| 单词 | native |
| 例句 | “Fascinating as your native rituals are, do you think we might proceed in silence? Given that the entire rat nation is on the lookout for us, it might be prudent,” said Ripred. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z What was the gallant grace of the Lynns, the languid elegance of Lord Ingram,—even the military distinction of Colonel Dent, contrasted with his look of native pith and genuine power? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z That contrasts sharply with the situation in Australia, the Americas, and South Africa, where European settlement was numerous and lasting and replaced the original native population over large areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The native man, who’d survived months of enemy occupation, didn’t even flinch. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And then the village, where the natives receive her as an emissary of the Lord, an instrument of civilization. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Quietly, I ask, “How did you know the language of those natives?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After the regent departed, Bangindawo, one of his headmen, instituted proceedings against Justice, and I agreed to help Justice when he was called before the native commissioner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fat samples were taken from people who had left their native villages to enter the United States Public Health Service Hospital in Anchorage for surgery. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The other side argued that tigers were native to Africa and some still lived there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Over time, the Wampanoag, like other native societies in coastal New England, had learned how to manage the European presence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, mama, let’s you and me start working on the lambada so we look good for the natives at the dance.’ 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know that some native peoples believe fog contains the restless spirits of the dead?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There are no natives coming to us in canoes as they did in the Caribbean islands. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He held the hand of a ten-year-old Mexican ballerina and was followed by scores of men and women in the customary clothing of their native cultures. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The animal is not native, and is regarded as a pest in many parts of California. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Whether the cause was the Pilgrim God, Pilgrim guns, or Pilgrim greed, native losses were foreordained; Indians could not have stopped colonization, in this view, and they hardly tried. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’s no place here for natives like you,” was the usual reply I received from white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There is, however, land in the Virginia countryside that, for thousands of years, has been home to the native peoples who still live there. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Well, for cool native impudence and pure innate pride, you haven’t your equal,” said he. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z For the first time in history, a taste native to the tropics was exactly matched by a plant grown in a colder area. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Papá was fair-haired and light-complected, implying a Spanish bloodline rather than native Mexican, but Mamá did have olive skin, black hair, and dark eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The article described him as a native of Upperville, Virginia, and a man who “loved the South as though it were a religion.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I had to show the staff that I possessed native intelligence but not so great a one or of a certain kind that it impeded my sense of duty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It never went away in folk music, so whenever composers were trying to sound rustic, earthy or homesick for their native countryside, you could expect them to dip back into the modal well for inspiration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The gypsy moth, a native of Europe, has been in the United States for nearly a hundred years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In truth, she could only stand up to the harshness of people and their words, a native tenacity that I can only hope someday to uncover in myself. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Trickery is not my native tongue, but I may learn to speak it yet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Another owner expired from dropsy, whereupon his widow held an estate sale to fund a return to her native Europe, where it was clean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My people in South Kivu ran into political problems because they lived in a Congolese province but spoke a language of their native Rwanda. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z None gave the correct answer of Lyndon Johnson, who also happened to have been a native Texan. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Gist’s knowledge of native languages would help when Washington wanted to talk to the Indians. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some suggestions: an unaccompanied violin or cello sonata, a flute, oboe, trumpet, or horn concerto, Asaian or native American flute music, classical guitar, bagpipes, steel pan drums, panpipes, or organ. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The town had embraced her with the warmth accorded a native daughter; she had called it home longer than any other place she’d lived in in her thirty-two years. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “It’s a healing form of justice practiced by native cultures for thousands of years.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Like the United States, Brazil had a population of different Indian tribes native to the land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Virtually all of them are native to Mediterranean zones or other seasonally dry environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The natives made whatever offerings the demon seemed to require, but still they lived in fear. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Doña Charito took the lot of us native children in hand Saturday mornings nine to twelve to put Art into us like Jesus into the heathen. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Pocock was attracted to the idea of trying the native cedar. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One factor in Ernest’s receptiveness to Harvard’s offer had been the thought of how excited his wife would be about returning to her native New England. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The intended effect was that of a flock circling over the activity of the natives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He liked the native cooking so much that once he ate eighty-two iguana eggs at one sitting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her native taste for ducks and shorebirds had been replaced by an appetite for the pests of humankind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Regarding Europe as the world’s intellectual capital, the intrigued Lund sent most of the skeletons to a museum in his native Copenhagen. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The author of the monograph, a native of Schenectady, New York, was said by some to have had the highest I.Q. of all the war criminals who were made to face a death by hanging. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The settlers began raiding the Indian villages, killing and burning, with the goal of exterminating the native people. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He’s being treated only by strangers, natives of 13 — no one from home or the Capitol has been allowed to see him — to keep any dangerous memories from triggering. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They figured the natives had fled to avoid a fight. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z To work their sugar fields, Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners had first tried to enslave the native Amerindians, but unrest and escape attempts grew so high that the practice was finally outlawed. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It’s safe from the natives because there are none living nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z They say the last time they went exploring, each time they approached a village, the natives invited them in and fed them like kings. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z To be sure, the Ptolemies did commission massive new temples in the ancient style, largely to help the Macedonian rulers ingratiate themselves with their native subjects. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They are home to 130 native species of tree; the whole of Europe has just 85. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He first worked as a folklorist, traveling around Florida to collect old native tales and songs. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Though Tariq and his parents were ethnic Pashtuns, they spoke Farsi when Laila was around for her benefit, even though Laila more or less understood their native Pashto, having learned it in school. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Having expected childlike natives, empty vessels waiting to be filled by the Word, the Franciscans instead found themselves fencing with skilled rhetoricians, proud of their intellectual traditions. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Botanists at the Connecticut Arboretum declare that the elimination of beautiful native shrubs and wildflowers has reached the proportions of a “roadside crisis.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In new territory, out of reach of the restraining hand of the natural enemies that kept down its numbers in its native land, an invading plant or animal is able to become enormously abundant. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z To impose white rule, the Dutch colonists went to war with the natives, ultimately developing a set of laws to subjugate and enslave them. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The budworm is a native insect that attacks several kinds of evergreens. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hsu had come to America from China, and English wasn’t her native language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The Cavendish understandably harbored a proprietary interest in the characteristics of the particle it had discovered, not to mention a native pride in its ability to extract precise measurements from its meticulously hand-built equipment. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Tons of things. Hard to remember all the names now, you know. Was speaking the lingo like a native by the time I left.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Of Roman crops, only oats and poppies were native to Italy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When he was to ask the question, What is the native country of Pope John Paul II? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And his face became like the face of one of those mean natives the Phantom was always having to beat up. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At this, we would all enthusiastically applaud, each of us profoundly grateful that a descendant of the great Duke of Wellington would take the trouble to educate natives such as ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z My native land is the wide seaboard of Krete where I grew up. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Eurasia’s native cows, sheep, goats, horses, and pigs were among the world’s few large wild animal species to pass all those tests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like Duke himself, his native town had long since expanded far beyond cigarette production, turning to millwork first to supply the tobacco industry with cotton bags, and later expanding to manufacture hosiery and other garments. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Collectively recoiling from the native population of the Americas, Europeans learned how to become a new version of themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In this section I treat another facet of Holmberg’s Mistake: the idea that native cultures did not or could not control their environment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Different wild plants are native to these disparate environments and would thus have been variously available to incipient farmers in various parts of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nabis, Prince of the Spartans, withstood a siege by all of Greece and by one of Rome’s most victorious armies, and he defended his native city and his own state against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Later a botanist and member of the Florida Native Plant Society spoke to us about why native plants are so important. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The gravelly voice spoke her name like a native Spanish speaker would, a light roll of the Rs leading into the clipped A. It didn’t matter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The Streeler is native to several African countries, though it has been successfully raised by wizards in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In a letter to a friend he wrote, 1 began my adult life with the hypothesis that it would be possible to become a Stone Age native. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sabre-tooth cats, after flourishing for more than 30 million years, disappeared, and so did the giant ground sloths, the oversized lions, native American horses, native American camels, the giant rodents and the mammoths. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And though I could never, myself, be a native of any of these worlds, I knew that nothing so essentialist as race stood between us. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Shorter than the natives, oddly dressed, and often unbearably dirty, the pallid foreigners had peculiar blue eyes that peeped out of the masks of bristly, animal-like hair that encased their faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the weeks that followed, we learned English much more quickly because we could not use our native tongue. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One day at the quarry, we resumed our discussion of whether or not the tiger was native to Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the men who had spread the name of Salem so far and wide that natives of some distant islands thought Salem was a country—near the United States—and probably bigger. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some New Guineans did become infected, but not on the massive scale that killed off most of the native peoples of Australia and the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Coach Korfanty had had an illustrious fencing career in his native Poland before immigrating to the United States and starting a career in coaching in Portland, Oregon. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z They don’t care that the natives have saved us from starvation over and over again. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z What you have been doing is feeding him precisely the kind of story that he would have been receiving in his native land. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Not that I identified with the newcomers, nor with the rare Black descendants of native San Franciscans, nor with the whites or even the Asians, but rather with the times and the city. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I never do good in English and it’s my native language.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z But the natives soon learned that most of the British were terrible shots, from lack of practice—their guns were little more than noisemakers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Mary also knew that a native of a place so flat it was practically underwater would need a leg up before hiking for days in the rarefied altitude of the Wyoming mountains. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “They were white prisoners. They had never been questioned by a native prisoner in the presence of a white officer before.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A native of Washington, DC, Hoover had started out as a messenger boy at the Library of Congress. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Even the native schooners were quiet against the docks inside the channel. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It is my first time trying out my newly learned words on a native speaker, and when she understands, it feels like magic. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Verrazzano was one of the first Europeans the natives had seen, perhaps even the first, but the Narragansett were not intimidated. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Cherokee have most extensively studied the Wampus Cat, with whom they share their native region, and only they have ever succeeded in procuring Wampus Cat hair for use as a wand core. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Invariably, it took Ben and Mary Anne months before they could overcome their native diffidence, which actually was an obstinate refusal to make themselves vulnerable. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole has been explaining to me the native system of government. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty years ago, according to native memory, it would have taken a lumberjack ten minutes to axe all the trees in western Kansas. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Rob is a white native Mississippian whose Southern charm and manner enhanced his outstanding litigation skills in Alabama courts. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He sounded not at all Ghiscari, he knew; but half the Brazen Beasts were freed slaves, with all maimer of native tongues, so his accent went unremarked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Interpreters were enlisted to reach out to workers in their own native languages and to translate speeches for them at rallies. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The doctor enlisted the help of Evenks, native hunters and fishermen, who lived less than thirty kilometers away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z This variant of Holmberg’s Mistake dates back to the Pilgrims themselves, who ascribed the lack of effective native resistance to the will of God. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But while I waited it struck me that we’d returned to native bonobo territory. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Is this some frenzied retreat into your native animism?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Ptolemy IV Philopater hazarded the use of native Egyptian troops at Raphia, and won the battle with their help; just a few years later, native mercenaries in Thebes used their hard-won martial skills to revolt. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z She was drawing up idioms in the list, visions of me in the whitest raw light, instant snapshots of the difficult truths native to our time together. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maria quickly adopted the local Arawak-Dutch dialect, asking her native servants for information about both insects and plants. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z These two methods are when one becomes prince through some wicked and nefarious means; or when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city through the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z But just before the men lost all hope, the native islanders tracked them down. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That Babylonian astronomy was not the only eastern influence on Anaximander is suggested by correspondences between his model and certain elements of native Persian religion, such as those preserved in Zoroastrianism. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Many Herbs, shrubs, and trees of forests and range depend on native insects for their reproduction; without these plants many wild animals and range stock would find little food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And he told the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil by burying fish alongside the maize seeds, a traditional native technique for producing a bountiful harvest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The other engineer was Virginia native Clarence Douglas, who would operate one of the two side-directed waist guns, behind the wings. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z I strained my ears and listened for any familiar-sounding words and when I could hear none, I assumed it was his native Polish. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Living on this artificial inland archipelago, native peoples ate a diet heavy in fish, which migrate and spawn in the flooded savannas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Thus, among the thousands of culturally diverse native peoples of Australia, the Americas, and Africa, no universal cultural taboo stood in the way of animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The people from 12 are already getting slightly larger portions than the natives of 13 in an effort to bring us up to weight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For a while, there was not as much bloodshed between the English and the natives, and the two groups shared the land together. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Like a glass of wine, he said, a tortilla should carry the flavor of its native place. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The natives bathe quite often, even in cold weather. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I got there. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Austronesian languages are spoken today as native languages over more than half of the globe’s span, from Madagascar to Easter Island. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The natives have become furious and killed some of our colonists. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z A small tree, something that looks native to the palm family, sprouts from behind the woman, distracting me further: Do palm trees grow in New York? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z According to the Underdowns, the Belgians are bent on protecting against independent thought on native ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No native speaker of the English language could diagram this sentence. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Thus, the music and all of its elements that children are exposed to become as familiar as their native language. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The fish were only seven or eight inches long, and when Joe was young they were all beautiful native cutthroats. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To estimate native numbers before Columbus, one thus had to multiply census figures from those times by a factor of twenty or more. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Outside of employing a number of New Orleans natives, Zeitoun had hired men from everywhere: Peru, Mexico, Bulgaria, Poland, Brazil, Honduras, Algeria. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The more she practices, the sooner she'll be back into her native tongue, the aunts insist. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z We now have fresh water from our well, houses for everyone instead of tents, and peace with the natives. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I had no memory of ever having had to work hard for my native tongue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You must have difficulty eating native food when you go home then.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Lee asked Madison rhetorically: “Is your love for the constitution so ardent...that it should produce ruin to your native country?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He says we have been sent by God for more noble purposes: to bring the good news of Christ to the Virginia natives, and to look for survivors from the Roanoke colony. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Africa is the continent where protohumans evolved for the longest time, where anatomically modern humans may also have arisen, and where native diseases like malaria and yellow fever killed European explorers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She realized that until she understood the subtle nuances of foreign words, and could pronounce them like a native, she could not hope to sing effectively in other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And nothing between them but the words of another alien, painfully translated from native sounds to foreign. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Mathematician Doris Cohen, a native New Yorker who started working at the laboratory in the late 1930s, was for many years the NACA’s lone female author. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I find it difficult to write about my native place, northern California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, wheat brought from Europe did not do as well as the native maize. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But when Hitler invaded Poland on September 1,1939, and launched the start of World War II, Dasch decided his duty was to his native country. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z In one of his plays, Medea says, “What greater grief than the loss of one’s native land?” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Petra Cotes was perhaps the only native who had an Arab heart. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “She stands out. A snowy owl that keeps returning to wherever he’s hiding ... I mean, they’re not native birds, are they?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As Europeans took over more and more of their land, the natives were forced onto reservations, and then over time most of their reservation land was taken from them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z When scientists investigated the native diet of the Eskimos in this region it was found to be free from insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Some argued that although it was popularly assumed that tigers lived in Africa, this was a myth and they were native to Asia and the Indian subcontinent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z European conquest of the remaining native states of Central America and northern South America followed during the 16th and 17th centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He said he was fasting because Thanksgiving honors the genocide of America’s native peoples. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The wizard clan MacFusty, who have dwelled in the Hebrides for centuries, have traditionally taken responsibility for the management of their native dragons. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of China’s 1.2 billion people, over 800 million speak Mandarin, the language with by far the largest number of native speakers in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Lorca explained that the cante jondo was a primitive flamenco from his native Andalusia, a region enriched by Moorish invaders, and that the songs had inspired his own gypsy ballad poems. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Before apartheid, any black South African who received a formal education was likely taught by European missionaries, foreign enthusiasts eager to Christianize and Westernize the natives. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I wondered whether constant association could cause inattention, and asked a native New Hampshire woman about it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugarcane plantations stretched in all directions, worked by imported slaves and native Arawak Indians who were pressed into service by Dutch and Portuguese plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They say we do not need to fear the natives. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Incredibly, foreigners came to outnumber natives in many places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Louis, a native of Holland, a well- known violinist. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z To be historically accurate, according to the guidelines, major native cultures must be shown displaying “a proper reverence for the gift of life.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Mankind shall reach ... its native perfection ... and perfect...” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She logged the names of vipers, salamanders, rare frogs, tiny snakes native only to faraway islands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Forced to choose between his native land and his ancestral one, he didn’t hesitate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z During the century after Verrazzano Europeans were regular visitors to the Dawnland, usually fishing, sometimes trading, occasionally kidnapping natives as souvenirs. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Serapis was an amalgam of Apis, the native bull god, and Osiris, the anthropomorphic lord of the dead—an instant “designer god” fashioned by the Ptolemies to give Greeks and Egyptians a deity in common. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z When he spoke his native language, he sounded like an angry rockslide. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I will repeat only one admonishment from a native of Maine, and I will not put a name to that person for fear of reprisal. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Those words had been spoken in our native language! Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z All afternoon, the natives come back and forth to our ships in their canoes, bringing sweet-smelling fruits and other food from their island, which sits, green and lush, nearby. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z But for the most part, these traces were obliterated, with the hedges running wild and native trees—slippery elm and tamarack—outnumbering the quince and Japanese maple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z No one spoke, and there were, for the moment, no divisions among them—rich or poor, outsider or native, scholar or secretary. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Whether they were native to the boat or had come with one of the animals, the hyena most likely, I can’t say. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Those crops prove to be ones like West African yams, oil palm, and kola nut—plants that were already believed on botanical and other evidence to be native to West Africa and first domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gender was like a native tongue; it didn’t exist before birth but was imprinted in the brain during childhood, never disappearing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But another, bigger part of the reason for the foreigners’ triumph was that by the 1670s the newcomers outnumbered the natives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Had his parents realized the power of their reminiscences on the boy, they might have been more reserved in their stories of their native city. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Conversely, all that forest means that there is no native grassland or natural pasture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A smallpox epidemic in 1713 was the biggest single step in the destruction of South Africa’s native San people by European settlers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The article told how the Belgians are the unsung heroes, and when they come into a village they usually interrupt the cannibal natives in the middle of human sacrifice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I believe that if the natives attack, it is James Town they will attack. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Alienation between rulers and ruled even extended to matters of simple nomenclature: according to one modern authority on demotic-script documents, the natives studiously avoided referring to Alexandria in the language of their conquerors. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Later on, some of the newcomers indeed campaigned in favor of eradicating natives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “But no one looked at the effects of these new species intermingling with native populations? That’s the danger, isn’t it?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Pearl Bassette, one of several Hampton natives, was the daughter of a well-known black lawyer, her family tracing its roots back to the early days of the city. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z No hand had checked their progress, and they had gone native now, rearing to monster height without a bloom, black and ugly as the nameless parasites that grew beside them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In Sammy’s native Paducah, Kentucky, he had gotten a girl pregnant. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The youngest Vaughan children were Newport News natives, and Newsome Park was the only town they had ever known. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I reasoned thus: Though English was my native tongue and America my native land, she, an alien, could operate a store and earn a living in a neighborhood where I could not even live. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her plan was to make it an outlet for some of the native handicrafts from areas where we had worked. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve talked with other public speakers; they agree that this ability is native to any person who has the “mass appeal” gift, who can get through to and move people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew she was a native of Detroit, and that she had been a student at Tuskegee Institute down in Alabama—an education major. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But in New York, she needed to settle somewhere, and since the natives were unfriendly, and the country inhospitable, she took root in the language. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Kristin, in her late twenties and a California native, was like a big sister to both my girls anyway. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Our ship’s passengers amused themselves by throwing coins to the “natives,” who dove to retrieve them. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe Gus didn’t grow up in Greece,” he said, “but I’m sure you remember that I did. You are talking about my native land, Milton. And your parents’ own true home.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In Sunday school Rex Minton said we better not go to the Congo on account of the cannibal natives would boil us in a pot and eat us up. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They spread on their own, sometimes wiping out native species of plants. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Those extinctions eliminated all the large wild animals that might otherwise have been candidates for domestication, and left native Australians and New Guineans with not a single native domestic animal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Finally, speakers of ancestral Afroasiatic languages may have been involved in domesticating the crops native to Ethiopia, and they certainly introduced Fertile Crescent crops to North Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Langosta, I knew, was the native lobster, the one without claws. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z So in 1942, Ohio native and father of one Wilson Coolidge, who'd bought the house from Ruth Weiss four years earlier, was struck by a car on the corner of American and Joy. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Many natives, seeking to categorize the newcomers, were open to the possibility that they might belong to the realm of the supernatural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The initial successes of both Pizarro and Cortes did attract native allies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the obsessive attention to detail that characterized his brand of dogged genius, Rosellini purged his life of all but the most primitive tools, which he fashioned from native materials with his own hands. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And most native societies in what is now the United States and Canada did not have the written languages, monumental architecture, or wide-ranging aesthetic traditions of their neighbors to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The gates have been thrown wide open, and natives—men, women, and children—are walking in. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z She breathed in damp, wheezing gasps and cursed periodically, reverting to her unintelligible native tongue. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As it is, the natives mount small attacks every other day on any man or creature who strays too far from our guarded, half-built fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z How could these hierarchical, acquisitive, market-oriented, monotheistic, ethnocentric newcomers have absorbed ideas and customs from the egalitarian, reciprocal, noncapitalistic, pantheistic, ethnocentric natives? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The silent and stealthy natives kept a close watch on the expedition’s every move, with their poison arrows primed and ready to shoot. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes she looked at encyclopedia pages showing “native dress” styles from around the world. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As a result, many researchers believe the Irukandji has migrated far beyond its native Australia. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If they trace their lineage back far enough, at a certain point it splits into white and native and a tangled web of “other.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Radical educationists meanwhile complain that ghetto schools ‘oppress’ students by trying to mold them, stifling native characteristics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in New York I took full advantage of my status as a native speaker. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In Europe, untold numbers of native species were crushed against the impassable barrier of the Alps and its smaller cousins and fell into extinction. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Further enticement was provided by a beautiful psychology grad student named Julia Mae Green, who after graduation would be returning to her native Virginia. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z As for the most advanced native societies of North America, those of the U.S. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His father, who’s originally from Italy, works at the Italian embassy, which is why Carla and I have always thought Mrs. Brown is more patient with Oscar than with the rest of us “natives.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z There is an obvious reason why we focus on those particular facts: blacks are the sole native Africans familiar to most Americans, because they were brought in large numbers as slaves to the United States. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Going back to Berkeley, however, I returned to a campus where I was still officially designated a minority— still considered by university officials to be in touch with my native culture. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder why the natives do not mount another raid if they really want us gone. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The foreign kids are always there, like they need to breathe air scented with their native language a couple times a day or they’ll choke to death on too much American. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Even modern European plant geneticists have failed to develop any crop except macadamia nuts from Australia’s native wild flora. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A “repatriate” was someone returning to his native country, while an “expatriate” was someone withdrawing himself from his native country. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "They must walk across their native sand. We think that something registers in their brains that kicks in twenty-five years later because they return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The separate nations of Europe were linguistically and culturally different one from another; native societies were astonishingly diverse. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Many grew plants from their native lands—huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaicans call calaloo, and many more. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If her husband insisted she speak in Spanish to the girls so they wouldn't forget their native tongue, she'd snap, "When in Rome, do unto the Romans." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The dictionary defines “nativism” as a policy of favoring native inhabitants as opposed to immigrants. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z For example, the Spanish conquistadores wished to exact tribute from Mexico’s defeated native populations, so they were very interested in the Aztec Empire’s tribute lists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the gentleman, a vacationing Hamburg lawyer, “already had a friend”—a young native Acapulcan who called himself the Cowboy. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who will trade with the natives with you gone, sir?” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He was a blue-eyed carpenter in his fifties, a friendly and easygoing native Zeitoun had known for years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z From these items I drew my first political conclusions about Bigger: I felt that Bigger, an American product, a native son of this land, carried within him the potentialities of either Communism or Fascism. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She threw herself on the bed she kept parked in the corner and sulked for a while before picking up the chipped telephone and calling someone in her native land. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They particularly resented that they, who were native to American soil, were passed over by their supervisors in favor of recently arrived immigrants. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The native whites didn’t seem to pay much attention to him, either way. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Though he settled in France, the quality that most pervades Chopin’s style is homesickness for his native Poland. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z That tickled him, and he said, “In another country I may tell you other lies. But I thought you were forbidden to teach your mind-science to...the natives, until we join the Ekumen.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Knowing what every native loves to hear, he would have offered the classic immigrant story, casting himself as the heroic newcomer, self-sufficient, resourceful. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The Kuiper belt was actually theorized by an astronomer named F. C. Leonard in 1930, but the name honors Gerard Kuiper, a Dutch native working in America, who expanded the idea. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Then you must substitute our recommendations with your native foods.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z My youngest brother was at that moment on the Experiment in International Living in Berlin and speaking German like a native. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The place was palatial, with a large central structure topped with a golden dome, and walls of the native honey stone. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Although the Japanese said they were liberating the island, they used the native people like slaves, beating or killing them if they tried to escape. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That is especially true at high altitudes in the Andes, where genetically European women have physiological difficulties even in reproducing, and where native Andean crops still offer the most suitable basis for food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most Americans and many Europeans equate native Africans with blacks, white Africans with recent intruders, and African racial history with the story of European colonialism and slave trading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Foolish native people made jewelry from it, yes. Valuable? Maybe. Not as good as wheat.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z First, in addition to inviting skilled Greeks to immigrate to the capital, the Ptolemies barred native Egyptians from spending more than twenty days in Alexandria at a time. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “But they might just dunk it is a native fisherman. No one else would come here!” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z A native of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard Law, Bloom had been married once before, to a rich young Bostonian named Sherri Pope, a Radcliffe graduate with a master’s in education. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Governor Bradford is said to have attributed the plague to "the good hand of God,” which "favored our beginnings” by "sweeping away great multitudes of the natives . . . that he might make room for us." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 1920 Australian entomologists were sent to North and South America to study insect enemies of the prickly pears in their native habitat. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The reverend has been impatient to win the souls of the natives for Christ. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z James Town’s new leaders took revenge on the natives, even the Kecoughtans and the Warraskoyacks, who had helped the settlers so much. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Their short-lived venture had no known effect on native life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Passing the native domains strung along the river was like passing a line of angry hives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Smaller native societies were destroyed more casually, by small-scale raids and murders carried out by private citizens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was such a thing as native customs, he said. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought my father’s rough grip had surely got the better of that poor native creature, and that it would fall to the ground. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When he was on the Beagle voyage, Charles had witnessed the funeral of another beloved daughter, the daughter of a native chief in New Zealand. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If these faraway intellectuals were much concerned with the lessons of native life, what about English and French colonists themselves, who knew intact native cultures for some three centuries? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Once he crossed the creek, Ben was in officers’ country, his native land. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They chased away most of the native people. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z She was unaccustomed to the Kabuli dialect of his Farsi, and to the underlying layer of Pashto accent, the language of his native Kandahar. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Populous native societies not thereby eliminated were destroyed in the same way the Aztecs and Incas had been—by full-scale wars, increasingly waged by professional European soldiers and their native allies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Use a language other than your native tongue. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z And some have charged that the claims advance the political agenda of those who seek to discredit European culture, because the high numbers seem to inflate the scale of native loss. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The native inhabitants of most of those islands today are the Polynesians, who thus are the direct descendants of the Lapita potters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In every other province that the Romans entered, the native inhabitants brought them in. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The road was crowded and there were screens of corn-stalk and straw matting on both sides and matting over the top so that it was like the entrance at a circus or a native village. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “National teams bring creatures from their native land, you know, to put on a bit of a show.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z They leave in the morning, taking a few soldiers with them for protection from the natives. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The natives are happy with the glass beads and copper we give them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Neither is a native insect but both have been in this country for many years without creating a situation calling for desperate measures. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The guys sometimes liked to kid her about it—our own little native, they’d say—but Mary Anne would just smile and stick out her tongue. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The small pale yellow grapes native to these regions produced a notably inferior vintage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Some of the boys in my group had a little money from selling their rations or the vegetables they grew to others in camp or to the native Kenyans. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But in his reading he discovered a hole in this version of events—a factor so critical that it drastically changed Dobyns's view of native America. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Five thousand years after llamas had been domesticated in the Andes, the Olmecs, Maya, Aztecs, and all other native societies of Mexico remained without pack animals and without any edible domestic mammals except for dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I am to write a composition about what I remember from my native country. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Some agricultural crops and many wild plants are partly or wholly dependent on the services of the native pollinating insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The loveliest scenes, he found, were comprised of the simplest, most natural juxtapositions of native plants. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z To which the native replied, “Well, we do need to be saved—saved from you, but that’s beside the point. So let’s give this Jesus thing a shot.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And now we get on nicely, and are very glad he came, for he speaks French like a native, and I don’t know what we should do without him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The native territory of the Longhorn has now become the world’s most important dragon reservation, where wizards of all nationalities study a variety of dragons at close range. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Their work fed a tsunami of inquiry into the interactions between natives and newcomers in the era when they faced each other as relative equals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “That is, if it is still habitable. There have been problems in my native land, and I am far from certain what I will find on my return.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Given the charged relations between white societies and native peoples, inquiry into Indian culture and history is inevitably contentious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Shorty said, “It appears the natives are getting ever more restless. Cigar—?” “The natives been restless a long time,” the sheriff said, accepting the cigar. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Father of two, Alabama native, and son of a sharecropper, Lester Charles Walker was one of American Street’s very first black residents in 1947. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When our barrels are close to empty, Captain Smith goes to trade with the natives for grain. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was my opinion that Dorothy Plunk, a native of War, was the most beautiful girl in our class or, for that matter, at Big Creek High. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The minister who had this mission before us and got kicked out for consorting with the natives too much. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he had trouble speaking his native language. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z British ships in the nineteenth century radically transformed native art by giving the Indians brightly colored paints that unlike native pigments didn’t wash off in the rain. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The excitement was in part due to Bush’s being something of a native son. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A native of Indiana, Doss is an amiable, soft-spoken, extremely thoughtful man who looks nothing like a National Park Service employee. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And these carried with them their native spice and fabric, rites, contagion. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The corps, led by the suave, unflappable Captain James T. Kirk, included natives of an advanced United Earth, its history of poverty and war now in the past. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The pilot had flown away, perhaps thinking I was just another native fisherman waving at an aircraft I knew that the color of my skin was very dark now. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z As she patted the dog’s head, bending with native grace before his young and austere master, I saw a glow rise to that master’s face. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Some natives in the world ate grasshoppers and ants and if they could do that he could get a raw egg down. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z I visited the famous Casbah, the ghetto which had resulted when the ruling white French wouldn’t let the dark- skinned natives into certain areas of Casablanca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Little did they know that Polish was my native language. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Few researchers today accept Dobyns’s estimates—they seem extreme—but most believe that native numbers were far higher than estimated by previous generations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Laws were passed prohibiting sex between Europeans and natives, laws that were later amended to prohibit sex between whites and all nonwhites. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Stheno, the Bargain Mart was a front\\ You’re going native! Now, put down that ridiculous tray and help me kill this demigod. Or have you forgotten that he’s the one who vaporized Medusa?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To African drums, the Cubans gradually added an array of percussion instruments that were native to the region, such as the claves and the maracas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z On every other continent as well, certain native societies have proved very receptive, adopted foreign ways and technology selectively, and integrated them successfully into their own society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The empire had defensible borders, yet the vast majority of the population couldn’t be trusted in the ranks—the Macedonians had a long-standing reluctance to arm the natives. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “Madame,” Princesse said, calling upon her phonetics lessons in order to sound less native and more French. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z In the process of their work, the Curies also found two new elements–polonium, which they named after her native country, and radium. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Neither Bantu nor white farmers, heirs to thousands of years of farming experience, were subsequently able to develop southern African native plants into food crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The natives also went toHog Island, which the settlers had stocked with hundreds of hogs, and slaughtered them all. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z When native met newcomer, both groups tried to benefit, as people will. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z My parents were far more offended by the word if it was uttered in English and not in our native Farsi, which they tried to encourage us to speak as much as possible. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Right there in the first line, it said that she was a Massachusetts native. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He tried to ignore the cheers across the way from the Carter fans, cheers that sounded to him “like a bunch of African natives,” and instead yelled as loud as he possibly could. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Equatorial Africa’s tsetse flies, carrying trypanosomes to which native African wild mammals are resistant, proved devastating to introduced Eurasian and North African species of livestock. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And when I brooded upon the cultural barrenness of black life, I wondered if clean, positive tenderness, love, honor, loyalty, and the capacity to remember were native with man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Davy let them shout and parade around in their native costume as they called on the spirit of Chief Osceola to help them regain their homeland. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z War between the natives and the Europeans continued for years. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Original, native, pure—these are the words that matter to Lily. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The white man was quite stern with the native. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Part of the process,” Pearl informed him as they cut through the living room, with the nonchalant air of a native unfazed by the curious customs of the land. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Are you trying to start an all-out war with the natives?” he shouts. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It seems implausible that the exchange could have been entirely one-way— that the natives have had little or no long-lasting impact on the newcomers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Two natives arrive to tell us that Chief Powhatan is ready to trade. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Cortes and his bedraggled adventurers landed on the Mexican coast in 1519, they might have been driven into the sea by thousands of Aztec cavalry mounted on domesticated native American horses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He collected dozens of folk songs from his native Hungary and used them in his method. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “Did you eat any of the native foods sacrificed to idols?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The group of native men who have come with Captain Smith stand quietly watching as the gentlemen roll barrels of provisions up the riverbank. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Well first of all, I'm speaking Vietnamese, which is not my "native tongue." Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z All these facts indicate that the explanation for the lack of native mammal domestication outside Eurasia lay with the locally available wild mammals themselves, not with the local peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z American Indians were considered unsuitable as slaves, largely because native tribes were clearly in a position to fight back. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Are natives now stealing our food instead of bringing it to us? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He praised our singing, saying that it was the only singing that matched the choirs in his native Wales. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The fall of Indian societies had everything to do with the natives themselves, researchers argue, rather than being religiously or technologically determined. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Louis Lippo, as does every man, loved to interpret, to a stranger particularly, if no native was present to put up an argument. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For instance, California’s native hunter-gatherers initially numbered about 200,000 in aggregate, but they were splintered among a hundred tribelets, none of which required a war to be defeated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He liked the verve of her bouffant wigs, the drawl of her native Mississippi, as well as the severe eyeglass frames that belied the warmth in her eyes. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The principal advocate of those who argued that the tiger was not native to Africa was Andrew Masondo, an ANC leader from the Cape who had also been a lecturer at Fort Hare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A group of our colonists have burned the natives’ houses, stolen from their gardens, robbed valuables from their temples, beat the people with clubs, and shot them with muskets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Of course, they were only the tattered-sailed native schooners from Venezuela, Aruba, or Bonaire coming in with bananas, oranges, papayas, melons, and vegetables. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Massasoit, if this interpretation is correct, was trying to incorporate the Pilgrims into the web of native politics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A famine caused by an inadequate Nile flood in 245 aggravated native resentment against the Greek monarchy and the burdensome cost of its imperial rivalries. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z For centuries, he terrorized the natives who dwelt in the region. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As we’ll see, that reality was as fraught with consequences for African history as was the absence of native domestic plants in subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most probably they cooked African yams in stews with European spice mixtures and native maize. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She used the oily stuff that smelled like coconuts, like Coach Ted, even though she didn’t need it, as tan as all of us were; little natives, Grandma liked to say. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z By the time he stood up and made off with his goats, Boots was free—freer than he had ever been since he played at his brother’s side in his native jungle. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z As if, despite their different accents, they had finally met someone who spoke their native tongue. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The men studied medicine, law, theology, and emerged repeatedly in the powerless government offices available to the native population. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The only natives on the island are afraid of us and they stay well hidden. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I shall teach him my native language and tell him of the beauties of my homeland. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z As the story of sixteen-year-old West Springfield native Rashad Butler develops, the city seems to be split in terms of which side of the argument they fall on in this case. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Since their native mothers are gone, their strongest affinity has always been with their white fathers, the Afrikaners. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Two native men come walking through the forest, quiet as deer. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z One native man had learned new dance steps, which impressed Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The snakes strangled the native birds one by one. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “If you’d only work a little harder on your native tongue,” she said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tired of invoking God through the three-legged table and a cloud of hashish, he had decided to seek Him in a region less harsh than his native land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands upon thousands of the subjugated natives were crowded into the ghetto, in the same way that Harlem, in New York City, became America’s Casbah. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled out one that was covered in different types of native saltwater fish and one that had an old Victorian drawing of a mermaid. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z That Bentley was native born, from an old Massachusetts family, and educated at one of America's top colleges made her seem more threatening; anybody, it seemed, could succumb to the lure of the communist menace. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z During the first dozen years after its entry into the United States, the beetle increased rapidly, free of the restraints that in its native land hold it in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In my first year, I studied English, anthropology, politics, native administration, and Roman Dutch law. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They pulled teeth like maniacs, barking at us in whatever their native tongues were while they yanked our heads back and forth like rag dolls’. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z With so few major crops in the world, all of them domesticated thousands of years ago, it’s less surprising that many areas of the world had no wild native plants at all of outstanding potential. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the eve of the American Revolution, a third of the native people in Rhode Island were enslaved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Pedro Cabral was trying to sail around Africa to Asia to buy spices for his native Portugal, and the ocean current took him to Brazil instead. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Now I'm going to have to see her every day in her native habitat, sparkling like the bracelets and necklaces Didu gives both of us on birthdays. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “We need to remove some of the native species. The Collective believes an airborne herbicide can kill foliage, without risking physical contact with dangerous flora.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Yet the English, French, and Dutch who took over the hemisphere north of Florida were just as fascinated by native cultures as the Spaniards and Portuguese who emerged victorious to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Like the sheaves of rice in Joseph’s dream, like a press of eager natives petitioning an English magistrate, the old houses had been arranged around the History House in attitudes of deference. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I love puzzles. Trickery is just my native tongue.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Monroeville, Alabama, celebrated its native daughter Lee shamelessly after her award-winning book became a national bestseller in the 1960s. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Her native clime was a land of milk and honey and had its share of apes and ivory and peacocks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The crew of eight dark-skinned, laughing natives looked as though they had not a care in the world. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t ever ask directions of a Maine native,” I was told. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he and a sailor swam to another island and discovered a hidden camp where some native islanders had kept fresh water and hardtack and crackers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z These appear to have been spread about, out of context, like titanic bric-a-brac, in a manner that would have struck the natives as highly irreverent—Egyptianizing instead of Egyptian. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Or the native people who were already there. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z As in Africa, in the Americas the spread of native crops and domestic animals was slowed by constricted skies and environmental barriers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Replacing Egyptians with Greek immigrants might solve the manpower shortage in the near term, but would likely heighten native discontent. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I went and performed a song from my tribe in my native language. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So do you think we’re a bunch of superstitious natives or what?” he asked in a playful tone, but with a hint of worry. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Schulwerk uses the native language, sounds, timbres, rhythms, melodies, and tonal material surrounding the child, particularly in its folk music repertoire. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, the simple existence of the Indian slave trade— thousands of native men and women working in bondage for Europeans—was a testament to Indians’ catastrophic loss of power and status. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Audubon paints an active cuckoo pair within a community of other species, reaching to grasp a beetle on a magnolia bush in its native Louisiana. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Ancient music, such as Gregorian chants; new music, such as some experimental twentieth-century art music; and Non-Western music, such as some native American flute music, may not have a strong, repetitive pattern of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He was eating a light supper at nine in the evening when the front door cried out in the hall and Mildred ran from the parlour like a native fleeing an eruption of Vesuvius. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he can add that we finally landed in Virginia, but that the natives do not want us here. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After a few such experiences, the natives tried to fight back. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At the battle of Cajamarca recounted above, 168 Spaniards crushed a Native American army 500 times more numerous, killing thousands of natives while not losing a single Spaniard. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The myxo virus, native to a wild species of Brazilian rabbit, had been observed to cause a lethal epidemic in European domestic rabbits, which are a different species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Klamath weed, quite unlike such native plants as sagebrush, has no place in the ecology of the region, and no animals or other plants require its presence. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There is a one-room Presbyterian Church, built of native stone, to which a preacher comes every three weeks when the road is passable. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What if the natives are spying on us? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Subject to a separate legal system for Greeks only, the settlers were beyond the reach of native courts. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z We learned that wildlife, like deer and butterflies, depend on native plants for survival, and if we remove the bushes and small trees along our coastlines, then hurricanes could cause increased coastal erosion. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “I do not understand everything. I am still unwell,” I said, hearing the contrast between my rough, foreign accent and her lilting, native one. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Nina spoke Kaelish like a native and loved the challenge of taking on a new identity in every town. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z As the monkey trade was established throughout central Africa, the native workers in the system, the monkey trappers and handlers, were exposed to large numbers of wild monkeys, some of which were carrying unusual viruses. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But let us come to the second instance, when a private citizen becomes prince of his native city not through wickedness or any other intolerable violence, but with the favour of his fellow citizens. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He was in his native element and as happy as a lark. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Fairbain asked, "What is the native country of Pope John Paul Eye Eye?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Jomon sites often contain remains of edible plants that are native to Japan as wild species but are also grown as crops today, including adzuki bean, mung bean, and barnyard millet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His head was in a whirl from the scents and the sounds of his native village, and his heart rose within him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “This dance,” he said, “is from my native Zambia.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “Peewee, my mother says you shouldn’t eat any native food over here,” I said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Wealth generated through trade enabled the natives to attract scholar-teachers from abroad to educate their sons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Instead, the Spanish wanted native peoples to use as a source of forced labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Byrdsong was a Newport News native who served in World War II in the Montford Point Marines, the first group of black men permitted to join that previously restricted branch of the American military. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Just like in America, the colonists here had their way with the native women, as colonists so often do. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Ishmael, a native, could not understand how such transitory and accidental occurrences gained the upper hand in their view of things. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The nearest she could get to the image in the newspaper was playing missionary and native with Jasmine. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He seldom opened a book and never did any homework, but he managed to survive because he possessed a native and cunning intelligence. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They did battle every Tuesday evening in vessels native to their homelands. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Similar questions arise for the decimation of many other native peoples by Eurasian germs, as well as for the decimation of would-be European conquistadores in the tropics of Africa and Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The natives were all barefoot and almost naked. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z One took offense at her inclusion of native lore: “The grand defect of the work is the introduction of idle stories related to her by strangers.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He sat down to help me draw up a list of intelligent questions so I wouldn’t embarrass myself in front of this greatest of West Virginia’s native sons. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the first Unseen he had ever heard from a native speaker, and it sounded just as he’d always imagined it would: like calligraphy, if calligraphy were written in honey. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Endemic is an adjective meaning “native to” or “prevalent.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There is one man among them who is not quite a native, though not quite a white man either. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He wanted it to be as far removed as possible from the native architecture. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Scarcely one thousand natives remained on the peninsula, according to official figures; the disease had claimed more than five thousand lives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Check your local library's recording section for music from Africa or Asia, or for the music of native Americans or Australians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z There were no cacti anywhere—another oversight on Fatty Bolger’s part, because I looked it up, and cacti are actually native to the Americas. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Being born into it, raised in it, we become acclimated to the altitude, like natives in the Andes. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon both native and African women were bringing her specimens and describing uses for each leaf, worm, and beetle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That year, and for the following few years, the representative was a Mr. Serin, a former director of prisons in his native Sweden who had emigrated to Rhodesia. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It killed a third of the native population before jumping to Puerto Rico and Cuba. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Could you imagine living in Gay Paree, speaking French like natives,” Ben wondered aloud. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, Spanish cedar was expensive, having to be imported from its native South America. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z In the first two centuries of colonization, the border between natives and newcomers was porous, almost nonexistent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Alexander Helios wore the native dress of the Median king. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Despite extreme precautions, disease cut down native Siberians again and again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The bantustan system had been conceived by Dr. H. F. Verwoerd, the minister of native affairs, as a way of muting international criticism of South African racial policies but at the same time institutionalizing apartheid. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before long, all of us Navajos were bringing the natives right into our chow lines and no one ever objected. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the case of Hagen Oaks Park, I'm more interested in the city's decision to plant native plants than I am in the birds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The pertinent point is worth emphasizing: though the Alexandrian Greeks such as Eratosthenes worked within the geographical confines of Egypt, they were not drawing from some deep well of native wisdom. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z While accumulating a vast fortune in his native Canada, Stewart had become the focal point of a business scandal. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Cortes was constantly preoccupied by the search for gold, but he also had to be restrained by the priests accompanying him from promulgating the Gospel in circumstances sure to anger native leaders. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z So, Khrushchev is said to be here dancing with the man-eating natives, teaching them to hate the Americans and the Belgians. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the real importance, Reverend Hunt says, is to bring the good news of Christ to the native people who live in Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z To judge from modern parallels in the Middle East and elsewhere, it is unlikely that the natives approved of having foreign interlopers for neighbors or absentee landlords. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In Cleveland, the city that claimed Garfield as its native son, cannons were fired once an hour throughout the night. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The natives here were ready and waiting when the Portuguese showed up wanting to buy slaves, I pointed out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He can’t help us with Irish because he’s from the North and lacking in the native tongue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Let the natives work it out among themselves, he thought. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The reports they come back with are encouraging: They have met lots of natives and have been welcomed into their villages, invited to eat with them and watch their dances. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z For she was not a native and she didn’t rightly belong here. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I even start hating the customers for extraneous reasons, such as, in the case of the native Caucasians, their size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael, a native, did not want to be like them. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z One of the native men sees me eyeing the bread, and he laughs. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Samuel Collier, by then a grown man, was recognized for his knowledge, skills, and ability to communicate with the natives in their own language. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Of the African languages, Zulu has the largest number of native speakers, but we couldn’t keep that without also having Xhosa and Tswana and Ndebele. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In such an environment even the native Indians lacked virility. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “When the sisters ran an orphanage here, some children would sing themselves to sleep, often in their native language, as many were immigrant children.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Most were songs for one voice—though perhaps in their native land, they would have been sung by many. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He lived along that coast now every night and in his dreams he heard the surf roar and saw the native boats come riding through it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at his friends’ and cousins’ children he thought not only of pigs but also of “savages,” as the English called native people. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Those natives were grown trees when a political execution took place on Golgotha. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ptolemies paid Rome to protect them from uprisings by native Egyptians and occasional threats from tribes to the east. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Instead of living in concert with the land, instead of relying on the country for sustenance as the natives did, he attempted to insulate himself from the northern environment with ill-suited military tools and traditions. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A native tribe called the Taposa lived in the desert and envied the food that we carried. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z During his voyage around the world, his encounters with natives had been startling and enlightening. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He expressed himself in the dietary laws, which favored native African foods—the yam, the cassava—and prohibited the consumption of swine. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I see a dozen native men emerging from the forest near the fort. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z La Perouse followed his royal orders to behave peaceably but complained that the natives “believed our forbearance inexhaustible.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mingo had lived on the farm for a long time, and when it came to addressing Lander’s appeals, it was good to have a native voice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But the Inka army’s plan to burn down the town and prevent the invaders from crossing the river was foiled by the native Xauxa and Wanka populace, which had long resented the empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Such examples of the power of guns against native peoples lacking guns could be multiplied indefinitely. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder if the native people saw it coming,” I say. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “This place is like darkest Africa. Like the Amazon jungle. Like were learning to live among the natives here.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet’s native land, our own native land, Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For the native members of our household, Independence Day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No living people were to be seen, but there were many bodies of native people, who’d been slaughtered by the angry Japanese as they pulled back. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It might have been due to nasty natives, an inclement climate, or unfamiliar local parasites. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z What troubled me the most was the way they treated the native people of the islands they conquered. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Hela is the native name for the country of Sri Lanka, where activists carry signs demanding “Justice for the Hela Nation.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There, too, the native groups, descended from Mississippian societies, were far more hierarchical and autocratically ruled than the Algonkian- and Iroquoian-speaking groups in the Northeast. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You see how well our natives live?” a government official would proudly tell a bus full of incredulous American, Japanese and European tourists. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Myma is still in New York, her native habitat. No doubt she is trying to taunt the police into arresting her in some demonstration at this very moment.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I hope Reverend Hunt is not too disappointed that his first time trying to convert a Virginia native to Christianity did not work out. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Well, I mean, technically yes, but I feel like a native already. The—uh—the A train was running local this morning, and it really ticked me off.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Have we crossed the wide ocean only to be shot by the natives the minute we set foot in Virginia? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Those natives talked a kind of broken English called pidgin, which was not too hard to understand. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z They explained that in the late 1800s, many members of my tribe began moving from their native Rwanda to the mountains of South Kivu, a Congolese province. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Chances are a few of the Martians, if they were smart, escaped to the mountains. But there aren’t enough, I’ll lay you money, to be a native problem. This planet is through.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We sing Hebrew songs at our meetings, but usually someone will share one from their childhood, in their native tongue. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She skipped and whirled and cartwheeled among the prickly natives. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Ever since she saw a woodcut of a missionary surrounded by jungle natives, Ethel thought it would be spiritually fulfilling to serve the Lord in dark Africa, delivering savages to the light. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Theresa began by reading the assignment aloud: “To research and present information about an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When Kathy met her husband, she was twenty-one and he was thirty-four and a native of a country she knew almost nothing about. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He called a friend of his, an Inuit native who had a cabin close to Seward. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Why did the native peoples of southern Africa not domesticate sorghum for themselves? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They slaughtered native men, women, and even children from many tribes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The pillars combined his Greek heritage with the colonial architecture of his beloved native land. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It sounded fluent and native, not like Babulya when she spoke with her heavy accent. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z He’s been told there are spots only for natives of Belgium. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Oh, Garryowen may be more gay Than this quiet man from beside Lough Neagh And I know that the sun shines softly down On the river that runs through my native town. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z It was not that I ever thought they were stupid, though stupidly I took for granted their enormous native intelligence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The difference between British racism and Afrikaner racism was that at least the British gave the natives something to aspire to. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But I do wonder, as he does, what harm it is for our neighbors to worship God in their native language. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Where the native kings saw danger, Alexander the Great saw opportunity. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z I pictured explorers in their ships arriving at the shore and making deals with the true native New Yorkers, the Indians. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Prescott’s thunderous cadences remain a pleasure to read, despite the author’s firmly stated belief, typical for his time, in the moral inferiority of the natives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By the 1700s, guns had replaced swords as the main weapon favoring European invaders over Native Americans and other native peoples. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I am not cooking in my home, madam. My wife is cooking native food.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They say the natives are savages, but in truth, these ignorant Englishmen are the savages. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z After that, the natives come to us nearly every day, sometimes two men, sometimes three. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Our understanding of genes has reached such a level of sophistication and depth that we are no longer studying and altering genes in test tubes, but in their native context in human cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At the top of the project sheet, it says: Science/Language Arts Cross-Curricular Project Broad topic—Florida agriculture Narrow topic—an agricultural product that is native to this area of Florida Your topic—?????? Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Chestnut was especially popular—not the imported European chestnut roasted on Manhattan street corners in the fall, but the smaller, soft-shelled, deeply sweet native American chestnut, now almost extinguished by chestnut blight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z |
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