In order to scale up to allow for the second reflection, Brunelleschi’s board would have needed to have an area of four square feet, not one. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

James Mott accepted, so it was a man, not a woman, who called to order the first women’s rights convention ever held in the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

My father, a Confucian of high order, would commend me for finally honoring that which is wholly evident. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s weird—there’s no one behind the counter, no one ordering food, no one at all anywhere. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“I see. And if she says no, in order to prevent all this?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Though the performance must be spectacular in order to coerce the best reactions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I miss her ordering me to do chores. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“We shouldn’t have attacked here, General. Heth had his orders.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am told, Madam Mina, by my friend John that you and your husband have put up in exact order all things that have been, up to this moment.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

President Bush's order was closely based on former president Roosevelt's proclamation to try the Nazi saboteurs in a military tribunal. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

He went to his arsenal, picked up a machine gun he did not know how to use, and—without telling anyone, not even his bodyguards—ordered his chauffeur to drive him straight to Tres Marias. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My part in the eviction was kept very much alive, and although I was under orders to make no speeches, I had grown accustomed to being introduced as a kind of hero. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been ordered to turn in all furs at Stawki Station. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

By Wednesday at noon, Alice had a “go” order to take the story all the way. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be bad for another day and order a pizza.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A woman was ordered to stand on a block of ice with a noose around her neck. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Enraged, she demanded to know what they were doing and was informed that Goebbels had ordered them to remove the camera and cameraman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“I ordered them from a supplier just like everybody else.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Someone goes missing, taken in the night or ordered to report to the Hub for questioning for some reason, and that person never comes back. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Lee prepared sealed orders to be given to each of Watters’ men; they were to scatter out over the countryside and find Stuart and get him back to Gettysburg with all possible speed. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some even suggested that he might have seen yellow fever when it wasn’t really present in order to support his theory. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Enough! Everyone take out your books and read chapter three,” Ms. O’Donnell ordered. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I got new seats on order from the wholesaler in Sarasota, but they won’t be here till Wednesday.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next was the family cleanup and a lesson of one kind or another—the alphabet, math, poems, or memorizing the sequence of the presidents of the United States in the order they served. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Others entered, ordered breakfast and joined the conversation. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She invented “rest time,” a period of endless inactivity stretching out after school and lunch, in which we were ordered to stay in our beds, under our mosquito-net canopies. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wipe down the bedside table, stack the Look magazines on her side, the bridge book she ordered. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He ordered me to go in and lie down. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The janitors could not use the elevators because Burnham had ordered them turned off after dark to conserve power for the fair’s nightly illuminations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon the girl that was waiting table for Mrs. Turner brought in the order and Sterrett took his fish and coffee in his hands and stood there. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“He says they order pizza on show nights.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Frank asks, like he just can’t imagine the ways these clues could ever line up in the right order. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There was a sense of symmetry, of order, to this part of town. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

They could not move, but sat blinking and staring about them in the darkness, taking no notice of Blackberry’s coaxing or Bigwig’s orders. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had happened: late Monday night, President Johnson, finally giving in to Governor Romney’s request, had ordered in federal troops. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She shifted the goblets into order, squeezing in belladonna just before the goblet containing a lethal dose of oleander. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

There was a whimsical candy-colored sculpture on the lawn that looked like a bunch of child’s toys glued together without reason or order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Don’t tease him,” she ordered sharply, as the cub showed signs of being about to investigate Marcus’s wriggling fingers, pretending to be a large spider scuttling on the floor. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

I had enough experience to know that in order to be a good organizer of anything which you expect to succeed—including yourself—you must almost mathematically analyze cold facts. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His chances seemed to improve again on May 10, when the FBI revealed the bugging that’d been done, at Kissinger’s orders, on the phones of his assistants. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Swing by, place an order, come back, pick it up. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For near a fortnight there had been so many comings and goings that Robb ordered both portcullises kept up and the drawbridge down between them, even in the dead of night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He ordered the theater to be surrounded by a twenty-four-hour guard. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

First they felt a sudden draft in the dining room and Clara ordered the windows shut because she thought it was the wind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To the air!” ordered Solovet, and the five bats lifted off in a V formation. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered everyone to “lock heels”—stand at attention and listen, eyes straight ahead. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Humbleness is in order; there is no excuse for scientific conceit here. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dimblewit took the podium and shuffled papers in his hand, before clearing his throat and calling the meeting to order. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Did you order the music for dessert, Isaiah? What a nice touch!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Well, pour it down the drain,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“No, miss. The donor left nothing except money. Do you wish to order a dessert?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This token infestation is harmless and is actually needed in order to maintain a population of beetles as protection against a future increase in the weed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Go for the equipment, Paul had ordered, and for a minute the gunfire was so fierce I knew two shots from my small revolver would go unnoticed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

After each man, she updates her relative ranking of her suitors and wonders what rule she should follow in order to maximize her chances of choosing the best of her projected N suitors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some think that the laws of nature are then randomly reshuffled, that the kind of physics and chemistry that orders this universe represent only one of an infinite range of possible natural laws. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The superintendent ordered that rations for the three remaining men be cut in half for two weeks, and he clubbed them on the head a few more times. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Artemis was the closest thing Butler had to a friend, and Butler was the closest Artemis had to a father, albeit one who obeyed orders. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Supreme Court ordered Duke to carve up his tobacco octopus, but the resourceful businessman had already diversified into textiles and electric power generation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The woman was pointing out the flowers and the leaves of the bushes in order to cajole the girl forward towards the building. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Harper had ordered eight hundred copies, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Get yourself to the bus stop, Elizabeth,” she orders. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

She ordered them to follow her and went into the woods that bordered the road, plunging into the woods, almost running. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mason called the class to order then, asking us to turn in our papers. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Direct order! Walk in front of us now! Stop again and we’ll take you down!” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

So in order to have any human interest in their stories, science fiction writers had to suppose that we would one day discover how to travel faster than light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was all right for the Chief, sitting back there giving out his orders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think so. This order is very important, and we can’t afford to start over because a kid messed something up.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He had, however, become a training instructor soon after, “in order to get a different kind of work.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The planets themselves moved on smaller circles attached to their respective spheres in order to account for their rather complicated observed paths in the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

This would mean that the early universe would have probably been very chaotic and irregular because there are many more chaotic and disordered configurations for the universe than there are smooth and ordered ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The president’s orders for an air strike on North Vietnam had reached the Constellation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

After all, we have offered to feed their children to the crocodiles in order for them to know the Kingdom and the Power and the Glory. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, he altered the order, put the third daughter first or the oldest one second. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Marsh barked out orders, and a swarm of his stewards broke from ranks to attack the wooden walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Already on every village green throughout New England, men and boys were drilling in defiance of the King’s orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wilder and Gilman had presented the clues in the order that the script had stipulated: ice, waddle, then black and white. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I order warm milk, the most calming thing I can think of, from an attendant. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

You don’t have any of the things that kids should have in order to be children and grow up to be healthy adults. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You kill on the orders of your king.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

At the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

"Her Grace left orders, the council in session is not to be disturbed." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The guardsmen were forced to wait outside the gate of Tres Marias until they received an order from the capital. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I heard voices coming toward me, officers yelling orders to ready the cannons. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, Matt silently realized, El Patron was capable of ordering her death. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This expedition must proceed without further delay. It must go on at once. Please give the order.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

In order to get that kind of attention, you needed a routine that would knock people's socks off. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But in order for me to get that look with pencils, I have to do a lot of shading. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mayor Gayle and several city commissioners insisted the segregation laws were needed to maintain order in the city. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“Mom didn’t get it for me. I ordered it online.” saw her hand it to you as we were packing the car.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

After the waitress had taken his order, Emenike brought out an envelope from his pocket. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The young man jerked up, blinking, confused, the crystal of his order swinging wildly on its silver chain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The Erudite have also ordered all Divergent to be turned over to Erudite. I do not know for what purpose.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then I hung up the phone, and speaking a language I didn’t know I knew, I ordered the hollow to stand. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Except on The Shield, they need court orders to do what you’re doing.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Throughout the huge nation, members of the Osoaviakhim and civil air clubs had received the same order, and were sending their women aviators to Moscow. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

It was a court order addressed to Jack So-and-so, informing him that if he didn’t pay his back alimony he would be in contempt and punishable. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

State solicitor W. H. Murdock advised store owners to order demonstrators to leave, and when they didn’t, have them arrested for trespassing, invoking the Royal Ice Cream case as a precedent. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I got up quickly and ate, then reviewed the order of events to come. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe it had something to do with my birth order. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

In vain we searched for traces of the assault, some sign of the intrusion, but the room was swept and in order. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Ahead of him the guns were firing into a line of blue soldiers and Longstreet spurred that way and Goree pulled alongside, screaming, “What are your orders, General? Where you want me to go?” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smiled again, again kindly, and he said, “I am Miriam’s nephew, dear. I’m living here until I get her affairs in order.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

And Billy let himself down oh so gradually now, hanging onto the diagonal cross-brace in the corner in order to make himself seem nearly weightless to those he was joining on the floor. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blake's supervisors ordered him to look for evidence of what happened to her, as talk of treason swirled around the MI6 headquarters. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I know I’m American because I order too much when I eat Chinese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The order of sharps is: F sharp, C sharp, G sharp, D sharp, A sharp, E sharp, B sharp. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I decide he’s drunk enough that I don’t have to lie in order to preserve anyone’s feelings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“She thinks one of us has to die in order for the game to end,” Marco says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Once or twice a week an order would come in, and it was my job to fill it. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

At twelve forty on April 8, Shackleton gave the order: “Launch the boats.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Gimpy had often sent me out to deliver orders to her house. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to get back on the train, beat his mother home, eat, and wash up, in that order. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Do either of you want sandwiches? Or maybe Mom will order us a pizza?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

All travel and accommodation expenses will be covered by us if the Mehra family can get their visas in order. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In the Army, there is an old expression that the officers make the orders and the sergeants do all the work; this year, as a cadet platoon sergeant, I was learning how true that was. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And it befell that when Zacharias should do the office of the priesthood in the order of his course before God, New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood up again in Engel’s cloud of smoke—hadn’t even ordered anything, just as well as it always panics me to have to speak French to strangers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Thus one does not need to have a theory of the structure and constitution of the sun and the planets in order to calculate their orbits. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An aeronaut. He brought us here and then we crashed. Here you are, here’s the alethiometer. It’s all in good order.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Between drive-thru orders, he runs over to help me assemble trays of food, but still the line is consistently ten deep. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

His efforts succeeded: in December Eisenhower ordered that a “blank wall” be placed between the physicist and all classified or sensitive government information, pending further investigation. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He always orders moo goo gai pan and steals packets of soy sauce to take home. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

“Shut your mouth, fool. If you’d done as I ordered and come right back to report, the way Cheesethief did, we might have been inside that Abbey by now!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

On the sidelines, Agent Jones looked angry and tense as he barked terse orders. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I would have to give myself something to do, in order not to be too bored and find myself among all the wretched unsaved of the Avenue. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

As part of the deception, Washington ordered three generals with troops near New York to act as if they were preparing to invade the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The performance will have to be really good, she says, in order to win the hearts of these rich foreigners. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The holophone danced around eagerly until it was ordered to stand in a corner. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it was a war, and he had his orders, so they’d set up a perimeter and crawled under their ponchos and tried to settle in for the night. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of the Surinamese cotton plant, she wrote, “The Indians put its green leaves on wounds in order to cool and heal them.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I hadn't asked Jordan to tea in order to discuss Mr. Jay Gatsby. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

After a fast if reckless three miles to McDonald’s, we ordered seven large french fries to share and then went outside and sat on the lawn. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Balder’s horse, fully caparisoned, was ridden to the pyre and sacrificed there, in order that it would be able to bear its master in the world to come. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“My dad fries up a bunch of leftovers. Occasionally, it’s awesome. Usually, it’s so-so. And sometimes, it’s so bad we have to order pizza.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Then, say Wendy’s husband and the other Central Americans, the man with the cobra tattoo on his arm orders Wendy to remove her pants. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

That meant walkers and car-poolers were all going by bus so that our usual seating arrangement was not in order. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The company was ordered to provide to the trooper, as an official of the state, records associated with the number 435-XXX-3739. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Selma’s mayor had ordered Sheriff Clark to avoid violent confrontations. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the counter, Monday stepped up to order for us. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She grabs my hand and we skip across the street to Ray-Ray and Eddie’s, and she orders a pie for delivery to our house, and we caught a ride home with the delivery dude.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Conger ordered the Garrett sons to collect a few armfuls of straw and pile them against the side of the barn. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was going undercover to nail Dusty Muleman, the man she suspected of ordering her boyfriend killed. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Clara ordered one of the servants to fetch their coats, and by the time her husband returned, she was halfway into hers and holding the car keys in her hand. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some cities, the National Guard was being mobilized in an attempt to bring order to the rioting. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Your father ordered that I was to be kept alive for as long as possible—to endure the misery that Endovier gives in abundance.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I ordered from the restaurant in the hotel and it was really good.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Then I bought a larger one and wrote down the names, addresses and date mowed, so there was some order. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

It was just the order that was wrong. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His orders were being carried out even before they were given, even before he thought of them, and they always went much beyond what he would have dared have them do. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Calpurnia, I’m not asking you to tell me, I’m ordering you to tell me. Right this minute.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I was suffering from a bad case of the flu and my doctors ordered me to remain at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From all about, the roar of cannons and shouts of orders reached our ears; the water itself which nestled the hull spake of the battle. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Just in time Lyra tucked her head down, and then Iorek bounded over them, roaring orders to his bears to go left, go right, and crush the enemy between them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Are we ready to order?” he asked, smiling around at them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The waitress comes over to take our order, but Detective Stevens shoos her away. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Learning that we were early, we walked the two blocks to Dunkin’ Donuts and Jesse ordered black coffee and another glazed doughnut, took one bite, then threw the rest away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Stop muttering about the drafts,” Doli ordered brusquely, “and think of some way to get us out of here safely. If you’re in charge of a way post, you’re supposed to be ready in emergencies.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

Many days I walked the six miles to town in the morning and the six back in the evening in order to save bus fare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of Shackleton’s enduring resentment of McNeish ever since his mutiny, he resolved that the carpenter must go, in order to make running repairs to the boat. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“Hercules wants my other horn in order to humiliate me,” Achelous said. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wandered from one room to the next without ever being the least surprised to find everything in perfect order and sparklingly clean. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

New signs were created by combining old signs to produce new meanings: for example, the sign for head was combined with the sign for bread in order to produce a sign signifying eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After extensive travels during 1575 he seems to have decided to settle in Basle, and returned to Denmark at the end of the year to put his affairs in order for the move. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But then my old company didn’t go to Nam, they went to Germany instead — which was cool because there wasn’t any fighting going on over there — and I got orders for Nam. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he was ordered to report to the German Army to be enlisted as a private with no chance for a promotion. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

We had been ordered to go outside to allow for cleaning of the blocks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

An order for sandals from a Polish diplomat and his wife. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

My job was to be silent and follow orders. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

On March 12, 1938, Hitler ordered his army to march into Austria, a country that had a large ethnic German population. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’m under strict orders to tell them if anyone says or does something threatening. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t say. But she said we can order a pizza.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In December 1511 she made an order for a set of stringed instruments for the Ferrara court which, Holman convincingly suggests, were ‘new design’ violins, invoiced to a maestro Sebastian of Verona. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The officers were now screaming orders to the Moore brothers, telling them to get on the ground and keep their mouths shut. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Dr. Martin tosses out orders to Byrd and George. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I ordered a classic cheeseburger, large fries, and a large Coke. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Contrary to orders, each girl had a pint hidden and each girl watched for the signal to fortify herself a little for the party. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night, Chou and I sit outside the hut looking at the road until the sky darkens and our aunt orders us in to go to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we arrived home, the man on the radio explained federal judge Ronald Davies’s ruling, ordering integrated classes to begin on Wednesday. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one even came by to take an order. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

On their orders, Royal apprenticed with a printer as soon as he was old enough to labor. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The diagrams were convincing, but in the end Ajarry was another asset liquidated by order of the magistrate. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Had headphones in, didn’t hear the order from the cops to put his hands up. Got shot, and died right there.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Both were very hungry and they stopped talking in order to concentrate on the slippery wet food. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A backlash against blacks was clearly in force, but no consensus had yet been reached regarding what racial and social order would ultimately emerge from these turbulent times. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Voices came from the waterfront, military voices shouting orders. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the ring, Grave began pacing, waiting for the king to return his attention to the duel and give the order to begin. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

What historian Barbara Tuchman called the emperor’s “wooden-headedness, in the special variety of religious mania” is often said to be why he didn’t order his army to wipe out the Spaniards immediately. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I brush my teeth and run through the list of props and the names of the performers, what’s the order, who didn’t show up to rehearsal yesterday. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Keep within doors, Ophelia. I would not have you appear in public view,” he ordered. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then these groups were given differing levels of rights and privileges in order to keep them at odds. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The soldiers continued to beat them all the way into the street, where they were ordered to lie face down on the ground. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shouted orders at the legion, and the Romans obeyed without question, as if she’d never been away. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The next day, April 30, word spread through the barge: the president of South Vietnam had ordered his troops to lay down their arms. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

One soldier ordered Farmer to say “Long live the Haitian army.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

