| 单词 | pattern |
| 例句 | Students respond one measure later while continually absorbing the pattern currently being performed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I stared through the windshield as if I was watching the test pattern that came on television at midnight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern repeats at the eighth tone of a scale, the octave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Back in the gym we’re shooting more patterns when the football team comes in for a bathroom and water break. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Runes and patterns were engraved on the side of the horn, and there was silver about the mouthpiece. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cole felt a part of the patterns as he meandered along the shore. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z But then, as I say, the pattern changed. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Musicians tend to have greater word memory and more complex neural brain patterning, as well as greater organizational and higher-order executive functioning. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He had been stabbed so many times it looked as if his tunic was patterned with scarlet flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He traced the patterns on the floor with the tip of his boot. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Alternate colors for each row and place the scales in a brick pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The fact that there was a pattern didn’t much matter. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The right hemisphere of the cerebral cortex is mainly responsible for pattern recognition, intuition, sensitivity, creative insights. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We shall see, however, that over the years this basic pattern went through ever more severe crises that challenged its ability to survive. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was adorned with a pattern of woven hummingbirds that flitted about playfully. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Some people even said he could look at the pattern of the waves and tell you where they’d come from, where they were going. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Coraline stared at the leaves on the trees and at the patterns of light and shadow on the cracked bark of the trunk of the beech tree outside the window. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z For a moment, she surveys my face, tilting it from side to side as if it's a block of wood and she's deciding exactly what pattern to carve on it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Ancient music, such as Gregorian chants; new music, such as some experimental twentieth-century art music; and Non-Western music, such as some native American flute music, may not have a strong, repetitive pattern of beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z For years, for a number of reasons having to do with discrimination and cultural patterns, there simply weren’t a lot of women and minorities entering the management ranks of American corporations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In fact, accepted literally, perhaps the phrase was accurate, even if to each, the other were merely the light and dark pattern of a bank of photocells. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z They were fashioned of ebony and weirwood, die black and white grains swirling and twisting in strange interwoven patterns. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Russ sits in the bleachers while Erin and I shoot our patterns, practice free throws, and do our sprints. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wore my dark gray dress pants and a turquoise button-up with these subtle leaf patterns on it, the kind you could only see in a certain light. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Not because God had made everything from a pattern, as some people thought, but because we all evolved from the same pattern. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a kitchen, and a door beside it that opened on to a narrow flight of stairs, carpeted in a bright floral pattern. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Spots or patches often form symmetrical patterns on the body, so a person with vitiligo on her right arm is likely to have it in roughly the same place on her left. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A repeating pattern showing the famous trio of drummer boy, fife player, and lame old man. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You could easily memorize a short pattern of correct answers, and it would be a lot faster to erase and change that pattern than to go through each student’s answer sheet individually. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I tried to to do the same, but I kept finding myself staring into space with no idea of where I was in the pattern. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As described in the pages that follow, there is a certain pattern to this cycle. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Her arms, face, and legs have colorful tattoos of patterns, flowers, fruits, and snakes. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The flocked wallpaper had a delicate floral print, the floors were covered with fine Arabian carpeting in a leaf-and-ivy pattern, and the mahogany dresser had drawer-pulls carved in the shape of mushrooms. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Is it the same thing making these patterns and moving the needle of the alethiometer? The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it possible the same pattern of special opportunities operate in the real world as well? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Max studied the pattern of the cracks in the plaster. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She now had a definite crystallized purpose, and in carrying it out, her life fell into a pattern which remained unchanged for the next six years. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all variations of the same color and pattern: black with grayish-silver accents. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She could see, in this indulgence of sunlight, the patterns of his irises. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When I wanted to become my old self again, all I had to do was delete the Lynch identity and copy my prints and retinal patterns back over to my original file. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She was scared to look at his face; it was easier to just stare at the pattern on his duvet cover. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Piggy made an aimless little pattern in the sand with his fingers. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I wore a floral summer dress Nan had helped me sew from a pattern last year. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But you can draw in the patterning of the feathers so I can see how they are shaped and how they lie on the bird’s body. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The same pattern perhaps applies to Ethiopia, where wheat, barley, and other Southwest Asian crops have been cultivated for a long time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Jessica looked down at the table, her finger tracing an invisible pattern. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z These patterns emphasize the differences between the stronger and weaker beats to help the performers keep track of where they are in the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Many places on Earth seem suddenly to crystallize out, revealing an intricate pattern of squares and rectangles, straight lines and circles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When I woke up, I was lying on a bed, a real bed with a patterned blanket. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z She’d invented a new pattern of curves, lines, and squares in her mind while doing her chores. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z If there are intelligent beings on Earth, they have not much modified the landscape into regular geometrical patterns at kilometer resolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She told us how, long ago, paper was scarce so women cut up old letters and newspaper articles to make patterns, then stuffed the paper between the quilt layers for extra insulation. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z She swept up the scuffed sand and spread a fresh layer in a fine pattern. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z We made a quick survey of the trunk full of dress patterns and the one with the buffalo robe in it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun streamed from the window in the alcove and made gold patterns on the dark paneling. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As she grew older, the pattern of her life changed again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Year in, year out, as far back as history is recorded, farmers from across Asia have engaged in the same relentless, intricate pattern of agriculture. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Our pattern of life changed in the usual manner. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun would make a yellow pattern on the curtain. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A key forms in his hands, blacked out and ever-shifting, its own surface coated with the same endless patterns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z From his shoulders trailed a cloak of Lannister crimson patterned with golden hands. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I see one in my spaghetti, and no matter how many times I push my dinner around with a fork, the noodles keep re-forming into that awful pattern. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He is dressed head to toe in black and silver, the velvet of his doublet so thickly embroidered with patterns of crowns and birds that it looks as heavy as armor. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Pressure. Stress. Maze pattern different every day, tryin’ to picture things in your mind, tryin’ to get us out of here. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She was short and vigorous, colorfully dressed in an embroidered tunic adorned with tassels and gathered in by a wide, patterned belt. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She doesn’t bother with the cross-and-star pattern used by many of the other Wives, it’s not a challenge. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s even a shelf dedicated to face masks in all colors and patterns, an accessory I’ve seen worn all over Tokyo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The opposite wall was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “You want to talk about our silver pattern?” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, in the dense alphabet forest of the page, little black tulips began to pop up in a quick, random pattern like falling raindrops. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The triangular wooden frames fitted into the gables were intricately carved, the light that slanted through them and fell in patterns on the floor was full of secrets. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Conservationists became increasingly disturbed as the pattern of spraying huge areas began to establish itself. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “This is a pattern. Ever heard of it before?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z A moment of identical traffic patterns in completely different parts of the world were linked. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z But did a law—an underlying pattern—govern the genesis of variants? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Calder’s grandmother had once told him that he breathed patterns the way other people breathed air. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It had a floral pattern of turquoise and green blossoms which I found hideous. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Fayge’s curls, tight from the shower, scattered across the floor like patterns in a rug. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At moments like that, she seems like a wolf learning the patterns of sheep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We were looking at our hands, entwined, and he was drawing patterns along my palm, and I could hardly breathe as he left trails of fire along my skin. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I like the patterns that all the rows make when you walk by them. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z When I finish the pattern, she strides out of the gym even though we still have more shooting patterns to do. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Milking was one of his tasks at home and the familiar pattern of sound soothed him. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Then we will be the first, and set the pattern for all herders of sheep in these hills.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As he walked, he focused on the patterns around him. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z On the opposite side was the Alabama flag, sporting red bars crossed diagonally against a white field, fixed in the same pattern as the stars and bars of the Confederate flag. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z He held up his hands, showing me an impossibly complex pattern spread between his fingers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She carefully tended it, and weeks later, a huge, delicately patterned gray-and-white moth emerged from the pupa, the biggest she had ever seen. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “You see, professionals are trained to recognize patterns,” she continued. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Out here something in the water’s always moving, making patterns, changing. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Melodic rhythm refers to any rhythmic patterns in a piece. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z These stories have an inevitable pattern untroubled by the question, If none return, how is it known what is there? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And then another train came and the man with the diamond patterns on his socks and the lady with the guitar case got on and it went away again. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But for Elizebeth it was a break in the pattern—a sign that she was struggling. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He’s doing pretend semaphore, waving his arms in ornate patterns as if I’m supposed to understand some kind of secret code. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Philosophy tells us that the universe consists of concentric spheres; the actual patterns made by the planets as they move through the heavens is a subject for astronomy, which is a sub-branch of mathematics. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z While they are performing their pattern, they are simultaneously listening and memorizing the new pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They lay in an orderly pattern, ribs here, legs there, showing through the remains of black pants and a black shirt. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She is dressed as she had been during her performance, in a white gown covered in a pattern of unassembled puzzle pieces, falling together into darkness along the hem. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The reception area was the same, with gold-dyed walls and thick Persian rugs and grooved patterns on the exposed ceilings. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Yet as the quilt pattern developed, she thought it was as beautiful as the wild flowers that grew in the woods and along the edge of the roads. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The drug dealers who’d lived there before had spray-painted curse words and psychedelic patterns on the walls and the ceiling pipes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I copied my own fingerprints and retinal patterns into a completely new identity profile that I’d created, under the name Bryce Lynch. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She began to descend in the oblong flight pattern she’d used earlier. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The hall she stood in was bare of ornamentation but for a pattern inlaid in the floor. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A dazzling pattern of small black stripes was etched across her white-and-golden for. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been helping Mom mark and cut out patterns for as long as I can remember. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And wherever housing patterns loosened slightly, officials gerrymandered school districts to keep them racially homogeneous. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There aren’t any patterns on the wall; only the ceiling has porous tiles that could be fun to look at. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z She slipped a small silver object from the back pocket of her jeans and held it out to me, the rough pattern of the speaker face up. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He caught a brief glimpse of Piper leaping across a hopscotch pattern of fiery pits, making her way toward Nico, who was dazed and weaponless and being stalked by a pair of leopards. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The helicopters flying overhead beat the lake into a frenzy of waves and patterns. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The two pieces stay standing, separate, for a moment before they fall, the patterned back facing up. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I assure you,” the doctor said, “that Hill House will be quiet tonight. There is a pattern to these things, as though psychic phenomena were subject to laws of a very particular sort.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He had barricaded the most fragile of his convictions—that purely hereditary influences could explain such patterns of accomplishment—from any scientific challenge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The leaves of the tree made fugitive patterns on the white pillowcase. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern was still a muddle—Wilkins was still hampered by the quality of his sample and the dryness of his chamber—but Watson was instantly gripped by it. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One day she fashioned a fish trap, following the pattern she had learned at the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t it weird that the pattern of coats hanging up on the classroom hooks went blue-green-red, blue-green-red twice in a row? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Cinna comes in with a pretty orange frock patterned with autumn leaves. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The mist was breaking, the sun was forcing its way through and throwing patterns on the carpet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There is always a pattern to the way they move, however randomly. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The pattern of tension and release created by resolved dissonances is part of what makes a piece of music exciting and interesting. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I still had some material and a dress pattern for Ma. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She knows Jaja always eats right from the flask, yet she takes a dinner plate with her every time, changes the colors and patterns weekly. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z He has on a long black coat with a high, jagged collar, the whole thing stitched with a pattern of constellations. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Indeed, wherever Quetelet looked, he found a recurrent pattern: human features—even behaviors—were distributed in bell-shaped curves. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Tally nodded, her eyes tracing the familiar patterns of light and darkness surrounding the city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Hospitals, schools, private homes, banks, office buildings, restaurants, and movie theaters butted one against the other in a jumble of color and pattern and noise. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Your inspiration for a music or integrated lesson plan can be a song, an instrument, timbre, vocal sound, poem, story, rhythm, speech pattern, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Moreover, they also discovered that if you placed a map of Europe’s magnetic patterns alongside an American one from the same period, they fit together as neatly as two halves of a torn letter. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Lord Petyr was clad in a blue velvet tunic with puffed sleeves, his silvery cape patterned with mockingbirds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Was the same pattern true of other animals—of the tortoises, say? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The plane continued south for thirty seconds more, following the same pattern, familiar and predictable now, and McWatt, lifted a wing and banked gracefully around into his turn. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Sandy, I submitted dress patterns and sample dresses I made. I talked about the sand sculptures in my essay.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Together, they create orderly patterns—such as trade networks, mass celebrations and political institutions—that they could never have created in isolation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve already decided on the pattern: a Double Wedding Ring, a series of interlocking circles made up of small rectangles of fabric. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She was washing the floor as she talked, making patterns of soapy water on the linoleum. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t until the third holding pattern southwest of Kennedy Airport that Klotz told ATC that he didn’t think the plane had enough fuel to reach an alternative airport. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The pattern requires that the frog sit still, sit very still and wait. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Two of the men had patterns of V-shaped scars on their foreheads. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunt Chipo braided her oldest daughter’s hair into a new pattern she had seen in a magazine. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Amala’s eyes focused on the floor as if she were tracing patterns on it. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She stops when she reaches a dartboard with a silver knife embedded in the patterned cork, its blade marred with dark stains. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’ve only made it through 57 adoption applications, but the patterns are already clear. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The pattern was the same; only the rhythm and tonal quality were different. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fifty Neanderthals cooperating in traditional and static patterns were no match for 500 versatile and innovative Sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nothing,” said Henry, tracing a pattern on the floor with the sharp, glinting ferrule of his umbrella. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z All my magazine reading and overheard remarks fell at once into a grotesque but understandable pattern. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As they pored over the secret messages, they noticed certain patterns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I held my suitcase in my right hand and was wearing brown traditional summer pants with zigzag thread patterns at the bottom and a T-shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z What was the cause of the Appalachian pattern? Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Allegations of racial profiling in federally funded drug interdiction operations resulted in numerous investigations and comprehensive data demonstrating a dramatic pattern of racial bias in highway patrol stops and searches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The door opened, and the blonde in the photograph—all smiles—waltzed in, wearing a pink sweater with a pattern of snowflakes knit into it, and her hair tied back with a pink ribbon. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z If you analyze the data you can find general patterns of behavioral consistency from test to test. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed the corners of his eyes and then looked at the pattern. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Yet another lure into a garden path comes from the statistical patterns of the English language, in which certain words are likely to precede or follow others. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Lawrence’s commitment of his own war years set the pattern.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The same pattern materialized later in the 1790s, when Jefferson embraced two misguided propositions about European affairs. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Suppose that, by chance, among the distant ancestors of this crab, one arose with a pattern that resembled, even slightly, a human face. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As hard as we try to keep our thoughts out of the old ways, the old patterns, the old ruts, any little jog or jerk will send them right back down into the mud. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The patterns ran like moonlight on water with every step it took. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The stars that outline the arms do not survive even a single galactic rotation; only the spiral pattern remains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Max made a pouty face and spun around to face the shifting digital wallpaper behind him—currently a pattern of multicolored vector lines. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The white people danced as though somebody had trained them—left, one, two; right, three, four—the same steps and patterns over and over, as though somebody had wound them up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes, willing herself to be rooted there, in that chair, and she gripped the armrest until the pattern carved in it rose up to meet her fingers, solid and reassuring. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The play of symbols, once she had discovered the pattern of it, was dismaying. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Summer blessings were saving money to buy fabric and practice, practice, practice with the patterns that Mrs. Collins gave me to work on till fall. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It changes the patterns of social connections between neighborhoods. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Dixit’s hands were painted with henna, an intricate pattern of zigzags and stars. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z We were up very high; street lamps and traffic cut patterns in the night below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern was repeated with monotonous regularity in succeeding springs. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Do you know the craft of weaving? Thread by thread, the pattern forms.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The light filtering out between its shuttered windows cast patterns on the garden path. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “Or do you want me to carve a pretty pattern on your face like your friend’s here?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She flips them over, one at a time, laying them faceup in an elaborate pattern across the table, some overlapping and others in rows, until there are about a dozen cards laid out. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But the conducting patterns depend only on the pattern of strong and weak beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z But if you have many messages, you have depth, and you can start to see patterns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mary Alice’s trunk was full of paper: yellowed Farm Journals and buttons on cardboard and a ton of dress patterns. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Johnny had already seen a pack of them out at Lexington, and there over at the Lornes was Rabbit repeating the old pattern. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sleeping pills make your brain waves calm down into a sleep pattern. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The water bobs up and down, and crests and troughs spread outward in a circular pattern. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It wasn’t just the color that was different—so were the number and pattern of the dots. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Her patterned scarf hangs loosely around her neck, and her eyes are soft and brown. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “He denied using it. Shaw could not or would not give a reasonable explanation for his driving pattern.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These brief Purple messages, following no known pattern, were an almost impossible riddle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He ran the X’s through the offensive patterns the team had practiced repetitiously for two weeks. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “He needs you to concentrate on playing the kind of pattern ball that he thinks is going to help the team win. What’s wrong with that?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The clomping of Rémy's heavy boots matches the racing pattern of my heart. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z If I did, they’d be flashes of tile patterns, or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Colonel Cargill envies you because of the splendid job you’re doing on parades. He’s afraid I’m going to put you in charge of bomb patterns.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He enlarged one set of wings after another, showing the pattern hidden inside each dot. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z To the student of broad historical patterns, though, it makes no difference what the specific reasons were in each of those cases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Doppler’s example returned to Mendel: there was music behind noise, laws behind seeming lawlessness, and only a profoundly artificial experiment—creating hybrids out of purebred strains carrying simple traits—could reveal these underlying patterns. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A weather detective is somebody who uses observations and measurements to make theories, and if the theories are right, they will correctly predict weather patterns. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The problem with that theory is that if you try to match up brain size with eating patterns among primates, it doesn’t work. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The recurrent pattern in Burr’s political behavior that caught Hamilton’s eye, however, made him eminently vulnerable to the Catiline charge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There were patterns in the way people moved, the way they clustered around power. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z However, I shall now argue that the diversity of independent factors behind technological innovation actually makes it easier, not harder, to understand history’s broad pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And if a contractor got big enough, or ambitious enough, he started designing his own patterns and preparing his own fabric. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Since the major scales all follow the same pattern, they all sound very much alike. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z No one recognized this historical pattern more clearly than Adams. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In some places the ubiquitous vines had been woven into living wreaths and other fanciful patterns. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I chose a pattern with a woven look at the corners that resembles the weaving of a basket, five strips of fabric around the border. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The easiest way to find an ostinato is to take a short pattern right from the song itself. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He tried, belatedly, to establish the same pattern for the turtles—but it was too late. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The pattern continues with eighth notes, sixteenth notes, thirty-second notes, sixty-fourth notes, and so on, each type of note being half the length of the previous type. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Tattooed dragons ran the length of his arms and sent their tails curling up his neck to twine with the faded patterns of his own long-ago light crew tattoos. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Maybe a pattern of blood he could call that the one Christ was wearing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We have to listen to only a few characters to pick out an individual’s pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The huge muscular scaly body was coiled in no recognizable pattern. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Eventually our cities may find it necessary to reorganize their police on the pattern of the state police. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In the absence of such evidence, patterns of discrimination—even patterns as shocking as demonstrated by the Baldus study—did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The cycle was so regular that its pattern took on a clear form: an up-and-down movement, wavelike. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yellow lines on the floor indicated traffic patterns for inmates, telling them where to line up and where to wait. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Two lamps stood on it, their shades patterned with flowery tendrils. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The anxious woman leaned on her desk, and her brow knitted into a strange pattern of angled, intersecting lines. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Its plumage was still glossy, as if all the life in it had fled there, into the fine russet breast feathers, the darkly patterned wings, and the long deep-green tail feathers that shimmered like silk. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “You don’t have to break down every detail. You just need to see the overall pattern to catch the weakness in it.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The patterns on the snakes’ skins were perfect, repeating endlessly in coils and stripes and ovals and diamonds, in all the colors of the island. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z You come to know the pattern of your particular chemical bombardment. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Showed Helena how to sing while she threaded string around her fingers, making patterns that matched the song. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The predictable pattern of life made the rare moments of surprise especially memorable. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z We traced our fingers over the patterns of the ornamental wood railings and poked our faces through openings to see the water below. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no patterns on the bedspreads; they are simple, tasteful shades of blue or brown. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The Paqo pointed low in the black cloth of the night sky, and there, in the pattern of the stars, were the ground animals. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He would make a broad, fine bowl with a pattern of reed flowers inlaid in silver wire, and he would make a little eye-paint pot with a hinged lid, and a bracelet. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a pattern - two things that looked alike; something that looked like one thing but was really another thing. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z A Champion was dead, and just a day before their first Test; would this start a pattern? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z While I was pondering the implication of this pattern, a message began to flash on my display: GO! Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was a color pattern in the huge crowds. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We make complicated floral patterns with a compass, we glue odd substances to cardboard backings: feathers, sequins, pieces of macaroni garishly dyed, lengths of drinking straw. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a bodice of pure molded gold, made to look like a beetle’s carapace, and a fan collar fashioned from the spines of poisonous fish, with tiny teeth sewn in patterns like seed pearls. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In each European language, of course, the pattern was slightly different. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They appear to be in no particular pattern or order; they are simply strewn across the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He’d told her once, “You know, Amari, the drums are not just noise—they are language; they are the pattern of the rhythm of our lives.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Shoba walked over to the framed corkboard that hung on the wall by the fridge, bare except for a calendar of William Morris wallpaper patterns. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When they walked into Ugwu’s room, he pointed to the ceiling, patterned black and white. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Peeta’s fingers trace the upholstered pattern on the arm of the chair. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Gregor had pressed his forehead against the screen for so long, he could feel a pattern of tiny checks above his eyebrows. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The tablecloth has the pattern stamped straight on the linen in washable ink, like a paint-by-numbers picture. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter he could not see that they were moons, but their patterns of movement indicated that they were in orbit around Jupiter. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Fred the Shark was making a pattern, slightly irregular, like a kid learning to play an instrument. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z My fingertips make small swirling patterns in the cool, slippery earth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z No blanket, no stuffed animals, no drawers below, no patterns, no candles, no headboard. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Miles Umlatt said, “There seems to be a pattern to these episodes, wouldn’t you say?” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z We substituted good grammar for intellect; we switched habits to simulate maturity; we rearranged lies and called it truth, seeing in the new pattern of an old idea the Revelation and the Word. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bit of a shock, then, when Fang jeopardized our fragile flight pattern by leaning forward and slapping a picture against my left cheek. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I think some of these patterns are as old as I am.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Kind of like something you’d draw with a Spirograph, repeating the pattern of tiny petals over and over. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z And even then, Mr. Abbas has to explain that every village in Iran has its own colors and patterns they’re famous for. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z All around it are patterned and colored paper, maps, and cut-up fabric. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Galton knew that the crowning achievement of the law would be its ability to accurately predict a real pattern of inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Some small plain ones. We’ll learn about patterns later. Cast on a row of, oh, let’s say forty stitches, and we ’ll start at the calf.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I would do the work but I would be no one except myself—whoever I was, I would pattern my life on that of the Founder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her homework bordered on algebra even though it was only fourth grade, and I helped her with it, sometimes doodling spirals or patterns on the side of the pages while she worked. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The coach had this thing where every play was going to come off a pattern. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I looked for patterns in the tile floor. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Huge Greek medallions showed in spots of light upon its façade, above a dark labyrinthine pattern in the stone, and I propped her against the stoop with its carved stone monster. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’d be useful with patterns, shapes that did something—helped people and cars cross the street, over water, or a deep hole in the ground. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Speech patterning and characteristics appeared to be feminine in terms of oscillation of pitch and direct eye contact. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She still smiled but it was tighter now, and she traced her fingers along the threaded pattern of the duvet, grizzly bears that Conor had outgrown years ago. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z I stood beside her as she traced patterns in chalk on chambray and calico, and I learned to make the wide simple chain stitches to guide the emerging shape of the garment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Nan picked up one advertising “10 great looks with one easy pattern!” and said, “It’s like an envelope full of options. You want it?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I wheel Ma—always wearing a colorful, patterned dress, her hair in fresh straw curls—out to the passenger side of the car. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z They get it divided into rows of long parts in very intricate patterns so their heads end up looking like balls of dark wool made of a hundred pieces, very fancily stitched together. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t think or make his thought patterns begin to work: just swirling and the white cloud and the water on him, tons of water on him and he went under again. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Each bell is a different color and size, each has a pattern carved into it. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We had discovered with Mariner 9 that characteristic changes in the bright and dark patterns on the Martian surface occur during times of high winds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, she is busy with pattern and pinking shears. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They writhed back and forth in a hypnotic pattern, looking for an opening. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The faces were covered in purple patterns, tattooed in swirls of indigo, turning the dead faces into strange, expressive monstrous things. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Watney's encampment was visible in the center, the solar cells laid out in a circular pattern as was his habit. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z For whatever reason, he raced down ahead of the group—which in fact had been his pattern throughout the entire expedition, as Fischer’s final letters and phone calls from Base Camp to Seattle made clear. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z I know it sounds crazy, but as I work to control my wheezing breathing pattern, something happens. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She’s dressed in a skirt the color of ivy, with stitching picking out a pattern of falling leaves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I heard very clearly when the chair next to me moved, but my eyes stayed carefully focused on the pattern I was drawing. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I chose one for Martin that had a glittery swirl pattern on it without any words. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Both good patterns and the patterns that a person might want to change. Professionals are trained to help people figure out things they struggle to understand on their own.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Sure enough, though the other arrows followed no particular pattern, the wiggly arrows all directed him toward the same door—the one whose wiggly arrow pointed straight ahead. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the women was working a pattern of twining ivy. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z She retraced her path, leaving faint crisscrossing patterns in the fine yellow sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The oranges and pinks of the bleeding sunset made their usual swirling patterns above the mist, looping and arching. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z For the patterns of the constellations to change, we must travel over distances comparable to those that separate the stars; we must venture across the light-years. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I fell back into the pattern of my footsteps. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was green and red with a pattern of jongwe, or roosters. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I shake away the thought and take a navy skirt, black dress shoes and a light blue blouse with a pattern of blossoms on it. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z It can best be approached by concentrating attention on historical patterns that remain puzzling after the effects of major environmental factors have been taken into account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Solve the pattern, and it solves everything,” he says, and it gives you a chill, because it reminds you so much of yourself. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was a pattern made of changing patterns. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The ritual scar patterns on her forehead were familiar: They were Dinka patterns, which meant that she was from the same tribe as Salva. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the sort of data that Fred would study until he found a pattern. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z These individuals will be more likely to survive and reproduce and so their pattern of behavior and thought will come to dominate. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z With some of my w ages, I would bring home a dress pattern for my mother. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The complex pattern of dark lines may be ice fractures which have been filled in with material from beneath the crust. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z From the time she first arrived at Darlington Hall right up until perhaps a month or so before that incident in my pantry, Miss Kenton's days off had followed a predictable pattern. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z His instinctive genius lay in unearthing patterns—systems of organization—that lay behind the specimens; not in Kingdoms and Orders, but in kingdoms of order that ran through the biological world. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She pulled her long, thick hair back into a ponytail and wore unusual dresses and skirts with colorful printed patterns. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We look for the same patterns in our lives to give them meaning. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z When I was little, Mom used to point out patterns in the subway stations, the petal-like clusters of white tiles, six around one black. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “No, seriously. There’s a pattern to how she replies. See how every time you mention The Gold-Bug, she gives that exact same answer? Here, let me test this out.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z That was the Adams pattern: first to deny his political ambitions, much like Jefferson; then to confront them, feel guilty about them, fidget over them; then grudgingly admit they were part of who he was. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Before Naima could stop herself, her mind began to dance with colors, shapes, sizes, balance, symmetry, patterns. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z And finally now, just when he’d mastered the parking patterns at City Hall — he even knew which meters were jammed, so he could park free — he had his building permit. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pretty,” she said to Edward as she lined up the buttons on the bed and arranged them into different patterns. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z They’d even made him imitate the different patterns of the bells. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Inflamed welts and oozing blisters had made a pattern on his skin. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z It was painted black and white in a cowhide pattern. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z As we walk around, Thaya Jaan points to the designs on the walls and shows us different patterns like flowers and trees, almost like windows in frames. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z There was a dress form in another corner of the room, a half-finished pattern still pinned to the body. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z This type of raid was something new and set a pattern for the pervasive and illegal searches that subsequently became a regular feature of the government’s behavior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like these huge hedges of red all around us, with these beautiful marble patterns running through them. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z You had to look at the scar patterns on people s faces to tell the tribes apart—Dinka scar patterns were different from those of the Nuer. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z One’s thought patterns become different, he said, when forced into the confines of a rigid and unfamiliar tongue. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He had made her a small box with a tight fitting lid, its top and sides intricately carved in the pattern of the plants she was beginning to learn and to know. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I concentrated very carefully on the music, trying to understand the lyrics, to unravel the complicated drum patterns. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The Romans had made the dome out of big stone panels, but they’d hollowed out each panel in a square-within-square pattern. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She broke her pattern only when Knabe finally asked her the question that went right to the heart of the matter. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She brought her eyes close to the surface of her desk and examined the patterned grain of the wood. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re beautiful: a filigreed pattern, like those Persian designs on mosques, supporting sapphire stones. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Few challenges to sentencing schemes, patterns, or results have been brought since McCleskey, for the exercise is plainly futile. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Instead of politely asking for modest reforms in seating patterns and more courteous behavior from the drivers, why not try to obliterate the segregation laws in court? Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It finished the beautiful pattern and settled itself at the center with blue-furred legs outspread. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He has a great variety of colors and a shocking number of patterns. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The Fertile Crescent, where agriculture arose, enjoys that same Mediterranean pattern of winter rains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s happened to all of us: there’s sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere—so you don’t make out what is right in front of you. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The material and dress pattern I had bought in Los Angeles for my mother was in good shape. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z If I were an octopus I’d be able to switch my skin to that exact brick pattern and blend right in. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z There were many variations to this behavioristic pattern. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The patterns on the crab’s shell are inherited. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I trace the pattern in the silver, a series of connecting lines that I know so well I see it in my dreams. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z After that, it’s what sorority the girl was in at Vanderbilt, and she finally concludes by asking what her silver pattern is. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An obvious example on the southern coast is the Nazca, famous for the huge patterns they set into the ground. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She must have been a variation of a well-known family pattern, for Johnny often heard people say, as they looked at Rab, ‘That boy is a regular Silsbee from Lexington.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The women were especially elegant in their beautiful patterned cotton skirts, dresses, shirts, and lappei—a big cotton cloth that women wrap around their waist—and extravagant head wraps. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The shape of the hill and the skull pattern of the stones both matched the illustration perfectly. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We are programmed to identify patterns and generate grammar. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern was clear now: the prisoners who were being transferred from other prisons came by bus and weren’t processed, while those arrested after the storm were processed inside and brought through the back door. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Mama and Grandma would draw a picture, then sit in the middle of the floor and cut a pattern out of newspaper, and make a dress come to life in the fabric. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z You never could tell with kids—they didn’t do things in a pattern, the way grown-ups did. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Mira Bro was a line of really sparkly men’s jewelry, tight patterned shirts and jeans, and most famously, a really, really potent men’s deodorant. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Thus the simple lockstep of history has given way to a far more differentiated view that might be likened to an ever-varying counterpoint pattern. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes the more different fabrics—and people—are,” she said, “the stronger the pattern.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A yellow veil framed her face, and her hands were already covered with henna patterns. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “You think not? But look at the pattern—a criss-cross diamond shape. And the squares are perfectly regular.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z The brilliant threads crisscrossed in an intricate pattern of loops and knots that Kira had never seen before, that she could not have created, that she had never known or heard described. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a clear pattern at play: once a name catches on among high-income, highly educated parents, it starts working its way down the socioeconomic ladder. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z When Milgram analyzed his experiment, for example, he found that many of the chains from Omaha to Sharon followed the same asymmetrical pattern. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Triple, quadruple, etc. sharps and flats are rare, but follow the same pattern: every sharp or flat raises or lowers the pitch one more half step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Both viruses seem part of a pattern, When he learned what Marburg virus does to human beings. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I see them everywhere—in clouds, in wallpaper patterns, in the weave of a rug. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The jaunty patterns of popular dances were put together into contrasting groups of three to provide variation - slow-fast-slow or fast-slow-fast - even when the consorts were not accompanying actual dancing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The blankets, scarves, and gloves were beautiful, in subdued colors and simple patterns, but Shay insisted that Tally get a city- made sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z It seemed to me that he didn’t have a plan for his life so much as he had a pattern. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Their hair was woven into an intricate pattern, more like the scales of fish than like any style Nhamo had seen. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Small stones spray wildly under the tires and the trees throw patterns of shade onto the hood of the car. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then the Thing becomes the Word and back to Thing again, but warped and woven into a fantastic pattern. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings create a dark, jagged pattern on the sky. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Similar patterns probably dominated the social lives of early humans, including archaic Homo sapiens. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After the holiday the days slipped back into their pattern. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z And as I look around the room, at every Dauntless soldier and every factionless soldier, I begin to see a pattern. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z If we mess about with that pattern, all kinds of things can go wrong. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Start by finding a short, simple, fun or interesting pattern in the song. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I saw crisscrossing patterns of fissures and cracks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z But mostly she lived between her hat and her heels, with her emotional disturbances like shade patterns in the woods—come and gone with the sun. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The stitched patterns of light through thatch when morning entered the darkness where we slept, I against one wall, he against the other. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you teach me how to bead that pattern?” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I was then brought up to this room, in which, at that point of the day, the sun was lighting up the floral patterns of the wallpaper quite agreeably. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z We spent all of our time as Fivers together, and we fall instinctively back into the pattern of those days, with me taking point and Helene the rear guard. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The carpet was a garish pattern of green and brown swirls, and the molded plastic chairs were a faded orange color. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The next scientific step was to compare seriously the experimental X-ray data with the diffraction pattern predicted by our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Not until something about these patterns gives a clue that an exit might open up, even temporarily.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z It grew rarer as the pattern of their warring changed. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Every single piece of furniture was covered in pink fabric—the kitchen cabinets were painted pink, the wood floors were covered in pink patterned rugs, and the couch was worn pink velvet. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z When someone says, “Everything happens for a reason,” they’re trying to convince you there’s a pattern to your life, and that if you pay close attention, it’s possible to decipher it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Arletta sat in an overstuffed armchair covered in a country rose pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Drops the center card in the left slot and so on in a kind of rhythmic pattern that gets faster and faster until he finally stops. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, I decorated the edges with Lithuanian embroidery patterns. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were soft pillows on large couches and walls filled with books and a rug cut in a thick rose pattern, and iced tea in the hand, sweating, and cool on the thirsty tongue. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There are Kurdish weavings and patterned rugs, and everyone speaks my language. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Surround him!” the king yelled, “Save the horses!”— and suddenly I knew I was dealing with no dull mechanical bull but with thinking creatures, pattern makers, the most dangerous things I’d ever met. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And that made me feel better because there was something in my head that had an order and a pattern and I just had to follow the instructions one after the other. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I look down at my palms, noticing the pattern of lines. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z After tea, Calder filled in Mrs. Sharpe on all the patterns of twelve he had identified. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s conceivable that such an action could interfere with your chances of having the prayers for a tighter bomb pattern answered.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He couldn’t go as far as they could, but he was just as fast, and even more brightly patterned. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z At first I can’t make out what the shapes are—they seem jumbled, littered in random patterns under his busy hand. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Hence again I have stayed in my hole, because up above there's an increasing passion to make men conform to a pattern. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, the breezeway thronged with teachers who began moving groups of kids in different directions, getting the flow of bodies aimed again in the natural pattern of traffic. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I poured them on my desk, arranged them in patterns and then I took one, hoping that the reflex of swallowing would make me feel better, but it didn’t. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Here the clay had been cut away in neat slabs, leaving a pattern of staggered rectangles in the riverbank. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The armchairs and the lumpy sofa were upholstered in dusty brocades, threadbare at the arms: rose patterns on tan, acorns and oak leaves on mossy green. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The rest of the things she found were stuffed into a flower patterned backpack I pulled down off a display for her. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The light was making patterns on the grass. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind him, to right, to left, all around him, the watchers stood patient, faceless, silent, the shifting patterns of their delicate armor making them all but invisible in the wood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We kept the scarves he’d brought us back from China when we were two years old, silks with a graceful pattern of cranes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after enormous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She has never believed in fate; it would’ve been dispiriting to accept that her life so far unfolded as it did according to some preordained pattern. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Her father was certain that taking action in the schools and the education system was the best way of changing the escalating pattern of violence in the country. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there's your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Luxa must have given another signal, because the bats peeled off one at a time and began wheeling around the arena in complicated patterns. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As Mami pulled her feet onto the rungs of her rocking chair and rubbed the goose bumps from her arms, I imagined a world of fascinating creatures slithering underfoot, drawing squiggly patterns on the dirt. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He handed her back the single sock he was supposed to be identifying, which was patterned with golden bulrushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z She tells us about their patterns and to look for ones with a giant dot on each wing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z That spring and summer, once again the pattern of conflict spilled over into the parks and beaches. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The plywood walls were decorated with pictures cut from film-star magazines, and with a pattern made with fingerprints of soot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We work together on one quilt, a pattern and fabric that a member of the group has brought in; as soon as that one is finished, we’ll move to the next. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As Syme had done earlier, Winston had taken up his spoon and was dabbling in the pale-colored gravy that dribbled across the table, drawing a long streak of it out into a pattern. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Behind one stall an armorer displayed steel breastplates worked with gold and silver in ornate patterns, and helms hammered in the shapes of fanciful beasts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Once the piece was fired, the pattern would be so subtle as to be almost invisible in some kinds of light. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I have to borrow one of Lorena’s dresses, which isn’t easy because her closet is full of glittery clothes with wacky patterns. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I tell him instead about the quilt I’m making for the baby, how I cut the pattern out of newspaper and then fine sandpaper, which sticks to the material. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The pattern of her life changed after the rescue of Ben and Old Rit. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The women in their beaded scarves and brightly patterned skirts are strong and equal to the men. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a silk blazer and a shirt patterned with forest leaves. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The same patterns are employed over and over again, conservatively, ingeniously for different functions. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Paganini was hopping in bizarre patterns around the living room carpet, periodically flinging himself into the air and spinning as if auditioning for a Broadway show. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was a line: a curved line, like a loosely scribbled letter C, and it was sparkling and flickering in a zigzag pattern of blacks and whites and silvers. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z At first he used electronic techniques to make incremental transformations to a pattern, later having live players and acoustic instruments imitate this effect under his very specific and detailed configuration. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It seems logical to suppose that history’s pattern reflects innate differences among people themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within a few months, our life settled into a pattern. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to pattern his behavior after the men he met on the road. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They burst into the dark open space of the warehouse, where the starlight made dappled patterns on the floor. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z She was back in her pattern with Sam. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The changing patterns of light transfix my sight. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z When I stepped inside the security checkpoint cage, my fingerprints and retinal patterns were scanned, and my new name flashed on the monitor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The lights, through the rain-spattered window, cast a pattern of droplets trickling down his face. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Two spheres with separate concerns, duties, even—the evolutionary biologists might say—thought patterns. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruby’s dress was wine-colored calico, covered all over with a feathery pattern in lighter wine color. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z They were jumbled together in a senseless pattern. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were more children, running in seemingly aimless patterns while sparrows flew overhead, tracing the same pathways through the air. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z After several repetitions of this pattern, Jethro tethered his team and, taking up his rifle, walked into the woods. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z And I started to be honest — which hadn’t been my pattern for a while. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The same pattern repeated itself elsewhere in the world, whenever peoples lacking native wild mammal species suitable for domestication finally had the opportunity to acquire Eurasian domestic animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mo remained silent, pushing cake crumbs off the rough tabletop, drawing invisible patterns on the wood with his forefinger. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The tables dotting the dining room are shrouded in vibrant patterned tablecloths. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was something about making the person with the head injury speak a favorite nursery rhyme so that speech patterns—slurring, et cetera—could be evaluated. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z He very quickly figured out the pattern he was supposed to weave. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny dents in the silver created intricate and delicate patterns where turquoise and red coral were imbedded. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It was not nice work but, given the pattern of the country’s development, it had to be done. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was an enormous amount of worry involving the Alaska pipeline and caribou and whether or not the pipe would act as an iron barrier and stop the normal migration patterns of the caribou. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Their trunks made patterns of alternating light and dark beneath the canopy of branches. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Furthest away in the sky were lots of little white clouds which looked like fish scales or sand dunes which had a very regular pattern. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z You'll find that although the chords change from one key to the next, the pattern of major and minor chords is always the same. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Even after enor-mous upheavals and seemingly irrevocable changes, the same pattern has always reasserted itself, just as a gyroscope will always return to equilibrium, however far it is pushed one way or the other. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I admired Mabel’s tight stitches, feathered out in a very unusual pattern. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The earth of the floor was brushed in pretty patterns; flowers and vines picked out in dirt to ornament the rude kitchen. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z These screenshots also clearly showed the skull pattern of the stones on the hilltop. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His eyes drifted up to the stains on the ceiling, and he tried to see if he could recognize a pattern in them. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I didn’t slot it into the rest of the pattern until the eighty- seventh kick of the garden shed. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that what happened in places like Harlan in the nineteenth century was, in all likelihood, a product of patterns laid down in the English borderlands centuries before. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The boundary of a weather pattern, often moving across an ocean or landmass, is called a “front,” just like the line that marks out the edge of an invading army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Gradually, he began to discern patterns in the data—unanticipated constancies, conserved ratios, numerical rhythms. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Afterwards, in the cold, almost unheated train compartment, I sketched on the blank edge of my newspaper what I remembered of the B pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The sun was a bright orange disc hovering over the sea, and the sunlight glittered on the surface like a web of light, or lace that ever changed its pattern. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z In more temperate regions of France, where temperatures in the winter rarely fell below freezing, the same pattern held. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “You’re sewing?” she said when she saw the patterns and cloth spread all over the bed and table. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And now I felt the whole silly thing, the ridiculous pattern that had piled up layer on layer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But there are very clearly patterns here, and what’s striking is how little we seem to want to acknowledge them. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z This time, there were no sounds except the birds, chirping happily and flying patterns around the trees. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I found it easy to fall into their pattern. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The patterns for kids all seemed to hint at family, and not a single one looked like me and Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The colors combined to form an exquisite pattern of trees, with the tiniest of individual leaves outlined in countless numbers. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I smooth the embroidery on my sleeve again, feeling its cool pattern against my fingertips. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z There is not a single drop of rain upon her although it continues to pour, the wind causing the rain to fall in several directions beyond the standard gravitational pattern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She posts a lot of selfies with dramatically contoured cheekbones and intricate eyeliner patterns, and now I can’t stop looking through them. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z As we shall see, there is a certain pattern to the births and deaths of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Chiefdoms are inferred from archaeological evidence, such as ranked burials, architecture, and settlement patterns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Instead, she gazes at the patterns of light on the ceiling until her eyes seem to mist over. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z There were too many disappearances, in all parts of the city, to investigate properly, and too many forces impeding the detection of patterns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As we walked through the Golden Temple, a dove wove a pattern just above our heads. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z When I ran out of reading matter, I was reduced to studying the ripstop pattern woven into the tent ceiling. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The patterns of nature are deep and complex, constantly changing. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ear for the story and the eye for the pattern were theirs; the feeling was theirs: we came out of this land and we are hers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her patterned dress was spread out on the surface of the water like a great floating flower. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Thistletops erupted, wildflowers wobbled as the bike charged in reckless patterns only a fly could follow: circles, figure eights, zigzags, crazy doodles. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He had arrived at a convergence of patterns; he could see them clearly now. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There had to be jellyfish experts out there—people who knew about migration patterns, or stings, or other things I wouldn’t even think to wonder about on my own. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Only in that way would it be possible to obtain a structure regular enough to give the crystalline diffraction patterns observed by Maurice and Rosy. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Naomi pulled on the string and opened the paper to find a folded length of yellow fabric with a tiny pattern of white flowers. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But despite the relatively small size of the black population in the North, the pattern of racial segregation there suggested that most northern whites shared Jefferson’s belief that “incorporation” was unlikely. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They also cropped up frequently in the spies’ messages, creating a pattern for Elizebeth to spot. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Centuries of carvers had embellished every stone surface with patterns and creatures and seraphim. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It seems to be following the classic pattern, the last things learned are first things forgotten. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Padva wears a dress of black silk, hand embroidered with intricate patterns of cherry blossoms, something like a kimono reincarnated as a gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This has been the pattern of his life: ludicrous dreams followed by hours and days and years of work and then a reality surpassing his wildest hopes and expectations. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Her mind was formed in the desperate, keep-alive pattern of those early weeks and months as she spent herself out and burned herself up. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Layers of bright red sandwiched with a pink floral pattern. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She had on a spring dress, a pattern of red flowers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I sat up and rubbed the waffled pattern the sofa cushion had left on my cheek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I dimly remember propping myself up, horselike on all fours, staring down at the swirling patterns in the cool wood of the living room floor. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Will cut another small window in the direction he indicated, and as they looked out, they could all see a change in the pattern of the fighting. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And naturally, it moves in a very predictable pattern. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She spotted individual marks recurring again and again on a single page, and found entire clusters replicated, sometimes ten or thirty times in perfect patterns. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Each character she cracked revealed more patterns and clues about the encryption, but if she made a single wrong guess, it could throw off the rest of the puzzle. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The illusion of my “Negro-ness” took over so completely that I fell into the same pattern of talking and thinking. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Gradually the black mass had lengthened and thickened, so that it kept at last to its braided pattern, and I didn’t have to yank my scalp off when I tried to comb it. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Raga-s are made up of short characteristic patterns that often show up in compositions. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Moreover, the collapse did not occur in the pattern one would expect if drought were the cause: in general, the wetter southern cities fell first and hardest. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They worked backward from the messages, looking at repeated patterns and making logical guesses about what each letter could be. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Her dress was white silk with a black bamboo pattern. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They rearranged themselves in a pattern that made no sense to me, but Grover looked concerned. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Eight men in official patterned clothes moved about a litter, a structure with a wooden base and ceiling surrounded by beautiful hanging cloth. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “I picked up bits and pieces naturally, and Celia taught me how to find the patterns, to put the sounds together in complete sets.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She was ringed by thick walls of silence which hissed in her ears, rising and falling in volume to some pattern of its own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Except for two sets of boot prints, one bearing a diamond pattern and the other a Cat’s Paw design, the slayers had left not a single clue. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The walls were cedar and the floors covered with carpet in a pattern of autumn leaves caught in a circular wind. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I trace patterns on the armrest, looking for the right words. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “I observe patterns and data, and they form logical conclusions, and he’s just gay. He’s always been gay.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Anything that departs from this pattern upsets the authorities, for routine is the sign of a well-run prison. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Her sari, a different pattern each day, fluttered below the hem of a checkered all-weather coat. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z When she could walk farther, my mother rambled over the fields and meadows, in a weaving, snaking pattern, as if she could not make up her mind which way to turn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z To maximise the efficiency of their daily search for food, they required information about the growth patterns of each plant and the habits of each animal. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Subdued, resigned, Papa’s life—all our lives— took on a pattern that would hold for the duration of the war. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Although they could not say it, my old friends wanted me gone so that I could take my proper place in the pattern of remembrance—and I wanted to go for the same reason. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His hypnotic drum beats may have sounded repetitive but were in fact comprised of endlessly modifying patterns. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The police verify this by the crumple pattern and damage to the divider and where the car comes to rest. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They rolled the yarn and started again with it, forming new patterns, bright stripes, in larger sizes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A person who believed in patterns might be tempted to believe Diego and I were fated to meet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It had seeds and petals baked into it in a pattern of overlapping circles—a light meal, maybe, but she must have spent hours on it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When Morgan examined these crosses, tabulated across dozens of notebooks, he found a surprising pattern: some genes acted as if they were “linked” to each other. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the –ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The bodice was embroidered with hundreds of tiny crystal beads in a complex pattern of flowers, and in the dusky light that came through the window, the bodice shimmered like the scales of a fish. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Laura and Mary were allowed to take Ma’s thimble and make pretty patterns of circles in the frost on the glass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The anticyclonic pattern of the recent days continued. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s make it together. I’ll teach you how to modify a pattern.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Lee moved five dried lima beans in patterns on the table—a line, an angle, a circle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When she slept over on the weekends, she would braid my hair the same pattern so we’d look like twins at school. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Our relationship had taken on this pattern: I gently prodded him to do something; he would mull it for days or weeks. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The room is dark and smoky, with plush purple carpeting patterned with flowers and purple leather banquettes filled with people. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In some of the cakes she had put strips of little red haws and spots of dried green plums, making flowers and patterns. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Pilar says the pattern of coins reveals something called “Ta Kuo,” critical mass. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It was possible for hackers to use modded visors to spoof their retinal patterns and thus create a second account for themselves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The smoke rose in dense fumes and arranged itself in complex patterns against the sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And the man with the diamond patterns on his socks said, “Oh Christ. Oh Christ.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His protection was there in the sky, in the position of the sun, in the pattern of the stars. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It’s ah older pattern, for women; but by now we are older. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We entered a school of fish, their scales patterned with scintillating colors as they investigated us. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z He laid the things out in a pattern particular to him and hummed a soft, light tune I hadn’t heard before. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world made colorful patterns of movement. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s creating its own wild patterns, disrupting, destroying paths. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “So you made a mistake out of anger. But that doesn’t mean that’s who you are. Character is made or broken by patterns of behavior. Not one mistake.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It was Imogen’s usual pattern, to talk in a long ramble until she had thoroughly sorted through an idea, then, tired, to ask a question. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The association with the method is unfortunate, because unlike the large psychedelic Deadhead patterns and colors, bandini tie-dyes are delicate and intricate. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Instead, a number of established firms designed patterns and prepared the fabric, and then the complicated stitching and pressing and button attaching were all sent out to small contractors. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The tiles in the Merciless Mart are always black and white, and here they are in a checkered pattern. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Their walking had developed a pattern: three quick steps to the left, pause, three quick steps to the right, pause. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was more like a stack of shelves stuffed full of pattern envelopes, some so old they’d yellowed along the edges. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I made a bone needle, cut out the pants by ripping up one pair of old city pants for a pattern. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She also had them index the messages she had broken so far, so that known patterns would be easier to spot. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Already, things looked different—the fleur-de-lys pattern on her wash bag, the chipped plaster frame of the mirror, her face in it as she brushed her hair, all looked brighter, in sharper focus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I give him time to regain a somewhat regular breathing pattern. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Nor were they of smooth gold leaf as in reality, but were patterned instead in fish-scale tiles of darker gold and brighter, so the sun didn’t merely glint on them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It circled and spun, making patterns too wild and varied for me to understand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He sat down at the kitchen table and looked at the whirling pattern on the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Notice that the pattern for minor scales overlaps the pattern for major scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Abby’s wearing the ankle boots she bought yesterday and a short patterned skirt, and the effect is disarming. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Before I knew it, I was out the door, back in the lobby, following the ribboning patterns in the carpeting as they led me toward the front door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The school week is like a holding pattern. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z This pattern of discrimination reflected automatic, unconscious thought processes, not careful deliberations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The pattern for the minor scale starts a half step plus a whole step lower than the major scale pattern, so a relative minor is always three half steps lower than its relative major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Ann Atwater’s refusal to be silent when she felt black aspirations for equality were being mocked in her employer’s house fits this pattern. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Every day our floor was carpeted with colorful rolls of fabric, yarn, sewing patterns, and issues of Burda, a fashion magazine. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z “What a lovely pattern for a summer dress, María. You look beautiful.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Joaquin drew a pattern on the table from the condensation of his glass. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes I went up to the frozen cliffwall and looked down, down, at where the lights lay blue, like the threads running out from a star, patterning the snow. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z And then all of a sudden, I got choked up — which, of course, was becoming a pattern with me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the doorstep I traced out a colam, a pattern in white rice flour to welcome them. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The black carpet is patterned with colorful geometric shapes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Two people may arrive at a conversation with very different conversational patterns. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It makes patterns of light shaped like birds. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Life at Castle Black followed certain patterns; the mornings were for swordplay, the afternoons for work. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She could see the pattern of the cross-stitch flowers from the blue cross-stitch counterpane on Ammu’s cheek. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Note the number of runs and the way there seem to be clumps and patterns. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern is a familiar one in consumer electronics. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Breakfast is in the common area, at one of the round tables with checkerboard patterns in the center. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He would also be struck by the dramatically elevated significance of one particular institutional force in the perpetuation and deepening of those patterns: the criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Here’s how it works: When searching for something, you fix its visual pattern in your mind. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Hocked wallpaper, moss green with gold, in a pattern of sinewy trellises; a matching moss-green carpet; and on the walls, electric torches. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After a few minutes she worked out that most of the planes seemed to fly in a kind of pattern, taking it in turns to land and roar away again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But we live in an in-between universe, where things change, but according to patterns, rules, or, as we call them, laws of nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I rummage through my bag for the old smock of his I swiped to use for a pattern. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z But let one man step out of the regular thought or the known and trusted pattern, and the nerves of the townspeople ring with nervousness and communication travels over the nerve lines of the town. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I push my food around my plate, trying to create a pattern. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z In effect, if Adams had a different story to tell, if he saw a different pattern in the historical swirl they had both lived through, he should write out his account and let posterity judge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Amari had often imagined new patterns for the cloth, and longed to join the men at the long looms, but girls were forbidden to do so. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack was kneeling and drawing a circular pattern in the sand with his forefinger. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In the middle of my circle, I made a tight spiral pattern that spread into a wide band to join the circle’s edge. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Naomi shrugged and traced the pattern of the lace coverlet on the bed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z For weeks on end the windows of all the houses were patterned with elaborate jungles of ice. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Until we have some convincing, detailed, agreed-upon explanation for the broad pattern of history, most people will continue to suspect that the racist biological explanation is correct after all. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The letters kept on rearranging themselves in the most confusing patterns. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I trace the floor patterns with my finger again. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z “Look beyond it,” she said, and extended her finger to point to a section in the upper right, where Forest opened and tiny houses were patterned around curved paths. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He had watched the sky every night, looking for the pattern of stars the old man drew on the ground that night. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Jon smashes things, and glues the shards into place in the pattern of breakage. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Reports note that since the Second World War a pattern of drinking and violence, not previously seen before, is emerging among Indian veterans.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It contains a county map of Texas with complex voter demographic breakdowns, matched up with the populations of children of undocumented immigrants, unregistered voters who are legal residents, voting patterns over the last twenty years. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The surface is coated with an elaborate, winding series of endlessly repeating patterns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Grandma sketched a casual pattern in the air with one hand. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The light streamed in at the open window and made patterns on the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Their colors and patterns make me wonder why I haven’t been drawing butterflies. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z He falls onto ground that is no longer charred and muddy, but firm and dry and patterned in a spiral of black and white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They may have different interval patterns between the "scale" notes, have different expectations for how each note of the raga is to be used, and may even use slightly different tunings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Of white wool it had been, bordered in cloth-of-silver and patterned with blue stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But Haas argues that these peoples knew of the existence of hierarchical, structured societies with strong central leaders, and could pattern their societies after them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Swimming in this zigzag pattern was slowing them down; there was no way they’d lose their pursuers like this. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z An early winter quill had etched an icy pattern over the garden. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some have hair growing on their faces in neat patterns. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her robe had an intricate pattern in many colors: red, black, and turquoise. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The dress she wore was a voluminous melange of floral patterns that did much to accentuate the impressive girth of the wearer. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Hence Toynbee did not pose Yali’s question, nor did he come to grips with what I see as history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He dropped his gaze to where his thumb was tracing patterns in the woodwork of the table. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The blanket is orange and turquoise, crocheted in a zigzag pattern. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z And left patterned trails of bumpy goose- flesh on his body, like flat chalk on a blackboard, like a swathe of breeze in a paddyfield, like jet streaks in a blue church-sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She wanted her hands to be free of the robe so that they could make patterns of their own again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dear Reader: Are you starting to see a pattern here? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He put on a white waistcoat with a pattern on it and arranged his gold watch chain across the front. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Their wings came in all varieties, mostly patterned after butterflies, but much more elegantly shaped and radiantly colored. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I watched them as they skipped and twirled, tracing strange, complicated patterns in the empty air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Twelve cabins—one for each Olympian god—made a horseshoe pattern around the commons area. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The moth with the zigzag pattern on its wings. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As the carriage moves along in what seems to be a circular pattern, Bailey can hear nothing but a soft creak and the sound of Poppet breathing next to him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I notice the moonlight on the chain-link fence, the way it turns even the ugliest pattern into a delicate, luminous web. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z ‘The pattern reminds me of Pasiphae’s pendant: the symbol of the Labyrinth.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Maurice had no suspicion that almost immediately I would get the X-ray pattern needed to prove that TMV was helical. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His mind, protecting him, wove the throb into patterns of innocent images. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z At first I think it’s a part of the faint pattern on the knife, but these marks are on top of the blood. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Holmes seemed to be repeating the pattern he had established in Cincinnati. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z For example, characters and themes are given a short musical pattern, and every time that character or theme appears, the musical pattern is performed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I dug through old copies of Sports Illustrated to look for pictures of major-league ballparks’ outfields so that I could study the patterns the grounds crews left behind in the nap of the grass. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Thus, having tried to give pattern to the chaos which lives within the pattern of your certainties, I must come out, I must emerge. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother is bringing Danny, whose nose runs all the time, who wears knitted vests in diamond patterns, who has a stamp collection. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z His bright yellow armor was inlaid with jet in elaborate vine-and-leaf patterns, and a cloak sewn from raven feathers draped his thin shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That winter, her team saw some strange intercepts that followed no known pattern. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Winchell drops back to pass, throwing a perfect strike on a timing pattern to reserve split end Johnny Celey on the left sideline. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Fall term settled into a comfortable pattern after that. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She wondered what the pattern was, and wished that she could take a peek. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Everywhere I look I see duplicates of the so-called perfect pattern. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z They often carried steel reinforcing rods to older workmen who tied them together with twine or wire as the dam rose from the riverbed in a checkerboard pattern of concrete blocks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Between them was a wooden casket, decorated all the way around with a pattern of tiny holes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Night after night, he strained to see patterns that seemed just out of sight. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z "Domestic things, I guess? She would actually talk about things like china patterns, or about how many children she wanted to have, or how she would dress them. Things like that." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I lightly trailed my hand over the perfect muscles of his arm, followed the faint pattern of bluish veins inside the crease at his elbow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Black and white fireworks explode across my field of vision, a shifting, shimmering pattern that blanks out everything else. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The patterns of their breath were disjunct, and hissed in the experimental chamber. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The patterns of Nature are everywhere the same. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella loved the feel of that table—she loved to trace the circular patterns in the warm brown wood. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After watching him play this game with the members of the club over a few months, I’d noticed a pattern. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z When he saw the blank regions that characterize helical patterns, he jumped into action, quickly spilling out several possible helical TMV structures. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Kepler, whose attitude toward astrology remained ambiguous all his life, wondered whether there might be hidden patterns under lying the apparent chaos of daily life. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A multicolored flag hung limply at the top of the pole, no wind to reveal its pattern. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I loved looking at patterns; each one with alteration ideas was a solid set of instructions packed with possibilities. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In his enlarged photographs of the First Folio, he couldn’t see the patterns that Gallup saw. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Quickly scanning its contents, Francis sensed with relief that following my return from King’s I had correctly reported to him the essential features of the B pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z With the machines, the scientists study blood flow in the brain, look at electrical wave patterns, and create images of ultra-thin slices of neurological tissue. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Though she is poor, like us, she has a sharp fashion sense, matching unusual colors and patterns in ways that somehow make sense. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “And,” Hubert continued, “for the dimwit in the audience, an asterism is a prominent pattern or group of stars.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z ‘There doesn’t seem to be any pattern. The timing, the colour, the height of the fire ... I don’t get it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The windows glow in patterns of mustard, saffron, indigo, coral. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s hard to see how the new weather patterns alone could have caused such a massive extinction. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Venia goes to work on my hair, weaving strands of red into a pattern that begins at my left ear, wraps around my head, and then falls in one braid down my right shoulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z They have different sets of notes because the pattern starts on different notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z The first thing to search for would be unusual answer patterns in a given classroom: blocks of identical answers, for instance, especially among the harder questions. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In the United States, the pattern is similar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The fire flickered and threw strange shadow patterns on his hands, making them seem bigger, then smaller. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z When she stared out at the Wood, at the trees and the sunlight and the pattern of oak leaves against the sky, it helped, if only a little. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I still marvel at how swiftly my previous life’s thinking pattern slid away from me, like snow off a roof. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We’ve made the walls out of huge sheets of cardboard and painted on the bamboo patterns. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z She learned to decode paper patterns and to run a sewing machine. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Every new color and pattern was prettier than the last, and there were so many of them! Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the map, I could detect no pattern among them. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We imagine them arranged in great lazy herds for as far as the eye can see, with patterns on their skin, an adaptive camouflage implying that they have problems too. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We have the same mass, skill level, patterns of thinking. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Once he’d moved into his new apartment, Bobby’s daily pattern changed. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Almost as soon as he arrived from the station, Francis started to probe him for fuller details of the B pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z He simply likes people, in a genuine and powerful way, and he finds the patterns of acquaintanceship and interaction in which people arrange themselves to be endlessly fascinating. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Predicting divorce, like tracking Morse Code operators, is pattern recognition. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z His daughter Barbara was about to get married, and she and his wife had gone downtown to pick out patterns for her crystal and silverware. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z One pattern had a little girl younger than me sitting in the lap of an older girl, probably meant to be her sister. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Before Gogol’s birth, her days had followed no visible pattern. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Flower patterns in the fabric changed and bloomed—roses, tulips, honeysuckle. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He ran in an agonizingly circuitous pattern, weaving and stumbling, falling once, but immediately on his feet again, running slowly, unable to escape anything. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Darbishire analyzed his own first-generation hybrids, and the hybrid-hybrid crosses, the pattern was clear: the data could only be explained by Mendelian inheritance, with indivisible traits moving vertically across the generations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z My pass phrase was also verified, along with my voice pattern, and then I was logged in. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Use the vacuum cleaner to create a special, fernlike pattern in the carpets. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They continued their little pattern of steps along the wet flagstones of Bourbon Street. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z This pattern is particularly striking given that less educated people tend to be more punitive and blacks on average are less educated than whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I thought immediately of the moon snail that Fred showed me in Folly Cove and I wondered how nature could make that perfect pattern in two different animals, for different reasons. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Many of the shards were of significant size—two, three inches across—large enough so that the patterns and beauty of the design could still be easily seen and appreciated. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And a girl who appears only a few years older than me is cutting a pattern out of thin paper on a table. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z At night I can almost see what the water looked like when it filled the empty canal, dark and patterned with moonlit ripples. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As Jake studied the bumps, he started seeing patterns in the dots. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, hovercars would pass over the crumbling city, threading a slow search pattern across the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z An electrode is clipped to each sticker, which “reads” the electrical activity of his heart and prints out the pattern on a sheet of pink graph paper. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes down on the table, my eyes tracing the pattern of the faux wood grains printed on the laminate. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She’s drawn her costume ideas on a torn sheet of pattern paper and taped it to the wall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Scudding clouds raced across the moon and threw shadows in unpredictable patterns. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Over further minutes the discrepancy would widen until the two machines were tapping out a rhythmic pattern in the difference between their two beats. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I stayed up reading the day-old newspaper Abuelo left behind or traced the flower patterns on paper napkins with a ballpoint pen. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was the fashion in the Free City of Volantis to tattoo the faces of slaves and servants; from neck to scalp the boy's skin had been patterned in squares of red and green motley. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The long summer vacation—a peculiar and distinctive American legacy that has had profound consequences for the learning patterns of the students of the present day. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her geeky demeanor and hyperkinetic speech pattern reminded me of Jordan, my favorite character in Real Genius. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The pattern makes no sense tonight, though, and I’m too tired to make sense of it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The bones formed patterns, like skeletal contortionists tumbling together, curling to protect the precious stones—a dance of death and riches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They created a maze pattern in the floor. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z She lifted the flowers and let them drop again, and they fell into another orderly pattern. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They also contained patterns of their own, intricately drawn lines and angles. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z That would be tough because there would be no pattern to help a person line up the pieces. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He proposed that every feature in a human—height, weight, intelligence, beauty—was a composite function generated by a conserved pattern of ancestral inheritance. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There’s a dirt road crossing it, but he disregards this and follows the butterflies, red and white and black in color, with an hourglass pattern, something he’s never seen before. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Even his thoughts became sharper, and things were simple and uncomplicated—he could solve math problems when he ran or memorize football play patterns. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They wore black iron halfhelms and black woolen cloaks patterned with the white sunburst. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I read every account of the Fascist movement in Germany I could lay my hands on, and from page to page I encountered and recognized familiar emotional patterns. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The centerpiece of the complex is a grassy outdoor seating area populated with oversized, oddly shaped chairs painted in bright zigzag patterns. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet she felt angry that the patterns of his old life remained in place, so unquestioningly in place that he could write to her about his polo game. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s a patterned tile, with pastel buds and climbing vines. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they pulled on their beautiful white stockings, that they had knit of fine cotton thread in lacy, openwork patterns, and they buttoned up their best shoes. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Mary Toy heard only that Grandpa had “a surprise” for her, but Miss Love wrote other girls about a dress or pattern or a bolt of poky-dot material or some such. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He knew quite well the pattern of what could happen when he reached the inner part of the current. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain drummed on the high windows, and the floodlights, shining through the glass, cast a pattern on the walls as if dark rivulets of water were streaming down them from ceiling to floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Impressive aim. The knife is one of a pair, correct? See this pattern painted on the bottom of the blade? It cuts off abruptly.” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The floor of our housekeeping cottage is linoleum, with a faded pattern of floral squares. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The repeated pattern doubtless has to do with geography—southeastern climate and soil favor plantation crops like tobacco and cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was a dark green, with a little pattern all over it that looked like ripe strawberries. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Nan called it a search for substance, but I’d noticed a bit of a pattern. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z We all know that names rise and fall and rise—witness the return of Sophie and Max from near extinction—but is there a discernible pattern to these movements? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The diffusion of a chemical through a matrix of protein can even create distinct, three-dimensional patterns—like a pool of syrup ribboning into oatmeal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I go to his desk and wipe my hands against the rough cloth of my dress, trying to leave no trace of sweat, trying to memorize the pattern of papers. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It looks festive, dark blue text and photos over a white and green patterned background. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He told everyone about the songs of canaries, the diet of kestrels, and the extraordinary migration patterns of nightingales. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Emotions and ritualized behavior patterns are built deeply into us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. They made silver patterns in the night sky.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Looking at it, Omakayas had to blink her eyes, for the beads were so perfect and the repeated pattern so compelling that the ferns seemed to move like little waves. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Dinner conversation was dominated by the three clients who were doctors—Stuart, John, and especially Beck, a pattern that would be repeated for much of the expedition. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z She painted the pictures that went into the pattern books for people who sew their own clothes. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She studied the pattern, shades of dull browns, starting nearly black in the center and spinning out lighter and lighter to a dirty yellow at the outer edge. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z And they show that the use of certain kinds of interactive media stimulate neurological patterns similar to those produced by the use of addictive drugs. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The pattern of the peaceful times felt immensely tranquil compared to the tortured chaos of the others. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By the late nineteenth century the recurrence of this pattern had become obvious to many observers. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Almost all the furniture in his own house had been around as long as he could remember, and whatever patterns and designs it originally carried had long ago been worn away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z We decide that one pattern is in the service of the other, or that both are in the service of a third motive. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The floor had a dark carpet with a pattern in it. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There was no pattern; five were dead, and they had no connection to each other, aside from the competition. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Discrimination learning occurs by rote, and occurs when a teacher teaches the basic building blocks of music—vocabulary and aural and rhythmic patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We pattern our steps as in a slow dance, him giving me time to balance his movements with my own. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z I look away from Vivi, concentrating on the pattern of the tiles under my feet. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Each of them has picked a pitch, a pattern, and they are filling in one another’s empty spaces. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z These musically inclined learners think in sounds, rhythms and patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z “I see a pattern. The way you killed Garland and then the way you killed Luba. You don’t kill the way I do; you don’t try to—Hell,” he said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She knew the pigeons and their flight patterns especially well. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He lay flat on his back, staring blankly at the stucco ceiling with its intricate pattern of ridges and veins. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He showed us batik, letting us paint wax patterns on cloth and T-shirts and spill dye everywhere. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Icy white, sunny, and mute, the expanse everywhere was almost entirely unmarked except for faint feather patterns where a little bird had pushed off; or for tiny mouse tracks trickling across the still, shimmering snow. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When you draw in the pattern, your viewer’s eye will fill in the rest. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “It is in keeping with your pattern of behavior,” says Cara. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the percussion instruments layer on another set of patterns, African style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Ptolemy believed not only that behavior patterns were influenced by the planets and the stars but also that questions of stature, complexion, national character and even congenital physical abnormalities were determined by the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've seen him in action, and what he does is establish a pattern and really tackle it!" Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z She is wearing an example of her work, a woven dress with embroidered lines of thorns making a striped pattern down the length of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “I was thinking of a pattern, Jenny, a simple pattern.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z One woman sat square in the middle of the road, clapping her hands in a rhythmic pattern. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In a forest, or wood—any kind of natural area—all the different kinds of plants and animals make up a whole, wonderful, complex pattern. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z ‘Dotted’ patterns, with the skipping rum-tah-tum emphasis they create, were very common indeed in European music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially in France. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was a pattern that would repeat itself in cities throughout the United States, as black communities found themselves embroiled in deep conflict over goals and strategies pursued by the black elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He had passed by the pits many times before and had always liked looking at the scene there; the geometric pattern of the clay bank pleased him. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z It was a tailored tie-silk dressing gown, beige, with a pretty pattern of minute pink tea roses. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z One shop sold strange bolts of silk whose patterns looked like spun moonbeams and ribbons of rushing water. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I am tempted to break this pattern, but it’s been so long since she’s ridden the bus that she has no memory of which bus is hers. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “Well,” I said, staring at the labyrinth of interlocking patterns woven into the carpet, “I guess I’m just realizing it now.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His face was puffy and the ridged pattern from the sofa cushions was printed deeply on his cheek. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A sofa and a chair covered in a faded floral pattern sagged where people had sat. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Those disparate rates constitute history’s broadest pattern and my book’s subject. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The same pattern occurred with all seven of the other traits. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “He will flunk if he continues this pattern.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Maybe that’s why they were more afraid: they knew things she didn’t know, things they didn’t want to share, things that were connected to Pet in patterns Jam couldn’t see yet. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z But Pa laughed and said she must pick it out, or he would get her the turkey red piece with the big yellow pattern. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z This pattern, dating back to slavery, has birthed yet another racial caste system in the United States: mass incarceration. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like consumption patterns, class alignments in politics have become jumbled. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The guards were supposed to bring the ball down center court, then signal the pattern and everybody was supposed to run it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z His cephalic pattern taken, he found himself being led off to an equally familiar room; reflexively he began assembling his valuables for transfer. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I did the shopping at home, and I fell into the pattern of the familiar task gladly. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The ancient information is written in exhaustive, careful, redundant detail— how to laugh, how to sneeze, how to walk, how to recognize patterns, how to reproduce, how to digest an apple. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The meter of a piece of music is the arrangement of its rhythms in a repetitive pattern of strong and weak beats. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I made a pattern of marigold garlands in honor of Hari and to remind me of the hours I had spent in stringing the orange flowers. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The shower, with its patterned tiles and clear doors; the small bottle of serum sitting on a shelf inside. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It must have been twenty feet tall, walls lined with dark and light colored stones in an alternating pattern. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They pressed well between the pages of a book, and you could stamp a star-shaped pattern on your skin with their pepper-pot seed capsules. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Once the fire was flattened, the draccus began to follow the same pattern as before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Having spent so much time in Mason’s white environment, I had always believed and feared that dancing involved a certain order or pattern of specific steps—as dancing is done by whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He found that the hypnotic, seemingly repetitive and endless patterns of these drum- and mallet- based styles did not in fact stay the same: instead they changed subtly with each reiteration of the phrase. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Her hair stuck out in every direction and her face was smeared with mud, the pattern almost ritualistic-looking. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I quote what I said when I was just starting out, and then later on in other places, as I can best remember the general pattern that I used, in successive phases, in those days. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Those molecules in turn disturb other nearby molecules out of their normal patterns of random motion, so that the disturbance itself becomes a thing that moves through the air — a sound wave. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z By mid-September, Luke’s days had fallen into a familiar pattern. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The outer wall of the White Island loomed up before them, covered in a rippling pattern of scales. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Then, however, my main concern was her description of the crystalline X-ray diffraction pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Like the floor,” said Njemile, and Moss looked down and realized that the pale linoleum had chipped away in so many places that it looked like an intentional pattern. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The fabric has completely faded on the side exposed to the sunlight, and whatever pattern was there is gone. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z He detects patterns: one track is waffled, another has fine lines, and another is shaped like the pointed toe of a boot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The golden pommel was smooth and rounded, its color deliberately muted; ash leaves of pale gold entwined at the hilt, and a pattern of leaves covered the scabbard. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The air-conditioning pushes these particles around, creating a beautiful fractal pattern. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then something large and white broke the smooth pattern of the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z She filled an electric kettle, and while she spooned instant coffee into two mugs Lyra stared at the Chinese pattern on the back of the door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern would recur over and over, but there was an important exception. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Then the wood was precisely arranged in a complicated crisscross pattern of many layers. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z I look for the break in the pattern, the nail that protrudes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Beatty peered at the smoke pattern he had put out on the air. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z The warm desert air changing the frost patterns on the windows, erasing the art work. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z But evidence does exist of a distinct pattern of intimidation and harassment of workers by company-hired gunmen, local law enforcement, and National Guard troops—with little or no redress for the victims. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Mostly, I spent the day keeping my head down and trying not to think too hard about stuff, which I guess is kind of becoming my pattern. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I think it’s because it was so unreal by any pattern of thought I’m used to; I mean, it just didn’t make sense.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Once I heard the pattern, I couldn’t stop hearing it, and I spent the rest of the summer looking and listening for patterns in other random sources—the wind, clothes tumbling in the dryer. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z But this brief discussion may at least indicate the relevance of environmental factors to smaller-scale and shorter-term patterns of history, as well as to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At one home, you stood entranced as a woman showed a girl how to let rice flour fall evenly through her fingers to make the patterns with smooth white lines. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Using short patterns from the song is a simple way to create vocal or rhythmic ostinati. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Maybe this will become the pattern of my life: every story ends before it has a chance to begin. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Yale historian David Musto and other scholars have documented a disturbing, though unsurprising, pattern: punishment becomes more severe when drug use is associated with people of color but softens when it is associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The asphalt had split in a lightning-streak pattern, and more tangles of weed sprouted through the fissures. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z On April 16 Cockcroft and Walton nervously summoned Rutherford to the basement so he might see for himself a scintillation pattern they thought heavily suggestive of alpha particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I watched from a short distance as the shaman studied the koka plant intently, examining the leaf patterns and listening to their inner wisdom. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Not a song really, just a pattern of notes tied together like popcorn on string. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “You followed the same pattern with coffee. I notice these things.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Then they searched for subtle repetitions that would reveal the pattern of the switches that drove the Japanese machine. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Within two years, HIV, cerebral palsy, Huntington's disease, blindness, polio, and male pattern baldness are eradicated. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In general, the pattern in lineup follows a routine. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a shimmering white sari patterned with orange paisleys, more suitable for an evening affair than for that quiet, faintly drizzling August afternoon. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Always, the pattern of death assumed a characteristic shape: the smell of DDT over the forests, an oil film on the water surface, dead trout along the shoreline. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Numbers and patterns control our world and can make it better. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z All its feathers were spread out, and you could see how Audubon got their pattern down—three rows of long, overlapping dark feathers, tipped white at the ends. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid’s husband had to cut a pattern from cardboard so Moon Orchid could fold handkerchiefs uniformly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I described every room in our house in detail, even the pattern on the spoons in the kitchen drawer. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I remember the pattern of rinds fell in ellife, two white sides and two brown, a definite yes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Our present lack of such ultimate explanations leaves a big intellectual gap, since the broadest pattern of history thus remains unexplained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Half a block from the station, a cab pulled over on our side of the street and let out a passenger—a woman wearing a patterned sundress. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z She took in the patterned tablecloth, red kitchen cabinets, decorative statues, and books that had belonged to the apartment’s previous inhabitant. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The floor is linoleum, shiny clean, patterned in squares of tan, yellow, and beige. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She suspected that tropical creatures followed the same pattern of transformation she had discovered in so many European species. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The expressions that have blended together since I came out of my coma are beginning to emerge into patterns. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Not only did Ayana work in planetary science, but she also had really cool hair braided in a complicated pattern with beads on the ends. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Was it, as a number of interested scientists believed, just the human fascination with patterns? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Farmer also reasoned these patients couldn’t have caught the same highly resistant strain, because each one’s TB had a slightly different pattern of resistance. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z To my eye, it seemed carefully made: a warp of fine cotton threads, ten or fifteen to the inch, crossed at half-inch intervals by paired weft threads in a basket-like pattern known as “weft-twining.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She fits me in a patterned long-sleeved gown in black and white. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baumbach made wedding dresses, which are mostly white, so she bought samples of materials with bright colors and patterns because Rosalie loved colors best. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy ran his pattern with Wes closely guarding him, pushing him slightly to throw him off- balance. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One may look in vain for living creatures in the daytime, but when the sun goes and the night gives consent, a world of creatures awakens and takes up its intricate pattern. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Lying in the blue bed, looking up into the dim ceiling with its remote carved pattern, she asked herself, half asleep still, What did I do; did I make a fool of myself? The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I see the patterns the grease leaves on the metal, I see the moons of my nails, the raggedy flesh. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Skills: Recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z When a big lilac bush threw leaf patterns on the walk ahead of us, Grandma shied like a horse. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She had found the pattern that was the key to breaking Purple. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She set the tray in the center of the coffee table—the napkins folded into triangles, and the cookies laid out in a circular display pattern. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His behavior was consistent with a pattern that researchers have found among concentration camp survivors the world over. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I think the pattern of spread that we saw, and the fact that it spread to new rooms, suggest that Ebola aerosols were being generated and were present in the building,” he said. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew each stick had a patterned and a smooth side. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay there in the dim light and stared at the pattern of squares on the ceiling... noise-absorbing tiles with thousands of tiny holes soaking up every word. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were flecked with so many colors Jason could’ve stared into them all day, studying the changing patterns, the way people watched the northern lights. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The ability to spot patterns is key to code breaking, and Elizebeth already had an eye for them. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I had the pattern for the piratas and everything. I bought hooks for their hands and was even going to reuse those patches that Merci used to wear for her eye exercises.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Yet geography obviously has some effect on history; the open question concerns how much effect, and whether geography can account for history’s broad pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So in 1954, in the month of June, the planes visited the forests of the Northwest Miramichi and white clouds of settling mist marked the crisscross pattern of their flight. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Or were they just a pattern, like crochet stitches? When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Below them the town was laid out in harsh angular patterns. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “My older sister made it for me. It’s a new pattern called ‘double pearls.’ Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Several windows still contained patterned glass of deep reds and golds, amazing things, for knowledge of the way of making such remarkable glass had been lost. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been a rare break for Ophie, a return to the old patterns of her day, and she regretted it as soon as she saw the expression on Penelope’s face. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Dramatically she clutched her stomach and stumbled about in a zig-zag pattern, groaning. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z The dishes are real china in a pattern of purple forget-me-nots with silver trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Her robe was woven in a dappled pattern, the shadow of leaves on the forest floor. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Another place to start is to provide a question for the group in a 4-beat pattern and then have them respond with their own 4-beat pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new technologies and the settlement of alien habitats resulted from genetic mutations and environmental pressures more than from cultural initiatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of a plugboard, it had four rotors with unusual rotation patterns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “That’s fine. One could only wish that you took as easily to diagramming sentences. Now, your arm position, and then your head position, and then we’ll get to breathing patterns.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z If the children are not ready to sing the song with a sung vocal ostinato, begin by chanting the song as a speech piece and adding one or more speech ostinato patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I don’t know why this was, exactly—possibly because I’m tall and unafraid of bold patterns—but so it seemed to be. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z This use and restructuring of previous systems for new purposes is very much like the pattern of biological evolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Celia awakes to an ominous pattern of moonlight on her sheets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. When you find something you like, you look for a similar pattern. Or you can just use the dress to draw one.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Makers of song, of wood, of threaded patterns. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This went beyond thought and became a habit pattern. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His skin was darkening toward a gold similar to his brother’s, with even darker swirls patterning his arms. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It was a delicate pattern of apple blossoms, which were a symbol of fertility. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I let my focus turn fuzzy and my subconscious emerge, searching for the break in the pattern. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They will lay the final pattern with these rocks they will lay it across the world and explode everything. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She had no crown, but around her waist was a strange belt made of interlocking gold links, like the pattern of a labyrinth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It didn’t take me very long to completely erase the Bryce Lynch identity and copy my fingerprints and retinal patterns back over to my original citizen profile. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The skin was beginning to rip outward from the wound in a starburst pattern not too different from the one on my shoulder, except that his was shiny with pus. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, in the by-now familiar hegemonic pattern, they tried to force the rulers of the vanquished state to become their vassals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked down, traced the pattern of my bedspread with his finger. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Their robes were of crimson and silvery gray and deep purple and vivid green: and there were patterns, and pictures of flowers and strange beasts, in needlework all over them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I liked embroidering: the cloth stretched tight within my embroidery hoop while I filled in the stamped pattern with cross- stitches and lazy daisy flowers. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ugwu held back from reaching out to touch the cement wall, to see how different it would feel from the mud walls of his mother’s hut that still bore the faint patterns of molding fingers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Broad white hats in a dappled pattern hid their heads, and she realized that if they ducked down into the flowers, they would practically disappear. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Nita had given Nailer and Tool a bunch of names to memorize, writing them in the mud for Nailer so that he could memorize the pattern of their letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “We looked at the viewing patterns of young children, and we found that they were watching Laugh-In,” says Lloyd Morrisett, who was one of the show’s founders. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And if the patient is having heart trouble, the pattern will be distorted. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A big piece of carpet with a cabbageroses pattern all over it lay on top of the wooden floor. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ma would have liked to have sewn Caroline’s wedding dress from ten different patterns in a bridal magazine, taking the sleeves from one dress, the collar from another, and the skirt from another. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I do love knitting patterns. Well, Harry, we have trespassed upon Horace’s hospitality quite long enough; I think it is time for us to leave.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Four doorways with four arrows each meant sixteen arrows to choose from, and there was no apparent pattern. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Our second game came right down to the wire, but by the end of it, I’d spotted a pattern to the lich’s playing technique. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z And the man with the diamond patterns on his socks tried to grab my shoulder, so I screamed. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The trio journeyed on, the pattern of the next few days being very much the same, free of incident or excitement. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the question for our purposes is whether the broad pattern of world history would have been altered significantly if some genius inventor had not been born at a particular place and time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bloodstains and tiny bits of gray matter from Lincoln’s brain oozed on to the cream-colored silk fabric, spreading and adding color to the frock’s bright and festive red, yellow, green, and blue floral pattern. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I start to fold the paper in thirds, the way I would a normal letter, but instead decide to crease the paper into the complicated star pattern that Mirjam's letter to Amalia was folded into. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The dancers stopped, frozen for a moment into a pattern of waving arms and lifted legs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z There were steps leading up to a loft area with floor seating where pillows of mismatched colors, patterns, and sizes surrounded a few short tables. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z You had to aim the lens and get the focus just right and then you got the flame and then you moved it slowly and you could burn shapes and letters and patterns. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But that year the pattern was to be broken. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They travel across the camp in a pattern. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z It wrapped itself around Gum Baby, and a trick of the dim light gave it a link pattern, like a rattlesnake. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The Olmec, he thought, were the Romans of Mesoamerica, a magisterial society that “established the pattern which, through the centuries, was to be followed by other expansionist Mesoamerican cultures.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z What was noticeably different was the frequency and the organized pattern of harassment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A canal to bring a branch of the creek closer to the Smoke; new patterns for the sheep wool their sweaters were made from; a new latrine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z She wore her flowing blue housecoat with the moonflower pattern, and she had her makeup on already. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Slowly the dock crept forward and eclipsed a pattern of buildings far below. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My mother liked her dress pattern and the little ones their candies, but the next day I was out helping in the fields like I had never been gone. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth smirked, like she was pleased they were back in their old familiar pattern—Percy being ignorant, she herself explaining stuff. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Muddy paw tracks in all shapes and sizes created dizzying patterns on the floor, cutting over sticky patches of red and brown to the shelves of food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They flowed into one another in a singsong pattern that reminded her of chanting, but she had never heard any chanting like this. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The music on the stand in front of me is illuminated, and I fall in love with the light, the alto clef curlicuing around the cloudy patterns from Papa's pipe. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Lee Goldman’s research proves that in picking up these sorts of patterns, less is more. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Dingiswayo’s Zulus illustrate that each of those agents contributed somewhat independently to history’s pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And I love to think about new quilt patterns. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “You have to see fresh patterns in the stars. Patterns, Saturns, Saturday, Sunday, sundial. It’s all about measuring the passing day. Do you get it?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He wore a knee-length bark cloth with a zigzag pattern. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I'd never seen him wear it before—it was beige with a brown swirled pattern. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “The tricky bit will be to coordinate your flight pattern with the video feed....” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She likes spandex, and bright and crazy patterns and colors. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z You had to order a dress from Dessie months in advance, and you made twenty visits to her shop before you chose material and pattern. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Gradually add the other two ostinati patterns, one at a time. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z She dressed in a brown plaid skirt and a clean white blouse every day, dependable as the tile pattern on the classroom floor. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Among other mosquitoes, including carriers of other diseases, the pattern is being repeated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He touches his forehead, chest, and shoulders in the pattern of a cross. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma smiled and flushed pink, and she picked out a pattern of rosebuds and leaves on a soft, fawn-colored ground. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As you walk farther into the room it becomes a field of endless streetlamps, the stripes repeating in fractal patterns, over and over and over. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He pictured the cub’s golden eyes, trembling nose, and patterned fur. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Figure 4.19: The interval patterns for major and natural minor scales are basically the same pattern starting at different points. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z A canon requires students to echo back a pattern, but one measure later. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z So I didn’t like to talk patterns and recipes and pour tea in the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now for the variations in the Bigger Thomas pattern. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Dimly, as if through a veil, geneticists were beginning to visualize patterns and themes: threads, strings, maps, crossings, broken and unbroken lines, chromosomes that carried information in a coded and compressed form. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She rarely deviates from her original pattern, her hymn of particulars. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Soft light from the moon and stars came through the sheer curtains into our room, making patterns on my bedspread that I traced with my finger. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It wasn’t that the dress was ugly—in fact, the beautiful wax-print pattern was easily the nicest thing she’d ever worn—but her legs felt trapped beneath the rippling fabric. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Thousands of miniature torches fixed to the ship’s rigging splashed starry patterns of light that shimmered on the gilt furnishings and twinkled over the water. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z His red satin cape was patterned in gold thread; fifty roaring lions to one side, fifty prancing stags to the other. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He said it was the same for everyone else; and indeed I have seen the pattern throughout my travels. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If I look at them long enough, I can see all kinds of patterns in those hexagons: lines, arrows, even flowers. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Massive gateways, temples, roofs and whitewashed walls rising thick along its crowded streets traced a long, angular pattern against the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It is the same rhythmic pattern that drives the only popular nonreligious song of the early thirteenth century still known today: ‘Sumer is icumen in’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Talking further with the doctor, I began to see the pattern we were in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Joffrey was prominent among them, his raiment all crimson, silk and satin patterned with prancing stags and roaring lions, a gold crown on his head. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Over the decades, this pattern of discrimination persisted. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The teacher stands in front and “passes” a pattern to the first student in one of the lines. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z We walked slowly, Tica with both hands pressed firmly against her lower back, me admiring the blanket’s intricately woven patterns of leaves and feathers. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z He was dribbling his snow cone in the dirt to make a pattern, but most of it stained his shirt. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He used to take some of the cornstalks that Jenna’s father gave us and make tie-dyed patterns on the corn with food coloring. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But some, those occurring at critical junctures or branch points, may change the pattern of history. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I find patterns that are hidden within the grid. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I have the swirled carpet pattern on one whole side of my face. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The pattern of those letters can help you break the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “There’s a pattern. People go missing after sundown, then their bodies turn up the next morning at the jungle’s edge. The timing is always the same.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The catalog seemed recently updated, despite looking like a victim of 1990s pattern choice. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Biff bowed his head and organized the story he had just heard into a neat pattern. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z White studied the pattern of deaths in Mollie’s family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A second Saturday passed, a third and a fourth, and William’s calls fell into a pattern. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The House of Commons gives itself to a dialogic style—to, at its best, a deft pattern of call-and-response across the despatch box. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z He had such graceful fingers, so good for folding shirts to fit the cardboard patterns that he had cut from campaign posters and fight and wrestling posters. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Based on the pattern, I’d say it’s our pretty little group that came through here—I can see their footsteps well enough. And ...” He flicked a nervous glance backward. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z She looks to be around Johanna’s age, her skin patterned with dense freckles and her hair so dark it’s almost black. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z As if joining scraps of fabric to make a quilt, Molly puts them in the right sequence and stitches them together, creating a pattern that was impossible to see when each piece was separate. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z When he dragged himself back, the television was humming behind a flickering test pattern. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Jam knew that her mother would want answers, explanations, things unraveled into a pattern that she could accept as rational. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z He found the tall house on the side of the hill, and he examined the three bodies he found there, and he studied the pattern of the knife-wounds. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I stop tracing the floor pattern and pick up the remote. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z All the while, new patterns are being formed and passed. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The front of thin veneers was cut out to make a pretty pattern and there was old-rose silk behind this fretted wood design. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ma, why don’t you ever use those new dishes I bought you? If you didn’t like them, you should have told me. I could have changed the pattern.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ponytail Girl says her family pattern is Chantilly, but she’ll be picking out her own new pattern when she gets married. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z This one is smaller than the others, and folded intricately into a star pattern. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The pattern of evolutionary causality is a web of astonishing complexity; the incompleteness of our understanding humbles us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A small amount of light and air passed through the pattern of one-inch- square holes in the doors. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to keep track of the staircases, lifts, and shop names, but the corridors twist and turn with no orderly pattern. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Although they may sound as if they don’t have very much in common, they share a basic, underlying pattern. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My finger traces patterns on the blue place mat. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “I thought it was an accident,” Celia says softly, looking down at the patterned tile on the table. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ma chose two patterns of calico to make shirts for Pa, and a piece of brown denim to make him a jumper. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Platforms hang at all levels: some low by his knees or his waist, others stretch high above his head, overlapping in irregular patterns. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Not to mention, the traditional seeds had been planted in a different pattern, and that may have influenced water distribution and pollination. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z For Jefferson, all specific decisions about American foreign policy occurred within the context of this overarching, indeed almost cosmic, pattern. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Their boards barely a hand’s breadth above the housetops, the patterns of shingles passed underneath hypnotically. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z For a while, Sasha’s roommate was a man in a medically-induced coma who was hooked up to a breathing machine that hissed and thumped in a rhythmic pattern. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He smoked a cigar and watched the patterns the sunlight made on the wall. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Snow lay piled upon the translucent roof, casting patterns of sunshine throughout. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’ve never seen them stretch that long before, and they spring back up again into a spiral pattern when Mrs. Walton lets them go. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Five points for a sprinkle, ten for a puddle, twenty for a decorative pattern on the wall behind the mug. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She sees signs in the patterns of clouds or in how a tree holds out its arms or in a feather she has found. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Though he had not sought out the impending duel with Burr, there was nothing in Hamilton’s lifelong pattern that would permit a self-consciously bland and supremely triumphant refusal of the challenge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I can spin just as well as any Silkworm. What’s more, I can spin patterns.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Dog tracks and rabbit too, neat as the pattern on a Sunday tie scattered over the snow. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing tights and one of those short patterned dresses, and her left wrist is loaded with woven friendship bracelets. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He grinned, and I saw that even his teeth were etched in wave patterns, which must’ve made brushing after meals a real pain. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a dusty minicab, whose rear seat was covered in nylon fur with a zebra pattern. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z These produced patterns showing that hydrogen atoms emitted energy at certain wavelengths but not others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a stout shoe of cracked black leather and quite old, with tiny air holes in a scalloped pattern over the toe and a dull polish, and it was pointed at me. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Babies as young as one or two days old synchronize their head, elbow, shoulder, hip, and foot movements with the speech patterns of adults. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ladies were already picking through patterns and piece goods, planning their Easter dresses. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z During the days that followed, our lives fell into a pattern, and the reason for our captivity gradually became clear. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z In theory, a healthy patient’s heart will produce a distinctive—and consistent—pattern on the page that looks like the profile of a mountain range. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Think of improvisation as “quickly assembling” shorter rhythm or pitch patterns that you’ve already mastered. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The bold letters indicate patterns that are commonly found in many Bhupali songs. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z There was every kind of water bed you could imagine: different kinds of wood, different patterns of sheets; queen-size, king-size, emperor-of-the-universe-size. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The carpeting was institutional, with a hectic, stain- camouflaging pattern. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Only after repeating this pattern three times does she move on to another piece. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z We sat down at a table covered with a cheery red- checkered tablecloth in a cold, abstract arrangement of squares—the kind of pattern the demons favored. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z We certainly would not have certified a Viking landing site as safe if orbital photographs had shown such shifting patterns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “David, I don’t know. There are guards and cameras everywhere. There are drones flying patterns above the camp. There’s no place they can’t see us.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Cool, silent, hairless Ted, whose breathing pattern didn’t alter one bit in the height of passion? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she would pick fabrics of bright colors and patterns and take them to the tailor to have traditional cotton dresses made for me. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The pattern was so consistent, Neumann told me, that Indians must have been purposefully reducing the number of deer, raccoons, and turkeys. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I began to sense that they had their own kind of Bigger Thomas behavioristic pattern which grew out of a more subtle and broader frustration. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z All around, crooked branches like witches’ fingers make patterns where the sun crisscrosses through. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z It said, “I’ve picked out the nicest pattern for you and some lovely crêpe de Chine that is just your best color! I can’t wait for you to see it!” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They ate the last peanut butter sandwiches sitting on a low stone wall, listening to a few birds and watching the sunlight fall in bright, moving patterns onto the leafy floor of the woods. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He smoked briefly, his eyes following a pattern of concrete blocks in the school building. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z It locks children into patterns of achievement and under achievement, encouragement and discouragement, that stretch on and on for years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Bunched up in the corner of my bed is Aimee’s blanket, this yellow thing with a pattern of colorful cranes, which I wrap around my shoulders. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Ophie knew that colored folks had not always been free, and she understood that her work for the Carutherses resonated within the same patterns of history, even if she was paid a modest wage. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The days were long, Jem was eleven, and the pattern was set: They were on the sleeping porch, the coolest part of the house. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z What is the pattern that predicts which notes of a harmonic series will be one octave apart? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Round up all the medals. Make a list. See if there is some kind of pattern or hidden code.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Look: I lay there, eyes fixed open on the net above me, wondering what it was, marveling at the beautiful honeycomb pattern of narrow lines. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z That meant Terryl, the little girl from the broken home, would be the mom trying to keep the pattern from reproducing itself. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The stars hung in the chilly sky, while the patterned lights of the city spread below him, streetlights and car headlights and things in motion. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The living room was decorated in shades of orange and brown, and the plaid pattern of the curtains matched the couch upholstery. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Any rhyme can be made more complex by adding a body percussion pattern or simple instrument pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Pass the pattern: A more challenging version of this is to have students form two straight lines. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z At the very least, it spoke to the migration patterns of ancient people. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Above the coconuts was the band’s name written over an eighties-looking checkered pattern. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z High above the Delhi Bridge, Frightful screamed and spiraled, her pointed wings cutting frantic patterns in the sky. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Some had beautiful patterns of red and yellow lines crisscrossing the fabric. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Blue and red, flashing in a regular pattern. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Modern physics and chemistry have reduced the complexity of the sensible world to an astonishing simplicity: three units put together in various patterns make, essentially, everything. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Memo chopped up mango, honeydew melon, strawberries, and orange slices, some with intricate patterns. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z From these she made patterns, cutting and sewing silk flowers that she arranged in the parlor. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z We went into a bank and she stared up at the vaulted ceiling and described the octagonal patterns. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It has a black-and-red-checked pattern and falls right above my knee, which is the perfect length for me, because anything longer makes me look stumpy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z As if to demonstrate that his questionable behavior in the presidential crisis of 1801 was no aberration, Burr repeated the pattern in 1804 during the campaign for governor of New York. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I liked to mow patterns or pictures in the grass and had just finished the outline of something that looked like the Sphinx from the Lost Worlds book when Dad strolled out toward me. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Most gang members in the Barrel loved flash: gaudy waistcoats, watch fobs studded with false gems, trousers in every print and pattern imaginable. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Studying them by the hundreds, and then by the thousands, Elizebeth and William devised new tests and tables and shortcuts that helped them to find patterns and solutions. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She touches the textured pattern of my gown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Why go to the bother of drawing lines and angles inside a dot, if those patterns weren’t going to show up unless you enlarged the dot again and again and again? The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It is a whole pattern of life, little known to the settled people along the routes of the great trucks. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She whipped her sword around in a figure-eight pattern, then smoothly replaced it in the scabbard on her back. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Will pressed his face harder against the grate, until he was sure the metal zigzags were patterning his nose. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z But the room, although dim, isn’t dark enough, so I switch my mind into the holding pattern that passes for attention. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Republic flag stands are positioned at both ends of the curtain, and as we approach, I see that the curtain has a faint pattern of the flag on it as well. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the annual weather pattern was no secret, and every expedition had set their sights on the same window of fair weather. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z On the right side of the Door, foot-long rods jutted out from the wall edge, also several inches in diameter, in the same pattern as the holes facing them on the other side. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z What struck him was the pattern of deception—and how clearly it was documented. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then the stone was cut, chiseled, and hammered by the stone cutters so it would match the patterns or templates supplied by the master mason. Cathedral: The Story of Its Construction 1973-09-19T00:00:00Z Marian and Billy King established a pattern of appearances that didn’t change much from one year to the next. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I was made very uneasy by that silent electric tension, by the sense of being drawn in, of becoming a point or figure in the pattern, in the web. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z There was nothing but Mo’s voice and the pictures forming in their minds from the letters on the page, like the pattern of a carpet taking shape on a loom. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Perhaps Franklin would consider studying the diffraction patterns of these fibers and deduce a structure? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Because major scales always follow the same pattern, the pattern of major and minor chords is also the same in any major key. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She riffled through it, turning each sheet first one way, then another, expecting illustrations, but all she saw were patterns, line after line like ribbons of black lace. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It’s identical to hers— gold with a sort of maze pattern etched all the way around. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z But the smudgy crags of George Pollucci's features melted away as I peered at them, and resolved themselves into a regular pattern of dark and light and medium-gray dots. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His tone was academic, as if discussing the breeding patterns of a mildly interesting species of rodent. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Our final test involved determining a pattern in four pairs of dominoes and prophesying what the fifth pair might look like. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The three guests, drowned in the pounding beat of the phonograph, silently studied the rose-colored walls and the floral patterns on the linoleum. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The crinkly paper holds a bright blue shalwar kameez with a tiny purple paisley pattern and gold buttons. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He’d been through the room thoroughly only hours before, but he’d forgotten the compartment at the side of the sewing machine, where all the patterns and bobbins were kept. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Thick patterned carpets had been laid down over the ground, and pillows scattered in the comers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Like all good shooters, the pattern of Bull’s shooting did not deviate; in fact it was unconscious, buried in instinct, and rooted in long hours of boyhood practice. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Roughly: the more “rhetorical” it sounds—the more stuffed with extended metaphors, elaborate verbal patterning, and five-dollar words—the higher the style. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z It was not a behavior pattern of which the backwoods community approved; a lot of people smirked a little when they mentioned Bill Creighton. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The perimeter of the camp was marked by intricate patterns of barbed wire barriers. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d love to have a Court dress like the ones I have seen in Oriana’s wardrobe, opulent patterns intricately stitched on skirts of gold and silver, each as beautiful as the dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z This is why the star patterns in a given constellation do not change as we go from, say, Soviet Central Asia to the American Midwest. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Intricate hats cover the ladies' hair; some clutch dainty parasols and oilpaper umbrellas, or cool themselves with patterned fans. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I occupied myself with memorizing the room; the striped pattern of the couches, tan, peach, cream, dull gold, and tan again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We were up very high; street lamps and traffic cut patterns in the night below. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, Blanca waited for him to get in touch with her, according to their timeworn pattern. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Conceivably two expanding civilizations with different planetary requirements would ignore each other, their filigree patterns of expansion intertwining, but not conflicting. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The curtains are patterned with blue and yellow flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z None of the Population Police answered Jen’s father, but the pattern of shadows that fell on Luke’s blanket made him think the Population Police were standing right in the doorway of the closet. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z There was a troubling pattern in their first interaction, and the sad truth was that that pattern persisted throughout their relationship. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z If you had been on the lookout for possible patterns in the lists of words, there is no way you would have completed the task that quickly. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Grumman sat impassively, moving a magical token of feathers and beads from one hand to the other in a pattern that Lee could see had some purposeful meaning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The pattern of her skirt turned abruptly as she faced the front. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her role developed from a pattern of talk she often heard from bored, well-to-do white women where she worked, in an East Side beauty salon. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all epidemics followed the same pattern, striking during warm weather, disappearing with the first hard frost. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Yet even then, she could often produce results, due to her gift at spotting patterns. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The last sound she heard was Fenoglio's pen scribbling over the paper, writing word after word as fast as a weaver's shuttle turning black threads into colorfully patterned cloth.... Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I take the back way around the fence, circling in a zigzag pattern through the alleys and behind buildings, until I reach the recessed doorway of the deserted shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They swam for many leagues in the morning through the bright water, weaving their foamy patterns. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Even a year after the accident, I was still unable to discern the pattern. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At twenty years of age the mold of my life was set, was hardening into a pattern, a pattern that was neither good nor evil, neither right nor wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Shimmers of heat traced patterns on her skin, insistent as a lover’s hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He has treated his shapes much like the enclosed, flat panes of a stained-glass window to create a lively decorative pattern. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Classes are groups of people of similar economic and social position; people who, for that reason, may share political attitudes, lifestyles, consumption patterns, cultural interests, and opportunities to get ahead. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But at last he put it in his pocket, took a drill from his tool bag, and made five small holes in a neat pattern on the refrigerator door. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is braided in a complicated pattern that she must’ve sat for hours to get. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z It’s because they knew less: they had the ability to sort through what they knew and find a pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z With that growth came the inevitable pattern of social stratification. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His nose, moist with curiosity, sniffed the wind-borne pattern of a hundred miles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The swimming fish in the sparkling water, the trees with the jade-green leaves, the courtyard with patterned walkways—all real! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z For Bobby, an unfortunate pattern emerged after that. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z My avatar’s limbs and torso began to flow and spin like taffy, encircling Art3mis, while strange color patterns flowed and shifted across my skin. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z This was my pattern all through the day and the night and into the next morning. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Thus, questions of the animal origins of human disease lie behind the broadest pattern of human history, and behind some of the most important issues in human health today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I told Thomas we had to split up and I started the practiced evasive maneuvers, running in the patterns. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z If you have a strongly pro-white pattern of associations, for example, there is evidence that that will affect the way you behave in the presence of a black person. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The Cockney children in London were restless when the bombing stopped and disturbed a pattern to which they had grown accustomed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes they cut their hair into such wild patterns that attempting to imitate them, Wood sniffed, "would torture the wits of a curious barber." 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Using her magnifying glass, she peered at their wings and discovered a series of scales overlapping in regular patterns, “like the feathers of multicolored chickens.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z So she concentrated on the decorative arts: flower patterns for embroidery and fabric design. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were listening intently, and as though looking not at me, but at the pattern of my voice upon the air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Holly riffled through the shelf of patterns, leaving me alone to think. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It was simply a small pattern in the grand design of our lives. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These learners think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z All the rain from yesterday had frozen solid — coating the needles on the trees in fantastic, gorgeous patterns, and making the driveway a deadly ice slick. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I felt, whether I wished or not, the connection, the communication that ran, wordless, inarticulate, through Faxe, and which Faxe was trying to pattern and control, for he was the center, the Weaver. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Scipio scraped patterns into the snow with his heels. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z But no matter which grade or pattern—no matter even if the greatest grandmother in the whole world wove it—every rug has a Persian flaw. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “We're due back at the house. Besides, these fanatics always try suicide; the pattern's familiar.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Their friendship broke a lifelong pattern— stretching back to Shin’s malignant relationship with his mother—of wariness and betrayal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Except much worse, if it’s possible to imagine: a strange pattern of dark, round burn marks all along her cheek. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The marble floor was patterned with squares and circles like a Roman tic-tac-toe game. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The fireman’s internal computer effortlessly and instantly found a pattern in the chaos. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He could feel the sting of the burns on his feet, following the patterns of his cleats. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The truth, however, is that rates and patterns of drug crime do not explain the glaring racial disparities in our criminal justice system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Lower-income women are more likely than other women to be overweight, though the pattern among men may be the opposite. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “Thin-slicing” refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I open the first trunk, and light spills across the shimmering contents—piles of sequined, gold-threaded, and patterned fabric. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z However, there are growing examples in animal research demonstrating that animals do indeed use music, and that monkeys and other animals use musical patterns and can hear abstractions in music as well. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I studied my father as he stared at the tile work on the ceiling: endless geometric patterns that made me think of traveling through a wormhole. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z They made a pattern I had never noticed before—a gleaming constellation that looked a lot like a girl’s figure—a girl with a bow, running across the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z When Gallup tried to divide these variations into only two groups, she was seeing patterns that didn’t exist. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He and Mother set up a Family Council, patterned after an employer-employee board. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t entirely disappear, but it gradually submerged, as semblances of order returned and our pattern of life assumed its new design. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike other potters, who traced a complete pattern with their initial incisions, Min sometimes varied from the sketchy tracing; his work seemed to flow more freely both in the making and in the final result. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z When she was still a tyke, her mother had taught her to use a needle, to pull it through woven fabric and create a pattern with colored threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked at it as if for the first time, studying the wallpaper pattern carefully on the top half before allowing her eyes to fall to the numbered grid on the bottom. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z It was a beautiful room, with a carpet patterned in the colors of the oasis. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I lay for a few minutes, finding patterns in the ceiling, then put on my shoes and run my fingers through my hair to flatten it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z I’d have asked her more but was thrown off when she held up a pattern for a bib apron with a ruffled hem. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I pinched my right forearm to make the pattern stay, but it didn’t. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Teaching a song using solfege rather than the lyrics helps the listener hear patterns and intervals, and even understand phrases and form that otherwise might be obscured by lyrics. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z While hardly true, this explanation had the demonstrable advantage of permitting Jefferson’s vision of a Federalist conspiracy to congeal in a plausible pattern that formed around Washington without touching him directly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z This does not necessarily mean that the rhythms themselves are repetitive, but they do strongly suggest a repeated pattern of pulses. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We have brilliantly deciphered some of the patterns of Nature. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As in the Pantheon, the domed roof was a waffle pattern of recessed square panels, but here each panel was a stela—a grave marker with Ancient Greek inscriptions. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Oak? With his nurse,” she whispers, drawing me toward the little divan in one corner, patterned with a snake brocade and covered in a fur. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I lie there resting in the steaming grass, the old lake hissing and gurgling behind me, whispering patterns of words my sanity resists. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In a drawer he finds one knife and two forks, a pattern recognizable from home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But then I see that the strange yellow pattern is writing. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z She righted herself and now her hands were thick with mud and a red trickle of blood patterned her leg. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z You really need to study several weeks, look for patterns, anything. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A pattern of sweaty palms and gaping faces presses against the glass. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Notice that the syncopated notes in the melody come on the second and fourth quarters of the beat, essentially alternating with the strong eighth-note pattern laid down in the accompaniment. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Also, she had a pattern book of the newest styles and would order patterns for anybody who wanted her to, and she showed the ladies how to fix their hair fashionable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember her with her tape measure around her neck and newspaper on the floor, on her knees with a pair of scissors, cutting a pattern out. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “And all these dress patterns are from before the war.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When Hartshorne and May began to look for patterns in the cheating, some of their findings were equally obvious. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, patterns are a little like life. We take what we’ve got and make it suit our needs. We run the show.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Carry on with the briefing, Danby. And make sure they understand the importance of a tight bomb pattern.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At first, it is only a random pattern of lights. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The fact that I was doing serious X-ray work with TMV gave him assurance that I should not soon again become preoccupied with the DNA pattern. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Picking through the clutter on the table, she bends to examine a spoon with a distinctive floral pattern on the handle. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maudsley had studied mental illness among families and concluded that the patterns of inheritance were vastly more complex than the ones Galton had proposed. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Fwooper has long been a provider of fancy quills and also lays brilliantly patterned eggs. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, we shall see that, paradoxically, this large number of cultural factors makes it easier, not harder, to understand world patterns of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do you feel like your thought patterns are impeding your daily life?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z She stayed close to Sherm, following the pattern of his plaid shirt in the dim light. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Theodora came up the heavy stairway after Mrs. Dudley, looking incredulously at the stained-glass window on the landing, the marble urn in a niche, the patterned carpet. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z It is longer than Bailey expected from watching her knit, with intricate patterns of knotted cables at each end. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The patterns in the sky slowly melt and alter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The limos swooped in a tight pattern to settle on the Gondwannan landing dock. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The veil on the other lamp cast a pattern of moons and stars onto the ceiling. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z My answer seems to satisfy them, but now both of them have been alerted to my eating patterns, and watch my plate like it’s a time bomb. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It was all part of the Adams pattern, an iconoclastic and contrarian temperament that relished alienation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They rode into a grand, circular courtyard, over paving stones set with a mosaic of gold and green in a pattern of swirls. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Syme had fallen silent for a moment, and with the handle of his spoon was tracing patterns in the puddle of stew. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The ground around it, usually painted in a spiral pattern of black and white, is now nothing but darkness, as though it has been swallowed up by empty space. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Groups moved in color patterns across the yard, up the stairs, down the hall. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I even traced the pattern of stimulus-and- reaction that caused my nervousness and excitement. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z In other words, they are the same pattern starting in a different place. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Its white birchwood sides remind me of my Belle-trunk, but its gilded edges and damask pattern allow it to blend in with the rest of the luxurious room. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The women’s faces and arms are tattooed with patterns, the men’s hair is long with beads and bones—human bones?—hanging in decoration. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z It was part of a pattern, like the safe-suit, like tying up Faro. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z They formed a circle, swayIng their hips and flipping their wrists and taking tiny steps in intricate patterns on the floor. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Each hamlet was involved in a kaleidoscopically changing pattern of war and shifting alliances with all neighboring hamlets, regardless of whether the neighbors were Foré or speakers of a different language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The piece of tripe that comes from the butt has a beautiful honeycomb pattern. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z There was nothing rational about Holmes, but his behavior seemed to follow a pattern. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Each of these items, too, must be returned to its precise place, matched by color, pattern, price, and size. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On the floor were three rugs with dark, swirly patterns of wild beasts in forests. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Like coffee stains splattered on your sweatshirt, There isn’t any pattern. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “No. I used geometry and focused on the parabola of my shots. I also knew exactly when to feed you the ball, based on timing and patterns I was seeing on the floor.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z But music that follows the same rhythmic pattern all the time can get pretty boring. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She closed her eyes against the glaring light, and watched, a little dizzily, as brilliant patterns of red and orange danced inside her eyelids. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I showed up, I did the work, I dealt with the dependable, unrelenting microaggressions from the masses that influenced the emotional weather patterns of my day. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Dad was an easy-going host, informal and gracious, and we tried to pattern ourselves after him. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Of these, nine had distinct patterns of small mutations that the researchers could 'not find in any databases or in the literature.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The silk ripples out behind her in waves, and jewels crawl in a pattern up her arms like snakes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Most of them were freshmen and had been in Leon’s class only a month or so but the teacher’s pattern had already emerged. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It is a pattern of swirls and dots, no doubt installed to camouflage any dirt. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z John Gottman took a complex problem and reduced it to its simplest elements: even the most complicated of relationships and problems, he showed, have an identifiable underlying pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Life was all pattern and discipline; and the beauty of discipline is when it works. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in the dark, she thought she could tell one color from another, because she knew its pattern and design so well. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My mom wore her traditional, vividly patterned African dresses. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Their fatal encounter represented a momentary breakdown in the dominant pattern of nonviolent conflict within the American revolutionary generation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Child 1 puts their left hand in, 2 put theirs on top, 3 and 4 continue the pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Would Fort have seen an interesting pattern or a secret of the universe in grocery lists? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a little bit like shaping a wild, natural landscape into identifiable patterns for the benefit of the human onlooker. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z What we got, however, was an elaborate disquisition on the history and architecture of the Capitol and a look at the official china patterns produced for the Senate, followed by a polite and chitchatty lunch. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z These are, in fact, the engineering artifacts of intelligent beings: roads, highways, canals, farmland, city streets—a pattern disclosing the twin human passions for Euclidean geometry and territoriality. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A crucial question is whether technological innovation is so dependent on rare inventor-geniuses, and on many idiosyncratic cultural factors, as to defy an understanding of world patterns. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The frost patterns on the window were as beautiful as always, but I could not appreciate them. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The left sock was bright red and had a pattern of broomsticks upon it; the right sock was green with a pattern of Snitches. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Dr. Blankenship rose from his desk and got down one of the guitars: a gorgeous 1960s Fender Stratocaster in a tobacco sunburst pattern. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z These colors and shapes make it fun and easy to play with numbers, and I can find patterns in anything from the stock market to baseball games to the price of cereal. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Not only that, Qosqo was the center of a second spiritual pattern. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “It was the tenacity and nature of the patterns of deceit.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I close my eyes for what feels like minutes, and when I open them again, I become hypnotized by the cheetah-print pattern on her leggings, which I hadn’t noticed before. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She rolled over onto her back and looked up through the branches of the tree, the new leaves a dark pattern against the black night sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Lua’s standing there with a small dark stone that has a pattern on it like a cross. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Within the room was a great canopied bed, a tall wardrobe decorated with erotic carvings, and a narrow window of leaded glass in a pattern of red and yellow diamonds. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A skirt with a beaded pattern of pomegranates, another that pulls up, like a curtain, to show a stage with jeweled mechanical puppets underneath. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The street pattern and the subway made sense. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Means all over the country there’s a pattern of brown and black kids receiving harsher school punishments than white students.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was an honest man, open as the sunrise, cut from the same pattern as Lee: old family, Virginia gentleman, man of honor, man of duty. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the way to the dining room she had walked precisely, placing her feet in the very center of the cabbage roses that twined through the pattern of the carpet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The feathers extended all the way down its back, and she stared at the patterns in awe. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The gun quivered in my hand, following the dark, shifting patterns of the smoke. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z As they walked, the patterned stone pathways gently massaged her feet and the sun seemed to disappear like a closing flower. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He said it was all part of the pattern of economics—economic injustice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And the mind that has conceived a plan of living must never lose sight of the chaos against which that pattern was conceived. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When a generous clearing was made, Sula traced intricate patterns in it with her twig. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Fear,” the doctor said, “is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z I need those mittens I made out of the pattern book Gran gave me, with the flaps that flip back so you can use your fingers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z First one way, then another, never falling into a predictable pattern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In a fireplace that filled half one side of the room a bright fire crackled, throwing glancing patterns of light on creamy plaster walls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Leaf shadows pattern her face, and she wears black, though I never saw her in black when she was alive. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The pattern of shadows that led away from the dorm seemed so convenient, almost intentional. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Nel watched her mother cutting the pattern from newspapers and moving her eyes rapidly from a magazine model to her own hands. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I got up and looked out, but the glass was covered with a sheet of thin ice, and the only thing I could see was the crazed pattern of the streetlight outside. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z When we thin-slice, when we recognize patterns and make snap judgments, we do this process of editing unconsciously. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Maybe she’s met kids like me before—other students who have obsessive routines and patterns. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Some were printed with magnificent colorful patterns, and some were even crusted with pearls and gold sequins. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In spare moments, she still tried to gather caterpillars and record their metamorphoses, continually fascinated by new forms of this cyclical pattern. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Kira had thought that when this work was complete she could turn to her own projects, to some of the elaborate patterns that she could feel and see in her mind. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the pattern continued for thousands of years and archaeological dig after archaeological dig. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I looked down at my hands, trying to collect my thoughts, but they wouldn’t fall into any sort of orderly pattern. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The huge chandeliers catch the sunshine and make twinkly patterns on the floor. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z She memorized the flight patterns of the birds as they soared above, studying them every single day. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z With Blackwater Draw as a pattern, scientists knew exactly what to look for. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In spite of the fact that there is nothing in particular to do, the days assume a pattern. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He liked the camouflaging pattern of the thick fabric and sometimes tipped the thing on its side and shot rubber- tipped arrows at me and Lelia from behind its cover. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “No, seriously. There’s a pattern to how she replies. See how every time you mention The Gold-Bug, she gives that exact same answer? Here, let me test this out.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He wished for tranquil darkness patterned with gentle ripples and delicate lights. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I saw the outlines, patterns this city must have taken. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The culture we belong to and the legacies passed down by our forebears shape the patterns of our achievement in ways we cannot begin to imagine. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She was absolutely intrigued by them at this time in her life and remembered every pattern of the flight of each species. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z That makes it the leading cause of history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I began to understand Lionel Trilling’s remark that culture—learned behavior patterns so deeply engrained they produce unconscious involuntary reactions—is a prison. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Words create rhythmic patterns that captivate a child’s attention. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Once I notice this pattern, it becomes difficult not to pay attention to it, but I try to focus on wolfing down my enchiladas. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z There was an awkward silence between them, and Ash looked down at the ground, studying the gradations of brown and the pattern of veins in the fallen leaves. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He picks one of the boxes on the table this time, a polished-wood box with a swirling pattern etched into its lid. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z NOTE: In some woodwinds, such as the clarinet , the upper "octave" may actually be the third harmonic rather than the second, which complicates the fingering patterns of these instruments. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I just have to be careful not to set up a pattern. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I squint at its smooth surface, its lack of patterns. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The speed of any given star around the center of the Galaxy is generally not the same as that of the spiral pattern. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course, Miss Katherine,” I say, slipping into the characteristic speech patterns of an uneducated serving girl. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I reach for my mother’s tarnished armlet, wrapped around my bicep, and touch the familiar pattern for strength. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There are polar ice caps, drifting white clouds, raging dust storms, seasonally changing patterns on its red surface, even a twenty-four-hour day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dresses made of brocades, laces, velvets, glass beads, cashmeres, silks, and pastel satins in every color and pattern. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She herself was in the dining room, pinning pattern pieces on a length of dark blue serge. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But what was it about the three-layered Cuban son rhythm pattern that was so seductive? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In fact, I began to sense a greater underlying pattern to the way the wind moved through the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I wondered if maybe I should’ve sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie for Father’s Day after all. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And in the intricate traffic pattern, as you try to find your way through, there’s no possibility of seeing anything. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was perhaps a change in the wind’s sound, or a change in the pattern of the sound of the sea that first warned him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She also claimed you didn’t need patterns to sew, you could get creative and wing it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z And about the patterns you can make if you pile cannon balls. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Studies have been done, in fact, in which experts in a given field have analyzed such random phenomena and come up with cogent “explanations” for the patterns. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Spaced here and there in the walls, in a pleasingful pattern, are holes. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He’s gorgeous in a navy-blue suit and a tie that, upon closer inspection, is patterned with little yellow roses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Data scientists analyze data, separate the noise from the signal, discern patterns, draw conclusions, and recommend actions based on the results.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He looked out at the river, at its eddies and swirls, the patterns forming on its surface and disappearing. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Without speaking, the RECOs marched away from one another, fanning out in their standard search pattern. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The blade is etched along the fuller with a barely visible pattern of vines. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The information content of these pulses is negligible: a succession of simple numerical patterns coded into beeps. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The standing waves in these carefully-shaped-and-sized idiophones — for example, the blocks on a xylophone — produce pitched tones, but again, the patterns of standing waves in these instruments are a little too complicated for this discussion. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And during that time a pattern of hunt and parry has developed. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They are due to windblown dust, the patterns varying with the seasonal winds. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The web glistened in the light and made a pattern of loveliness and mystery, like a delicate veil. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Here, in this microcosm, we must look for those factors that somehow shift the marvelously functioning mechanisms of the cell out of their normal patterns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His regular features, his short haircut, the cut of his suit, the pattern of his foulard necktie gave out no really final information. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The noon sun filtered through the leaves of the fine oak tree where she sat and made lacy patterns on the ground. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The same pattern holds true for military organization. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking up between the trees, he could see puffy bits of cloud, and patches of blue sky, and the pattern of them kept changing in the wind. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Hanging on his chest, which was otherwise bare, was a white disk with a spiral pattern on it. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Melodies emerge, patterns that I couldn’t quite make sense of at the time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He tinkered with the box for what seemed forever as the black-and-white patterns zigzagged across the screen. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Holly could alter, cut a pattern, and sew like she was doing nothing harder than threading a needle. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for that is one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z My mind is already speeding, thinking of designs and patterns and colors. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Such a dress could be made of leather or linen, it might be plain, or Mo might imprint a pattern on it with his tiny decorative stamps. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I bought some food for my journey, some candies for the little ones, and a dress pattern and some cloth for my mother. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But mostly I just saw endless grass, weedless, freshly mown into a diamond pattern. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun and leaves patterned the windshield, hiding the people inside. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Staring at the delicate patterns, he wondered why he had never noticed this all before. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Actually, you can hardly call them that, since they’re nothing but scraps of fabric, varying greatly in shape, quality and pattern, which Father and I stitched crookedly together with unskilled fingers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It was a long way, and hard to navigate, but by watching the patterns of movement, they finally found her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Twelve massive black stones were arranged on the hilltop in the same pattern, resembling the features of a human skull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z They’re familiar with the musical genres, timbres, modes, and instruments, rhythmic and melodic patterns, and have learned the culturally acceptable cadences, harmonies, texture, and so forth. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z They rarely attended training academies or steeped themselves in the emerging scientific methods of detection, such as the analysis of fingerprints and blood patterns. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Behind the wall is a world of dark lines and streaks of light, sequenced into detailed patterns. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Momma said, “That child would stumble over the pattern in a rug. Go on, Brother Taylor, did she say any more?” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Red chased the swaying patterns while his master swept and dusted, scrubbed the floor and scoured the toilet and cleared the desk of literary accumulations. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z And once you start specifying long and short notes in a chain, you generate a rhythmic pattern. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z There were so many other things going on so quickly in those three minutes that we couldn’t find the pattern. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A few weeks earlier she had refused to accept a segregated seating pattern at a meeting of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Her slender fingers traced a gold thread on the skirt through its intricate leaf pattern. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Some chatted with neighbors, some looked up at the gilt ceiling, some studied the pattern of the Oriental rug. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Pine needles covered the floor in thick patterns; someone had carefully arranged the yellow, green, and brown pine needles according to age. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s more, the workshop’s stone floor rose and fell in a gentle pattern of peaks and troughs to guide the spills toward those drains. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The men’s admissions pattern was analogous to Gehrig’s hitting pattern—coming to bat more often during the second half of the season when getting a hit is easier. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They fanned their wings in slow motion as they made their way up her long, pale dress from the hem up to her neckline, forming an intricate floral pattern. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z "Just because there was a pattern in the past doesn’t mean that it still holds true," he says. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I admired the graceful gold-and-pink rose pattern on the translucent bone china and figured that some of the trappings of civilization weren’t so bad after all. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z It looked like some strange, magical pattern of great power. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes were puffy and my Band-Aids made a patchwork pattern on my legs and arms. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z But music that is in D minor will have a different quality, because the notes in the minor scale follow a different pattern and so have different relationships with each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “I learned from here. I just make a paper pattern, and when it looks right I pin it to the cloth and cut.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z If his absorption were a pattern of light, though, Sarai’s was a scribble of darkness. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Major keys, for example, always follow the same pattern of half steps and whole steps. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z They had matching freckles and strawberry blonde hair, and they wore dresses cut from the same pattern. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I would do the work but I would be no one except myself—whoever I was, I would pattern my life on that of the Founder. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinka patterns again—the kind that were given to the boys in Salva’s village as part of the ritual of becoming a man. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re all wearing different patterned fabrics, and the colors are so bright that it’s weirdly punk rock. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z There are two letters from Madoc, but they just seem to be about which knights will be at the coronation and in what pattern around the central dais. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The later pattern was for Jefferson to provide the sweeping vision while Madison managed the messier particulars. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z They watched for the pattern that meant progress. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z These events repeated a pattern that was age-old, a pattern that had made the Miramichi one of the finest salmon streams in North America. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A woman rushed up to his side, her cornrows a tight and intricate pattern on her head. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I decided to take a notebook and simply write down words or subjects she liked or disliked and see if there was a pattern. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, this pattern occurred again and again in the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The salon was furnished in gold and teal, one wall patterned entirely in peacock feathers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She’s got art supplies around her and is busy cutting out cardboard pumpkin patterns. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Stars, spattered out through lifeless night from end to end, like jewels scattered in a dead king’s grave, tease, torment my wits toward meaningful patterns that do not exist. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Who would have thought those five words could fall into such a pattern of light? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I came to recognize all the crack patterns and each type of canvas and stretcher used by every school of art. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Thick rugs with intricate patterns covered half the floor, while the other half was raw cement. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This praise went to Johnny’s head, but patterning his manners on Rab’s he tried not to show it. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Rhythm occurs in a melody, in the accompaniment, and uses combinations of short and long durations to create patterns and entire compositions. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Although their flight appeared to have no pattern, it made a certain kind of sense to the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That made it easy to line them up correctly and spot the patterns they needed. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Following the snakelike pattern with my eyes, in no time I knew exactly where I was, for I knew every bend in the river. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The alternating pattern of light and dark suggests sunlight falling through the leaves in the woods. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Beyond the roof of the warehouse the ’hood lay in smoldering darkness, the amber lights of the sleepless glaring, forming odd patterns of bothered art. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “You mean that God might even decide to punish me by giving us a looser bomb pattern?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z She admires the sea, a calm, brilliant turquoise to her left, and the familiar pattern of royal palms dotting the landscape. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing a padded crimson doublet patterned with lions and a cloth-of-gold cape with a high collar that framed his face. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She wore tights woven in an intentionally chaotic pattern with purposeful rips. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The sofa beneath her was patterned with roses. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All that was found of her was a tiny hand with a henna pattern on the palm and a few plastic bangles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The room contained an iron bedstead covered with a faded quilt of a Double Wedding Ring pattern. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z "It just says 'pattern.' So what is it, a sewing type of thing?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged, watching the patterns the wind made in the fountain’s spray. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Down at Pier 57, the Great Wheel pinwheels and flashes through brilliant color patterns: electric violets, neon greens, siren reds. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I had made it myself from a Simplicity pattern and cinched it at the waist with a white patent- leather belt borrowed from Mrs. Baxter. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z From the outside, it presented a stone facade carved in a pattern of lizards and pomegranates. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z I believed my family was a part of this immortal pattern, that we were, in some sense, eternal. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I went through it, page by page, studying all the pictures and running my fingers lightly over the caterpillars and the bright wings of the butterflies and the many patterns on them. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They can’t be expected to learn the languages of all the different species they deal with, babbling across the galaxy, some of them speaking in smells or patterned light. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Death is all over them—in the mottled patterns of their battered torsos, the eggplant purple on bloodless white; in the sinking, hollowed eye sockets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z When I came back in the Store, I took Momma’s hand and we both walked outside to look at the pattern. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Slivers of pattern, some wider than the others, some not quite as evenly lined up as the rest. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When they ceased the bombardments, however, the emissions continued in the same pattern as one would expect from a naturally occurring radioactive isotope. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The leaves made designs on the background of the sky, intricate patterns that shifted with any slightest breeze. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The immense diversity of imagined realities that Sapiens invented, and the resulting diversity of behaviour patterns, are the main components of what we call ‘cultures’. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Their wings have a special pattern of interlocked feathers so they can fly silently through the air,” Kaylee is saying. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z At first it seems arbitrary, then I see a pattern, like an intricate maze, appearing in the moonlight on Beetee’s side. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The younger brother’s life had suddenly fitted into a pattern and recognized itself. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But as the stars that outline a spiral arm burn out, new stars and their associated nebulae are formed just behind them, and the spiral pattern persists. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When a crest from one piston runs into a trough from the other, the two cancel out; if you look carefully at the pattern of ripples, you can see lines of still, wave-free water. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The result is a characteristic pattern of light and dark fringes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, she saw the patterns emerging with crystal clarity. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “Right. Everyone, lock and load. V flight pattern. Establish a perimeter inside the Manor grounds.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The Game and Fish Commission predicted that even without further pollution the pattern of the fish population of the river would be altered for years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had been working in a tidal pattern so long that he could feel a tide change in his sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A careful pattern of colored stones decorated the station beneath Lumbly’s farm, and wooden slabs covered the walls of Sam’s station. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I study the fake wood pattern in the closest cafeteria table and try not to show how much I suddenly wish I could be scouting Squaretail Brook with him. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z In 1705, of course, when he noticed the pattern of regular reappearance; though his improved prediction of 1717 is worthy of note. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I was three and a half years old and remember lying on the backseat watching slippery raindrops making patterns as they plopped down the car’s windows. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I sat in the jet this afternoon, flying home from New Orleans, and looked out the window to the patterns of a December countryside far below. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Robin was a little younger than Ivy’s mom, and she always wore stuff that had fruit patterns on it, but not in a weird way. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And he really did set off those bombs when he was a freshman, which when you stop to consider sort of shows a pattern—an actual pattern. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z They were random, just patterns of dots on that strange pink sheet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z I turned our bucket upside down, sat on it, pulled a length of string from my pocket, and wove it into a fanciful pattern around my fingers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The edges that bordered the vast opening were smooth, except for one odd, repeating pattern on both sides. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The rings are seen by looking down on the lens from above, and the phenomenon is related to the way a thin layer of oil on water produces a swirling pattern of colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The goal of a leitmotif is to help the listener identify the main characters and give each a very short musical pattern, so that every time their name is mentioned, someone plays that pattern. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Threads of silver ended almost at my waist in a woven pattern of silver studded with tiny pearls. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The song “A Ram Sam Sam,” for example, is a traditional Moroccan folk song that contains many simple repeating patterns. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z I feel the rhythm in my walking, a regular pattern like subway station tile, like a pulse between my ears. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Ma had calico for a dress, too; it was brown, with a big, feathery white pattern all over it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z There are also miniature chocolate leopards, and strawberries coated in looping patterns of dark and white chocolates. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The following pentatonic scale, for example, is not simply another transposition of the "black key" pentatonic scale; the pattern of intervals between the notes is different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z If we were shrunk to the level of the neurons, we might witness elaborate, intricate, evanescent patterns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The house is full of patterns that she has cut.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In the northern sky, for example, there is a pattern, or constellation, that looks a little ursine. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then, Nemo walked in, wearing an Edwardian waistcoat, pleated black pants, a starched white shirt, and a cravat patterned in blue and gray. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Seth examined his sleeves for ticks, scrutinizing the camouflage pattern. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Anyway, during the first practice the coach kept us running patterns that were supposed to end in an easy layup for one of the forwards. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z I studied the pattern of pink roses on my plate. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The clumps, runs, and patterns that random sequences evince can to an extent be predicted. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She touched the raised pattern with a knobby finger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Here was one of the white man’s most characteristic behavior patterns—where black men are concerned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry sweated on the keys so that they turned hazy along the pattern of the Minuet in G. Nothing Mother or SanJuanna tried could bring the sheen back to the ivory. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A change in the pattern of geyser eruptions might also be taken as a clue, he said, but these too vary unpredictably. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z On the ground, he couldn’t see that the streets, which were paved in various shades of stone, were laid out in a complex geometric pattern so that the city looked like a giant mosaic. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Golds, light yellows deepening to vibrant orange, reds from the palest pink to the darkest crimson, greens, all shades, threaded in their intricate patterns, told the history of the world and its Rum. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tired players searching through the rough, sweeping back and forth in long systematic patterns. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And she did; her mind was awash in patterns and textures, the perfect lines to the dresses. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he turned to her again, tracing a pattern down her sternum with his finger. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There really are broad patterns to history, and the search for their explanation is as productive as it is fascinating. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. went up to them all friendly, with his hand stuck out, but I kept loading the wagon and looking at the patterns on the sacks. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His mind turned sluggishly in the pattern of Adam and almost wearily took up a thought he had hoped was finished. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z This was a process that involved lining up messages to detect new patterns that could unlock the cipher. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z A ragged winter sparrow flew in patterns against the smoky sky and at last came to light on a gable of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The same betting pattern went on, with each new card, right around to the last card. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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