He was the leader of a gang that came often to the show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

His doctors’ daily medical bulletins were often intentionally misleading. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Keeping our Nightbeast well fed is quite difficult. The meat of other monstruos will only go so far, but every so often, we are willing to accept a sacrifice. Namely, the three of you.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was true that Sass had often scolded me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a trick he’d often perform for school groups, if someone brought him a bit of orange nougat. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Soojin’s sister, a fourth grader, reminds me of a mini, shyer, and quieter version of Soojin and often makes me wish I had a real little sister—in addition to Rabiya. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The men were brought up on deck more often and allowed to stay for longer periods. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She also gestured with her cane as she spoke, often tapping my shoulder with it to get my attention, or smacking it against my leg to emphasize a point. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Poseidon had a splendid palace beneath the sea, but he was oftener to be found in Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was hyperkinetic, aloof, and so socially inept that the interviewers often came away with the impression he was mentally ill. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I heard him say that,” I said, alluding to statements my father had often made when quarrelling with my mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were like the moon: distant enough not to enter her thoughts too often; bright enough to inspire wonder. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’d seek out Frank as often as I could for extra coaching, even when other kids were getting straight into a game. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Earlier that year, the Coast Guard had spotted the I’m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico, sailing in coastal lanes that rumrunners often used. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His father, who has a decent manufacturing job, often takes the boy on nature hikes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He inspected it often in the little mirror by the stove. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His penchant was for textured synthetic fabrics, often featuring some geometric design like diamonds or pentagons. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners from the general section were often sentenced to isolation there and would use the same set of toilets we did, though at different times. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was not often at home when I came by—she continued working at MIT, as Morrie wished—and I was surprised this morning to see her. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t command the resources or attention that hospitals do, and often they’re severely understaffed, leaving such places barely equipped to deal with a normal day, much less a crisis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Unless where they like women of fortune, which I think they very often do.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

So much of his job was just plain grueling, the challenges huge and often seemingly intractable. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Because Walter's house was closer to the main road, they often sold from his front yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

In Europe, when our enemies saw they were losing a battle, they would often surrender. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without books in the peach stand, I often passed the time making up poems, but that slow afternoon I didn’t have the patience for rhyming words. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will’s father would often be on the road for days, sometimes weeks. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Pretty well, thanks to Aunt March, who lets Esther talk to me as often as I like,” replied Amy, with a grateful look, which caused the old lady to smile affably. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadow observed, with a wry amusement, that the bows of the stringed instruments, played by mechanical arms, never actually touched the strings, which were often loose or missing. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The balcony is a special place because it’s where Pa and I often have important conversations. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d often disconnect the telephone and render himself incommunicado—sometimes for weeks. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t volunteer details of my day, and when she tried to update me on her life, often I would just tune her out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One wishes they would say so more often. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He had often used his position as president of The Vigils to keep control of Archie, to prevent him from going overboard on assignments. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dreaming about chess didn’t happen often with Bobby. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She just doesn’t look the way she sounds, and I often wonder how she got this way. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The problem is that they are often scared of the wrong things. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But the tyrant who had seized power was jealous of anyone with education and money, and so Papito was often sent out of the country on a bogus diplomatic post. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Chico, Pilar, and Catarina visited us often in the evenings after work. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why she often looked more like the Wicked Witch than a movie star—an impression reinforced by her irritating way of jabbing you with a finger the second before she said something to you. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. had heard this one often enough so that, against his will and much to his dismay, he anticipated each line before the lyrics were actually sung. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Researchers came to his lab several times each week wanting to learn his techniques, and he often traveled to labs around the world to help set up cell-culture facilities. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to understand that if I put in extra hours of studying, I could often close the gap. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They often said they did so because they were disgusted with what had happened to the football program. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

As often as not, though, she relied on herself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

We used separate code words for things often mentioned in warfare. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can often argue both for and against a given proposition on the basis of the same evidence. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She often thought of the grave that waited at the end of it, and if she closed her eyes she could remember the smell of the earth there. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was skinny, and his jeans and shorts often landed right around his hipbones. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Their life had changed, although they still felt sad for the loss of Diepe and thought often of their brother and son who had now gone. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I waited for that watering all day because I could often have Grandma to myself. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The tongue often makes an appearance, licking from the lips any stickiness imparted by the filter. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

At other times a cheery fellow, the doorman often complained bitterly about having been fired from his job of twenty years in the Westing paper mill. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mmuo had started to walk past, and often a long line of cars waited for an mmuo to walk past so they could drive on. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Like skin and hair that weren’t washed as often as free people’s. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“So far in our relationship, Pudge, I’ve seen your chicken legs entirely too often,” the Colonel deadpanned. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

What he did was so foolish, however, that in later years it was often said that he had gone mad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This action may result from minute doses often repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most important, and this is often conveniently glossed over, they were popular throughout the world because they were actually good. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Occasionally—in fact, better make that often—her old-fashioned ways touched him. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the thunder god did not often smile. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Every so often, he’d look up at the sky—checking the time. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, I often push her to fight with me physically. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was permitted to receive pictures and to keep the album, warders would often search my cell and confiscate pictures of Winnie. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Decades earlier, Shirley Temple was similarly a symptom of the Shirley boom, though she is often now remembered as its cause. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His special targets were Baby Kochamma’s guests—Catholic bishops or visiting clergy—who often dropped by for a snack. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ash’s father slept for most of the journey, and when he awoke he was often disoriented. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He often infuriates me, but he’s old. I’ve been taught to revere and obey such people. It’s just...built in.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He’s come once too often for me, and I’m going to have a word with him, if I can. I don’t suppose we could give him the slip now anyway.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Usually, she was so eager to let it lead her into an undiscovered world, one she had never been to before, that she often started to read at the most unsuitable moments. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Chatty and sociable; will often follow farmers around. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The message seemed often to get telegraphed, if never said directly: These people don't belong. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Since I often slept in my clothes, the problem would not be great. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed so inoffensive that the sentries let her pass without any questions as another vendor, one of the many who often arrived from the towns in the swamp. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The subject often casts her eyes downward in a modest or coy manner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After The Treatment they had been showing him a newfound respect, and often they came looking for him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As often had happened before, it was the younger boy who lay wide-eyed in the darkness. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily for these species, succession is often interrupted—Nature does not move in lockstep. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He often got sympathy from strangers for being an orphan, but as he listened to Neville’s snores, he thought that Neville deserved it more than he did. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For the most part this pollution is unseen and invisible, making its presence known when hundreds or thousands of fish die, but more often never detected at all. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But as a kid, I preferred the black side, and often wished that Mommy had sent me to black schools like my friends. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hera is often called “cow-faced,” as if the adjective had somehow stuck to her through all her changes from a divine cow to the very human queen of heaven. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The older I got, the more I realized that my happy-Mom memories were often fabrications invented to make me feel better about her being chronically unhappy. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, like boogers often do. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

These mirages made navigation around the bergs very dangerous, because it was often hard to tell what was a real iceberg and what was a phantom. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"I'm sure they didn't notice anything but you. You should wear flames more often," he says. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“For my lips are very attractive. I often think they are my best feature.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

As pressure builds inside the skull, motor and mental skills deteriorate with alarming speed—typically within a few hours or less— and often without the victim even noticing the change. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know how often he calls me. You don’t know how much I have to swallow just to be a good daughter to him.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Conversations with Crick frequently upset Sir Lawrence Bragg, and the sound of his voice was often sufficient to make Bragg move to a safer room. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Every so often she stood up to warm herself; otherwise she waited patiently, the hard metal under her. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Racists need devils, or they need gods, and often they need both. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So did Aunt Victoria who doesnt smile very often, poor woman, because she works so hard and sees so much of suffering. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boys get them right more often than I do, mainly because they like to show off. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A scarred hand is nothing. On the Wall, you'll be wearing gloves often as not." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Quiet and willing to do whatever anyone else wanted, she was often favorably compared to a shadow. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And I thought of my own distance from an institution that has, so often, been the only support for our people. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Her fleshy ample mouth still had all its teeth, and when she smiled her whole face lit up, but that did not happen very often. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cried for their mothers much less often than might have been expected; they were very brown, and filthily dirty. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He did not entertain the crosscurrents of conflicting emotions that were often aroused in others upon sighting “the enemy.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenie had told her never to look the masters directly in their eyes, but Amari had stolen looks at Mrs. Derby as often as she had been able to. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poorer neighborhoods often had no trees at all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But now the workers, male and female, were most often Asian. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Turner soon took to going down there most afternoons, and more often than not, Willis was there, too. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The way he said “Yeah,” like he so often said “Yeah.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne—to beat her down, hide her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Researchers have often described the Yanomamo as "fierce," aggressive sorts whose small villages are constantly at violent odds with one another. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He would need every sword to deal with the ragged horde of Poor Fellows surrounding the Great Sept. She asked about her twin often, but her gaolers gave no answer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He often asks about you, Martin,” my father said, smiling. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

How often had I seen Miss Lilian sitting on that bench, smoking, drinking a glass of wine, her mouth drawn down with disapproval? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“If life is often as hard as this, I don’t see how we ever shall get through it,” added her sister despondently. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shots are often so uncertain that they land within our own lines. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Excessive height and mental defects often accompany the sterility caused by this condition. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

They played golf together and went out often—to movies, to the theater occasionally, to triple-A baseball games, and to the state university football games. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

People who were gay, resisted gender norms, or engaged in interracial dating often found themselves involuntarily committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The phone rang then; it had been ringing more often since Ade Coker was arrested. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

But since seeing the dead, Ophie had been lying a lot more often, and it was starting to get so that the truth was so unbelievable that fibbing seemed more honest in a way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Ah! sir—but a thoughtless young person will sometimes step behind a window-curtain, and throw up a sash, without its being suspected. I have often known it done myself.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They had been parked on a quiet side street, a spot they’d used often when they wanted time alone. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She saw that he touched the scar on his forehead very often, rubbed it, and drew its outline with his fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

With the occupation of her terrace, she stayed inside, turning five times oftener in her pacing than she had out on the hand. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The words sounded precisely right when she said them, though often people told her she didn’t make any sense at all. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

My dad moved with a pained slowness, using an aluminum walker to get himself around the house, pausing often to catch his breath. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

By the end of the second week, I more often haunted my living room, but the Gravedigger rained medication on me like the London Blitz. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The breathlessness of the air was growing as they climbed; and now they seemed often in the blind dark to sense some resistance thicker than the foul air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

His constricted domestic routine, plus what he regarded as an often boring job, were becoming more suffocating as the novelty of being in Chicago wore off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often do you get to say a name like “Mr. Bobo” aloud? Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

At meals, we often packed ten or more around a table, laid-back and laughing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"If you survive your first year you may just manage to live through the rest of your time here. But many don't survive. They get carried out on stretchers screaming. I've seen it often." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the first part of his epic Ring cycle, The Rhinegold, for example, angry diminished chords are often used to signify the dangerous power of the Ring itself. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“They come sniffing around here pretty often, so next time we see one—bam! We’ll grab him.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

As I grew older, my thoughts turned more and more often to the green hills of the Transkei. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My grandpa had visited us in Ohio often, but Grandma Nellie had been with him only a few of those times. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was a warm, welcoming place and I was often there either to sample a political discussion or MaSisulu’s cooking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An Eskimo? That’s interesting. They don’t stray into this city too often,” the boy said before turning around and strolling away. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the kiln site he often saw potters whose turn it was to use the kiln. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was not simply that I found a different Church when I went to church; I went to church less often. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She often sat at the kitchen table in the evening, brooding, “What have I done? What was I thinking?” staring off into space, holding a cup of cold, untouched coffee. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you often wander about like this at night?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, that exact scenario is often created by vote- hungry politicians. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The men who flew and worked with the women of Marina’s regiments, more often than not, treated them as “little sisters.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Visitors who come over — friends, boyfriends — often ask me about it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The Lone Wolf was often an angry wolf, whereas a Misfit was often calm and contented. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Ambuya had told her often enough of the dangers of eating uncooked flour and beans. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he spoke about Robbie, which wasn’t often, it was with a touch of self-righteous vindication. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

When they needed more computing power, engineers trusted Dorothy to staff the right person for the job, often hoping that she was at the top of her own list. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Eventually, he asked the tournament organizers to rope off the area around his board, because the crowds would gather and gape, often for hours at a time, while he was playing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

That too was something that happened often enough to give the entire team pause. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Especially for the innumerate, a few vivid predictions or coincidences often carry more weight than much more conclusive but less striking statistical evidence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also began a correspondence course in “Biblical understanding” that had been created by the Church and was often tied in to world events as interpreted by Armstrong. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I got to say, the girl don’t stink, so she must wash those things right often. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We talked most nights, saw each other as often as our schedules allowed, but kept our distance at school. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He often values the reactions over the show itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

An old man in Kabati repeated this sentence often to people who walked past his house on their way to the river to fetch water, to hunt, to tap palm wine; and to their farms. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The historian interested in such questions about writing has the advantage that they can often be answered in unique detail by means of the written record itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra was used to washing with hard yellow soap in a chipped basin, where the water that struggled out of the taps was warm at best, and often flecked with rust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The year before she left she often took trips. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

However, to get the melodic kind of sounds more often associated with music, the sound waves must themselves be organized and regular, not random mixtures. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He just doesn’t often get told he’s good enough. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Police arrested and jailed many of the British suffragettes, often treating them harshly. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

These were great days for Shasta, and every day better than the last as his muscles hardened and he fell less often. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

"He won more often than the others. I think that's how he sent me here. A couple decades of winning at small-stakes poker." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Along with selling cartoons, shebeen owners sold illegal concoctions brewed in the backyards, often under unsanitary conditions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother spoke perfect English, but every so often when she was upset, she slipped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dad often comes out of the bathroom with bits of blood- drenched toilet paper stuck to his skin. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buildings up and down the block were burning and collapsing, punctuated every so often by the explosion of flammable liquids. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

More often than not, they labored as long as there was light, in the broiling heat. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She often told an outward lie, willing herself to be peppy in church, at school, using positive affirmation, which turns out not to be at all the same thing as telling the truth. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Mia went out with her camera, but more often she might spend days, or even weeks, preparing something to photograph, with the actual taking of the photographs lasting only a few hours. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Because Dad was a shift worker and would often start work early the next day, we’d have dinner at 5:30 or 6 p.m. and listen to the news. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Most often the escape attempts were straightforward and totally ineffective—they tried to climb the fence. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Edwards had her followed—and she did not know how often. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly these men were all so desperate or confused by the time I appeared, with my neutral Swiss-accented German and comfortingly official checklist, that they were often gratefully cooperative, if not wholly bewitched. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He arrived from Long Beach, California, at the beginning of January, in a country where cattle often freeze to death, and he was of course a prisoner of war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is not often,” Buckley continued, “that a representative of the people finds the masses of the citizens who elected him to office standing literally at his back, waiting for him to enforce the law. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would hear their voices in the wind and often, when I was on the sea, in the waves that lapped softly against the canoe. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

That autumn I’m now talking about, we needed to know not just the day, but the precise moment Madame turned up, since she often stayed no longer than an hour or two. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

How often did he call me “Amir jan”? “Thanks,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She still, often, began to write to him, but always she stopped, always she decided not to send the e-mails. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He often looked to Yossarian like one of those people hanging around modem museums with both eyes together on one side of a face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Youssef Haddad, my father, whom I barely knew, but whom I thought about more often than I admitted to my mom. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth was alarmed when she saw these lists, because she knew that the Nazis would use them to ambush Allied ships, often by submarine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She grew closer to Miriam Mann and her family, the two women and their children becoming like one large extended family, often taking advantage of the many activities available on the Hampton Institute campus. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Even though he did not speak it often, that other tongue flavored his English so he sounded different from everyone else. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Annie often climbed into Charles’s lap or stood behind him and arranged his hair, making it “beautiful,” for half an hour at a time. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since he had told her about Nipper, she had come over often. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Scientists who tried managing energies of the necessary magnitude often ended up with equipment blown to smithereens and laboratories littered with glass shards. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I started in, past the stairs I had seen so often in my nightmares. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“It makes sense why the cucos haven’t been attacking as often as they normally do. If Mr. Dimblewit was providing food at a set location, then there was no need for them to hunt.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She thought often of starting a blog, writing about what she cared about, building it up slowly, and finally publishing her own magazine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So often men trip by being in a rush. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

People manifest in their own dreams more often than they don’t. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

If you were tardy, you would often be told to kneel where you were. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The truth is she probably took my side against Maryvale more often than not. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

True, she could only speak a few words at a time, and most often no one could even guess at the meaning of those. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was a dream I’d had often in the winter but seldom since. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