They fell at once to swearing as I ordered, and when the round of oaths had ceased, we found a halfmoon bay to beach and moor the ship in, with a fresh spring nearby. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mine hadn’t gone to a full seven-day shift, even with the new orders for coal. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Kaira ordered a double cappuccino and asked for whipped cream on top. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Headmaster, however, adjusted the order, taking Neel by the arm and pulling him to the back. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

When the judges brought the court to order, the visitors’ gallery and the press bench were packed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It still belonged to Indigenous nations, many of which had allied with the British in order to protect their homelands from land-hungry Americans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Tom said uneasily, “If your mother says it’s all right, I’ll order the oyster loaf this morning and pick it up tonight.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Be sure to understand me, Harry. I mean that you must follow even such orders as ‘run,’ ‘hide,’ or ‘go back.’ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She ordered flowers, she discussed canapés and drinks with the caterer, and she spent a whole evening with Lyra deciding whom to invite. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if she could have shown me that the world still made sense in some way, that there was still some sort of order to things—I might not even be doing this. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Globes of thinly blown sugar sit on each plate and must be broken open in order to access the clouds of cream within. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Not long afterward, they got an order telling them to return to the 586th. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They broke into giggles right as Njemile gently pushed Moss forward to order. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When Mark Antony finally did order Cleopatra to go home to Alexandria and wait for him there, she persuaded him to reconsider. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One more hour of marching and, at last, the order to halt. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anytime Dimple kvetched about wanting to order a pepperoni pizza because she was tired of eating something Mamma was cooking, Mamma would bust out with that. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Every time I come back to the store, Marie has a new stack of orders to go out. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The area was swarming with soldiers and vigilantes and Isaac knew that in order to survive, they’d have to keep moving. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to get their liquor, men and women took advantage of every loophole in the law. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

‘All in good time! You are not supposed to talk or worry about anything today, by Elrond’s orders.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Dewey believed in doing, in working on relevant projects in order to learn how to think. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a brief stunned moment, the emperor barked an order, and the guards clamored. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Someday science will solve that. But for now, get up off the floor,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I was furious, and I ordered her to go back to sleep. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You won't believe what I'm going to tell you,” she said as she threw ashes over his excrement in order to pick it up with the shovel. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Do you think there was order back in the camps? Do you think ...” Eva interrupted smoothly. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It happens when he shovels phrase after phrase onto the page in the order in which each one occurs to him. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

There were no flowers, as ordered, no ceremony, no sermon, and no grief. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up and opened a large drawer, in which were arranged in order a number of hollow cylinders of metal covered with dark wax, and said:— Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He too wanted some order preserved in the world and in the family. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did Calliope have to die in order to make room for Cal? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I sink into a chair at their table, order a gin fizz at the waiter’s suggestion, and concentrate on Dutchy’s fingers, which I can see from where I’m sitting, deftly skimming the piano keys. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

There was no sound, but Clarisse LaRue from the Ares Cabin was yelling orders at the campers, forming them into lines. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All along its perimeter, sparks rise and ash falls and administrative documents flutter; utility plans, purchase orders, tax records. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inquests were a remnant of a time when ordinary citizens largely assumed the burden of investigating crimes and maintaining order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A silverback uses anger to maintain order and warn his troop of danger. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“Because Dad ordered us to stay in the house. We’re confined to quarters.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I need, uh, time to prepare some materials. Are you free in an hour? We can reconvene here. I’ll order food. Bring, uh, your passport and any receipts and relevant documents you have, sugar.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I chipped it off with the pick of my ice ax, then asked Andy to return the favor by turning off my regulator in order to conserve my gas until the Step cleared. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

The United States would spend $24 billion on Apollo, in order to plunge the sword into the heart of the Soviet Unions ambitions in space. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

It took less than an hour to get the house back in order, and it couldn’t come soon enough for Toby. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finally Captain Marsh gave the order for them to line up again. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Normally, each fraternal order would gather in their own hall and discuss their own business. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Reynie and Sticky went up to the counter to order their lunches. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was no physical evidence or witnesses to prove that Hale had carried out or ordered any of the killings. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Each one's got a different dinosaur, but if you put them end to end in order, the background landscape joins up and forms a frieze. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“The Roman genius, and perhaps the Roman flaw,” he said, “was an obsession with order. One sees it in their architecture, their literature, their laws—this fierce denial of darkness, unreason, chaos.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Some felt that Holm had been deliberately set up by the journalists in order to manufacture a story. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Piper’s blade, Hazel’s magical senses and Annabeth’s instincts all agreed - the answer lay here in Ithaca, at the ancient palace of Odysseus, where a horde of evil spirits had gathered to await Gaia’s orders. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Just days after stepping down, John Ehrlichman told federal investigators that the Ellsberg break-in was not merely the work of Hunt and Liddy, but part of a White House investigation ordered by President Nixon. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In order to circumvent the restrictions, I offered food to the warders, who might then relent. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Sharpe did not seem sensible that these hands he cut with the ferule were the same which, an hour later, bleeding, bandaged, arranged his frock-coats according to his order. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps the natural order of things upset me first.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“You will say nothing about that outside this room,” she ordered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He rested his hand there briefly, feeling the traditions that connected him to the order of drüskelle, as old as the Ice Court itself. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

We place a big order at Murdick’s Fudge: chocolate, chocolate walnut, peanut butter, and penuche. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The executive meeting in Durban, like all ANC meetings at the time, was held in secret and at night in order to avoid the police. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thought: they must have orders not to fight. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taking advantage of this huge new support, Palmer obtained a deportation order for 199 of the Russians, most of whom were not even given a hearing. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You might think about getting yourself another copy of your mother’s medical record and stapling it with all the pages in order to keep it all straight,” I said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

In short order, I’d come upon the three urchins, more intent on skipping stones across the creek than filling their buckets. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The king could order him freed, but would Robert listen to his queen or his Hand? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Women gathered their dishes and babies in order to take them home. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

People in the room stood to look and the judge ordered them to sit down. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

After half an hour of useless guessing, the children had come no closer to an answer, and Constance abandoned her silence in order to mock their efforts. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The order was printed and posted on several gates and road-posts about the city, and the above is verbatim from one such copy. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“They think he intends to use Dust in some way in order to make a bridge between this world and the world beyond the Aurora.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange because although her eyes showed no emotion or interest, she must have been interested in order to be watching the moth so closely. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the butler’s pantry sipping an early morning glass of light ale when the order reached him. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Give him to the gardener so he can get rid of him. He might be contagious,” Severo ordered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already dizzy from the first hit and knowing that he’d probably end up falling down flat on his face if he made a run for it, Gabriel followed Cabot’s orders. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

"George is planning to leave New York City for a couple of days in order to make some important contacts," Burger said. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The army did not have enough professional soldiers to carry out Knox’s orders. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

And some without order, for none could be found to command them in the City, ran to the bells and tolled the alarm; and some blew the trumpets sounding the retreat. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“I have to become a Junior Agent in order to inherit Quinton’s second Farewell Briefcase. And there’s a whole petition against me being in the finale.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

There was great wonder, and many dark and doubtful glances, among his men, when Éomer gave orders that the spare horses were to be lent to the strangers; but only Éothain dared to speak openly. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Adele had gotten good advice, because the South Carolina Department of Social Services would have to get a Florida court order to force the issue. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Now the diminutive freshman waited nervously in his dorm room, dressed in his best suit and preparing to risk everything for the right to order a cup of coffee at a five-and-dime lunch counter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Gage might have ordered this work done merely to confuse the people of Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A soldier pointed to several boys, and, speaking perfect German, he ordered them to open the freight car doors. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was racing to keep pace with a woman who shouted orders over her shoulders to us. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wished that I were back at the hotel, ordering room service. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Contempt from Rome To outsiders—especially Romans—it seemed likely that Cleopatra manipulated Mark Antony in order to keep him under her closely supervised control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

He woke the men by whistle every morning and gave the order to “lash up and stow.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“In theater, everything is staged and organized. It goes in order and fits together. I’ve seen how Mr. Volpe is so brilliant at that, and it’s helped me organize my life in the same way.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Made him feel like things were in order. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He ordered the Garretts to move away from the barn or he would shoot them. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Dasch were to follow the captain of the U-boat's orders and overpower the coast guardsman, he would have to lure him to the dinghy. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

She seemed to have given up, or perhaps she had been ordered to. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Into the hole four calabashes of sour milk were placed and then everybody was ordered to stand in a line. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in spite of all orders the cruelty of the orcs had mastered them, and they were tormenting Frodo, or even savagely hacking him to pieces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I order three slices—two for me and one for Lorena. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She is comforted by the order of the round loaves, the texture of grain and powdered sugar, the sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might order them into the Slammer—the Level 4 biocontainment hospital. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to spice up their lives by ordering an overly elaborate drink involving half shots, milks of varying fat content, and caramel, as well as vanilla syrup. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was only when Maria made the first move that Esperanza returned and proceeded to order everyone around. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went through mechanical reactions in order of increasing difficulty. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“But Hancock has a verbal order from Meade. It’s all very funny. Thing is, when Hancock’s on the field the men naturally turn that way. Old Howard’s really steamed.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Transfers, the order in which you go through the final test was taken from your rankings as they now stand,” Tobias says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She nods at the next order and holds up three fingers, which means I’ve got three minutes. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The failure of the Union infantry to obey Washburn’s orders to attack determined their fate. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was February of 1945 and Central Pacific Command had just sent down its orders to the troops. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Redemption marked a turning point in the quest by dominant whites for a new racial equilibrium, a racial order that would protect their economic, political, and social interests in a world without slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When it was finally closer to dinnertime, Dad ordered the pizza and I set up the grid for another round while we waited. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Tom soon received the orders for one of his first missions: he was to accompany his captain and his sergeant in pursuit of cow rustlers in Kent County, north of Abilene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The library book had said pigeons do this in order to fix in their mind’s compass the place they must return to. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, the officers ordered them back into their cars, but not before placing handcuffs on one of the drivers because he didn’t have the proper registration for the rental car they were driving. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I promised your wife I’d have you back in short order. Now look at me! Becalmed!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had to die in order for me, the rest of me, to live. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Bull ordered the city’s school buses brought to the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I really want to order something fried, but the last thing I need is my face looking like a pepperoni pizza come the day of the pageant. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Pa does not look the soldier in the eyes as he hands the watches over. the soldier orders and then walks away. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weylin ordered the man stripped naked and tied to the trunk of a dead tree. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

To keep jurors from being influenced by the sensational Watergate headlines, Judge Byrne had ordered all newspaper boxes removed from the streets around the courthouse. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

That was when the team decided to order jerseys that stood up for Sasha. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I must remember to eat the tuna before he spoils in order to keep strong. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remain exactly where you are. Make no movement until you are ordered.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Word about my decision to play in the tournament reached the S.A.N.L.T.U., and I was ordered to withdraw immediately or be banned for life from black tennis. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Captain Moreo came scrambling across the deck, giving orders, and all around them the Storm Dancer burst into frenetic activity as King's Landing slid into view atop its three high hills. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The whole situation was a little suspicious, but the girl's passport was in good order, and she'd been approved to cross the border before. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

For a minute I think she's ordering me out of her apartment, but I realize she means for me to follow her. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Guardian Angels was a small Catholic elementary school run by an order of monks and an order of nuns. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Anger flooded through me, cutting through the lingering pain in my limbs and any fear I had that he was taking me out somewhere in order to finish the job. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“At least he’ll bring a little order to matters of the spirit,” she said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you order Jerome Rogers to put down the gun?” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

“From now on,” Nately ordered his girl firmly, “I absolutely forbid you even to speak to that disgusting old man.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

And then when my mom finally gets in front of the judge, he immediately issues the protective order. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Keep moving, keep moving,” ordered a police officer, stepping into the road and waving the car on. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Black business owners who didn’t take the “right position” had their notes called in, orders dropped, supplies of vital materials delivered late or not at all. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Katzenbach told Wallace, loud enough for all to hear, to abide by the federal court order. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Change that nasty shirt,” Mom ordered when she spotted the crusty bib of dried blood across my chest. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The bedroom’s in there. I expect a full night’s sleep from you, followed by a recitation of your poisons in the morning, in order of toxicity.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“And now we turn to regular contributor Royal, for an update on how the new Wizarding order is affecting the Muggle world.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For dinner, I order a large pepperoni pizza and a side of cheesy bread. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Whenever they ordered Jamaican food at home, Ma always got ginger beer with it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The nearly six thousand troops got orders to move out into the streets. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She greeted most of the customers by name and knew almost everyone’s orders. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

I rearrange a few pill bottles, making sure one more time that everything is in the same chronological order as what I programmed into the app after cross-referencing his Donkey Kong-covered regimen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Similarly, the National Journal reported that between January 1997 and October 1999, the agency handled 3.4 million orders of Pentagon equipment from over eleven thousand domestic police agencies in all fifty states. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost like it made her head feel heavy, like she had to look down or away in order to keep her equilibrium. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Father made them do things they hated, too, in order to build character. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was against the law to burn anything at that time of the year, but she said a ceremony was important in order to have the official opportunity to give that year to God. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘We will create a virtual world of order and harmony.’ The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One day, everyone in the village was ordered to gather by a certain large tree. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest building and stay there. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He refused to tell me where we were going, but Charlie and Zooey had ordered pizza and traded her history homework for baby name books, so I was especially grateful for the opportunity to escape. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When the commandant had pulled seventy-five prisoners out of our lines, he had them marched to the other side of the tracks and ordered his soldiers to shoot them. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You just did, Dad. Remember that you made me memorize the guard orders? I’ve always had trouble remembering them. But I never had trouble remembering the most important one. You deserted your post.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The government ordered him to be held as a "restricted or isolated prisoner" to keep him separated from the other inmates. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

When the fighting was over, and the later labours were ordered, Merry, Pippin, and Sam joined him, and they rode back with the Cottons. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“General Scheisskopf?” he inquired unsuspectingly of the sergeant in his new office who brought him word of the order that had come in that morning. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

One was an East Side tailor near me, who made only to order, while the other two turned out an expensive product with which I had no desire at all to compete. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

He gave an order for eggs and coffee. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I remember I'm not supposed to speak to her unless I'm giving her an order. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Word had it that our neighbourhood, because of the increasing presence of people whose papers were not in order, had been designated a “hot spot,” which meant that it had to be raided constantly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Florentine had ordered her headstone the year she turned ninety. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pocock now had a backlog of eight orders for eight-man shells, including requests from some of the most elite rowing programs in the country: Navy, Syracuse, Princeton, and Pennsylvania. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We were accustomed to taking orders and did what we were told. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The waitress had heard; she shot Ron a nasty look as she shuffled off to take the new customers’ orders. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I held out my Hand, that we might Clasp, & he reached for me, but his Corporal ordered him back in Line. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We were glad the order was rescinded, but suspicious as to why. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabe had tied stacks of boards together in order to drag them into place. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They covered the secretary’s table, the reading desk, the stools—dreary papers of government, still bravely persevered in—of law, still to be codified—of commissariat and of armament and of orders for the day. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we’ll see, a writer must constantly reconcile the two sides of word order: a code for information, and a sequence of mental events. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The captain gave the order to fire and fourteen machine guns answered at once. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Unlike Charles, she was not careful to put things back where she got them; the freethinking atmosphere at Maer had not inculcated order into her as the strict atmosphere at the Mount had into Charles. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you give orders in my house,” said the Mellower’s mother. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Yet she was often ordered to perform jobs that would have taxed the strength of a full-grown, able-bodied man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were more than a hundred pages, many of them crumpled, folded, or torn, all of them out of order. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

That night, while he played dominoes with Aureliano, he ordered the sergeant to break the seal in order to count the votes. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Everyone move up onto the sidewalk!” she ordered, waving people out of the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

"You may take your vows here at evenfall, before Septon Celladar and the first of your order. Do any of you keep to the old gods?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He used to sit at the counter and order blueberry pie. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Everybody else was shedding hairpins; Queenie’s hairpins marched in ordered rank on her pajama pocket and would not go back in her hair till she was back in bed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Sir, I can’t let you go upstairs. I have strict orders—” “You’re talking to a white man, boy. This medicine is for your master.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Today was the day to order more shades of red nail polish. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

But they quietly placed mail orders to receive the paper in the privacy of their own homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were islands in the middle of the water, little floating restaurants where grown-ups could order Turkish coffee while their legs were still in the pool. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The second law of thermodynamics results from the fact that there are always many more disordered states than there are ordered ones. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As punishment, he ordered all 160 boys to march into an ice-cold river. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

No cobwebs had been spun around the workbench, so she figured her grandmother kept it in order. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea that every organism was meticulously constructed by a Great Designer provided a significance and order to nature and an importance to human beings that we crave still. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Toward the end of the summer they had begun to give lectures in order to raise money for the Y.M.C.A. and now they were going to Canada for two weeks. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for the first time since he became my lieutenant, Dex doesn’t acknowledge my orders. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

A guard ordered us to turn over any valuables, and I gave him the few zloty I had in my pockets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we reached the manor, Father ordered me to change into something clean and to hurry down to greet the guests who were arriving to pay their respects. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like every other room in the residence, it had windows on multiple sides, and like everything else in Scythe Curie’s life, was kept in perfect order. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

