| 单词 | minister |
| 例句 | The next month, because of those Boston and Philadelphia successes, Mr. Muhammad appointed me to be the minister of Temple Seven—in vital New York City. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Up on the speaker’s platform, we ministers and other officials of the Nation, entering from backstage, found ourselves chairs in the five or six rows behind the big chair reserved for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was told by a minister, for example, that I should never, on any public conveyance, under any circumstances, rise and give my seat to a white woman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z The government had such a large majority that they knew it was in their best interests to laugh at the prime minister’s jokes. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His message of personal responsibility, particularly as it relates to fatherhood, was anything but new; it had been delivered countless times by black ministers in churches across America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Yes, urged foreign minister Shigenori Togo, because America’s atomic bomb “drastically alters the whole military situation.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The silhouette of the bodyguard looked menacing, and Matt remembered he’d killed twenty children with a bomb intended for the English prime minister.The man seemed to soak up the faint starlight from the ceiling. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister placed the Bible in his leather satchel and pulled it up over his shoulder. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The prime minister took his place in front of the microphone. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Two security men had rushed to the prime minister, who was clutching his wrist, blood dripping out of his hand. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z His story turned out to be one of outstanding heroism: having remained aboard the foundering Athenia to minister to injured passengers and crew, he was the very last passenger to board a lifeboat. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He remembered suddenly a conversation with a Southerner a long time ago, before the war, a Baptist minister. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jackson then launched into a sermon on God's will, which he described as patently proslavery, based on several passages in the Bible and the pronouncements of every Christian minister in Georgia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He tucks the Japanese prime minister's cat under one arm like a football as he fumbles in his pockets for...a remote! Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The tall minister stood again at the altar. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At every approach of horseman, cart, or carriage, I turned fearfully, certain I should see some minister of injustice come to enchain us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z It was startling to me that an unusual number of the requests came from groups of white Christian ministers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Within hours after the assassination—I am telling nothing but the truth—every Muslim minister received from Mr. Elijah Muhammad a directive—in fact, two directives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “And him the son of a Presbyterian minister, too.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The chief minister there was starting a new network of schools; all the children would receive laptop computers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Several creases sharpen in the forehead of the vice minister’s wife. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Like most of the Ivy League universities, Brown was founded by Protestant ministers as an expressly Christian college. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There were some titters in the audience, so I figured it was safe for me to start out by saying to the minister, “I was his girlfriend.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z There's a man next to the minister, with horn-rimmed glasses and hair very cleanly combed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course you know the minister feels guilty and Hester feels guilty, but Nathaniel wants us to know this is a big deal. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He had become chief minister of the KwaZulu homeland with the tacit support of the ANC, and even his launching of Inkatha as a Zulu cultural organization was unopposed by the organization. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, Reverend. For meetings of this sort, the bylaws tell me I have to inform the minister, not invite him.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The ANC drafted a letter to the prime minister advising him of these resolutions and the deadline for repealing the laws. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The calls naturally were directed to me, New York City being the major news-media headquarters, and I was the New York minister of Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still looking at him with consternation and unbelief when the minister rose and introduced him in rich, rolling tones whose very unction served to increase the visitor's insignificance. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z When we reached the minister’s office, we found some African secretaries in the reception area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Truth to tell, they fairly ran to the minister’s aid. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The French girl, now quite miffed, stood aside as I went in to speak to the minister, who promised to fulfill our requests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “All of First Congregational is wondering what on earth a minister’s son is doing out in a dory with a Negro girl.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The dislodged gentleman bounced around for a long breath or two before the Baptist minister gave him his chair, then with more dignity than the situation deserved, the minister walked off the stage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, in late March, black ministers from the group not only gave their blessing to the action but joined students and other activists on the picket lines. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Maniac waited for one of those minutes, searching the horizon for signs of a minister. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not a registered member, since he hadn’t agreed to be baptized by full immersion in water by Armstrong or one of his ministers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Both visits were authorized by the new minister of justice, Kobie Coetsee, who appeared to be a new sort of Afrikaner leader. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mentioned no names, you will observe.—Oh! no; cautious as a minister of state. I managed it extremely well.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z I followed the servant past the lodgings of courtiers and ministers greater than my father. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Then the minister asked everyone to bow in prayer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister blessed the grave and then sprinkled it with holy water. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Uhmma puts down her spoon and says, Grace Church is just starting and the minister is a very welcoming and understanding man. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z But he was surprised by his father’s sermon topic—the fall of Jericho—which seemed to Turner strange to set among a new minister’s first sermons. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Master W. D. Fard selected Elijah Karriem to be the Supreme Minister, over all other ministers, and among all of those others sprang up a bitter jealousy. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The vice minister sets down The Principles of Mechanics and pushes it away, then glances at his palms as though it has made them dirty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Uncle Ben, Papa Will’s uncle, was a traveling minister who held revivals across the state. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There never were any real services in the church, not in our time, anyway, nor any minister. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z And the minister, Pastor Johnson, dressed in an oversize suit, a gold chain with a gold cross lying perfectly in the middle of his fat satin tie. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Paul stayed only one day, which he spent examining MDR patients and giving television press conferences with the vice minister of justice. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z After putting down the phone, the general turned to me and said, “The minister said, ‘Bring him round.’ Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It made such an impact upon me that it later became one of my favorite subjects when I became a minister of Mr. Muhammad’s. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone looked to Shady, as, standing at the head of the baptistry, he seemed to be in the place of the minister. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He bade me return to the dance and take up my fiddle again, and so I stepped out of the chamber, he kneeling beside my mother to minister to her. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But as the car raced along the edge of the cliff, the prime minister had a tough time keeping his mind on the gorgeous view. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z M ., whereupon detectives, who had been strenuously but abortively interrogating the suspect, withdrew to another room, leaving the minister to consult privately with his parishioner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After the night of the feast and in the following bloody days she and Mary ministered to Cora, applying brine and poultices to her ravaged skin and making sure she ate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z After a very long prayer, the minister said, “Surely a simple service would do, then the cremation, just as he’d asked.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “You see,” continued the minister, bowing thankfully to the duke, “Dictionopolis is the place where all the words in the world come from. They’re grown right here in our orchards.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z The best people for tips are widows, Protestant ministers’ wives and the poor in general. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z That fall, in October 2007, something happened that gave us hope: Benazir Bhutto, who had been the first female prime minister of Pakistan, was returning to run in that year’s election. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z One of the Fashion Minister's attendants slides his ermine-lined robe from his shoulders, exposing a gold medallion with his royal minister emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Nothing, not even the enormously powerful minister of propaganda, was going to stand between her and her vision for this film. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He hoped so, because here, being a minister’s son mattered a whole lot, and pretending that it didn’t matter to him was starting to peck at his soul. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “There are some who seem to find it possible,” remarked the minister, staring meaningfully at a ceiling beam. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His father was a minister, as were his uncles and many cousins. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Harry Potter, you know,” he told the Bulgarian minister loudly, who was wearing splendid robes of black velvet trimmed with gold and didn’t seem to understand a word of English. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z It was like a blessing from a minister. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He headed toward the billiards room, stumbling past the vice minister, who smiled and shrugged and went back to saying his goodbyes. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Do you not see God’s hand in guiding me here to minister among the imprisoned?