| 单词 | mixed |
| 例句 | Now the many clubs with mixed Jewish and non-Jewish membership were threatened with dissolution if they did not purge their rolls. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had spent considerable time looking through school records, court records, and other documents with mixed results. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By the way, the car was running on gas mixed with ethanol. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It wasn’t bad, with a flavor that reminded me a little bit of nuts, lettuce, and artichokes—all mixed together. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even with the salt water mixed in there might be some food value left in the flour and sugar. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They exchange presents: she gives him a small used book of drawings by Goya, and he gives her a pair of blue woolen mittens and a mixed tape of his favorite Beatles songs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The transformation is not entirely successful, however, and the end result is a great deal of liquefying flesh mixed with virus, a kind of biological accident. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of the fried pork mixed with that of urine and excrement was almost unbearable. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I stuffed more kebab into my mouth, some yogurt mixed with rice, and a pickled cauliflower, and used the basil to shove it all in with my fingers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z And at Maryvale, the kids were mixed up and hanging out together. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I kept my mixed success with the lamp to myself. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Once everything was all mixed up, I scooped the batter into my cupcake pan and put it in the oven, setting the timer for twenty minutes. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Then suddenly, for no apparent reason—she might have gotten the accelerator and the brake pedal mixed up—she stood on the brake pedal with all her might. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When I opened my mouth, the sharp smell from the gun firing mixed with the smoke coming from the cabin, and I swallowed it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z My usual method of distinguishing kids from one another was failing me now that we were all mixed together. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He would know if there was a place where a mixed couple could live with something approaching safety, and maybe he could tell Wash something about Baja California. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Brotherly protectiveness mixed with financial and paternal pain in Milton’s heaving breast. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The can of mixed vegetables is our last one before Pop Pop gets his check. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then I mixed them with mint and lemon balm from the garden. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I was the only mixed kid in school. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And the principal foundations of all states, the new as well as the old or the mixed, are good laws and good armies. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He was hungry with all his mind and body mixed in, hungry with the whole mix of his life caught in it. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She always had mixed feelings on her birthdays. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z My eyes continued to scan as I shook the can, making sure the contents were mixed so that the paint would come out even and clean, creating a crisper result. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I got up from my own chair, with mixed feelings of regret and confusion. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z More than any other mark, the comma draws our attention to the mixed origins of modern punctuation, and its consequent mingling of two quite distinct functions: 1. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z I caught a glimpse of her face, which betrayed disappointment mixed with a flash of envy. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I could see a mixed group, girls and boys, taking turns shooting the ball at a big, tall girl in the goal. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before I can say I’m from six miles away from here, she finishes her question, “Or are you mixed?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “At rehearsal I kept getting mixed up,” she says. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Solitude and safety were physical sensations, mixed up somehow with the tiredness of his body, the softness of the chair, the touch of the faint breeze from the window that played upon his cheek. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I knew he had mixed feelings about the new crab regulations because of what he said the other night when he got that message from Tink Bosley. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Since sugar and meat were both in short supply, and since it was rumored that infants had died from saccharin mixed into formulas as a sugar substitute, these charges were widely believed. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Caroni blushed with pleasure—it was impossible for him to resist a compliment, even when he was all mixed up as he certainly was at the moment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The blacks, the Gypsies, anyone of mixed race, the mentally or physically disabled and the homosexuals. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z He seemed in no hurry to go elsewhere or to talk, and as the slow-motion bartender mixed our drinks I puzzled vainly as to why he had brought me here. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I strolled into the kitchen, dropped a raw egg into a teacup of raw hamburger, mixed it up and ate it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “What are you doing here in borghese?” the barman asked after he had mixed a second martini. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z There was real fear mixed up in his love, and the precipitate from the mixing of these two is cruelty. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Several fellow professors, however, watched this performance with mixed feelings. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She must be milked every morning so that she will produce milk, and the milk must be boiled in order to be mixed with coffee to make coffee and milk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Millard was right—the skies were quiet, the battle had ended, but rolling drifts of bomb smoke still mixed with the clouds. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The rest of the letters are blurred in juice and ink mixed from the spill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z With that she took a great quantity of the smallest of the seeds, wheat and poppy and millet and so on, and mixed them all together in a heap. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “And we can each have a can of soup for supper tomorrow. We have the can of mixed vegetables and a can of carrots and a can of peas. Won’t you get food tomorrow?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The boycott began on April i and had mixed results. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The days were all mixed up, but she felt a little calmer than she did a second ago. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z This stench was like that, except a hundred times stronger, and mixed with the smell of chewed eucalyptus. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z There was a laugh, with just a little bit of a snort mixed with it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Persian ice cream is mixed with saffron and pistachios. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “It was all mixed in the dirt by then. You saw it torch those guys last night.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And here was my mother, his tribal enemy, a Xhosa woman alone with two small children—one of them a mixed child, no less. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She stood at my side while I measured and mixed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The thought of it was all mixed with the sickening odor that came up with the raw wind from the street. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z Instead, a small but intense sound filled the air, something like a puppy growl mixed with a kitten hiss. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I often wondered whether she was a person of mixed parentage. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It tastes like chocolate chips and gooey oats mixed with peanut butter. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z He married my mother, a white Jewish woman, when she had eight mixed- race black children, me being the youngest at less than a year old. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But we do know that the mixed aircrews quickly became reliant on each other and worked together loyally. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z And mixed with these were splashes of California poppies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I showed both of them what I was doing, how I mixed the propellant, how I stood back when I threw a little of it in the heater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Winds slant sideways, crushing raindrops mixed with sea spray against the glass panes. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Only this rain was cold, and mixed with sleet. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Earlier, I mean. When you were testifying. You say this foam is only produced when you’ve got water, mucus, and air all mixed together by a person’s breathing?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z On the benches below, Winterfell men mixed with smallfolk from the winter town, friends from the nearer holdfasts, and the escorts of their lordly guests. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Now Westley knew that she meant to say “not a single syllable of it,” because a syllabub was something you ate, with cream and wine mixed in together to form the base. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z There was the sound of hope in her voice, mixed with fear. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time they had mixed socially with Caucasians since leaving camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the bar of yellow soap was mixed up with the whole thing, she threw that in after the gun. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Just as gratefulness was confused in my mind with love, so possession became mixed up with motherhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In racially mixed open-air drug markets, black dealers were far more likely to be arrested than whites, even though white dealers were present and visible. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Say what again? You mean that it sounds all mixed up to me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z There were women and men and children, all with the same crazed expression of rage mixed with glee. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The next afternoon he built a mold, mixed his concrete confidently, and poured his bird bath. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The piney scent of a real Christmas tree mixed with the aroma of cinnamon from the gingerbread cookies reminded me of. . . nothing. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The gelatin sometimes proved tricky, depending on how and when it had been mixed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The system did away with epicycles and deferents, and it explained why the motion of the Sun was mixed up with the motion of the planets. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Shawn said a mixed breed wasn’t worth much, but that I could send him to auction like Grandpa’s dog-food horses. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We slapped our hands together as hard as we could and got our slobs mixed up real good, then waved them in the air so they’d dry. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z For takeoff and climb, it would need advanced jet engines that sucked in air, mixed it with fuel, and burned the mixture. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The fruit was shaped like a lemon, with an outer layer of mixed colors of yellow and red. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “And that’s all it was, steam, mixed with a little bit of ash.” I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race-mixing becomes a crime worse than treason. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z After a day of this, I opened it to dispose of the stuff at a roadside garbage can and found the most thoroughly mixed and kneaded garbage I have ever seen. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The armies of France, therefore, have been mixed, partly mercenaries and partly her own troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He mixed in various plot lines from Austrian, Norwegian and German sagas, and set about moulding them into a coherent dramatic whole. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In Eden Park I was the only mixed kid in the colored area. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Up to now I've been focused on whatever mischief Jackson is getting mixed up with, Mr. Redfern's inscrutable glare, and the food everyone has been eating. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z They got close together, and became mixed up with brambles and undergrowth again, some way off. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Indoor sandals and outdoor ones were exactly the same, except you must never get them mixed up! A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It all had gotten into the air and mixed together, and the first thing you know after you start breathing that stuff, you say things like what I said to Meryl Lee. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Seeing as you’re new to the game, and a friend of Kevin, I’ll give you a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, plus two cans of tuna and a six-pack of water.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Head spinning and mixed up and blood dribbling out my nose and mouth. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The tiny gray balls turn silver, bright silver, and now there are swirls of yellow mixed in. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Whatever the case, if there were mixed opinions on the matter, there were also mixed ideas about what the consequences might be. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m hit with a wave of the most awful stench, like bleach mixed with snot. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t you see? Each powder has been mixed. So they feel the same way that you do. They feel the same pain.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The scent of lavender mixed with rose drifts through my bedcurtains. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The sky was a child’s fingerpainting, blue and black hastily mixed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Orange juice mixed with the vodka that made him crazy and violent. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z At its peak, some 20,000 to 30,000 people lived in Palmares, following laws and customs in which beliefs brought over directly from Africa mixed with Native American and European practices. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The stones were indeed scattered, and mixed inextricably with those of other workers: but when we had collected what we reckoned to be our pile no one raised any objections. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother never referred to my dad as white or to me as mixed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In St. Louis, peanuts were bought in paper bags and mixed with jelly beans, which meant that we ate the salt and sugar together and I found them a delicious treat. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then when the morning’s milk had cooled, she mixed it with the skimmed milk and set it all on the stove to heat. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite all the positive stuff, I had mixed feelings about getting into the class. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He leaned over and kissed me, and I smelled the root beer and the strawberry and the sadness all mixed together on his breath. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The black streaks held the salt that Papa said had got mixed up with the rocks a jillion years ago. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of the first mixed gatherings I had ever attended, and I was far more of an observer than a participant. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Again I was overwhelmed with those mixed feelings. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Marian’s grammar school, like her neighborhood, was racially mixed, with black students and white students, but all the teachers were white. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z His call to her mixed abiding love with a sense of desperation: “I never wanted your advice and assistance more in my life,” he pleaded. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It had been an endless day of minibuses from mixed church to black church to white church, and I was exhausted. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She was distracted by her own mixed feelings. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “If you mix paint together, that’s true, but if you’re talking about just the colors, pure in nature, they make white when mixed together. I brought this wheel to prove it.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z We mixed and chopped while Audrey told us all about the Fall Ball committee. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z In Harlem the precise accents of northern-born blacks mixed with the slow drawls of recent southern immigrants and the lilting accents from the islands. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I’d gotten an eighty-five, but I was so excited that she’d come over to me that I got all mixed up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But mixed in with the sadness, I also felt hope. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In Florence, the capital of Tuscany, Vincenzio became a court musician, and his family mixed with dukes and princes at the artistic and intellectual heart of reborn Europe. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He smelled like grass and sawdust and gasoline all mixed together. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Bodies swirled around me, and I inhaled the wonderful intoxicating aroma of sweat and perfume all mixed up. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As the sound of the fight grew nearer, I could tell there were quite a few dogs mixed up in it. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was all mixed up with how I was supposed to feel. No. I did not love him.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Tears mixed with the water streaming down my face. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “At ten. But I’ve been throwing up all night long. I mixed my cocktails.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The colors of things in houses have darkness mixed into them: maroon, mushroom beige, a muted green, a dusty rose. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A mighty wave of nos mixed with giggles swept the crowd. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The swarm at the diner weeks and weeks ago, how Finn had mixed up Derek Rude with Frank. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Being a bit drunk and bold, my father pushed the policeman aside and quickly mixed into the crowd. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Then it was over, dead, and when he asked me how to get to Centre Street, I regarded him with mixed feelings. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The paint must’ve been mixed with Celestial bronze dust or something, because as soon as it splattered the hellhound, the monster yelped and dissolved into a pink-and-black puddle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z When there was milk, we bled a cow, mixed the blood with the milk, and drank it. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Then three baskets of mixed males, five to five and three-quarters. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z They trekked through the inhospitable growth, breathing in gelatin-thick humidity mixed with soot and smoke. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The smells of perfume and after-shave lotion and mustard and beer were mixed together. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Rotten krill, shrimp, plankton, small fish—they ate it all—mixed with gallons of . . . what? The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Most New World fields thus came to be mixed gardens of many crops planted together, rather than monoculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The acid electrical smell burned his nose and mixed with the smell of wet vomit on the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Yet from the outset the fascination with private detectives was mixed with aversion. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Some of the coconut milk was mixed with sweet evaporated milk, sugar, egg yolks, and rum to make coquito. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He mixed the cement and troweled over the hole. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Because they shouldn’t be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z We stand outside with everyone else, the crowd mixed, Jews and Hispanics, Asians and blacks. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Breath mixed with spit and fear and pain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay for glaze was mixed in precise proportions with water and wood ash. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z She poured sulfur on the powder and mixed it up with a stick. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That was one I missed, because I mixed up the u and the a. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z “So you probably mixed up a little bit, right? You not all white.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The incessant rain tickled his cheeks and mixed with the blood from his mouth, dripping red by the time it hit the ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z I must depend on hearsay, on old photographs, on stories told, and on memories which are hazy and mixed with fable in trying to tell you about the Hamiltons. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I wish Martín didn’t wear Mira Bro. It’s nasty, smelling that deodorant mixed with food and dirty plates for five hours.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All the thoughts I couldn’t bring aloud, like how mixed up the world had become and why couldn’t he be there to help me figure it out. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The cries and screams of men and women mixed with the terror of the horses burning alive in locked stables. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The skin bubbles up into a sea of tiny white blisters mixed with red spots known as a maculopapular rash. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Honeysuckle and purple wisteria hung heavy from the trees and white magnolias mixed with their scents in the bee-humming air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole time we worked, I marveled at how mixed up people got when it came to love. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacon provided labels for this distinction: ‘pure mathematics’ and ‘mixed mathematics’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Sometimes, after we’d done our prayers with the beads, I could not remember how to cross myself right, getting it mixed up like you would expect any Baptist-raised person to do. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She took many herbs and roots from her black bag and mixed them into the warm oily water. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Evening in Paris is in a midnight blue bottle and smells warm like trees mixed with magnolias. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z In shifts, lots, batches, mixed in with other families, they migrated, in six months and four journeys, to Kentucky, where there were mines and mill-work. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He patted the wall with his paw, shouting, “That’s it! That’s it! Why couldn’t I see that? It’s all mixed up, of course!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z They went as far as they could to the place where no human could go beyond, and his little footprints were mixed in with bear tracks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z On his orders, and with the help of 375 pounds of explosives, the buildings of Murphy Homes were brought down in twenty seconds and soon replaced with mixed- income housing. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And Barth explained how the exploding "coal" could be mixed in with the real coal, which would unwittingly be tossed into the furnace. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Each morning I seemed to awaken with new experiences and dreams strangely mixed into me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I wished I had never come to Greenwood, never gotten mixed up with R.C. or Emmett or any of this mess. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z It started to rain while I was in the butcher's shop, fat, slushy drops mixed with ice. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z She mixed the contents of one of the packets, a gray-green powder, in water, and then gently shook Timothy awake. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The room smelled of metal shavings mixed with whatever grease was used in the lathes and other implements that I never learned to use. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Our spoons clinked in the glasses as we mixed up the ice, and Lolo told me about his farming days in the Philippines. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I stood there confused and mixed up inside. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sissy explained that she had bought a bit of gold paint powder, mixed it with a few drops of banana oil and had gilded each penny. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I poured some of my milk into it so it wouldn’t be so lumpy and mixed it all together. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Hernandez dumped a truckload of dirt in the driveway, and now they mixed it with peat moss before spreading it around the yard. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Jamie bowed his head and answered, “Well, yeah. Besides, Brucie has trouble keeping straight the jacks, queens, and kings. He gets mixed up.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Then his voice mixed with the voices of other people. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z This time, there's a dragging sound mixed in with the crisp march of the soldiers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “You’re too smart to get mixed up in anything like that. And I told them, too.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She tried to cover herself more fully and met with mixed success, pulling the sheet up to her neck in exchange for exposing a scandalous amount of long, shapely leg. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The smell of ripe guavas, piled high on a handcart pushed by a vendor, mixed with the smell of diesel smoke from buses. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It starts gnawing on his heart, and gets all mixed up in his dreams. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And clearly I wasn’t the only one with these mixed emotions: virtually everybody shot daggers at Polly, before turning eagerly to Miss Lucy—which was, I suppose, pretty unfair on poor Polly. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Gunshot mixed with its memory in the picnic grove. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z She hadn't quite understood everything she'd heard, and now it was all mixed up in her head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z My memories of the Corcorans’ post-funeral get-together are very foggy, due possibly to the handful of mixed painkillers I swallowed on the way there. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had never seen her more beautiful than she was that night, with her cheeks flaming and her eyes large and black with mixed anger and fear. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I like "large talk," which is more about theories and concepts, mixed with facts and known quantities. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z How could it be that bright fact and cloudy mystery were actually all mixed up, helter-skelter, together? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was oil, or grease, mixed in with beach sand, and it did not come away easily. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Rowsby Woof was quiet and dejected and did not even notice the smell of rabbit, which anyway was all mixed up with the smell of the fire and the larder. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z And mixed in with the music and the beat, she kept hearing, I love you. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He had always had mixed feelings about this, but he had come to accept it as the price of keeping his country safe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But for a big, husky thing that looked like it was mixed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z The sharp, reverberating hoofbeats that moments ago had mixed into the surging sound of the river were now a crescendo upon me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There was the checkered rug where Mikayla and I did our experiments, the purple stain where we’d mixed baking soda and vinegar—and a whole bottle of bubble bath. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Principal Miller says you were mixed up in all this. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the tumult of the last moment, the sad drunkards who carried them out of the house got the coffins mixed up and buried them in the wrong graves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z As always, there were overdue bills mixed with throwaway flyers printed with cheap black ink that rubbed off onto his fingers. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I loved the weird squishy sound the macaroni made as we mixed the cheese in. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Once it was all mixed up, I started combining the wet ingredients into a separate bowl. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z ‘It was so mixed up at the end.’The girl seemed to be trying to explain her error more to herself than to Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat in our seat—number fourteen—with my earphones in, listening to a mixed Motown playlist I made from Dad’s old vinyl. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z That was the rule that you never mixed up troubles at home with life at school. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z We watched it once and then we watched it again with the reels mixed up, just to be different. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "Then you stir it 'til it disappears. After it's mixed you take this brush and paint out a sample on one of these." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The essence of pearl mixed with essence of men and a curious dark residue was precipitated. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandparents Hiddle were my fathers parents, full up to the tops of their heads with goodness and sweetness, and mixed in with all that goodness and sweetness was a large dash of peculiarity. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z She looked like a perfect bull terrier, only skinnier because of the Maltese mixed in. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z As he strode through the second-floor hallway he saw them: two dogs, a black Labrador and a smaller mixed breed, in a cage. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Next thing I did was take the drill out of my backpack and hide it because I was mixed up. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The audience was mixed, their claims broader than race. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The Court’s enforcement decree, issued a full year after Brown, seemed conciliatory to segregationists, imposing no deadline for achieving racially mixed schools and calling merely for “good faith implementation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He lit the kerosene stove and mixed Baby’s pap. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The wet smell of coming rain mixed with the smoky smell of burning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the waiter appears, setting a pale pink mixed drink in front of Ben. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z I grew up in South Africa during apartheid, which was awkward because I was raised in a mixed family, with me being the mixed one in the family. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Since the satellite TV was up again, Coach Hedge was in his cabin happily catching up on his mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He watched her with a hatred that was mixed with his old desire, knowing that once more she had the victory. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Gullah was a language of English mixed with different West African languages. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Maybe I was just one of those smart people like Mom was talking about who mixed up their numbers. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Ralph pushed both hands through his hair and looked at the little boy in mixed amusement and exasperation. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "Here are my yellow roses," she said, "but they're all mixed up with some lousy iris." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I was coming to recognize the unmistakably heartland brew of diesel fumes mixed with manure and restaurant exhaust. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Christmas carols were in the air; they issued from the radio of the four women and mixed strangely with Miami’s sunshine and the cries of the querulous, never thoroughly silent seagulls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Music. Numbers. Equations. They’re not like words. They...they don’t get mixed up.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The country of the Zande is savanna mixed with riverine forest, beautiful country, where acacia trees cluster along the banks of seasonal rivers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z No one has so far mixed together the gases and waters of the primitive Earth and at the end of the experiment had something crawl out of the test tube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My fear is mixed oddly with excitement at the thought that I will get to see Lio if he, too, has been captured. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Activities Building was the site of club meetings and branch get- togethers, an end run around the embarrassment and difficulty of finding a venue in the town that would accommodate a racially mixed group. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Nancy was angry with him for having such ideas, and that anger was mixed with pity for him in his illness. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They mixed with the water and swirled at the bottom of the tub like little green eddies before being rushed down the drain. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z They gathered around the kolyvo, which was sprinkled with the powdered sugar of the afterlife and mixed with the immortal seeds of pomegranates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z George had mixed a sharp rock in the dirt and it bruised her knuckles. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A low, sad mournful cry tore itself from his throat and mixed into the lapping sound of the waters of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pontonoos mixed the honey-hearted wine and went from chair to chair, filling the cups; then each man where he sat poured out his offering to the gods in bliss who own the sweep of heaven. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Some mixed words are dominated by one parent while the other is recessive. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z People who could afford to buy creatures mixed from a genetic cocktail of humanity, tigers, and dogs. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z He dug through the food for a box of cold cereal, retrieved a jug of water, then mixed some powdered milk and began to eat. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The crowd sounds were close enough for me to hear individual voices mixed with the noise of horses’ hooves and creaking wooden wheels. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Anderson had been singing in Washington ever since her high school days, appearing first at black churches and small black-operated theaters, and later before larger, racially mixed audiences in the auditoriums of black high schools. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z We mixed them together and fed our plant. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z And Lord knows, she might even like one of these fancy ones with the kiwi and passion fruit and all that mixed up in there. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I never had children of my own, but I've seen enough in that lot to know she was mixed up in something she shouldn't be. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He still had a glassful of lemonade left in one pitcher, not to mention another whole pitcher already mixed up and unsold, so he poured himself a full cup. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z When bits of shell slip in, the sound is like gravel mixed with porcelain. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the maids trod in the puddles on the floor, they made a slashing noise, and from the next room there was whispering mixed with the secret noise of silk. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Bounding across the still water at the foot of the old white one, he caught the scent of a stranger, the man-smell well mixed with leather and earth and iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But in those days, if people used fruit, honey, and sugar to sweeten foods, they often mixed salty or even bitter tastes with sweet ones. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z While settling in Cape Town and the surrounding frontier, the white colonists had their way with the Khoisan women, and the first mixed people of South Africa were born. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Or was there something mixed up in their blood, maybe in their brains too, which made them capable of accomplishing prodigious feats, which seemed beyond the capability of even the best among us? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Some facts were mixed up but the important stuff was true: Two men had sailed a boat from Morocco to New York with two thousand pounds of hashish. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I’d like to think there’s a little lust mixed in too, but that could be wishful thinking. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But it’s mixed up with fear over what kind of crazy thing he might do next. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We celebrated all afternoon our heritage, our mixed blood, ourselves. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I remembered, with a sick feeling, having tried to impress upon Henry how dangerous these were when mixed with liquor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z 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 “I’m sorry, I thought that mixed in with the rice you would like it.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z And I was so scared and mixed up about the danger of hydrophobia that it was clear into the next day before I even thought about thanking him for giving us Old Yeller. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything was messed up, a bigger mess than before, and she felt all mixed up with fear and anger. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The red dust from the road and the sweat on my body has mixed to create a layer of mud on my skin making it dry and itchy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He makes me feel like I’m not the only person in Mr. Yukht’s class who gets mixed up when our class talks about Jewish holidays. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It was not the sound they had been expecting to hear—the noise of hoofs and jingling armor, mixed, perhaps, with Calormene battle-cries. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Our food is bad and mixed up with so much substitute stuff that it makes us ill. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z That night there came from the farmhouse the sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone’s surprise, the strains of Beasts of England were mixed up. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I saw expressions on people’s faces that I’d never seen before, something like anxiety and superiority and paranoia all mixed up in one polite grimace. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were soft and transparent, I mixed them with flour to make a poultice and put the whole mess on Perilee’s chest. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Make four bundles tie them with yucca spruce mixed with charcoal from burned weeds snakeweed and gramma grass and rock sage. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Maybe other girls are feeling the same way as me and hate getting all the mixed messages from the media. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Maybe like a police siren, and a baby cry, and screeching tires all mixed up. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z "It's more immediate with yours than your sisters', or even Arabella's. Even with only a few drops of their blood mixed with yours, I can see what they do." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her sweet perfume wafted through the open door and mixed with the music from within. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The mixed smells of the forest greeted him as he took his first deep breath, trying to relax. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Except now it was mixed with wood and metal and a sort of cloudy scent, like spring had caught a cold. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I didn't know exactly what had happened to Mrs. Williams, but I knew that here in Alabama, police dogs and black folks looking for justice had never mixed well. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She added flour and sugar to the reserved dough in its bowl, then mixed in water until it was the right consistency. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "Ginger would not be listed. She is a mixed breed. Like me." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z My emotions are all mixed up and jumbled inside. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The air was rich with the scents of earth and grass, mixed with the smell of horseflesh and Dany's sweat and the oil in her hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In my own case, studying under the auspices of the University of London was a mixed blessing. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will ruin us. Every newspaper in the land will have our cause mixed up with abolition...and we shall be utterly denounced.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Joanna pressed her cheek to her baby’s face and her tears mixed with its blood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “I used Jelly-Legs. Looks as though those two shouldn’t be mixed. He seems to have sprouted little tentacles all over his face. Well, let’s not leave them here, they don’t add much to the decor.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z For me, the most humbling lessons came when I visited military communities and met with soldiers' spouses—groups of mostly women, though sometimes with a few men mixed in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z "Ah. 'And the band played on.' A lot of mixed feelings about you girls, from what I hear." What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sun felt like a flame brought too close, and yet it was drizzling and the lukewarm raindrops mixed with her sweat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z By the time I came home, the blisters had popped and their water mixed with the sweat in the boots; even this, somehow, seemed beau- tiful to me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z "Life is. How can you have such pain and such...such triumph...all mixed together? It's like...it's like that cheese." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The boom-bap of early hip- hop, still young and close to its Bronx roots, tumbled out of the apartment buildings, mixed with Spanish music blaring from boom boxes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Poor Asher, who always talked too fast and mixed up words, even as a toddler. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I tried to think, but I’d always gotten my mythology mixed up. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Emma must have had mixed feelings about her daughter not being confirmed, but she abhorred hypocrisy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Things were changing so fast for Francie now, that she got mixed up. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Lizabeth stare at Biddy with worry and sad all mixed up in her face. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z While the sauce was simmering, he mixed some biscuits. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A few disturbing noises mixed in as well: distant screams, crying and wailing.The isolation of their dank little storage room doesn’t seem so bad now. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I feel all mixed up, the way soil must feel after the oxen come through, plowing it, turning it inside out, getting it ready for planting. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn from hundreds of different farms was now mixed all together in a great golden river. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “My grandfather was mixed up with bad men—men like Erin’s brother, Rod. Probably hard for you to imagine.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z At dinnertime, Jinjoo’s mom gave everyone small servings of rice mixed with barley and beans and told them to make it last. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “The trouble is,” Tommy said, “I was a bit mixed up in those days.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, their attitude toward him so far made him feel that they did not consider him as being mixed up in the kidnapping. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It's like something dead and rotting mixed with lots of dirty stuff and…. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah, Ms. Muhammad, you sound all proper when you talk,” a boy named Terrance, who actually looked mixed race to me, said. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z It was a mix of shame for having gone back to the law of the streets mixed with rage—“I could have you arrested!” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Mixed economies that added certain crops or livestock to hunting-gathering also competed against both types of “pure” economies, and against mixed economies with higher or lower proportions of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, peoples named in these other three theories could have mixed to form the modem Japanese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘But I does do my best. And I is not nearly as mixed up as the other giants. I know one who gallops all the way to Wellington for his supper.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I got up and poured some water in the flour and mixed the dough quickly, forming it into little balls, then flattening them into circles. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was the king of Syracuse who asked Archimedes to determine whether his crown was pure gold or had been mixed with lead, a task beyond the abilities of all the scientists at the time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She kissed the girl on her forehead and neck in her restless slumber with two kinds of feeling mixed up in those kisses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Maybe things got mixed up. Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders,” Grandma mused. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You think too much, you get mixed up. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s chewing on oatmeal with peanut butter mixed into it. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Once or twice a day, mixed in with my normal lectures, Ben would present me with a little mental exercise I would have to master before we went on to anything else. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Boos are mixed in with the cheers in the crowd. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But the boy was full of mixed hate and pity now, and it addled him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Max, I don’t know. I was all mixed up. I was feeling so many things at once.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s creamy raspberry mixed with a familiar taste I can’t put my finger on. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z A cool fear, mixed with an intense curiosity, gripped him, and he had to remind himself to breathe. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “He started training me formally a year and a half ago. I mixed his remedies before that.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z So I had done battle with the prince who had mixed the blood of his two sons with the metal he had used for casting his swords. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They spread ringed hands and mixed the ivory tiles click-clack for the next hemp-bird game. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I mixed up what Quentin and I had calculated to be our best black-powder mix and then added the powdered glue to it along with a little water until I had a thick black paste. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z While the British colonel set Lazzaro’s broken arm and mixed plaster for the cast, the German major translated out loud passages from Howard W. Campbell, Jr.’s monograph. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The title was rambling, but the message was succinct: if you mixed the effects of three to five variant genes on any trait, you could generate nearly perfect continuity in phenotype. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Some of the monkeys that were dying in Room H had become essentially a heap of mush and bones in a skin bag, mixed with huge amounts of amplified virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But once I mixed some soil in, it died down to tolerable levels. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “All-father. You and I mixed our blood long, long ago, did we not?” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He was a older dude with black-and-gray hair on top of his head, mixed together. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He sometimes got them mixed up but they didn't seem to mind. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z There’s more kid sweat and garbage mixed in, I guess. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z They overturned the great waist-high earthenware jugs; duck eggs, pickled fruits, vegetables burst out and mixed in acrid torrents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m still grateful. I should never have got you mixed up in it.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z On July 21, the day after the doctors’ positive bulletin, they discovered cotton and wool fibers mixed with the pus coming from the wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I lay there and thought how life was like a Littmus Lozenge, how the sweet and the sad were all mixed up together and how hard it was to separate them out. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She saw blood mixed with the baby powder. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And mixed in with the sound of so many men, you know what? The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z He mixed some in a glass and gave it to Favell. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Bundles of dried herbs hung from the ceiling, filling the air with the mixed aroma of feverfew and bitter orange. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z You wiped off the thick soot, mixed it with toothpaste and soap, and there was your ink. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had to thin it down to only a few notes; otherwise she got too mixed up to go further. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Suddenly the fine brown dirt became mixed with thick black smoke. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the middle of each table there are two china dishes, one with salted nuts, the other with mixed candies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was a strange kind of forgiveness, mixed with desperate pity and hope. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Mostly it was boys on one side, and girls on the other, but it was mixed up a little bit. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z "Right. Right. I guess she and I got a little mixed up about who was coming to see whom." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z There the leaves are sorted, mixed, washed, dried, and packaged. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And the moths came down and fluttered about the pool as the daylight mixed into the darkness. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow I felt mixed up in their wickedness, mixed up and not knowing how to get out of it Ruthanne took a deep breath, ready to change the subject. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z I sit eating my fried Spam, drinking my milk mixed from powder. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Maybe, or perhaps, he concedes, he just mixed up the different locations, given everything on his mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The archers from Apollo’s cabin brought out their bows and arrows, ready to slay the menace, but with so many campers mixed in with the birds, it wasn’t safe to shoot. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Talk about mixed signals; he’s like a roller coaster that talks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “I think you have me mixed up with someone else,” Minli said to the fish. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z As Z drove down the road away from Ruby Holler, he wished he’d never gotten mixed up with Trepid, and he hoped he could keep Trepid at bay until Tiller and Sairy got back. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Students had gathered on the hockey field nearby, burning paper effigies of Gowon around a glowing bonfire; the smoke curled into the night air and mixed with their laughter and chatter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the last bowl, dark green leaves mixed with cooked onions and the wrinkly purple things and some smallish white things. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We also ate a lot of rice mixed with jack mackerel, which Mom said was excellent brain food. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if Grover could still read my emotions, mixed up as they were. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The sad mixed with the sweet and set a warm feeling in my stomach. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She picked me up early enough to go to Safeway to get snacks: chocolate pretzels, cheese and crackers, mixed nuts. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I recognized the tune he was playing: the ’88 remix of New Order’s “Blue Monday,” with a lot of Star Wars droid sound samples mixed in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z It's so much like the ocean, but warmer, like it's mixed with toasted sugar. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I would lose track, get things mixed up, turn on wrong cells at wrong times, drop things. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes when a bunch of tules and reeds and grasses mixed and blew and waved, I was terrified that it was she, that she was carrying them or parting them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She helped herself to white meat and gravy and grits and a few raisins and mixed them up together on her plate. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I’m dying to see everyone, hug everyone, put my face down on the prayer-hall rugs and breathe in that musty smell mixed with the perfume of all those who prayed there before me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z As they talked, they mixed and tasted the chocolate pudding. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He separated the crude bacterial debris from the virulent smooth strain, mixed it with the live bacteria of the nonvirulent rough strain, and injected the mix into mice. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Those might be mixed with kernels grown with another herbicide, metolachlor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The black vomit is not really black; it is a speckled liquid of two colors, black and red, a stew of tarry granules mixed with fresh red arterial blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At break, as the only mixed kid out of a thousand, I faced the same predicament I had on the playground at H. A. Jack: Where was I supposed to go? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Up front there were two balsam trees, and their scent mixed with the waxy smell of the candles. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I wondered what law of the universe kept them from being mixed? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she mixed the powder with the water from the pitcher on the dresser, guessing at the proportions. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She’s begun to get things mixed up, because of the drugs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The air was thick with the familiar smell of diesel, bread, and kebab mixed with the stench from the nearby stream, where everyone dumped trash. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She watched him put on his socks, with a mixed expression of injury and the ungovernable interest of someone who has been examining laundered socks for holes for a great many years. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Before play began, there were mixed emotions, conflicting speculations, and assorted reactions throughout the chess world concerning the match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The lady Kirke mixed me a golden cup of honeyed wine, adding in mischief her unholy drug. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She looks mixed, too, with dark skin and dark eyes. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z ‘I is a very mixed up Giant,’ the Giant said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Warehouses and work yards littered with battered and rusting equipment were mixed in with shotgun houses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Afterward they mixed the garbage into the mound, incorporating the celebration into the construction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Every time I got to the part where I mixed the crushed pills in their drinks, I would run to the toilet and vomit. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They stayed devoted to their Sunday night mixed doubles bowling league and were deeply involved in local politics—which were no less grubby than the politics they left behind in the city. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Then I suggest our mixed assortment of artificial crawling and flying bugs of all types including—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z It was fresh-cured leather and new material mixed up with fancy powder and soap. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Those things Tom said to me in the car, all mixed up with guilt over what happened with Scott the other night: the dream was just my brain picking all that apart. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead she mixed earth and day and welded the crack and heated it slowly and it was as good as new. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z I wished that he was not mixed up with these Orgota who had, as it were, adopted me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s Muhammad’s snorts and someone else’s hoots mixed with Dad’s big belly laugh. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The man and the horse were mixed together. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the idea of my wish getting mixed up with hundreds and hundreds of strangers’ hopes made me drop the penny back into my purse. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I mixed these together in a bowl, then dumped in a generous serving of Fruit Rocks cereal. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The batter was all mixed up and in the iron skillet when Mama came in, her eyes looking red and tired. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A moderate interpretation of the Duhem-Quine thesis leads to a mixed constructivism, in which evidence and culture each have a part to play in the construction of scientific beliefs. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He mixed them together with a long spoon until the mixture was no longer the pale amber color of the whiskey and looked like water instead. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was shocked that Aunt Loma had come right out and said bust in mixed company, but that just made it funnier. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z There was a faint odor of carbolic acid mixed with Mennen’s talcum powder. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The last stop on our tour was Dari’s room, where Indian mixed with American, Bollywood posters bordered baseball posters. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She considered Ophie for a moment, then said, “Child, what are you mixed up in?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Smith mixed up a homemade liniment and painted it on Seabiscuit’s legs. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She smiled, her cheek grazing against his, and she felt the little beginnings of stubble, smelled sweat mixed with the musky scent he wore. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z It was bad enough I had to get mixed up with Bodega just so we could have a better place to live, a cheaper place, and save some money, too. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For lunch she ate two pieces of toast with chocolate-hazelnut spread and drank protein powder mixed with orange juice. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I mixed a liquid and said the proper prayers and washed my hands. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by the scent of wood smoke mixed with distant honeyed flowers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z She mixed salt with cold water and gently plastered the gritty mixture onto my feet. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Scooping the clay crumbs into his palm, he spat on them, softened and mixed them with a careful finger, then pressed them into the crack and smoothed the edges as well as he could. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z And religion got mixed up in it, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They were one of the few families that still had daily white rice, but just like everyone else, Doha’s mother mixed it with barley, millet, and beans to make it last longer. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I won’t describe what the accumulation of human and animal skeletons, mixed in with innumerable fish and turtle remains, looked like. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The metal of the chains was the strongest metal that the gods could find: iron from the earth mixed with iron that had fallen from the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “Bunny,” said Charles, “you’re mixed up. The ablative is in Latin.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mami has cooked a big pot of arroz con pollo, the rice yellow and soupy with pieces of chicken mixed in. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “Maybe it’s that. She’s all mixed up with the dullness, and I can’t remember much except the last picture drawn in fire.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She filled the rest of each glass with beaten egg and milk mixed with a little sugar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That voice inside that said, Now, yes, this is it, get out! was muffled by mixed messages. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “My feelings toward your girlfriend are mixed, yes, but for the most part I have a lot of respect for her.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There are bits of grass mixed in with the mud bricks to hold it together, and the wall is at least half as wide as it is tall. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Alexandra Secondary School was the only mixed school in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how in hell I’d got myself mixed up in a project that couldn’t be carried out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The drowsy hum of the Converter is louder in the control room and mixed with it is the chuckle of the Geiger Counters and the erratic buzzing of half a dozen little signal lights. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “He keeps his grog ready mixed in a little tub on the table. Wait a moment, and you’ll hear Clara lift him up to take some. There he goes!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I found the mess to consist of indifferent potatoes and strange shreds of rusty meat, mixed and cooked together. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The chocolaty sauce of the chicken enchiladas spilled out of the rolled-up tortillas and mixed in with the rice and beans, making the dish extra delicious. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Sugar Hill itself is something of a mixed neighborhood. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soviets forced Mother to teach school to a mixed class of Altaian and Lithuanian children. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z It was all a mistake; Aunty got mixed up on her facts sometimes. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The bully snickered, a short burst of laughter mixed with a phlegm-filled snort. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Pong opened the lid and gagged at the rotting smell of old durian mixed with old bananas, old orange peels, and old eggshells. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The string beans obviously came from a can but someone had thrown in some slivered almonds; the sweet potatoes had marshmallows mixed in, and there was enough stuffing for everybody. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She’d mixed colors from the paint box to create new ones. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z Just an awful smell of bleach mixed with sweat and vomit. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Her blood mixed in with the water, and all you could see was a red river flowing down the street. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Afterward, we lay quiet again, to make certain of his slumber, and then lifted him back between our hips into the bed, so heavy and alive with our mixed scent. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And immediately, mixed with a sizzling sound, there came to Shasta a simply delightful smell. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The boys did not know what to make of the mixed message. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All along the way, Mark Antony took the opportunity to collect gifts, tributes, and revenues and happily mixed business with pleasure. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emeric the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I don’t want to get mixed up in nothing. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got it at a discount. I’m sure it’s mixed with electrons.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z From inside there was a babble of mixed voices. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Afterward he mixed her a draught of dreamwine, with some honey so it might go down easier. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She seemed more human, but still somehow wrong, like they’d gotten the souls mixed up and put the wrong one back inside her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Mami’s voice mixed and became confused with the voices of other mothers telling their children to pick up their things, stay together, to walk quickly toward the door and not to hold up the line. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “One day, I’m tending sheep. The next, I’m mixed up with a madman.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The smell of baking bread and sweet spices mixed with the pungent coppery scent of raw animal flesh being chopped by seasoned butchers filled my nostrils. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z These motors would burn fuel mixed with oxygen carried in separate tanks. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My family poured water mixed with milk—considered a blessing—in my face, and some bubbles settled right on my eyelashes. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, God, I knew it. You’re on drugs, aren’t you? Look, whoever you’ve gotten mixed up with, we can help. We don’t have to bring the police into it. We just want you back.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z That’s the main reason I got Mother to cut my hair in a pixie, while Adah kept hers long: so nobody would get our attitudes mixed up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike many towns in the South, Allen’s neighborhood in Selma, Alabama, was racially mixed. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z At first, I figure he must have the floors mixed up. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Most of them were round and smooth, rubbled by wind and water and weather and time, but mixed in with them were black, hardened shards. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z I always had a blast at mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Being mixed is like that tingling feeling you have in your nose just before you sneeze—you’re waiting for it to happen but it never does. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It tastes like I mixed in a handful of coins.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Now, after several years in which to observe the effects of spraying, the Canadians find a mixed situation, but one that affords very little comfort to devotees of salmon fishing, provided spraying is continued. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I thought back to yesterday’s confession and about the mixed feelings that the revealing of my thoughts had left in me. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My brothers’ shrieks were mixed with those of seagulls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I was mixed but not colored—colored by complexion but not by culture. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Of course he’s not your friend. A Hillburn usually has better sense than getting mixed up with people like these.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z The gods only knew who they were conspiring with, or what they had mixed in those potions they gave you. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Our choreography was fresh; our moves were tight and perfectly in sync; the music was mixed beautifully. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “How could they? You don’t get your brother mixed up when he’s playing with other children.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z A fish market was coming to life along the avenue, and the shouts of merchants mixed with the caws of seagulls and rumble of steamboats coming in to port. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z And after its initial unanimous decision, the Supreme Court also sent mixed signals. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The white parent smuggled them out through Lesotho or Botswana, and they grew up in exile, in England or Germany or Switzerland, because being a mixed family under apartheid was just that unbearable. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was groans and rough breathing mixed up with the same noise that the chain on the dog outside had made. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z ‘Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,’ said Denethor. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was like someone had mixed together all the best-smelling things in the world and made Miles bathe in them. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z If there are no tortillas, they try to fill their children’s bellies with a glass of water with a teaspoon of sugar mixed in. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A lie don’t seem a lie anymore when it’s meant to save a dog, and right and wrong’s all mixed up in my head. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When Sara comes back, I announce: “This doodh stuff would taste great mixed with ice cream. Like our own version of cookies and cream.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Despite a minor explosion while we mixed her dyspepsia elixir, the parcels turned out beautifully, each wrapped in red-white-and-blue gingham, and I am sure they will be received with great appreciation. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I went to the kitchen and found half-a-box of raisins and a full can of mixed nuts. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z According to the rumors, Redbeard and a man called Hatchet were mixed up in some sort of human trafficking outfit, though no witnesses had ever come forward and no one ever seemed to have proof. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “Are these mixed teams for both boys and girls?” another councilwoman asked. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z They bellowed and ran and mixed with the invited people—in their old loose-legged knickers and everyday clothes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It is a bit mixed up in my brain. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He stared at her as if he was reeling back years, each year a ton of hate mixed with a love that never had had an opportunity to reenter the atmosphere and burn itself out. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z I also carried a pouch of the graveyard dirt mixed with powdered brick dust from Doc. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Pure mathematics deals in proofs and demonstrations; mixed in phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t need you to tell my son anything! I left him with you for ONE DAY, and you’ve already got him mixed up in your—your—mess!” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “I’m so scared. My thinking gets all mixed up, and I feel like the whole world is falling on me.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The overlanders were mixed up with pickup trucks and vans jammed with people, and the road reeked of diesel smoke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The success of these hortatory campaigns has been mixed, at best, especially when it comes to the government’s highly unpopular efforts to lure city-bred people into back-breaking farm labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then there are what I call mixed doubles: pairs of words and phrases that are routinely confused, like affect and effect. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Keep the egg in the fire, ’cause their mothers breathe on ’em, see, an’ when it hatches, feed it on a bucket o’ brandy mixed with chicken blood every half hour. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z I kept getting them mixed up, but you could tell them apart by the airplanes if you paid attention. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They do all this on 100 acres of pasture mixed in with another 450 acres of forest. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He must have accidentally switched around his samples or gotten something mixed up. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I got a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, and look at this, four juice boxes—remember those?—and a nice bag of rice.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Today I could not find my way around its newly built freeways, its thriving industrial complexes, its racially mixed, upscale suburban sprawl. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm sorry I got you mixed up in this too," I whisper. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z They all burst out laughing, and Jess’s honking giggle mixed with the twins’ loud snorts. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z There does not seem to be a particular section for the circus; bits of it are mixed in with books of theater receipts and lists of box-office returns. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I am the product of a mixed marriage. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z That night I am flinging here and there on the balcony, all mixed up about peoples and angels. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He heard the man’s heavy breathing mixed with his own, the solid thumps of their feet pounding the steps. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Bom in the Transvaal, of mixed parentage, Marks was a charismatic figure with a distinctive sense of humor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Wun Wun was very little like the giants in Old Nan’s tales, those huge savage creatures who mixed blood into their morning porridge and devoured whole bulls, hair and hide and horns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He began a lecture about liberal professors, and Mother mixed batter for pancakes, periodically murmuring in agreement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I kicked aside a few empty boxes and trash, and saw, mixed in with the litter of plastic bags, a small red glove. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So we mixed up a batch of what Brian called nuclear fuel, pouring different liquids into a can. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Traveling around the world today, I meet other mixed South Africans all the time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “There were brains, arms, legs, all mixed together. It was like you would imagine hell. Some of them were on fire, some were moaning....” said Scruggs. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Rain, mixed with sleet and snow, came stinging across his back and his left cheek, and he could not see more than a hundred yards ahead. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z When the sweat mixed with the mud it was hard to tell. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s only a few notes, but mixed with the soft rush of the wind and the smoke upon it, I hear...the strum of a distant guitar, and laughter. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The front door with its narrow glass panes opened into a musty lobby that smelled of everybody’s life mixed together. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She even convinced Grandma Post, who had been planning tuna salad on toast, had already mixed a dessert for the two of us—pistachio pudding. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The shame and the sorrow mixed together and he doubled his hands and put them behind him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I ran after that little bus for, like, half a mile, and the dirt from the country mixed with my sweat is now caked all over my body and feet. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z But I was so afraid and I also hated him so much that my emotions mixed themselves up and it was enough to start me crying. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed the natural thing, to bring this voice from the past into a moment so saturated with the past already, even if the voice was mixed with my own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z REELTOK: Free speech applies to everybody, even people who are mixed up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Each bag had a box of rice, a can of red beans, a can of mixed vegetables, and two cans of tomato soup. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This was followed by some loud sobbing, not Leslie's, thank the Lord, and some sobbing and talking mixed up and—the bell. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z But now their numbers overwhelm the Box, so they stay put, mixed in with the general population—except they can’t come out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The pain becomes an ache, spreads everywhere—all mixed together, guilt and terror and longing. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Tears now mixed with sweat on the floor under Chavez’s face, which seemed to delight his tormentor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Though tanned from the sun, Jorge wasn’t Indian or mestizo, a mixed blood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw one in the lobby the other day. I think it was a lab mixed with some other breed.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z The only noise in the kitchen is her pen on the page crossing out and adding in, writing and rewriting stanzas, mixed with the slicing of scissors, the tearing of paper. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But the “children” of that crop will be mixed. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Tears of overwhelming exhaustion and fear mixed with the joy of seeing her parents. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Several times a day, the guerrillas would stop to rest, and dip into a dirty cloth bag holding cooked rice mixed with some kind of fish or meat. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must have had mixed feelings, there on the ground.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At Holi a special red powder mixed with cow’s dung and urine is thrown at everyone. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “No son of mine is getting mixed up in that.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z On dark nights when hope was scarce, she would sing an old Irish tune, mixed with a newer, Italian song that she had learned from a neighbor. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And then there is a chorus of “Eew” and “Oh, gross” and “Disgusting,” all mixed in with laughter. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z ‘Mother Gaia ..His voice was impossibly deep, shaking the ruins, making the metal scaffold resonate under Piper’s feet. ‘In ancient times, blood mixed with your soil to create life. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We were used to pilfered beers or vodka mixed with whatever juice was in our friends' pantries. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They were both mixed up with the conservative ethics of Force Majeur against which the King had started his crusade. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The gathering was large and mixed, as Frodo discovered, when his eyes got used to the light. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I probably imagined her or maybe I just dreamed of her and my memory is all mixed up, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “They thought Cloke was mixed up in it, they thought a lot of things. It’s funny. We’re so used to Henry. We don’t realize sometimes how he looks to other people.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Long-term brainsweeping and retraining results mixed: Helpers manageable but still dispirited. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Among mixed bloods, one never made the mistake of calling an octoroon a quadroon or a quadroon a mulatto, although all mixed bloods were loosely called mulattoes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It would be a long time before I told this story to someone in America and learned the reason why: the Kool-Aid was supposed to be mixed with sugar, and sugar was expensive. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On Main Street, in stores, in factories and offices, in every sector, black and white mixed all day as a matter of course. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Let the bruise show. The audience will think you've mixed it up with another tribute before you've even made it to the arena." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Naomi sniffed, but all she could smell was the tang of cologne mixed with sweat coming off of the letterman jacket. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z A fleeting expression crossed the Special’s impassive face— annoyance mixed with suspicion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She did not cry or wail as some of the other women did, but Afi’s face was covered in tears, which mixed with the blood on her face and lips. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Which smells like pine mixed with a little bit of truck exhaust. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z Then I remembered Papa saying that we got paid three cents a pound, so I mixed dirt clods in with the cotton to make it weigh more. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I could hear Momma’s voice getting farther and farther away as I imagined I was in the story until finally her voice and the story all mixed into one. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Eighty members of the Husky marching band led the procession up Second Avenue and Pike Street as confetti and scraps of paper mixed with a steady, cold rain drifting down from clouds high above. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z And she drank that drink down like it was water and mixed another while I just stared at her. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Listen, boy. You’re talking just to me and my men here. Now, tell me, do you think Jan’s mixed up in this?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There are a few colored folks mixed in with the group, but they mostly look white, scarily nondescript and similar in that way shamblers get when they’ve been not-dead for a while. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He’s got you mixed up with someone else. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Oxygen-rich air was sucked into the column at the base, where it mixed with the burning fuels and also rose, twisting and whirling around as it did. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z The smell—dill pickles mixed with tobacco and peppermint—took me right back to Uncle Holt’s store. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The clay was shoveled into one of the pits and water mixed in to form a thick viscous mud. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “What if we mixed the flowers? It would stretch them out, and there would still be marigolds on each one.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, when her children cried with hunger, she scrounged together enough to buy a bit of tortilla dough and mixed it into a big glass of water to fill their bellies. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It’s some sort of salad, with a cluster of dark leaves like kale mixed in with carrots. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Well, I spoke with Mr. Vanness today,” she said, and mixed the drink. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z God forgive me, but I wish there wasn’t a “we” mixed up in this. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But they aren’t mixed together; there is still an uneasy divide between them, factionless on one side and Dauntless on the other. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Thoughts of home filled Nat’s head, mixed with his thoughts of the channel they were following. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Was your daughter mixed up with those people, Mr. Dalton?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “He got away. This woman came out the store and got everything mixed up, and she and him run around the comer into the Quarter.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You know, tell us what he thinks—we could show him where he’s probably mixed up. 12TH juror: Mmm? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were mixed kids in South Africa nine months after the first Dutch boats hit the beach in Table Bay. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The smoke from the burning pizza changed into something fragrant—the smell of a dean sea breeze with wild- flowers mixed in—but I had no idea if that meant my father was really listening. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She mixed a can of milk into the condensed soup in the pan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z That is where three meals a day for thirty-seven thousand animals are designed and mixed by computer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Some ugly patches mixed in here and there but, overall, it was shaping up to look like a mismatched jumble of better than perfect. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Even though I’d grown to love military school, I still had mixed feelings about being there, and they were eating at me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The smell of dirty and clean, mixed up together. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The boy rubbed his eyes with his dirty hands and mixed dust with tears. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither Jinx nor Shady pointed out that her elixir had never remedied anybody until it was mixed with Shady’s whiskey. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Easily able to stand up to standard-sized chickens in mixed flocks. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then, one day, after everything had mixed and simmered and worked away in silence, there would be neither fire nor water, but wine. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Wes was intensely attracted to this short woman with a broad smile who mixed a steel backbone with Caribbean charm. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They got all mixed up in her head, and finally she could not literally believe her eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z A bag of salt was sent for from the kitchen to be mixed into a solution that would be applied to the prisoners' legs and partially shaved head. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Rather mixed, Madam. She has one good day, and then a bad. She’s not too bad in herself, you know. She will be pleased to see you I’m sure.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Their every word seemed to be mixed with merriness; their laughter pushed her toward the cheerful yellow patch in the distance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The effort paid off Monday night when a racially mixed group of 200 people gathered in the school auditorium for the first “arena session.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He was so light-skinned that people often assumed he was mixed, and he acted younger than he was—hyphy, as they say in Oakland. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “Oh, Willum,” she moaned as he mixed in the ice.“He doesn’t talk to me anymore. He looks right through me as though I weren’t there.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got Harry home, Joon and I made up some juk-rice and warm water all mixed together looking like glue. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z There was ink to be mixed, paint powder to grind, and copper plates to polish and wipe. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And I guess my feelings had gotten pretty mixed up the last couple of days. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Bast mixed the salve and smeared the foul-smelling concoction onto the scribe’s shoulder before wrapping a bandage around it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Each dog got a large bowl with beef heart and commercial dog food mixed with warm water. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It mixed up gladness, grief, and guilt into an intolerable brew. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The noise was coming from the woods to the East, and soon there was a noise of horse-hoofs mixed with it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z She came out from behind the register and led me to the fabric bolts, stacks of solids mixed with prints, cottons with satins, and linen with corduroys. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I broke some bread into a bowl, poured milk mixed with sagebrush tea over it, and fed her tiny bits. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z So he just laid them all on the table and mixed them up like a child would do before playing Go Fish. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He told me how much flour to pour and I mixed the dough. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It looks like at some point the buttons were ordered by size or color, but now they’re all mixed up—every conceivable hue, shape, and ornamentation. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He had opened a can of mixed vegetables for her, and then spoon-fed her, so she wouldn’t have to take out her arms. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z There were restaurants and nightclubs, a lot of them foreign-owned, that served a mixed clientele, black people who hated the status quo and white people who simply thought it ridiculous. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Dismayed by the play’s mixed reception, left Russia. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he glances around, and then you see that his lips are smeared with something slippery and red, mixed with black specks, as if he has been chewing coffee grounds. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When they were all mixed together, he slowly added a bowl of eggs he’d already cracked. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I went back with them to the psych office with mixed feelings. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z It took us an hour to get to white church, another forty-five minutes to get to mixed church, and another forty-five minutes to drive out to Soweto for black church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Coming and coming especially in the dusk when it rained, getting honeysuckle all mixed up in it as though it were not enough without that, not unbearable enough. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z You know colored people and Indians mixed a lot, but sometimes, well, some Indians didn’t like it—the marrying, I mean. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed a battery of Southern artillery, mixed Napoleons and Parrots, served by wagons stamped USA. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He could smell something intoxicating, like honey mixed with wood smoke and cloves. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m mixed race, in case you wonderin’, but I live with white peoples before. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With my coffee, cream, and sugar cubes mixed, I return to my table. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z He mixed flies from two “races” in the same cage. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “If Fab doesn’t think it’s a good idea, then I’m not getting mixed up with no bad juju.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The room was cold and the air had a sour stale odor—the mixed smells of kerosene and silver polish and tobacco. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z ‘Shucks. You got it mixed up,’ she said. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Strange noises filled the night, mixed in with the steady roar of the fire. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She was, of course, afraid for Oliver, who was all mixed up in her mind with Charlie. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The pungent fumes of kerosene smoke mixed with the aroma of curry and nutmeg from the kitchen. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z For breakfast my parents often made their ochazuke—green tea mixed with rice—from the crusty old rice at the bottom of the pot. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Their social adventures had been mixed, but familiar. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As it came out of my mouth, I was ashamed that it was mixed with any of Dad’s cells that I might have inhaled when we went to visit Ground Zero. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “No. I’ve got one mixed up in this bloody war already. I’m not going to let the other one go.” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivanito Everything is mixed up, as if parts of me are turning in different directions at once. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There are fund-raising forms mixed with other literature. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She mixed herself a drink and I dropped a red cherry in it. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s the way I’ve heard people talk about forest fires, or the war: respect and wonderment mixed in with the sense of catastrophe. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z First, when Martian soil was mixed with a sterile organic soup from Earth, something in the soil chemically broke down the soup—almost as if there were respiring microbes metabolizing a food package from Earth. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So I guess the humiliation of being stuck in the back row mixed with everything else that had happened these past few weeks—it was too much. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And mixed with them was a hint of smoke from the She Elephant’s fire. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His own recently whopped head throbbed in sympathy, but he had never been happier to have a chaperone who liked mixed martial arts cage matches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “She told us she had a mixed flock and some went missing....” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z I, myself, had mixed emotions, for the concerns of a husband and a leader do not always coincide. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I measured and poured and pinched and mixed until the batter was done. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Clay, mixed with enough water to be semiliquid: the potters called it “slip.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “That’s a good question. I guess he’d keep trying in French and Kikongo, but he gets those mixed up pretty bad. People probably never would get it straight what he was doing here exactly.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Knitting supplies were mixed with quilting supplies, a scissors display was smack in the middle of a rack of corduroy, and the aisles turned and twisted rather than running in straight lines. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I was sitting on the porch when Mom returned from work and I just mixed her a drink and didn’t whisper a word about what happened today. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Down the road, past the looming cedar trees that looked as if they might once have circled a cemetery, the chicken did a mixed fly-flap-and-skid routine. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Andrea mixed up several names, too eager to get from one Decker to the next. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nokomis and Mama mixed up some water with the thin paste of acorn flour left from the night before. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I imagined Abuela saying people act like that because their centers are mixed incorrectly—like a sauce that curdles from overheating. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Sometimes I dream it is Father she’s marrying and I get mixed up and sad. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And it smelled funny too—kinda like medicine mixed with the stuff that Mama used to clean the floor. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not mine. I’m filled with formaldehyde, mixed with glycerin and lanolin.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As he had already admitted, Sticky often got mixed up when he was excited, and in this frenzy of mysteries and revelations, he could hardly think straight. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z I have to admit that it smells amazing, especially mixed with the smell of the breakfast Pop Pop’s got cooking on the stove. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z But her surprise was mixed with a pleasure so like the joy that flooded through her when she had put the fruit to his lips that she couldn’t protest, because she was breathless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “Cherry, I’m sorry. I had you mixed up with the spider.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “A Negro’d be asking for the rope to get himself mixed up with white women.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I had overheard Bertha tell Mandy that he was only a person on the outside and that his insides were ashes mixed with coins and a brain. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then with her hands she tossed and turned it until it was well mixed, and she molded it into balls. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The mattress was thin and clean, and it smelled of sage and cinnamon mixed with Doc’s peach tobacco. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The cheerful tinkle of steel drums now mixed with Luno’s odd piggish grunts, the wiry stranger swinging a deck mop with painful accuracy. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “One useless six-pack of water,” Alex said, “a half dozen cans of mixed vegetables, two cans of tuna, and a box of Wheaties. What else do you have in real food?” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The grounds were graced with raised beds of mixed bouquets, and the full perimeter of the property was edged with azaleas, which fit the house like a gilded frame fits a beautiful painting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had treated my forehead with a poultice of dried plant leaves mixed with water. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z It’s not the mixed place that the Hill is. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she mixed the pot-liquor with it, and set it away in a pan to cool. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Saliva mixed with blood was trickling from his lips. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She stumbled on some medical records mixed in with his real estate files and discovered that a corporation was hiding contaminated water that was making people sick. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Last year, I mixed green paint into Elmer’s glue and coated my whole body with it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Man, that Miss America chick wasn’t really black. She was mixed or something!” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, said cheerily:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z With mixed emotions the crew watched England’s shores slip away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I mixed the paint thoroughly, then brushed it smoothly on one of the pieces of board, careful that the brush strokes were uniform. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just Leviticus—the secondhand clothes I owned were mixed of wool and flax, and if I searched through the verses, I was certain I’d find a dozen other infractions I was guilty of. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Ginnie Sue scraped the meat into a bowl, mixed it with mayonnaise and Cheez Whiz, then crushed a handful of potato chips and added them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z If low-key meant pumping music, throngs of people sipping on beer or mixed drinks, and clouds of smoke hanging in the air, then that’s exactly what it was. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The wind raised up brown clouds of dirt from the perimeter road and mixed them with the black clouds of the muck fire. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With Sean searching for Charlie’s chicken, Finn took care of dinner: a box of macaroni mixed with a pound of ground beef and some peas. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Engineers from the northern and western states were probably of mixed minds on the issue of race mixing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z In late April when the mosquitoes, flies, and gnats come out, Kainta shows me how a layer of bear grease mixed with a powder of red puccoon root keeps the bugs away. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z In fact, history’s most tragic result of a mixed, therefore diluted and weakened, ethnic identity has been experienced by a white ethnic group—the Jew in Germany. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom won’t buy us any because she says it’s nothing but sugar mixed with chemicals to make it neon colors, and it’ll give you cancer. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Then she carefully mixed them together and painted a large pink heart in the last empty space on the wall. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For this reason, an acre of mixed grasses can actually produce more carbohydrate and protein in a year than an acre of field corn. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He already had prepared two big slabs of skillet bread—just flour mixed with water. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z And she picked her words as one picks flowers in a mixed garden and took her time choosing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He mixed the photos like a little kid mixes playing cards, smearing them together with the flats of his hands. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We added some seasonings, like salt, pepper, and paprika, and mixed it all together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He gradually began to talk, but he was mixed up about where he was and what had happened. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was everywhere and all mixed up in everything, and the only people who said it wasn’t, and the only people who said, “Don’t talk about it” were white. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He has a goofy look on his face—mixed with annoyance. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes when I saw him at a distance—fists in pockets, whistling, bobbing along with his springy old walk—I would have a strong pang of affection mixed with regret. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The air smells musty, like the pages of a library book mixed with cleaning solution. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I grabbed a handful of snow from outside the door and carefully mixed in ashes from the barrel. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Once my nose started clearing up on Day Five, my nausea got even worse, because that odd aroma of old pot roast mixed with mothballs was nobody’s idea of a stomach soother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They also had a symbol for five, indicating a mixed quinary-decimal system, but overall the Greek and Egyptian systems of writing numbers were almost identical—for a time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She had very long hair and it was all different colors: light brown, dark brown, and black, mixed together. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I mixed biscuit dough just inside the door, watching. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z This is what happens when you let yourself get too mixed up with family. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned them properly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z This was almost as boring as watching my mother get her face powder mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z My head whirled from the strong scent of the koka and the confusing way the shaman mixed his words. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z At long last Mr. Dussel's fury was spent, and he left the room with an expression of triumph mixed with wrath, his coat pockets bulging with food. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She mixed kerosene and water and carefully warmed the bowl on the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Vincent is experimenting with different styles: aspects of pointillism, mixed with the more graphic approach of the Japanese paintings he loves. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But now, glancing down, I saw something else: silver sparkles, bright-needled splinters from the broken mirror, mixed with large, unmistakable shards of a gold-rimmed highball glass, the twin of the one in my own hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In the spring the tall grass grew along its sides— wild oats and mallow weeds and yellow mustard mixed in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Smelly, too, like sweaty sneakers and boy cologne mixed with tomato sauce. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Drivers refused to allow the racially mixed group to board, and after two hours, the bus was canceled. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z The look on the kid’s face was priceless—outrage mixed with relief. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Right now it’s mostly Negroes, a few drovers mixed in here and there. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Pink with a drop of yellow mixed in. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z A loaf of stale bread was made into pulp with hot water and mixed with a dime’s worth of chopped meat into which an onion had been cleavered. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he watched the purple recede blotchily from Uncle Vernon’s face, making it look like badly mixed black currant ice cream. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see how he and Petunia could get mixed up in anything that might be going on — he yawned and turned over — it couldn’t affect them... Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z By 1925 dozens of rowing clubs were headquartered in and around Griinau—among them some whose members were exclusively Jewish, some whose members were exclusively Nordic, and many whose members were congenially mixed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I like a corn- bread batter to be stirred some so everything is mixed but not too smooth with all the lumps gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They cut my black hair with rusty scissors and mixed the hair with the blood of bats. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In medical school, he specialized in the care of old people because young people were too mixed up. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Babulya mixed potions and salves for people all over the village, but she never wanted anyone to know she was the one making them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z But an unexpected fear mixed with it; the stone looked like something enchanted, not meant for human eyes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Howard returned to Clovis in the summer of 1933 and systematically surveyed Blackwater Draw, looking for areas in which, like Folsom, human artifacts and extinct species were mixed together. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As for me, it’s as if God mixed my parents’ skin tones in a paint bucket to get my medium-brown complexion. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Rain and slop and shrapnel, it all mixed together, and the field seemed to boil. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And if they were all drinking from paper cups, she always knew whose was whose even if they got mixed up on the table together. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He could tell at once that they carried different sorts of bubble bath mixed with the water, though it wasn’t bubble bath as Harry had ever experienced it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Other years, jobs like Pipeworks laborer, trash sifter, and mold scraper were mixed in. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Still, he continued to feel a peculiar uneasiness, which had fear mixed up in it as well as hostility, whenever she was anywhere near him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “What, he bought her mixed deli flowers or whatever?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Marcus and a mixed group, some of whom looked familiar, were sitting around a patio table by the hot tub. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z And I sure didn’t want to get mixed up in this. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A sort of constant tremble rattled around my insides, like my nervousness and excitement were being mixed on high. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Completely by coincidence, as we moved back and forth between these churches, I noticed that each one had its own distinct racial makeup: Jubilant church was mixed church. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And the numbers mixed themselves up in her brain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “She said that Cecile got you all mixed up with the Black Panthers.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z A lot of times the plans about the things that were going to happen to her were mixed up with ice and snow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They withdraw from mixed neighborhoods into distant suburbs, gated communities, or guarded apartment towers; they shop in stores that, in line with the prevailing “market segmentation,” are designed to appeal to the affluent alone. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess one of the hot ones got mixed in with the sweet by accident.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z We mixed together orange juice and grapefruit juice and soda in a big bowl. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Ulbrickson’s effort to knock the sophomores down a peg or two had mixed results. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mary admired the two little girls I’d brought, mixed them in with her own children, sent them all upstairs to play games and watch television. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Labels got torn off and mixed, and quarrels broke out. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We emptied the capsules, ground the tablets, and mixed them together. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That is, my father ate the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep mixed with oatmeal and boiled in a sheep stomach. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “B. cepacia thrives best in saliva or phlegm. A cough can travel six feet. A sneeze can travel up to two hundred miles per hour, so don’t let one fly in mixed company.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z I know I had mixed feelings about the project at the beginning. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A few weeks later, early in 1930, our rather mixed threesome moved from New York to Paris, the better for Bobby to ply his new trade. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z One is a wolf-like, white German shepherd, and the other is a much smaller mixed breed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “That was brick dust mixed with something special: graveyard dirt.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, Isabella. I’m so very sorry that the problems between me and your mom get all mixed into your life.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z But his noises mixed in with all the rest of the noises, so it didn’t matter. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z We poured the cheese sauce on top and mixed it all together. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z But gaining access to all of that information turned out to be something of a mixed blessing. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A mixed blessing if ever there was one. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She mixed the potion with a big wooden spoon as it bubbled and, horrifyingly, cackled softly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The subject boiled down to this: Could Seaborg devise a chemical process for separating element 94 from the stew of radioactive fission products in which it was mixed after the bombardment of uranium? Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sympathy lamps were mixed with candles, giving the room a natural light without fouling the air with smoke. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z On the edge of the far field, beyond the pond, they grow wild; field cress looks about like watercress and, mixed with dandelion greens, it makes good green salad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z His mom mixed ground beef, spices, and bread crumbs for the meatballs. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Her dress was void black, mixed with the colors of a space nebula, as if galaxies were being born in her bodice. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It was a popular name in those days and several women in the Morte d’Arthur had it, particularly as some of its manuscript sources have got mixed up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z There were faces mixed in—FDR, Hitler, Stalin. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were mixed with the dim sounds of a crowd. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But when he mixed the dead material from the virulent strain with live bacteria of the nonvirulent strain, the mice died rapidly. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “There’s no question now that there’s something really creepy going on here, and that we’re somehow mixed up in it.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z And mixed in with it, I could hear a sound, a predator’s sound. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Personable and approachable, Frank was not much older than we and mixed freely with students. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He mixed white rice into tomato sauce, tasted it, and then covered it and reduced the heat. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I walked into school and there were mixed reactions throughout the campus. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Why would she ever get mixed up in a major art theft? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Not like his friend, Asher, who talked too fast and mixed things up, scrambling words and phrases until they were barely recognizable and often very funny. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z “I think she just mixed up what you said. She’s always doing that. T. Ray will tell her, ‘Iron my two shirts,’ and she’ll iron the blue shirts.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Another clue to its human origin is the broken ceramics with which it is usually mixed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "It was fashioned of cat's breath and fish-scales and moonlight mixed in with the silver," she told him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z How sweet water tastes even when mixed with soap. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z His first day of middle school, in front of everybody, he mixed up the strokes of his own name. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched anxiously while Mother mixed a dose and took it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There’d been a terrible sadness in that look, but also something scarier still—resolve mixed with resignation, a decision being made. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Women were sitting with babies on their laps, standing with babies on their hips, and their chatter mixed with crying. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z One scoop of Earl Grey mixed with chunks of halwa, a few pistachio pieces, with a sprinkle of coconut and chocolate flakes on top. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I mixed the moonshine into a zinc-and-sulfur compound and was rewarded with a thick gray composite that could be shaped like modeling clay. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z But when the Observers met, the boys always stayed in the room below to run errands for them, and it was always Rab who mixed the fragrant punch with which the meetings ended. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I quickly mixed the powder Teashop Aunty had given us with the rainwater I’d collected. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There are a few cans of Spam in the pantry, along with some mixed vegetables, and a couple of rotting onions in the refrigerator. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z She chopped and mixed and moved so quickly that I couldn’t always follow what she was doing, but every action was confident. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z She got mixed up on verbs like “come” and “came,” as well as on plurals of words like “house” and “mouse.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Molly has learned to pick around the meat—even in a dish like this, where you can hardly tell what’s what and it’s all mixed together—because Dina refuses to acknowledge that she’s a vegetarian. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A doctor, James Alonzo Gannon, then shoved a hard feeding tube down their throats and poured in a concoction of two raw eggs mixed with a pint of ice-cold milk. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Well, you’re never going to believe this, but Luke mixed his junk together and it started smoking. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z It mixed with the burning gasoline from the flamethrowers and napalm bombs, the sharp tang of gunpowder, the overheated metal of machine gun barrels, so hot that they were melting. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Uhmma and Grill Woman spoke in a language of mixed and chopped Korean and Japanese, glued together with pieces of English. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z The mystical reverence that he felt for her was somehow mixed up with the aspect of the pale, cloudless sky, stretching away behind the chimney pots into interminable distances. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z His parents grew angry when he missed questions—which he began to do more and more, as he tended to get mixed up when nervous—and scolded him for not caring about them. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he and Celia mixed the two languages together, but it didn’t matter. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “We all mixed. And one of my mother sisters converted to Puerto Rican.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A strange sound came from him, a kind of growl that was anger and pain, mixed up. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He is a country boy not used to the city temptations, and I do not want him getting mixed up with the wrong people. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The cool ocean air mixed with the exotic smells of Chinatown. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z It tasted like hard-boiled egg yolks mixed with liver. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It wasn't a proper hotel—I mean a hotel where there are both men and women mixed about here and there on the same floor. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Only the strongest wizards in the district could administer this potion—a kind of paste made from the burned and ground bones of leopards and lions, and mixed with roots and herbs. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z I guess whatever “wires” are mixed up in my brain are responsible for all sorts of strange things. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It was as though it were a kind of liquid stuff that poured all over him and got mixed up with the sunlight that filtered through the leaves. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z People on these farms and in the cities received the stories coming up from Georgia with mixed reactions. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z That powder was then mixed with milk and boiled again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At which point the revelry mixed with meanness abated and King Walker handed Milkman his Winchester .22. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt a stab of revulsion mixed with a bizarre desire to laugh. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He had mixed gin and whiskey and was very drunk. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The book met with mixed reviews—some people were, of course, angry at the argument that humans and animals have a common ancestor. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother mixed soap in it to create bubbles. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Finally, Trey’s feet get tangled, mixed up, and he falls backward. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In less than an hour, the men are heaving their buckets of mixed rocks back into their truck. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And Small Islanders eager to say their ancestry is “mixed”? But we must not digress. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z No one knew or understood the chemical structure of chromatin, but of the two “intimately mixed” components, proteins were vastly more familiar to biologists, vastly more versatile, and vastly more likely to be gene carriers. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every ounce of strength in me was invested in listening for the code word mixed in among their talk, which might as well have been Glaswegian for all I could make out! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “So sorry. I must have my days mixed up.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She offered him a canteen of unicorn draught - powdered horn mixed with sanctified water from the Little Tiber. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was mixed with the vegetables and the noodles like letters. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z When she came down from the doctor’s office she stopped for a moment at Bell’s candy store and bought a two-pound box of mixed chocolates. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Things are all mixed up inside me, and I need some time to digest more than my lunch. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Because pure gold and silver are too soft to hold their shape, Andean metalworkers mixed them with other metals, usually copper. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Minister Fard, he mixed, too. Let me show you what we need.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Could you have gotten your samples mixed up?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The smells of hot dogs and cotton candy mixed with the ripe scent of the animals. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The masses were told to make toibee, a fertilizer in which ash is mixed with human excrement. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I peeled mangoes and chopped cucumbers and onions and mixed the turmeric and coriander for the curry. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The two found a fair number of shoes, watches, and coats, which they traded in for soup, mixed vegetables, black beans, and rice for Alex and vodka for Kevin. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She mixed the cocoa powder with a little sugar and poured in the hot milk, making some for herself as well. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I sat on the ground with my back against the stones and my head tilted back so I could see the stars with all the spy satellites mixed in. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, one night while Mama was rubbing shea butter mixed with hot pepper into Papa’s swollen joints, I overheard a conversation between them, and understood. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z "A wagonload of gold at the very least. And jewels mixed in." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Tears ran down over his face and mixed with the blood on his hand. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All I could really figure was my mother had been mixed up with the Catholics somehow, and—I have to say—this secretly thrilled me. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The scent of garbanzo beans in spicy sauce hung in the air, mixed with the smell of dung and sweat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I mean, there is anger and frustrated anger or anger mixed with fear or anger mixed with only slightly diluted rabid madness, and he was all of them, way past all of them. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Rupa’s next indoor task was to sift through a bag of uncooked rice from the market and pick out the small stones the vendors mixed in to make it weigh more. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z He mixed some sulphur and hog fat and greased his body every morning. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z There was doubt written on it, then wonder and hatred mixed, and then conviction. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The warm liquid brought her back to life, but she could not taste it because when she swallowed it was mixed with blood. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting mixed up by the photographer seemed to be the last straw. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Mack asked himself and he answered himself, “No I guess it would be better if one went alone. It might get him mixed up if we all went.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists knew they had to keep their cultures free from bacterial and viral contamination, and they knew it was possible for cells to contaminate one another if they got mixed up in culture. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Two nights before, I had mixed up some Missouri River mud. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z So it was with extremely mixed emotions that she read a letter from Mr. Henri Martin describing the illness of her grandmother, and suggesting she come down right away. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The brown swirling waters lapped at my feet, and the monotonous chirping of the grillos as they sang in the trees mixed into a music which I felt in the roots of my soul. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt a sense of awe mixed with bewilderment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I climb out of the truck, my dread mixed with curiosity. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Connor and I watched in disgust as a busboy mixed a giant vat of coleslaw with his hands, his arms buried in it all the way to his biceps. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Sierra’s dragon mixed with several of the skeletons and mermaids from Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z "They draw the tiniest bits of blood. I only need a little. And when mixed with your blood, Belle blood, remarkable things happen." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “My father was very old and often mixed dreams with reality,” the king said. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “That’s what I’m trying to say to you. You never gave your daughters an image. No wonder they’re so mixed up. I tried with them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Odors of meat, vegetables, and something freshly baked mixed with a scent of Fels Naphtha. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a brief scattering of applause mixed in with exclamations of disbelief. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Poppy mixed some cornstarch and water into a gluey paste. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z And a field of mixed grasses with a deep root system is much more likely to survive dry spells and droughts. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When Gulliver stopped chirping, a strange sound filled the well—a wail mixed with a gasp and a hiccup. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “You don’t think he could have mixed up the glasses by mistake? Meaning to get you?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z They boiled water and mixed it with the precious sugar and salt to feed the weakest people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I gotten mixed up about which number? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Her tears, dried on these pages, are mixed up with mine making them wet again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Liquid putrefaction like drowned things floating like pale rubber flabbily filled getting the odor of honeysuckle all mixed up. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z If you ask my mother whether she ever considered the ramifications of having a mixed child under apartheid, she will say no. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “My friends and I are all home-schooled, so we’re a mixed bag. Bettina’s mother has us come over and weave ponchos.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “To make sure my blood wasn’t too mixed. Can't catch a break for being a half-breed, any way you look at it.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “My name is Binu, and you are a very foolish girl. How did you get mixed up with that crowd?” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z It was like a circus and a carnival mixed together, except with no animals and no rides, though you could definitely buy light-up swords and cotton candy. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Where it stuck on the windshield I could see it mixed with snow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They didn’t care if the food was mixed with dust and debris. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a whiff of the bleach that is in our Mercury Home, but mixed with fried oil and what I used to call eau de cafeteria when I still ate lunch at school. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Several times she scooped and splashed until, perspiration and water mixed, her cheeks and forehead cooled. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The wildest envy was mixed with his rage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly he had the right idea— that naming is destiny—but he must have gotten the boys mixed up. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The stink of sewage, mixed with boat paint and machine grease, wafted up from the thick water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “I don’t know how life gets so mixed up,” he began. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z After it was all cut, we mixed it up in a big bowl. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no other mixed kids around so that I could say, “Oh, this happens to us.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But the unknowns of an explosive powder mixed with the toxic solution are too risky. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He mixed the margarine for Portia and scrubbed the floor upstairs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The storm was loud now, just like her crying, and Ivy thought she heard her name all mixed up with the wind, like it really was making them one. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The chimp sits on his haunches, eating fistfuls of cereal mixed with fruit and watching us with shiny black eyes. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z There’s a mixed bag of political power players and family friends in attendance—including Rafael Luna, who falls under the heading of both. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Nowadays these mixed couples get on TV every other day complaining, “Oh, it’s hard for us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Twin trails of black mascara, mixed with tears, had rolled down his cheeks, smeared the rouge. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Dirty” cars, which hadn’t yet been cleansed of graffiti, were never to be mixed with “clean” cars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What happens in the holding cell is you’re mixed in with the people who’ve been in prison awaiting trial for weeks and months. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So all these unlucky people mixed up together is what made this place kind of funky. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z I’d just mixed the batter that we’d dip the Oreos in, and now I was putting some confectioner’s sugar into a shaker. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He meant to say “Look what you’ve done,” but the words had gotten so hopelessly mixed up that no one could make any sense at all. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t know he mixed human blood with it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Although the notice had advertised that the first day of the convention was for women only, about forty men were mixed in with the crowd. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “But why? She seems a very charming young lady—the last person in the world to be mixed up in a crime of this kind.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Sorrow mixed with a strange glad feeling that, for a minute, things are back to almost normal. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like somebody had reached inside me and mixed everything up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I could smell his deodorant—something medicinal, like cough syrup mixed with pine needles—and then I couldn’t remember if I had put on my own deodorant after showering. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z No wonder his voice had sounded so mixed when he congratulated me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Two bags of rice, six cans of red beans, two of black beans, four of spinach, two of split pea soup, one of lentil, one of carrots, three of mixed vegetables, and one of sardines. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, African Americans, and Americans of mixed ethnicity will become the majority in the near future. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Well, you didn’t look special. You looked like a girl trying too hard. And I know there’s a boy mixed up in here somewhere.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z “He’s like a baby. He can’t play Monopoly or checkers or anything... he gets everything all mixed up. I won’t play with him any more.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I replace the word gays from her sentence with these other words: blacks, Hispanics, immigrants, women, people of mixed race, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies, Russians, Poles, Yugoslavians, Ukrainians, mentally and physically disabled. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In spite of the mixed reception, War Admiral won. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is like mine—brown and blonde all mixed up like birdseed. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Lina was glad to carry this message, though her gladness was mixed a little with sadness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Was it like paint: Could it be mixed and diluted? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Cleopatra must have had mixed feelings about the renewed alliance with Octavian. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The invited people from Vocational were mixed with the neighborhood gang. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He mixed up the grape juice at the sink. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Inside was a tray filled with a wet gray sludge from the roof mixed with a compost of dead leaves and twigs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We made two more pots of graveyard dirt mixed with brick dust and some rock salt; then we poured it in a wide circle all around the cabin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The smell of early-morning coffee is a permanent memory, mixed up with the smell of bacon and the background yakking of the morning news people. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I felt mixed up, grateful, and sick at heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The monkeys died with great quantities of clear mucus and green mucus running from their noses, mixed with blood that would not clot. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But most times it is soup and rice in a bowl, all mixed together so you can eat it with one big spoon. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Oh, and there was also a Warren Wright born in 1964; was it possible Mrs. Richardson had her names mixed up? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When the meal comes, I realize that an Arnold Palmer is some weird name for lemonade and iced tea mixed together. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z At first we mixed things together, hoping they would explode, but nothing happened, so I decided we should conduct an experiment to see if any of the stuff was flammable. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Once again, a new batch is mixed up with trough water and set out moments before the rubes descend. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z It v/as a heady feeling, and not without mixed emotions. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z All he cared about were his goats and sheep with painted red or blue bottoms so he could find them if they got mixed up with other animals. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The moaning of the wind and the cries of the animals outside mixed into the thin smoke of incense and the fragrance of piñón wood burning in the stove. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t come here to get mixed up in a fight with a lot of roughs like you! Let’s hear the rest of the story.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s what she calls it every time; her answer about how it feels has to do with the scent of beach roses mixed with roller coasters and fireworks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Well, how did you get mixed up in it?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “The rest of us will divide into groups of mixed factionless and Dauntless,” says Tori. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Miss Garcia’s expression is complicated, all mixed up with sadness, excitement, and dread. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I flopped the tablecloth into the rinse tub and started in on a shift that had gotten mixed in with the table linens. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s story and Doc’s lessons mixed together in my mind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Lee felt a thrill of delight, mixed with alarm. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z So in a land which nature found suited to grass growing mixed with and under the shelter of sage, it is now proposed to eliminate the sage and create unbroken grassland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Inside the truck box lives a smell: clay, spilled diesel mixed with something putrid. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Edwards was not a concupiscent man, and besides he never mixed his professional life with his private pleasures. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He smelled like their kitchen and her mother and her siblings and himself all mixed together. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Those mixed bloodlines were always lurking, waiting to peek out, and fear of losing their status kept white people in line. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I took a sip and felt the familiar sting of fizz but with the sweetness of cherries and sunshine all mixed together. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z We were entering what botanists like to call “the finest mixed mesophytic forest in the world.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The wheat crop was full of weeds, and it was discovered that on one of his nocturnal visits Snowball had mixed weed seeds with the seed corn. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baxter gave us green beans and this thing with meat and potatoes all mixed together. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Their singing and all those sad Spanish words and the sweet spicy smells of the food at their hands all mixed together into something that stuck me right there where I was standing. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Most important, she pulled aside their war-crazed chaperone, Coach Gleeson Hedge, and encouraged him to take the morning off in his cabin and watch reruns of mixed martial arts championships. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Then that’ll be good. He can deal with whatever it is. I don’t want to get mixed up with no walking dolls.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z This one smells like the forest, like wood and earth, with her mixed in. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Some of the tables are all white, and some are all black, but plenty are mixed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z "There's nothing to get mixed up in. It's all over now." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Now it had turned wild, mostly tall weeds with just a bit of grain mixed in. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I say, then, that the armies with which a prince defends his state are made up of his own troops, or mercenaries, or auxiliaries, or of mixed troops. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z And when I’m in the car, I know for sure, cuz I find a piece of paper mixed in with the money we split. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I knew I had good reasons for crying even if they were too mixed up to put into words. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been new to her in summer, and now, with the cold, it was mixed with spits of ice, and who was to guess what might follow! Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Whatever the cause, New York soon smelled like a garbage pit mixed with a fresh mountain of manure. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “We was a weak and puny country eighty odd years ago when the great-granddaddy of us young ’uns got mixed up in a rebel’s fight. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z “I hardly think she will confess to showing humans the Book. In any case, I mixed a slight amnesiac into her second injection. When she finally wakes up, the last week will be a blur.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z His accent was American, like Joseph’s mother’s, but sometimes he pronounced things the English way, so his speech sounded rather mixed up, as though he didn’t come from anywhere. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Were she and Calder crazy to think those two women could be mixed up in the theft? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z And mixed with the smell of flowers there was this other smell so that she couldn’t stay in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The smell of Snow’s roses mixed with the victims’ blood. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Benches run along the two sides of the truck bed, and on the benches are squeezed maybe twenty men, their knees all mixed together like fingers praying. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I cannot come down now as I am tied up in some very important business and cannot get mixed up in this thing now. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He is comforted by the talc smell of her housedresses mixed with the sunbaked smell of her skin, the perfumy smell of her party dresses. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Mrs. Mansfield recovered quickly, suddenly turning to me—showing the uneven application of her foundation, which made me think of my mother getting hers specially mixed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The powders mixed more the longer she stirred, red mingling with orange, losing its distinct form. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z We were sitting in chemistry lab, waiting to see what happened when we mixed silver nitrate and salt. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z When she held them, she remembered the powerful wanting she had felt in that dusty store, and the feeling of it was mixed up with fear and shame and darkness. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z George noticed that she mixed with quiet efficiency, holding her whisking arm tight to her body. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A sort of dull ache mixed with anger replaced it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Give me plastics, periodical tables, t.v. dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They climbed up one floor, stopped and listened, climbed the next; and the sound of the man’s voice was now mixed with that of halting, rhythmic footsteps. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On Saturday, I separated the batch into three different bowls and mixed a little gel food coloring into each one—red, blue, and green, to match the Froot Loops. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z By the time of the Pilgrims, fields of mixed maize, beans, and squash lined the New England coast and in many places extended for miles into the interior. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, in 1953, a geneticist in Texas accidentally mixed the wrong liquid with HeLa and a few other cells, and it turned out to be a fortunate mistake. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I became the talk of the school, and teachers pointed to me as “a student who mixed sports and studies well.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few generations, instead of a mixed population of strong and weak insects, there results a population consisting entirely of tough, resistant strains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He didn’t like people who were uppity and had mixed feelings about home ownership in general. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every four hours, we filled the tub with hot water mixed with black pepper and myrrh. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What was the point in arguing with dream people, who mixed you up. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The combination of olive oil, hearty vegetables, and cheese that comes from goat's milk, mixed with decent servings of fish and meat, had been shown in numerous studies to promote longevity. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z "I'm thinking these lads have mixed themselves up to flummox us." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z He was lean in build, with glowing skin that announced his mixed parentage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Seeing them, all that easy happiness, made me feel mixed up inside. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It was the first time I had ever been with such a mixed group. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Riley poured on the ground a small amount of white powder from each of two little paper bags she had carried with her and then mixed them with a wooden spoon. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I went to the kitchen and drank some milk, then mixed some meal and water for Granny’s chickens and went out to dump it in their pan. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Ann marched home, still trembling, but now her outrage was mixed with fear and uncertainty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Without the smell of turkey wings mixed with the smell of clean. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z The answer came with the sound—an almost quiet moan mixed with a sharp tinkling that he realized was the wind pushing water spray ahead of it in a kind of horizontal frothy rain. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Otherwise he would not have mixed himself up with such a man. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was mixed every day into the pigs’ mash. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She felt as she had all the years before: a quivering inside, as though a string under her ribs had been plucked, and a rush of joy and sadness mixed together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Vanilla car freshener mixed with french fries, jasmine-orange-ginger lotion, and heated makeup. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z And dollar bills that were backed by the gold standard, which were no longer in circulation, had been found mixed in. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And so, horrified, my grandmother had resumed an activity at which she had tried her hand once before, with decidedly mixed results. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was mixed up with religion and witch doctors. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Then at last it began to be mixed with another sound, a vague, disastrous noise which sounded first like the roar of a distant train, and then like the crash of a falling tree. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z They were mixed somewhat, but still in their separate piles for the most part—red on the left and orange on the right. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He mixed and poured his offering, repeating prayers to Athena, daughter of royal Zeus. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside were Gram’s things, all mixed in with Gramps’s clothes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “I thought it was—” The doubt comes again, mixed with fear this time. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z We explode clouds of aerosol, mixed for good luck with deodorants, into our noses, mouths, underarms, privileged crannies—even into the intimate insides of our telephones. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The men played cards on a towel, undershirt, or blanket, and Nurse Duckett mixed the extra deck of cards, sitting with her back resting against a sand dune. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I couldn’t find it, but I thought it just got mixed in with the copies or something.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z In parts of Central America and the Andes, the Native Americans were originally so numerous that, even after epidemics and wars, much of the population today remains Native American or mixed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Traveling south through the Black Belt, the streetcars passed by quiet streets where the Respectables lived in sturdy brick and stone structures mixed with a healthy sprinkling of frame houses and a few apartment buildings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Cattle and horses could eat it, mixed with grass, and get fat on it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z But when mixed with water, which is how it courses through the human body, it is only about thirty-five percent. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In school, where Arcadio had pupils older than himself mixed in with children who were barely beginning to talk, the Liberal fever had caught on. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Those powders wouldn’t be so mixed up if they had other powder friends to mix with. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z What happened next is a twisted braid of mixed signals, distrust, miscommunication, and conjecture. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z He took some wax, mixed it with iron filings and shaped it into a ball: when he had the mixture right it floated just below the surface of the water. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This morning I began sorting out an index card file from the office, because it’d fallen over and gotten all mixed up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She’s got a few gray streaks mixed in with her long brown hair, but I never think of her as old. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z His dates with Joyce devolved into bleak meetings in the cafeteria, where they mixed catsup with hot water and called it tomato soup and rounded out the meal with soda crackers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I had thought that all his fuss about me being at the trial was because he was worried about me, but now I wasn’t sure why he didn’t want me mixed up in the trial. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z He had been reared in a family proud of its academic accomplishments and its mixed blood—in fact, they believed the former was based on the latter. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The ash tasted disgusting, like dirt mixed with chalk. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he got m and n mixed up, but the only one that gave him trouble day in and day out was c. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hate, but there was grief and shame mixed up in it, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I was just as surprised as he sounded, but my surprise was mixed with happiness and relief. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “I’d have to be crazy to get mixed up in something like this now that I’m out of combat.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the kitchen, Jean’s baking pans, and the bowls in which she mixed dough, were set out, ready for her wonderful breads to be made. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z These structures were mixed in among buildings that dated back to the American Revolution, most notably Paul Revere’s house, a dwelling that was already almost one hundred years old when Revere made it his home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z |
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