| 单词 | ordinary |
| 例句 | Quite a lot of dull, ordinary people weren’t ever possessed by anybody. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They consisted of ordinary carts with a kind of flag-staff at each end. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘These were no ordinary wolves hunting for food in the wilderness. Let us eat quickly and go!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "But you told me that witches look like ordinary women, Grandmamma. So how can I spot them?" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “And did anything happen? Besides the ordinary things?” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They were no bigger than ordinary rings, and no one could help noticing them because they were so bright. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z “Take care of my girl. She's 100 percent ordinary. Normal. Plain. Boring. Average.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Something in the way he said it made Lyra imagine dust with a capital letter, as if this wasn’t ordinary dust. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Working with James Chadwick, whose experimental skills matched his own, Rutherford trained his alpha particles on a series of gaseous targets: oxygen, carbon dioxide, even ordinary air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The widow's son then saw this was not an ordinary young boy. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z But these are the Hunger Games, and ordinary isn't the norm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “A man of ordinary power, who nevertheless does not shirk things merely because they are disagreeable or irksome, soon earns his place,” Roosevelt once stated. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The morning I was mourning up at Granny’s house, I thought how disappointed she would be to of died so ordinary. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z This is certainly no ordinary craftsman here, and we may also wonder whether this is really his working outfit. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Five Golden Tickets have been printed on golden paper, and these five Golden Tickets have been hidden underneath the ordinary wrapping paper of five ordinary candy bars. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z “I am trying to get this whale of a snapper,” I said in such an ordinary voice that it was dull. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In this he acted like his contemporaries and no one noticed anything out of the ordinary except Sourmelina. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She kept close to Chaol, which wasn’t a change from the ordinary. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Most of the merchandise looked pretty ordinary: books, electronics, baby diapers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z We could patch up that broken trace for pulling an ordinary load. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The ring was just an ordinary iron ring tied to a kind of gallows by a thread. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat and watched my teammates do such ordinary things. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z It was good for an ordinary double, but Mary Hudson got to third on it—standing up. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z They had been visited by no strangers, heard no strange noises, noted nothing out of the ordinary. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Her words were ordinary but her face was a Siberian permafrost. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Our sun is just an ordinary, average-sized, yellow star, near the inner edge of one of the spiral arms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Scalp hunters included rangers, but ordinary settlers could also take in scalps for a reward. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The “buses” would be a giant car pool consisting of ordinary people’s automobiles. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z I looked at the ordinary mailbox and steered my bike back onto the road. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z These men were not only uncomfortable because I was a colleague brought low, but because I was an ordinary man being punished for his beliefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as ordinary as that to her! The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z He was a good deal taller than I, and in contrast to my somewhat ordinary but decently proportioned features and dark hair, his face seemed to have been cut from stone. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I’m an ordinary person who found herself on an extraordinary journey. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The amount of information in human DNA, if written out in ordinary language, would occupy a hundred thick volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m absolutely ordinary — well, except for bad things like all the near-death experiences and being so clumsy that I’m almost disabled. And look at you.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z And under ordinary circumstances there would be a class of seventh graders to replace the seniors. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Little of all this, of course, reached the ears of ordinary hobbits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “On ordinary days the animals carry human beings and now there’s a human being carrying the animals. That’s what I meant.” Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Gabe, watching him, could see that already he was changing in some way; he was becoming something different from the ordinary and pleasant man he had been. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Here’s what I think: the only reason I’m not ordinary is that no one else sees me that way. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Since ancient times, folk music has been the music of ordinary people, not the ruling class or professional musicians. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “But this past season—I know you remember, ’cause I couldn’t keep you away from them—they were so sweet and thick they made ordinary sugar be ’shamed.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Though ordinary to most men, this was a luxury virtually unknown in my experience as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you see this guy act in any way out of the ordinary? I mean, sort of nervous, say? Just what did he talk about?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z To a surprising extent the ordinary criminals ignored the Party prisoners. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Is that what he believes in—in ordinary acts of bravery? Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z In the real world Hazel was an ordinary thing, a misshapen piece with no purpose. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z With their apparatus, a refinement of the Marsden-Geiger box of 1911, they found that ordinary air produced especially frequent scintillations resembling those of hydrogen nuclei, or protons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When I take it, I notice it holds a single, ordinary arrow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He bought a popular edition of The Lives of the Saints and spent the summer looking for ordinary explanations of the most extraordinary spiritual feats. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s obvious that I’m a stranger to her; she doesn’t even know what I think about the most ordinary things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He has a low opinion of most girls, it seems, and doesn’t want me turning into one of the ordinary kind. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Ma shakes her snowy head and says, “She could’ve been. Had a lot of potential, your mama. Alicia was a very bright girl—and curious, like you. But she wanted an ordinary life.” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z “Not only that, but ordinary seeing at the same time. Try it now.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Some of the talk was ordinary, about the state of the crops or the weather, but often it centered on Khan Sahib, our village's powerful landlord. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z But unlike the church, which stood alone, this building was hemmed in close on either side by ordinary structures. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I made an effort to sound like an ordinary person talking about the weather, but I knew what MacDuff had heard. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Smaller trees with ordinary leaves grew between them. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She says she does, but if I were ordinary, she wouldn’t feel like she needs to protect me as much. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Ma says Mama just wanted to be ordinary,” I tell Trub. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z It features a permanent gallery of one hundred ordinary people who serve as what is called the “mob.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I wish we could live in a nice little house somewhere. I’d love to go to school like other kids. Make friends. Live a normal, ordinary life.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Thus imaginary numbers are in a sense numbers at right angles to ordinary real numbers. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They were of ordinary celadon—no sign anywhere of the strange little chrysanthemum. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z One will then see the simplicity with which these concepts lead to properties already known and to an infinity of others which ordinary geometry does not seem to touch easily. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was as if another step would bring the ordinary world completely to an end and this would be Wonderland. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z If my dog-wanting had been that of an ordinary boy, I’m sure my mother and father would have gotten me a puppy, but my wants were different. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had on a half-smile, the sort a mother might have in an ordinary family, weighing things up while the children jumped and screamed around her asking her to say, yes, they could do whatever. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier, Kaede’s mind had been a closed box; that was not unexpected for an ordinary human, but no ordinary human should be able to resist the wine. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He wanted, through his purity and excellence, to be able to perform some ordinary miracle—to heal a blind man or something like that, for instance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z On ordinary days we have to speak in a whisper; not being able to talk or move at all is ten times worse. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “If they only came at night, they could look like anything. But if they come in the daylight, they got to look ordinary. So any of these people might be Gobblers....” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Caroline and I had never drunk coffee in our lives, and the fact that our mother served us coffee that night made us both realize that our secure, ordinary world was forever in the past. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I realized it the way Jonas did, when I was young. My hands began to be able to do things—to make things—that an ordinary pair of hands can't. But now...” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I’ve made up my mind to lead a different life from other girls, and not to become an ordinary housewife later on. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Because the people who left their secrets on the walls thought that this was some ordinary place, something for garbage and graffiti. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z A plain, ordinary sofa just to sit upon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He looked up at the ceding, shining the flashlight over the panels, but saw nothing out of the ordinary. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I’m not sure what she sees, but when I look in my grandmother’s face, I see an ordinary old woman who doesn’t look anything like me or my mother. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z The late afternoon sun, occasionally peeking out from behind the storm clouds, made the journal look normal, ordinary. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z I gazed at Lissa, envying her pretty face and her shiny hair and her right to live in the world as an ordinary girl. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Around the collar but underneath the butterfly wings, I tied a black tie, using an ordinary tie-knot. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried the twins when they were tired and he carried the Pope, but that was not the same as carrying ordinary things like a pig’s head. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I looked at Mom, who was stirring her soup as if it were an ordinary evening, and that was when I lost it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I almost had the impression that they were physically incapable of communicating with each other about ordinary things. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The art had become ordinary, the way you rarely look out a window to take in the view after a month or so of living in a place. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He was on his way, in fact, to becoming one of the first African Americans to be widely viewed as a hero by ordinary white Americans. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z On an ordinary day, we would open the windows first thing to let the hot air out of the house and let the sweet summer breeze in. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z But Tiwanaku was so different in so many ways that ordinary expectations rarely apply to it. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In a crowded ordinary we found one who spake of a different place, and we returned the next night to receive instructions, that we might be conducted there. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z As far as the outside world was concerned, I had just been an ordinary Marine with no specialty at all. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The light that came from outside made ordinary objects seem important: a quill pen, a pitcher with milk, an earring, the brass buttons that were part of a straight-backed chair. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Aside from the unusual name, he seemed to me like an extremely ordinary boy raised by extremely ordinary parents. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z As a seamstress at a downtown department store, she repaired, altered, and steam-pressed clothing—work known and respected by both the black professional class and ordinary workers. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z To Pippin’s surprise he found that much of the talk was intelligible; many of the Orcs were using ordinary language. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z For one hopeful moment, she thought it might be that strange tingle she’d sensed in her feet before, but all too soon it subsided, utterly ordinary. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z These are not ordinary men but the other kind, the shadowy, nameless kind who do things to you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Everything seemed quiet and peaceful, just an ordinary corner of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then he looked out at the neighborhood-—and knew this had been no ordinary bomb. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He was born in a house, a pretty ordinary house, right across the river from here, in Bridgeport. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the man was ordinary to look at. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that’s the worst in your life, but to everybody else it’s just an ordinary night. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z He was dressed in ordinary clothes, and I guessed that he was a Rebel messenger. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother’s pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men’s beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Could he be a lonely bachelor, taking up with odd company for lack of an ordinary life? My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In the years since Terry, stops, interrogations, and searches of ordinary people driving down the street, walking home from the bus stop, or riding the train have become commonplace—at least for people of color. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Of her children, two sons and two daughters, only the younger girl, Barbara, had entered ordinary life, married, begun raising a family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke without emotion, as if they were chatting about something ordinary, like the weather or the fishing report. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Their behavior and their desperation is described in Nothing to Envy, Barbara Demick’s book about how ordinary North Koreans endured the famine years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But the huntress said, as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world, “Then I’ll come tomorrow?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Would he have any hint—a scent of blood, a sound of terror from up the line—that this was no ordinary day? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They didn't seem to notice., anything out of the ordinary. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z It was humbling to see how the suggestions of ordinary people were often far ahead of the leaders’. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jennifer continued, as though she wasn't noticing anything out of the ordinary. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z I always thought him an ordinary man, she reflected. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It was so wrong that such an ordinary person in a nondescript dress and a cotton scarf around her forehead was in the middle of all this. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Here is a marvel indeed,” they would say, and make comparisons with ordinary parents who sometimes bore a child of matchless brilliance; or with a devout couple who had brought forth a wretch. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t seem right that you can just walk out one day, wearing ordinary clothes, and be murdered without warning, and then have all those people looking at you, examining you. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t simply an ordinary enormous chocolate factory, either. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z I was so far beyond ordinary exhaustion that I experienced a queer detachment from my body, as if I were observing my descent from a few feet overhead. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Van Eck seemed to bristle slightly at being lumped in with Kaz, but he said, “It’s lethal. An ordinary mind cannot tolerate parem in even the lowest doses.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then she very neatly folded up the wrapping, though it was just cheap, ordinary material. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z His memory appeared so precise the ordinary person would assume that it was accurate in all instances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, many were well educated and came from a variety of ordinary backgrounds: the Gestapo, the police force, government positions, or professions such as law and banking. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Put the names of shorter works, like poems, stories, and songs, in ordinary type with quotation marks. books: Gone With the Wind magazines: Newsweek n e w s pa p E R s.- Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It belongs to the submerged landscape of the things that are never said, which lies beneath ordinary speech like hills under water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His face was open and ordinary, its features unremarkable but pleasant and regular. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We hoped that the government and ordinary South Africans would see that the principles they were fighting for in Europe were the same ones we were advocating at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “You see, spirit mediums are ordinary men and women when they’re not being possessed. A few of them fake messages when they can’t manage a real one.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Quite a fancy name, not so ordinary like flower name. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington wanted an ink that was more complicated, an ink that could not be read merely by heating the paper or by coating it with an ordinary chemical. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “They appear to be seven ordinary broad stone steps; nothing special; quite the same as any other set of stairs in the Abbey, wouldn’t you say?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z And the ordinary people who read about it in the papers said why should the fellow get off, he murdered his wife, didn’t he? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z At times they were in favour and received privileges ordinary Russians would have marvelled at; at others their continued survival as professional composers hung by a thread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As soon as we passed the camp’s entrance, we sensed something out of the ordinary in the air. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He squatted in the shadows for more than half an hour, with nothing out of the ordinary disturbing the peace of the evening. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Against ordinary horses, Seabiscuit had enough early speed, but War Admiral was no ordinary horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z For ordinary rabbits, the punishments were more severe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had had the usual bouts with childhood illness, including the recent scarlet fever, but nothing out of the ordinary. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined thousands of ordinary citizens who rallied in Moscow and around the country to support Gorbachev, and democracy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He was disappointed to see that they wore ordinary clothes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Still, nighttime eeriness turned the shadows of ordinary objects into something twice as creepy. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z They were quickly removed from code school and assigned to be ordinary Marines. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She had no gift for small perturbations, mean-spirited resentments, concealed envies, works of charity, faded endearments, ordinary friendly politeness, or day-to-day acts of kindness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Matthias could see rats among the hay, but these were no ordinary rats. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z But here in France it happens to ordinary people, too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Some were ordinary bedrooms; others had no windows and were fitted with doors that made the rooms airtight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There were the visual customers—officers wanting food, ordinary soldiers wanting a chance to get warm, Redding people buying things. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z For a brief moment, we laughed and talked about ordinary things as though it were a typical school day. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He hadn’t seen anything but what was really before him—the faces of the four singers, those four ordinary men, cow-eyed and mindless and anguished as they went from sweetness to sourness to sweetness again. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Crowds of Chinese were milling around but they didn’t look like organized riot- makers, just ordinary Chinese who had come out of curiosity to laugh at the foreigners scuttling away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And why I vowed that, no matter what it took, I was not going to be so ordinary. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z January 31 started out as an ordinary Monday for the dockers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z "It seemed to be an ordinary silver dollar, with a metal loop at one end so it could be fastened onto a key chain around the neck." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He had arrived home at noon, kissed his mother, readily replied to questions his father put concerning his supposed overnight trip to Fort Scott, and sat down to eat, seeming quite his ordinary self. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z No. Nothing so ordinary, so domestic, so blameless. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It wound through the trees and did not follow any ordinary trail that had been broken in by hunters or the deer they chased. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hierarchy of racial slights, the sign wasn’t unusual or out of the ordinary. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Under ordinary circumstances, he was the kind of guy Archie took pleasure in assigning, watching him bend or break. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I had such a moment right then, standing in my own ordinary room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The terror that Winston already felt was suddenly shot through by a streak of ordinary embarrassment. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He inserts the key, opens the box, lifts out the Bible, an ordinary copy, with a black cover and gold-edged pages. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Why was yellow cheerful, she wondered, and why was it always a surprise—even when it came in an ordinary shape, like a lemon or an egg yolk? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z What matters is that people must be listening, that ordinary citizens must have radios, that they seem to need to hear from each other. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The confrontation, which brought relief, had come on an ordinary unheralded evening. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore an ordinary backpack and wheeled Aunt Gloria’s suitcase on wheels behind him. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z "But you are not an ordinary mouse. You are a mouse-person, and that is a very different matter." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Nothing else interesting or out of the ordinary occurred on their way home. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z On an ordinary day, Mrs. Richardson would have opened the door, told Izzy to turn the volume down, made some disparaging comments about how depressing and angry Izzy’s music always seemed to be. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With Leibniz’s calculus, these dys and dxs can be manipulated just like ordinary numbers, which is why modern mathematicians and physicists usually use Leibniz’s notation rather than Newton’s. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The head differed only from an ordinary cat in that it was framed in a ruff of hair, and the ears rose into tufted points. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I turn, searching them with her, listening for anything out of the ordinary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary gesture of frustration, but its awkwardness made Ruth know that there was something truly askew in this girl. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the fact remains that ordinary Germans banded together to protest a Nazi policy. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The problem arose because the ordinary assumptions of statistical mechanics—the laws of physics—did not lead Planck to his formula. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Campbell said that a hero is an ordinary human being who does "the best of things in the worst of times." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “What does Freud say about an ordinary thing like bloodshot eyes?” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The distance through the wormhole might be only a few million miles even though earth and Alpha Centauri are twenty million million miles apart in ordinary space. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “A perfect day. Start to finish. When nothing terrible or sad or ordinary happens. Do you think it’s possible?” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Before February of 1945, the ordinary American people didn’t know about kamikazes. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s interesting how he says ordinary things and thinks they are pretty deep,” Blaine said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z A miracle has happened and a sign has occurred here on earth, right on our farm, and we have no ordinary pig.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Or what if it was something ordinary, a common crisis, and she panicked, froze, failed to stop the hemorrhage in time? Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Galton knew that no ordinary measuring devices existed for any of these characteristics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It had all been so ordinary, even boring, and now it seemed like a fairy tale. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Black-and-white farmland gives way to a Technicolor dreamscape, as vivid and unpredictable as Dorothy Gale’s real life is ordinary and familiar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I’m trying to figure out how many things an ordinary citizen can do!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Returning to her ordinary life seemed so unappealing. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now and again we passed a leiter-wagon—the ordinary peasant’s cart—with its long, snake-like vertebra, calculated to suit the inequalities of the road. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Despite all the accolades she received, she doesn’t think her actions were heroic or even out of the ordinary. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I work quickly, piling bones back in front of the crypt to cover my trail, my senses primed for anything out of the ordinary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z These stories were so well known to Pong that they felt as ordinary as the village itself. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Riders competing in ordinary weekday events needed to whittle themselves down another 5 pounds or so, while those in the lowest echelons of the sport couldn’t weigh much more than 100. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d given ordinary shopkeepers and legitimate businessmen the chance to buy shares in the Crow Club. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Making himself the spokesman for the ordinary American, he wondered aloud how politicians met the costs of their political expenses without putting those costs onto the taxpayer. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z You have no idea how pallid the workday boundaries of ordinary existence seem, after such an ecstasy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “He did such a great thing and he’s still an ordinary man like my husband only better looking.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But Nelson said this was not just ordinary shadows. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Another time, Langan took an IQ test specially designed for people too smart for ordinary IQ tests. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Telegrams and letters from both famous dignitaries and ordinary citizens flooded the White House with heartfelt wishes for Garfield's recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead they go dressed in their ordinary clothes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In ordinary circumstances, I would think this was going to be an ordinary day. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The first is an ordinary school copybook with twenty pages, written in a child’s delicate calligraphy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As with the previous pair of pictures, many of the features visible by ordinary light were much dimmer in this one, and so were the curtains of radiance in the sky. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Yet Carl did little to assuage the natural distrust an ordinary man feels for a man of physical stature. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “They weren’t ordinary books. They were volumes on art. Six of ’em.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They make me feel safe, like this is an ordinary weekend day. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z He looks like an ordinary Catholic and you’d never imagine a Protestant would be shoveling lime. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Afterward, whenever I did not eat for long, as during famine or battle, I could stare at ordinary people and see their light and gold. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As time passed, the fabric of space continued to expand, the radiation cooled and, in ordinary visible light, for the first time space became dark, as it is today. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought this day was going to be ordinary. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Tree-ear was reeling from the man’s words, spoken in such a calm, ordinary voice. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z And some worlds will look out onto a vast gaseous nebula, the remains of an ordinary star that once was and is no longer. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because you are unique and wonderful and lots more interesting than ordinary fifth graders, I guess,” she says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Lightly, easily, as if it were the most ordinary thing in the world, she stretched up her right arm and wrenched off one of the cross-bars of the lamp-post. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z And it makes it way harder to talk to them, because now if you just talk about ordinary stuff like the weather or what day it is you know you’re both being mad fake. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z To us, a few dozen people constitute a small, ordinary gathering, but to the Fayu it was a rare, frightening event. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z During his time in office, which ended in 1964, Khrushchev attempted to improve the lives of ordinary Soviet citizens, but with little success. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A statement in a legal document will be interpreted adversarially, without the presumption of cooperation that governs an ordinary conversation, so every exception must be spelled out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This wasn’t no ordinary rabbit, this was a hare of unnatural ability. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You’re a nice boy,” Mr. Wonka said, “but you talk too much. Now then! The very first time I saw ordinary television working, I was struck by a tremendous idea. ‘Look here!’ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z On the outside, the Hotel Christopher Columbus looked as ordinary as an elementary school, just as I remembered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In one direction lay home and everything I knew, unmysterious and ordinary and safe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z But on ordinary days, the rule is competition, not collaboration. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The only two things out of the ordinary are the faint shadows under her eyes, and the unusual quiet that has descended over her lunch table. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Though of noble bearing, he wore the garb of an ordinary warrior, with no ornament save a curiously shaped iron brooch at his collar. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Instinct told Clara that something out of the ordinary was going on inside. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, he talked to Cleotilde’s friends with an easy friendliness, about the new Chelsea coach, about Big Brother, as if they were all there for something ordinary and normal. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “If he or Maria were looking into anything out of the ordinary, I’d have known about it.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Sit down, Frank, she says, and when I go to sit on one of the ordinary kitchen chairs she says, No, sit here. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Telling me the time is a small act of betrayal—and therefore an ordinary act of bravery. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “If this were an ordinary situation, the mayor would be the one to tell.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My frantic search uncovered a plethora of random objects—clothing, shoe brushes, buttonhooks, photographs of wives and sweethearts, tins of wax and pastes—things that seemed so ordinary, so human. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Many of the ‘ordinary’ prayers of the mass were generally recognizable to me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry had gone again after Christmas, and the new gifts got to be just ordinary things lying around with the things you’d had forever and forever. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Andrew’s ordinary days were filled with the kind of things most people have only on birthdays. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Lightning Girl, your ordinary, everyday savant cleaning lady. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Asked one ordinary Congo afternoon what she'd done with her day, Hugh's mother answered that she and a fellow member of the Ladies' Club had visited a leper colony on the outskirts of Kinshasa. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They looked like ordinary farmers with overalls and farm work boots. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But here in Sachsenhausen, death was so common, so ordinary, that the dead were like fallen trees in the forest—so unremarkable that they were only moved when they got in the way. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But worry for a friend can make ordinary circumstances extraordinary. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Boxer was an enormous beast, nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He had more sense and he knew things that ordinary people couldn’t know. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It was such an ordinary thing to do. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z To his surprise, when he turned, he saw that she had taken the mugs to the sink and was beginning to wash them, as if it were an ordinary evening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Many claim she’s only a myth—the bodiless witch, an ordinary person by daytime and a witch at night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As the cinder town began to deepen, cooling to mere scarlet, Ralph began to discern the familiar road again — to reassure himself that they were indeed on an ordinary highway with other cars. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not at all like the ordinary robot, attending to his specialized task at the station with the intensity of a deeply ingrooved positronic path. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It was considered too good for ordinary use and only brought out when one of them was sick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Second, there is the decline of belief in magic and witchcraft, already hinted at in Lafeu’s speech, if we take ‘modern’ to mean something more than just ‘ordinary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They had things ordinary people hadn’t had in years. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked up at him, and here in the ordinary darkness, he seemed to have lost some of his otherworldly glow. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I thought, if it concerns me I shall hear soon enough, and if not I shall have saved myself a walk....So with ordinary things I sought to still my qualms. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z His lathering technique was very much out of the ordinary, although identical in spirit with his actual shaving technique. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The children were shown into an ordinary classroom, where sunlight streamed through the windows, the desks sat empty, and an Executive waited to speak with Jackson and Jillson. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It is gradually reassuming a role it had for thousands of years: a free-flowing, unwritten, spontaneous, aural tradition based entirely on the lives, loves, hopes and fears of ordinary people. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There was no sign anywhere that it was inhabited by anyone but an ordinary person. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z At ordinary speeds the effect would be imperceptible. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Moss had boarded the train in San Francisco that afternoon expecting nothing out of the ordinary, just a normal ride home with his best friend, Esperanza. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z He wasn’t on the ordinary side of the canyon with Dad. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Even in the room I’d slept in for seventeen years, the place I knew better than anywhere else, I had to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z In the deep structure, the w/i-word appears in the position you’d expect for an ordinary sentence, in this case after the verb love, as in I love Lucy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In the first place, he isn’t just an ordinary psychoanalyst. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Or changing the Government so that farmers were allowed to raise pigs or use hydroponics, and ordinary people, not just Barons, could have better lives. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z If he could be with her, so extraordinarily beautiful and yet so ordinary, predictable and domestic and dedicated, then perhaps his life would start to seem believably his. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the morning, Mandy dispatched the correspondence, thinking it an ordinary letter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Huygens was delighted that the Copernican view of the Earth as a planet in motion around the Sun was widely accepted even by the ordinary people in Holland. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like people all over Hiroshima, he assumed a large, but ordinary bomb had fallen right near him. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In an attempt to reduce confusion, all dates in this book are ordinary calendar dates—that is, radiocarbon dates corrected by the most recent calibration. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I was looking forward to ordinary teenager fun like meeting up with my girls at the movies or going shopping at the mall. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Although the state’s prosecutors are made to seem almost ridiculous in the book, weren’t their judgments the same as those of the ordinary people the hero would face every day? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Most looked almost ordinary; their owners had clearly tried to make them as Muggle-like as possible, but had slipped up by adding chimneys, or bellpulls, or weather vanes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z But this was no ordinary relationship, and these were no ordinary tourists. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Males, I thought, always have a chance to live no matter how short their lives, but females, ordinary, ungifted ones, just get soft and die. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They were also hard workers, one wax child being able to do the work of at least two ordinary children. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It is an ongoing responsibility, a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life, only to discover that that previous life has vanished, replaced by something more complicated and demanding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Stuart never paid any fare on buses, because he wasn’t big enough to carry an ordinary dime. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z It wasn’t one of the ordinary olive-green caps you could buy in a store. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you belong to one of those weird religions? A cult? Is that why you can’t associate with other kids? Or go to public school? Or wear ordinary clothes?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z It was the first time white people had ever wanted to eat with me or talk to me about ordinary things. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One day, though, the letter finally did arrive — an ordinary letter, come without incident through the ordinary channels, with a large ballpoint X just where he wanted it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We had been engaged in a running debate about the appeal of communism to ordinary South Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tanaburi was a small, ordinary village, and it was the ordinary things that he liked to watch the most: people hanging their wash out to dry, sweeping porches, chatting with their neighbors, cooking breakfast. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z “Someone might have come along from the ordinary part of the train?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They would be home by now, Beatrice with her suit-case unpacked, going out into her garden and taking up her ordinary routine, and Giles preparing for his match, renewing the whipping on his bat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The streets transform every ordinary day into a series of trick questions, and every incorrect answer risks a beat- down, a shooting, or a pregnancy. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Flowers were not to be used as an ordinary gardener would use them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I didn’t know many of the neighbors, and when we met, outside on the street, we were careful to exchange nothing more than the ordinary greetings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z These were ordinary folk relaxing after a hard day’s work. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z These men have been caught halfway through their transformation: ordinary bodies but with powerful, supernatural heads, deformed in the direction of heroism, or villainy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The campaign's strategy was to show that he was an honorable, talented man who understood the struggles of ordinary Americans. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, except for the gas mask and a few magnets shaped like swastikas on the refrigerator. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z All of this was spoken like ordinary morning conversation. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But he was not terribly distinguished and, except for his clothing, seemed entirely ordinary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It's just that inviting Ollie for dinner, even if she likes him, is a step out of the ordinary, and that always makes her worry. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The most interesting of these is the prediction that protons, which make up much of the mass of ordinary matter, can spontaneously decay into lighter particles such as antielectrons. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In the other we have ordinary men, training, indoctrination, honor, glory, reputation, shame, loyalty, code, and believe in a cause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My dawn visits up the Commons had become the most ordinary of errands. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They came on, and then they were swirling by, an officer wearing a sword in the lead, followed by the ordinary soldiers. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps he’d meant it to be light, but the story he related only added to my worries: I had a job a little out of the ordinary today. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Just an ordinary man who sometimes did the monstrous things his society said were legal and proper. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Might gravity tunnels provide a kind of interstellar or intergalactic subway, permitting us to travel to inaccessible places much more rapidly than we could in the ordinary way? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z What was an ordinary and soulless feature is suddenly interesting. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Curiosity overtook her, and she did something she would never have considered in ordinary times. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In fact, she seemed to find it pretty ordinary—except for one thing. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Oh, I get that this is no ordinary car. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Ahead of me, out the window, the sun sinks in a murderous, vulgar, unpaintable and glorious display of red and purple and orange; behind me the ordinary night rolls forward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Their ordinary moments—answering the door, cooking in the kitchen, dancing to Adina Howard—assaulted me and expanded my notion of the human spectrum. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She has straight brown hair with bangs and she’s of ordinary size. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He had never been able to do this, and it had then seemed to him that this was the biggest difference between him and the ordinary people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The pages were full of ordinary sermons, but the ornate back cover hid two lenses that acted as a long glass. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For instance, “Q” is a rare letter in ordinary messages, but it makes up a whopping ten percent or so of this one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z These secret warriors often wore the clothes of ordinary men and women, deliberately blending into crowds and shunning the attention showered on the heroes of other wars. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t quite understand how an ordinary man’s good qualities could become crushing accusations against a guilty man. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Below these pillowcases, which are red, their clothes are ordinary: a leisure outfit, a pair of gray flannel slacks with a white shirt tucked in, the bottom of a conservative navy-blue suit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “But I am no ordinary prisoner, madam, let’s get that quite clear!” he roared. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z "Witches have slightly larger nose-holes than ordinary people. The rim of each nose-hole is pink and curvy, like the rim of a certain kind of seashell." The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Because of our special role, we code talkers were often able to go places where ordinary Marines hardly ever set foot. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually we came into a narrow side-street that had the occasional shop, but was mainly just ordinary houses. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And that, at least, gave me some hope: that even under ordinary circum- stances, I still might find a way to live an extraordinary life. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If she did ordinary things, they became enigmatic. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Polly continued, “My father worked like an ordinary slave on a tobacco farm.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z At least the guard was wearing an ordinary uniform instead of drüskelle black, Jesper considered, still unable to shake the image of that banner from his mind. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Since the wavelength of light is much larger than the size of an atom, we cannot hope to “look” at the parts of an atom in the ordinary way. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Did she really think such an ordinary lock was any obstacle? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A substance that is not a carcinogen in the ordinary sense may disturb the normal functioning of some part of the body in such a way that malignancy results. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was just an ordinary day, like any other. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The crystal beads looked like paste now, and where Ana had torn the bodice, ordinary threads hung loose. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were most sacred days, when much of the ordinary business of life was suspended. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Annex was very ordinary, its door unremarkable. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I wanted first of all to tell the people that I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had became a leader because of extraordinary circumstances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our attention was directed at those pursuits which would yield clear benefit to ordinary men. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And he wouldn’t want an American name, because everybody else had one, because it was all so ordinary, even if convenient. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z No one wanted this to be an ordinary seance, meaning one that was contrived by the medium. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Jule goes to a specialized academy housed in a renovated mansion on an ordinary street in New York City. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop where there was a fancy-looking house, an ordinary family, because it might be a Klan home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They did not walk like ordinary footwear, the boots. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He described Harriet as “a woman of no pretensions, indeed, a more ordinary specimen of humanity could hardly be found among the most unfortunate-looking farm hands of the South. “Her success was wonderful. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a book about outliers, about men and women who do things that are out of the ordinary. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, Tonight I met my idol, an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I have a hunch this is not one of her ordinary notes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z If he isn’t there or if he has his hat on straight, then I stay in my room in the ordinary way. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The rover, while descending down a seemingly ordinary slope, drove off an invisible ridge. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After this experience he might be translated mystically to another plane of existence, to another dimension, just as the redwoods seem to be out of time and out of our ordinary thinking. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In ordinary conversation I never spoke much about the war, certainly not in detail, and yet ever since my return I had been talking about it virtually nonstop through my writing. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At one time I had liked the idea, that the act, at least, had bound us together; we were not ordinary friends, but friends till-death-do-us-part. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The volunteers and the ordinary audience fires attract looked around at the lighted faces, trying to see Mr. and Mrs. Ames and their daughter. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He seemed not to realize he had done anything out of the ordinary. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Marcus wouldn't be in this ordinary school anymore, but in one of the higher education buildings reserved for scholars. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “The Green Tiger is no ordinary beast. His teeth and claws are poison. Without the medicine I have, he will die before seeing the sunset.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Only a third of one percent of Soviet women attended universities at this time, so the education level of many of Marina’s recruits was off the scale by ordinary standards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he said that he wouldn’t be asking if these were ordinary circumstances. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I haven’t heard anything out of the ordinary.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I knew from the beginning our new home would not be an ordinary house. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead they look on ordinary roads where plastic wading pools and baseball bats are left out on the lawns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The Nogtail will creep into a sty and suckle an ordinary sow alongside her own young. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone was walking across the temple grounds toward him a little too fast to be an ordinary temple visitor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z But because of the vast quantities of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, the sea could not be ordinary water; physical chemistry required carbonated water. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This was East Shoal; of course it was out of the ordinary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Then we sprawl on Rabiya’s bedspread, blowing bubbles and doing our favorite thing: watching YouTube videos that ordinary people posted of themselves doing crazy stunts. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I was a little late for the briefing because no one had heard of the journalism lab, which turned out to be just an ordinary classroom. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z After more time I meet Ben, who picks me up in the most ordinary way, in the supermarket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It consisted of a line of ordinary automobiles—the officers’ family cars, with the officers inside wearing civilian clothes, looking like commuters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed wicked to don my Sunday garb on an ordinary day, but it was all I had. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z This was just an ordinary street full of ordinary people. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Old brown smelly water began coming out, but soon it got paler and paler, and Mother had them empty the reservoir of ordinary water and put rainwater in it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z In ordinary circumstances, having the military in control would hardly be good news, but it felt like the best thing I’d ever heard. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z She’s stunned, and I feel sorry for the woman standing on the front porch of a poor street in an ordinary town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z As the white rose petals caressed her face, I held my breath, waiting for that glorious moment, the moment when she would become more than ordinary, when she would be touched by the divine. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z On Halloween, Grace wears an ordinary lady’s dress, Carol a fairy outfit, Cordelia a clown suit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Some scientists have suggested that it was caused by a piece of hurtling antimatter, annihilated on contact with the ordinary matter of the Earth, disappearing in a flash of gamma rays. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She needed them to see her as hard-working and responsible, as someone ordinary, someone without secrets. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z If I want to learn what clothes my aunt wore, whether flashy or ordinary, I would have to begin, “Remember Father’s drowned-in-the-well sister?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take me to her,” said the Savage, making an effort to speak in an ordinary tone. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They don’t walk like ordinary dogs, but leap and somersault like an apostrophe and comma. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Most occupy a vast middle ground of ordinary, while others are more distinct: pleasant, even beautiful, or sometimes slippery and unaccountably wrong-feeling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z "So I'm not really an ordinary mouse at all," I said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z “This is not an ordinary place,” she whispered. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z By human standards, it was an ordinary sized book, but it looked like a postage stamp in his huge hand. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he had reached a high stage of self-discipline and bore his last wound well, he now felt as if these ordinary people were his brothers. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were just ordinary men working blindly, pretending to be able to bring light into the darkness. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She picked up an ordinary beach shell and looked at it with elaborate interest. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z But sometimes I have different versions of the dream, like when you can see two versions of a film, the ordinary one and the director’s cut, like Blade Runner. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z All I could think of was what her father had just said, his voice so calm, his manner so ordinary. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A classic writer counts on the common sense and ordinary charity of his readers, just as in everyday conversation we know when a speaker means “in general” or “all else being equal.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This was not going to be an ordinary season. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nothing out of the ordinary, I remind myself. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The majority had careers that could only be considered ordinary, and a surprising number ended up with careers that even Terman considered failures. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On December 7, 1776, he set the dockyard on fire, wiping out 20 tons of hemp used to make rope, 6 tons of ordinary rope, and about 6,000 feet of large-size rope. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z While no one knew the exact origin of yellow fever, most ordinary citizens as well as many medical professionals insisted it was an imported disease. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z It’s such a mundane, ordinary observation—but that’s what stops me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Still, the Edifice was magnificent in comparison to the ordinary sheds and cottages of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s Edna’s mojo again, I suppose, that dark magic that can turn perfectly ordinary people into mirrors. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His face was clean-shaved, smooth-skinned, ordinary, not handsome but not quite plain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It seemed so out of place, a reminder of how normal and ordinary his life had been when he left home this morning. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “Ah...it wasn’t a new gift, just an ordinary command. Don’t be happy about being obedient, Ella. Be whatever you feel about it.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I just know the common ordinary everyday names that folks call things around here.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z I feel sorry for all those people in the planes and towers who were expecting an ordinary day. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z For a person so different, her house was surprisingly ordinary, at least by Arizona standards. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z In their wake fell a strange and bucolic calm, as if it were just another summer day, and nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I take pictures of ordinary things, like the clouds that are gathered far out over the water right now. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Unfolded, the poster was about the size of an ordinary kitchen window. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “For instance, did you know there are people in this store—in all department stores, actually—who walk around looking like ordinary customers but are really security police making sure no one is stealing?” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “He would discover many things in you he could not have expected to find? Some of your accomplishments are not ordinary.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As we had been talking, ordinary city folk had begun to creep out of their houses. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, a family line, connection. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I asked, like there was absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Imagination is a great thing in Jong dull hours, but it’s a real curse in a dark alley, and April’s imagination had always been out of the ordinary. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Nkrumah wore ordinary dress, his hand was extended and a smile was on his sensitive face. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had to use arms for this exercise which weighed twice as much as the ordinary sword and shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Both your MRI and CAT scan showed nothing out of the ordinary,” it says, looking at the clipboard—and you don’t argue, because you don’t want to be shoved back into the cannon. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was a warm, beautiful September day in Birmingham, Alabama—an ordinary busy Sunday morning at the Maull home. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It is not yet daybreak, and ordinary noises do not startle Lourdes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “There are no anomalies present, Susan. The variations in wording and the time reactions are within the limits of ordinary frequency groupings. We need finer methods. They must have computers here. No.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It’s the soldiers behind us—they’ve begun to press against the crowd to clear a path in the road—and then empty school buses pull in, like it’s just an ordinary school day. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z We got to Earth orbit the normal way, through an ordinary ship to Hermes. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked through a water-shower stall that contained an ultraviolet light, a bar of soap, and some ordinary shampoo. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe in a few days, if I remained patient and prayed, it would really be that way—white students would welcome me and smile and treat me like an ordinary human being. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In another moment I would have been out of the theatre had not my notice been attracted by something out of the ordinary. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was inspired by all the ordinary people who rose to the challenge of 9/11. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z With few ordinary comforts in his life, the attention of women was something Walter did not easily resist. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Under ordinary circumstances, Aru probably would have slipped into the quicksand herself and both of them would have become dismal Wikipedia pages. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The ordinary, the usual, a reminder, like a kick. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z In ordinary visible light, the faintly yellowish clouds of Venus can be made out, but they show, as Galileo first noted, virtually no features at all. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon dimmed and shone with an ordinary light, and I could see the highway stretching away, empty. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z An ordinary salesman like Mr. Broks would never be granted a permit. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The remaining neutrons would have decayed into protons, which are the nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 It may look like an ordinary black rock, but who knows what would have happened to me at Edna’s hands without it? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z In my ordinary life, this level of disability might justify a day of ice packs and stretching. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Finishing school was in an ordinary wooden house. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They had built themselves a crystal house on top of this ordinary building. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Then I rolled onto my belly, dropped my face over the side of the upper bunk and blurted out to Bobby Gene, “I don’t care what Dad says. I don’t want to be ordinary.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z By the time the final bell rings, I’m exhausted and perturbed, since nothing out of the ordinary has happened. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z As if it were simply an ordinary day. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Through the stone doors was a small antechamber with a more ordinary set of wooden doors inside. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her first thought on meeting him had been: ordinary. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the glow of the lantern the kitchen was comforting and ordinary. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As unreal as it seemed in the midst of our troubles, that glorious ordinary life went on without us. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They are the kind of friends who make even the ordinary day fun, who scrape every dollar they can to chip in on a birthday gift. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Because a witness making a statement from the dock does not submit to cross-examination or questions from the bench, the state-ment does not have the same legal weight as ordinary testimony. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The questions in my heart were not ordinary. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I want to know how he does ordinary stuff, like eating and drinking. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z "Capricorn's father was an ordinary blacksmith," he went on, refusing to let the cold rage in Capricorn’s eyes distract him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “It’s ninety percent cheaper to produce than an ordinary chip because the whole thing is sealed in so you don’t need clean rooms for production.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She was wearing only her ordinary shoes now, and she suspected that they would not be as skilled as those fairy slippers that had saved her on Souls Night. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If Helmuth were a detective, he'd arrest real criminals, not the ordinary men and women who criticize Hitler or the Nazi Party and find themselves denounced by friends and neighbors. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z It was Uncle Vernon, still purple-faced, still mustached, still looking furious at the nerve of Harry, carrying an owl in a cage in a station full of ordinary people. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It’s the sort of communication there’s no particular reason to believe in under ordinary circumstances and I’m generally not big on ghosts. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But that wasn’t any ordinary baking Cecilia was doing in there, because unlike Mamá, she wasn’t swallowing any of the powdery concoction herself as she tasted it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z I saw that the white faces were the faces of white men and they were dressed in ordinary clothing; but the black faces were men wearing what seemed to me to be elephant’s clothing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If they were ordinary foes, it might have been possible to defend against them with great broad slashes that gutted two or three at a time. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It’s paradoxical that an ordinary man like Nemur presumes to devote himself to making other people geniuses. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z What is the ordinary use of the word "affluence"? An "affluence of ideas," means what? New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z “I should like to be in my ordinary dress,” she had said of her plans. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z From there, she might guess that Tally wasn’t an ordinary runaway. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Their emotional certainty seemed buttressed by access to a fund of knowledge denied to ordinary men, but a day’s observation of their activities was sufficient to reveal all their thought processes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A sufficient interval having elapsed for the performers to resume their ordinary costume, they re-entered the dining-room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She held herself raised by her great prosperity above all that ordinary mortals fear and reverence. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing is more usual than to feel that others have shared in our failures, just as it is an ordinary reaction to forget those who have shared in our achievements. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the daytime we had to do our ordinary work,” he explained. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily coolly flips her head around and turns her attention to her bagel as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z “All you have to re-member is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. “This is the craziest family.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Trust me just this once — you are the opposite of ordinary.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Bailey said that the cotton up North was so tall, if ordinary people tried to pick it they’d have to get up on ladders, so the cotton farmers had their cotton picked by machines. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor is this in any sense a miracle, but very ordinary and to be expected. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The newt, although fairly common in English ponds, is not often seen by ordinary people because it is a shy and murky creature. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He was disciplined and tough and knowledgeable and he didn’t pretend to be stupid and ordinary. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I knew Dad thought he was paying me a compliment, since he loves to have ordinary this and ordinary that. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Blinking and ticking like a cosmic metronome, pulsars keep far better time than the most accurate ordinary clock. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Being a good friend was entirely the opposite of ordinary. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z But more than that, the kindness of the surprise gift was the real treasure—a glimpse of ordinary humanity in the long, terrifying, and hellish slog of battle. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z To be Styx’s brother would be some kind of fantasy—nothing ordinary in that. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z No one would ever call Styx Malone ordinary. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Weasley had braved the telephone in the village post office to order three ordinary Muggle taxis to take them into London. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z She had fallen in love so many times that she began to suspect she was not falling in love at all, but doing something much more ordinary. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Incredible to think what an ordinary day it was for her, to begin with. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Why else would he bestow so many blessings on one quiet, ordinary boy? A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They jumped, startled, at the most ordinary sounds: the murmur of the wind in the branches of the trees, the twittering of a bird. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a humiliating experience to watch the fear and disgust on ordinary citizens’ faces when they watch a convict go by. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was just thinking about what an extraordinary thing it was to be driving along there in just an ordinary car,” remembered Morrison, “and yet we were carrying the core of the first atomic bomb.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of the world, the ordinary people, were still alien to him, just as he was apart from them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just sorry that we had not been able to combine his more lofty goals with the more ordinary dream of seeing Mother. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would be nice to hear more about all the ordinary decent people, more about the nice things that happen all the time. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, church music was a rather more sombre affair, and the ordinary churchgoer prior to the Protestant Reformation is likely to have found singing in church a miserable, largely non- partidpatory activity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Angelo’s lasagna is amazing on any ordinary day, but at this moment it is the best thing I have ever tasted. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z If only I were an ordinary girl like Lissa, uncomplicated, with no secrets. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z A drum struck savagely through the hush, sent it shivering, flying...people blinked and stared, called thus rudely to take up their ordinary existence. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Under ordinary conditions I can barely pull that anchor with both hands in a calm. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z "They're ordinary decent seafaring folk. They know that the island was bought by a man called Owen—and that's about all they do know." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z How could I explain myself to an ordinary girl like Lissa? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z ‘An ordinary chicken wouldn’t hunt out my things to break them. A witch must have trained it!’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was too young to realize that something out of the ordinary was going to happen. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Is it possible that ordinary German people did not know about the systematic murder of millions of people? Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Those are ordinary pressures we can relate to, the insistence of fashion or the approval of friends. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Even under ordinary circumstances, Auggie could be hard to understand sometimes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “I’d like to hear a tale about an ordinary person for once. Not all of us are born princes.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z At first glance, it looks like an ordinary wartime portrait. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “All you have to remember is that every ordinary fraction can be converted into an infinite periodic decimal fraction. See? So 3/7 is 0.428571.” A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole way there, X-Ray kept glancing sideways at him, trying to see a hint of a smile, or some kind of clue, but Armpit remained cool, as if nothing was out of the ordinary. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Some whites had been upset earlier when four blacks ignored the invisible line, plopping themselves down on the sand as though it was nothing out of the ordinary. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "Really, this is quite out of the ordinary," she hisses. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “What an ordinary little boy,” commented the king. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Sure, hearts were an ordinary doodle and easier to draw than even stars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z You had to hand it to them, thought Harry, as George took an ordinary hairpin from his pocket and started to pick the lock. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Con did not see their own, ordinary steeds, and he asked, “Where are our horses?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He said that he was not even allowed to kill ordinary chaps on the Grail Quest so how could he kill his brother? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Later I would remember it didn’t sound like an ordinary knock. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They dressed in the ordinary gear of backpackers: jeans and casual button-down shirts in heavy, weatherproof fabrics. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z He hadn’t given them ordinary walkie-talkies because he didn’t want anybody listening to the talk, especially the news media, who might make a tape recording of the chatter. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The drawing was of what seemed to be an ordinary man, with a swath of thick black hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It was clear that they were, in fact, something far out of the ordinary, but it was too early to say whether the magic would hold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As he came out of the mist and their fears subsided, he seemed suddenly to diminish to ordinary hobbit-size. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They could perform glamorous feats beyond the reach of ordinary mortals. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Nice-looking young lady—but the ordinary kind, not glamorous—no Hollywood touch about her. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The ubiquity of illegal drug activity, combined with its consensual nature, requires a far more proactive approach by law enforcement than what is required to address ordinary street crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The swan had been no ordinary bird—the skin belonged to a creature bigger than Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z She blinked a few times but didn't seem to have noticed anything out of the ordinary. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It’s likely they were so segregated from ordinary fighting units and considered so special that the women of these regiments were, to a certain extent, untouchable. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By its height, which was some twenty feet, it was clear that it had been no ordinary door, though there was no way to gauge what its width might have been when open. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The Party prisoners were always silent and terrified, but the ordinary criminals seemed to care nothing for anybody. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Not the ordinary silence that came from a simple absence of things moving about and making noise. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In any illness that could not be handled by ordinary means—known cures, intuition, or endurance—the word was always, “Fetch M’Dear.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The stone was too smooth to be carved from a mountain, the glass too clear to come from an ordinary forge. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He might be running from the law, or maybe a charm had been placed on him, which would explain why every ordinary hex he tried to put on his wife failed to work. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But others were just ordinary folk, in the wrong place at the wrong time. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He came toward me, without his cane at the moment, his new walking cast so much smaller and lighter that an ordinary person could have managed it with hardly a limp noticeable. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He appeared to be nothing more than an ordinary man. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Those tales had unlocked things that ordinary metal keys never could. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He was no ordinary scholar, this man, but the apotheosis of scholars: the most famous personage in Zosma, save the queen and the hierarch, and the most popular, bar none. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There was the street money, certainly, but that was nothing out of the ordinary. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “An ordinary common or garden rat like this can’t be expected to live longer than three years or so,” said the witch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Now—and please don’t call me presumptuous—may I assume this was no ordinary friend?” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “She was very ordinary. She wasn’t of the slightest importance. I knew her well enough.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face is ordinary but has an undeniable sweetness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And then there was the word Dust, with a capital D, as if it wasn’t ordinary dust but something special. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z They moved through t’ai chi to more ordinary exercises, such as running in place and toe touching. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Daddy made breakfast that morning as if it were another ordinary day, and after we ate together, the Maull children caught the school bus. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So the summer went along and I lived my ordinary life, which was mostly chores all day long. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d lost his belt and was wearing a piece of rope around his waist, and his hat wasn’t an army hat but just an ordinary fur cap. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The night was as ordinary as a winter night can be, and I was alone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z To his simple mind ordinary hunger, the desire to eat hobbits, had seemed the chief danger in Gollum. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z We have examined our Sun, the nearest star, in various wavelengths from radio waves to ordinary visible light to X-rays, all of which arise only from its outermost layers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was so ordinary and his garb so plain that Arya might have thought him one of the villagers before she had seen him at his work. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The man appeared to be an ordinary citizen, perhaps a post-office employee. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They are not terrified astronauts floating in an endless atmosphere—they are just four ordinary explorers here on earth. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Of course for some Everesters myriad other, less virtuous, motives came into play, as well: minor celebrity, career advancement, ego massage, ordinary bragging rights, filthy lucre. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The tractor looked far larger, as he moved away from it, but also more ordinary. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It concluded that Title VI does not provide a “private right of action” to ordinary citizens and civil rights groups; meaning that victims of discrimination can no longer sue under the law. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Agathocles the Sicilian, who became King of Syracuse, was not only an ordinary citizen but also of the lowest and most abject condition. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Almost at once his theories of relativity developed a reputation for being impossible for an ordinary person to grasp. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary house, he thought, an ugly house, nothing to boast of. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z To these people, capitalism had failed, and ordinary Americans were bearing the brunt of its collapse. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z For a moment, the cell grows thick with the stink from the bucket, and then thins, becomes ordinary again. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I don't mean ordinary Paintbrush Falls beautiful; I mean, like from a whole other planet beautiful. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z This meant that each cipher was based on an ordinary book—one that the sender and receiver both owned. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her heart a red cup of fierceness tucked among ordinary things. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One wore ordinary clothes; the other was in uniform. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Even ordinary German homes seemed extravagantly comfortable to the Soviet soldiers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My grandma says, Holy water or ordinary water? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The bar is full of plain ordinary folk, some looking down on their luck, some looking to celebrate. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “This was not an ordinary little ear or nose thing. I screamed at him, ‘What have you done?’ Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet, the ordinary thought crept in, made me trick myself for a moment into thinking that I, too, was ordinary. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It was about a hundred feet across to the far bank, and although shallow enough in the ordinary way, was far too deep for the animals to cross without swimming. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His behavior is really not out of the ordinary— anger, depression, even tears—are all positive signs that he is in the process of working it out. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But myth was the ordinary terrain of his mind, whereas it had never occurred to him that the Godslayer might have a mother. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Although Hagrid seemed to know where he was going, he was obviously not used to getting there in an ordinary way. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Once, as they drifted silently past a massive white cloud, they saw on the top of it a group of strange, tall, wispy-looking things that were about twice the height of ordinary men. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t anything to do with the captured Heinkel bomber; it was just an ordinary air raid, the Luftwaffe doing their worst to try to destroy British defenses. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It seemed like forever since I’d had an ordinary afternoon there, listening to records and talking to friends who didn’t use the word “integration.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The windows didn’t roll up like in ordinary cars. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would not play without electricity so I did something I would be embarrassed to do under ordinary circumstances. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Mother-in-law,” he said, “I intend no discourtesy, but this is no ordinary visit. You gave me your daughter in marriage. I have brought her back to you. She is a barren woman.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing extraordinary about him, nothing that lifted him out of the ordinary. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z 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 To the ordinary person, Cobble’s Knot was about as friendly as a nest of yellow jackets. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet socially—in my entire teaching career, I’ve never met a student who knows so little about ordinary everyday living. Have you worked with any other students from this Garland Farm?” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z So far, the policeman hadn’t seen much out of the ordinary except for the scene earlier that day: a wild-eyed man waving a red umbrella and chasing several giant black dogs around the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The shingle was burning an ordinary, cheerful orange. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Ordinary people, ordinary girls, teenagers like myself, would think I’m a little nuts with all my self-pity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s maroon and very plain, worn over a faded pair of jeans as if tonight is an ordinary winter night. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There are stairs in our house, but they’re ordinary hallway stairs, and the house has only one washroom. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Now that his hair has grown back, he looks like an ordinary, middle-aged father. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z His life would be easier, Matty knew, if the little frog were unmarked and ordinary. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Approaching the corner, I can’t believe how ordinary the bus stop looks in the summer, only another bend of sidewalk. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the herbs were the ordinary sort, but as I turned to leave, I spotted a sprig of bogweed. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ministry of Magic cars seemed almost ordinary, though Harry noticed that they could slide through gaps that Uncle Vernon’s new company car certainly couldn’t have managed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Some argued that because the ANC was a mass organization made up mainly of ordinary workers, the leadership should come from those same ranks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The milpa is an elaboration of this natural situation, unlike ordinary farms, which involve singlecrop expanses of a sort rarely observed in unplowed landscapes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Even now, a fact as ordinary, as obvious, as this astonishes him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I said, it’s the planet Neptune I’m talking about, just plain ordinary Neptune, not Paradise, because I don’t happen to know about Paradise. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Wilhite says Reggie is good with an audience because he seems like an ordinary guy, the person who could be your friend or son, your boyfriend. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Still, I can’t possibly tell you everything, since it’s all so different compared to ordinary times and ordinary people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She was braver than anyone in the hotel, braver than all of London, braver than ordinary by far. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She seemed very ordinary, wearing black pants and a button-down white shirt with a logo on the breast—WICKED spelled in blue capital letters. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Some of the recruits have bayonets of this sort; we take them away and give them the ordinary kind. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no crowds, no ordinary citizens, only the Council of Guardians: twelve men who sat facing her across a long table at the foot of the stage. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Under ordinary circumstances, I even like your obstinate braying and your mulish devotion to the cause.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z After taking one look at Rosa’s body, Dr. Cuevas knew that she had died of no ordinary fever. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sack of rocks was so heavy now that an ordinary person groaned, trying to lift it. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z One near the downstairs recreation area—which, by the way, has a movie theater—and one for ordinary meals, I guess. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Some of them had ordinary messages: “I can’t come on Tuesday.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Liddy got a Social Security card with this name, club membership cards, and other “pocket litter”—ordinary things like torn train tickets and scribbled notes that make a wallet look real. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The Greeks began a process that became unusually pronounced in Western music: emphasis on a VIP class of performers whose brilliance was intended to strike awe and enchantment into the hearts of the ordinary listener. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Shakespeare used the word ‘modern’ to mean both ‘ordinary’ and ‘contemporary’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z No ordinary clasp would suffice for such a weight, so the greatcloak was held in place by a matched pair of miniature lionesses crouching on his shoulders, as if poised to spring. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It wasn’t ordinary fire either; it was purple. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Though these ordinary, everyday, hardworking people might not be recorded in history books, they strove to create the change America needed. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z She scanned her brother’s room: books, old art projects, a few binders of ordinary baseball cards, and his action figure of Hermey the elf. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I look into the mirror but I don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z For this was no ordinary howling, but an anguished cry from the very soul of one—or more- otherwise mute beings! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z I’m just like them—an ordinary drone dressed in secrets and lies. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He saw his red-veined eyelids, the colors of countless ordinary human campfires that had warmed his hands night after night. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary disposable ballpoint, black ink, removable cap. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Now she saw that he was not ordinary at all but darkly sinister. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All our intelligence said that the Japanese military was still not ready to quit, even though the ordinary people were desperate for peace. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z That is just ordinary deviation from external reality. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither the Brotherhood nor the book was a subject that any ordinary Party member would mention if there was a way of avoiding it. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z But azan rang out, and then the morning sun was falling flat on the rooftops and the roosters were crowing and nothing out of the ordinary happened. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If he had been an ordinary mouse without a motorcycle, all his little relatives would not have come flocking into the lobby. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘It was no ordinary storm. It is the ill will of Caradhras. He does not love Elves and Dwarves, and that drift was laid to cut off our escape.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I felt it was what was to be expected, and what could not be helped: an ordinary beggar is frequently an object of suspicion; a well-dressed beggar inevitably so. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z ‘You must have tremendously thin skin! Even Williamson couldn’t have done that to ordinary skin!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I went to look up the requirements of an ordinary English major at my college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z When inextricably mixed with domestic and other wastes discharged into the same water, these chemicals sometimes defy detection by the methods in ordinary use by purification plants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He addressed me precisely in his ordinary manner, or what had, of late, been his ordinary manner—one scrupulously polite. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The doctors of Monterey—and there were enough of them to take care of the ordinary diseases, accidents and neuroses—were running crazy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you can use it to make a different type of emitter for sympathy lamps. You get a bluish light instead of the ordinary red. A little easier on the eyes. Fetch outrageous prices.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But now matters were so desperate that the ordinary gifts didn’t seem enough. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet there is a big difference between the forward and backward directions of real time in ordinary life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This meant that ordinary sentences and phrases had been given secret meanings, agreed upon in advance. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The grumpy waiter comes, balancing a circular tray on one hand, and plonks down the glasses, which are like ordinary water glasses, only full of beer. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I believed in him not only as a leader in the ordinary human sense, but also I believed in him as a divine leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were very much in love, full of dreams, and in the ordinary flow of their lives the whole scenario might well have come true. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Even her ordinary speaking voice bubbled up from inside her, rich and melodic. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of a happier way of having it spoiled—not if this meant that maybe one day soon we’d be back living an ordinary life. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this is not an ordinary dog bite.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z An ordinary, straightforward statement like I was taller becomes quite another proposition when we insert one little word: If I were taller. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They may not be remembered individually like Fannie, but throughout history many ordinary people had the courage to risk their lives to fight a system they believed was unjust. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z While Millet did his planning, many of the other men who had helped Burnham construct the fair began the return to ordinary life. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Her insecurity, so great and so ordinary, silenced him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He not only sold matches like any ordinary match-man, but he drew pavement pictures as well. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And the two bottles of rice water that she drank instead of ordinary water. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I'm not, you know. I’m a perfectly ordinary, harmless bloke. And I think you are behaving splendidly over all this, perfectly splendidly. I take off my hat to you, I really do.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z With every passing moment he became convinced something was wrong, this was not an ordinary delay. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He knew everybody was staring, but he liked being the center of attention, and he pretended it was just an ordinary thing and he was used to it. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, ordinary penguins, yes,” said the Admiral judiciously; “but not such highly-trained birds as yours, Mr. Popper. They could outwit any polar bear, I guess.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z They learned that in nearby Cleveland Heights and Warrensville and Beachwood, residents placed their discarded belongings at the curb like ordinary people, and they learned which days were garbage days on which streets. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It arrived by post—which was the first indication that it was out of the ordinary. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was two or three minutes before we noticed anything out of the ordinary. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Speaking from the steps of the capitol, prominent civil rights leaders and ordinary citizens recalled the turbulent events at Selma that had turned the voting rights campaign into a mass protest against racial injustice. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “She will be surprised. But I am supposed to say, ‘One ordinary loaf,’ and she is supposed to say, ‘And how is your uncle?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So it was a shock when I came upon the scent on my fifth- grade teacher, who said it was nothing but plain ordinary Ponds Cold Cream. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z There was a seriousness in Harriet’s manner which prepared her, quite as much as her words, for something more than ordinary. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z But nothing about the prosecution of Walter McMillian was turning out to be ordinary. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The small boy who looked in the kettle-hat, and who dreamed of well-water which always slipped away from his lips, had cherished an ambition to do some ordinary miracle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z For the truth is, nature doesn’t speak in ordinary equations. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He had removed his black cloak and got rid of his trumpet, and was now wearing his ordinary simple clothes. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not nearly as ordinary as I used to be—or if it was true that I’d never been ordinary, now I knew it. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She is about 16 years of age, and is a bright mulatto, about the ordinary height, with straight hair and tolerable good features—she has a ragged scar on her neck occasioned by a burn. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Besides, they wanted their collection in a place where ordinary citizens could consult it. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Of course, they are not stopped at the retina as ordinary photons are but continue unmolested through the back of my head. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He could no longer delude Kira into thinking this was an ordinary journey. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “But you gotta learn to chill, Dad. Maybe you can get something like ordinary clothes for yourself while we’re there. You look like you’re the president of the company or something!” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The problem was, Dad was always talking about us being ordinary folks—about how ordinary folks like this and ordinary folks need that. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And Ella Mae was not so beautiful now as she was when she was singing and testifying, but looked like a sullen, ordinary girl. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z It was sodium-24, produced by the bombardment of ordinary rock salt by deuterons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Shasta trotted back through the Tombs—they looked quite ordinary now and he wondered how he could ever have been afraid of them—and down into the cultivated land by the river's side. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us ordinary mortals. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is no ordinary car, as we both know so well. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the week they were together in Amsterdam, she says, he taught her so much and inspired her to be something higher, less ordinary than she had been. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While a trip to the market should be an ordinary, everyday occurrence, Citra found that food shopping with a scythe carried its own basket of crazy. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Sound and light, Doppler argued, behaved according to universal and natural laws—even if these were deeply counterintuitive to ordinary viewers or listeners. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The ocean nymphs who visited Prometheus on the crag in the Caucasus spoke only the most ordinary common sense when they said to him:— Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened his ordinary eyes, and saw that he was still on the bed, that he had not moved at all. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z He told Hamilton that his Farewell Address was aimed especially at “the Yeomanry of the country,” which meant ordinary farmers working small plots of land and living in households. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Girls like Zohra and my other cousins, who are safe and comfortable and living perfectly ordinary lives. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z But as the fund received more press attention, ordinary people gave amounts as small as a dollar. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It seemed an ordinary door—not at all like the entrance to a new world. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Most of them are so stable that they cannot be broken down by ordinary processes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Turns out, no one would ever call Caleb Franklin ordinary either. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I think the only person in the world who realizes how ordinary I am is me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z It had been a long time coming, born in the city’s beginnings, written in the countless daily interactions of ordinary citizens and city leaders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Suicide is a powerful temptation for North Koreans plucked out of ordinary lives and subjected to the labor camps’ regime of hard labor, hunger, beatings, and sleep deprivation. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Initially Root planned to employ a technique that Chicago architects had used since 1873 to support buildings of ordinary stature. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “It’s so different from the ordinary young couple,” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “If you were just an ordinary citizen and witnessed one scythe killing another, and then were offered immunity to keep your mouth shut, what would you do?” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As you may know, complimentary remarks of this type are all too often made by well-meaning adults to children who are, to be frank, perfectly ordinary- looking. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Attacking Marcus in front of the entire school would definitely qualify as out of the ordinary. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Just below this spot another great branch, itself as big as an ordinary tree, jutted out over the tops of the pines, and on this at last Jeremy fluttered gently to rest. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z He also understood that the radio was a powerful political tool because it brought his voice into the homes of ordinary people, making them feel close and connected to him. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z An ordinary car had eight wheels; this combination had thirty-two. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was a dusty, battered tube of ordinary antiseptic cream, such as Will could have bought in any pharmacy in his world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about half as long again as an ordinary man but was much thicker. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary day in the quiet, well-ordered place. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My laughter is a performance, a grab at the ordinary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Those greens you have give bulk, but their taste is ordinary." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Not only because of the great heroes I have already cited, but because of the courage of the ordinary men and women of my country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Did you see anything out of the ordinary, anything unusual? Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Go and change,” he said, “it does not matter what you put on. Find an ordinary evening frock, anything will do. Go now, before anybody comes.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Most of them were ordinary men, rather tall and dark-haired, and grim but not particularly evil-looking. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was hard to believe that someone like Kaori lived in such an ordinary house. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z An ordinary avatar wouldn’t have nearly the strength to do such a thing. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Ai! You ask too much already! You can ask her because she is not an ordinary person.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What I felt was no ordinary hate or anger; it was something much deeper, much darker, frightening, something even I couldn’t understand. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But from the strangely urgent tone of his voice, she could tell it wasn’t an ordinary broadcast. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Not only was Hagrid twice as tall as anyone else, he kept pointing at perfectly ordinary things like parking meters and saying loudly, “See that, Harry? Things these Muggles dream up, eh?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z He was definitely acting out of the ordinary. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She could walk under an ordinary hound; in fact, she was a regular midget. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the ordinary way of saying she would refuse all other men. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He smells of peppermint LifeSavers; underneath that is his ordinary smell, of cedarwood lead pencils and wet sand. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t look like anything out of the ordinary—just trodden dirt weaving around the trees. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Ziemer emphasized that this alarming death rate hadn’t been skewed upward by mountaineering accidents; the victims had been “just ordinary trekkers who never ventured beyond the established trails.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He wore black and looked ordinary, but in his past there was blood, death, and profit in staggering quantity. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Lion Spirit Mediums looked down on ordinary mediums, the way great concert musicians looked down on people who played the harmonica. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At one time Dusty Muleman had been an ordinary fishing guide, the same as my father. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She told me that what she hopes people will learn from her life “is that every individual, even a very ordinary housewife or secretary, can make a difference.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Then he set about the laborious task of transcribing it into code and addressed it in an ordinary envelope to an insignificant part of central London. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He was clutching what looked like an ordinary Muggle camera, and the moment Harry looked at him, he went bright red. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “That phases out laser emanation and spreads the beam into ordinary light.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I doubt if anyone would claim to enjoy life at high altitudes— enjoy, that is, in the ordinary sense of the word. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z “One of the lines I remember from the Dauntless manifesto is, ‘We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.’” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “If they look like ordinary people, I won’t be able to tell.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He knows that for his parents, the act of travel is never regarded casually, that even the most ordinary of journeys is seen off and greeted at either end. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Leastways, not in an ordinary manner of speaking. Yet I feel somehow, if I may make so free, as ’ow we’ve met before.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z And now, it seemed that he had indeed become an ordinary person. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were ordinary matches, and her visions were the deluded comfort of a dying mind. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Well, just as we code talkers made up names for things, so, too, did the ordinary fighting men create nicknames for just about everything. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But I know ordinary kids don’t make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The only truly safe passage across the forest for an ordinary person was the Road, which was situated on a naturally raised seam of rock that had smoothed over time. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Over and over again, ordinary Germans greeted them by extending their right hands palms down and shouting, “Heil Hitler!” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Of those who managed to live ordinary lives, some already had more education than others, or their parents were peasants, or they came from a small village or a big city. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z On nights like these, nobody minds missing the theater’s ordinary fare of grainy Cuban films. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They leap in front of each other to attract attention to their goods, but the visitors ignore them, stooping instead to examine ordinary wood carvings and beaded jewelry. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The other people had been ordinary, but Mister Singer was not. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Baby birds chirped from within the budding trees like nothing was out of the ordinary. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She scanned the training hall for any sign of the challenge to come the following morning, but found nothing out of the ordinary. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Three suitcases sat by the door: Chess’s was an ordinary blue, Finn’s had a giant Pokémon logo, and Emma’s was bright red and covered in stickers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I see things visible, invisible, ordinary, and extraordinary in the world. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z In throwing it back, they set in motion an evolutionary process: If you are a crab and your carapace is ordinary, the humans will eat you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from 1658 onwards, and thanks to Christiaan Huygens, that ordinary people began to have access to accurate timepieces, instead of estimating the time of day by the position of the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z It seemed like just an ordinary thing, but it was a baseball, signed by Joe Mauer, and Jack had given it to her, and in that way it was magic. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The young women of Marina Raskova’s regiments treasured the thought of finishing the war and living ordinary lives, drawing heavily on Marina’s model of perfection as a soldier, a woman, and a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They realized that they were approaching something out of the ordinary when they saw a newspaper cameraman walking along the edge of the crowd. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I can tell you one thing. They’d be far beyond the abilities of an ordinary magician. You’d need to be incredibly magical to even use them. Like, born magician magical. Like Moreau himself or...” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z His tunes were firmly rooted in an easy-to-grasp, enchanting-to-sing Italian vocal style, so that ordinary folk really could leave the theatre humming. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He stood there for a long moment in silence, and to her astonishment he had never looked more like an ordinary man — with his head bowed and his shoulders slumped, he seemed almost weary. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of his ordinary helmet with a visor he was wearing the proper tilting-helm, which looked like a large coal-scuttle, and as he cantered he clanged. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I just want to be an ordinary sixth grader, with an ordinary life.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z They tended the crops and watched over the cattle, just as ordinary children did during the daytime. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It surprised me no end how much I missed our ordinary, routine life—the simple act of pouring wax into a candle mold or repairing a broken hive box. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary one, not a tumi, but it would do. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Before being brought here he had been taken to another place which must have been an ordinary prison or a temporary lock-up used by the patrols. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Dany knew just enough about horses to know that this was no ordinary animal. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She was, unexpectedly, marvelously, an ordinary person here. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z If Nemur and Strauss were ordinary men working beyond their abilities, I felt sure it would be different with the others. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z After all, if most people saw her as ordinary, it made it easier to keep her secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All the ordinary problems and mysteries of my life that mattered only to me. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z I want to be able to use the system to talk like ordinary kids. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z In ordinary circumstances she would have approved of this sign of respect, but today she would have preferred to be ignored. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They were dressed in ordinary clothing—brown shirts and trousers and muddy boots. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They joined thousands of ordinary young men, eager to prove their bravery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was no longer a spear or a bolt of lightning but just an ordinary ball. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There are no real doctors or nurses, only ordinary people ordered to pretend to be medical experts. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is not an ordinary volcano, you know. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z “It was really just an ordinary silk handkerchief—you could see when you got up close,” said the woman in the beach chair beside Mrs. Carpenter’s. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z His paws looked like ordinary mouse paws to him, but now that she mentioned it, maybe... Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z It was slow and precise and I felt stupider and more ordinary with every coin I dropped. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And Mom and Dad don’t see me as ordinary, either. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Sorry you could find nothing better to read. I write that rubbish because it sells, and ordinary people like it. Are you going to New York this winter?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dying. Losing my parents. Staying here for the rest of my life. Never figuring out what I’m supposed to do. Being ordinary. Losing everyone I love.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Still checking the Marauder’s Map whenever he got a chance, he sometimes made detours to wherever Malfoy happened to be, but had not yet detected him doing anything out of the ordinary. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z "No, plain, like ordinary. Like the wide open plains." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z He was of ordinary stature and his face was just a face. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z But quickly she reminds herself that he is not technically in the hospital, that if this were any other day but Sunday he’d be at a doctor’s office having an ordinary checkup. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I decided to junk the whole honors program and become an ordinary English major. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “If you’d let me know sooner—” She began bustling around the huge warm kitchen, which had a stove twice the size of an ordinary stove and a table ten feet long. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z An ordinary, human-sized door, with an ordinary, human-sized handle. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “No,” Ash answered, for she did not know what a fairy horse disguised as an ordinary one would eat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a plain face, beardless and ordinary, notable only for his queer pale eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They look so ordinary—inside a black box with metal claws on the edges and a remote detonator. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Apparently collaborators are so violently detested in Ormaie that anyone will shoot them, even ordinary citizens who have no connection to the Resistance, and he has to keep his head down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A month ago he’d been an ordinary guy, a construction worker who did some extra work on the side at a friend’s T-shirt shop. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The up-top world must be so ordinary compared to the miracle beneath, the miracle you made with your sweat and blood. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Coordination phrases simply don’t follow the logic of ordinary headed phrases. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I said, I don’t want to be ordinary. I want to be...the other thing.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Except that Arm, whose psychic abilities were developed far beyond those of ordinary folk, could feel the exact instant when it happened. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Mrs. Zuckerman, “it seems to me you’re a little off. It seems to me we have no ordinary spider.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z But for the rest of her life she advocated small weddings in ordinary clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Is getting evicted “ordinary”? It sure doesn’t seem normal to me. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z At first Mother only let me use Father’s ordinary kites. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I hate watching them eat cereal, fake smiling and pretending the day is ordinary. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z I’d had a fancy speech rehearsed in my head, but when I saw her there, all normal and ordinary, it suddenly seemed like too much and all I said was “Thank you.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But life being what it is, how can ordinary people truly be expected to have 'strong opinions' on all manner of things - as Mr Harry Smith rather fancifully claims the villagers here do? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z It was an odd feeling to be suddenly sitting in a cafe having breakfast, watching perfectly ordinary people outside in the street, going to work, shopping, or just standing around chatting. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z As if it wasn’t bad enough to be locked up in a tumbledown house far away from ordinary life, surrounded by black-clad men with faces like birds of prey and knives in their belts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z For ordinary people are always taken in by appearances and by the outcome of an event. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t find anything out of the ordinary. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z She heard, quite distinctly, the sound of ordinary carriage wheels approaching. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For convenience, Hutton had assumed that the mountain had the same density as ordinary stone, about 2.5 times that of water, but this was little more than an educated guess. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Frequently they were nothing but ordinary bits of superstition. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Like the open code in Dickinson’s letters, Elizebeth could appear ordinary on the surface. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z And in the world there are only ordinary people; and the few have no place, while the many have a spot on which to lean. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Her ceiling is ordinary, plain white with a simple, square glass light in the middle and two hooks, like upside-down question marks, holding nothing. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It would have made a nice spot in the summer for an ordinary family to sit and eat a picnic. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When Stephen and I draw with our colored pencils, he draws wars, ordinary wars and wars in space. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Every day we heard and saw the thousands of humiliations that ordinary Africans confronted every day of their lives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was ordinary people who wanted change and demanded it. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I imagine the man and his dog as a perfect spy team, too ordinary to be noticed. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z During those rare moments when I sat alone in my room among my stuffed animals, I daydreamed about Vince and what it would be like to be his ordinary girlfriend and have real dates. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was as different from the ordinary domestic cat as the Siamese himself was different. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that,” he was to testify the next day, “was the last I seen them. Nancy leading old Babe off to the barn. Like I said, nothing out of the ordinary.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry and Ron joined a number of oddly dressed men descending into what appeared to be an ordinary underground public toilet, tiled in grimy black and white. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It looked quite ordinary to Harry, but Ron and Neville were both looking at it as though they expected it to explode. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It’s strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Who’ve we got here?” she said, and the sound of her voice snapped me back to my ordinary senses. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As he recalled in My Early Life, “I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence— which is a noble thing. ” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Kathleen awoke the next morning in her own bed in her ordinary house, and she longed to be back in that fairy ring so much that her body ached with the memory of it. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought it was important that I should realize that though Hitler and the Nazis were evil, there were also ordinary Germans who did not like Hitler. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Except for the fatigue, her grandmother looked perfectly ordinary this morning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He strung ordinary sentences together and they came out sounding either like the most profane curses or like comical poetry. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nonsense! and what sort of an effect will the bequest have on you? Will it keep you in England, induce you to marry Miss Oliver, and settle down like an ordinary mortal?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z "A mouse-person will almost certainly live for three times as long as an ordinary mouse," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z His gray, drooping face appeared to be made of something stiffer than ordinary skin; it rarely moved except for making the smile that was on it now. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, there’s not much to say about me. I’m just an ordinary kind of guy.” The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as Ralph could see, teachers behaved like ordinary people except that, unlike parents, they said, “Oh, dear, school will soon be starting.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z But nothing happened except that Aunt Letty, thinking that those horrible words were meant to be ordinary English, said: “I thought as much. The woman is drunk. Drunk! She can’t even speak clearly.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z He ignored us entirely, as if we were no more than ordinary cargo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The young man’s blue eyes remained open but no longer seemed to be looking at the ordinary things in the room or through the window. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “It’s just good business. And how are ordinary people supposed to move up in the world without a little extra help?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z If we knew what the ordinary pitch of the horn was when the car was at rest, we could deduce its speed blindfolded, from the change in pitch. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just as you like, sir, of course. But he strikes me as being a bit out of the ordinary. I’d say, a distinctly useful rabbit.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore ordinary suits but funny hats, like a motorman’s hat only the top was squashed in. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a middle-aged woman who looked rather ordinary except for the large mole on her left cheek. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z Suddenly ordinary people could get the benefit of computing without being programmers. ft is impossible to exaggerate how important this was to the flattening of the world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The man may have looked ordinary, but he was far from it. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z In detective stories, when the sleuth revisits the scene of the crime, he nearly always finds a clue that has been overlooked by the ordinary police. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z These ordinary things are what one misses most in prison, and dreams about doing when one is free. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Marmalade pointed to a nearby booth, where an ordinary man with wispy blond hair and a gap in his front teeth was regaling his tablemates with the story of Lady Delune. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z When it’s wet like this, it usually takes the fluff and fairy tale off her, making her seem more ordinary, more like the rest of us, but not today. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “Our pig is completely out of the ordinary.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Her masterpiece soon lay unseen beneath several new coats of ordinary house paint. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I was expecting something shinier, with glass and metal; this seems pretty ordinary. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Not an ordinary tiger, but one double the usual size. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z None of this, our doctor said, was out of the ordinary, or even all that terrible in isolation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “I know, Jacks, but in, y’know, an ordinary boy, that sort of thing, it finds an outlet. Courtin’ girls and that. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z My brother says there’s nothing special about the stairs inside, they’re plain ordinary stairs. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Nothing seemed out of the ordinary or too serious. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z It was just an ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor’s heart and mine beat loudly. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z He enclosed notes to Sirius, telling him that nothing out of the ordinary had happened, and that they were still waiting for an answer from Percy. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing an ordinary denim uniform with no insignia of any kind and high boots with spurs that were caked with mud and dried blood. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Thus time and the ordinary divisions of the day are changed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather it was removed from the ordinary sense of time—as when one is drunk or half-asleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Historians have described the commandos as ordinary men who had an extraordinary job. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z In every way she seemed to be a typical, ordinary, everyday, run-of-the-mill teenager. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Even the most ordinary kids in school got to go there. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I want to make sure he quickly finds some peace, like it’s an ordinary morning, before someone tells him I’m gone. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She had gone away ordinary and come back miraculous, like the ancient magicians who came down from the mountains. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On searching further, the fishery officers found other plants where rains or ordinary clean-up waters would carry insecticides into the sewer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was just an ordinary morning on the island. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He looked like an ordinary bank employee, but Alba recognized him immediately and was unable to stifle the shout of joy that rose up from within her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Would I have had a perfectly ordinary day and not know that I was missing something? The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “And you can get in touch with the—with the big ship by ordinary radio, Mr. Ai?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But eventually I was going to have to translate the play into ordinary script, and then the gaps would be as ostentatious as the slashes in the clothing of those young dandies I'd seen. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z And this was odd because the men themselves were perfectly ordinary. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z After a while, even the thrum of magic under her skin began to seem ordinary. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I stand here before you filled with deep pride and joy — pride in the ordinary, humble people of this country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The notice didn’t even list a telephone number for questions. It’s a bit out of the ordinary, don’t you think?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z That in itself was of interest to Tree-ear; an ordinary commission—for a set of household bowls, say—would not merit such caution. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z It seemed impossible that an ordinary, bright day should be proceeding outside our house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Though Annie seems to have a “flawless character,” Theo tells Lies she might be “too out of the ordinary to become a good housewife.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It would almost be better if they could be as surly as I am, or surlier; this would make me feel more ordinary. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” said Roy, “every day we’ve been reading about regular people, ordinary Americans who made history ’cause they got up and fought for something they believed in. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anything out of the ordinary is a possible source of danger,” replied Chervil, quoting Woundwort. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The men had no uniforms, so they wore ordinary clothes: coats to ward off the early morning chill and large-brimmed hats. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And yet the Sun is an ordinary, even a mediocre star. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of ordinary guards, two drüskelle stood watch by the heavy door. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His background, his education and his home were ordinary. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “It — it was just an ordinary cat, sir, like any cat.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Of course the ordinary soldiers didn’t have much fun. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two chairs on stage: the infamous Hot Seat itself—painted red with flames running up the legs—and an ordinary chair for the host, Kevin. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Surely, you must have guessed I am no ordinary sailor. I am, in fact, Roberts himself.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Some were filled with liquid and wicking, much like ordinary lamps, but most of them were utterly unfamiliar. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “I was talking to Tommy on the phone and he said all that pine rubbish was pretty ordinary and wouldn’t last.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z A strange feature was that the ordinary ants were not excited by the songs, nor interested by the lectures. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s no doubt about it,” April said, “it’s no ordinary rock, that’s for sure.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes they dress as ordinary humans,” her mother replied, trailing the tip of the brush over her daughter’s skin. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Only then did he permit them to bury him, not in any ordinary way, but with the honors reserved for Macondo's greatest benefactor. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z When she received hers—if she received hers—would it retain the solemn mystery that it held for her now, or would it become ordinary to her? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I mean ordinary working people, the kind that we otherwise almost never saw in a bar like Small’s, who, with a good enough hit, had quit their jobs working somewhere downtown for the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. An ordinary eating knife’ll do. One with a round end’s best.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z If she had been some ordinary woman, she would gladly have spent her whole life touching Daario, tracing his scars and making him tell her how he’d come by every one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Infinity was no longer mystical; it became an ordinary number. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z So childishly and illogically did he now reason; so much had he become like the ordinary people. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The setting sun seemed to have ladled its syrupy light over the crusted snow, so that ordinary house parts and backyards in this fading moment seemed a spectacular raspberry dessert. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z “Sir, if I see anything out of the ordinary, you'll be the first to know.” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It’s an ordinary day, and I try to lose myself in that. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z There was no doubt that the Witch had got over her faintness; and now that one saw her in our own world, with ordinary things around her, she fairly took one’s breath away. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z It was always funny how many people could crowd in from nowhere when anything out of the ordinary happened. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It simply did not occur to her that she had hurt him as deeply as she had, because she still thought of herself as an ordinary woman, and him as an extraordinary man. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It's a lovely winter day in Amsterdam, and though there are other people on the street, couples like me and Willem, nobody acts like the forced parade of people is out of the ordinary. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I spoke without thinking, but Lissa saw nothing out of the ordinary in my words. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z But with all the scenes, the birthdays, the lessons, the practices, the ordinary events that should have been left alone, what I remember most are Jenna’s eyes, flickering, hesitation, an urgent trying. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Wearing her hijab, which had once seemed an ordinary act, even if it sometimes got her unwanted attention, was now nothing less than a unifying act of faith and bravery. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The storage room is going to become an ordinary, typical rat hole, not in the least mechanized or civilized.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z "Well, an ordinary mouse only lives for about three years," she said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z He is in fee form of a monkey, but no ordinary monkey: his fur is long and silky and of fee most deep and lustrous gold. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Hidden within what looked like an ordinary letter was the secret message that was only revealed when the reader applied the mask. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Nelson was used to our overreactions to what he felt were ordinary things, such as cobras in the kitchen. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He took an ordinary stick of kindling from the box and smelled it and said, “Maple. Good!” and proceeded to make a neat little totem pole out of it. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Most ordinary whisky drinkers are “brand” chumps like this. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was an ordinary day, if at least ten times longer than it ought to have been. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It can be an ordinary marble, but these don’t get many shooters, unless you offer two for one. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “But the question is, was it just some ordinary thief, or was it someone that had some special reason? I don’t like it. I got a bad feeling about the whole thing.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To ordinary citizens, the sentinel ships might have been protectors, but to Sefia, who had never been ordinary, they were prison guards, barring her escape. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Even in Ireland I never saw a table like this, except on a holiday—and this is an ordinary Tuesday. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Her mother seemed to have become an ordinary down-to-earth woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The island was covered with greenery as far as she could see—not with ordinary forest plants, but with tomatoes, mealies, and bananas. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’d like to hear you call him ordinary to his face.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The oldest of the prisons is the Kansas State Penitentiary for Men, a turreted black-and-white palace that visually distinguishes an otherwise ordinary rural town, Lansing. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you’re much too heavy for a bird to pull up there —” “Fawkes,” said Harry, “isn’t an ordinary bird.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The regulations for ordinary citizens were so clear, so well known, so carefully followed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z They are people who go out every night, people who have vastly more sexual partners than the norm, people whose lives and behavior are well outside of the ordinary. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean small pieces, little strips that I meant for the gaff’s hook that, when dried by the sun, looked like ordinary animal flesh. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z On the surface, it looked like an ordinary mirror. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Caden’s behavior has been”—my father had struggled for the words—“out of the ordinary.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It’s Tuesday, and we’re all in school mode again, like Cinderella and the mice coachmen all gone back to their ordinary form. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z But this is no ordinary hunt, and Hideo is no ordinary client. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And when I lost, I was filled with growing dread, and then terror that I was no longer a prodigy, that I had lost the gift and had turned into someone quite ordinary. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, before retiring, she exchanged her ordinary glasses for a pair of reading spectacles. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The bravest had trembled when he made these faces, and ordinary people had fallen to the floor, and sensitive people had often fainted. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Because theories are always being changed to account for new observations, they are never properly digested or simplified so that ordinary people can understand them. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Beatrice was such a phenomenal athlete that Roy couldn’t imagine her falling down the stairs like some ordinary klutz. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The air around them was filled with its usual low buzz, but nothing seemed out of the ordinary at first. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A bunch of ordinary ones, like “mischief” and “possibility,” but he threw two cool ones in there: “collywobbles” and “gardyloo.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z As the morning wore on, Kaede began to suspect that these wolves were not entirely ordinary. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z For years, every hacker and electronics whiz had dreamt of the day when a computer would come along that was small and inexpensive enough for an ordinary person to use and own. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She grinned, as if she knew that secretly I was thinking: No one would ever call Pixie “ordinary.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I accept it the way I accept my husband and my daughters and my life on the wicker swing, my life of ordinary seductions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems like a million years ago that I was an ordinary kid who thought nothing was more important than some upcoming sports season and my next dumb prank with Jordie and Pouncey. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z His training stable consisted of just one horse who would never be better than ordinary. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A sign announced that this was no ordinary footpath but the celebrated Appalachian Trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z In the bedrooms the reverse of ordinary procedure was in practice. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One oonful of this is more economical and far more sweetening than two of ordinary granulated Sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “No, Monsieur. After the service of dinner the door between the ordinary carriages and the sleeping cars is locked.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z And Father said, “No. It’s an ordinary hospital. She has a problem ... a problem with her heart.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z All in all, it was an ordinary day. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Like I keep saying over and over again, I’m just an ordinary kid. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Diploma in hand, Elizebeth returned to her ordinary routines as the top code breaker at the Treasury Department and the Coast Guard. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I know ordinary kids don’t get stared at wherever they go. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z You can tell that the film is being run backward because this kind of behavior is never observed in ordinary life. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Some remaining windows, ones in which the colored glass had shattered, were now paned in a thick, ordinary glass that distorted the view through bubbles and ripples. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor was shining, but in an ordinary kind of way. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Please let it not be anything out of the ordinary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z It didn’t seem like an ordinary pigeon’s shadow. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “They don’t want us to think with magic. We’ve got to think about it like any ordinary person would....I’ve got a plan.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With messages in English, for example, the pairing that turns up most often may well represent “TH,” the most common digraph in ordinary English. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The child might have grown to be wicked or goodness itself but almost surely ordinary. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Berrange read him the first passage, which concerned the need for ordinary workers to cooperate with each other and not exploit one another. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would also revolutionize the ordinary person’s understanding of the laws that govern the universe. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Because a chicken showed up yesterday, and I think it must be one of yours, because it is really definitely not an ordinary chicken. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The snow covered the houses here, too—but where in Hazel’s neighborhood it let the ordinary borrow magic from it, these houses seemed to be lending their power to the snow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Gradually, along with his growing riches, Siddhartha himself acquired some of the characteristics of the ordinary people, some of their childishness and some of their anxiety. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Below the balcony, in the ballroom, the dancers whirled in their dresses that had been spun from ordinary human-made looms. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But maybe Father Cham's gift was less ordinary than he thought. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The father and mother talked a little about ordinary things, talk the boy had heard so many times he no longer listened. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She listened to the sound of wind in the trees, remembering Taisin's warnings, but she heard nothing out of the ordinary. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But he had so much trouble picturing her ordinary life that his imagination failed him. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z It was no ordinary Sunday morning when presidential candidate Barack Obama stepped to the podium at the Apostolic Church of God in Chicago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z To them, that come after us, it may be as ordinary to buy a pair of wings to fly into remotest Regions; as now a pair of Boots to ride a Journey. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z These two did not like to accept the advantage of armour, and, finding the satin cooler to wear, they were determined to be ordinary and brave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought about this now, how haunting and yet how ordinary it had seemed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It is! That is no ordinary stone. It was made by the Holy Being known as Darkness.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z |
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