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The prime minister, Sir Milton Margai, was then brought over to meet me, and the clerk introduced me as the chief. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Trefusis, who went to minister to Slant, delivers word from the sick-camp that one of the inmates of that place has refused food. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z We did not know how the prime minister had died. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My father’s wife then pointed to the collared minister among the remaining five and said, “Pastor brought Marc to Christ before it was too late.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Then I laid her in her bed and ministered to Mattie and Fern. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z One day an important minister from Pakistan came and met with my father. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I recognized some of the ministers from our churches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This time a Methodist minister performed the ceremony. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But no minister’s son in Phippsburg, Maine, can follow a sea breeze to the shore on the Sabbath. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z You shall be avenged in turn; for not one of them but shall minister to your needs. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Tens of thousands of schoolchildren would be sitting in their classes, gathered around their new Stormbreakers, waiting for the moment—at midday exactly—when the prime minister would press the button and bring them on-line. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My mother was quiet at last, dabbing her nose with Kleenex while the minister talked: “I can just see her now, wowing the angels with her Chinese cooking and gung-ho attitude.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z People stayed clear of funerals, doctors, and ministers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Christy Wallace, who is a permanent telegram boy and ready to be a postman any day, says Protestants don’t care what they do even if they’re ministers’ wives. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But Headmaster ruled the school like the prime minister ruled India—nobody said no to his decisions. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Brethren,” the minister said in a harsh whisper, without moving. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I left, my father had been teasing Atal, saying he could be my secretary when I became prime minister. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The general then telephoned the minister and the two spoke for a few moments. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister clears his throat, and the image of Gram fades away. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z In addition to Adolf Hitler, these included Joseph Goebbels, minister of propaganda; Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS; and Robert Ley, head of the Reich Labor Front. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For this he was honored with the position of minister to King Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Pirow was a former minister of justice and of defense and a pillar of National Party politics. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma walks around with the minister’s wife, bowing to everyone she meets. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The minister knelt at the right and Brother Bishop at the left. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am going to tell you. Yes. He grew up to be the bliddy prime minister!” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z And one of the best things was that some brothers of this type were developing into smart, fine, aggressive young ministers for Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “How the hell did we ever get married? Did you just say ‘I do’ because the minister said ‘repeat after me’? What would you have done with your life if I had never married you? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you regard it proper for a prime minister not to respond to pleas made in regard to vital issues by the vast majority of the citizens of the country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will speak to God,” replied the minister. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When she rose, and as they walked once more through the streets, he had called her God’s daughter, handmaiden to God’s minister. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The minister from the Kuling church read the twenty-fourth psalm and said a prayer, but he didn’t mention glory, thank goodness. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The vice minister’s wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When we arrived, many family members were gathered in mourning with a minister leading prayer. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mommy knows this and despite her personal differences with the new minister, she didn’t want to see what amounted to my father’s and her life’s work disappear. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z One of our ministers stepped from among the others and began to say comforting words. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Incredibly, a few years later Agnes returned to the village of those who had murdered her parents, to minister to them of the love of Christ. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The backward address turned out after several mistakes to be the undersecretary to Étienne Tshisekedi, the one government minister who might help us, though his own position with Mobutu is now on the outs. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept thinking of her in that cabin, ministering to the bronze girl, all concern and kindness. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Instead, he was born in Braintree, twelve miles south of Boston, in 1735, the son of a farmer and shoemaker, who sent Adams to Harvard in the hope he might become a minister. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Eventually it will be the name of the Indian prime minister’s Italian wife. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Each Sunday, after she had taken her seat, the minister would announce, “We will now be led in a hymn by Sister Henderson.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I am not a minister,’ he said, ‘I am a physician, a medical doctor. My name is Benedict Mady Copeland and I wish to see the judge immediately on urgent business.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Kwang then bowed and thanked the crowd and they applauded loudly as he hugged each minister in turn. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The queen's court and ministers look on from plush high-backed chairs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Black ministers would be arrested if they allowed mass meetings to be held at their churches. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought at first that it was the Methodist minister. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his hand to wave and call, but something in the minister’s face silenced him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Only set a bomb outside the prime minister’s house in London,” replied Hugh. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whistles from the people of Phippsburg, and shouts of wonder that the minister’s boy, the minister’s skinny boy should be able to hit a ball that far three times in a row. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Following South Africa’s declaration of war against Germany, Hertzog resigned and Smuts became prime minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was an announcement that Mr. Stonecrop made as he gripped his minister’s hand and stood close to him. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z And so he continues ministering to the lepers and outcasts. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The Methodist minister was a Reverend Jones, a nervous and gloomy fellow who had been based in the Congo during its revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister snaps her fingers at a nearby servant. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The minister who had this mission before us and got kicked out for consorting with the natives too much. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Heaven only knew what new sin committed by the minister’s son was being announced over the phone. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They’ll be saying—” A single high metal ring on the phone broke off what people would say about the new minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Many of those who traditionally kept such count—ministers, sextons, and city officials—had either fled the city or been ill themselves. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The new minister introduces her as “the original founder of our church.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not know they had renamed kwashiorkor after the British prime minister, but her amusement dissipated when she went to Adanna’s room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Over the next ten minutes, ministers followed the protest of alien nerves in fortresses across the Bonecruel Mountains and the Plateau of Drume. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They were brought out on litters, “seated on their thrones and surrounded by pages and women with flywhisks in their hands, who ministered to them with as much respect as if they had been alive.’ 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z No sooner had the mournful song run its course than the minister took to the altar and delivered a sermon that in my state gave little comfort. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you, a minister of the gospel, taunting me with godlessness, even while teaching it to your son?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The selection of ministers is of no little importance to a prince; and they are good or not, according to the prince’s prudence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I was finally able to read again and devoured The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a book given to me by the former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In front of Russian television cameras, the vice minister of justice, in charge of Russia’s prisons, would announce PIH’s new role in Tomsk. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Being an Anabaptist minister in the American Army was difficult enough under the best of circumstances; without dogma, it was almost intolerable. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Robert Lincoln served as secretary of war and minister to Great Britain and then worked as general counsel and president of the Pullman Company. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z My parents were about to exchange their brief Christmas kiss, the only time they bussed in front of us, when Mother remembered the presence of the minister and ducked her head in embarrassment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We were joined by Gerrit Viljoen, the minister of constitutional development, a brilliant man with a doctorate in classics, whose role was to bring our discussions into a constitutional framework. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every minister was ordered to make no remarks at all concerning the assassination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The prime minister is going to press the button that will bring all the computers on-line...the whole lot of them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I made a point of listening to the minister and not looking back. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He remembered the feeling of his knuckles striking Willis’s cheek, and he didn’t care a doggone bit that he had enjoyed hitting Willis, minister’s son or not. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Evelyn Smith, Walter's sister, was a local minister, and she and her family occasionally raised money for the church by selling food on the roadside. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Then there was the minister, Mr. Beach, who lived in Newtown but spent Saturday night here in Redding so he could preach in our church early Sunday morning. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z NM: Did you place this letter before your prime minister? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Next time keep your ears out of the paint,” said Willis, and went on to the minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z When the roly-poly minister had gone, Ben said, ‘‘Bright fellow. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He finally settled in Lorain, Ohio, in 1931, palming himself off as a minister, and inspiring awe with the way he spoke English. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Andre Scheffler was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in Africa, a sister church of the Dutch Reformed Church, the faith of nearly all the Afrikaner people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z On his end, my father, Andrew McBride, a Baptist minister, had his doubts about the world accepting his mixed family. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As a former foreign minister now serving as secretary of state, Jefferson required no instruction on the international implications of Americas debtor status. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z A black minister in Waterloo, Mississippi, explained his outrage at the fate that has befallen African Americans in the post-civil rights era. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Mandela, you look like a prime minister now, not a prisoner,” he said and smiled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She fled to a cousin’s house in the country, disgraced, while the minister kept his post and was deemed a generous man for acknowledging his son. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He was admired by traditional leaders, had relationships with cabinet ministers, and exuded a sense of security and confidence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, it had been ten years since I thought anything about any mistress, I guess, and as a minister now, I was thinking even less about getting any wife. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The brick oven had been heated for two nights in a row, and the whole family had gone without sugar since Sunday to make sure that the minister’s notorious sweet tooth would be satisfied. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z So the king and the prime minister and the lord chancellor would all be looking for somewhere to convalesce it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Winnie subsequently appealed to the minister of justice, who granted her permission to attend the trial on the condition that she did not wear traditional dress. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I just couldn’t keep from showing in some manner that with his ministers equipped with the power of his message, I felt the Nation should go much faster. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t recall anything the minister said; I felt like my ears were plugged and I was watching everything through watery eyes. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “A boy that belongs to a minister should know how to answer a lady” ‘‘Yes, ma’am. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As Cathy Cohen has observed, ministers and members of black congregations have helped to develop what she calls the “indigenous constructed image of ‘good, black Christian folk.”’ The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Also I believed that the king’s ministers were loyal and the queen’s ladies honest. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In my twelve years as a Muslim minister, I had always taught so strongly on the moral issues that many Muslims accused me of being “anti-woman.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Tam Lin had tried to blow up the English prime minister, but he’d killed twenty children instead. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereas they had been small and mean and nasty and best forgotten, this minister gave them some size and bloom and dignity. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while the young minister mounts the dais and works the crowd like a warm-up comedian. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps we would be accompanied by several ministers; some of them would be white. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If someone had asked me about becoming a minister, I would have been astonished, and told them I was happy and willing to serve Mr. Muhammad in the lowliest capacity. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Greeting each of these Temples’ brother ministers would bring back into my mind images of “fishing” for converts along die streets and from door- to-door wherever the black people were congregated. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother sent for the minister to give me the last rites, and relatives were gathering to say farewell. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yon minister could never make up his mind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Young Ju and Joon Ho, you must be very excited to meet the other children and the youth minister, Mr. Shin. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Most members assumed the new leader would be Anna Howard Shaw, a Methodist minister who had a reputation as an excellent speaker and was in Anthony’s inner circle. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The two valiant pilots of the 586th were sent gold watches through the Soviet minister of foreign affairs, said to be gifts from George VI, the king of England. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It would be managed by the young master’s guardian, Dr. Anthony Thompson, a minister in Bucktown. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It did occur to me to find it strange for a Baptist minister to send me to a Catholic school. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He shook hands with the minister, and left. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z His wife and his boys go up and visit with him for a while and then leave him alone, and only the minister has been allowed up. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Prayers were offered by two ministers and a rabbi. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you remember when I invited that colored minister, Pastor George, to come speak at our church?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Twice, however, the minister’s son had brought them a young squirrel to feast on. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Turner Buckminster, you don’t have to be a minister’s son all the time.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The minister was a tall coal-black deep-voiced freedman with a face that reminded me of a picture I had of my father who had died before I was old enough to know him. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Few had reflected that Malcolm X, upon becoming a Black Muslim minister, had signed an oath of poverty, so that for twelve years he never acquired anything in his own name. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We had heard that John Vorster, the minister of justice, had told friends that Prime Minister Smuts’s greatest blunder during the Second World War was not hanging him for his treason. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister ordered the choir to sing, Come to Jesus, come to Jesus right now. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The cause of all the commotion sat serenely, his rapt, innocent gaze never straying from the minister’s face, his hand still cupped over the imprisoned fly. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z There is no doctor attached to our Regiment, so we minister as best we can. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Well, when my father got through with that sentence where the wedding was sandwiched between the ministers’ meeting and the treasury whatever, I said, ‘You read that wrong.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She was now standing in the same position as when she’d been using the minister as a leaning post; her arms were raised, her head bowed. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Was it possible that not only the doctors but everyone who ministered to the colored population was involved in this incredible scheme? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This blame-the-party-in-power approach made sense in Great Britain, where the prime minister is an elected member of Parliament who serves only as long as his or her party holds a majority of the parliamentary seats. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He wasn’t any longer a gifted, powerful minister leading a community in a struggle for social change. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In my cross-examination of Mr. Barnard I first read the court the letter I sent requesting that the prime minister call a national convention for all South Africans to write a new nonracial constitution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those charged included Dr. King, twenty- three other ministers, and all the car-pool drivers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z To honor his promise to defend Poland, British prime minister Neville Chamberlain turned to the Soviet Union. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In many ways, Bram Fischer, the grandson of the prime minister of the Orange River Colony, had made the greatest sacrifice of all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I said I could, and she replied, ‘The minister speaks English and you can talk with him directly. You don’t need an interpreter.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though she often misbehaved, adults never did anything about it, maybe because her father was a rich minister in our community. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And if you fear the rivals of your church, you should know there is another nganga here, another minister. People also put their trust in him.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When the ministers called out Mrs. Williams, everyone seemed to smile. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “These new ministers have no vision,” she fumed. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, he learned it in Mexico when he was a missionary there. He’s now a church minister here in Santa Maria.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z The Methodist minister said it made them disobedient, made them want more than the Lord intended them to have. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a villainess, also in love with the handsome young minister, and out to get the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I ministered to their needs, making sure that there was enough sea water inside each and that the cones and chambers were inflated to just the right pressure. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z And he followed it, pulling at his collar, trying not to wish what a minister’s son should not wish. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I knew there could not be any minister, but the marriage ceremony was all written out in the back of the hymnal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The ministers retired for the night without coming to a consensus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "Why, yes, it is," the minister says, and winks as if he knows what I'm thinking. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z He allowed Sela to minister to his wounds, but he secretly stopped taking the herbs and potions to help him sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I came to see Reverend Shuttlesworth as a minister and a man who was God-sent and who knew what was right. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The minister would preach from the head of our corridor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful continue to scrub floors and drop their dimes and quarters and dollars into the plate. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z There was already a crowd when we arrived, and more coming up behind us, but not much noise, just a bit of quiet murmuring that faded out completely when the minister began to speak. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “Don’t you begin with prayer?” asked Turner, as sweetly and innocently as if he were a minister’s son right out of a Sunday school book. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Two of them made a number of visits but spent more time performing autopsies on dead bodies than ministering to the sick. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “He’s just a country boy in school up there. He dont mean any harm. I think the marshal’ll find it’s a mistake. His father’s a congregational minister.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z During the McMillian hearings, a local minister had held a regional church meeting about the case and had asked me to come speak. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Well it just so happened that a minister of immigration, a mullah, a boss man in the government, had taken an eager bite of a peach and broken his left front tooth on the stone. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I was told they were community ministers and lawyers, coming along to protect us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Elijah Muhammad says that attempts were made upon his life, because the other ministers’ jealousy had reached such a pitch. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “A minister’s house in order, a church in order. A minister’s house in disorder, a church in disorder.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I gave an extra nod to the minister, who got up from his chair so I could sit in it. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “Ladies and gentlemen, family and friends, saints and sinners, old and young,” the minister started. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The man who, more than any other, was responsible for this transformation was Dr. Joseph Goebbels, minister of public enlightenment and propaganda. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Doctors, factory workers, lawyers, teachers, students, ministers, defied and went to jail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Or: “I need to be saved. Can you minister to me after your shot?!” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Stole it,” said the onetime prime minister of Karhide, holding his hands over the stove, which he had not yet turned down; he, even he, was cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose it’s good to be honest if you’re a minister’s son.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “You’d think a minister’s son would know how to play a hymn with reverence. Wouldn’t you think so, girl?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Hamilton, in turn, opposed Burr’s candidacy for the vice presidency in 1792 and two years later blocked his nomination as American minister to France. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh, that’s all right now...” murmured my godfather, Deacon McNair, from his seat on the dais next to the minister, while Mommy twitched in her seat watching Billy, her face reddening. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh my, oh dear,” agreed the minister, breathing with great difficulty. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z A little before three the Lutheran minister arrived from Flushing and I began to look involuntarily out the windows for other cars. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Warders were present at all services and if the minister strayed from religion, he was not invited back. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Fischer, on the advice of the RJF Committee, wrote to Iceland’s foreign minister, David Oddsson, and requested a residence permit, which was forwarded to him immediately. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They sat through the service and listened to the Bath minister’s breathy sermon from Galatians, and when the last chords of Lillian Woodward’s postlude finished, they stood up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z But as to how a prince may recognize such a minister, there is this method that never fails. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Henry is seated with the prime minister, and Alex sits and chews his food like it’s personally wronged him and watches Henry from across the room, seething. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Twelve o’clock: I resumed my studies in the attic, reading about deans, priests, ministers, popes and...whew, it was one o’clock! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She had her back turned to me, her face pressed against the minister’s chest, and was quietly sobbing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I knew little about Botha apart from the fact that he had been an aggressive defense minister and had supported a military strike into Angola in 1975. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ministers argued among themselves that night—the evening before the march that James Bevel had called D-day. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Is she the woman who became a Methodist minister in Alabama?” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z There were many foreign heads of state and prime ministers who had long taken note of this charismatic champion of the people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It sounded so horrible that I often thought Rev. Owens, our minister, would get up from his seat and stop the song. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Elnora and I ministered to her with the juice of bitter roots and crushed flowers to purge her foul humors and ease the pains in her head. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Milo acknowledged the introduction and, as Tock growled softly, the minister explained. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Most often the minister was attracted by the pitiful shrieks and calls of the sick in the final stages of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Did you hear the one about the minister, the priest, and the rabbi? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Then he got into his car and drove to the minister’s house. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “It just so happens,” he said, “that the minister of justice is in Cape Town. Perhaps you can see him. I will find out.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I quit selecting certain of my New York brothers and giving them money to go and lay groundwork for new mosques in other cities—because slighting remarks were being made about “Malcolm’s ministers.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A podium had been set up in the center for Sayle, the prime minister, his press secretary, and the minister of state for education. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z To ban a person, the government required no proof, offered no charges; the minister of justice simply declared it so. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt the minister’s hands stroke my shoulder. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Some ministers of state stood by it, arguing and looking grim, but my father was not among them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Farmer graciously thanked the vice minister for all that he’d done. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Imagine, being a Muslim minister, a leader in Elijah Muhammad’s Nation of Islam, and not knowing the prayer ritual. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our savior came for neither of these reasons, but because Bailey yelled so loud and disturbed what was left of the service, the minister’s wife came out and asked Uncle Willie to quiet us down. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “The white man’s Heaven,” sings a Black Muslim minister, “is the black man’s Hell.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “A minister’s son...a minister’s son shouldn’t say...shouldn’t say dang.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The instant the hymn ended, the choir coach began to give her lengthy opinion of people who can’t keep their feet still and their lips sealed tight during the minister’s sermon. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z DC’s black community was the largest and wealthiest in the nation and included businessmen, lawyers, teachers, and ministers. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The local minister—who I’d only met once before—was in the middle of his closing prayer when I glanced over and saw a tiny kitten. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A Russian minister, Sergei Pavlov, head of the State Sports Committee, had cabled Spassky, furiously insisting that he return home to Moscow. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Abbott was a young white minister from Georgia who was assigned to our church for the summer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z It could be clearly seen in the writings of African American leaders such as Richard R. Wright, a minister and editor of a black church newspaper in Philadelphia. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z This latter, written by a local minister, was “aimed at those Christians who were afraid not to read any printed word about Jesus.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister took advantage of already being on the floor and asked in a choky little voice if the church would kneel with him to offer a prayer of thanksgiving. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He imagined her as, say, Mrs. Cobb, swooping out from behind her picket fence with eyes aflame, calling down the turbine perflant upon a minister’s son who threw rocks. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “To Ceylon and to the world’s first woman prime minister!” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I met the king of Saudi Arabia, the president of Argentina, the prime ministers of Japan and Ethiopia. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z One Sunday it would be an Anglican priest, the next a Dutch Reform predikant, the next a Methodist minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the minister of Bantu education, ex-plained that education “must train and teach people in accordance with their opportunities in life.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And in such councils, and with each of his ministers, he should conduct himself in such a way that all will realize that the more freely they speak, the more they will please him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z That they were giving an award named after a beloved prime minister who had been tragically murdered by a deranged man to someone who represented people on death row revealed a lot about their values. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He got excellent exam results and—here’s an amazing coincidence—at the age of fifteen he actually found himself sitting next to a boy who would grow up to become prime minister of Great Britain. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Tata Ndu came here personally to tell us that the gods of his village did not take kindly to the minister of corruption. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze’s friend Chidi said he didn’t chase women in Abuja because he didn’t want to step on a minister’s or senator’s toes. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z To pay for the war, the prime minister decided to put some teeth into the legislation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the next hour a few ministers and political leaders arrived, and telephone negotiations with the insurgents were begun in order to gauge the magnitude of the insurrection and to find a peaceful settlement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though Shady was the interim Baptist minister, I think he was more of a Quaker at heart. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Even Rev. Owens’s Whosoever Baptist Church she loved, though he wasn’t her favorite minister because he left his wife, or vice versa—we never knew. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Through our attorneys, we notified the minister of law and order, the commissioner of police, and the regional commissioner, warning them of the impending attacks and urging them to take the proper action. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But that morning, the minister dropped by the hospital unannounced as if he were visiting an old friend who was laid up for a few days. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was the only white minister in Montgomery with an all-black congregation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Aside from the granite and the green window shutters, the whole building was shining white with a new coat of paint for the new minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As one black minister commented, “It is not simply the shame of Chicago, but of the nation.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 The second hit the prime minister in the hand, his finger less than an inch away from the mouse. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I would attend services on Sunday, and I enjoyed the old-fashioned, Bible-thumping style of these Zionist Christian ministers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The situation was made worse in April by the arrival of the French republic’s new minister, Edmond Charles Genêt. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The Russian prime minister, Leonid Brezhnev, wrote to Dr. Verwoerd asking for leniency. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I found it extraordinary that a cabinet minister should be so uninformed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Taking in the situation, he threw his wide minister’s hat clear across the stage in a dramatic but unseemly gesture, stepped stiff-leggedly to the machine and ground the coffee and thus saved the heroine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our ministers preach sin and hell just as much as yours,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The kids always mobbed the minister—and his wife too when he brought her along. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Every Muslim minister is always hearing the problems of young people whose parents have ostracized them for becoming Muslims. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Our storehouses would be full to overflowing even as they had been when the great Joseph had been the Pharaoh’s minister. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister’s wife gone barefoot to roadside commerce. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We were visited by a Coloured minister known as Brother September. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The same words that the minister said to me at my mother’s funeral. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Because he stood up, his life was always in danger, more so than the other ministers’. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The minister at Vince’s mother’s church mentioned my name and had the congregation say a special prayer for me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Southern California ministers were really whipping their congregations into a froth, they would get rolling on the subject of “the Road to Hell,” a byway that ran south from San Diego. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to play the Japanese prime minister’s cat?” asked Fred. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He wondered if there was some new rule for a minister’s son that he hadn’t come up against yet—if there could possibly be yet another rule that he hadn’t come up against already. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It had once been a private home, but its owner went off to train as a minister, and when he came back he held services in his living room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “May I ask why? Or is this something else that wasn’t intended to embarrass the new minister?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The minister’s wife is a homely woman of virtue. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Grasping the sides of the lectern he surveyed his small congregation like some satanic minister. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Mommy called in reinforcements—ministers, friends, my stepfather— but Helen ignored them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But reading Robert Barclay while the sea breeze waited outside—that was something not even a minister’s son should have to do. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Not that a minister’s daughter would ever have a chance, jeez-oh-man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s in Hebrews. It says, ‘Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Kit thought, it were the eve of that Doomsday that the minister warned of in Sabbath Meeting. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z In Tunis, our first stop, we met with the minister of defense, who bore a striking resemblance to Chief Luthuli. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Winston Churchill, the British prime minister himself, sent warnings based on captured German codes to the Soviet government. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Starting to organize, Master W. D. Fard set up a class for training ministers to carry the teachings to America’s black people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z England has a relatively new prime minister, and Ellen wants to meet him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Bath minister was probably wishing that the service had ended with the last prayer. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They were told to stand in the doorway between the living room and kitchen, and the minister began to read. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1932, a group of black ministers in Raleigh ignited a scandal by boycotting the dedication of a war memorial after being told to sit in the back of the auditorium. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “A ministering angel,” said Bono, and pressed her free hand to his lips. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z "The evil Dr. Loofah is climbing into the helicopter! He has the prime minister's cat and puppy!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Buckminster, this is your son. Have you nothing to say as the minister of this town, if not as his father?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The Bath minister held his hand out to invite him to the pulpit and moved aside, smiling as Turner went up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z NM: You don’t agree that it would be irregular for a prime minister to ignore a letter raising vital issues affecting the vast majority of the citizens of that country? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "A wall of that size..." one of the ministers began, and stopped in nervousness. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z There, as they began to die of beriberi, diphtheria, smallpox, cholera, and torture, Duckworth ministered to them as chaplain even as he worked side by side with them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The minister, who took his ecumenical and—some felt—slightly impersonal remarks from Saint Paul’s sermon on Love from First Corinthians, talked for about half an hour. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Life was going swimmingly for Reich minister Goebbels that spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I, Mademoiselle? Why, to minister to the American lady.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z As the new minister at the Church of Christ on Texas and Clements streets on the Southside, he undertook the challenge of desegregating the schools and obliterating the boundary of the railroad tracks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the minister preached on graduation the Sunday before. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I could never understand why they had not come for me when the labor began or why they buried the baby so quickly, without a minister even. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The king’s ministers, with confused and pitying looks, let me pass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you want him to be a minister?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The German press, under the careful direction of the minister of propaganda, had made much of the upcoming fight. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z When they came out, he stood on the rise of the church steps among the four enrobed ministers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The prime minister lifted his finger and adjusted his position so that the cameras could get his best profile. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He has found a new job, not in Paris or the Netherlands, not in art or preaching, but in teaching, at a boys’ boarding school run by a minister on the eastern coast of England. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z "Don't you fools dare follow me! For I not only have the Japanese prime minister's cat. I have his new American puppy, too!" Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The minister and the congregation joined in the chorus. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mrs. Park, the minister’s wife says, we are delighted that you could join us on such a fine Sunday morning. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z A group of Methodist, Baptist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Universalist ministers—all men—dominated the discussion that day, challenging the women’s rights resolutions that had been presented. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “It’s too bad that she ends up with the work when you’re the one out in the street brawling. And a minister’s son at that.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Someone pointed out a cadaverous man near Hitler and told Louie that it was Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s minister of propaganda. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And that’s why I’m here— not just because I’m your minister, but because I feel like you’re a member of my own family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Ghohg the Evil One is gone and his palace has been destroyed, taking a few thousand diplomats and ministers with it, the whole goblin kingdom will be thrown into confusion. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The bantustan system had been conceived by Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, the minister of native affairs, as a way of muting international criticism of South African racial policies but at the same time institutionalizing apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Williams got a job cleaning and cooking for a white minister on the other side of town, and Pauline, now the oldest girl at home, took over the care of the house. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z It satirized the familiar, everyday tragedy of a chaste young girl, with below-shoulder-length blond hair and udder-size breasts, being criminally assaulted in church, in the very shadow of the altar, by her minister. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Twice, a delegation of black ministers tried to file a complaint about the bombings but was not allowed to see the mayor. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Part of me wanted to laugh at the thought of Lin Nai-Nai maybe meeting Dr. Carhart, our minister, whose face would surely puff up, the way it always did when he was flustered. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited for him to speak, like a congregation expecting the minister’s benediction. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But Rev. John Luckey, a Protestant minister who spent at least fourteen years as Sing Sing’s second chaplain, saw how it was eclipsed in importance by the character of the guards. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She shooed me out of the room and ministered to Perilee. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The woman rushes forward to drape a white mink coat around the minister, whose blue eyes burn into mine. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The officers of the town were first, then the ministers, the merchants, the mechanics, and the schoolmasters with their students. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister would conduct services and console the family. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I do not come from a wealthy family. My father was a minister with a very small salary.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And of course, Atal said, no, he would be prime minister, and I would be his secretary. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, this man, God’s minister, had struck John’s mother, and John had wanted to kill him—and wanted to kill him still. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There was a long silence, so long that Turner wondered if the clock might chime again.“Yes,” his father said,“! do know. But it’s not to be gossiped about at the minister’s dinner table.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As I slurped my way through the stew, the minister put his hands on my shoulders again. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Turner hated himself for playing the minister’s son. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He stayed for an hour and explained to the minister that a miracle had happened on the farm. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The president was sitting there with the minister of education. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you going to be a minister?” one of his sisters asked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The minister said they were to be laid in the lot set aside for slaves, but all who had hats doffed them as friend and foe passed by. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on, on the way home in the car, I ask her, “So I guess you’re not mad at the new minister now?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the congregation didn’t meet the eyes of their tight-lipped minister. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The plane door opened, and out hopped Winston Churchill, prime minister of Great Britain, a fat cigar in his hand. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the vice minister of justice insisted on performing, and his was the best voice of all. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It was only a cabinet minister talking about Turkey giving up its neutrality sometime soon. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Scruffy, a checkered blue bow bobbing in his fur, prances up to the Four Paws Spa's arched grand entryway, where the Japanese prime minister's cat is secretly being held hostage by the evil Dr. Loofah. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Known as Van, he had started off as a student minister, but he soon found his true calling in theater. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The minister saunters out, her mink trailing behind her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z As in the case of all of the Nation’s ministers, my living expenses were paid and I had some pocket money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We were publicly branded as violent revolutionaries by everyone from the minister of justice on down. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Olanna was not sure how that was funny, but then it was the minister’s joke. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The minister had an envelope full; but when he produced them, ostensibly for distribution among the jurors, an exasperated Logan Green leaped to his feet: “If Your Honor please, this is going too far.. .” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I ministered to the Young Man who had caught the poIworst. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z At a late 1963 rally in Philadelphia, Mr. Muhammad, embracing me, said to that audience before us, “This is my most faithful, hard-working minister. He will follow me until he dies. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z On that newfangled but soon-to-be obsolete machine I wrote not so much like a kid from the Midwest as a minister’s daughter from Shropshire. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Not that I’m so against it—embarrassing your father, I mean. It’s good for ministers to be embarrassed now arid again. Helps them to remember who they are.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Every Sunday morning, a minister from a different denomination would preach to us. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure I’ve ever served the king,” said the king’s prime minister. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z One angry minister said that women’s rights advocates were “a hybrid species, half man and half woman, belonging to neither sex.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “There were young blondes in polo coats and hipsters with beards, and the wives of Senators; there were white faces and black faces, ministers’ collars and turtleneck sweaters. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z According to our minister, Mr. Cornelius Barker, presents were a pointless, expensive, pagan diversion. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the minister recited the psalm about lying down in green pastures and walking through the shadow of the valley of death and fearing no evil. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z As a banned person, Winnie had to receive a special dispensation from the minister of justice, for she was technically not permitted to communicate with me. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I have to say this for our minister, he never stopped giving us the lesson. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. I’m going to a birthday party, thank you. Do you think he’ll be a minister?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Bath minister stepped behind the pulpit again, wheezed some to gain time, and then figured that they would conclude the service with “Bringing in the Sheaves.” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The minister went home, and the sisters from the church abandoned their death watch, declaring they had witnessed a miracle. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lumumba was prime minister of Congo. Do you know where Congo is?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The first Stormbreakers would have already begun leaving the plant, and in less than twenty-four hours the prime minister would be activating them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They act as though this is a message black audiences have not heard many times before from their ministers, from their family members, and from politicians who talk about the need for more “personal responsibility.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had been built for ministers with large families. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Everyone else, servants, staff, lords, ministers, parliamentarians, guards or whatever, sleeps in another palace or fort or keep or barracks or house inside the walls. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z One by one, the Bulgarians filed between the rows of seats in the box, and Bagman called out the name of each as they shook hands with their own minister and then with Fudge. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “If it isn’t one thing, it’s another,” chided the minister. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z He might say, for example, that like the pharaoh of ancient Egypt, the prime minister of South Africa was raising an army. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As education minister, he had attempted to keep black students out of white universities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t that what the minister said, and wasn’t he quoting from the words of God Himself? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nellie Maxwell was a piano teacher, the daughter of a no-nonsense Disciples of Christ minister. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Office of Misinformation will in such a case liaise directly with the Muggle prime minister to seek a plausible non-magical explanation for the event. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young minister, I would go to Chicago and see Mr. Elijah Muhammad every time I could get off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister ran through the service fast, his bland face tinted green beneath the canopy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Slavery depended on brutality— the death of a minister, an idealistic, white English minister, convinced more and more people in England that this was an immoral trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Bram Fischer, a part-time lecturer, was the scion of a distinguished Afrikaner family: his grandfather had been prime minister of the Orange River Colony and his father was judge-president of the Orange Free State. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually, the interference of the Parrish Street Gang in religious affairs led one White Rock minister to protest attempts to “Mutualize” his church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His father was God’s minister, the ambassador of the King of Heaven, and John could not bow before the throne of grace without first kneeling to his father. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z As the minister of several temples, conducting the Muslim ceremony had occasionally fallen to my lot. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So when a hopeful and softspoken minister got in touch to ask if they had any usable field charts for hunting supernovae, the astronomical community thought he was out of his mind. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the morning of his meeting with the black ministers, Eduardo and I drove out a few hours early to the site in Brooklyn and walked it through once again. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just telling your wife, I do a little ministering. I study and classify the fauna. I observe a great deal, and probably offer very little salvation in the long run.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Together we called on the minister for the environment. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He could use it to warn the prime minister. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Elouise, the daughter of the Baptist minister, recited “Invictus,” and I could have cried at the impertinence of “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It simply had never occurred to me that I might be a minister. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Daddy literally pulled me away from the veranda, so we could leave you alone with the good cabinet minister,” Kainene said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z These, God’s ministers, had indeed grown fat, and their dress was rich and various. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z When his ministers timidly suggested waiting until spring, he refused. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The principal welcomed “parents and friends” and asked the Baptist minister to lead us in prayer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Reverend Buckminster suggested that Mrs. Cobb might be expecting Turner, and it would be appropriate for a minister’s son to keep his commitments, no matter what the weather. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “Did you ever—you know—did you think about being a minister?” The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But I responded with frankness: “I want to see the minister in order to raise the question of talks between the government and the ANC.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” he said, “next week you have a game against the minister of education’s school. You must win that game. It’s very important to me.” Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z WITNESS: This letter has not been ignored by the prime minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, the minister agreed to help this chimp, and even came back with us, along with a policeman. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He will be a useful contact for Vincent once he’s ordained as a minister. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Were at a loss here, and the minister is getting angry. Please come as soon as you can.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why. He might simply ask, Who’ll serve me best as prime minister?—and leave it at that.