He stared at the water, too, and ordered a bucket lowered. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his absence the English governor ordered George Percy, a nobleman and Jamestown resident, to take over and destroy the Indigenous population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I ask her if we can order pizza or Chinese food, she says I’m spoiled and tells me to make myself a quesadilla. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Obese and very dark-skinned, she was at nearly every rally and demonstration C.P. attended, ordering people around and mouthing off to the white authorities. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Carter called for order, banging his gavel on the table. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shush order probably didn’t account for that. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

They were brave, hostile, and aggressive; they would not take orders, and shouted “Amandin!” at every opportunity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1901, in fact, in order to more fully disassociate itself from the infamous prison, the town changed its name to Ossining. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to bring the new Buchis bull to its temple at Flermonthis, a city near Thebes in Upper Egypt, Cleopatra traveled more than four hundred miles on the Nile by boat. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

One afternoon when she was trying to put the parlor in order, Úrsula asked for the help of the soldiers who were guarding the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Most assuredly. The pond can be a hazardous place. Return there now, and you would find friendly naiads beckoning you near the water in order to pull you under and drown you.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At five minutes to ten, I heard a voice at the drive-in ordering a burger and fries. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I know all about that fine and terrible ordering, how it variously casts you as the golden child, the slave-son or daughter, the venerable father, the long-dead god. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coach brought us to a no-frills pizza spot near the hotel and ordered seven large pies for the team. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

After I put my desk drawer back in order, I began on the wardrobe. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite his order, I pull on pants and boots before I go. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

But his presence imposed order and allowed freedom. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In order to buy the dress, she had borrowed the money she had saved for Francie, promising to give her a check for it as soon as the ceremony was over. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each note had its own identifiable blob, a mark on the page, and they were placed in the order, from left to right, in which they were meant to be sung. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He took it, bowed politely, then fired off some orders. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If I have to order you a second time to tell me where you got him, you are lost,” Oedipus said. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

First we had to get Quinby into the harness, and that was a tall order. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Discipline prevailed: in five minutes the confused throng was resolved into order, and comparative silence quelled the Babel clamour of tongues. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

That is, how many people would there have to be in a group in order for the probability to be half that at least two people in it have the same birthday? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Step down from your office as president,” they order Captain Smith. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The first thing you got to learn if you’re going to work with me, Jax, is how to follow orders. When I say go, you go! Understand?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Grasso had ordered her to stay put in her chair. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

We all waited while the deputy went through each one of our rooms in order: our front room, Doc’s bedroom, Mama’s room, the room I shared with Jay, the washroom, and the kitchen. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Philip broke a vase that belonged to Anne Boleyn, Gran ordered a communications lockdown, and Mum hasn’t spoken to anyone,” Henry tells him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Now the shadows become regular; the lattices generate ordered and readable silhouettes. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

The next week we were ordered to fill the bucket to the top. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The goose took command and began to give orders. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The Maori Billy had worked with died of the dry heaves, after having been ordered to go down in that stink and work. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have done terrible things... betrayed my own, turned my cloak, ordered the death of men who trusted me ... but I am no kinslayer.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

That night I ordered the papers and waited anxiously. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to satisfy their soldiers, they did not hesitate to inflict all kinds of injuries upon the people. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Rice tapped his baton on his music stand to restore order. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, she ordered the servant to give the holy Brahmin a white gown. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we got into the car, Kevin told Mama that the soldiers had been ordered to demolish the vegetable stalls because they were illegal structures. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She waived a jury trial, was ordered to have a psychiatric examination, and was found not guilty by a judge. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After the meal, the master went to order the carriage to take them to some admiral’s house for eggnog. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she doesn’t know that I flagrantly disregarded orders, ripped out my earpiece, and gave my bodyguards the slip? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

With all in order, they set off for the day ahead. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A fierce sergeant was keeping order on the bridge. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An exposure of a different order, as if I were offering a private fact about my father or mother to a complete stranger in one of our stores. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the waiter comes he orders a gyro platter and a side of pepperoncini and coffee. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Monaco asked him who had given the order. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last the voice of Faramir ordered them to be uncovered. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Dex and Faris are there, along with the other twenty-seven men in my battle platoon, including Cyril, a barrel-shaped boy who hates taking orders but accepts mine readily, and Darien, who has fists like hammers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In order to make my resignation to the first hypothesis more plausible, I had to be level-headed about this one as well. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Every single one, falling to order like soldiers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The police began stopping me in the streets and demanding my papers: luckily my pass was in order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is no dearth of men who understand these things, but these are not the men who order the wholesale drenching of the landscape with chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was thinking, In order for this to happen, your entire frame of reference will have to change, and you will be forced to surrender many things that you now scarcely know you have. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

When Dad was ordered to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, the time seemed opportune. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now let me get your order so you ladies can eat already. I hope you’re okay with vegetarian food.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“She would have suffered. My family would have never accepted her as an equal. You don’t order someone to polish your shoes one day and call them ‘sister’ the next.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dad ordered everybody out who could get out and then slammed the phone down and ran to the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered more security to come after me, but I swung my poster around like a sword to ward them off. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I straighten up the magazines and sketchbooks, making sure they are in order by size, and as I do, a piece of paper falls out. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“Your order will be right up,” she says to the woman. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

“So Officer X remembers saying that to Conover now, is that right? And he’s going to write a new To/From? And you’ll take care of the deprivation order? Okay, fine.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruce was bellowing orders and pointing his finger at Mark and Alec, his pale face now red with anger. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

From his old connections in the rum-running business he rented a slot machine and ordered a week’s supply of beer and whiskey. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

"There's more maps. If I had time to search . . . everything's a jumble. I could .set it all to order, though; I know I could, but it would take time . . . well, years, in truth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When I sat in my dad’s truck and pretended to drive I had a hard time reaching the pedals while still sitting high enough on the seat in order to see out the windshield. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The district attorney ordered them to Auburn for questioning. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

These they packed in boxes, preserving the order in which she had shelved them. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Olive ordered me to count her coins in their thousands—repeatedly, because she kept thinking I had made a mistake. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ordered us out of the shack, shouting at us to form a line. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Yet, the Bantu Authorities Act would replace it with an even more repressive system: a feudalistic order resting on hereditary and tribal distinctions as decided by the state. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the one who introduces them has as his enemies all those who profit from the old order, and he has only lukewarm defenders in all those who might profit from the new order. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

A person who had died but remained in order to help others. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

James smokes a few cigarettes and orders me a beer. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

I went around giving orders and encouragement in a feverish daze, and yet seeming to observe it all from off to one side. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Back to the ranch,” orders Dylan, taking charge. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“They have enough Elixir stored to set their affairs in order and then, yes, they will die.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He played with the numbers some more, looked at the order of events, texts, and calls, which he’d finally gotten straight in the database. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“The first: that everyone can paint his house the color he feels like. The second: that the soldiers leave at once. We will guarantee order for you.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He ordered his torpedo into its tube and was only seconds from firing it when he called off the launch. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The answer usually includes part of the question, with a slight modification of words or word order. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Since he had no will of his own, the punishments for his actions would fall upon the heads of those issuing the orders. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I saw him take a deep breath as he got closer to her, and I wondered if it was one of those big breaths you take in order to get ready to deliver bad news. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

If so, a reevaluation of the attraction and the potential for realistic fruition may be in order. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then I remembered something I’d heard at one of the rallies: Didn’t Reverend Shuttlesworth tell us that people might have to die in order to gain that freedom? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

But the memory of her saying it is gone: it is as if I wrote in order to forget. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

You can’t order people up like pizzas to have them be exactly as you want. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

And every month he mailed a postal money order. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Emily opened the book and saw that James had circled consecutive letter corrections in order to spell out the words fort, wild, and home. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He coloured the second line from the top red, in order to give each tune an absolute bearing in relation to all other times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She swaggered into the store in her un-villagelike furs and diamonds and regally ordered a pound of coffee. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

That was Sea Island cotton the slaver had ordered for his rows, but scattered among the seeds were those of violence and death, and that crop grew fast. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I guess they think it’s beneath them to teach the younger grades. Or maybe they’re afraid of maintaining order. But I’m thrilled to finally have something to do.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My orders are to take only two of you back to Erudite headquarters for testing,” says Eric. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My order goes back before Babylon. Nothing can harm it.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Or attack me for giving the order that took their souls. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Jittery and nervous, Thomas picked up one page from each pile, making sure they were all from the same day, keeping them in order. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

These orders were written up and posted on the tents, and the Boss let it be known that he might at any time give a false alarm as a drill. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To him fell the job of organizing the workers, restoring order, and reconstructing the wreckage of the entire property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several times already he’d been ordered to the office of the army censors. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now...if you won’t even follow simple orders, I’m not so sure.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Compared to waiting in line at Nuss- baum’s, it was nothing to order up a couple of pizzas. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Data collection for police and prosecutors should be mandated nationwide in order to monitor and challenge selective enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

AD, I watch tight groups of friends giggle past me, and moms with strollers and huge shopping bags, order up caffè americanos and skinny vanilla lattes. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t fondle the clothes, the way customers do; I slap them into place, commanding them to hang straight, at attention, or lie subdued on the shelves in perfect order. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The folk in Auburn said Harriet had married him in order to take care of him, that even though he was a big, handsome, young man, he had tuberculosis. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uprooting the girls on short order and enrolling them in new schools would be trying for all of them. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

But he was surprised to find himself looking for it there, of all places, and to find the same order at work in the great and the little. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius. Only loyalty. If you defy the order, you fail the Trial. The punishment for failure is death.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

The plotters banned all newspapers, seized television and radio stations—and, ominously, ordered 300,000 pairs of handcuffs, which were shipped to Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

To provide an alibi, he ordered air strikes right up to the edge of the Vietnam-Cambodia border, starting twelve hours before they would cross into Cambodia. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

But at first, thinking they were merely trying to attract attention in order to say hello, Linda smiled self-consciously and waved. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A cat, perhaps, who will love her order, precision, and constancy; who will be as clean and quiet as she is. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered his father ordering her never to reveal who she was. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He ordered the builder of the Electricity Building to double his workforce and to put the men to work at night under electric lights. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Since then her grandmother carried her from town to town, putting her to bed for twenty cents in order to make up the value of the burned house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Put those tools back in the right order,” she muttered over her shoulder as she left. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If I can’t leave this car, if I have to hear the chief’s “following orders” excuse, the least I can do, the one thing I can do, is remind him that he knows us. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Where is Comrade Young? Is he sick? Is he dead? Is he in jail? Did the Communist party order him to stay away from the club?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I needed to hold on to that pain, in order to hold on to Deborah. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His head must have stayed back at the theater long after we left, for when the waitress asked for his order, he said, "They must have more trapdoors on that stage than a magic act." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Mum found this stack of order forms when she was cleaning Fred and George’s room,” said Ron quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

In order to answer those questions about my personality, your boss gives you two options. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

There were so many skills I had to master in order to become a good waitress. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The pressure stopped again, and the Boss ordered the men to restore order to the jumbled ship. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“You can order anything you want,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“You refuse to follow the court order,” Dad replies tersely, standing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“I...I acted rather impulsively and played my cards out of order. And now there is the matter of the bonfire as well.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“In what order you keep these rooms, Mrs. Fairfax!” said I. “No dust, no canvas coverings: except that the air feels chilly, one would think they were inhabited daily.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I heard them order me back to the home of my husband’s parents. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finch has written numbers beside each one so that there’s a kind of order. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Ignoring their concerns, he shouted that he didn’t pay them to ask questions, but to follow his orders. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Against the sound of the train clacking along, the waiters were jabbering the customers’ orders, the cooks operated like machines, and five hundred miles of dirty pots and dishes and silverware rattled back to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was beginning to fade, the presence of her animal tormentor, and now she was able to arrange two pillows against the headboard in order to sit up. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

To become less—in order to become more? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learned enough English to order burgers and Mexican food and to talk about baseball and the weather with his housemates. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Mancini says it’s a good thing she has always been in the habit of locking their bedroom door in order to get some privacy. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I didn't like using my room phone except for ordering food. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

On Stanton’s orders, Lafayette Baker staged a mock burial, wrapping the “body” in a horse blanket and publicly hurling it into the Potomac. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Kitchen-Girl is too shy to talk to me, and Cook only speaks to give me orders. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

In order to give particles any mass at all we have to introduce the notional Higgs boson; whether it actually exists is a matter for twenty-first-century physics. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“One of the angels is flying down to carry out God’s orders.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were ordered to strip and then line up against the wall of the courtyard. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ordered everything to be done for people who are a hundred feet high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The drafting table by the windows is all but hidden in the meticulously ordered chaos of papers and diagrams and blueprints. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I already placed the order. I don’t know if they’ll let me swap now. You know how they are over there.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham fussed about him and he ordered her to do simple things. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lionel ordered, but without giving over to shrillness, and keeping his eyes down. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Dad told us that zone vras known in physics as the boundary between turbulence and order. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Night had fallen and the SS were ordering us to form ranks. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And she’d returned law and order to the town she claimed she didn’t give two hoots about. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The frustrating position then was that although they could place the various rocks and fossils in order by age, they had no idea how long any of those ages were. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But with his recent orders to calm the districts fresh in my ears, it fills me with dread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

We both order waffles, but I’m 50 percent sure he’ll only bring hers. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Soldiers found themselves as homeless as regular folk, so their commanders ordered that anyone with an undamaged home share it with the men. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a jerk of her thumb, she orders the medics into the warehouse. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Would you care for a bite to eat before the assault? We can serve Yankees done to order, before or after breakfast.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So Marcus told you he was working under my orders,” she says, “and even knowing what you do about his rather tense relationship with both the Dauntless and the factionless, you believed him?” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In order to arrive at a definitive view, we should be able to survey the entire length of every chain, and that we can never hope to achieve. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you really believe they would escape the island only to come right back to the bridge? These people are meant to distract us. Back to the island at once! That’s an order!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He joined the Signal Intelligence Service early in the war and mastered the Japanese language in three months in order to join the fight to crack Japan's secret military communications. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Keep it up. Good grades are the only things that count for a girl. Tell your mother I’ll meet her at the game. That’s an order I expect to be carried out.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Grover ordered a fried dam plate and a Salisbury steak, just for fun, Ralph ordered a list of side dishes — onion rings, potato salad, coleslaw. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when necessary, how to put down and further degrade his own people in order to protect his new identity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nancy and C. J. noticed with some concern that the monkey workers around the building were not wearing respirators, despite Dalgard’s order. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Next came the order that Jewish children could no longer attend school, nor could most Jews hold jobs. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But you have my orders. You all heard them.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everything from chords, their order, and who would do what. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

A priest at Yambuku decided to try to take her to the city of Kinshasa, the capital of Zaire, in order to get her better medical treatment. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a noisy battle, the officers couldn’t just shout out their orders; their voices would be drowned out by the explosions. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

Like he has orders to take me somewhere. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Cursing, Bernabe stumbled through heaps of mud and refuse in order to get a closer shot, but the raven scrambled frantically away. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Until now, Booth has taken orders from Jefferson Davis. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“By order of the Sons of the Six!” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But Kornberg’s synthesis of DNA had created order out of disorder—a gene out of its chemical subunits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

What additional cost did people have to pay in order to lift much of the world out of its poverty? Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The waiter came up then, and the man ordered drinks for the four of us. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She could remember passages after reading them through just once, could recall the dates of the Magna Carta and the names of the kings of England and every one of the presidents in order. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When she returned with his order, he said, as though he was continuing an old conversation, “Have you heard about the man who had twin sons?” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Andrew took Brother Luke’s place as cook’s helper, and the Prior gave orders for certain foods to be put aside for the journey. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

These are my memories of Rob: I remember— —Spending the night at your house, and staying up all night watching cable, eating the pizza that we ordered at 3:00 a.m. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eduardo ordered eight links of sausage and buttered toast, spraying all of it with hot sauce. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Great Mother has ordered it so. She has sent me here to help you. I am to take you back to your mother and your abuelita to Hacienda Dorada.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Then she would go back finally and order it, but only if it was on back order and wouldn’t be shipped immediately. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The officer then angrily ordered him to leave the area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

President Truman, who felt he had shown a valorous decisiveness in ordering the bombs to be dropped, had no tolerance for retrospective moralizing. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"It would seem that a welcome is in order." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

As a final step, Katherine plotted the data in order to give engineers a visual snapshot of the planes disrupted flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“I do not take orders from you! Tell me what I must do! Or...or—” “Or you’ll kill me?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then Jeanne’s mother cried, “You have orders to kidnap little girls?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

They had gone in without orders, and they didn’t even have Hatchet to show for it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

So in order to hasten the serving, a giant double door that led from the kitchen to the Great Hall was opened. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, when nothing could be found, one doctor ordered a muscle biopsy, taking a small piece out of Morrie’s calf. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That’ll do, his general call to order in the days when she believed. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She also taught penmanship, which was the one subject in which I did not attain excellence, because Writing Mistress issued no orders. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I notice they have cheesecake, but tonight I order something called Warm Double Chocolate Cake, which comes with cherries and ice cream. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow the national guard’s going to show up here with a court order and carry him out like a hero,” Pedro Tercero said. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ryan would learn not to try to order him around then. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