How often among the tykes fistfights and battles had begun from You said, I said, He said that you said, and the infinite variations. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rim was raised every so often, as I grew. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police were clever enough to detain a prisoner long enough for the wounds and bruises to heal, and often it was simply the word of a policeman against our client. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, because the truth is often a better ruse than a lie, I add, "I'm curious to see what happens to you next." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Later, he would often explain his reasoning to me: a glare from the constable, too many fond sighs from the young wives in town But sometimes he had no reason. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Before this he had often helped Dove with his work. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I scaled such mountains of combat often. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Her shoulders bobbed up and down, and she whimpered quietly, every so often wiping her face with the edge of Héctor’s baby blanket. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She spread the silk on the ground and began the process of dividing and counting, dividing and counting and setting aside, which she’d done so often as a passionate, curious teenager, and hardly ever since. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

If the experts are in Philly, these local doctors are probably wrong pretty often. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often daydreamed about him being here, in my room. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the years after Prince Jones died, I thought often of those who were left to make their lives in the shadow of his death. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

A sentence beginning with It is or There is is often a candidate for liposuction: There is competition between groups for resources works just fine as Groups compete for resources. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The reasoning makes no sense, not that her father’s reasoning often does. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And he could picture her as he had seen her so often, standing before the city council, righteous and indignant, like a black Moses before Pharaoh, commanding, “Let my people go!” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

According to testimony that the farmer subsequently gave under oath, he remembered that evening well, because he’d often discussed it with friends of his who gathered regularly at the hotel. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She knew everybody knew everything, often before it happened. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite her marital troubles, she had that air of secret elation, that affection for her own body that pregnant women often have. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though it’s often seen with a small initial r, it’s supposed to be capitalized as a registered service mark owned by the National Association of Realtors. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone had been ringing more often than usual, and more than once someone knocked on the door and was turned away by my mother. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The only good thing to be said for Count Olaf is that he wasn’t around very often. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Does your mother come to see you often?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wife of a freedom fighter is often like a widow, even when her husband is not in prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soothed a little by the thought I drifted into sleep, broken often by bells ringing and the low rat-tat of drums for the prayers which went on at intervals throughout the night. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m Pixel Gibbons. Nice to meet you. Not often I get to talk to another Spare; we keep to ourselves mostly.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But first we have to be frank about a subject that we would all too often rather ignore. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

My experience is that people often confuse tall with tough. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Jack knew the guards believed these things, for they said so often enough to the prisoners. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to shout encouragement and instructions to him, as he had so often done to us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seems like she’s noticed me in the library more often than I thought. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

So often things you hear secondhand are not quite true. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was probably because he was so old, he didn’t remember how often kids fell down. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even after they'd been married and had their own families and often couldn't make it for other occasions, the four daughters always came home for their father's birthday. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The high financial stakes would spawn intense and often vicious competition between gangsters, and many would die. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

"Right now I'm asking how often they reveal a problem." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alice Paul recognized the power of the simple phrase, and she often used it in her lobbying campaigns. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gistan got me a job at another hotel where the tip was folding money more often than coin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama watched for the sales and then gathered all us children every so often to buy shoes there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke gently, laughed often, and never exercised his wit at the expense of others. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My mom and I have become pretty good at fixing most of it ourselves so we don't have to bother Ms. Raz too often. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His feet tapped show tunes at breakfast, and during dinner he often pointed at the mountain, his eyes shining, and described where he would lay the pipes to bring water down to the house. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her name was April Hall, but she often galled herself April Dawn. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Walter and Kathy have never hesitated to criticize me, and I took their suggestions to heart, often incorporating their changes. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often had she and Viserys stolen away in the black of night, a bare step ahead of the Usurper's hired knives? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I’m there more often than some of the gangbangers, and it’s always for running my mouth when I’m not supposed to. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“He also ran away. The fugitive laws suggest how often.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yeah...in the weight room, we often have deep, philosophical conversations. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“In the Age of Mortality love and murder often went hand in hand,” quipped Scythe Twain. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I often forgot myself in my watching and listening. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

From now on, wherever he went, he’d be closely trailed by a military aide carrying a forty-five-pound briefcase containing launch authentication codes and sophisticated communications devices, often referred to as the nuclear football. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Adults use this gesture often, especially when talking to kids. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

As I always did in those early days, I glanced below the tarpaulin every so often to make sure he wasn’t up to something. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though academic prose is often stuffed with needless words, there is also a suffocating style of technical writing in which the little words like the, are, and that have been squeezed out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They came in, quite often, before their shifts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He’s always looking to do something for others,” though sadly too often those people don’t appreciate what he’s trying to do for them; they don’t understand him. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He thought oftener of O’Brien, with a flickering hope. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

As a former District politician, the fiery Moore had often been the subject of news stories in The Washington Post. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When an artist paints over an image, the first painting is often gone forever, never to reappear. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The yard was alive to the clack of wood on wood, punctuated all too often by thwacks and yowls of pain when a blow struck leather or flesh. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Do you know how often I wished that she was my mother? Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I check over my shoulder often when I drive the truck to Aibileen’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He laughed often, and well, and spoke amiably to highborn lords and lowly serving wehches alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He had been posed so often that he seemed to know what was wanted of him when the press corps buzzed around, prompting the reporters to dub him “Movie Star.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyger often teased that he was going to go rogue and start a romaine revolt. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Nothing good will come of it” was the phrase she often used, to which Jack would respond smugly that plenty of good had come already. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

They can’t follow when the chimps cross a narrow, steep-sided valley by swinging from tree to tree, or when they climb the slender vines that often hang down a sheer cliff face. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He often thus arrogantly addressed his master’s granddaughters—really his own mistresses. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cooperation with the Jim Crow system often seemed far more likely to increase or maintain one’s security than any alternative. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He licks my hand every so often to make sure I’m still there—mouth open like he’s smiling. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slept on a straw mattress upon the floor, and I was often awakened by his pained tumblings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Quite often the masters and the overseers came back without the runaways. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And since Belt’s day, terms like 'Amazonia” and 'Amazon basin” are often used as if they referred to a single, homogeneous entity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Children would step aside when he drew near, and the smaller ones often ducked behind their mothers’ skirts. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

She would mumble a name to herself every so often before shaking her head. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Okay, why do teenagers use that answer so often, especially when we really do know? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was always valuable to be familiar with regulations, because the warders themselves were often ignorant of them and could be intimidated by one’s superior knowledge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stories were never verified, but they occurred often enough to arouse deep anger in the minds of people whose sons had died under Grant’s command. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Father wants me to stop going upstairs so often, but I don’t want to. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Many of the prisoners, though, had been driven to a desperate act—often, something violent and despicable—and afterward they were penitent, seeking redemption. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

As an organizer working in urban communities, Barack had told me, he’d contended most often with a deep weariness in people—especially black people—a cynicism bred from a thousand small disappointments over time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“How often do you bathe, Mr. Stephanides?” the tall one asked. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Every so often she took it out, throwing the strap over her shoulders to keep the huge, many-keyed, wheezing instrument off the ground. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But so often he’d been called on to do the impossible. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t tell her everything because he knows she’s far too emotional, far too critical, and often far too biased. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

All the truly good things, it often seemed, the things we couldn’t get, were outside, and had to be sent for, or shipped in. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not announce that the pork was often spoiled, nor that the men had to eat it raw for there was no fire to cook it over. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Otter mate for life and if the mother dies the father will often raise the babies as best he can. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

We all trekked at our own pace, pausing often for refreshment at trailside teahouses and to chat with passersby. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Before the Klan, he had often lain in bed like this, wondering why he couldn’t seem to get anywhere in the world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how often Mother tried to reassure him, he came back to the same lament. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, she’d change the layout of our living room, putting a new slipcover on the sofa, swapping out the photos and framed prints that hung on our walls. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It’s not often you get someone who is clever and beautiful and fond of sport.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their fate indeed was a proof that suffering was not a punishment for wrongdoing; the innocent suffered as often as the guilty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to fall back upon tradition and since it was a political meeting, I selected one of the political techniques that I'd heard so often at home: The old down-to-earth, I'm-sick-and-tired-of-the-way-they've-been-treating-us approach. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinic staff often lacked conviction in their voices, he told Farmer. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I don't always find what I'm looking for, but in searching for an answer, I'll often come across bits of information I can use in some later puzzle. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I had been restless, waking up often, and when I glanced at my clock I saw the hands had scarcely moved. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

During the recent wars against the elves, both sides had often stolen food from the other. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Such works decorated the house, and I was often scolded for accidentally throwing away Robert's Styrofoam cup or Douglas's very special paint stick. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lyddie would not have said so, but she envied him the chance to be outdoors and out of boots so often. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

What if he did dream—should he simply tell his family unit, as he did so often, anyway, that he hadn’t? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She sat in the gallery and often waited in line an hour before the show opened in order to get a seat in the first row. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite often, the King’s Army launched their artillery towards our works without hope of the shells reaching us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How often do I have to tell you? The money is for bad times.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although Amari could not understand the language of the white men, she soon began to recognize words they repeated often, such as “slave” and “price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Min would shout or scold while Tree-ear stared at his toes in shame and, more often than not, resentment. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Which you often refer to as ‘back when you were happy.’” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was another awkward pause before Sir David said, rather uncertainly: 'We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French, Mr Lewis.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was hugely dangerous and often did result in the pilot’s death. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He’d felt that way often with his boy and the father, and one of his strategies had been to disappear if that would protect his boy from the man’s anger. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You have heard all that has come lately. Don’t you hear often? I fancied Jo would send you volumes.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was often embarrassed to bring his friends around the house, because he didn't have a "typical" mom. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“How often have the cops killed someone in our city? In this country?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

She didn’t hum or dance the way she often did when she cooked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

On he toiled, up and up, turning this way and that to lessen the slope, often stumbling forward, and at the last crawling like a snail with a heavy burden on its back. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Why should one not enjoy in a lighthearted sort of way stories of ladies and gentlemen who fall in love and express their feelings for each other, often in the most elegant phraSes? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He also mentioned how he often used to retreat to his room. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“And I had my share of enemies, too. Children despise superior minds, you know, especially in leaders, who must often make unpopular decisions.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The two girls argued often enough, but this was different. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In between placing phone calls and writing long-drawn-out, pathetic, and often incoherent letters, Cabot continued his study of the very subject that had, unbeknownst to him, driven Alma away: the potential of humankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

It is extraordinary, thought Miss Honey, how often small children have flights of fancy like this. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They say Gontish wizards often keep familiars,” said Jasper, who sat on the other side of Vetch. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Artists often use croquis for subjects who won’t or can’t stay still—like a feral cat or a small child, someone whose whole being cannot be captured on paper in one steady view. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She had noticed him often, his thin wiry figure swinging easily hand over hand up the rigging, his sandy, sun-bleached head bent over a coil of rope. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

For black youth, the experience of being “made black” often begins with the first police stop, interrogation, search, or arrest. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Tap your foot to find the beat, and then notice how often important musical "events" are happening "in between" your foot-taps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

She conducted unannounced inspections, yelled frequently, scolded often, and had even slapped Matthew when he argued about one of her directives. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now Frodo often met strange dwarves of far countries, seeking refuge in the West. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In our district, they plow early and often and put chains on the bus tires. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

It often seems that my brother and I were raised in two completely different households. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had never noticed before, but Mother often spoke too softly to be heard from any distance, and Matthew and Mark always made their nasty comments under their breath. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I often wonder if the quota will ever change, and if so, how much. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I wished that Andrea were with me now, but she lived out in the country and I didn’t see her often. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, Luke looked over at him and tried to figure out what he was thinking. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

This is a topic we often discuss at Sunday school, and sometimes it gets loud because of all the different opinions. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had often been just a spectator, and this was not his story. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But more often, I wondered what happened between him and Mama that made her want to erase him from her mind. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There was a snooker table in the basement of the Chelsea house and he’d often spent evenings playing against his uncle. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

He entered so often himself and always was watchful. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“We shall often meet, I hope, in Hertfordshire.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

In Miss Penelope Lumley’s day it was often said that the mark of a good servant was to do his or her job with brisk efficiency while at the same time remaining “invisible.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He’d been added to the boat last, he’d often struggled to master the technical side of the sport, and he still tended to row erratically. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He smiled more often than he frowned, and the secret darkness was seldom on him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice often felt she was at a disadvantage when dealing with Mandela. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Grandma often had to stop for a few minutes before she could continue to move down the stairs from their third floor with An Yi on her back. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A guard would go to the head of the stairs every so often to see what it was like outside, then he would come down and whisper to the other guards. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The notes in different octaves are so closely related that when musicians talk about a note, a "G" for example, it often doesn't matter which G they are talking about. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ranofer had seen the pair often hobbling about the streets of the City of the Dead, but their sudden appearance here sent his wits scattering like startled birds. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

We need to FaceTime more often, because his smile is my favorite smile ever. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Lastly she turned to the Crone, whose statues often showed her with a lamp in one hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We cannot be part of what we fight, he often told us. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She has been swearing more often lately, trying to get a reaction out of Mom, to see if she’s really listening. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They knew what had happened at school, and what was happening now, but they dismissed it in that self-serving way parents often had of pretending anything they can’t solve is not really a problem. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Warm water often caused Clare to have a bowel movement, yet no matter how gross the water, Mandy and I would still have to get in it later. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Or even more likely, it was because I took an instant dislike to his giant orange moustache and he often caught me staring at it with what was probably a little sneer under the nose. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Listening to a priest I could often grasp the general sense of what he was saying—but I didn’t always try to. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents — and their parents’ unfailing willingness to answer them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only other maid I see often enough is Elizabeth’s maid, Aibileen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Kira remembered that she had tied it back that morning, as she often did, with a simple leather cord of no value. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often wondered if she even liked us. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is often necessary, for meaning to come through, that there be an almost vague sense of strangeness and askewness. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the previous twenty-four hours the wind speed had not fallen below 107 miles an hour, and often gusted much higher. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I stop calling so often; it’s no fun to keep hoping, keep getting shot down. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d break into a trot and often Flittman had to run more than half a block to catch up with him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if aggression cannot mend their troubles, then often they begin to drift toward the only other way out. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since then I have often wondered what drew me to it at that age. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often brings me a gift, something unusual, like a key chain with a Gumby hanging from it, or a crinkly fan with a picture of an old-fashioned lady in an evening gown. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Indeed, in those busy days, our servants' hall would often witness a gathering of some of the finest professionals in England talking late into the night by the warmth of the fire. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them I have known only slightly—because they were shy and I didn’t see them often, or because they died soon after I first met them. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The people climbing them learned that they were treacherous, jagged things—hot to the touch, often unstable—eager, should certain important rocks be disturbed, to tumble some more, to form lower, more solid curves. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The White House invites him for dinner so often that he owns a tuxedo. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Since they had no cars but only horses and wagons they did not often drive all the way to Ogdentown. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She converted one of the two bedrooms into a study and wrote there, standing often by the window to look down at her new Roland Park neighborhood, the restored row homes shielded by old trees. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

We must think of art not in terms of everyday prose but of poetry, which is free to rearrange conventional vocabulary and syntax in order to convey new, often multiple, meanings and moods. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the summer I had often squatted in the courtyard with the servants while they ate, so I went out now and joined them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Inside the Embassy, life was dominated by a terrible paranoia about bugging: often the staff appeared able to think of nothing else," Gordievsky commented. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you looked down the hole, you would often see rats scurrying about in the gloom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a country with a 70-percent unemployment rate, the capital offered the most opportunities for work, often as servants for the wealthy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, it was probably not often that business was this good in March. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it this morning when I was at the house, and I looked in the mirror, which I don’t often do anymore. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Salva woke often to the sound of roars in the distance and sometimes to the death-squeal of an animal under a lion’s claws. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a special-education teacher, Mom often found herself having to get on the floor with her students for certain activities. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel -— Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I stopped by his basement often in those first few months, then less and less as time went by. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a hard and lonely job—the hardest and loneliest in the world, it often seemed to me—but he knew that he had an obligation to stay open, to shut nothing out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Demiguise is a peaceful herbivorous beast, something like a graceful ape in appearance, with large, black, doleful eyes more often than not hidden by its hair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And her mom had a sister she talked often with on the phone, but it had been years since they saw her. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

The official temperature is often much less relevant than the absence of central heating. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Then they were laughing, the species of laughter that often comes as a bridesmaid of violence. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often wondered what he’d be thinking about, down there at the gate, watching the girls going home from school, trying to want something he couldn’t even remember he didn’t and couldn’t want any longer. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse, hooked on arguments and ideas— he often describes himself as a fighter—could usually be drawn out of his shell. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born of a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t talk about his mother often, but when he did, the same things happened. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Success is so often measured by grades and test scores. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The same logic didn’t apply in the United States, where the president is independently elected and often does not represent the party that has a majority in the Congress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I had noticed it often as I went about the city, a long grimy many-towered ill-looking place, distinct among the pallid bulks and hulks of the Commensal edifices. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

