades through the neighborhoods and meetings at union halls and in smoking rooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At its regular Wednesday meeting the Grounds and Buildings Committee passed a resolution wishing Root a speedy recovery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“Ewo, I am late for a chaplaincy council meeting,” he said, looking at the clock. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The possibility of meeting a white adult here frightened me, more than the possibility of street violence ever had at home. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Wyatt said Terryl also helped organize community meetings with religious leaders, the bishops, who often were the first people contacted when a problem cropped up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But this time they'd picked the wrong spot, and the movie doorman intervened and they ran back toward Ras's street meeting. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Of course, of course. We're delighted to have another member of your outstanding family with us, Mrs. Das. And now I'm off to a quick faculty meeting." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

That’s where he held meetings, Bible study, coffee hour after church on Sundays, and catechisms when the church was too cold in the winter. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Then, meeting my eye again, he said, “Please just give me some space to get over this. Okay?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“As I explained to you, Mr. Kiley,” she says, “it was Bobby’s argument that convinced me we should have this meeting. Perhaps he should be the one to speak.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Let me suggest that instead of worrying and frightening these new ones, who have just come and are weary and confused, let us wait and see what the meeting decides. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

General Grant joined Lincoln’s cabinet meeting later that day where everyone in attendance, including Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles, noticed Lincoln’s good mood. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabelle is meeting Grandpa in the small town of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

In Durham’s long history, few blacks of this social stratum had attended these meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Any clues as to how many meetings he has already conducted before this?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You have that right, as you know. The right to dissent is one of our most important freedoms here. “But the meeting is in four days. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On Monday, October 28, Mrs. Huckaby notified us in writing that we were to contact our parents to come to a meeting in School Superintendent Blossom’s office, downtown, at 4:45 P.M. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through them she murmured something about a meeting Mr. Sen was required to attend. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Pa and the other Elders called a meeting in the church for that night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Wen shyly said he didn’t know any well but wouldn’t mind meeting one. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Thank you for making time for this meeting. I need status on Project Iris from all departments. Venkat, let's start with you." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

In early December, I was informed that a meeting with de Klerk was set for the twelfth of that month. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lisa was assigned the flute, and I returned home from a Scout meeting one evening to find my instrument leaning against the aquarium in my bedroom. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Their mother is in a decathlon of meetings, so they sneak out onto the Truman Balcony and catch each other up over hot chocolates and a plate of donuts. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The failure to let one of the world’s leading scientists attend a completely nonpolitical meeting would have been expected from the Russians. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I have no idea what the judges said or did after the meeting, but over the next few months, Badenhorst seemed to have his hands tied. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was something he had said once, to Leader, about meeting halfway. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t looking forward to meeting him at all. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“When I call for a meeting, all of you must come!” he told us. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Ames had arrived late and seemed nervous about meeting the first major Soviet defector of his career. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The first meeting was at his house, and when no one from school showed up, the Warden declared that all family members had to attend. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The couch in the living room was off-limits and only for Mr. and Mrs. Lassiter’s rare client meetings at home, and the couch in the den was way uncomfortable. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Octavian, go with him. See the ship. We’ll convene a senate meeting in one hour.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They finally decided they would call the FBI, but first they hailed a taxi and went to Grant's Tomb on Riverside Drive for the prearranged meeting with Quirin and Heinck. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Not exactly what I would have chosen for a meeting with the police. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Ten minutes late to the first meeting of a class. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

As Arnold and André were meeting at a riverside safe house, they heard gunfire. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know about ASA? You must come to the next meeting on Thursday,” she said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This choice was anathema to Sullivan, who abhorred derivative architecture, but during the meeting he made no objection. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

That night the house, which was used as a meeting place and recreation center by Russian immigrants, was filled with more than two hundred men and boys attending night school. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Later that night, once he’s alone at his desk, he replies: was it a meeting about which of your cousins have to marry each other to take back casterly rock? Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I’m meeting her husband tomorrow in the afternoon.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They met at the seventh of their appointed meeting places, among the roots of a plane tree in a shabby little square, and exchanged their news. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Setting up for tonight’s council meeting,” Talis said, and got back to his sewing. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He felt a sense of relief as he imagined meeting his aunt and cousins in the morning. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“We could really use you at this meeting. You have a voice that they’ll listen to.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Dad gets up before it's light on Wednesdays 'cause he's got to drive to Oxford for a midweek meeting at Greenland HQ. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I also announced an urgent meeting of the National Executive Committee to examine our options. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do not worry, little brats. You will be meeting my employer soon enough. Then you will have a brand-new family.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

If it had not been for the presence of Lwoff, the meeting would have flopped totally. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Nor did she ask if he had forgotten that he was meeting someone at midday. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The meetings would continue undl some kind of consensus was reached. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, close up, he looked tired and weathered, less intimidating than he had at the meeting. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Yesterday she’d moved the meeting to two hours earlier than originally scheduled. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, I don’t think it’s appropriate for Melody to be here. This is not a recreational activity just for fun. The purpose of this meeting is to choose our official team.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It would sound now like an old-fashioned camp meeting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was always out at some club, some party, dancing, meeting people. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Like I said before, there was the idea of turning it into a small meeting space that people could rent,” Mr. Shephard says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I’d spent long hours thinking about how this meeting might go. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once at the farm, I did not have time for rest and reflection because the following night we held a secret meeting for me to brief the Working Committee on my trip. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I really have enjoyed meeting you and talking with you. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually the animals decided to hold a meeting. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When the meeting opened, Stanton and Lucretia Mott sat with the other leaders on the stage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

"Cops? Don't worry. Tonight they're ordered to protect us. This meeting is of great political consequence!" he said, turning away. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was against him, and he was sick to his soul that Colonel Korn was not with him in this moment of crisis to help him decide what to do about the prayer meetings. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

So instead of the peaceful, happy, safe Christmas vacation I had dreamed of for months, I was embroiled in integration meetings and worry. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I dig through tissues, wrappers, and bits of paper until I finally find the pink flyer—the one that was on the door, giving the specifics of the community meeting. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“I’d invite you to come along, but I’m meeting someone from back home. Besides, I suspect it’s not your kind of show.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“You said at the last camp meeting that the med stuff was low. He didn’t want to take any medicine, in case someone else needed it.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We ran out of realistic details in just a few meetings, but for some reason we still weren’t ready to go. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

As things turned out, that particular visit was simply the first of a whole series of such 'unofficial' meetings between Lord Halifax and the German Ambassador of that time, Herr Ribbentrop. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The high point of each meeting was the day-long excursion to some scenic house or temple. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Finally, they were looking down into some kind of small meeting room that had been commandeered for the purpose of guards searching guests. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The next morning, in the newsroom of the Washington Post, assistant managing editor Ben Bagdikian stepped out of a meeting and was handed a slip of paper. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On October 21, A few weeks after the meeting, a seventeen-year-old named Michael “Taylor” Wick was driving south on Highway 91, in Cache County. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Minerva says that except for closed meetings, anyone can join our classes and discussions, and many have. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped his suggestions were enough to get him out of meeting Mother Water Monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

This was Selma’s first mass meeting in six months, since the court order banning marches and meetings. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Purdy stands up, to signal the end of our meeting. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess maybe it was because he was meeting August for the first time. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z