When Georgina’s order arrived, a pile of red raw beef, an egg sunnily splayed on top of it, Obinze tried not to look at it as he ate, otherwise he might be tempted to vomit. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The reason that the task is so challenging is that the main resource that English syntax makes available to writers—left-to-right ordering on a page—has to do two things at once. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Hephaestus sat down clumsily at the dinner table and ordered a Pepsi. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Conger, Baker, and Doherty had failed to give them any orders at all on the subject. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reggie got a job with the National Basketball Association’s Utah Jazz, taking drink orders in a fancy club at the arena. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He gave orders, sang, whistled, threw remarks at the silent Ralph-remarks that did not need an answer, and therefore could not invite a snub; and still Ralph was silent. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was no way of knowing if the distribution had begun three blocks north of them, and no one was willing to leave in order to scout ahead and report on what was happening. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the waiter arrives to take our order, I reluctantly pull my hand away. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

We were forbidden by sharp orders to laugh at this astounding entertainment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Do not harm it, and stick to the plan. Our orders are to take it to Father Olufemi, let him deal with this beast.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Take us to a temple,” Sass ordered the rickshaw boy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We were ordering the cow eyes for next week.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Sí, sí, Capitán,” the clever Eduardo shouted back—even though he planned to obey only the first half of that order. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

They spared fertile females and young lambs in order to safeguard the long-term vitality of the local herd. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of them had indeed been ordered a year before, and had come all the way from the Mountain and from Dale, and were of real dwarf-make. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Horns began blowing, people rushed in and out, bats swooped in for orders and disappeared again without taking the time to land. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then there’s the domineering Kennedy Airport air traffic controllers ordering the planes around. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I spent Thursday’s recess in the library, reading the new issue of American Drummer, which Librarian Higgins orders especially for me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had only to work and learn and survive in order to go to the top. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three months before I was born, in the aftermath of one of our elaborate Sunday dinners, my grandmother Desdemona Stephanides ordered my brother to get her silkworm box. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She felt that in order to understand, he must know every detail. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He did not need to conquer nature in order to understand it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

That day he had been so surprised that he rushed to a delicatessen, flung wide a case, and ordered a tripledecker beef sandwich. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I recognized them as those of that night when my mother had ordered me home before I had had a chance to inquire how one got “money and all the food one could eat.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Fetch the finest one we have from my father's treasury," she ordered her servant. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

As a further punishment for concocting lies about a big hare and a young mouse, Redtooth ordered that the twelve be starved until further notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And the waiters all rushing in and out from the Dining-Room yelling the food orders to the cooks! The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Everything seemed to go much smoother when Dad was on our side of the camera, for now he too was ordered where to stand, when to lick his lips, and, occasionally, to stop fidgeting. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went around the town gathering all the boys, exclaiming: “This is an order from the lieutenant!” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

The little room hummed with activity as waitresses whisked about taking orders, bringing food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The universe could have started out in a very smooth and ordered state. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except for measles and whooping cough, we obeyed orders. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A code that would instill discipline, restrain passion, and order his steps. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A new pack fresh out of the box, arranged by suit and in sequence from ace to king, can be said to be in its ordered state. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Nishina, appearing at occupation headquarters to demand an explanation, had been told that Compton had specifically endorsed the destruction order. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

In his madrigals, Monteverdi dips in and out of all kinds of chords, many of them startlingly unrelated, in order to create ear-catching effects. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At the same time, it is only fair to point out that my task in this instance had been of an unusually difficult order. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He made himself baked beans on toast and sat at the kitchen table wondering about the best order to look through the downstairs rooms. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were saved from the fury of the mob when an undercover state police detective on board brandished his revolver, fired a shot into the air and ordered the attackers to fall back. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you so much, love. I already have it squared with Clara,” the man who ordered all the chicken said. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The King of England had ordered that there were to be no ransoms in hit sort of battle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But her life was a struggle, and she was looking for some order and answers. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Unless he was able to get the orders, Fuad would no longer consider it his obligation to employ Salim. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There are a surprising number of places to hide something that size even in any ordinary modern house; you don’t need secret panels and extensive cellars in order to make something hard to find. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t recall who played in what order that day. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The legion was arrayed at the base of Half-Blood Hill, its five cohorts in perfect order, its standards bright and proud. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Maybe they’re working for him. Are these things smart enough to take orders?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The day before we sail into New York orders are changed again.We are going to a place up the Hudson River called Albany. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every minister was ordered to make no remarks at all concerning the assassination. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here she found beauty, order, cleanliness, and praise. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Keeping noise down to a minimum, Cluny ordered his troops to bring forward the siege tower. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

At 0142, on pilot’s orders, the Corona made its corrective dogleg while the navigator fixed twice more on the sounding board. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Also, no parents, teachers, or coaches are allowed backstage. None. Okay. Here’s the running order for the show.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

They were recommended for it—after their heroic service at Voronezh, they got special Guards uniforms ordered for them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

They told Kathy not to worry, that each day brought more order to the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

On tire surface, there is something unappealing about the idea of inducing other people to flatten their accents in order to compete in a flatter world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

All things considered, the patrol had come away in good order and Groundsel, the second in command, had done well. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maddie flipped the keys and plugged in the cords, and he gave her posting orders over her own telephone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“Lieutenant general, sir, and—” “Lieutenant general I” “Yes, sir, and he wants you to issue no orders to anyone in your command without first clearing them through him.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Milkman drank his up quickly and ordered another before asking Guitar, “How come they call me Milkman?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It rains,” Burnham wrote to Margaret, on Tuesday, April 18, “and for the first time I say, let it. My roofs are in such good order at last, as to leaks we care little.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

They discussed the possibility of giving it a proper burial, but it would have required interminable paperwork to have the tomb unsealed in order to include the missing part. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I order inner tubes, sunglasses, and beach towels for summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Despite this expenditure, Hoover had decided, after assuming command of the bureau, to dump the case back on state authorities in order to evade responsibility for the failure. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Picking up weapons that lay close to paw they assembled at their appointed posts to await further orders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Dazzled as he was, Cortes was also aware that with a single command Motecuhzoma could order his army “to obliterate all memory of us.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The man who had ordered Southern Comfort and Coke sat down beside Shadow. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She ignored the creaks of the counter under their weight and moved around filling their orders and keeping up a conversation. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s not much of a talker, so it must be hard for him being ordered to chat with me now. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his order book and straightened the carbons with patient care. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

A grizzled old colored man stirs a big pot of something over a fire, and a couple of small, dark-skinned boys run to and fro as the old man barks out orders. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Mam tells Mrs. Meehan, The first telegram money order I get I’ll be in the shop buying a big breakfast so that we can all have our own egg of a Sunday morning. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The skip stayed at the other end and barked orders to his three teammates before they bowled. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

A farmer might plant a dozen or more different varieties at one time, adjusting the mix from season to season in order to manage the risk of a crop failure. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for yourself in order to be self-sufficient. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I did as she ordered and ruined two perfectly fine batches of dough. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked back to the bridge and started giving orders. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike her, his death was terrible: he was torn to pieces, in some stories by the Titans, in others by Hera’s orders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to harvest these things from the tree, the Apothecary would have had to cut it down. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

With little warning, they were ordered to pack their belongings and report to the main square of the ghetto. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

And so each morning he spares her life in order to hear the end of the story. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In order to live it has sharpened its claws! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hostess leads us to a big booth in the back, and a waiter stops by right away to drop off tortilla chips and take our drink orders. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He had made a difficult journey of six days, pulling along the mule, who was dying of hunger, in order to arrive at the armistice on time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Come around where I can see you,” I order. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For this day, also, he had ordered the press—as such—barred, white or black. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, I’m a model patient, my lethargy taken for restraint, obedience to the doctors’ orders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

They believe that GMOs are a reckless experiment with the natural order of things. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The captain, as was his custom, was standing in the stern, merrie rope in hand, shouting orders about lowering the sail. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

A strict adherence to form was the order of the night. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He began to put them in order in his mind. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He pulled into the nearby McDonald’s and they all ordered lunch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

It cannot be accomplished through a landmark court decision, an executive order, or single stroke of the presidential pen. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And, of course, he was jealous of her; her position in Nancy’s esteem, though of another order, had been at least equal to his. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I shot him several times, as I wished him to go as easily as possible...Please order out your troops and take possession of the jail at once." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Chiron ordered a twenty-four/seven guard duty on the hilltop, at least until he could, find an appropriate monster to protect the Fleece. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

In another spymaster order, he said he wanted only “the naked facts without comment or opinion.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But after a few days, my grandmother began to invent gadgets for me in order to make life a bit easier. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Wind nymphs zipped around the room, delivering orders of pizza, burgers, steaks, salads, Chinese food, and burritos, all flying at terminal velocity. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When all is done, a single enzyme molecule has been produced, which then goes about ordering one particular aspect of the chemistry of the cell. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just one way to display syntax on a page, and not a particularly good one, with user-unfriendly features such as scrambled word order and arbitrary graphical conventions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

They lean with the prevailing winds and employ every fallacy of logic in order to editorialize harmoniously with popular prejudices. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to pay he had taken off pigskin gloves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Martín was in an especially nasty mood today, and I could hear him yelling orders at the cooks. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Food had to be the first order of business. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They stood about five feet apart, following orders even though no one was around to watch. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

In May 1944, Hitler ordered that all Jews in Hungary be deported to the camps, crowding them so much that conditions became even more intolerable. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he lumbered forward off the throne, making her skip aside, and roared an order to tire other bears. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

With Hunt and Liddy convicted, reporters and prosecutors were looking higher, wondering who had issued their marching orders. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Those of us not ordered to the border will be given city commands, where we’ll hunt down Resistance fighters or Mariner spies. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Donovan broke in tensely, “What was the first order...the one that was superseded by the marching directions?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

He arranges the spices in alphabetical order, on a special shelf in the kitchen. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In order to provide raking and flanking fire along every wall, forts needed to be designed on the page, with carefully measured angles and distances. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But no one would order away any friend Stranger cared to bring with him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not waiting for Ridgeway’s order—or obeying a signal shared only by the slave catcher and the boy secretary—Homer drove the wagon away from the doomed town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She made a grab at the money order. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little page, coming back with the ordered drink, bowed himself double. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nobody stood around in place and gave orders or collected fees; they all simply ran around, picking up pellets at random and dropping them again. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stationed soldiers around Ngaliema Hospital with orders to let no one enter or leave except doctors. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once he returned with six policemen armed with rifles to whom he entrusted the maintenance of order, and no one remembered the original agreement not to have armed men in the town. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I pressed my knees against my chest, I realized that despite the fact that I had followed her order to the letter, she still hadn’t spoken a single word to me. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The delicacies and delights the queen ordered included a basket of figs. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I wonder if Jimmy will count the bread order himself,” I said. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It was not an order, but an entreaty. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when we got outside, the three of us huddled as though we belonged together in order to keep folks who might be watching from telling on us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Far worse was his deliberately slaying a good friend in order to avenge an insult offered him by the young man’s father, King Eurytus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As an expert on American ways, Kappe ordered Dasch to take charge and help create plausible cover stories that would stand up under intense scrutiny. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“He’s dying for the bread order to come up short, you know. You should throw a roll in the trash one day, just to make him happy.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“The orders are that we stay here. You clear the wounded from here to the clearing station.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

In order to understand the movements of the planets, Kepler thought about ferrymen trying to row across a fast-flowing river. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He ordered all the other immortals to stay in Olympus; he himself went down to earth to help the Trojans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kappe had ordered him to enlist his uncle to help them with developing a network of people to assist them in creating terror and panic. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

“Tomorrow, in their first act as members, our top ten initiates will choose their professions, in the order of how they are ranked,” Eric says. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

They might be in perfect working order for all I know. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But those are Major Major’s orders. He never wants to see anyone.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

In order for me to keep my slice, I also got to issue grants. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now, in order to answer the question, “Where do we go from here?” which is our theme, we must first honestly recognize where we are now. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Much later, Pascal drew upon Galileo’s work when studying pressures in liquids in order to understand how the air supports a column of mercury in a barometer. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Using us, ordering us, and judging us: how we cook your food; how we keep your house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is difficult to describe. An order would be issued, but before we could receive and interpret it, a new order came to march in queer formation.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

In the restaurant we ordered hors d'oeuvres and beer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I drove directly to the all-white bar and ordered a drink. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In order to give the plot enough spark to grab a radio audience, he’d have to make so many changes to Wells’s story that he’d be starting from scratch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Turkish men work their way through the crowds outside, sorting them into order, checking their reason for being here. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

You are hereby ordered to appear before this court as noted below and continue to appear from day-to-day hereafter until legally excused. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He said he was working more hours at Flat Face Pizza in order to save up for a trip to Germany, where he hoped to scatter as many of his atoms as possible. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

In order to annex Egypt, Caesar needed to install a representative to govern it. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before I even have a chance to respond, Mrs. Walton waltzes to the register, dress in hand, and adds it to the rest of my order. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am, those are the orders. The Chinamen have to go.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

To put things in order—that was the thought in his mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two weeks seemed to me ample time to prepare, but the company behaved as though Judgment Day were almost upon them and they must put not only their parts but their entire lives in order. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

These have been dealt with, when they have been dealt with at all, out of necessity—and in political terms, anyway, necessity means concessions made in order to stay on top. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

A train would have to travel to Boston in order to reach any far-flung destination. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A week earlier, while vacationing in Slovenia, he'd ordered a pizza that the English-speaking waiter had strenuously recommend he avoid. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the cop ordered him to shut his trap. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The Ohio steel mill had received a big order and needed coal, lots of it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It is so rare to have a new tent appear that Celia considers canceling her performances entirely in order to spend the evening investigating it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Marina was determined: She’d given an order and it was going to be obeyed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

If Archie drew a white marble, the assignment stood as ordered. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lord, you all make my mouth hurt just thinking about all that sugar,” Momma says, and then she orders a small mango sherbet. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He quickly realized that in order to get hired or promoted, you needed to know someone in the Nazi Party. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

The birth order myth is an example of the FAE in action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa would tell her to shut up, then Granny would interrupt and order him to quit disgracing Mama all the time. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time we were finished, Schiem had his sounder in order. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Firing began from the shore, and we were once again ordered below. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

At the War Department, Grant reads telegrams from his commanders in the field, issues appropriate orders, and takes care of a variety of administrative tasks requiring his attention. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

They all agree that the next girl is a seven, and just when my order is ready, I hear one of them say, “What about her?” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A military presence ensured that order was maintained and that no one could leave, though everyone was well fed and received proper medical treatment. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The truth is, we have both had to make compromises that cost us sleep at night in order to afford us enough time to share our relationship with the world on our own terms. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Using Brian’s shoulder as a pillow, fanning the glossy pages, she ranked them in order of cuteness, occasionally soliciting his opinion. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We went because the government ordered us to. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sent one of them in her car to the bleak region where Famine dwells to order her to take possession of Erysichthon. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She winked at me and pulled an order pad out of her apron pocket. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Each word is slotted into a place in the tree according to its category, because the rules of syntax don’t specify the order of words but rather the order of categories. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

His fear was that a State Department representative might show up at the airport with a court order and try to have him extradited back to the United States to stand trial. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I kept trying to get her to order something else, but she kept asking for more bowls of the bisque,” Charlise says as she goes through a stack of paper menus. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

While she did well the things he had done in a lumbering, masculine way, she gave him his orders and packed him off. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Customers usually come in the evening to pick up their orders, so we have to make sure everything is ready by four o’clock at the latest. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Robin turned into the opposite lane in order to pass a truck, and suddenly we were headed straight for an oncoming car. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, start dunking of a way to get in,” he orders Raj. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He signs the order form and hands it to Deacon Boyd. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

In every TV Guide and Parade ad, he had his art director put a little gold box in the corner of the order coupon. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“George, order him not to make the charge.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ordered it from the bookstore, just for you,” his father says, his voice raised in order to be heard over the music. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was to use my name in the wrong order, putting my family name after my personal name as the demons did. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled her eyes at her new friends, and they collected their trays of cornflakes and toast and sat together, an instant gang, excluding everyone else in order to gossip about them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ekman then began to layer one action unit on top of another, in order to compose the more complicated facial expressions that we generally recognize as emotions. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He’d been cornered by her earlier that day, and in order to escape her chattering on and on about not leaving her treasure behind, he’d agreed to help. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

In order that we may start afresh and go to Meg’s wedding... Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hey, hold still,” Gideon ordered the man, who immediately tried to stand up again, reaching for the subway pole and missing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The same waitress from the restaurant appears to take our order. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

So I pledge to you, we shall have order in the United States. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But Charles could claim her neatness and propensity for order. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom and Dad were already up and out in the park, making sure everything was in order. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

If the universe is regular and predictable, this is not because there are internal forms but because God has imposed order upon it from the outside. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And you understand”—Father Olufemi glanced at Ekon—“that when ordered to act in the name of the Six, you must always obey, without question or hesitation?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Cathy mended all of her clothes and put her things in order. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And don’t order the Philly cheese steak sandwich unless you want to puke all night,” said a wan but heartfelt voice from a shadowy bunk in the corner. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Coworkers got used to finding Mary standing quietly at their desks, enlisting them in her latest attempt to apply the engineer’s values of discipline, order, and progress to the social sphere. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Smith explained that on weekdays, the order was, roughly, top to bottom; Q and V galleries would go last. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had anything urgent, Mrs. Danvers said, I must telephone through to Robert and he would give orders for it to be taken to the post. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Beat it home as fast as you can,” he ordered Heinz and the other boys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“No! You are fine—you’re a spineless jellyfish, but not dead enough to bury. Now take a look at these hands,” she ordered, and thrust them in front of me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“He didn’t want anyone else in the kingdom to suffer as he had. So he ordered the destruction of all dragons.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