He often put Gimpy in charge of the shop when he had to go out, and I had heard stories of the times Donner gave Gimpy money to pay his wife’s hospital bills. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And the Truman students who enroll at more expensive colleges—even solid but not exclusive institutions like Temple University in Philadelphia—often must take out tens of thousands of dollars in loans. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Several times he was in churches when shooting started, and he often took refuge behind a pillar. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Back home in Congo, I avoided using the school bathrooms because they were unsanitary and often lacked toilet paper. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Indian moccasins were so much more comfortable and waterproof than stiff, moldering English boots that when colonists had to walk for long distances their Indian companions often pitied their discomfort and gave them new footwear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her lack of fear for her safety—particularly among blacks, where she often stuck out like a sore thumb and seemed an easy target for muggers—had me stumped. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Letty was a very tough old lady: aunts often were in those days. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Worse, too-frequent relapse of memory, often in association with trigger object. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to all his other labours he was busy directing the cleaning up and restoring of Bag End; but he was often away in the Shire on his forestry work. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Once the skeleton was picked clean, it would begin, often, to float, like seaweed in a quiet tide, shifting this way and that, sometimes surfacing, more often just journeying through the Snow Sand for eternity. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ucho had often hurt me with his words, but never before with his hands. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Guests at this hotel often insisted on carrying luggage to avoid tipping him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that she had a daughter just my age, and I often felt she was like a mother to me, too. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the picnic tree, with huge overhanging boughs, underneath which they’d often had picnics with their children. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

As is so often the case in science, the new developments went hand in hand with new developments in technology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“When you lose your face, An-mei,” Popo often said, “it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I won’t have this namby-pamby, wishy-washy nonsense about not hitting people who deserve it. A good thrashing is what’s needed in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Have you been beaten often?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He often used our boom box as collateral. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My mother, especially, grew very fond of her and came to see us often, although it meant travelling several hours in a bullock cart, which is very tiring when one is no longer young. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They don’t come along very often, but when they do, they wipe me out. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Every so often there is a glitch from faulty drone film. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she had exaggerated; people very often were wrong about their relatives. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Together with “The Internet is ruining the language” and “People write gibberish on purpose,” this is the explanation I hear most often for the prevalence of bad writing today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She owed her greatest relief to her friend Miss Lucas, who often joined them, and good-naturedly engaged Mr. Collins’s conversation to herself. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When he writes her in return, he requests that she continue to write as often as possible. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then she said in a harsh whisper, “The eldest son goes too often into the inner courts. When you are away he goes.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He often wished that Anulika wasn’t so flat-chested—he wondered what was taking her so long anyway, since she and Nnesinachi were about the same age—so that he could feel her breasts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Each book looked clean; they were all either read often or dusted often. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of course often those places went very cheap—islands didn't suit everybody. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

They usually avoided Vigil talk although Kevin often had inside information about assignments and stuff and he often fed it to Danny in bits and pieces, finding it hard not to show off a bit. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are not just tiny and swift but also often tantalizingly evanescent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

On Fridays black people continued to be paid for their toil in the white world, and tsotsis and other muggers continued robbing them of their hard-earned pittance, often hacking and stabbing them to death. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very often a single incentive scheme will include all three varieties. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

But their services lasted even longer, and often W.E. would have to run in and get the old man out of his service while the taxi meter impatiently ticked away. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Four four time is used so much that it is often called common time, written as a bold "C." Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the same time, artists often play an important role as the articulators of our shared beliefs and values, which they express through an ongoing tradition to us, their audience. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the gangsters were annoyed by his curiosity; more often they took advantage of his willingness to listen. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as this happened, they cheerfully abandoned the gruelling, dangerous, and often spartan life of hunter-gatherers, settling down to enjoy the pleasant, satiated life of farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, ironically, the Jews themselves often still have trouble being “accepteid.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike football coaches, who often try to key their players up for a big game, rowing coaches sometimes take the opposite tack. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The three women often sat together, talking in the dusk. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

My radio squawked, as it often did, and the inmate glanced back at me nervously. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And often sound does not quite become a word but suffocates or floats away over me half finished; an arch, a pathway, a comet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I didn’t have money to get downtown, I would often climb a tree in the park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Those assertions are rooted in fear—fear that her daughter will be harmed by a society that still so often fears blackness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine the experience of unease mixed with exhilaration often described in connection with this moment is very similar to what I felt in the Ford as the surroundings grew strange around me. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Francis drove at a reasonable clip—he was a careful driver, unlike Henry, who drove fast and often recklessly and whose eyes were none too good besides. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Negro often dreams of things separated from him only by a door, knowing that he is forever cut off from experiencing them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen, Miche,” he said, speaking as he often did, in basketball terms. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Even when companies recruit for jobs that have nothing to do with mathematics, they often encourage math majors to apply, since they know that analytical skills will serve anyone well, whatever the job. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had often wondered about what had happened to him, but I never thought I would see him again. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

They often carried steel reinforcing rods to older workmen who tied them together with twine or wire as the dam rose from the riverbed in a checkerboard pattern of concrete blocks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Papa had taught her a little about it the night she brought it home, right before he went to bed, which he often did directly after dinner. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I don’t know much about Twig’s dad, but I know she’s often disappointed. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Teachers often talked to their students about the Jews. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Honestly, I crash rehearsal so often, I think people forget I’m not in the play. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

To be one of those “Negroes living in poverty,” as the news often put it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

What is often called the strategy of nuclear deterrence is remarkable for its reliance on the behavior of our nonhuman ancestors. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had often come upon his wife gliding through the sitting rooms, in her white tunic, with her young girl’s laugh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she was home more often, she’d know what was going on. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

I still hear from anguished kids, but far less often; coming in a smaller stream, their stories are both more manageable and less painful. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often does a reservation Indian kid hear that? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

He despised the trivialization of higher education, the inflated grades and cheapened diplomas, the half education that so often passed as mass education in my generation. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a fiercely attacking player, but at the board he’d often seem as if in a trance. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When two paths were open to me—which is not often in the life of a prentice—I took the one easiest to travel, without regard to where it led. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which happens more often than I care to admit. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He did not treat our employers with exaggerated courtesy, and often chided them for their treatment of Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the truth were known, he liked the man as much as his own father, but sometimes— often, actually—he had trouble remembering exacdy what the Mellower had said. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

NOTE: Although a large group of people who play classical music together is often called a symphony, the more accurate term for the group is orchestra. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Children in general? No, not really. They're so fidgety and loud, and often quite dirty.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It was not unusual, Monsieur. The gracious lady often required attention at night. She did not sleep well.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked across at her often, as if he wanted to say something but did not know how to begin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And despite the heat and humidity, they were often forced to wear stifling head nets and gloves in order to protect themselves from the clouds of insects that hounded them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When we fight now, it’s far less dramatic, often more efficient, and always with our love for each other, no matter how strained, still in sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Foods such as these, which are eaten on holidays, often preserve tastes and ways of cooking from earlier times. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

He often commented on the color of a blouse or the cut of a skirt, and once he suggested that next time I wear the same sleeveless scoop-neck dress. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Spacious” homes, meanwhile, are often decrepit or impractical. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I thought often of what I owed and to whom. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The cop pulled Moss’s shirt down and then knelt next to him, running hands down each of his legs, starting at the top, just inches from his crotch, and squeezing every so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

These are the qualities that welfare - to-work job-training programs often seek to inculcate, though I suspect that most welfare recipients already possess them, or would if their child care and transportation problems were solved. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father and his mother and his brother George seldom could locate him by looking for him—usually they had to call him; and the house often echoed with cries of “Stuart! Stooo-art!” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

"Not for a while. Why doesn't he write us notes more often?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How often, in a year’s turning, have you prescribed antibiotics of any kind for yourself or your family? The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pentatonic scales are often associated with eastern Asia, but many other music traditions also use them. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I still get phantom pains, but not as often, and they’re not as severe. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

We sit in the styling chairs and watch it when business is slow, which isn't really that often. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

For one thing, it did not tax the rich but only the poor, and then often arbitrarily. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“In my case, the growth has often been here.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Father accepts Mother as she is, is often annoyed, but says as little as possible because he knows the sacrifices Mother has had to make. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Her arms instinctively crossed over her chest, where he often struck her first. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The races were segregated by a dense, carefully woven web of laws, signs, partitions, arrows, ordinances, unequal opportunities, rules, insults, threats, and customs—often backed up by violence. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The missing bits of my right hand often remind me of your displeasure. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I realized that I could find something I liked at almost any restaurant, whereas before I had often left hungry. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

This is the face her patients most often see—slightly distant, professional, and concerned. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But often, far below, like a nasty little dog, she barks cautions and orders. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Since she lived two houses away, I often popped over after school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Even when mathematics is at its purest and coldest, its pursuit is often quite hot. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granted that we face a world crisis which leaves us standing so often amid the surging murmur of life's restless sea. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

These were always original and often influential, even seminal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The editor was often a visitor, spending hours talking to Matt, staying overnight now and then, and testing Jethro’s progress in the book on English usage. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad eats dinner in Oxford more often than he eats at home these days, mind. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had narrow eyes that often seemed lit with a secret, as if he alone were in on some long-running joke that the rest of the world would come to appreciate later on. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Coach Mustilli was also letting me fence during varsity matches more often, especially when we were competing at larger matches against more than one school. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The inhabitants often fought back vigorously, but they were baffled by the Spaniards’ motives and astounded by the sight and sound of horses and guns. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He liked to lie in the sun in front of the house and I let him, but I did not go so often as in the past. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there is no direct link between this incident and spymaster Washington at that time, later in the war he would often use such tricks. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She broke open one of the tiny penicillin bottles she often bought when she shopped at a pharmacy, and tried giving my brothers a penicillin injection. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

There are many tragedies that could be stopped if only we spoke up more often. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

As often as not, they ate in silence. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Students misbehave more often when they feel anonymous. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

I had often been told that police dogs ate black people when given the order by white people— were they eating people this time? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent might have referred to it as a drawing, not a painting, as he often did when he used watercolors. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But often at night I awoke from night mares in which I saw Tenorio shooting Ultima as he had shot Narciso. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as he didn’t have a choice that their father was white and their mother was black and that because he was both, he often felt he wasn’t allowed to be either one. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But often words do not simply change their meaning, rather they acquire new meanings, meanings which are sometimes apparently unrelated to their original meaning. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

More often than not, all you have to do is look at them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“You need to be a hero more often, Beans,” Ira said, taking a lick. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would often bring a social worker to an eviction. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, the mountains of Peru were so constantly lost in cloud that the team often had to wait weeks for an hour’s clear surveying. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The horror which she had felt so often seized her again. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve thought about death often in recent weeks, but not really about God. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You must come often,” I said, shaking hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

At parties, he often holds her hand, even though they’ve been together years. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A perfect octave is often simply called an octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Everyone sat in motionless silence; everyone except Hermione, whose hand, as it so often did, had shot straight into the air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And it comes most often to the parents of only children, parents who have indulged in black dreams of loss. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those who do have their voting rights restored often describe a feeling of validation, even pride. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I did not tire her by chattering, as young ladies often do, but listened while she rambled around in her large memory. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She comes to this bank, Capital One, so often that everyone there knows her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Computers working in the Space Task Group and the astronauts, whose office was the same building, often ran into each other going to and coming from the bathrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

One of the tenets of our instruction here at Miss Preston's is to attain enrichment beyond the schoolhouse walls, an endeavor that often takes us into nearby Baltimore. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

An old steel-producing city— often called the “Pittsburgh of the South”—Birmingham was crisscrossed with made-up racial lines. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I often wonder, will that ever change or will it remain just another secret swallowed by war? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

This microscopic analysis often continued until the early hours of the morning. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often, Rachel directs a question or comment to me. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sitting with me or talking on the phone recounting their experiences, they were flooded with turbulent, often contradictory feelings of fear, anger, sorrow, regret, and pride. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

From the moment the Collier’s article appeared until the seventies, the woman behind the HeLa cells would be known most often as Helen Lane, and sometimes as Helen Larson, but never as Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

My mother tried her best to furnish me with four cents each day, and often I would bring my brother and sisters leftover pieces of peanut-buttered bread, and some skimmed milk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama thought I was just putting on a show for Pefta and his SIM who came by often to check on the family. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s good I do, too, because I have a feeling I’m missing the patches that indicate the force field more often than I’m spotting them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Pages of tables and designs for instruments were probably often torn out for ready reference, leaving mutilated copies. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

As strange as Logan County was, as often as its residents dealt with odd threats and weird occurrences and mysterious happenings, it wasn’t all bad. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, who’d worked throughout Africa as a missionary, would often share the truth with me about the tremendous cultural diversity that lies within the continent. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Although she was not to see Sutpen again for years, she now saw her sister and niece more often than ever. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting at the window, Beth’s work often dropped into her lap, and she leaned her head upon her hand, in a dejected attitude, while her eyes rested on the dull, autumnal landscape. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the university owned one of the finest reference libraries in the province, Longridge often stayed with him and was, in fact, godfather to the Hunters’ nine-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in the last paragraph of The Origin, Charles wrote about a spot near Down House where he and Emma often walked together. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often a hermaphrodite was born, a seeming girl who, in growing up, proved otherwise. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

What she wanted, after Rekus died, and what she succeeded in having more often than not, was some touching every day. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I would remember the words very often in the years that followed, and the more I considered them, the more I worried that I might be growing into the wrong sort of woman. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But certain lines in the middle—lines that happened to appear more often than any other—made a slighdy darker image than the rest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

The Pe-2’s machine guns often jammed, and their bullets weren’t always strong enough to penetrate the armor of Luftwaffe fighter aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

This last part was a problem, because Jessie knew that she often thought people were nice and then they turned out to be not nice. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Inhabitants of a new world with a new culture, geeks often find that the old symbols don’t work for them—pep rallies, assemblies, etc. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. How often am I to say the same thing? Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ironically, because of this, midnight was often the most crowded time of all. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discarded my high-necked blouses and began to wear more fashionable cuts—fitted, often sleeveless, with less restrictive necklines. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

We often went hungry, and for months Mama gave me most of her food. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was now looking at my thirtieth birthday looming on the horizon, and I often thought about life after sport. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day she would often sit on a rock and dangle her feet in the cool water. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered what my father thought at that moment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, summer also means people start shooting each other more often. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

One of her admirers was Roland Hayes, a young black tenor who appeared often at the Union Baptist Church. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

The owner of the house in Mooers Forks where he boarded, D. S. Hays, noticed Mudgett often displayed large sums of cash. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

At least, Jonas thought, after Gabriel was placed next year, they would still see him often because he would be part of the community. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, your imagination often plays tricks on you in moments of danger. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He gives a charming picture of Atalanta among the hunters which I have put into my account, but often, as in the description of the boar, he is so exaggerated, he verges on the ridiculous. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew Lasaraleen quite well—almost as if they had been at school together—because they had often stayed in the same houses and been to the same parties. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The sand was ribbed beneath our shoes, and the puddles often deep where we plashed. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As a result, critical information, including entire case files, was often lost. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one, and the kitchen grew cozy as the sauce simmered, a culinary term which means “cooked over low heat.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I have to see you more often, darling.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She often works in mysterious ways, organizes and orchestrates things he never sees coming until all the threads come together. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Although he was often recognized in the street, few Icelanders intruded on his privacy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, when exposed to air, it often spontaneously burst into flame. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Even in church, a place where many people seek solace in times of grief and sorrow, families often keep secret the imprisonment of their children or relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My father often remarked that it was strange, but now it doesn’t matter. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

William still seemed a stranger, even though he came faithfully every Saturday evening and often now appeared unexpectedly on fine evenings between. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

He liked people to know he’d gone to Yale and often brought it up in conversation. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The sun blazes hotly, the sweat stings in our eyes, we wipe it off on our sleeves and often blood with it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

It depended upon a pair of young men that he had often observed observing him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, “I often have to shut my ears to their gossip. If I join in, I feel as though I’m condoning them and I feel bad.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is what I understood: a woman like Mrs. Quintana didn’t use the word “love” very often. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“It was really nice to meet you again, Nate. I—I really wish I could see you more often, but you know.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Wyatt said Terryl also helped organize community meetings with religious leaders, the bishops, who often were the first people contacted when a problem cropped up. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She didn't do anything but sit propped up in a chair or, more often, huddled under the blankets on her bed, eyes fixed on some point in the distance. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Instead of answering, she pulled Izzy into her arms and kissed her on the top of her head, the same place where she often kissed Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At night and on weekends, there were often lively discussions around her kitchen table, sometimes with friends—mostly Jewish intellectuals. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“What a good idea. I often lie down a little in the afternoon myself.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Daphne was another of those independent, love-and-marriage-hating young huntresses who are met with so often in the mythological stories. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maer was only a day’s carriage ride from the Mount, and when he was a child, Charles and his Wedgwood cousins visited back and forth often. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the most useful of these is the scale based on the dorian mode, which is often called the dorian minor, since it has a basically minor sound. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He had, since the whipping, seemed in a perpetual irritation, glowering around the rooms, leaving company often, saying he wished to ascertain whether matter still subsisted in his chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