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe that wasn’t something a minister’s son should want to see—but he did want to see it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Some of the ministers had come hundreds of miles to be present. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I walked over to where two ministers had assembled all of Walter's supporters and tried to explain the situation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z But as darkness fell, three white Unitarian ministers who had come to Selma to take part in the march were assaulted by a gang of whites as they left a restaurant. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Mobutu’s chief postal minister, a relative of Mobutu’s wife, stopped paying all the postal workers for the last year so he could use the money to build himself a mansion in Thysville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew immediately what I would do: prepare a countersuit charging everyone from the lieutenant all the way up to the minister of justice with misconduct. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister also asked my father if I could “give a smile to the nation.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Reverend Tantsi was an elderly fellow, a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the acting president of the Transvaal ANC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Political detainees all across the country had held a successful hunger strike, persuading the minister of law and order to release over nine hundred of them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she caught the minister by the sleeve of his jacket and his coattail, then she rocked him from side to side. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Our minister said some of the church members were forming a group made up of people from several churches. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of loafers he had custom- made for the deputy foreign minister—who, Rasheed said, bought shoes only from him. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The oldest girls serve pumpernickel and goose liver on the house’s last unchipped plates while the portly vice minister and his severe-looking wife inspect the parlor like lords come to tour some distasteful gnomish cottage. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They talked about how the present minister was attending to his flock, who got married, who died and how many children had been bom since his last visit. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I have always been an activist, and my personal chemistry perhaps made me reach more quickly than most ministers in the Nation of Islam that stage of dedication. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked if I could see Muslim activities in some other cities, he arranged with other ministers for me to attend meetings at temples in Detroit, Washington, and Philadelphia. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, I met the minister while I was shopping at the Korean market. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z He had been organizing other ministers in Little Rock to speak out and condemn the governor for dispatching the troops. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew the other ministers and knew the quality of their lives. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Kit rose thankfully for the final prayer, and stood respectfully with the rest of the congregation till the minister had passed down the aisle to the door. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The minister inquired whether Granddaddy had yet received any word about the Plant. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We don't have a minister or a rabbi. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z NM: Now was any reply given to this letter by the prime minister? Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a stout, blunt man, not nearly as polished as I would have expected from a cabinet minister. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The vice minister frowns as he turns pages. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He liked having a prime minister of Karhide in his ward, and the prime minister was grateful. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Music education in the U.S. began after the Pilgrims and Puritans arrived, when ministers realized that their congregation needed help singing and reading music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z That night I addressed a meeting of African township ministers in Cape Town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the telegram boys like Protestant ministers’ wives. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Vincent is also discovering a talent for and fulfillment in ministering to the sick and injured. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The minister was not alone in his fight: he had a powerful ally in newspaperman Louis Austin. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During a state visit to Washington early in the new year, British prime minister Anthony Eden proposed that the United States and Great Britain unilaterally suspend testing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Claudette was not named, though her minister, the Reverend H. H. Johnson, was. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z Jean Louise’s second impulse was to blame it on the minister. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Every member of Phippsburg’s First Congregational—as well as lost reprobates from other denominations—had gathered to greet the new minister and his family. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A vice minister and his wife visit Children’s House. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z "Don't touch, little Du Barry," the minister says, bopping her hand lightly. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Maybe all Dessie had done was to put several black pins in a cushion to make it look like the Baptist minister, and then had the pincushion deliver a short dry sermon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Bath minister was rushing over after his own service, and he preached well enough, though he was always a little out of breath. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He saw priests, also, and people he assumed were ministers and rabbis and Muslim clergy. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “I figured you didn’t have a dog—or he was deaf as a post. What does a minister have to steal?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Therefore, when ministers and princes are related in this way, they can trust each other. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He remembered the minister: and what if it is you who are wrong, after all? The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Smuts, then deputy prime minister, was campaigning around the country for South Africa to declare war on Germany while the prime minister, J. B. Hertzog, advocated neutrality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Al-though he could have been a prime minister of South Africa, he became one of the bravest and staunchest friends of the freedom struggle that I have ever known. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Always, meeting us older hands in Mr. Muhammad’s service for the first time, there were several new ministers of small new Temples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the Bath minister asked if the bereaved would like to come forward and speak some words to the assembled congregation about this good man, comforting others through an account of this holy man’s homegoing. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “You slightly spoiled things by shooting the prime minister,” Alan Blunt said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z One of the ministers, a heavyset African American man dressed in a dark suit with a large cross around his neck, walked over to me. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He’s just in a cloud. I think it’s that minister.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of time jumping, which with its false hint of immbr tality had fascinated everyone who listened to me, from the Horden Island fisherman on up to the prime minister, left him cold. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The state was threatening to ban the organization, with cabinet ministers warning the ANC that it would soon be battered with “an ungloved fist.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had ever heard of a minister taking in members for another church. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And while they were at it, the government ministers jacked up the permit fee once again—this time to $70,000 for up to seven climbers, plus another $10,000 for each additional climber. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, I saw the receding glow of the minister’s lantern like a distant firefly in the black night. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z After a time of sickness to which his wife ministered tenderly, he went back to his business and never again let the insanity of love come near him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In time, the French government, prompted by complaints from the United States, replaced Genêt with a new minister, who brought along orders for Genêt’s arrest. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z As far as they were concerned, he was some sort of crazy terrorist who had just parachuted into the Science Museum and taken six shots at the prime minister. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z In 1952, my grandfather, son of a Presbyterian minister and now a Presbyterian minister himself, became the first black minister in the history of the Dutch Reformed Church. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the end, he simply said that the tone of the letter was aggressive and discourteous and for that reason the prime minister did not answer it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked so educated and all, but him being a minister explained it. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In actuality, the pogrom—the massacre and brutal treatment of helpless people—had been carefully planned, organized, and carried out by the Nazi government, namely by Joseph Goebbels, the minister of propaganda. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If you want to know the truth, I can't even stand ministers. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z As one observer noted, “The Catholics of Chicago are ministered to in twelve different languages.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Second, he appointed John Quincy as American minister to Prussia. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The vice minister’s wife takes a forkful of liver and chews and swallows and touches her napkin to each corner of her mouth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I had no sooner said this than the chief minister of Uganda cried out: “Give it to them again!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ministers began selecting people to be representatives in the courtroom. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The minister was urging us to pray for Governor Faubus and do whatever was necessary to heal any sour feelings we had against white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The lead minister, the Reverend Benjamin Shavers, hushed the crowd. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I had helped Mr. Muhammad and his other ministers to revolutionize the American black man’s thinking, opening his eyes until he would never again look in the same fearful, worshipful way at the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The prime minister glanced at his press secretary, puzzled. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z On the second day, the group discussed the question of “why the profession of teacher is not as much respected as that of lawyer, doctor, or minister.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In the day, I minister to the dying in the quarantine camp, which hath a sweet miasma so foul it can scarce be borne. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z I mention this because the opening prayer of one of the ministers has stayed with me over these many years and was a source of strength at a difficult time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 No statement could be obtained either from Malcolm X’s oldest brother, Wilfred X, the Black Muslim minister of Mosque Number 1 in Detroit. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the church doors opened and Brother Gerald, our minister, stepped into the sanctuary. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister then said that if the Lord did not show a little more initiative in leading the black man to salvation, the black man would have to take matters into his own two hands. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All the good of his reign had been done by his ministers and the kyorremy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “The king was overjoyed. ‘They have been sent to crown my old age,’ he cried, and called the queen, his ministers, the palace staff, and, indeed, the entire population to see them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z You don’t have to be a minister’s son all the time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Frau Elena adds a second prayer for the vice minister’s benefit. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z While the congregation filed past the minister, exchanges were made, bargains agreed upon, transactions completed, and announcements announced. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z It took some time for the singers to come off their level of exaltation, but the minister stood resolute until the song unwound like a child’s playtoy and lay quieted in the aisles. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One man, a minister, shouted that God himself had created segregation back in Genesis when He made night and day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There were, I know, a few, who because of their positions were known only to their ministers and to Mr. Elijah Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z WITNESS: The prime minister did respond to the letter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister, a man of iron with tool-steel eyes and a delivery like a pneumatic drill, opened up with prayer and reassured us that we were a pretty sorry lot. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The organ music stopped and the minister cleared his throat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, imagine my gobsmacked surprise when one of the king’s ministers told me they needed a historian to visit the goblin court of Ghohg the Evil One. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The departmental car, made available at short notice through the kindness of the minister, had broken down in the suburbs. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My cousins—Aristotle, Socrates, Cleopatra, and Plato—had the thwarted, overbrushed look of ministers’ children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Is that name Gladstone, do you think? Could be a relative of the prime minister. But I can’t make out anything else.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A Union cabinet minister is the focus of attention. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z One of Gertrude’s ladies lost her position when she was found to be with child by the king’s chief minister. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z No prime minister’s ever been more popular than Premier Margaret Thatcher in the entire history of opinion polls. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In addition to the vice minister of justice, Russian doctors, dignitaries from other health organizations, and ten Russian generals in olive drab uniforms sat on one side of the assembled tables. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z One of our first ministers was an Anglican priest by the name of Father Hughes, a gruff, burly Welshman who had served as a chaplain in the submarine corps during the Second World War. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z John Vorster, the new minister of justice, who had himself been detained during World War II for opposing the government’s support of the Allies, was a man unsentimental in the extreme. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nigel’s gone to get a coffin. A decent one, not just a homemade box. And he’ll hire a minister to come out tomorrow.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Ideas for international control had been making their way to Roosevelt and British prime minister Winston Churchill for months, albeit haphazardly. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Mommy was a connoisseur of ministers; she knew them the way a French wine connoisseur knows Beaujolais red from Vouvray white. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If he had to read the names of the ministers of Japan or Zaire, or any name containing more consonants than vowels, or more vowels than consonants, he would embarrass himself. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z When the minister gave the nod, the honor guard raised their rifles and fired three rounds. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It must have been a good two hours, and would, Kit suspected, have been much longer had not the minister’s voice grown increasingly hoarse till it threatened to fail altogether. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z When a local black minister,J. D. Hunter, brushed aside warnings to stay out of politics, segregationists burned his house to the ground. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "We have to rescue the Japanese prime minister's cat!" shouts Nala. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “The minister they killed used to live around here, abi, aunty?” he asked. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z So the two weeks of Turner’s sentence ended and he was free—or at least as free as any minister’s boy could be. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Dinath regaled me with tales of financial shenanigans and corruption among cabinet ministers, which I found fascinating. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By day, Evans is a kindly and now semiretired minister in the Uniting Church in Australia, who does a bit of freelance work and researches the history of nineteenth-century religious movements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Perhaps the Lord is leading you in your efforts. And if so, then what else could the minister of First Congregational say but that he is with you in this?” Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He had been ministered to by angels, he said, like the prophets of old. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His model was England, with its national bank, regulated commerce, and powerful finance ministers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I went in, as the minister of Temple Seven, and demanded to see our brother. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Beauty Minister tells royal listeners what criteria the ministers and the queen used to choose the favorite this season: disciplined, dutiful, responsible. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A Baptist minister from Vermont who had come to Wyoming two weeks before the election said that he believed he had witnessed a miracle. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z She also got a job at a government minister’s office, which was rare for an undocumented immigrant, but she had impressed her employers at the interview. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He was never one of those backwoods ministers who urge the taking up of copperhead snakes, baby-flinging, or the shrieking of nonsense syllables. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The British prime minister, Neville Chamberlain, issued an ultimatum to Hitler: If he dared to invade Poland, Britain would declare war on Nazi Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “People like that vice minister. The man who took your book.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z You don’t have to be a minister’s son all the time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Heraclitus says, “Not even the sun will transgress his orbit but the Erinyes, the ministers of justice, overtake him.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z There were telegrams from all around the world, from presidents and prime ministers, but I remember one in particular from a white Cape Town housewife that amused me greatly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After the Japanese prime minister made a second trip to North Korea in 2004, Jenkins and his daughters were also allowed to leave. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And now here I am, sitting in the church, staring at the white spot on my left foot while the minister talks about God and heaven and angels. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They heard the gentle remonstrance of a kindly king with an erring but much-loved minister. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The names on this list are famous ones—prime ministers, presidents, pop stars—and beside each name is an amount of notes offered. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Maybe somewhere out West there really were Territories that he could light out to, where being a minister’s son wouldn’t matter worth a...well, worth a darn. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z King had traveled to Durham to announce his support for the lunch-counter movement because of Reverend Douglas Moore, a Durham minister who was a former classmate of King’s al Boston University. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Plaques and awards lined the walls, along with photos of the mayor with presidents, prime ministers, and everyday Baltimoreans. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z When folks came by to wish the minister well, they looked at Mrs. Buckminster with embarrassed eyes, and she, too, knew—though she had known all along, Turner supposed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z After a high school friend told some stories about Gus’s considerable basketball talents and his many qualities as a teammate, the minister said, “We’ll now hear a few words from Augustus’s special friend, Hazel.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Mrs. Suzman listened attentively, jotting down what I said in a small notebook, and promised to take these matters up with the minister of justice. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sound recordings were made of Mr. Muhammad and some ministers, including me, teaching black audiences the truths about the brainwashed black man and the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Royal relatives, ministers, and titled courtiers from high houses and merchant houses crowd the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It seemed very strange now to think of morality, or that minister long ago, or the poor runaway black. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner figured that sneaking through a minister’s house wasn’t exactly something fit for a minister’s son, but the scriptures never said, “Thou shalt not sneak,” and that was good enough. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Ah—” he raised his hands, smiling—‘‘don’t you worry about ministers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighteen screens of the prime minister giving a speech at a convention, his two hands shaking themselves out over the podium as he spoke, a bit like mine. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad had crossed to Europe once on a liner carrying a delegation to a ministers’ convention. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, with a sense of disbelief, he recognized the prime minister standing, slack jawed, next to Herod Sayle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He stood up suddenly and lengthened his arms toward the minister, the coffin and his wife’s corpse. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The minister of education also sponsored a school in his area, and every year there was a day of competition between the two. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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