But Haie is rather the executive arm, operating under Kat’s orders when things come to blows. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

A nanny sat at each end to keep order, and high chairs were lined up on either side. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He rode stiffly, dizzily, looking for someone to give him orders for what was left of his cavalry. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry, Mr. Kennedy, but we need to ask these questions in order to cover everything that needs to be covered, by the book.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He’d been invited by Groves to witness the Trinity test, though he was under strict orders to keep everything he saw secret, until told otherwise. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order for the Republican agenda to win, the Federalist agenda needed to fail. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Well, look. Why not a type of order. What type of order requires the most initiative? What type of order would occur almost always only in an emergency?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s probably all right. They’ve been disarming Tories in lots of places. It’s orders from the Connecticut General Assembly. You don’t think they’re going to let the Tories keep their guns, do you?” My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the Inka, the quarters echoed the heavenly order. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And she helped Mrs. Shannon order the books I need to read. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The difficulties they encounter in acquiring the principality grow, in part, out of the new institutions and methods they are forced to introduce in order to establish their state and their security. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

In order to see them, I had to put in a formal request for a visit, which had to be approved by the Head Office in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The adults walked staidly among them, as elders should, and now and then pulled a tail to maintain order. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is she playing all the right notes in the right order and in tune? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The pilot gave orders for the crew to prepare to moor. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They ordered seaweed-crusted sandwiches, and fried cheese, and strawberry shortcakes with the singing kind of berries, not the regular kind. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“The American Standard translation orders men to triumph over sin, and you can call sin ignorance. The King James translation makes a promise in ‘Thou shalt,’ meaning that men will surely triumph over sin. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Parents who could afford it had ordered new shoes and ready-made clothes for themselves from Sears and Roebuck or Montgomery Ward. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Say good morning to your aunt,” Brave Orchid would order, although some of them were adults. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is determined to make it a peaceful march. She has ordered all who follow her to bring no weapons and even asked them to sign pledges against violence.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Our first order of business was to think of an activity for the club. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The newlyweds were in the Rolls, Marshall at the wheel, reversing in order to turn round. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“About that cyclorama you ordered? The one with the evil moon?” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then they turned round and swayed backward and forward once or twice, in order to get their weight on their toes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he finally returned it to me, he announced that the visitation time had been cut to five minutes, on orders from the sheriff himself. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Fie began to hover about when the warder came to the window in order to make sure that I was not hoarding the tobacco. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to spend many years like that in order to lose my intelligence, to lose the power to think, to forget about the unity of things. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not help laughing at the things he ordered. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kira, reporting near midday as she had been ordered by the messenger, walked alone down a long hallway lit on either side by sputtering flames from tall sconces fed with oil. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I text my mom and ask her what she ordered. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I ordered a rope ladder to drop over the side of the ship, and we climbed aboard. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgive us, but the orders came from above; our boss told us to get word to you immediately.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I think of his starveling servants, of his urging Cardan to kill one of them for training, of the way he ordered Cardan beaten while professing his love for their family. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She tried to compose herself before she went to take the new order. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a big order waiting to go out, so I don’t get a chance to walk into the back room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She stares at her empty teacup, and then at the kettle on the stove, which she’d had to turn off in order to hear her husband’s voice just a few hours ago. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I know you are. I told Wells to issue the orders. Come along.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I want him to restore some order to this world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In order to have standing, the Court reasoned, Lyons would have to show that he was highly likely to be subject to a chokehold again. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This was because I thought that the universe had to return to a smooth and ordered state when it became small again. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He orders three certified copies of the name change decree, two for himself, and one for his parents to keep in their safe- deposit box. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The first article accuses Abnegation of withholding luxuries like cars and fresh fruit from the other factions in order to force their belief in self-denial on everyone else. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I ordered another pot of tea and sat watching the two of them till they, and the harassed Miss Megley, got up to leave. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

One Sunday morning, when the animals assembled to receive their orders, Napoleon announced that he had decided upon a new policy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Then she had to stop giving orders for a while as sickness overcame her. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is because, in order to save his life, he is forced to look beneath appearances, to take nothing for granted, to hear the meaning behind the words. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Captain Cat was shouting orders, but the noise had deafened them all. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But he was always moving like a shark, swimming in order to breathe. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The Town of Boston had ordered them not to unload the tea and the law stated they could not leave until they had unloaded. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Feeling queasy, bakchoi?” said Bunny slyly after the waiter took our drink orders. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Go up,” Yossarian ordered unmistakably through his teeth in a low, menacing voice. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I give the order: I don’t want the waitress staring. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

To further complicate the psychological torment of this terrifying end, Kind Herod, who had encouraged Salome to dance for him in the first place, orders his soldiers to kill his stepdaughter there and then. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The very next day, in order that we might both try to forget our great sadness, my grandmother started telling me stories. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Marcus, having seen Aurelia off in her carriage, with sharp, whispered orders to keep silent, was lingering outside in the dark, afraid, now he was alone, to return to the villa and face the situation. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“We have to prepare some meat and fish,” she would order the four cooks, who hastened to have everything ready under the imperturbable direction of Santa Sofía de la Piedad. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He spent free weekends instructing C.P.’s men in combat techniques and firearms training, strutting around in the woods outside of town, barking orders and wearing an 8 mm Mauser strapped on his hip. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It must be ascertained that they had been given orders not to fire until our column was within fair range of their weapons. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He ordered a green-chili cheeseburger and fries for a late lunch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Colonel Gerineldo Márquez, besieged by pressures of all kinds, left his bed of a paralytic in order to persuade his former companion in arms. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

But there were other ways of putting things in a nice order. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The bar where we casually ordered cocktails with all the confidence in the world that we weren’t going to get carded. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

For a long time, in order to create a realistic virtual reality environment, you had to render as detailed a world as possible. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

One day Matt ordered a Safe Horse from the stables and waited tensely to see whether the request would be denied. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Washington Irving did grow monotonous, he could reverse the order and sign Irving Washington until that grew monotonous. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He sent Iris to Priam, to order him to go without fear to Achilles to redeem Hector’s body, bearing a rich ransom. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours before the doctors began the autopsy, embalming fluid was injected into Garfield's circulatory system in order to stop his body from decomposing too fast. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I am suspicious of written orders since that affair at Sharpsburg.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We have nothing more, so I slip up the wounded man’s trouser leg still farther in order to use a piece of his underpants as a bandage. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At once they came, waves of them, one after another, and they labored separating and dividing, until what had been a confused mass lay all ordered, every seed with its kind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

We ordered a pizza, and when he got down to the crust of each slice, he tossed it over his shoulder. Fourth Grade Rats 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he waits tables, other times he oversees the orders in the kitchen. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Jackie,” she ordered, “get that pen and hold it in my hand.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

In order to be successful, an artist has to get played on the radio. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One of the Klansmen ordered, “Tie him off. Don’t let his body slip down. Leave him till we are sure he’s gone off to his maker, whoever that is.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She never failed to follow his orders, quivering when he raised his voice, apologizing when he screamed at her. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I ordered his arrest before I received this note.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We enter a low building where he barks orders at some other policemen. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Way more than what I usually see when me, Mom, King, and Aunt Sophie order in on the weekends. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Native Australians constructed elaborate systems of canals up to a mile and a half long, in order to enable eels to extend their range from one marsh to another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Lithuanians who work with the Soviets. They give information about other people in order to protect themselves.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In due course order was restored and the game resumed, moving briskly into the bottom half of the first inning. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the mob arrived at the property several out-of-work men and tsotsis who were our leaders conferred on what to do with the dogs in order to break into the stores. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once the waitress takes our orders, Mitch holds a wonton out for me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I—I—I’ll go and order a cab at once,” gasped Uncle Andrew. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

As the aeronautical laboratory expanded west to meet the demands of the war, its twin, Langley Field, sought to grow in order to accommodate the Army Air Corps’ booming operation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Do not fall in love with that baby, he ordered himself. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The Nazis then ordered 5,000 non-Jews living within the area to move out so that 15,000 Jews—every Jew still in Kraków—could be crammed into these new quarters. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Then he ordered factories to produce warplanes, tanks, cruisers, and other weapons and ammunition necessary for a strong military. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the Proactiv infomercials hit the airwaves, my mom paid for a rush order, but even the face wash, toner, and lotion combo couldn't conquer my clogged pores and whiteheads. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

We walked through the evening light to Woolworth’s, where we sat at the lunch counter and I ordered two Cokes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Attraction eludes control so stubbornly that whole societies designed to organize relationships among people cannot keep order, not even when they bind people to one another from childhood and raise them together. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also didn’t get to order what he wanted. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

After some spirited bargaining, I gave her the loden-stone and a single talent in order to wipe out my extremely short term loan of twenty talents. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

People like the sleep-in maid for Beacon Hill white folks who used to come in with her ‘ ‘ooh, my deah” manners and order com plasters in the Jew’s drugstore for black folks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Madame,” Princesse said, calling upon her phonetics lessons in order to sound less native and more French. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Mr. Grin had given the order—he was sure of it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

In order to make enough money he had to keep the speakeasy open sixteen, sometimes eighteen, hours a day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I turn off the TV and decide the first thing I’ll do is order food for us. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s been so long since I’ve heard drums as music that I instinctively try to translate the beats into orders and find myself bewildered when I cannot. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh? Your father wouldn’t command you to marry some princess in order to strengthen his empire?” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Quite soon he was pointed out as the agent of an international conspiracy against public order. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Oh-My-God Hot Springs is gone now, too, bulldozed and plugged with concrete by order of the Imperial Valley Health Commission. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They ordered some people to remove their clothing and took that, too. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam was right, the books desperately needed to be sorted, listed, and put in order, but that was no task for stewards who could neither read nor write. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The giants were ordered to the right, and before going there they all took off something they had been carrying on their backs and sat down for a moment. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Frank, Bill, and Lillian had their tonsils out, in that order. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head zoo keeper ordered a crane operator, who was standing by, to drop a navy blue canopy over the dome, thus simulating Earthling night inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly stood up as he came into my vicinity, stooping a trifle in order not to look disrespectfully tall. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

When she had an order to give, it went through Becky, even if we all stood in the same room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He also brought back sacks of gypsum, and Mom mixed it with water to make Venus de Milo sculptures from a rubber cast she ordered through the mail. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

No words of comfort or assurance can be spoken, for Mother Ermentrude has ordered silence and solitary prayer. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Did I not tell you that I was, like you, a very puzzled man? But at least we can face our problem. We can arrange such facts as we have with order and method.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He orders his pint and lemonade for us and asks the man if there’s any chance of getting a few lumps of coal. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Take Two Strike Girl with you,” she ordered. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

It begins with phone #2 ringing while Marie is taking an order on phone #1. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“If you are not willing to telephone the state president to get those orders,” I said coldly, “then kindly do not interrupt us again.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is the order I came into the world. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“He could turn out such work in short order.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the guard returned, he ordered Shin’s mother back to work. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The guests start arriving around eight, and the liquor starts flowing, and Alex orders a middle-shelf whiskey to get things going. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Usually right before or right after they ordered coffee. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Soldiers were quick to use their gun butts to keep order, striking out at anyone who did not stay in line. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

After a period of time, usually less than thirty seconds, Squire would order the power turned off while he checked for a pulse. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they defy President Reagan’s back-to-work order, he fires them all. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“What kind of ice cream did I order?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The telegram money order, three pounds, is from her son. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Now, in order that he might safely testify at the trial, he had been removed from the prison and lodged in a small jail in an adjacent county. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers held a gun to Lionel’s head and ordered him to lie down and become intimate with his mother. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In the pecking order of fifth grade, I was closer to the top than the bottom because my parents were rich and my dad had met the president of the United States. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I pictured the nipped-in waist, the high collar, I heard her ordering the carriage for two o’clock. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The newspaper office was right across the street from the gin, and so the apparatus could be used when needed to receive cotton orders and check market prices. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

For birthdays his mother orders a cake on which his name is piped across the white frosted surface in a bright blue sugary script. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered brandy and drank it quickly and his shivering increased. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“And if she did, I’m sure she’d need to be conservative on where to drive in order to keep gas in the car.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was under strict orders to stay under the tree. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He would also show it a few years later in the South Pacific when, against orders, he stayed behind with wounded British soldiers as Japanese troops surrounded them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

In order for this to work, the change from symmetry to broken symmetry must have taken place very slowly inside the bubble, but this is quite possible according to grand unified theories. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

All order, I’ve come to understand, is theoretical, unreal— a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world—two snake- pits. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baba finished his beer in three gulps and ordered another. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those serving in the military were given rations according to a strict order of rank and importance. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“I ordered him not to go. He disobeyed a direct order,” Bull said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He showed little interest in the captive Vole family, merely ordering that they be kept under guard until he found time to deal with them. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

In a cracked voice, the Boss ordered the sea anchor brought in. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To save time, he ordered the brigades to double the line of march. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They forced all eight of the passengers from the vehicles and ordered them to sit on the curb of the traffic island that split Alameda. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

In order to advance in the tournament, you must prove yourself not merely above average but spectacular. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Standing in their new apartments, the air noxious with the smell of paint, the customers would determine the order of their new lives. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The maid smiled maliciously.“Celia isn’t allowed to see you. Doctor’s orders.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worms sometimes came live, and my mother would order me to squeeze their greenish entrails out and rinse them in warm water, so as to make them taste less sour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to make money from the casino, you had to work at the casino. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

We must remember, though, that Mr. Gonzalez is under orders from that mysterious tycooness, the reputedly brilliant and learned Mrs. Levy, to treat Miss Trixie well and to make her feel active and wanted. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was to escort “persons not well known to the group”—mostly whites and reporters from the white media—out of the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So every half hour Turtle had to ask permission to go to the lavatory in order to keep up with the latest stock market reports. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

As if I were ordering my coffin, to sit in before I died. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“My superiors act, of course, by order of the Thirty-Three.—You will now undergo interrogation.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was so accustomed to the rules and protocol on campus that it took me a second to realize I might be responding to the orders of some random drunk kids from town. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Our first order of business was to take individual cells off nighttime deadlock for the morning chow run. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

By foiling the heist, Hale had reinforced his reputation for upholding law and order. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He ordered two Bloody Marys and drank them in quick succession. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I assumed that a big part of his mission was to attract higher-quality students to Rider in order to elevate its profile and reputation, but his attitude toward Truman actually angered me. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I never considered my father dangerous to the new order,” said Alfons. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at John, who, head down, was putting the chairs in order. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Big Sal takes orders at the counter and yells them to the folks in the back. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her adoptive father was schizophrenic and for a time lived at Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry, a sprawling mental institution that was later closed by court order because it inhumanely “warehoused” its patients. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

The night the Marshes came to live with us, Mom ordered me to set the table in the dining room. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Francie took the sleeping baby from him in order to let him smoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were nonpolitical prisoners and both of our groups were ordered to halt while the two brothers had a chat; the younger brother ordered one of his men to polish his boots while he talked. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he orders Tania to stay indoors indefinitely, for her own safety. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had understood, as soon as he heard about the illegal irrigation, that you could not just waltz over and kick out Joe’s headgate or post a sign ordering him to cease and desist. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Coming from a world where clothing was sewn at home by hand or made to order by tailors, this was a revelation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

More exactly, the reasons for which war is waged have changed in their order of importance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Oh, really. You have new orders from the commando, I suppose.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Predictable in the order, but a mystery where things will end up. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“The cashier at your store was very rude to me. My son ordered a burger, plain, no cheese. You see, he’s allergic.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we would see a group of common-law prisoners working by the side of the road, and their warders would order them into the bushes so they would not see us as we marched past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a fine readymade one he’d ordered years ago when rich Mr. Sheffield was thought to be dying and didn’t. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Every week the factory assembled a different machine, determined by the volume of orders. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

After Beidleman and the others had set out from the huddle to get help, Madsen had gathered together the climbers who remained and hectored everybody to keep moving in order to stay warm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear’s joy at being forgiven was like a wisp of smoke; Min’s orders for the day blew it into nothingness. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how to write poetry, but there was a Spanish bookseller with a real genius for rhyme from whom I ordered poems and songs—anything whose raw material was paper and ink. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the question that the eighth grade could not answer and Noah could: Name all the parts of the human eye in the order that light reaches them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Send your men over the river at dawn and attack the enemy’s left flank,” Bigger ordered. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had ordered out two hundred men, more than half the garrison of Castle Black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In a calm voice he ordered the men over the side. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

After our fingerprints had been taken, the chief warder ordered us to line up for photographs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to fix his screwup, she had to trim my hair even shorter. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

The idea that she had come all this way in order to help him took her breath away. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Savery’s engine, and Papin’s second engine, needed to build up a high pressure in order to be effective but, in practice, boilers and cylinders could not be made that withstood such pressure. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It is hard to take orders from a man you laughed at in your cups, Will reflected as he sat shivering atop his gar- ron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My wife had given orders to the teacher not to let me see them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

But three generations of Shaker reverence for order and rules and decorum would stay with Elena, too, and she would never quite be able to bring those two ideas into balance. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Get the flashlight out of the glove box,” she ordered. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The first unit that captured him was ordered to carry the sentence out. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The bread order had come up two rolls short. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Burt employed bizarre accounting methods in order to conceal his fleecing of the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We were back within the stockade, confusion all around us, men screaming at each other and officers bellowing for order, the drummers playing tattoos to draw us to attention. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