So much was Mary kicked and cut to pieces, that she was oftener called “pecked” than by her name. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure he would have liked to visit her more often. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I had pulled into the parking lot of our local pharmacy to run an errand, and checked my skin in the rearview mirror like I often did before getting out of the car. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

After paying the rent and salaries, there was not much left for food, so we often had little for dinner. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

His lips were often pressed together in a jocular grin, as if all the world were his to laugh at. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

There were often strange cars parked outside her father's place. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

It is unlikely, but we put this version here, next to the most often told story. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I would often wander away from the children’s games, tiptoe through the women’s quarters, and join the men. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They are often unable to provide for, or meaningfully contribute to, a family. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But he tried not to do this too often. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred often chose albums with interesting artwork, but this one was different. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Virtuous though you may be, a reputation is a fragile thing, easily lost and often never regained,” she said, searching my face as if looking for evidence there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Lives in books often look like a completed jigsaw puzzle. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, I saw the blaze of love and anguish that had come so often into her face. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took great pains to keep his stomach in, and often tripped over his feet because he could not see them over his chest He was generally making his muscles ripple, which annoyed Merlyn. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, I shop this store quite often,” Helen told a personnel clerk. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Amma says he was scared their different religions would be a big problem; Hindus and Muslims don't often marry each other. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Duke, though he never won the high political office he often sought, proved himself a master of information abuse. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

He promised to write often, but I longed for dearer words from him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Good men are often more practical than pretty,” said Mother. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Group B talked to me sometimes, made cutting remarks to me when they didn't like my clothing, and often excluded me from their games, their secrets, and their gossip. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Doc Hawthorn was almost completely bald, and in the morning his head often smelled like onions. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did — bathing the baby, it was called. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was rare in the United States, however, even in the jails, in the homeless shelters, and under the bridges that Joe often called home. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Yes, our winters are often mild and pleasant. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mom started to visit more often, but she was still terribly unhappy and couldn’t bring herself to take me home. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not prudish, Kitty, and yet every time they give a blow-by-blow account of their trips to the bathroom, which they often do, my whole body rises in revolt. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

On weekends we often took hikes beyond the fence. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he had often wondered what life might have been like at a school where the other students didn’t find him so odd. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often Kate spotted a wanted man and turned him in. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She often has a nurse’s white gauze mask over her nose and mouth because she’s allergic to chalk dust. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Renaissance books on warfare often included the word ‘modern’ in their titles to show that they acknowledged the revolutionary consequences of gunpowder. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But it often raised questions he could see in people’s eyes that never got spoken aloud—not even by his friends. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She and Zeitoun spoke on the phone throughout every day, about everything—painting, the rental properties, things to fix and do and pick up, often just to say hello. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Neat, slender and erect, the woman touched him often as she sat by his bedside and was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s school vacation now, so I don’t see him as often. But I stop by his homeplace now and then. . . .” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In 1924 Anderson was offered the chance to give a recital at New York City’s Town Hall, where young artists often were presented to the city’s audiences for the first time. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She often asked, “What are we next to do?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Horse racing was one of the most lucrative sports in America at that time, and even undistinguished horses often earned two to three thousand dollars a year. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

These words were followed by the silence of surprise, as they were spoken by Big Henryk, who often bellowed like a cow but hardly ever bellowed words. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Well, Pip! How often have you seen Miss Estella before?” said he, when he came to a stop. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

But often he was gone from home, and Johnny knew he was ‘feeling about’ for those fifteen to twenty boys he had promised. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, they are, sometimes,” said Mrs. Corry gleefully, “and very good they taste, too. I often nibble ’em myself, if I can’t sleep at night. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

But just as often—or even more often, it seemed to me—it led to them keeping a greater than normal distance. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In China, families lived in compounds; a splintering in the family was called dividing the kitchen, and often meant that, literally. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the best Northern tales are tragic, about men and women who go steadfastly forward to meet death, often deliberately choose it, even plan it long beforehand. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many worry that prison time has become a badge of honor in some communities—“a rite of passage” is the term most often used in the press. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Kevin and I didn’t have enough clothes or any deodorant at all, so often, we smelled too. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A strand of kelp was wound around its body and I thought it was sleeping, for often before they go to sleep they anchor themselves in this way to keep from drifting off. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

At times he already feels like an artist and has even begun to sign some of his works—just his first name, “Vincent,” often in bright red letters. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

You start with an incomplete roster of facts, characterized by their ambiguity; often the problem consists of discovering the connections between unrelated pieces of information. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the main, I tried to convey to him some of the 'know-how', as he put it, involved in overseeing large events of the sort we used often to have. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t often get time alone, so she walked slowly, savoring each solitary moment, even though she knew Teenie would scold her for being late. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m glad too, but folks have asked me about it so often that now I wonder too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, she often stayed on task through lunch and late into the evenings. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Each night for years the children had memorized the required lessons for school, often yawning with boredom. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He was so busy that he often read his scripted lines for the first time the moment he stepped in front of the microphone for the broadcast. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their fights are often sparked by Lourdes’s advice: Don’t drink and drive. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

This is a thing he’s said often before: he wants a passport to the Ladies and Escorts, as usual. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Osh had told me many times—so often that it had become like a bedtime story—how he’d found me in an old skiff that had beached itself on the wrack line overnight. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The compounds were often small, with few guards and not much fencing, but during their brief stays inside, many North Koreans said they routinely witnessed executions and deaths from torture and starvation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And with the new departments were often instituted ‘community action’ programs. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The way African American women wear their hair has often been about much more than vanity. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks it has something to do with being an only child whose father was often away. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All done in the same key, with the same passion and most often standing on the same foot. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We still make movies and videos, often about children and families. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

His hodors came less often than they had south of the Wall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He never says he is going to do a particular play to open minds, but that is often a secondary consideration, and an important one. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

If Mom had chosen to, she could have explained to him that Mike Costello’s backside would be featured in the local paper often as he held the ball for this new placekicking sensation. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It often took years to repay a favour or to avenge a wrong. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

As my mom found her footing, my dad seemed to struggle: He was often stressed and distracted, as my missing brother, Heritage, was always on his mind. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The conversations no longer ended in reassuring laughter, and the living room often seemed clouded with uncertainties, with unfinished knowledge, as if they all knew something would happen and yet did not know what. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A moody man, often competent, bad-tempered, wealthy, aspires to a place in Richmond society, frets and broods and fights with superiors. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter how often someone tells you to stop. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was a busy area of Logan, often with joggers, but, on this day, quiet, owing to the weather. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But the idea that “gifts” from Indians helped to establish and enrich the US hides that these resources were taken, often by force, as the country expanded. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you dance often, here at Castle Black?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Weeds that did well to grow waist high up the state were eight and often ten feet tall down there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was my father’s voice; more often it was my own. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And, of course, she had watched other mothers and often carried and groomed their infants, too. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

His condition often changed from the doctors’ morning bulletin to the evening. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The difference between a fast fraction and a slow fraction is often less than a second, and a jockey must be able to discriminate between the two to place his horse optimally. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite often, even in bad spells, Hangman'll let me say whatever I want, even words beginning with dangerous letters. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He had shown it so often that I think it was more real to him now than the house itself. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“No, I feel good. We high school graduates are often called upon to drive at night and we rise to the occasion. Is Okra in the car?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The longtime champion often lapsed into time pressure, barely making the control. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He belonged to the same guild as we did and often caught the ferry over to attend the guild meetings. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Group C often pretended I didn't exist at all. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

How come you don’t wear a dress more often? Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like all guards, he acted stern and unfriendly and often threatened to beat them if they did not work faster. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would want to come by more and more often, just to be there. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The astrolabes were often inscribed with Arabic numerals. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“As often as I can. But you know married women have never much time for writing. My sisters may write to me. They will have nothing else to do.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“We wanted to come right away, right away,” he said, so often that Olanna wondered if he really thought it would have made a difference when they came. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I keep my eyes on the pavement, glancing up often enough to be sure no one's looking at me strangely, and that I don't walk into a street sign. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I wonder, all too often, what it would be like to have lungs this healthy. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Yes, sir,” Jethro answered, and added the neighborly courtesy he had often heard his father extend, “anything I kin do fer you in town?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t lecture me often anymore, but I have his look of disapproval memorized. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A low-grade diet for a bitter climate, and one must refuel often. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She had heard the story so often; each time of hearing, she looked down at her strong hands with pride. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Thunderhead monitors heat on every inch of the planet, and the fighting of fires often begins before one can even smell smoke. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

She knew the endless hours he put in, getting up at four-thirty every morning and often not getting home until midnight. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The teaching that these private pupils got in Galileo’s home was often very different from the official courses that Galileo was required to teach by the university. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I also had another reason—I like pork, and since moving to California I’d often heard how tasty wild pigs are. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The clinic’s seventy community health workers, who lived among the peasant farmers and had until recently been peasant farmers themselves, spoke often about the economic obstacles to treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

He used that word, “lazy,” often, for his students who did not hand in work on time, black celebrities who were not politically active, ideas that did not match his own. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Since most of the men’s families lived far from the Cape and had very little money, visits by family members were often far beyond their means. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered often how Gollum came by a Great Ring, as plainly it was — that at least was clear from the first. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

And though he missed the crisp Montana autumns, Roy found himself daydreaming less often about the place. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reached out often to push his glasses up, a small push with his finger, and she thought this endearing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I get lost too often and end up walking the halls with kids who are much older than I am. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Shin often shared food with them in the evening as they all huddled around roadside fires. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I often wonder what he does with them. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

As often happened, Palmer would wind up in his father’s lap. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I still quite often go for walks on the trail near my home, especially if I am stuck on something I am working on. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I often found a lonely corner in my house, sat down, and wrapped my arms tightly around my body. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed to find it perfectly obvious that he should come and visit so often, when it was so out of his way. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The construction of his verse was often clumsy, possibly because strict deadlines meant he had to work so quickly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the balance is in his favor; sometimes — and all too often through his own activities — it is shifted to his disadvantage. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

In the later poets his forge is often said to be under this or that volcano, and to cause eruptions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was soon wading oftener than he was walking, but the thick, soft mud felt good to his feet, and he wandered aimlessly on, trying to make himself believe that his suspicions were unfounded. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Then, if he agreed—he often didn’t—he’d take off like a rocket. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d studied them so often they had become private treasures to me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

The four stallions stumbled often: thick sweat dripped from their flanks and a bloody foam dripped from their lips. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He whirled his plastic glass in his hand and regarded the rinse of whisky left in it, a gesture often designed to draw emptiness to the attention of a host. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered what I might have become in life had society’s doors been more open to me—a child and youth of color—in the 1950s and 1960s. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ida ran the house with military efficiency, and Winnie and I took our orders willingly; I often ran out to do errands at her command. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I knew by then how people often say ‘dead’ when they mean ‘very’ so I didn’t need to ask about that, but I did ask her how a city could be fast. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She cried often in the weeks that followed. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

"You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Yet we often fail to give them proper credit for the role they play in our lives. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, not often, I can see them from this side of the track. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

By Rab and Johnny’s standards they were often rude to him; by his own they ‘treated him fine.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her classmates would remember her as a shy and often self-conscious young woman who kept to herself and concentrated on her musical studies. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

As an adult I saw the way he treated other girls and young women in the program, often with the same disregard for their potential. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His lips are nice and oily from his food and he licks them often. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody would play with me, except my cousins on occasion, so I would often sit alone on the stoop of our hut, thinking. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have heard me tell of Kenny often enough,” I said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Climbing the Kargav foothills the caravan halted briefly but often for meals at roadside inns. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Perception is everything, Diana,” her stepmother said so often that Diana wanted to scream. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

But of course the Mellower often forgot, as he forgot most things. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of my opponents played more swiftly, and often lost patience with my manner of play. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother Richard and I often spent whole days on the mountain, so it was likely no one would notice until sundown, when Richard came home for dinner and I didn’t. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I often find that when a ruthless editor forces me to trim an article to fit into a certain number of column-inches, the quality of my prose improves as if by magic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He had held a candle up there for hours, flicking the flame all over the ceiling, stopping often to move the table he was standing on. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t help but run into one once in a while—but they didn’t often show up in a high school. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

When we went outside and sat in the shade of a tree, my brothers confessed they frequently got hit, often unfairly, they assured us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

It could be crazy hot, and the hot dogs were often hit or miss, but it was something they always did—just him and her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She remembered reading how the American South had often compared itself to Rome back before the Civil War. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Do you often see things in the stars?” she asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s no question that this Texas-of-the- mind fable is often synthetic, sometimes untruthful, and frequently romantic, but that in no way diminishes its strength as a symbol. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

And truth be known, it failed as often as it succeeded. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

"Come to me as often as you like, Lord Eddard. I am here to serve." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We lived in town, but I would spend weeks at a tinie with my grandmother in Soweto, often during the holidays. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the prayers was answered, but often God had other plans. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Silencing myself, when I’ve so often fought to be heard against people like Missus Wilhelmina and Anise Fowler and her hyenas. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Dramatic sighs erupted out of thin air, often the only cue that Millard had wandered into a room. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I’d never heard the news read that often, except when there was a tornado. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often hear my parents talk about visiting Pakistan as a family again, but then they add that it isn’t the right time to be away from work, or that we shouldn’t miss school. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

But in those days, if people used fruit, honey, and sugar to sweeten foods, they often mixed salty or even bitter tastes with sweet ones. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

The Nazis also recruited qualified boys during Hitler Youth meetings and roll calls, often without their parents’ consent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I am afraid,” returned Emma, sighing, “that I must often have contributed to make her unhappy.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It always seemed to be accompanied by a sheepish half smile and the don’t-take-this-the-wrong-way inflection that people often use when approaching the subject of race. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I often see his footmen lounging at the back gate, and the Duke of Wellington’s house is not far off. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often a thump quieted everyone, and arguments erupted about which tree had fallen in which direction. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The staggering fact is that Bach could improvise fugues like this at the keyboard, and often did. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Macon decided it was of no importance, and less and less often did he get angry enough to slap her. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened no more than a handful of times each year, though more often in the summer months. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The third — and perhaps most important — implication of these studies is that persuasion often works in ways that we do not appreciate. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was anxious, as I often was before interviews, but I knew this was an important opportunity to spread our message of peace and education. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The way I knew was that often they would invite my opinion on subjects off the race issue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned kept his face pressed to the rock and tried not to look down any more often than he had to. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The prison sentences that often attended their activism did nothing to quell their ardor. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It’s just, you know, sometimes he thinks it might be nice if it could be like this more often. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am about to ask her exactly how often she intends to throw up in the future when the truck surges forward. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, Kit often wondered, what was it worth, all this work to master their letters? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Many of these attackers carried rations—most often rice balls. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

All through the spring, while the heat swelled and the river shrank, Ranofer and Heqet met as often as they were able, at midday or in the evening after their day's work was done. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Annabeth had heard those words often enough that they shocked her out of her paralysis. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Barlea would heat the meals in a microwave and quickly eat—often too tired to say more than a few words to Kanue—before dashing off for his few hours of sleep. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It sounds like a thunderstorm in the distance, with the rumble of cannons, and every so often the sky lights up like lightning. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I think Uncle Shepsel was often awake, but he never said anything. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I had often seen the impis who lived in the compound go on a rampage with knobkerries and spears. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted to remember how he and Kainene had often stood here and looked down at the silver swimming pool. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

This strategy, which also works well in chemistry and molecular biology, is so identified with science in the minds of many people that experimentation is often held to be the essence of the scientific method. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He gave a ferocious yawn and ran his fingers sleepily through his hair, as people often do when they first awake, which likely accounted for its disheveled state. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I went on missions to inspect fallen trees that needed removing, talked to neighborhood pastors who were upset about traffic or garbage collection, and often represented the mayor’s office at community functions. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I guess they were of hobbit-kind; akin to the fathers of the fathers of the Stoors, for they loved the River, and often swam in it, or made little boats of reeds. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

It has often been remarked upon, how much good he did in the world. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But it takes only about thirty seconds for a child to drown, and it often happens noiselessly. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

This, as it turns out, often saved him from the beatings received by his two sisters. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You can tell how much someone loves you by the size of the present,” he often told Matt. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Opportunities to talk to her at a cool-kid party didn’t come very often. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I dreamed about that lunch often and when I did I was glad to wake up. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It stopped often to dance, wiggling this way and that, so that the string of beads around its waist swayed and rippled. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though I made sure during the manioc gathering never to go near the spot where I’d left them, because I wanted to keep their location a secret, I often scanned the jungle line for them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was looking forward to that evening’s capture-the-flag contest, because I often led the pack. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he often played with her and carried her around. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He often tagged along, whether he was wanted or not. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t often write about the political situation, but I must tell you where the Russians are at the moment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A man had put up the sign as a joke, poking fun at the missing cat and dog posters he often saw. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I climbed up on the counter, as I often did to grab the dish, but when I hopped off, I didn't realize the door to the lower cabinet was ajar. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