One person in the club collects the orders and takes delivery of the food. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The following week Mr. Nielsen doubles the order. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But with digital technology, researchers say the amount of information, the speed of its delivery, and, pointedly, its interactive nature, have changed our world by orders of magnitude. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Defeated by those practices of consolation, José Arcadio Buendía then decided to build the memory machine that he had desired once in order to remember the marvelous inventions of the gypsies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She cut Dad off with a shouted order and shoved him aside. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hum of voices grew suddenly loud and the coroner rapped for order. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And you would have to understand the sheer impossibility of a blue orchid in order to understand the miracle of these flowers. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Sherman’s Bookstore in Bar Harbor didn’t have it in stock, and she was too shy to ask the clerk to order it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Difference, inference, interference. You’ve interfered with the order of things is what I’m saying. You should have left it the way it was. I liked this place when it was wood.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

From that time on, this was how she ended every one of her letters to Robbie in France, right through to the last, which arrived just before the order came to fall back on Dunkirk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Slapping his knee, he picked up the wholesale order form and I started back to the storage room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

So in building models we would postulate that the sugar-phosphate backbone was very regular, and the order of bases of necessity very irregular. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In order to serve his rural clients, most of whom spoke Spanish, Bloom had painstakingly learned to speak that language well—but Linda had what almost amounted to an aversion toward her mother tongue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he felt the trappings being taken off him, so that he was in hunting order, Cully did make some movements as if to rouse. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn't seem right that in order to become a Harlem Leader I should live elsewhere. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The warders pointed with their guns where they wanted us to go, and barked their orders in simple one-word commands: “Move!” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I’d gone to see Julian in order to revive my flagging assurance, in hopes he would make me feel as certain as I had that first day. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He resigned himself to being a womanless man for all his life in order to hide the shame of his uselessness. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I know you don’t want to leave, dumpling, but we must. Your father has orders,” Lillian Meecham replied, her voice sad with understanding. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she set the naked baby down by the side of the pile in order to get out of her own dress, the child immediately began crawling toward the midden on its own. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In order to get the haircuts, though, we had to go back to Black's apartment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

At night when Maya was little, in order to get her to sleep, her mom would tell the story of how they had brought her home from the hospital. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

In order to forestall outbreaks of retaliatory violence, we arranged a week-long series of mass rallies and demonstrations throughout the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

One is that the words are sometimes ordered wrong, kind of like the sentence went into the dryer and got all jumbled. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I try to go over the meds in order of when I take them, shuffling them around on the cart, the names all blurring together. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Nixon ordered his staff to cut off all contact with the New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It would stir up trouble if people knew that some are resisting the Council’s orders.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She put her papers in order, and salvaged her notebooks that bore witness to life from the hidden corners of the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When no one knows where you fit into the social order of color and creed, confusion ensues until order is restored. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

At his command, the mayor appeared at the services with four funeral wreaths, which he tried to place on the coffins, but the colonel ordered him into the street. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Today, most people in industrial societies don’t need to know much about the natural world in order to survive. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once there, we rode the escalators up and down, spent our money on gourmet popcorn from Garrett’s, and commandeered tables at McDonald’s for more hours than was reasonable, given how little food we ordered. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When the police ordered the crowd to disperse, hundreds of protesters instead linked arms and sat down in the parking lot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped her pencil on the order pad. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Not even when she brought me a bowl of chicken soup and ordered me to open my mouth. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when I went back and opened it the only thing that surprised me was it was a money order not a check. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m here to carry out your orders,” and then she turned, through the archway of the gallery, to the corridor beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She chose a very rigid order of nuns. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I reverse the order. For Bryan's sake. As a tribute to the Great Commoner. First the chicken; then the egg." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Also, she had a pattern book of the newest styles and would order patterns for anybody who wanted her to, and she showed the ladies how to fix their hair fashionable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When something’s out of your control, you bring order to the things you can. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

So the disorder of the pieces will probably increase with time if the pieces obey the initial condition that they start off in a condition of high order. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad chases him, orders him to stand still. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She heard shouted orders; a thumping and creaking of ropes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

We end up playing tennis in the street, like we did when I first moved here, and afterward we walk up to the Dairy Queen and order Blizzards. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to hide these parts in the cowshed until we can get the whole setup in order. Then we’ll surprise my ma.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

But what I ordered for dinner isn’t the point of this letter. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The egress order had been determined years earlier. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

International health authorities were urgently concerned to find the exact source of the monkeys, in order to pin down where in nature the Marburg virus lived. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The order of the day is to help your mother police up the house. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hurled the wheel over, calling orders to the crew. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what you mean? You think Karkaroff might be here on his orders?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The mistress mumbled and grumped orders, and in between complained of the guest who made herself out to be a lady when she was nothing but a factory girl putting on fancy airs. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mother was overwhelmed with holiday orders, so I passed my days on Buck’s Peak just as I had as a child: in the kitchen, making homeopathics. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“A pig is a pig,” said the stranger, “and a pig-boy is a pig-boy. Run and tell your master I am here,” he ordered. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

My father actually hummed as he looked over the menu, and then right after we placed our orders, he dropped his bombshell. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hadn't I just received orders to submit ideas for organizing more people? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Apparendy, privileges had been traded—shower times, chore schedules, the best slots for activities—in order to win support. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

With guns drawn, police ordered Lyons out of his car. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

He ordered his men to never fight back even if they were under attack—even if it killed them, literally. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It was a little embarrassing, but I did order a jersey. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the hearing, I pointed out that Justice was an adult, and was not obligated to return to Mqhekezweni merely because his father ordered it. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Koppel, who kissed my old professor when he first saw him, now had to squeeze in alongside the bookcase in order to be seen in the camera’s lens. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the cashier, Mom orders for me and Ford. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He was tired of being the fixer, making certain the assignment went off on schedule in order to maintain Archie’s big shot reputation. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would have the words in my head and would try to get them out as quickly as I could, putting them in as good an order as I could. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

They forgave him, but he cut all ties with them when his father declined to remortgage their house in order to lend him more money. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old cook got his kiss on the cheek from the princess, waited for her to leave, and began barking orders. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Three of the men had passed out and could not obey this direct if slurringly articulated order. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could repeat each word of the book in perfect order, but that did not bolster his confidence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is very unusual for me and they were sure to notice, so in order to avoid any questions, I quickly racked my brains for a neutral topic. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The wireless operator stared at the coded abbreviations, then spoke into the headset, giving orders in German with confident calm. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The strings holding them in place sometimes slipped outside the short sleeves of her well-pressed white shirts, and she had to turn her back to us in order to adjust them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But Gandalf had spoken soft words to him, and he had slept in a corner, tired but uneasy, dimly aware of comings and goings and of men talking and Gandalf giving orders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The orderings are marked with an A or a B to indicate in which instances these strategies result in her getting her first choice. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they called out their names, he noted them carefully in alphabetical order. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ask after the waitress takes our orders. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

On the crosstown bus, he taught a second grader how to memorize the order of the planets in the solar system. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Stay over there, you hear me? Stay right there,” she ordered, and just like that, lit the first one. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He halted the sale of new tickets and ordered his men to reel in the balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Gregor crept forward still a little further and kept his head close against the floor in order to be able to catch her gaze if possible. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama, who had given strict orders to be called five minutes before midnight, was resting on her bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no ghostly regiment, responded to those orders; just the gray stone, the blue mist, and an officer alone, hanger raised, bawling formations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

I began to see that there were ways I could be happier and that they didn’t necessarily need to come from Barack’s quitting politics in order to take some nine-to-six foundation job. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“But it is too far, indeed it is, to be walking quite alone. Let my father’s servant go with you.—Let me order the carriage. It can be round in five minutes.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“There appeared to be no ‘pecking order,’ nobody really in command—not even Stan Livingston, the pioneer member of the crew and undoubtedly the most experienced operator,” she recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Inside the bunker, cooperation is the order of the day. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

That would have been an unpatriotic and risky schoolyard taunt, since all students were under orders from teachers and guards to inform on their families and on each other. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

But he forced himself to follow Newt’s orders and keep quiet. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

God does not wish to do everything, in order not to take from us our free will and part of the glory that is ours. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Arriving to watch them play, Howard was delighted to see that the jockeys had memorialized his generosity by ordering their uniforms in Howard red and white, with the Howard signature triangle on them. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her, edging in like he’s about to order a drink, is Frank Socrates. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then I see him do the same thing he did so long ago on the ship the day Master Wingfield ordered him arrested. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Calypso took Zeus’s orders in very ill part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It involves a symbiotic relationship with the wind: you have to know exactly how and when to turn your head in order to keep the smoke out of your eyes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bill Toledo, another of the Navajos in our platoon, saw how nervous I was as we waited for the order to go on board. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

And now he has sabotaged this game in order to speak directly to me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No, this time Lovett gives the order to search inside the house to see where the supposed strangers slept. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the waitress took their order as though she’d be more than glad to stay as long as they liked. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if he was talking about publication order or chronological order, but asking seemed a bit too hoity-toity. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Your reflexes have to be lightning fast in order to stop and start fast enough to avoid the bags. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

But what really gets me is that in order for Mr. Daniels to come up with this plan, he must have thought of me outside of school—when he didn’t have to think of me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

When the waiter passed nearby, she waved him down and ordered a vodka tonic. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The success of Mr. Hancocks order was so dependent upon him, no one would scold him today because he chose to be an hour late. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I am covered up with heavy quilts and ordered to sweat, which I do—promptly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the counter, I order the largest meal I can buy with my fourteen bucks. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

‘I couldn’t eat, Matron! I simply couldn’tV ‘Get on the bed and lower your trousers,’ she ordered. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the second case, the issue was the exclusion orders that removed us from our homes and sent us inland. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“On Nantucket you don’t feel bad because you want a nice bottle of wine. If you order a three-hundred-dollar bottle in a restaurant, the guy at the next table is ordering a four- hundred-dollar bottle.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The order of flats is the reverse of the order of sharps: B flat, E flat, A flat, D flat, G flat, C flat, F flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Gliding down a hill into the small settlement of Arroyo Verde, Kyril Montana made a note to arrange a meeting with the governor and Bookman and Noyes, in order to explain what had happened. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I believe in second chances. You’ve responded to my call for recruits. You have the proper credentials and letters of recommendation. Do you pledge to follow my orders and serve the legion?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Bring three men,” he ordered, “and take Mr. Marx into a bedroom. Give him a good soma vaporization and then put him to bed and leave him.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered in this order: was I hurt, was anyone else hurt, would I go to jail, what were the Mexicans saying, and finally, had Dad awakened? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Also, by order of Praetor Reyna, to promote you to the rank of centurion.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Two hours later, though, Squire finally got him on the phone, and the governor ordered a two-week reprieve, during which experts reexamined the man and sent him not to the chair but to an asylum. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the building itself, there was a degree of order because there were teachers around. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Why should a writer want to control the order in which the reader thinks her thoughts? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rather than fall into the brutal hands of Russian marauders, some people defied the Reich and left without orders, like us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Then we’ll go order something at the restaurant, so we can say we wore the dresses out.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The mayor, Charles Smith, ordered the chief of police to set up machine-gun emplacements at Pier 91; the chief refused and handed the mayor his badge. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Winnie was headstrong; a banning order was just the type of thing that would make her angry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s good. One other point. All officers are ordered to walk. No officer takes his horse. Utterly foolish.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The orders were given more harshly than on other days, and there were strange vibrations in the air. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was afraid they would order him away. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Clarkson’s order to clean the streets was being carried out, but not very rapidly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

The beats are so regular, in fact, that they can be timed; for equal temperament they are on the order of a beat per second in the mid range of a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The next step was to try chipping away at these tools-by-appointment in order to improve their shape. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Olmsted had come down from Boston the night before in order to join them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The Foreign Secretary was yelling orders, but no one could hear her. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I passed her the slip with the lunch orders, along with the money the newsmen had given me. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer called order by ringing a small bell. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She came to a tangle of fallen branches that blocked her way, and in order to continue she had to leave the path to pick her away around them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reunited Once he reached Antioch, Mark Antony’s first order of business was to send for Cleopatra, and this time, she readily complied. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You do what’s best. Our orders are to clean this place up.” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Zach has his game face on from the moment he walks into the auditorium, like he is first man up in the order and about to dig his spikes into the batter’s box. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I remember how Sasha, too small for her presence to register amid a sea of adults, stood proudly on a footstool in order to stay visible. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

They claimed the charter favored a socialist order and believed the COD and white Communists had had a disproportionate influence on its ideology. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Liam’s next order of business upon returning to the minivan wasn’t to answer any of the number of questions Chubs threw his way about where we were going. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Lee will order the bridge burned immediately after they cross, preventing the Union army from following. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Cluny called up his best slingers and archers, ordering them to pick off the defenders. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of Caesar’s troops wanted to leave Egypt and turn their attention to other campaigns, but on Caesar’s orders, they stayed . . . and stayed. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

At noon, we were ordered to march out upon the quarterdeck to witness the execution of a traitor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The progress of the human race in understanding the universe has established a small corner of order in an increasingly disordered universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Rondon arrived, he ordered Kermit to wait there while he and Lyra scouted from the river’s shoreline to determine if the rapids were passable or if a portage would need to be built. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

She declined Secret Service protection and avoided the media in order to keep her profile low and her footprint light. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Be prepared to explain your cipher for the class if it goes unbroken, in order to prove it’s validly constructed.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Get your men on board,” Captain Newport orders. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Go put your clothes on inside out,” he ordered. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Touching him is order and chaos, like being assembled and disassembled at the same time. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At most, some of them merely adopted Austronesian languages, possibly in order to communicate with the long-distance traders who linked societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to Big Creek, Coach Merrill Gainer, the winningest coach in southern West Virginia history, took one look at me lost inside the practice gear and ordered me off his football field. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He pronounced his whole name, letter by letter, in order to convince her that he was alive. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The voice that could order a squadron from the heavens to set fire to Havana or to decimate a Russian fleet or to start a world war. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We went to every local farm and vendor and ordered all kinds of fresh ingredients. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I noticed it, but said nothing, in order to give him time; he might perhaps get through. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The judge issued a temporary restraining order, barring the Times from printing more of the Pentagon Papers until the trial was concluded. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Governments must keep some information secret in order to function—but how much secrecy is too much? Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Yet they overcame their fears and took on the responsibility in order to save their stricken city and its people. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He said little to me, gave me no orders. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

So instead I look around, wondering who I might be able to target in order to steal myself one more valuable power-up. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And as . . . friends, did the two of you ever do anything out of order?” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I have been given orders to keep it safe in its casket until I can deliver it to Ghohg myself. It is priceless.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

In order to confirm her prediction she brought her cards to the house a few days later and locked herself up with José Arcadio in a granary off the kitchen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Now it will be in good order when the Lytes come back.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Werfel arrived, the Foreign Secretary was just giving the order for the three-headed wyvern to collect the capsule out of the sky and bring it gently, softly, safely down to the ground. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Smith issued orders that the horse never be disturbed while sleeping, for any reason. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Come to think of it, he does always order chocolate when we go places. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

They ordered him to stop, but, according to the officers, Diallo did not respond immediately. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Napoleon read out the orders for the week in a gruff soldierly style, and after a single singing ot Beasts of England, all the animals dispersed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

“Hold up,” he ordered, and “Calm down,” and “Would you stop for a minute.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Had he left all these in order to become a Kamaswami? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Helen ordered her house-maidens to arrange beds for them in the entry porch, soft and warm with thick purple blankets covered by smoothly woven rugs and on top of all woolen cloaks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kept on yelling and Lieutenant Wilson started yelling, and we finally got in order. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it was decided that people needed to die in order to ease the tide of population growth, it was also decided that this must be the responsibility of humans. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

With a feeling of panic rising in her, Ash began to run toward the courtyard, realizing that she would need to overtake them in order to arrive home before they did. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gentlemen didn’t ask any questions this time, just ordering coffee, and Malcolm brought them a naphtha lamp before going through to the kitchen to set the cups up. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I am already so busy working for Chandresh, and I will need to focus on the competition without...distraction,” he says, using his instructor’s choice of word, from an order disguised as a suggestion. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Bull ordered his son to dress on the double, to meet him at a muster formation in the kitchen, or be put on report. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked from his face to the glass, thinking, he's disemboweled himself just in order to confound me . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When illustrated, their features were exaggerated to comical lengths in order to make them seem worthless. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It shocked him to see North Koreans going about their daily lives without having to take orders from guards. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In order to put the maximum number of men to work, Hitler had decreed that virtually all the labor was to be done by hand, even that which machines could do more efficiently. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Zhenya was stunned and reluctant—but she knew all too well that an order was an order. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The bread order had come up two rolls short. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“I bet,” I said before turning around to give my order. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“And it seems to me that in order to get things back the way they’re supposed to be, you have to go,” Cabot said with some hesitation. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then the entire rotunda seemed to explode into action as guards rushed to their posts and commanders began calling orders. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jeavons asked me whether this made me feel safe, having things always in a nice order, and I said it did. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Come back out the clouds, girl,” Santa ordered. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the halt order, evidence exists that the Nazis continued the euthanasia program secretly throughout the war years. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ma would order the eggs and English muffin, Spoony always got the French toast, and me and Dad both got pancakes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The posters were so good that word of mouth spread, and soon Lori had such a backlog of orders that she was up working until one or two every morning. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Basically, I gotta be one of the guys and then some in order to survive. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the first class Teacher Zhang had told us that in order to integrate all aspects of our study with the revolution and to prepare for war, we would learn military and political terms first. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She raised her stomach in order to free her shirt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Can we order horchata?” she asked as soon as we sat down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