In fact, I often look back to that conference and, for more than one reason, regard it as a turning point in my life. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Elephants feel a wide range of emotions, but their behavior remains constant. On the outside, happy and sad often look the same.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since then, Lucila explained, Chango often takes out his rage on innocent palm trees, and to this day the lizard’s throat is swollen and mute with the god’s gift. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

For very big or very small numbers, so-called scientific notation is often clearer and easier to work with than standard notation and I’ll therefore sometimes use it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t know me? . . . You don’t recognize me. I’m your relative, Stein. Already forgotten? Stein. Stein from Antwerp. Reizel’s husband. Your wife was Reizel’s aunt. . . She often wrote to us . . . and such letters!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

II. French-Latin words—that is, Latin words introduced through the French—can often be readily distinguished by their being more changed in form than the Latin terms directly introduced into our language. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often said that Henslow was the man who made him what he was. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most often she said that the four members of her team had skills that balanced one another. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

His visits home are different now; often it’s Sonia who does the cooking. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they coordinated their activities, but more often the division of labor was informal and unplanned, arising spontaneously out of a commonality of interest: white supremacy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He discovered a comfortable lounge in tourist class, complete with a screen for what were then still often called “talking pictures.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Ferdinand or Ida or both were often to be found planning strategy or making speeches in churches, associations, and political backrooms. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We perhaps depend too often on the faulty honor of silence, use it too liberally and for gaining advantage. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water looks yellowish and often I swim away from the dead animals, garbage, and feces that float by. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, they are often seen on our side of the village, patrolling the area and telling us what to do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako could make out his dark form moving slowly, stopping every so often to make sure they were behind him. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, Tally. These ranger kits go missing every so often. Usually just about the same time that one of our uglies disappears.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He was in the garden, doing something on his knees, too, although Aunty Ifeoma often told him “Kwusia, don’t do that” or “If you do that again, I will give you a knock.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

That had not changed either; he still laughed easily and often. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was working eighteen- hour shifts, and when he could finally lie down on his cot, he was often unable to sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers are often heard saying women have their duty to perform for the Angkar. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Even when they can spend it, they often think it’s vulgar and unnecessary. The newcomers have brought the island up to par with their demands.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the next four decades, the national debate over slavery and its expansion into the West was often framed as an argument over the intent of the founders. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He had often been uneasy because, try as he might, he had never been able to love the fisherman, and he knew that a boy ought to love his father. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

His mother called him more often these days, now that she was living on her own. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I tired of my needlework, which was often, I pored over this book with ever growing fascination. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Quite often, however, when a gleaning had been difficult, he would fall asleep before she came into his room at the appointed time with the milk. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The art music of other cultures is also often called classical; for example, people speak of the classical music of India. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

After all, how often do we get a second chance? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The necklace she often wore—a large coin with Queen Victoria set in silver on one side—would brush across my forehead as she bent down. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

When slaves rebelled, they often took gruesome revenge on their masters, only to face even more horrific reprisals when the owners and overseers regained control. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

And although his father and mother often went without their own share of lunch or supper so that they could give it to him, it still wasn’t nearly enough for a growing boy. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here are a few other morbidly obese phrases, together with leaner alternatives that often mean the same thing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

In battle men often seemed to melt away, reappearing afterward with tight mirthless grins. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His questions come so fast and so often that we forget how quiet he once was until my mother buys him a chemistry set. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

“You should go out more often. You know, you can see Jeff on Friday nights, too, if this is getting hot and heavy,” she says. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

My mother often looked this way, waiting for something to happen, wearing this scared look. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not complain of my treatment; indeed, complaint may often make intolerable some circumstances which otherwise were swallowed, digested, and let pass. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

"Some dear sweet friend who often shared meat and mead with him, no doubt. Oh, but which one? There were many such. Lord Arryn was a kindly, trusting man." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

While rap is often associated with “gangsta life” in the mainstream press, the origins of rap and hip-hop culture are not rooted in outlaw ideology. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They were standing by the bookshelf and laughing about how often his mother had tried to get him to read the book. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

While plowing our milpita I have often watched beetles in the fields. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of her often and with a peculiar pride. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a grey day of the kind often found at the too-brilliant start of early summer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She inspected all the glassware for spots or smudges, and when she found them—which was often—she’d scream, “MINNIE!” so loud that Mary cringed. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t often you spotted a ghost in Ravenskill, but she had seen a few here and there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Soon after he arrived on V-gallery, I noticed that Grandma often didn’t go to the mess hall. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We often pass the time amusing ourselves with anecdotes about you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Johnny, in turn, wanted nothing more than to meet his father’s often very high expectations, whatever they might be. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He told it consistently, he told it often, and he told it well. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I would put the canoe in the water and paddle slowly through the cave, from one opening to the other, often several times. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many lads—often the best and brightest—school is a nightmare. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I felt frightened and overwhelmed, which was often, I would clench my fists so hard that my knuckles would hurt. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Jule didn’t often talk to other hotel guests, but she saw no harm in answering. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He often went to the airport, to the international terminal, to pick up a friend or a parcel from Korea. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They happened every so often, depending on temperature and the level of chemicals in the air. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I thought often of my father and all he’d invested in us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The engineers could be a quirky lot, often brusque, temperamental, or authoritarian. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Every so often she’d look up from her map to consult the horizon, and just the sight of her face in the sun gave me energy I didn’t know I had. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

There are no stories about them, but they are often seen on Greek vases. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were untrained and unregulated and often had criminal records themselves. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Many of them were worn around the edges, as if they had been handled often. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often the pilot tapped my shoulder and pointed to an anonymous, tree-covered hummock. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For Hoover, that included getting his agents—often called G-men—to monitor left-wing activists. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Never too soon, sir,” said Joe, “and never too often, Pip!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Ragens protected their turf—sometimes with fists, often with a barrage of bricks known as “Irish confetti,” sometimes with guns. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He often put on this face, an imitation of the sensible, no-nonsense dad I think he aspired to be. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Moving so often, organized sports and school clubs weren’t really something she did. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Theo will often get more than one letter from him in a day—mail is delivered several times a day in Paris, even on Sundays. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"But I thought, well, how often does I get such fine company? So nothing but the best. Heads or tails?" Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered if my past is the reason I am the way I am, if it has made me monstrous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Quite often he went collecting with Doc and he was very good at it once he knew what was wanted. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They do not trust that he’s an orphan, that he’s often alone, that his accent carries a whisper of the French he learned as a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The water was very deep and often we had to let out two hundred feet of line before we touched bottom. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter that the sky had changed—it was an obstacle course of balloon cables and restrictions and military aircraft and, often, dirty weather. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

As for me, I felt, as I often did, ashamed. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

She performed the work well but often found herself restless and bored. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think their father is too rough with them very often.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Europeans today who note that Aboriginal Australians entered the modern world as Stone Age hunter-gatherers often assume that the Aborigines would have gone on that way forever. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I would often hear the womenfolk say that Modderbee was a “hell which changed black men into brutes, no matter how tough and stubborn they may be.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the moment she saw it my mother decided she didn’t like Curacao and she often complained about the smell of gas and oil whenever the trade winds died down. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Delsa, Norma, and I often tied ourselves into punching, biting, kicking knots that only Mami with her switch was able to untangle. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“In my travels around the world, I’ve often seen people speaking of love and looking toward the heavens,” the wind said, furious at having to acknowledge its own limitations. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph J. Bunche is the best school in the ’hood but every so often we get in a guy who doesn’t fit. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

As with most visits, the greatest pleasure often lies in the recollection of it, but this time, I could not stop worrying about my mother. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old man had never once berated him for Sabbath-breaking, never reminded him how often he had pointed out that pride goeth before a fall. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents said that so often with every place they lived, it had become an inside joke. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Connor and I had gone to two more support group meetings, and I got the feeling he was actually starting to enjoy them, even though he often gave Dexter the stink eye. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Opportunities like this one don’t come along often, but there’s nothing to be done.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I thought he knew me well enough to know that something was wrong, and I often wondered if he knew right then that something terrible was about to happen. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think I come so often?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Romans as well as the Greeks called him by this name, but often they translated it into Dis, the Latin word for rich. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“God owns the cattle on a thousand hills,” he often told himself. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

And people often have a strong sense of ownership when it comes to their bodies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch and after school they often gathered at a wooden table in the hallway that people called the hex table, even though, as Ian pointed out, it was an octagon, not a hexagon. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“It’s not often they search your grips at the frontiers—not if you fix the conductor. I handed out a wad of Turkish notes right away, and there’s been no trouble so far.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mechanic and a decorated World War II vet who had a gold tooth in his mouth that flashed and sparkled when he smiled, which was often. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once Mom started her PhD program, we saw them less often. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

I wished it were socially acceptable to scream more often. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Light verbs such as make, do, have, bring, put, and take often do nothing but create a slot for a zombie noun, as in make an appearance and put on a performance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

When this fails— think the patrician George H. W. Bush’s claimed affinity for pork rinds, or any Democratic candidate at an NRA meeting—the result is often highly comical, if not cringe-inducing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

But respect is often altered or lost in translation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, he led me to the shelter of the tall hedges bordering the garden labyrinth I had often seen from my window. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

No one knows how often I think of her and still love her. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

These songs are intended for adult voices, and are often out of the comfortable singing range of children. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“But don’t you think you ought to mention John Donne more often? Wasn’t that your assignment?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I said that to me, one proof that all the civil rights posturing of so many Jews wasn’t sincere was that so often in the North the quickest segregationists were Jews themselves. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth noticed that when a boy was born, a family received congratulations, while disappointment often followed the delivery of a girl. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Teenagers often sneaked onto the farm to drink beer and smoke and kiss each other. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I feel very sorry for him and hate not being able to go out; otherwise, I’d visit him as often as I could and help take his mind off matters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Slant and Pomp are often my companions; each of us finds the company of the others not uncongenial. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All that day they walked about, in the woods with him, singing, and laughing; for Quickbeam often laughed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And the steps were narrow, spaced unevenly, and often treacherous: they were worn and smooth at the edges, and some were broken, and some cracked as foot was set upon them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“However, we know the rats have taken many spinners prisoner. Perhaps we can free a few and persuade them to accompany us. I have often had good results with spinners.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Billy had heard from a nurse that children who had had the operation were often taken to hostels further south, which might explain how Tony Makarios came to be wandering in the wild. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Most often poor men who came to the New World to make their fortunes, the overseers had not the slightest sympathy for their enslaved workers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was that same unwanted tourist most days, not because Moss saw no need for it, but because he was tired of it consuming him so often. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fields did concede that spinning wheels were not often used outdoors, at the foot of a slave’s cabin, but countered that while authenticity was their watchword, the dimensions of the room forced certain concessions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

A rule I often broke was the one against going to other villages by myself. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He comes up here often,” one said to the other, looking toward me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

It was a mistake the others often made with him, to try to reason with him in a methodical, aggressive way, when all he wanted was to be reassured like a child. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Every so often a kid from school would honk, wave—neither of which Luke acknowledged. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He uses the familiar term cousin, something Lake sector civilians often use. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But sibling relationships are often fraught with petty tortures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

During the heyday of downsizing in the Reagan years, it very often was, and it still is for many inner-city residents who have no way of getting to the proliferating entry-level jobs on urban peripheries. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours upon hours he had watched birds from his pen, quivering at the sight of them slicing the sky as recklessly as the lightning he often saw on summer evenings. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Yes, indeed, and received no inconsiderable pleasure from the sight. Do you often dance at St. James’s?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Mama had two sisters, Sissy and Evy, who came to the flat often. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now that classes had started, Pong didn't see her as often. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Or, most often, “I don’t know, Mrs. Goldman: what are we going to do about Billy?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I went around the house once, twice, often three times, making sure all the doors and windows were locked. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He often invited us to his house to swim, especially since Birmingham’s public pools forbade black youth from using them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And he ran, lots of running, pretty much daily, often a loop of seven or eight miles that took him from the house to the McDonald’s. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

My mother, being of great beauty, was often painted. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He worked there almost every day for the next three years, and often slept there, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

All this last day Frodo had not spoken, but had walked half-bowed, often stumbling, as if his eyes no longer saw the way before his feet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but how often does a guy get a purple cast? I think it’s pretty cool.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At night, more often than not, they would congregate in the dark beyond her window and laugh about her. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

We did, however, often defy our parents by going swimming. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But when it came to a decision, I was often outvoted. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mechanic and a decorated World War II vet who had a gold tooth in his mouth that flashed and sparkled when he smiled, which was often. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But like how?” somebody had asked him, probably Michael, who didn’t really want to go anyway but would do things like this every so often, just so nobody stopped asking him altogether. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But often, the most dis-couraging moments are precisely the time to launch an initiative. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly situated in the sheltered lowland ahead and big as a palace, with the lovely symmetrical proportions of the ancient Greek architecture Penelope had so often admired in her history books at Swanburne. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

She also decided she didn’t like this young man with the dark eyebrows, the sneering smile, and the repulsive need to spit so often. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over in Britain, the world’s first national broadcaster, the BBC, came into being in 1922, ushering in an age when music would come to belong to everyone, everywhere, often enjoyed completely for free. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

They eat breakfast then and, more often than not, fall asleep. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Arthur’s family should come over every weekend so we can eat like kings more often. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

As is often the case, the correctional officer was fired but not criminally prosecuted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

So every so often she’d have to leave this place and go check on them.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Linga took particularly good care of the mules and Mrs. Linga would often go with her husband down into the mine to help groom the mules and feed them treats and clean their stalls. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had felt the tiny, even stitches often before, because he went to it and touched it when he was missing her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The monkeys had been shipped by boat to Ferlite Farms, where they were jammed together in large cages known as gang cages, in which the male monkeys often fought and bloodied and killed one another. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the shrinking scraps of free time I had left, I traipsed after Granddaddy as often as I could. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But it was also lonely, not having the common connection of grandparents or aunties like we used to have so often. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She could listen all day, but often she couldn’t remember why she felt happy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Catullus tells several of the stories, and Horace alludes to them often, but neither is important for mythology. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’s because the opening phrase, at the age often, is attached to my father—an obvious mismatch. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They protest this rule loudly and often, but their father insists that these rules will stay in place until they are eight years old, at the very least. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The easiest way to get in trouble, everyone said, was to arrive at work late or call in sick too often. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she had come out more often, sat on the stoop or gossiped in front of the beauty shop, she would have known more than what the paper said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet even then, she could often produce results, due to her gift at spotting patterns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Their father never let John and Roy out of his sight, for Roy had often disappeared between Sunday school and morning service and had not come back all day. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Quite often I sat with these men and listened to their talk and now and then asked questions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have driven through the Southwest many times, and even more often have flown over it—a great and mysterious wasteland, a sun-punished place. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t often he got to see all his friends together. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The attorney offered letters written by Guiteau that demonstrated his erratic and often irrational behavior, starting from childhood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It would take place before Nazi Germany’s highest court, the feared People’s Court, also known as the Blood Court, since it often handed down the death sentence. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

So often, nothing could deliver me from fear, but then sometimes, just listening to Daisy did the trick. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mail in impoverished countries is often opened by postal workers,” my mom explained. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For example, people often say “Be quiet,” but they don’t tell you how long to be quiet for. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He often imagined other things he could have done, or that he could still do: teach in a university, edit a newspaper, coach professional table tennis. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He should speak up a little more often about his ideas, because Lloyd has a lot of ideas and a lot of things that he is capable of doing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will call on you often now,” he said, smiling warmly. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else,” said Alec thoughtfully, “and I’ve heard that they walk among the stars.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was lawyerly and also veered toward dictatorial, as my brother, who often got ordered out of our shared play area, would attest. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Blood allowed Woodhull to pursue her interests, and he often assisted with her schemes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had borrowed the word from gymnastics, in which his sister Peggy had once competed, and he used it often with doctors at the Brigham. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They talked about it among themselves, the four girls, as they often did now about the many puzzling things in this new country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? Well, did you know I am often envious of your bedazzled ghost clothing?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Where man has been intelligent enough to observe and to emulate Nature he, too, is often rewarded with success. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

These Guardians were immortal and worthy of worship, but they were often considered separate from the main league of gods and goddesses. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The spraying can often be done by men on foot, using knapsack sprayers, and having complete control over their material. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

She tried to keep peace while the miners and guards heckled one another and often came to blows. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Stanton said that she was pleased that she didn’t know Phillips’s opinion before she made her remarks because “the desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I have often wondered if the most powerful words I wrote that night came not from anger or rage, but from doubt: I don’t know. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Grampa often got mad like that: lightning quick, fast and without warning. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

It has often struck me that even though modern Americans don’t ever need to grow, hunt, or gather our own food, a lot of us still do. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The workers who knew him well were unsurprised, while the newer ones would often be startled, thinking his behavior a bizarre sort of motivational method. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The narrow path changed direction often, winding up the slope and down again; here and there, near it or away off among the massive trunks of the hemmens, stood the small, forest-colored houses. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was something they had often done together, and Jethro loved it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he stayed with her, Davon often woke up in the middle of the night to find Deborah sleeping at her computer, head down and hands on the keyboard. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was a thing we shared—a love of this forgotten sport—that had often brought us together at the end of the day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