By January 1863, Garfield—healthy again—was ordered back in the field to battle the Confederates. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d watch that type of language in front of a cop if I was you, baby,” Granny said, flinching internally at the “baby,” but carrying out orders anyway like a good boy. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was he lying about the other women in order to get him to tell about Mary and Bessie? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If I order him to obey you,” Dale said. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Nico studied her like he was reading a menu, deciding whether or not to order. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Gay really was a good mechanic and the order for gasoline was definite evidence of good faith. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleep hangs on my eyelids, I work my toes in my boots in order to keep awake. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pa then orders us what to take and what to leave behind. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘He sees. He knows. He heard us make silly promises — against His orders, yes. Must take it. The Wraiths are searching. Must take it.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I was ordered by the king not to speak a word of it.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it NOW. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daniel orders us patbingsoo, which turns out to be shaved ice with fruit, small, soft rice cakes, and sweet red beans. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The old man's indifference infuriated Magistrate Tiger and he ordered the carriage to stop. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

We ordered Cokes and hamburgers for as long as our allowances held out. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Sir, the internees were given clear orders, and so were we.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His father, a wealthy and very well-known businessman, had been forced to contribute money to the Citizens Council campaign in order to do a healthy amount of business in Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so unfair to have to live in a country where you have to do stuff you feel bad about in order to save your life. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“We all had to smile at them in order to survive!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

They sat opposite each other in the tiny cafe at the back and ordered fruit juice. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“They’re in order. Mostly all labeled. Maybe watching them will help bring things back.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Anticipating this ruling, the army’s Western Defense Command had already announced that the mass exclusion orders of 1942 were being rescinded. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odin returned to the great hall, and he ordered Loki’s daughter to step forward. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the replacement teacher was ordered to keep the boy alive. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If this is not stopped, I’ll order the room cleared!” the judge said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Think, Pa!” she ordered, tears streaming down her face. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I ordered a new computer and stuff online. And Aidan, Luke, and I went to laser tag, and an arcade, and a go-cart track. I would have invited you, but I didn’t have your number.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

Francie ordered a nice bone with some meat on it for Sunday soup for five cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though my body until that instant had simply been lazy, as though the aches and exhaustion were all imagined, created from nothing in order to keep me from truly exerting myself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was erecting a chain-link fence around the construction site. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rani plucks the bird and orders me to collect branches for her fire. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Our bus was stopped, and several soldiers in camouflage uniforms, carrying automatic weapons, ordered us out and lined us up alongside the body of the bus. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ben ordered two cheeseburgers without onions, two medium Coca-Colas, and two large orders of fries when Lewis, a tall, expressionless black came to take his order. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t want to be caught delivering or writing orders in the, rain either, rain that had' been threatening all during that warm October morning. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one server, but there were two women working behind the counter where people fill orders for takeout. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ducked inside, refastened the latch, and picked her way past the empty desks with their neat stacks of orders and tallies. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The signals were orders to the ships’ captains: Turn the fleet back to New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Miss—miss—get up quickly. I don’t know what to do. He’s left no orders. I think he’s mad, miss.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

One monk wore the black robes of the Benedictine order. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was, he explained, a French word for extended forums “to open lines of communication in order that all people might understand each other’s role as it relates to desegregation problems.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as early as 1.5 years old, children begin to process the information on the screen, and then a higher order of thinking gets involved, Dr. Anderson has found. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted to pulverize them, but I was under strict orders from Chiron never to take my anger out on regular mortals, no matter how obnoxious they were. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

He envisioned families of the future gathered around their mammoth terminals, ordering groceries and paying their taxes from the comfort of their own homes. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He said he had made the mail buggy wait while he made out the order. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her license had been suspended, he informed her, and ordered her out of the car. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

We would have to, in order to get food. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“Put that bag down,” G’ma orders, and as soon as he does, she’s dragging him over to the kitchenette sink by his good arm and washing her hands. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

His voice sounding with strange resonance, as if it were an order to be obeyed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Ron’s in the back helping with the food and I’m taking orders. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

They learned to obey orders without question and to kill, even if it meant sacrificing themselves if necessary. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every time she appeared in the dining room, against Úrsula's orders, she caused a panic of exasperation among the outsiders. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The timing of the thing had to be just so in order for me to become the person I am. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A guy came out of the bakery and handed Sapo his order. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Liyana’s mother spoke to a waiter in Arabic even before they sat down, ordering water without ice for herself and hot tea for everyone else. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

They rushed outside and beat him, then ordered him to give what they called the Sachsenhausen salute. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, Rashid slipped off his shoes and socks and rolled up his pants in order to wash and get ready for prayers. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“But—” “Give Percy the nozzle and come on!” she ordered. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

We both knew her to be violently opposed to abortions, and she would very likely order me to quit school. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but you pushed away your fear in order to figure, that’s what you did,” Papa said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We don’t even have to write the order up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Then he thought of a good reason why he should take it; in order to get to the Dalton place, he had to go through a white neighborhood. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

In prison, one can only question and resist an order to a certain point, then one must succumb. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My father commanded all the guards to shoot to kill if any of you tried to escape. I don’t think Chaol would ever have given that order,” he added, though he wasn’t sure why. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the window there were trays of nuts and bolts, worn-out chisels, penknives with broken blades, tarnished watches that did not even pretend to be in going order, and other miscellaneous rubbish. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Arthur, he was craving a panini today, thirty minutes before you ran into him ordering a panini. And his name is Hudson!” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

And flight time was the time he had to spend in airplane flight each month in order to get his flight pay. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

During his recuperation Olmsted ordered bulbs and plants for cultivation in two large nurseries established on the fairgrounds. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

This would drive my father into a fury; eventually he would come busting dramatically into my room and order me out, his forefinger trembling, rolling his eyes like Othello. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Even when Stravinsky borrowed from Russian ethnic folk music, which he did in several of his Diaghilev ballet scores, he did so in order to distort it through some mischievous prism. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The wind blew their carefully combed hair all out of order, and the salt spray covered their bodies, so they arrived at the dock looking as they ordinarily did, except their grandmother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come here!” she ordered Basta and held the wriggling snake out to him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The horror stories were already pouring in, Jesse reported: kids sent home for wearing trench coats or black clothing, ordered into counseling for playing games like Quake and Doom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shin watched him choose a different girl every few days, ordering her to clean his room, which was located inside the factory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We pretended the old lady picking up a to-go order used to be a famous Broadway actress. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Two security guards took me into an office, called the school nurse, who was a female, and they ordered me to take my coat off. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on,” she ordered, and with her other hand she pulled the center of the curtain to one side. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Dunbar’s argument is that brains evolve, they get bigger, in order to handle the complexities of larger social groups. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I hear the bark of an order. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I was under the impression that they are more in the order of servants.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The parade of guests into the ballroom was carefully sorted in order of importance. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I ordered a large pepperoni pizza; hope that’s okay with the two of you.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At first, when his sister arrived, Gregor positioned himself in a particularly filthy corner in order with this posture to make something of a protest. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they let up on Francie a little in order to work on him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was using Facebook primarily to promote her home business, handcrafted scarves, sweaters, blankets made to order. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to go and deposit it at the door of the coal shed, but there was no leaving the house, my mother's orders. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

But Justice de Wet, as soon as there was order in the courtroom, asked for the next witness. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to go at least a hundred forty-three more miles in order to keep it down to four stops, which means about one hour and fifty-eight-point-five minutes if Q keeps pace.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Krupp, Germany’s legendary armament and munitions manufacturer, had begun secretly working on an initial order of 135 Panzer I tanks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“And the order of the games was chosen by a committee months in advance.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Here’s the order of events on the day of the funeral: One: Visitation at the funeral home for an hour before the funeral service. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, before the DVR was invented, we actually had to insert a VHS tape into a VCR in order to record anything we wouldn't be home to watch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

"Fred Narracott, he comes over every morning, sir. He brings the bread and the milk and the post, and takes the orders." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe my dogs were lost; the train had a wreck; someone stole my money; or perhaps the mailman lost my order. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Truman would order an atomic attack "if it became necessary." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Forgive me, Madam, but there have been special orders regarding the vault of Lestrange.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Instead, he was ordered to pick up every scrap of straw on the ground. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Kat’s hands are warm, I pass my hand under his shoulders in order to rub his temples with some tea. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

We dispatched men to strategic places around the townships to watch the trains, buses, and taxis in order to determine whether or not people were going to work. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The National Guard was unable to restore calm, and the president ordered nearly 5,000 army troops onto the streets of Detroit. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The leader of the pale warriors barked orders to someone in a colorful uniform at a gate. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He apparently didn’t know that in the Academy, we had been ordered not to talk to the inmates around us. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was ordering them as quickly as I could. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They mostly give orders. Blue Platoon report for watch. All Cadets to the armory. That sort of thing. Right now they’re ordering a sweep of the eastern tunnels.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Go on and have a cookie,” Father ordered me sternly. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hogs were the first order of business, chopped on the long pine table and covered in dipney sauce. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Ophie watched in a daze as Penelope ordered their cones, then led them to a table in the front of the sweet shop. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“We have orders to sort and store by age for efficient observation.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was adjacent to the central bus station, where I had started working every weekend carrying luggage for tips in order to make pocket money to keep up my correspondence with Caitlin. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

But I was escorted safely to my room, where I ordered room service; even the footsteps of the waiters put me on edge. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was always an order about some work to be done. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Worried for me she adds, ‘Do not punish yourself for having to give up our culture in order to “make it” as you say. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even go against orders and say her name. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

In order to find a little free time together, Lois and Isao arranged an overnight camping trip for all the girls in our class. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually it kicks off in 12 and then goes in descending district order to 1, followed by the Capitol. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have said publicly many times that I know that they have their orders. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I turned back to follow her orders, I caught a glimpse of the crowd across the street from the front of the school. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I can’t show him everything because a little later, his mom calls him inside to get his room in order so he can sleep in it tonight. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But his commitment to a new order was demonstrated only after his inauguration when a march was planned in Cape Town to protest police brutality. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We order soup, scallion pancakes, cold noodles with sesame sauce, and spicy shredded beef with broccoli. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I heard an announcement over the police radio of my capture and the order to fold up the roadblocks to and from Natal. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beidleman, sensitive by nature, was quite conscious of his place in the expedition pecking order. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I took the letter and the money order out and gave her the letter. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, I don’t buy the milk. I don’t have anything to do with the milk. I only know we don’t have any. Why don’t you order something to eat?” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

There were laws about sending children to school but no one sought out these ignorant people in order to enforce the law. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

When our bare knees touched, the way they had to in order to even fit back there, I couldn’t help but remember Irene and the Ferris wheel, just like an allergic reaction. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

But within a year, California probation authorities ordered him to return to Los Angeles because he was on probation following his adjudication as a ward of the court for a prior offense. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

At unexpected times, Horan would be ordered to grab his gear and load into a waiting helicopter with five or six other Marines. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Then he took two more tiles off in order to drop down into the bathroom. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The Corporal ordered we should gag him; and gladly we did, to stop up such filth. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

As Garfield's progress slowed, and especially after his distressing relapse, the doctors began to consider removing the bullet in order to save his life. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The Dumpster had been slowly reeling in its shadow, so that he now had to sit with his back flat against it and his knees drawn up in order to remain wholly in the shade. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I hope you will find everything in order.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sisters and my mother were busy managing orders and researching new design options for the next season. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Caesar ordered his soldiers to take Ptolemy into custody. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

Geyer telegraphed his disappointment to Graham, who ordered him back to Philadelphia for consultation and rest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Neumann Two orders two plates of calves’ liver and eats both, using dark little bread rolls to sop the blood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A moment later, he ordered the chicken sandwich and the glass of milk for Franny, and snails, frogs’ legs, and a salad for himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

On December 14, word came that another company was pinned down by enemy fire, and de la O and his platoon were ordered to go help. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

They met with Mr. Hawkins every day, and their decisions or orders were announced in the next day’s assembly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I imagine it was about in that order. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that an order, Your Highness?” asked Henry with a slight edge to his voice. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the meantime, the Tokyo District Court issued an injunction to stay the deportation order on the grounds that a passport violation was not an extraditable offense. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In order to be reborn, you have to be buried first, so under the water I went. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A strong feeling reaches out in front of me and drags with it a knowledge that I have to go in order. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Frances Dana Barker Gage, the president of the convention, restored order and the meeting continued. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When I got home, I lingered downstairs and put in some extra piano practice, after which Mother ordered me upstairs to change my pinafore. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She ordered me back with more exact instructions, which I followed exactly, while still managing to frustrate her true wishes. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Frankie had ordered honey cake, but the dessert the waiter brought looked nothing like the dense golden-brown slabs of lekach baked for the new year. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed so funny to hear you order me about, as if I were a bad child!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I really hope you’re the one who ordered the nude model, because the last house I went to let me strip down to my underwear before telling me they weren’t.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He clapped his hands and gave orders to the armed dwarfs, then turned to the companions. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Lining them up like a long thin train, in some very specific order Jinny couldn’t fathom. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As promised, US Cavalry troops also rode into town to restore order. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His orders were curt, as usual, but quiet. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I would simply order “the same thing,” or put on my plate whatever I’d seen others put on theirs. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She used her wand to set off a loud bang, which restored silence, and ordered everyone back into their classes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Mom ordered pizza for dinner, to avoid having a big mess to clean up before we left. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The output included a constantly updated time for retrofire, the moment when the capsules rockets had to be fired in order to initiate its descent back to Earth. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Effie’s having a fine time ordering everybody around, keeping us all on schedule. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“You had this morning a breakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungry:—I have ordered that a lunch of bread and cheese shall be served to all.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

In order to communicate with the rest of the family, he kept a little chalkboard with him at all times. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

This was almost the first sound Johnny had heard since the tea party started— except only the crash of axes into sea chests, the squeak of hoists, and a few grunted orders. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of his heart. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

For beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

All our things were so out of order, out of place, though the phone was hooked up. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They ordered us to call them “baas,” which we refused. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Severo had to pay for all the damage and ordered the dog tied up in the courtyard, but Clara had another fit and the decision was indefinitely postponed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In former days the members of my order had been well received there, but Saruman most of all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

There Esposito opened the van’s rear, ordered the children out, and led them into the café kitchen through the back door. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter ordered most of the clothes packed up and delivered, and took one or two things with her when she and Lyra walked back to the flat Then a bath, with thick scented foam. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

While he waited to change trains in Kansas City, he heard his name called and a message was shoved into his hand—orders to report to Washington to the office of the Secretary of War. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I dig my feet into the corner of the floor and grab the armrest in order to keep stable. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

He had the authority to order me to do this or that. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead the leader ordered Papa Andrew to line us up and lead us out into the darkness of night. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

First, fool Lustig, then Hinkston, then gather a crowd; and all the men in the rocket, seeing mothers, aunts, uncles, sweethearts, dead ten, twenty years ago, naturally, disregarding orders, rush out and abandon ship. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The parrot flies off, not wanting to watch, and the captain, before he gives the order to do the deed, leans close to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I had lit their candles to go upstairs, but Diana had first to give hospitable orders respecting the driver; this done, both followed me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Somehow I knew in my spirit that this was a man called of God and that God was ordering his steps. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In order to justify this, proponents of this position insist that evidence is never discovered: it is always ‘constructed’ within a particular social community. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Everybody in the world was in a position to give them orders. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a little shack at the edge where you could put in your order. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I do not intend to carry out the orders," Burger confessed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

This was the kind of garden-variety segregation that over the years blacks had learned to tolerate, if not to accept, in order to function in their daily lives. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The Abbot had issued strict orders that no missiles or weaponry be discharged at the enemy in retreat. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

"I don't need to be with somebody in order for it to be okay that you have a boyfriend. It's okay already." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

If we were feeling sophisticated, we ordered the French dip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The orders already issuing from the telescreens, recalling them to their posts, were hardly necessary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Despite conflicting reports, he decided to order immediate retaliatory air strikes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but think about how my father had kept his aims deliberately modest, avoiding every risk in order to give us constancy at home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In order to feed the people who built and used the monumental structures, particularly large quantities of food were required. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reyna wasn’t keen to give orders to Pegasus, the Lord of Flying Horses, but she was even less keen to get shot out of the sky. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I will have everything in order,” the boy said. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their arguing reached such a pitch that he stopped the truck and ordered her out. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The shock and pain made their way through to its tiny brain, ordering it to shut down. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

I ordered a Scotch and soda, which is my favorite drink, next to frozen Daiquiris. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