They began trotting down the dock, back toward the Current, Marmalade chuckling every so often under her breath. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

On Friday nights, Dad and Mother often went to a lecture or a movie by themselves, holding hands as they went out to the barn to get Foolish Carriage. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

When two strangers in a tribal society want to trade, they will often establish trust by appealing to a common god, mythical ancestor or totem animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were often the first sign of a storm, the frayed hem of cloud heavy with weather. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The pay gap is often even greater when broken down by race, with Latinas making 54 percent and black women making 63 percent of what white men make. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I bathed her more and more often, sometimes three or four times a day in the pool. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

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

It would be much better running the Trout than many other inns, because the great world came through, and scholars and people of consequence were often there to talk to. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

All the same, El-ahrairah could usually find a way in if he wanted to; but it was dangerous, because the man had a gun and often shot jays and pigeons and hung them up. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went ice-skating less often, and when my skates were stolen, I never replaced them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They experimented with one expression and then another, said nothing, though their mouths were often open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

People of color are often reluctant to challenge institutions led by people who look like them, as they feel a personal stake in the individual’s success. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mr. Woodhouse hesitated.—“Not near so often, my dear, as I could wish.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

I often studied at Grandma’s so Dad wouldn’t lecture me. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was very exciting, but Robin had to stop often to rest. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I often wondered what that bird would do with Rosaleen’s brain. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did happen, but often as not it meant trouble. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So he often speaks, frank yet cautious, ironic, as if always aware that I see and judge as an alien: a singular awareness in one of so isolate a race and so high a rank. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

As the fall progressed, I remained ensnared by bacterial matings, often going up to London to talk with Bill Hayes at his Hammersmith Hospital lab. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It’s surprising how often people forget to say it. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of late the sheep had taken to bleating “Four legs good, two legs bad” both in and out of season, and they often interrupted the Meeting with this. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

True, “young ladies” were not often found living on the road, traveling from town to town and job to job. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Difficult questions often churned within me when I was with the Paqo, but even so I treasured our time together. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Exactly the same relativist approach is employed with regard to facts as to theories; indeed, the two are often indistinguishable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Inmates not only often referred to each other by nickname, they amused each other by coming up with nicknames for officers, too. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Too often the quality of court-appointed counsel is poor because the miserable working conditions and low pay discourage good attorneys from participating in the system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the case of coins, it can take a long, long time for the lead to switch, longer often than the average life. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If, as often happens, children are of different shades of color in a family,” the Jamaican sociologist Fernando Henriques once wrote: the most lightly colored will be favored at the expense of the others. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I saw how she often gave Fifth Wife money to go visit her poor village, encouraging this silly girl to “show your friends and family how rich you’ve become!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like, yes, I often catch her giving him goo-goo eyes, but I wouldn’t assume it was anything more than a schoolgirl crush. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Sitting here, shaded by the afternoon sun, I'm using my Vietnamese whenever I can, which turns out to be often. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon we would often be visited by one or more of the failed Beat poets who always, very coincidentally, seemed to find themselves in the neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I keep telling you that often the search proves more profitable than the goal. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was determined to live at Efifi—if only to feast her eyes as often as possible on Mother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The apartment was often as silent as a library. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

By the time the competition realized the threat—usually when Bien fired a perfect cross or let loose with a bicycle kick—it was often too late to react. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He’s alone in the world, and I know that he’s often been lonely. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

He often prowled through junkyards touching old cars and buying old alternators and carburetors just for the joy of cleaning them up and making them work again. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Dad smokes in there, so there's often a whiff of cigarettes. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It gets very airless in there,” said the policeman, “there’s been complaints about it often, but nothing’s ever done. We’ve had ladies fainting in there before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

With the Great Depression on, food was often scarce. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But certain lines in the middle—lines that happened to appear more often than any other—made a slightly darker image than the rest. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z

She wrote often to her family in Lafayette, Indiana, and to the friends she had made in Dwight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Whenever he heard that a Polar movie was in town, he was the first person at the ticket-window, and often he sat through three shows. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although his efforts to survive often force her out of his mind, at times he thinks of her with a loneliness that is overwhelming. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And now I recognize a familiar expression on my father’s face, the expression he wore so often at the dinner table, the faraway look of a man who could never stop thinking about business. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Those accused of being witches were usually poor peasant women, often widows. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Horace was by inclination a private man, nearing fifty now, with a sprawling port-wine stain on the left side of his forehead that he often fingered unconsciously. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Tree-ear thought of something his friend often said: Scholars read the great words of the world. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But he remained fretful at night, whimpering often, needing frequent attention. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The problem with Bobby was a social one: From a very early age he followed his own rhythms, which were often antithetical to how other children developed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He would have a cluster of people riveted, often on odd subjects you never would think of. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

We talk of her often; we have not, however, said a word to the others. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

With a whiff of fear, we were very often asked if we planned to marry. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“My views have often been grossly misrepresented,” he wrote later, “bitterly opposed and ridiculed, but this has been generally done, as I believe, in good faith.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gentle lips, and his tongue that wets them every so often. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

There was nothing exceptional about that in Odessa, where kids drank freely, often with the tacit blessing of their parents, who saw it as part of the macho mentality of the place. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we often staked out the secret path, hoping someday to catch someone in the act of sneaking into that ill-reputed barrio. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In Jane Austen novels, a death often precipitates the loss of a fortune, which propels the heroine to seek a husband. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barristan Selmy was not a bookish man, but he had often glanced through the pages of the White Book, where the deeds of his predecessors had been recorded. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even though we own two cars and a truck, when Ma takes me to the market we often go in a cyclo because we get to our destination faster. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Oh, it's truth you want? Be careful, my lady. lyrion says that people often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was practically an adult now, it seemed—she certainly spoke like one, often more measured and circumspect than her parents. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Scholastic philosophers had fertile imaginations and had often imagined looking at the Earth from far away, even from the stars; but they had not imagined that the Earth would shine like the brightest stars. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Bitter often joked to Jam that her father moved like a functioning disaster, clumsy and charming and breaking at least one breakable thing a week. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He looks as if he would have often written to her;—she will still be getting mail from him—To-morrow, in a week’s time—perhaps even a stray letter a month hence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then Lee’s mind played on the way it often did. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This chant, also called plainchant or plainsong, has by default often been described as ‘Gregorian’ chant, after Gregory the Great, who was Pope at the end of the sixth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But ideally you and your friends wanted the place just to yourselves, so there was often jockeying and arguing. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon she became a valued member of the team, often chosen to explain the work to Riverbank’s eminent guests. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Support for American independence, for example, was always fragile and shifted with each victory or defeat in the field, which was often a matter of pure luck. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Mama Santoni got first prize. She was my neighbor and often brought over some bread or pastry for me to sample. She said she needed a mans opinion.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I often visit her hair in the Bible,” Deborah said into the camera. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If they complain often enough, someone far below them in wealth and influence may be chastised or even fired. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, the older player always showed the younger one affection and respect, often sending him friendly little notes and asides. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

When Truman High is mentioned in the Philadelphia newspapers, it’s often in the context of Head Start programs, free school lunches, and other boosters to pull children up from their unfortunate circumstances. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

At first, Omakayas tried to think she had won, that she had outwitted Old Tallow and made her impatient, as even the wariest animals often failed to do. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had often wondered what had become of him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Long hair, often braided into crowns, was stylish with Russian women of the time. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I used to drop in very often for a cup of Catiche’s good coffee. This is the first time since I came back.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are often played in communal and interactive ways. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although colorblind approaches to addressing the problems of poor people of color often seem pragmatic in the short run, in the long run they are counterproductive. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Miss Lucy didn’t often get cross, but when she did, you certainly knew about it, and we thought for a second Polly was for it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brothers will be able to see each other often. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

No one looked into the faces, into the often still- open eyes. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he took me to visit a hospital—ah, what an experience that was!—and often he took me to visit the poor, the beggars, to listen to them talk. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Ms. Steinert talked so fast that she often seemed to be panting. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

One of the town of Lost Cove’s claims to fame is how often it disappears. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

More often than not, they did not believe in conversation, their dispositions reflecting the rough, atonal quality of the land, which after the droughts consisted mostly of the gnarled limbs of low-lying mesquite bushes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Cambodia, if the father is busy with work and the mother is busy with babies and shopping, the responsibility of disciplining and punishing the younger siblings often falls on the oldest child. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They seemed to bloom so fast, those red hibiscuses, considering how often Mama cut them to decorate the church altar and how often visitors plucked them as they walked past to their parked cars. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

If you see me doing something stupid, it’s because I don’t fly very often. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He did this often, just watching, taking it all in. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Our arguments were often high in entertainment value. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He whimpered and dragged the rest of the night, often having to be carried. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could often smell your mother’s duck in the oven from our bathroom. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even though she often misbehaved, adults never did anything about it, maybe because her father was a rich minister in our community. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anise begins talking loudly about me, the smelly sinner, and in class often asks Missus Wilhelmina if I should even be allowed to go to this school. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Linear statistical projections, to cite a frequently abused model, are often invoked so thoughtlessly that it wouldn’t be surprising to see someday that the projected waiting period for an abortion is one year. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he asked me how often I was sending word. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She asked early, she asked often, and she asked penetrating questions about the work. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

After she married John Smith when she was twenty-four, she centered her life around family and church, yet she often told fond stories about her student days. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I escaped to the church as often as I could. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

For supper, now, they often had hulled corn and milk. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often held his face in his hands. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Another help was that the great waves had washed ashore long strings of black pitch, which was often difficult to find on the island and which I needed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the plainspoken convictions of one of Atlanta’s numerous young black collegians who often visited our local Temple Fifteen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

More often they don’t so he throws up his hands and he sighs —like that. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I am sorry she got shot, but she is mean and often slaps my face and pinches my arms and ears. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The others had seen this happen before—often enough that there were photos of his episodes in Miss Peregrine’s album—and they knew what to do. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was going to ask the white woman who had stopped to talk to her so often if she would help her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often ended up by picking lots of small, soft, leafy twigs to make a pillow. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Theon had seen it often as a boy, when he'd jumped a horse over a mossy wall, or flung an axe and split a target square. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

That I often made tea and doughnuts with Rachel and Helen in our kitchen? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was a cheerful man who loved children and small animals, who smiled often and told boisterous jokes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were irritatingly garrulous, prone to fits of chicanery, and often surprisingly incompetent at what seemed to Indians like basic tasks. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

While the rain forest had more kinds of animals than any other habitat—with many species still undiscovered—they were often difficult to see. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Washington did his best to answer questions and make decisions, but he often found his efforts blocked. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In those early days, I often spoke on behalf of my fellow prisoners. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I am a clergyman,” he said; “and the clergy are often appealed to about odd matters.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wicked often found favor, not the virtuous and humble. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

If you look closely you can often see two trees pushing and shoving with languid grace. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie, usually dragging Neeley along, often followed the musicians from stop to stop, street to street, until it got dark and time for the musicians to disband. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of chattering first and second years, and a few older students, who had obviously visited Hogsmeade so often the novelty had worn off. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I don't know Haymitch, but I've seen him often enough in the Hob, tossing handfuls of money on the counter of the woman who sells white liquor. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His shoulders rounded forward and his neck seemed to pain him, for he often reached up to rub it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira could see that now Matt was encircled by the pack of mischief-makers who were often at his side. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police often check the bindings for money to steal, the migrants say, but usually hand the Bibles back. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Papa still talked about him often, his eyes proud, as if Grandfather were his own father. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A dark, businessman- looking West Indian often would sit at one of my tables. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emenike talked for a long time, often prefacing a story with “The thing you have to understand about this country is this.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I often heard them talk with disdain about the flood of immigrants from the east. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Nok's mother often said that she wished she knew the Governor's secrets of youth. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

A metal dealer never guessed that the grinning Italian kid who often came by to sell him armfuls of copper scrap had stolen the same scrap from his lot the night before. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

While the work was often exhausting, no one slapped, kicked, or punched Shin, and no one threatened him. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

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

Immigrant kids often feel like their parents will never understand what it's like to be a teenager in the States. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Back at our farm, I was most often the first one up. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lately, it had been happening more and more often. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was greedy and charged too much for his cures, often taking more than the patient could afford to pay. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Out there I was indifferent and often hopeless—I will never be able to be so again. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And if two plurals are given, the one that’s listed first is often the more common. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

These goof sessions, which almost always ended as earnest talks on civil rights, often went on until Mommy got home from work. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Black dropped by Gold’s rented room often to lecture his new friend about Communism and the Soviet Union. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She used the bridge often, but she did not encounter those ghosts again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the old days there were few such inmates, and often they would be sent to solitary confinement, known as the Special Housing Unit or the Box. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And you didn’t live in the woods without getting a smear of dirt here and there, no matter how often you bathed up in the stream. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She had to watch as he stepped into the village, looking to the left and right, stopping every so often to listen, moving from house to house. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But no matter how often they repeated the words, with many different inflections, they were unable to wring any more meaning from them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I often thought of the tedium of life once one had seen all its surprises. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am mean and I am cheap. Sometimes I am a coward and often times I’m selfish. I ain’t a beauty to look at. But I am not vile, shameful, base, or depraved!” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Traveling at high speeds, often in the dead of night, to evade authorities, drivers became adept at navigating winding roads and making hairpin turns. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

For instance, when girls became teenagers in my community, they were often married off. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“No cause for alarm” was what Master said often. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the introduction of a new word, or a new meaning for an old word, often marks the point at which a concept enters general use and begins to do real work. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He was a silent, brooding man, given to fasts and contemplation, going often, alone, into the caves of the mountains, in the section of Virginia where he lived. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The boys often shared a room, even when they had their own,” Phil said. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But her beauty often seems at odds with her piety. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

More often, however, sympathetic contemplation of the troublesome passages results in a different diagnosis. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps that is not possible for anyone. But it has been the study of my life to avoid those weaknesses which often expose a strong understanding to ridicule.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

The right column shows how often the 7—7 wrestler actually did win. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

When he was too young for school, his mother often left him alone in the house in the morning, and came back from the fields at midday for lunch. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We didn’t see each other that much, but we talked on the phone often. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

To do this at least three men were needed, and even then the sea elephant often dragged the net into the sea and got away. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tells me he often dreams of it. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the nickname I heard the most often was, unfortunately, dreamed up by one of my mentally ill keeplocks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was often said to be “the maiden whose name may not be spoken.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had kept it for six years, and though she remembered it often, she’d only taken it out once. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Finn, who often found himself frozen at the worst possible moments, felt bad for her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Austin Roe, a member of the Culper Ring who ran a tavern in Setauket, often took his wagon into New York City. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Prisoners were often kept in barbed-wire compounds, flogged, tortured, starved and hung from trees, and those who died buried secretly in unmarked graves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had heard all he wanted, for he had often listened when men were bargaining in the village and knew how it was done. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When the neighbors offered me food, I refused, already ashamed that so often in my life I had to be fed by strangers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know his name because my parents spoke it often when I was a child. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hoover often repeated the maxim “You either improve or deteriorate.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

With those of my year this point often came when they grasped the fact of the war. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Catastrophists, as you might expect from the name, believed that the Earth was shaped by abrupt cataclysmic events–floods principally, which is why catastrophism and neptunism are often wrongly bundled together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The villagers also look down on her white skin and often make rude comments about “lazy white people.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the hockey field I often doubled over, my eyes tearing up, while Coach Stork swatted me on the rump. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It is not easily removed without a pair of needle-nosed tweezers, which are often not handy and take some time to procure. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had never thought to experience it himself, though Jaime had told him of it often enough. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions? A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

And your father, with his bizarre silence—which I still couldn’t understand, no matter how often I thought about it—is torturing your soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

When we first went into hiding, Father often told me about things I’d rather have heard from Mother, and I learned the rest from books or things I picked up in conversations. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Pa’s stepfather was often drunk and would physically abuse him. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says Patricia is a lovely girl the way she often gives him sweets from the parcel her mother sends every fortnight. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He was fast, determined, and alert, and the instant the swimming coach blew the whistle Bobby would kick off, often landing in the water when the other swimmers were still in mid-dive. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Now, both John Senior and his son “boozed”; indeed, John Junior was an often incarcerated alcoholic. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

This maybe happens more often than I want to admit, though this morning, I’m kinda glad my thought train got stopped when it did. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I get glimpses of it every so often—the Dauntless cheering when I jumped off the building, the net of arms that caught me after zip lining—but they are not enough. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t ask often, because I thought remembering made her heart ache. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I dare say the best of us can often profit by a little professional discussion at such times.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

They traced their philosophy to Thoreau and Gandhi, debating the great works of civil disobedience at Floyd McKissick’s office on Main Street in study and prayer sessions that often lasted all night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I have one dream that recurs far too often. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I often thought he had the mind of a mad genius and the heart of a philosopher. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

These days, it was more often about food. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I felt intrusive, as reporters often do, and I began to think that a tape machine between two people who were supposedly friends was a foreign object, an artificial ear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

So instead I said: “It’s not really so bad. We often planted corn this late—even in July. It does very well.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Very often she was unmarried or in her teens or poor, and sometimes all three. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Napoleon himself was not seen in public as often as once in a fortnight. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

There was often not room enough for him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It's funny; I still so often think of her as a girl, but today she looks like an old lady to me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But the hard part of communication is often figuring out how to make sure a message doesn’t go in one ear and out the other. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never told her how often he had seen the other men figuratively wallowing in it as she went about things in the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

My friendship with Louise was solidified over jacks, hopscotch and confessions, deep and dark, exchanged often after many a “Cross your heart you won’t tell?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She often wore her hair in cat’s ears, lots of piercings, lips, nose, eyebrows, tongue, her speech thick. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Still, the SS-HJ held out until August 21, often bearing the brunt of battle. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve read that newspaper clipping from the trunk more often that I can count, and spent time at the public library in the archive of “periodicals”—such a strange word. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

It often seemed near—the heavenly world—but never had he quite reached it, never had he quenched the final thirst. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji got a few more baskets and blocked half a dozen shots, but he fouled just as often. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When it had been warm, Kaede had often come here with classmates to swim in the sheltered cove. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

On the long journey doubts were often my companions. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Anyway, it was one of Maman’s ideas, and she often repeated it, that after a while you could get used to anything. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Such a small and unimportant feeling—one he had felt himself often as he headed home to dinner. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was another phrase I heard all too often at Fullbrook, and it annoyed the hell out of me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Kainene went often to the Directorate at Ahiara to get a water tanker, but each time she came back with a vague promise from the director. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Whenever I visited his home on Second Avenue we often talked about the state of black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watch yourself, be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words that often pave the way for bitter sorrow and regret.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They used to have intrigues among themselves, as always happens, and it would often come to blows and knives. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother also said that she offered incense to the Listener as often as she could, asking the Listener to watch over us among the demons. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They often approached visitors as if they might be deities, possibly calculating, in the spirit of Pascal's wager, that the downside of an erroneous attribution of celestial power was minimal. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"You may choose it, Eleanor. It's poignant and it's truth. But how often will you get to roll that one out? " Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Tam Lin often threatened to suck him—and the mess he deposited—up the vacuum cleaner. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet sometimes Dany would picture the way it had been, so often had her brother told her the stories. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I stopped often to check on him, but every time I gently brushed the hair back from his forehead I found him sleeping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

By the end of the night, I often felt like my body would give out. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The few researchers who did examine Andean societies were often sidetracked into ideological warfare. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once in a blue moon, I’ve seen my mother try something similar, but not often. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is illegal to export chimpanzees from most African countries, so the dealers smuggle them out in tiny boxes, often with misleading labels. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He often stood outside and talked with Dicey while she worked. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Salim would visit us often, he promised, when Salim came home for the holidays. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had her camera app open on her phone, snapping a photo every so often as they walked. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

She was about Hugo’s age, and he often saw her go into the booth with a book under her arm and disappear behind the counter. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A chorten is a religious monument, usually made of rock and often containing sacred relics; it is also called a stupa. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

We browsed the designer jeans and the purses at Marshall Field’s, often surreptitiously tailed by security guards who didn’t like the look of us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The miners had a special yell, a “whoop,” when they wanted to get attention in the mine, and they often used it on the surface too. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I often wonder if lies are ever a protection.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Matty stood often before it, looking carefully at the intricate embroidered tapestry depicting a large thick forest separating two small villages far from each other. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I thought often of the room Raji had built for me. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

For black Americans, the four decades between World War II and the crack boom had been marked by steady and often dramatic improvement. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

At first he begins touching my shoulder more often, and then lets his hand linger there, longer each time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The motors and gears of these clocks were the biggest in the station, and Hugo was often afraid that his hand was going to get caught. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

The older children had been through it so often that, while somewhat shellshocked, they were no longer terrified. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell by her face, her tone, that I had somehow missed something important in what she’d said, and had again revealed myself as the small-town hick I often felt like around her. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It’s a collecting place for the filthy, smelly, sticky, and often sharp and jagged castoffs of a society run wild. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

The one that now watches over Tara Burgess is most often referred to as the Snow Queen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Liyana begged Poppy to pass by their new post office box often to see if she had received any letters from home. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Though I looked forward to seeing her, and thought of her anxiously and often, I was more comfortable with Charles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Aside from its dangerous aspects, the curse often made a fool of me and was partly the reason I seemed so clumsy. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The others were deferring to him, allowing him the clean shot, giving him back the ball more often than they gave it back to each other. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tappan had its violent incidents, but much less often than the max facility. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You would have known, too, if you had gone to his store more often.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He circles back to our table every so often, as though for comfort. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

While I was reading in the flat during the day, I would often place a pint of milk on the windowsill to allow it to ferment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Encounters with the river’s inhabitants were frequent and often hostile. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

My dad, who’d recently traded in his car for a specialized van to accommodate his disability, still made a point of showing up in his cousins’ doorways as often as possible for in-person visits. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For a moment I thought I was still asleep because I often dreamed that my legs were too heavy to move. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

And, while he often tumbled heavily, it was never he who was hurt, but, rather, the unfortunate person on whom he fell. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Interestingly, there is often an affective connection between music and the emotions, and musical intelligence may share common thinking processes with mathematical intelligence. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Far from protecting demonstrators, the Durham police often initiated the violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

If anything, he thought, they needed to pray more often, and with great fervor. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

When Grub was outside, he was always with someone—often with me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta’s father, Johnny Pleasant, was a squat man who hobbled around on a cane he often hit people with. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I stop often, leaning her weight on a cement wall, the edge of a building, the banister. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I often cried when I read these letters, especially those detailing the suffering of children. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He would often say it when he felt Kathy was focusing on irrelevant details while ignoring the crux of a problem. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

In the 1920s and 1930s, collegiate crew was wildly popular, often ranking right up there with baseball and collegiate football in the amount of press it received and the crowds it drew. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A great banquet was served during the day, and I often gave myself a bellyache by eating too much while listening to speaker after speaker. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and C.P. are often invited to speak about their experiences before college classes and various religious and civic organizations. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The adults would do their best to answer his questions, but their answers were often vague, or confusing, or contradictory, and then Bod would walk down to the old chapel and talk to Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“They require intuition. Impulsiveness. Leaps of folly as often as leaps of faith. Do you catch my drift?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

He twitched and sighed often in his sleep, as old dogs will, and for once his shabby tail with the bare patch on the last joint was still. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On rare occasions see the need for reflection and are often overwhelmed by the current changing context. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X was busy, busy, busy; he could not visit my hotel room often, and when he did, it shortly would get the feeling of Grand Central Station. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not walk out on their families voluntarily; they were taken away in handcuffs, often due to a massive federal program known as the War on Drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Much Asian and Arabian music has a larger number, as a result of which it often sounds exotic and ‘out of tune’ to Western ears. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Scientific progress and indeed progress of all kinds is often made at great cost, such as the sacrifice made by Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

At that point in the match, Fischer stopped taking the chances that are often necessary to win a game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, some of the pieces often had brown spots here and there, or even an overall tinge of brown, spoiling the purity of the glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

"No," "Why do you keep them? I have often wondered." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I often forget how observant Britain can be. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, the mother often wonders out loud in front of us whether we are worth our keep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had taken to smiling more often, and my jaws hurt from the unaccustomed activity. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papi slows often for the speed bumps that have been appearing all over the city. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In another letter to Anthony, Stanton confessed that she often wished she “were as free” as her unmarried friend so that she could “stump the State in a twinkling.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He often reminded people that he was just a low-ranking member of the minority party, a backbench player if there ever was one. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dub often said that his boys would have won a championship as well—if there were enough colored high school teams in the state to have an actual tournament. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The chief mate simply stood beside it, brushing his fingers against it every so often, as if to reassure himself it was still there. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“It is your cause I find wanting, not your courtesies. I have heard your arguments so often I could plead your case myself. Shall I?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He knew from experience that silence was often the best offensive. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It is some way from the quarry, where most of the blasting is done, and you won’t have to run so often.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heaps of things have happened, but I often think I’m boring you with my dreary chitchat and that you’d just as soon have fewer letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She was preoccupied, and often stood in the quadrangle by men’s surgical, in long conferences with her counterpart, or she disappeared for two days at a time. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In nearly four years as First Lady, I had consoled often. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Musicians often find it useful to talk about how much higher or lower one note is than another. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Sissy often said that Francie was all of her ten children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was soft and obese, subject to twitches and trembles, incoherent as often as not. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now and then she had help, but often she worked alone. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When she was listening to me, Tessie’s tongue often pressed against that divot, that gate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Eating did not seem to be a part of this existence in the steel box, and I did not often think about it. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

On average, a man died in the mines every day, often crushed by coal cars or killed by explosions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

One of the benefits of being the athlete that is often overlooked is that it forces you to work harder, to keep your head down, and grind through whatever task lies ahead. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Although they shared resources, there is little evidence that people from one culture visited the other often, or had friendships across the political lines. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

—William Cowper Innumeracy, Freud, and Pseudoscience Innumeracy and pseudoscience are often associated, in part because of the ease with which mathematical certainty can be invoked to bludgeon the innumerate into a dumb acquiescence. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he had put it often, “We seek no wider war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was quiet for a minute, and then he asked, “So, how often do we give Boots that medicine? She still feels pretty hot.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Japanese often attacked American convoys with airplanes sent out from their aircraft carriers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you talk to her that way often?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She’s becoming a stranger to me, and I’m often nobody to her. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It happened often: no pain, just a soft deep flutter. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was often asked if I thought my outspokenness on social issues would affect my prospects to partner with big-brand companies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

When things go wrong, you’ll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As you can no doubt imagine, we often say in despair, “What’s the point of the war? Why, oh, why can’t people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When she was a child, I should have slapped her more often for disrespect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, he rose every morning and set off on his mission, often dressed in the same tattered and soiled clothes he had worn the day before. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

I often think how mad he’ll be if he was to die and find out there’s not any heaven, when he thinks about that five thousand a year. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was great commerce and discussion between each dance, often beyond the scope of my understanding, the whole room a very Babel of rich tongues and alien conversation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Frederick blinks several times, as he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“I've often wondered what it must be like. I've heard that in some of the houses the floors are paved with gold and that they have real diamonds on the doorknobs.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“We should get you on painkillers more often if you’re going to start cracking jokes. Oh, and to answer your question—I beat her up.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It was often remarked throughout the South that the “better class of people” were far more relaxed, even friendly, in their relations with blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They would often play together, side by side, at computers in their basement. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I suppose your ancestors often entertained royalty at Manderley, Mr. de Winter?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In my book Mathematics and Humor I tried to show that both activities are forms of intellectual play, which often find common ground in brainteasers, puzzles, games, and paradoxes. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ushers often came to the Treaty Room a few times over the course of an evening to deliver more folders, containing more papers, freshly generated by staffers who were working late in the offices downstairs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I often had no idea in which direction the road was or where the others had wandered. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Yvonne’s foster family is real decent about hosting all of us so often. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lifted my hands to my cheeks, inviting him to look upon what he had so often praised. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

All ships were steamships and these old steamers would take on hundreds and often thousands of tons of coal in one go. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flags are often replaced by beams that connect the notes into easy-to-read groups. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Eberechi visited often, and her smile, a brush of her hand, or her pinching his neck became exquisite joys. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, he had lived his whole life in West London and had visited the museum often enough. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

She didn't cry often and she didn't cry long. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

But homesickness would often strike them, spreading like a terrible fever; some wasted away out of sadness. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

She’d complained loudly and often that rope climbing would never help her defeat a monster. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"All told, how often do you get these images?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because we’re always in a hurry and often don’t know the inmates, this is harder than it sounds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn’t be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Buying new clothes was something that didn't happen very often in our family. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Before our marriage, she had moved in circles of relative wealth and comfort, a life very different from the often hand-to- mouth existence of the freedom fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Janaki or Kali would come to see how I was getting on, but not often, for they were kept busy looking after husband and children. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

These private comments were more often far more expressive than those his reticent public persona allowed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Though she is only three years older than I am, Chou often acts as if she knows many more things than I do. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They often passed on the street, but they had never been friends. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He began to drink less and come home more often. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am happy you approved,” said Emma, smiling; “but I hope I am not often deficient in what is due to guests at Hartfield.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

Actually, I was often glad of their company. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

And Henry was mostly gone, often working twelve- and sixteen-hour shifts for days in a row until his team hit oil and they moved on to look for a new site. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

The stones are square and arched, black and gray, more often plain than shiny, caked with lichen and moss. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled to show he was joking—something that didn’t happen very often. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

And he had us competing against each other as often as possible. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

We renewed our friendship and swore to visit each other often, an oath we’ve kept faithfully. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually in early 1992, I noticed the bombers coming more often. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had often watched others building, and Kira realized that she could probably construct some sort of shelter for herself. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened “at the hands of persons unknown.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She felt that Jane’s feelings, though fervent, were little displayed, and that there was a constant complacency in her air and manner not often united with great sensibility. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

She confessed, “My heart has often been too full to speak.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my encrypted, anonymous self is the account I use more often. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Once swept into the system, one’s chances of ever being truly free are slim, often to the vanishing point. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Everyone seems to help themselves, piling food in their individual bowls and going back for seconds as often as they want. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We’d peeked in the windows many times before, often with pranks in mind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’d read that serial killers often started out with rodents, then cats, dogs, moving their way up to humans. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The two leaped and twirled around each other in fervent circles, every so often drawing close to exchange blows, like two hawks locked in a fatal spiral of courtship. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

That when dames had dandruff, it was often just flakes from their hairspray. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The wrong story? The wrong period, you mean. Yes, I’ve often thought so myself.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Daddy had often said that when presented with two choices, a hard thing and an easy thing, the right thing was usually the more difficult one. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was strange, how Aunty Uju often spoke about the former heads of state, invoking their names with poisoned blame, but never mentioning The General. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So if I was wanting a fastball, I would watch and see how often he threw a fastball or if it always followed a curveball, things like that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the talk was ordinary, about the state of the crops or the weather, but often it centered on Khan Sahib, our village's powerful landlord. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She never had many friends, and the ones she had often disappointed her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The fact that black people during Jim Crow were often complicit with the system of control did not mean they supported racial oppression. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They always paid like they promised, or most often sent home a slab of beef or salt pork in exchange for my work. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She often had rice on her face and in her hair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often thought that it might have been better for all his dead soldiers to be alive—even if they had lived under tyranny and madness—rather than be quite dead. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even as more people marry across racial and religious lines, often to partners who match them closely in other respects, fewer are choosing partners with a different level of education. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

To keep us out of mischief, my mother often took my brother and me with her to her cooking job. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The alleged “safety” of malathion rests on rather precarious ground, although — as often happens — this was not discovered until the chemical had been in use for several years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered often during the coming months what meaning he could possibly give to that. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My father was often away in those early years, working at different jobs to support the family, including a job in customs and immigration at the port. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Every so often I look over my shoulder and there he is, the beagle. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

In those days, I was often in hot water with the executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often showed up at demonstrations, a short, muscular white man with a face so contorted by hatred that Ann wondered if he was unbalanced. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He often wished that his army thought as he did instead of being just a mob of incompetents. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The term World Music is often used as a catch-all category referring to almost any music with widespread popularity that clearly does not sound like North American popular music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He often talked about leaving Corcoran and going back to Santa Maria, but he kept changing his mind, hoping to get better. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The joyous celebration lasted long into the night, and the stillness was fractured often by wild, exultant shouts and by the cries of people who were merry or sick. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He had a short, compact body, and often did isometric exercises between class periods. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As so often happened, a nervous Marine behind me started checking his watch and calling out the time. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was puzzled—but he was often puzzled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Will often go broody; excellent for raising chicks from fertile eggs. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

His mother often insisted he pray with her in her room, then filled the air around him with trembly passion. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In elementary school, or any early formal educational setting, children often learn music from a music specialist with a set music curriculum and learning goals. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Wild animals that are captured when they are fully mature are another example of escape-prone animals; often they are too set in their ways to reconstruct their subjective worlds and adapt to a new environment. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Metronomes often come with other tempo indications written on them, but this is misleading. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He also often spent up to twelve hours a day in his third-floor office constantly telephoning various parts of the town, county, state, and nation. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He often had to keep her in her place. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think this is how I often look too. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men who have been up as often as we have become thick-skinned. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You better go now, son. You know your father doesn’t stop often.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They often make me laugh, but I never think they’re comical. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