He strides across the lot like the leader of a marching band, ample belly thrust forward and issuing orders in a booming voice. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Again she felt the trickle of disloyalty and guilt, which seemed to be the order of the day, and reacted to it by reaching over to cover Lane’s hand with her own. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But you remember, he ordered pikes for his men, spears, for the love of God. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The root word, whole, loses an e but gains a second I. Daryl ordered the wholly vegetarian refried beans. yield. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The size of the order makes it worth the farmer’s while to deliver, in Joel’s case sometimes as far as Virginia Beach or Bethesda—half a day’s drive. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The mournful lawyers showed in court that that man had nothing to do with the company and in order that no one doubt their arguments they had him jailed as an impostor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I liked to make her laugh, so I’d put the words into wacky order sometimes. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

When you order kalbi or bulgogi, a man brings a tin of red-hot coals to set inside the pit of the table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The soldiers ordered them to separate into two groups—men in one group, women and children and the elderly in the other. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we finally got our orders to pull out, leaving him was like losing a member of our family. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only from farms and gardens were they ordered to keep clear. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They might question us for not having formal evacuation orders. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Flatnose's voice made clear how little he thought of this order. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt remembered how Rondon had secretly delayed finishing the canoes in order to fill in the details of their map earlier in the journey. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When Billy got back from his furlough, there were orders for him to go overseas. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bookman read over the one-paragraph complaint and then handed it to Noyes, who read it expressionlessly; then Bookman called in a secretary and gave her the petition with orders to have some Xeroxes made. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not mean to suggest that the freedom struggle is of a higher moral order than taking care of one’s family. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The Queen’s orders were to follow the giant and that’s exactly what I’m doing.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad was trying to get all the machinery in working order before harvest. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sailors dashed across the decks and hauled on lines as the mates bellowed orders in the tongue of Old Volantis. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I am not needed, I will stay out of the way and keep myself in good working order. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Miss Deveraux, you are a kind girl, but law and order must be upheld.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Only this time I could not go to the soda fountain and order a limeade or ask for a glass of water. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In order to find the treasure, you will have to follow the omens. God has prepared a path for everyone to follow. You just have to read the omens that he left for you.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Major Reno ordered a withdrawal, into the trees along the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Next in order came a few mortals so excellent in their art that they almost equaled the divine performers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She say she has her groceries delivered and she would do the ordering. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Very well, very well, it’s in fine working order,” said Mr. Ollivander, scooping up the flowers and handing them to Fleur with her wand. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The Black Swan is a seductress, tantalizing Prince Siegfried with her womanly charms in order to steal him away from Odette, the White Swan. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

By September 7, 1922, every Greek in Smyrna, including Lefty Stephanides, is wearing a fez in order to pass as a Turk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

If a patron ordered a sauceboat, he would get a fine one—perhaps a month after it had been promised. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I must stay. This paper is the only method of communication left in the city. I must print physicians’ notices, orders from the mayor ...” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to ask my mom if she can order some. She says they’re too much work to make.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

“Maybe things got mixed up. Perhaps the governor had them there to keep peace, and they mixed up their orders,” Grandma mused. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sooner we put the house back in order, the sooner all of us could rest. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And you ordered some food and I cooked it and Marlene brought it to you. Right?” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

Then her falling down all happy once she put her order through. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

“M’lord? It is time. The hour of the wolf. You left orders to be woken.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He began complaining that we were all getting too soft, too dependent on creature comforts, and that we were losing touch with the natural order of the world. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If we examine this carefully, we shall see that he was more merciful than the Florentine people, who allowed the destruction of Pistoia in order to avoid being considered cruel. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He ordered Booth and Herold to leave his farm at once. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever he had visitors, he gave orders that she was to be hitched to a boat loaded with stone and was to drag it behind her as she walked along the edge of the river. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain walked toward the exit gingerly, expecting at any instant to be ordered back by a peremptory voice or halted in his tracks by a heavy blow on the shoulder or the head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

We usually order Chinese food for dinner, jam a little on our guitars, and watch a movie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Bobby’s team also pleaded to the court that it strike down the deportation order requested by the United States and brought by the Japanese Immigration Bureau. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

At Brown Chapel on Tuesday morning, several speakers defended the protesters’ right to march despite Judge Johnson’s order. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

With hounds questing ahead, in open order, the sons of Autolykos went down a glen, Odysseus in the lead, behind the dogs, pointing his long-shadowing spear. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered why he didn't simply order her to stay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grabbed her around the waist and ordered the waves to push us down. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

She began playing around with different possibilities for how to solve the puzzle—she rearranged their order; she drew them combined with one another like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Before they could rest, Shackleton ordered the boat unloaded and beached. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I follow his order, realizing that this is what all of District 2, all of Panem maybe, must be seeing at the moment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The officer had not ordered his soldiers to shoot. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of a slight fear that he might, once more, meet that half-shaved shirt-sleeved officer who had ordered him whipped, he went almost every day to the Common. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Furthermore, Article 20 states, “All Germans have the right to resist any person seeking to abolish the constitutional order, should no other remedy be possible.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Make faces at him and order him around. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll skip through the details quickly in order not to shock the readers, and also I see no reason to hold these people up to scorn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not want my parents to know of this. Do you understand? When you fetch the surgeon, order him to tell no one.” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He ordered the hens’ rations to be stopped, and decreed that any animal giving so much as a grain of corn to a hen should be punished by death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He spread the order for gasoline on the cigar counter. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one paid any heed to their orders; but as the ruffians passed, they closed in quietly behind and followed them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I had to go to work in order to get my ration. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Before the Town House, Colonel Nesbit ordered a halt, and an orderly came forward and read a proclamation. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held the furious boy away, but he was frightened of what the consequences might be of defying a direct order from the son of a senator, let alone manhandling him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He wanted to give the order kindly, but at the same time, he could not pretend that it was not an order. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He does a round through the parlor and dining room, and then downstairs to the kitchens to make certain everything is in order. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was not only to serve in it but actually to lead it, to make the plans and issue die orders to kill and bum and rain. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry,” Bailey says quietly as they walk down another curving stairway in order to exit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, as she fussed and fumed about my wicked desires, I kept my expression pleasant, the same as 1 did in the halls of Central High in order to avoid expulsion. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see he was right when the man began shouting orders and the soldiers in the trucks sprang into action. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

For the message had come to Florence that had come to Hezekiah: Set thine house in order, for thou shalt die and not live. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Defiant to the end, the old soldier had sat up when their attackers had ordered the two of them to lie on their backs. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Then he ordered the boys to sit back down. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The idea was to restore power to traditional and mainly conservative ethnic leaders in order to perpetuate ethnic differences that were beginning to erode. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had to find ways to block out all of the distractions in order to fully focus on the goal ahead of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

He just nodded, which was his way of saying, Can I take your order? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Conceivably, adenine equaled thymine because of a yet undiscovered role in the ordering of the bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

“In order to comply with these demands, I ask that everyone make their way to the Gathering Place to report whether you have an implant or not,” he says. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In order to turn him away from his thoughts I asked him for a piece of bread. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chapter on Sesame Street and Blue’s Clues looked at the question of Stickiness, suggesting that in order to be capable of sparking epidemics, ideas have to be memorable and move us to action. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Suesetta and I retell the whole conversation to each other, like we need to hear it again in order to understand what just happened. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could have been reading from a set of standing orders. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t bring myself to order her out. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Helper who took his order nodded silently, averting her eyes, and set about preparing the tray. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a great scrambling and jostling as people separated, banged into each other, and ordered others out of their space. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Lorch, for instance, once reedited an episode of Sesame Street so that certain key scenes of some of the sketches were out of order. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The animals would still assemble on Sunday mornings to salute the flag, sing Beasts of England, and receive their orders tor the week; but there would be no more debates. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Like that tho men and women both do the heavy labor, women give more orders that more men follow. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Fanning drank hers down in several greedy swallows, then ordered another. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I have them here at my feet, bound with colored ribbons, divided according to events and not in chronological order, just as she arranged them before she left. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m marvellous now. I just never felt so fantastically rocky in my entire life. Did you order?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

In order to settle him down, Grandma busied him with helping her fix lunch. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two days Blanca and I lived out of boxes until we had the time to fix things up and put everything in order. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The passengers were all obliged to alight, and the four men ordered by the coachman to push the wheels out of the rut. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They said that I had manipulated the order of the three glasses to make it more difficult for them. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

On the seventh day, Dr. Janeway released me from Quiet Oaks under strict orders to continue taking my antidepressants. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Park gave us some delicious spicy soy garlic chicken bites to start with, and I ordered the kimbap. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Then a county judge issued a five-day restraining order forbidding the governor from certifying the result. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He had forgotten to tell her to order some coffee and other things that he had taken from the store cupboard. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

As far as their eyes could reach, along the skirts of the Morgai and away southward, there were camps, some of tents, some ordered like small towns. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It was the same house I’d explored, but everything had been restored to order. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But perhaps it was something you’d have to order from the blacksmith—in which case it was likely to be so dear that only the rich could afford one. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I had slept near him, in order to assist him as quietly as possible to the bathroom when he needed to hurl chunks, for his sake and for my mom’s. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

Maybe I wasn’t part of the natural order of things. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The soldiers who were about to kill us hesitated, waiting for his order. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

To help the boy overcome these self-defeating tendencies, Collins ordered a clock from Germany with a special ten-second timer, and he insisted that Bobby play with it to practice thinking and moving more rapidly. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The boy reached up and thrust her spear high in a polished rack against a pillar where tough spear on spear of the old soldier, his father, stood in order. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had to actually fall asleep in order to dream, and it wasn’t coming easily, with his mind racing from the mania of the day. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The Master ordered it decanted especially for you, my lord,” said the Butler. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Sanjeev was organizing his engineering texts from MIT in alphabetical order on a bookshelf, though it had been several years since he had needed to consult any of them. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You must leave behind something of yours in order to get out,” insisted Time. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He ordered the lantern covered, and once more the fire glowed. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sander and Julian brought along the sides they needed in order to learn Nick's old roles. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

My senses were numb with anger; I moved about as in a nightmare, obeying every order. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thing he forgot to mention is, in order to come up, you have to be coming up from somewhere. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The strict disciplinary measures of the nineteenth century served not only order, but profit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What can I do for you?” she asked, as if this was the store and I was a lady come in to order an Easter hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

"Like what? You think we'd send people to Mars without being sure everything was in perfect working order?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He added that the order to restrict text messaging by federal employees behind the wheel “sends a very clear signal to the American public that distracted driving is dangerous and unacceptable.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I gathered all that remained of my strength in order to break rank and throw myself onto the barbed wire. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conductor stood in the aisle next to her seat and spoke a bit louder than he normally would, in order to be heard over the screechy din of the train’s brakes being applied. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

In addition, Napoleon ordered the almost empty bins in the store-shed to be filled nearly to the brim with sand, which was then covered up with what remained of the grain and meal. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain read the order and added nothing, went off by himself to sit down. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cops order the crowd to back up. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

"Make sure it's exactly five minutes, not a second more."Then she presses a hand to her ear and starts barking out more orders. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Shouted orders filled the air, along with nervous laughter and the sound of British boots on the cobblestones. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shelves of goods—buttons, handsaws, sugar, rifles, bullets, scissors, pencils, bolts of cotton cloth, medicine, toys, in no particular order—lined the walls. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I knew, of course, that Ginger referred to Nadia's beloved and talented dog, So I thought that perhaps Annie's Sandy was a video game played by the canine orders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

We overhear Rae telling the chef to make our order priority number one because “there are Deckers at the table.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

In AP Chemistry, Ms. Dalton seated us in alphabetical order and handed out lab notebooks, which look like notebooks on the outside but are filled with graph paper and make you want to kill yourself. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“No orders to do so,” replied Powell, succinctly. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Bridges took the microphone and started pleading for order, but Coach Warner was screaming over him, screaming at the players who’d let Victor get away. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, thinking maybe he hadn’t had time to order his preacher clothes yet. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

This new order of things disgusted him, and he howled dismally for ‘Marmar’, as his angry passions subsided, and recollections of his tender bondwoman returned to the captive autocrat. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he knew it was going to be the toughest portage to date, and so he ordered everyone to leave behind what they didn’t absolutely need. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Standing at the pulpit, he gave the signal to a few of his stooges to bring in ten big cardboard posters which listed in alphabetical order every student in school. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting in a booth at the restaurant, Yvonne, Vega and me ordered some sodas and French fries to pass the time until Ma came. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“That would be in direct violation of President Coin’s orders.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Jack,” she ordered, “get the rifle and bring it to me. Now!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Homes jimmies the lock, and I order the others inside. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

‘Will you still order my goings, and are you not content with my ruin?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

"Looks like a bent paper clip on a string," I say, and Freak tells me to shut up and follow orders. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Lapham herself had told Johnny he must always be on hand and write down exactly what the order was. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” said Mr. Flux, “I like you two so much, I’m thinking I don’t want to ever see you change. Another picture may be in order, to preserve you just the way you are.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He believed what he was doing was the musical embodiment of God's master plan for humankind, a recognition of the intricate mathematical beauty of the natural order as ordained by the Almighty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And now it was a man named Yossarian who was threatening to make trouble over the sixty missions he had just ordered the men in his group to fly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It’s a relief when one of the ten or so men on the stage orders us to stand and start singing, because the folding chair is torturing my overworked back. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rang the bell and ordered away the tray. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The C02 needs to be separated in order to be processed. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The court’s decision was that the order to vacate would not be altered. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why are you terrorizing us? Why are you upsetting the natural order of things?” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

To keep order, she tightened her grip on Egypt. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

“You are right, Brother. The Taliban brought order to the country when it was needed.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He ordered White to set out for Oklahoma City and assume command of the field office there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I pass on the soup and salad, and order Chilean sea bass. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

According to Richard Bissell, pilots were "exhorted but not ordered" to use the pin if they were ever captured on Soviet soil. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Give me one more order,” I tell her, “and I’m throwing you out with a ‘drink me’ sign taped to your back.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Although courts have found such measures to be discriminatory, several states have passed laws requiring voters to present a government-issued ID in order to vote. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

By state order, the daughter was also placed in foster care. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Especially when the next guy ordered fifty pieces of chicken and got every piece. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Apparently he was driven by a passion of hatred against them which made him willing to sacrifice his son in order to bring upon them the horror of being cannibals. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had orders from virtually every major rowing program in the country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He pours wine into all of our glasses, and we order soups and salads and four different pastas, and no dish is spectacular but everything is good enough. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Bowing to the pressure, President Wilson ordered their release. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

She stacked the books, changed the candles, put the quills and inks and sealing wax in order. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Rollins doled out the cash to Brekker, then had him write out a transfer order for his shares in the Crow Club and the gold mine that was Fifth Harbor. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wanted to take as long as possible in order to see that look of complete absorption upon her face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

But if you do go, and you don’t order anything, everyone’s going to think the same thing about you that they thought about me. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Would he order Neel to hand her over? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The order in which I was supposed to prefer these qualities was magic, love, fun, sex, and money. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Eilonwy, paying no attention to his order to wait, strode along with him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Officers ordered them to clear and repair roads to the city. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tumult of 1848—the bloody populist revolutions that swept fiercely through France, Denmark, Germany, and Austria and overturned social, political, and religious orders—largely passed him by, like distant thunder. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“It’s queer that daylight’s not enough. We need the shadows, in order to walk.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Or since her first day on the bus, when he'd ordered her to sit down. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Soldiers appeared on the edge of the crowd to restore order. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the gift he had ordered for Christmas that did not arrive in time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In a way that even the authorities acknowledged, order in prison was preserved not by the warders but by ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The males in the family should enforce this order, he said, and “keep tight control over their families or be punished themselves.” Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I am the god of war! I take orders from no one! I don’t have dreams!” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He orders a pizza, calls home as he waits for it to arrive. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were there in an official capacity, hired by the Department of Homeland Security to help maintain order. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I joined the Squires Club, and our main duties were to keep order in the lunch line and stop students from littering. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I said that I liked things to be in a nice order. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jonas had crossed it on school trips, visiting the outlying communities, and he knew that the land beyond the bridge was much the same, flat and well ordered, with fields for agriculture. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

He swears that they are obliged by an army order to wear silk chemises and to bathe before entertaining guests of the rank of captain and upwards. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I order my usual green milk tea with tapioca pearls. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Most large early clocks are driven by a weight which slowly descends: grandfather clocks had to be tall in order to give the weight space in which to descend. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Lina tried to keep the cans in alphabetical order so she could find what she wanted quickly, but Granny always messed them up. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The gods of Olympus loved order and beauty in their sacrifices and their temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Listen, Reyna -’ Michael rubbed his palm across his forehead, like it might wipe away his headache - ‘I don’t like this any more than you do. But I have my orders.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He’s the kind of guy you have to have on a soccer team in order to win. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though she could no longer rely on her sister-in-law’s impeccable skills for ordering the chaos of the big house on the corner, she still paid no attention to domestic matters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It would be ungenerous for me to admit that she was of that order and kind.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Could she find the Shetani with it, and if she did, could she order it to obey her again? Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Polly, you get in the back there,” Mr. Derby ordered when Noah finished. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I don’t know. Look, fellows, we’ve got to have some confidence in the people above us who issue our orders. They know what they’re doing.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He came back full of life and hope and determination; we have got everything in order for to-night. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t find out until I walked past the living room. There was blood all over the place. I’m afraid I lost my head and ordered Rosa to throw it outside.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orders said that I was to report back to my outfit, where I would report to my commanding officer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“By order of county director Frank L. Houston, each farmer’s share is to be one hundred dollars.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

That is what my sass was doing to me, worrying and badgering me with her never-ending orders and scoldings. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z