We often read that red seems to advance, while blue recedes; or that the former is a violent or passionate color, the latter a sad one. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weaker boys, including Shin, slept farther away and often shivered through the night. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She was beginning to form her own political views, which she often wrote about in her diary and letters. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, “Stay there. Don’t move.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

To feed migrants, often more than a hundred each night, he collects food three days a week from stores in Nuevo Laredo. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

His teeth even yellower in the sun, his eyes wild with glee, he thrust the pigeon before Palmer’s face, and then Dorothy’s, and as he had so often pretended, wrung its neck. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Fishtail took extremely good care of his pipe, cleaned it often, prayed with it every sunrise. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Though nouns are often the names for people, places, and things, the noun category can only be defined by the role it plays in a family of rules. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She would often have me help her make desserts: fruit rolled in pastry, wrapped in cloth, tied and boiled, then taken out of the cloth, topped with icing, and baked. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And I heard at that moment what I have since heard often again—the sounds the women in my family make when they are praying in sadness. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's going to be difficult to send my updates—someone might notice that I'm connecting to a distant server instead of an intra-city server, so my entries will probably come less often, if at all. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

And besides, when Gram told her stories, they felt so real to me that it often seemed that she must have been there to see them somehow. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

History books often refer to “the New World” to talk about the lands now called North and South America. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

But Frodo was often very rough with his little sister—the first sign of the bully that he would become when he was older. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was watching her again, and she remembered how she had often felt as if he could see her mind, knew things about her that she might not consciously know. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By being on the spot, and by pulling together information from different agencies and locations, she often saw links that no one else could see. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The next morning they were anxious to get to the American Library, where they often went on Saturdays to do their hideous homework. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think Dad and I got along as well as we did—which wasn’t that well, but still—because I didn’t see him that often, with school and then work in the evenings. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She nearly didn’t marry him because it was said that people with angular hairlines often have very troubled lives. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She has more bonobos living in the wilds of the release site than she has in captivity, an achievement she brings up often. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet White was more forgiving of frailty than Hoover was, and he often tried to shield his men from the boss man’s anger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I should suffer often, no doubt, attached to him only in this capacity: my body would be under rather a stringent yoke, but my heart and mind would be free. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn't often that he broke a promise, and he clearly felt far from comfortable about it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

However, the Angkar keeps them so busy that they are unable to visit us as often as before. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s the closest thing to a friend I got here, just all around a nice person, and that’s something Aunt Aggie taught me you don’t find too often in this world. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

As a tyke the rhyming sounds had charmed her out of the boredom she often felt during the interminable Song. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We stopped at the guard gate to announce ourselves, but the old man in the booth was snoring and the gate was open, as was often the case, so we just drove in. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She’d join conversations she overheard, but her intrusions often stopped her children’s talking. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And court is where these cases often end up, particularly when they involve money. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

As it often happens in such cases, these were not to be the only visitors. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Families often sent in extra cupcakes for the agents when there were classroom birthday celebrations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor hoped that this would relieve a complaint that Billy had: Every so often, for no apparent reason, Billy Pilgrim would find himself weeping. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the very first friendly, which often set the tone for the rest of the games for the year to come. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Did they often shut you up?” she asked. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were some heavy farm horses grazing in the meadows and often a racehorse mare out to grass with her foal. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They say that often Greek flowers are seen coming up from the bottom, and that if a wooden cup is thrown into the Alpheus in Greece, it will reappear in Arethusa’s well in Sicily. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poppy had said this singling-out treatment often happened to Palestinians, even Palestinian-Americans, but one of Poppy's Palestinian friends had had a better arrival recently, when an Israeli customs agent actually said to him, “Welcome home.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At that time, newspapers often launched vicious personal attacks, even going so far as to make up entire stories. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

But everything about him—his sense of command, a confidence that betrays how often he comes here, the fact that there is nothing, nothing I can read about him—makes my heartbeat quicken. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One of our jobs of our second class of Navajo code talkers was to assign more Navajo words to the letters of the English alphabet that are used most often. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been going back and forth to town often since his father’s death. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

To that end, he became a constant and often vocal critic of the lead industry and its interests. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

They knew that life nowadays was harsh and bare, that they were often hungry and often cold, and that they were usually work-ing when they were not asleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

A complex man—as those caught between eras often are—Spaulding removed the grinning mask of servility, but could never quite put it aside. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She never laughed but often smiled the thin smile of the pious. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The fits of energy, tipping into rage and grandiosity, came often and more fiercely, and the sweeping undertow of grief that followed was just as strong. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Theater is a collaborative exploration of the drama of the human condition, and those who are outsiders often are the best people to reflect on that. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The problem is, she’s done things too often because she didn’t want to disappoint people. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hanging on to their femininity was something that remained important for most of these young women throughout the war, and often something that brought them together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I just know that to protect myself, I often have to rub dirt and charcoal on my skin to look as dark as the base people. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mollie, though she often felt bewildered by the upheaval around her, took the lead for her family—a modern traveler in the mist. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He would, in the future, often ignore her. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Myelin is often likened to the plastic coating around electrical wires—it insulates the neural circuits, making them about a hundred times faster than unmyelinated circuits. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A priest at a Texas shelter says they often bring pictures of themselves in their mothers’ arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She hailed from a small farm where she was often left to her own devices, save on those nights when the master needed company and she was forced to drink the cup of vice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Every so often a group of fellows will stop by in the afternoon on a sightseeing tour, and receive a mistaken impression of my establishment. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although I was often homesick during my travels, I nevertheless felt as though I were truly home for the first time. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were shocked by how often I had changed schools. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I probably shouldn’t ask, but my curiosity too often gets the better of me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we have to travel for business, but we often take our children with us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

From his PhD research on Korean pharmaceutical companies, Jim knew that the price of a drug to the public often had little to do with the costs of manufacturing or distributing it. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It always began in his chest, a swelling anxiety that blossomed through his veins, gripped his heart, spread up his spine, pressed against his eyes, the pressure often morphing into a migraine. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I look out the window the whole time, because I don’t often get a chance to leave Bellmont. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Knowing that we ate at school, Mrs. Moss scrimped even more at home, often serving only thin sandwiches for supper. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“If you study the history of blacks in America, you’ll find that sports were often at the forefront of change.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Medieval sites were often associated with holy springs or wells that had been considered sacred in pre-Christian times. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There’s another thing for which I will feel guilty forever: Jeffrey was driving me so nuts with his need for attention that I was often relieved when he went back into the hospital. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know what this change of uniform means; every so often I had been told in the other camp that my clothes would be laundered, disinfected and returned to me. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the bus, I thought about how Liz and I had often met at the zoo on Saturday afternoons last fall. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

"Wolves often howl at the moon. These are howling at the comet. See how bright it is, Bran? Perchance they think it is. the moon." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then and now, being an “Indian killer” was often regarded as heroic. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

The only problem was, people in the Muslim community often referred to me as “the Olympic fencer” because I was building a reputation as a professional athlete who competed on a United States national team. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

So often in the past, teasing, she had said she would, one day. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was obvious he often heard things like this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Carol hangs around near the boys at recess, and is often chased by two or three of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

More often than not, surveys do include such confidence intervals, but they don’t make it into the news story. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peachy Helen had often taken Liyana’s mother to the art museum instead of to church. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s why you’re here. You weren’t thinking, and you weren’t paying attention either. People who don’t pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that my siblings often urge her to stay out of the projects, she won’t. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew how few coppers they made and how often they had to go without rice but, on the other hand, I felt sorry for those who were chosen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You have these headaches too often,” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fairly often. Ever since you brought that book in my shop, actually.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Mortimer often shared breakfast with her favorites among the students and would read the newspaper aloud to them as they gobbled up their boiled oats and milk. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

There were so many diseases that it took a truly diseased mind to even think about them as often as he and Hungry Joe did. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They were buildings.They stretched in long rows with doors and dark little windows every so often. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most often the minister was attracted by the pitiful shrieks and calls of the sick in the final stages of the disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He knew that look; had seen it often enough in his childhood when he had accompanied his father downtown. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often he sighs as we stare toward the sunset. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nobody asked questions, although Harry often felt Bill’s eyes on the three of them at the table, thoughtful, concerned. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Yet an ugliness often lurked beneath the reformist zeal of Progressivism. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She was believed to be forty- seven, although she was often vague about her actual birthdate and may have been three years older. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

His prices were high, for failure often did not come easily. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In the evenings, Barack came home to our place on Euclid Avenue and often flopped on the couch, reeking of the cigarettes he still smoked when he was out of my sight. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

It was Igbo colored by the sliding sounds of English, the Igbo of one who spoke English often. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lying in my room, in a tearful sulk, I often wished I were dead. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked on two legs, not four, but they often had horses’ hoofs instead of feet, sometimes horses’ ears, and always horses’ tails. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will and George were gamblers and often tried to entice their brother into the joys and sorrows of venture. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every so often I would spring a Mrs. Dodds reference on somebody, just to see if I could trip them up, but they would stare at me like I was psycho. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This does not mean that its rightness was always apparent, although careless historians and scientists often imply as much; it does mean that its rightness becomes incontestable, at least for a period of time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Its Latin name. Ammonite family. You can tell by these close tight ribs it's got, with these extra-fat ones every so often...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Now that I could read, he often took out a book of poems by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’m often asked what elements of the story are real. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmasters were often guests on the show, evaluating the audience’s suggestions and discussing the win-loss possibilities of the contestants. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had two uncles in the military, and they would often stop by the house with their friends to visit. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Would we become like the orphan child we often saw in the village streets, begging for bread and eating scraps of meat like a wild animal? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“You have carried me often enough, sir,” said I. “Whenever you praised me to Mr. Sharpe, you held my head above the water. For that, I owe you my eternal gratitude.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The gulf between the information we publicly proclaim and the information we know to be true is often vast. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

All too often, I’d drift off, only to wake from nightmares about the fire that had killed my family. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Look, I had the first edition of this one,” he said often. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They came close behind, stooping, often using their hands even as he did. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Set atop these odd beliefs and quirky traits, however, was the mind of a supreme genius–though even when working in conventional channels he often showed a tendency to peculiarity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He drained gallons of milk, devoured entire large pizzas in one sitting, and often snacked from dinner to bedtime. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The most important room in our house is the living room, where we often watch television together. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Sundays after church, Uncle Henry and Aunt Mary’s family would come over to visit more often now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lady's bedmaid wore finer garb than a scullion, and often even a jewel or two. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They often move through life with what Harvard psychiatrist Judith Lewis Herman calls a “contaminated identity.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Although some of his closest colleagues realized the value of his quick, penetrating mind and frequently sought his advice, he was often not appreciated, and most people thought he talked too much. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Quite often it was tedious, and I’m not telling you the half of it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She is sick so often now, it’s no surprise. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I got to a point where I could do a basic service on a car by myself, and often I did. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I am often underestimated, but I strive to prove warlocks like you wrong.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a small Texas town, they often did n’t have colored bathrooms or fountains either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked for Geneva Eggers often after that as we went by, going and coming. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

We repeat so often we lose count, propelled by Mother’s wild eyes and pressed mouth, frightened of what her expression would be if... Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Many doctors tested drugs on slaves and operated on them to develop new surgical techniques, often without using anesthesia. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

After the trees leaf out, young lovers often hide in the shadows of the trail. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t come in the jungle often, but...well, I was trying to find kola nuts.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She very often wore men’s khaki pants, a gray cotton sweatshirt, and sandals. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It may not be amiss to mention that a good judge of style could often recognize a knight in armour, even if be was disguised and bearing the vergescu. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the remaining free minutes, hopeful students often took turns tugging at the door, which remained stubbornly closed. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

I still often found myself without a personal coach in my corner at competitions, but I almost always had some combination of my mother, Faizah, and Paola as part of my cheering squad. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

This was the reason I had become a lawyer in the first place, and my work often made me feel I had made the right decision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a storm, when the air pressure sank, you had to offset that drop against the altimetric reading, and very often it was a crude rule-of-thumb calculation. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

For lack of anything else to do when my body gets too sick to work in the garden, I often watch the villagers dispose of the corpses. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The natives bathe quite often, even in cold weather. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

I was often accompanied by Max Mlonyeni, the son of a friend from the Transkei and a young member of the PAC. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him that I often spoke in discussion groups and in my group therapy group. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her steps were sturdy and she looked up often at the clear sky to search for bomber jets, because she would stop and hurl stones and words up at them. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He often takes me fishing and swimming with him and introduces me to people as his new sister. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a talk with this boy, Uncle. He’ll be by more often—even if I have to drag him into the store.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little scribe was right, as she so often was. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

For example, after a night of drinking, she and Mark Antony often dressed as beggars. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

In New York we hear them so often bring up their treasured uniqueness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder the verb is often the most interesting word in a sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has changed hands by secession often, by siege- once, by treachery twice, but never by assault On this tower the look-out hoved. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the Seniors, we were down to six per dorm, so it was just our little group, and we often had our most intimate conversations lying in the dark before we fell asleep. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, it was too private but often he wanted to tell people about it. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they were stronger; and he stopped now less often to rest. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And again, he stopped often simply to absorb by osmosis the immense grandeur, loneliness, majesty, and both frail and cruel beauty of his surroundings. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The college sessions sometimes ran two to four hours— they often ran overtime. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby asked him to bring foods and juices to the hospital, which he did, and often Skulason just sat at the bedside, both men not speaking. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was so sweet that Omakayas often pretended that he was her very own baby. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But often transposing instruments are a result of the history of the instrument. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Most of them shut down, and black children were forced into crowded classrooms in dilapidated schools, often with teachers who were barely literate themselves. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Though she was allowed to visit him often, she was consumed by the guilt of living apart from him. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I can often hear their silences as they walk by outside and I can hear men’s Noise responding to it, too, sometimes with chafing but usually in a way that just gets on with things. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Much more often, we know nothing about the individuals responsible for devising famous alphabets of the past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

They made tables of how often other letters appeared in the message, then compared this with the distribution of letters in normal English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Elegance is often a reliable guide to the usefulness of a model, but not an infallible one. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pap liked to tell Bible stories, often to me, dramatizing them as he sat in our small kitchen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She was also, not incidentally, a single mother raising a dear, precocious boy named Jonathan, whom I often babysat. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The films often had the opposite effect: Despite the mountains of evidence, many Hitler Youth told themselves that the films were exaggerated, if not invented by the Allies as propaganda intended to defame the Nazis. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In the new colonies corn often took the place of money. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

It thrilled with the same electricity that had charged the afternoon, and I tossed and turned restlessly, waking often. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Moving to a new airfield was often difficult and dangerous for the Soviet aviators. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The trademark Adams style might be described as “enlightened perversity,” which actually sought out occasions to display, often in conspicuous fashion, his capacity for self-sacrifice. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

In the company of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and painters at lunch, I would often sit quietly, observant. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less and less often, as the summer set in, did her tart tongue discomfort her cousin. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was his familiarity with atomism which made it possible for Bacon, exceptionally and presciently, to dismiss human sensory organs as inherently defective and often misleading. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Plays and musicals that Volpe puts into production are often already familiar to his students because they have studied them in class. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Sallie was very kind, and often offered her the coveted trifles, but Meg declined them, knowing that John wouldn’t like it, and then this foolish little woman went and did what John disliked even worse. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the subject of the barge tour came up—and it came up fairly often—Henry played along in only the most perfunctory way, and his replies were mechanical and forced. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I often think of “twelve angry men,” in a hostile room, all trying to decide the fate of my brother. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that we were hanging with Styx Malone, that look came around a lot more often. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later, when I was still growing up in Michigan, I would go to visit her every so often. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mamma often lamented that her first word had been “why.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At the end of the day shift, the OIC often dispatched three or four or five of the departing officers on a final sweep of the flats. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I talked to him often, using these words and others and many that he did not understand, just as though I were talking to one of my people. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as often, however, Adams also used the correspondence to unburden himself of opinions that his muzzled status in the Senate prevented him from sharing publicly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We often dealt with a half-dozen cases in a morning, and were in and out of court all day long. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happened most often, he noticed, when he was wearing the Horcrux. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Settlers who stuck to the Old World crops often perished. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The coyotes, as they are called, are often alcoholics or drug addicts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They often go around with lists, knocking only on those doors where they know there’s a big haul to be made. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Many days the children ended up fighting for space and air, and often fighting each other. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

If a divorced lady were present in the company of her second husband, it is often thought desirable not to allude to the original marriage at all. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Bug boys were often remarkably small; Wad Studley was so tiny when he started riding—eighty-two pounds—that he had trouble lifting his own saddle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Never mind that white children on the other side of town who made precisely the same choices—often for less compelling reasons—are in fact going to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The extra loudness of the note often requires a stronger, more definite attack at the beginning of the accented note, and it is emphasized by putting some space before and after the accented notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The loudly buzzing syrphid fly, often mistaken for a bee, lays its eggs on leaves of aphis-infested plants; the hatching larvae then consume immense numbers of aphids. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

And where there are water-filled drainage ditches near lakes in Florida, there are often alligators. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z