| 单词 | plot |
| 例句 | Mary shuddered every time she left the house and was plotting her escape from Cherry Hill almost as soon as she got there. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z And here we are, risking our lives to fight the Dark Arts, and there he was, in a huddle with his new best friend, plotting their rise to power over the Muggles.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Powell sighs, pleased that the hardest part of the plot is behind him. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z In his view, the Amazon’s first inhabitants laboriously cleared small plots with their stone axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He prepared for his part of the plot that morning by walking past Secretary of State Seward’s home on Madison Place, checking for the best possible ways in and out of the building. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “It’s in the SOE instructor’s handbook. People who are smiling and singing don’t appear to be plotting a counterattack. If you go around looking worried, someone will start to wonder what you’re worrying about.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And the moment he is out, he and Thome will begin to plot again. —and tie him to his horse, he might have said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I know, it’s unfortunate. She’s not part of the plot line. It makes it difficult, but you still have to find her.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Some other men even persuaded General Pupo to join the plot. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “You were a part of this plot to escape!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But concerning his subjects, when external affairs do not change, he has to fear that they may be plotting in secret. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Our house is on a cement plot near the East River. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z While the dialogue occasionally falters, you have to admire daytime dramas for their remarkable attention to plot. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Being hated on the one hand and despised on the other, he was plotted against and murdered. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Well, whatever we were plotting, it obviously didn’t happen. He’s practically the king of the school.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z In the statewide newsletter “NEWS from KLANSVILLE,” Klansmen learned of nefarious plots against whites such as fluoridation and gun control. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During my teens, as I came to this realization, I veered gradually from the plotted course, and then sharply. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the sheer genius of the plot began to sink in, they all started grinning. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "I can't help but wonder how Hitler knew so quickly it was a Communist plot." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z We’re walking home from the park plotting out what we want our first year of high school to be like. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Probably she had crushed her hand while swinging round one of the big kaleidoscopes on which the plots of novels were “roughed in.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She spent a fair amount of time on Google Maps plotting, but to no avail. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z A new rumor was spreading: The gangs were hatching a plot to burn black families out. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The plot of Aristophanes’ satirical play The Frogs of 405 bc, for instance, like the story of Orpheus and Euridice, concerns a life-or- death poetry and singing competition in the Underworld. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “The cemetery plot. I need the deed to get the grave opened.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z What was unique about Alex is that this farmer sold plots of land to some of the black tenants in the time before it was illegal for blacks to own property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Hamilton was aware of the Federalist plot, which was no half-baked scheme hatched by marginal figures, involving as it did several Federalist senators from New England and Timothy Pickering, the former secretary of state. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For at the start and for several decades thereafter, it remained a vast and nearly vacant plot of ground. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Yet, in hindsight, the fact that Hale appeared to have played no role in the Whitehorn plot was the very reason the killing was so important. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Pascal and Patrice helped me scratch up a little plot that eventually produced a few bleak, dusty bouquets of spinach and beans, which were gobbled up one night by our neighbor’s goat. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Pretty angry with me, but for all the right reasons. Not telling him about the rebel plot and whatnot.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “He did not know, Gregor! He did not know of Henry’s plot any more than I!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “My maps work in the Bronx. But I can’t make them work here. No streets, corners. I can’t plot my escape.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z "A cowardly plot! Another Jewish plot to bring Germany to its knees, to cripple the Fatherland." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Students began organizing into groups to plot strategy for a peaceful rally in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Soweto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And there Wasn’t a thing he could say without helping the plot all the more. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z One of them had a strange, secret-basement plot that led me astray, while I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, into long fantasies that felt sinful. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I take deep breaths, pushing the rage aside, plotting instead of giving way. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “So, are you saying we aren’t going to concoct an elaborate revenge plot to get back at her?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z They might be plotting servile insurrection, those long hard words that meant death to the master, death to the slave, too. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, Lyra, who was a cartographer, would plot the course and calculate the distance. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Some women did indeed spend their days in rote service to the day’s task, plotting data with blithe indifference, routing torrents of numbers as nonchalantly as the calculating machines they cradled. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z When they came in from the fields, Cora cleaned up the mess that had been made of her plot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “If Ms. Crane were plotting an assassination, let’s see how we’d fare in diverting the course of history.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He was brought into the plot for his encyclopedic knowledge of the smuggling routes from Washington, D.C., into the Deep South. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Though John Surratt had been a conspirator in the kidnapping plot, he was not even in Washington on the evening of the assassination. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some plots sported brick pathways and flower borders, while others looked haphazard. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In railroad offices in Mexico City, in a large control room, computers plot train routes with blue and green lines, and at least once every six months the screens flicker, then black out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We kept our plot secret while we worked out its details. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s weird when you come to a spot in the story where the plot could go either way, you know?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It turns out that the whole canasta group are wives of supporters of the plot. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z To this day, it is ubiquitous in the slash-and-burn plots that surround every riverside hamlet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The letters not only provided irrefutable proof that the children had been with Holmes but contained geographic references that allowed Geyer to plot the broad contours of the route Holmes and the children had followed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The plot was conceived by Middleton: after Lewis was killed, the plan was to use a female associate to impersonate her so that the friends could collect the headright payments. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Loki, who plotted and planned as easily as other folk breathed in and out, smiled at Thor’s anger and innocence. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Lamar and Sam Houston followed twenty yards behind, nudging and plotting. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Adrian elbowed me on his way out, likely already plotting his revenge. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z My mother had a habit of standing over me while I plotted out my games. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Given that corruption seemed to permeate every institution in Osage County, these sources might be intentionally spreading disinformation in order to conceal the real plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In his role as a producer, Houseman met his partner in the October 1938 plot. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z "Without meaning ..." "He could be making plots with my uncles. I want him seized and questioned." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They were twisting and turning and pointing their beaks toward the sun as they took their readings and plotted their courses south. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s really a very innocent little pig. He doesn’t even know what’s going to happen to him around Christmastime; he has no idea that Air. Zuckerman and Lurvy are plotting to kill him.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The image of her grandmother assaulting another slave didn’t jibe with Cora’s recollections of the woman, but once she started tending to the plot she understood the truth of the portrait. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Maybe the episode is about some evil people plotting to blow up Kunu Yaku, and his assignment is to find the bomb and save us all. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An opera was a series of songs, linked by a plot. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Babi taught her to derive the quadratic equation, showed her how to factor polynomials and plot parametric curves. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z For them it was a tool to reckon the passage of the days and to maintain plots of land. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z But there is no longer a Confederacy, no longer a kidnapping plot, no longer a need for a boat, and certainly no longer a need for a smuggler—at least in Atzerodt’s mind. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Water ran in forgotten bathtubs, poured out into living rooms, onto porches, and down through little garden plots to feed neglected flowers. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The use of music to build characters through sound expression; create tension in the narrative; highlight important moments in the plot, and so forth, are examples of the high compatibility between words and music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z My own plot was of greater interest to me then. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s initial draft of the Declaration of Independence had included language that described the slave trade as the perverse plot of an evil English monarch designed to contaminate innocent colonists. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I still remember bits and pieces of the plot, but everything’s fuzzy. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Claiming a Communist plot, Hitler declared a national emergency. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I know these two plots will come together like matter and antimatter, annihilating me in the explosion, but I see no way out. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The executives who had secretly plotted and carried out the destruction of America’s light rail network were fined $1 each. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Avoiding Lola's gaze the whole while, she proceeded to outline the plot, even as its stupidity began to overwhelm her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Folding his arms over his tummy, Nathan looked at the empty cornfield, where rows of parallel plots looked like dark brown scabs. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The old metal gates hanging off the hinges were gone, and the headstones were barely visible through the thick tangles of weeds that had claimed the plot. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For we discover that some of them always lived nobly and demonstrated great strength of character, yet nevertheless lost their empire or were killed by their own soldiers who plotted against them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, the captain and I plot the parrot’s end. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It makes you want to choose the characters, build the scenery, guide the plot. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Washington never revealed Mulligan’s achievements, but some historians say the tailor exposed two plots to kill Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael O’Laughlen, a twenty-eight-year-old childhood friend of Booth’s, another former Confederate soldier and participant in the kidnapping plot, was also arrested on the seventeenth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They had discovered a fiendish plot involving marrying Violet and stealing the Baudelaire fortune. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Booth also has left behind clues—among them a business card bearing the name J. Harrison Surratt and a letter from Samuel Arnold, who had been part of the kidnapping plot, that implicates Michael O’Laughlen. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There, among the pink vanities with baskets of little towels and talcum powder and brushes, we come up with our plot. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Time to do what he did best—plot dastardly acts. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z They buried him in a grave dug in the center of the plot destined for the cemetery, with a stone on which they wrote the only thing they knew about him: Melquíades. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Her body was laid in a plot where Tom could see the grass growing over her. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She’d managed to convince him to give her a tour under the pretense of extreme boredom—when, in fact, she’d used every moment to plot a dozen escape routes from her room. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The remaining five, however, the senior five, will be stalking in and out of the plot with considerable frequency, like so many Banquo’s ghosts. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z His guest had been outraged, his own life on a former occasion had been hideously plotted against; and both attempts he smothered in secrecy and sank in oblivion! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Had she missed another lengthy lecture on a movie plot and the dreaminess of the leading man? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “What if he’s plotting a sinister takeover of Miami and we’re the only ones who can stop him?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I have no business plotting or predicting anything for this girl. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z In one notorious plot of 1861, local rebels schemed to assassinate the president-elect when his railroad train passed through Baltimore on the way to Washington for his first inauguration. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result these black pioneers stayed, some bought plots of land, established families and called Alexandra home, sweet home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z To ease her restlessness she crept out to her plot and sat on her maple and smelled the air and listened. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We pass the plot where Mateo buried that bird this morning, back when I was still a stranger on a bike. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Me as a young boy in Masitala village, no doubt plotting some mischief to cause my mother grief. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The city’s mayor, Ole Hanson, declared that the walkout was not really a strike at all but a Communist plot to change the very fabric of America. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Guards would rush to protect those threatened in the plot, and the conspirators would be hunted down. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I know now what she meant, that I should stay with them, to tend our little plot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z By then it was exhausting: the plotting of her cycle, the waiting, the calls to the doctor. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined in the plot against me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My brother obtained a job and we began to save toward the trip north, plotting our time, setting tentative dates for departure. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Van Niekerk said that he would prove to the court that the accused, with help from other countries, were plotting to overthrow the existing government by violence and impose a Communist government on South Africa. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost all of the sons of the founders were implicated, although none of them knew concretely what action they were plotting. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z On the TV screen, a girl and a boy plotted to set their best friends up on a date. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The next stop is a small unpainted wooden house with tiny windows, sitting on a large plot of land. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Three of the castle-servants barred their way, sullen and questioning, as if they had been suspecting some plot of these two against their master. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for Zeno, Nearchus found out about the plot, and Zeno was arrested. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was hardly surprising then that we assumed the woods would be central in the plot to abduct Miss Geraldine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t think that any of us really believed that Leonid Brezhnev was sitting in the deep, dark rooms of the Kremlin, plotting to drop an atomic bomb on Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It was, evidently, a plot within a plot, and White suddenly became suspicious of the litany of dead witnesses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “They’re everywhere. We even found a Frenchman in one of our crews, with a plot to blow up our powder room. Luckily, his pronunciation gave him away.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Initially, they made ends meet in part by selling off plots of their twenty-six acres where they’d raised animals and had some orchards. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Mrs. Castro had been plotting the attack for several months before the party, shortly after her husband left. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z In the past, they had shaped the landscape mainly with fire; the ax came out only for garden plots of marshelder and little barley. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The plot was interesting, at least, about a rogue treasure hunter with a Talent for changing his face—a chameleon, he was called. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I spent all week plotting every minute of it in my head. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z So was the age of characters and plots. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Ooh . . .” The plot of the film was extremely simple. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z White would need to tie up these loose ends, but at last a witness had emerged who could directly implicate Hale in the plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Nearby were the plots for Mollie’s murdered sisters and her murdered brother-in-law, Bill Smith, and her murdered mother, Lizzie, and her murdered first husband, Henry Roan. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She flew home to Kansas and arrived by taxi on Saturday morning at her family’s plot at a graveyard in Wichita just as the funeral service began. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Or a plot on some TV show I saw late one night. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z AT THE cemetery, the crowds gathered like moss around the plot, where a Jesuit from San Cecilia, with the sign of the cross, scattered earth over the coffin. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z He pondered Mr. Ludsbury’s exclusion from the plot of the fat old men as we watched his figure, reedy even in his winter wraps, move away from us. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Leahy outlined the alleged facts of the insurance murder plot in a matter-of-fact voice. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “And she plotted her directional line too,” I say, pointing to the little pebbles lined up there. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In his village, people farmed the tiniest plots outside their homes and planted useful vegetables and herbs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The compass is for orienteering—finding your way with a map—and saves you a lot of time plotting your course. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, Bobby’s fears were thought by some to be incipient paranoia, and although it was highly unlikely that the KGB was plotting against him, even paranoids can have real enemies. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Then after about a minute, just as I knew she would, she began to outline to me the plot of Daniel Deronda. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody plotted the Agricultural Revolution or sought human dependence on cereal cultivation. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Jaimito called Lio a troublemaker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for asylum, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Colin had played with the Theorem so much that he knew from the numbers what it would look like, but he still went through the motions of plotting each point. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He might have persuaded the others to take part in whatever it was that he was plotting. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was my plot of earth, my cubbyhole. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tallmadge, remembering the “Anderson” order from Arnold, felt that Anderson and Arnold were plotting something. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And plot a route to Schiaparelli using a grainy satellite map. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z How many times had she imagined him lying awake there, plotting murder and revolt? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “You tryna get us all arrested with your plots of kidnapping a cop.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “I ran away when I heard my sass and sassur plotting to get rid of me so my husband could marry again and get another dowry.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z And I felt that I perceived the anatomy of the plotting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He started walking again, nattering on and on about plots and conspiracies and battle plans and secrets, but truth be told, my mind drifted. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I thought of the unearned haughtiness in her eyes, I plotted accidental slammings of locker doors on her hand. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And never, though she dreamed and plotted as she scrubbed the iron kettles and churned the butter and bellowed up the fire, never a chance to take the calf money home. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand maps, Etienne. Minutes, seconds, declination adjustments? You know these things. All you have to do is find them, plot them, and broadcast the coordinates.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “I see your plot,” she says with a wary, sideways look. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sneaked around, plotted, and stepped out every night the girl demanded. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He reigned supreme for half a century and his early offerings, Nabucco included, had plots carefully chosen to whip up the Italian people’s desire for self-government, the movement known as the Risorgimento. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z While in a New York jail, he overheard a fellow convict boasting about being a member of a gang plotting to kidnap Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe the whole confession had been orchestrated by Hale—another one of his plots within a plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The framed photograph of her burial plot still stood on her bedside table for reassurance. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Friends within warned me that there was a plot afoot to teach me a lesson for not showing up at the gang’s fights. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Looking at the posters and seeing his own name there, Archie plotted how his own fifty boxes would be sold. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Agatha Christie couldn’t have erected a more chilling, more perfect plot. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's Showboat of 1927 was a turning point in this respect, demonstrating what a well-written, clearly structured musical with a thought-provoking plot could be. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He asked me if I was sure I wasn’t working up some kind of plot against the Threarah and he got awfully angry and suspicious. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so close to Pong that she could practically smell him, but in her heart she knew that the plot she had just learned about was more important. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid said that she had overheard Mexican ghosts plotting on her life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His light- brown eyes were polite yet maleficent, as though he was making an effort to be civil to the photographer while plotting to murder his wife. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, while Dad retreated to the living room and Mom fumed in the kitchen, the football boys from Coalwood gathered in Jim’s room, plotting futile anarchy. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A freedman who had plotted to free others violently. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Running down the hill on the other side was the vegetable garden, the rhubarb plot, the dahlia beds. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was awake half the night thinking it all over, and I believe it’s a plot to get the house.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Let them all watch Cain, let them plot against him. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Unlike the young women in the novels of Jane Austen, Emma Wedgwood was not mooning over Charles or plotting for a marriage. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Viewing Lomanitz as a dangerous leftist, they plotted to remove him from sensitive nuclear research via the simple expedient of drafting him into the army. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “A few months ago, he and his friends were involved in a plot to get rid of our dictator.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Booth’s remains were moved to his family’s plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z There was a tall wooden fence all around the yard, and to the left and right of our yard were other, identical fenced plots. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Somewhere beneath those roofs, the Sons of the Harpy were gathered, plotting ways to kill her and all those who loved her and put her children back in chains. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “If that were the case,” Tocco said, “you wouldn’t have been able to sell a cemetery plot in this town, let alone a house or a business.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Life had made the plot over and over again, to the extent that I knew it by heart. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Highness,” he said, in one last attempt, “I have not yet, from a single spy, heard a single word about a single plot against the Princess.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Write down the names of those who know of this plot.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The plot failed and the Junkers were executed. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Does he actually think I’m stupid enough to accept his “help”? This is a trick he’s plotted with his mother. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z This might be the place where the thieving plots were laid. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z I walked between the rows of beans, climbing up a twine grid, and the low, bushy vines spilling squash across the plot. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z If I’d punched an Indian in the face, then he would have spent days plotting his revenge. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “A plot to get this house? Are you actually as stupid as you look?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The plot line itself, to finish up, is largely the result of a rather unholy collaborative effort. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z At a husky thirteen, he could shoe a horse, build a cabinet, and plot to escape to Pennsylvania someday. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She reminds me of myself—wanting to be the best, researching and plotting and planning to make sure I am ahead of everyone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z My companion, however, thought I wanted to know about the plot of the book. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell from the names and the plot summary. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Among other plots, Harvey attempted to damage Castro's public image by adding chemicals to his cigars that would have made him seem confused and incoherent. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “What have you done with me, witch, sorceress? Who is in the room besides you? Have you plotted to drown me?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Their plot, escape, and arrival were the elements of an elaborate living play. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I welcomed the opportunity to be by myself, to plan, to think, to plot. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Tally looked down, plotting trajectories from the hilltop, shushing David when he started to speak again, the wheels of her brain spinning. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Our plot was to unfold at the banquet celebrating the twentieth year of King Hamlet’s rule. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Two other captured conspirators, Michael O’Laughlen and Sam Arnold, had already confessed everything they knew about the plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The plot circumvented, Washkar went to work eliminating any remaining objections to his accession. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “He’s always been sure the Greeks were out there, plotting against us. He thought Percy was a spy.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Yet in that dream he had had, just before he had awoken with his scar hurting, Voldemort had not been alone ... he had been talking to Wormtail. . . plotting Harry’s murder. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z There had to be plotting behind the concerned expression. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Were they plotting something out there in the quarter? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It smelled of deceit, of whispers and lies and plots hatched in the dark, all the things he’d hoped to leave behind with the Spider and Lord Littlefinger and their ilk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was her turn now to become a heroine if only she could come up with a brilliant plot. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z A pair of actors trapped in a recondite play with no hint of plot or narrative. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If you plot the beak sizes of finches, the points fit on a continuous curve. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I didn’t add that I knew from Nelson’s remarks that Leandro and Manolo and Minerva were involved in a serious plot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As he made his way toward us, collecting fares and punching tickets, we would plot our escape. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Axel’s home is nestled onto a plot of land that was a gift. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z She knew there was a plot, but she didn't know exactly what they were doing. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A large plot stretched behind it with a cistern, a privy, a poor excuse for a garden, and at the far end, a carriage house and small stable. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z In his mesmerizing voice, Shelton laid out the awful plot against the white race and its pinnacle of nobility, Southerners. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He confessed that he participated in Booth’s earlier scheme to kidnap the president, but he denied involvement in, or knowledge of, the assassination plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She nudges both children to talk about what happens in school, to recount the plots of the books they read, and to discuss current events. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z But then, call it coincidence, call it plot, the man's gun went off again in the distance, and I realized he was in the orange grove hunting. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Vernie and the rest of the family retreat across the grassy slope, toward the grave plot that was meant to be mine. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On a college visit to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge the summer before senior year, Sasha met a fellow fan of the intricately plotted web comic Homestuck on a subway platform. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A desire to inherit this estate was ostensibly the motivation behind Lowell Lee’s plot to destroy his family. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as you have revealed your intention to one malcontent, you give him the means to make himself content, since he can have everything he desires by revealing the plot. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z That’s pretty much how it went for Meryl Lee and me until recess, which had become a whole lot safer since Mrs. Baker’s failed assassination plot. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z But your phone and computer are bringing you a plot that is about your life. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z But the Justice Department warned of a possible plot on his life, one of several death threats he had received. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z A modern novelist could no more write characters and plots than a modern composer could a Mozart symphony. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z At three and four and five, children may not be able to follow complicated plots and subplots. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Before she lit out she dug up every yam from their plot, a cumbersome load and ill-advised for a journey that required a fleet foot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z ‘No! I heard that one of them has got something, something that’s wanted for the War, some elvish plot or other. Anyway they’ll both be questioned.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Now he was plotting to steal from it, to desecrate it. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Everyone was settled and the playwright was about to begin her little speech summarizing the plot and evoking the excitement of performing before an adult audience tomorrow evening in the library. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Soon some Japanese leased small plots of land and entered into business for themselves. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z No traditional service, no burial in the family plot. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She conferred with Ted Skopinski, consulted her textbooks, and did her own plotting. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z William Faulkner was excited to be working on a plot that starred men and women flying together to defeat the Nazis. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He wondered how many of them were part of this plot against him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘You soon broke down. Anyone would have thought you had a guilty conscience. I hope it was nothing worse than a wicked plot to steal one of my blankets.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mendel’s garden plot may have been small—but he did not confuse its size with that of his scientific ambition. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The first color to return was the simmering brown-red of the soil in her family’s plot. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He probably wished he’d come with her and was likely plotting some way to ditch us. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Stanton suspected the participation in the plot by other theater employees: How else could Booth have escaped so smoothly and easily? Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet there was the body which Miss Rosa saw, which Judith buried in the family plot beside her mother. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Each had a small, rectangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Each had a small, rec-tangular plot of lawn in front, with a straight line of dull-looking flowers edging the path to the door. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One INS officer’s only job is to move the sensors to outsmart smugglers who try to plot their locations. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the few years before forest recovers the plot, farmers can eke something out of the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Television, after all, has plots that, while interesting, are not personal. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z One man even put up a pole and flew the Philippine flag above his plot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon s gullet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I had spent years learning about Bigger, what had made him, what he meant; so, when the time came for writing, what had made him and what he meant constituted my plot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And just like that, the four of us are sitting with Dad plotting and planning: Bronx Museum, Studio Museum, El Museo del Barrio. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z And that was not the end of the plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Julia plotting with her other friends makes me feel like she is picking them over us. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Since my dream of the nameless boy I have been plotting plotting. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z When it came down to it, though, I don’t recall our taking many practical steps towards defending Miss Geraldine; our activities always revolved around gathering more and more evidence concerning the plot itself. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It resolved itself into a plot about a villain who wanted a widow’s home and I called it The Voodoo of Hell’s Half-Acre. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The house itself was identical to hundreds of others built on postage-stamp-size plots on dirt roads. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Yossarian was the squadron’s leading authority on internment and had already begun plotting an emergency heading into Switzerland on every mission he flew into northernmost Italy. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z On one side, the parrot and I plot mutiny. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I don’t know how he’s found a plot so quickly, unless it belonged to someone else, and that someone else no longer has a place to be buried. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Saidy suggested that there was an actual plot to keep Fischer from becoming World Champion, and this involved the wiretapping of his parents’ phone. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Okay, so maybe that wasn’t the happy plot twist we thought it would be. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She knew now they plotted her child’s death in her own hall, for once more Medon, who had heard them, told her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They plot how they will try again, using knowledge gained from previous attempts. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They warned that the Jews were plotting to take over Germany. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The curve of growth can be plotted as an exponential line—1, 2-, 4-, 8-, 16-fold growth—until the culture turns turbid, and the sugar source has been exhausted. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z These points had been carefully plotted on maps by mail carriers, the workers who knew the city best. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The rest of the picture was divided neatly into little farm plots, each with its mud hut, each with its creaking well. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Matty glanced over to the corner of their homeplace’s plot of land, beyond the garden, to the small grave where they had buried Branch two years before. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “We all know Professor Moody considers the morning wasted if he hasn’t discovered six plots to murder him before lunchtime,” said Karkaroff loudly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He’s right, of course, but neither can I prove that Big Foot doesn’t own a small plot of land outside Havana. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Cruel are they and many who plot against him, to take his life before he can return.” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I could increase my running and plot out a new loop that takes me right by the Gardens of Glenwood. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z She was buried with her people in the cemetery behind First Congregational, straight in front of the headstone that marked the family plot, not far from her grandfather of the perfect picket fence. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Before I could plot a logical course through the icefall, the wind came up, and snow began to slant hard out of the clouds, stinging my face and reducing visibility to almost nothing. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We gather in a semicircle next to our garden plot. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z That was half the plot; the second half was: Goodbye, Perry. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z When Ajarry planted there, soon after her long march to the plantation, the plot was a rumble of dirt and scrub behind her cabin, at the end of the line of slave quarters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This may work, if the images don't clash: Frieda viewed her marriage as a tight ship, but Lorenzo was plotting a mutiny. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She called it “our secret plot to be able to get away without getting our throats cut.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z To be locked within boundaries plotted by priests and politicians would be the only thing more intolerable. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Sophiatown was one of the few places in the Transvaal where Africans had been able to buy stands, or plots, prior to the 1923 Urban Areas Act. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I was happy whenever I understood the plot and summarized it, but this was not good enough. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Few Americans knew that a group of adults was plotting a different sort of mischief for October 30,1938. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He admired the sycamores, rising like important ideas from pedestrian plots of short grass. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d go out there, eager to take part in whatever his uncles were plotting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Was Hamlet, too, an actor in Claudius’s malevolent plot, forced into the role of villain on the stage of his mother’s room? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was his mother, not his father, who had put his life at risk by plotting an escape when he was thirteen. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Soon they plot to murder German children in their beds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And when Vaughan had gone to see Bigheart on his deathbed, perhaps Bigheart had incriminated not only Hale but also Burt in the murder plots. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In his head Palmer plotted a course that, except for the final half block, kept him in alleyways. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Jimmy sang along with Waylon as he took the turn into the plot of land that held their trailer. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He and some friends had dug a plot of earth with shovels and pickaxes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Dark and deep as the mud of the Nile, Set brooded lumpily through a mist of sandalwood incense—ninety-nine cents at Schmitt’s—over all kinds of mystic ceremonies, weird rites and wicked plots. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And I had grown accustomed to secrecy and the excitement of our plotting. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We sink up to our calves in one of these, so avoid the others by checking the map and plotting a course around them. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his custom, after each reading, to ask X to plot out or pad out the letter of reply, or to insert a few impressive words in French or German. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Things were infinitely worse because of Denmark and all his plots and plans for freedom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Lord Eddard has been imprisoned. He is charged with treason. It is said he plotted with Robert's brothers to deny the throne to Prince Joffrey." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “So he wouldn’t even tell you who’s supposed to be plotting all this stuff?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z We’d talk about the shows we’d watched, rehashing the plots, recalling the dialogue until all our memories were polished smooth and false. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z If we could have pooled our resources and bought a compound, we would have happily lived on the same plot of land. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It helps that the drumming from next door is getting louder, covering up our plotting. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Her mother had left that in her inheritance, at least, a tidy plot to watch over. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Maybe people will think it's something we plotted together if I seem like it amuses me now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Yet they had been hunched over that table almost like they were—plotting something? Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z There was a story he was plotting with himself as the hero, and already its opening had caused a little shock among his friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They grinned the way people who share a secret do, slyly, like they’d sat in that dim shoe shop all day not making shoes at all but devising secret plots. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Moms recently remarked that I wouldn’t need to go to the movies later on, because I know all the plots, the names of the stars and the reviews by heart. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z She made him explain the plot, which was about a guy with a dead mother who kills another guy and then goes to prison for it. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z My parents like to claim that after he was born, I frequently locked myself in the bathroom and very loudly plotted schemes to run away from home, because no one paid attention to me. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I am straining and sweating by the time I get to a likely plot of dew-covered grass. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z People always need food—many tried to turn to farming, and in the shattered suburbs, people grew their lawns into paddocks, chicken yards, and plots. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My simple device to deceive Polonius and the king grew, under Hamlet’s hand, into a plot with ever more complex motives and uncertain ends. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “It can tell when they are plotting something violent, and it knows this with incredible accuracy.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "The master of the King's Galley White Hait plots to slip anchor three days hence to offer his sword and ship to Lord Stannis." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This isn’t to say that I didn't think and plan and plot. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Brightly colored houses sat prettily in their kempt plots, side by side. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground had been turned and tamped to make a nice yard for the mutts house, which sat in the center of her plot like a grand mansion in the heart of a plantation. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then I took her over to the Sheffield plot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As a final step, Katherine plotted the data in order to give engineers a visual snapshot of the planes disrupted flight. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He worked in the sabotage division of the Abwehr, and he had hatched a plot against America. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The rest of us clenched our teeth and held our tongues, but I could see Emma plotting revenge already, clasping her hands together behind her back, getting them nice and warm. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She’d come down the strait plotting soundings as she went, but the pilot would not put his faith in this, and at 0126 hours that morning, in heavy fog, had radioed the lighthouse for assistance. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Booth claimed the most notorious part in the plot for himself. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Chalmers has been a steady donor to Christian causes, and he bought a plot of land in Oregon, where he plans to build a retreat center. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Poor Spangler had nothing to do with the assassination or the earlier kidnapping plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't his fault the State Department chickened out of the plot they had him organize. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “There is a plot, Harry Potter. A plot to make most terrible things happen at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year,” whispered Dobby, suddenly trembling all over. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Just this moment, plotting how not to leave footprints on her clean floor, she was at peace. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z This will be the biggest assassination plot ever, and his commanding performance will guarantee an eternity of recognition. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z "A plot to take over the German government! Germans must remain on ready alert!" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Later, Obinze would ask, half seriously, if Ifemelu thought his mother’s fainting had been deliberate, a plot to keep him close. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That girl grew up to be my grandma Ellie, who plotted to kill her husband and was exiled to England. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z The evil, jiggly-chinned thief is plotting to blow up the world, and I am the only hope to unlock the drawer in time. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably to keep others from getting similar ideas, no mention was made of the kidnapping plot. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “You telling me you’re not seeing a plot here, Jackson?” says the birthmark, not backing down and raising his own rifle. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The following day the king performed his plot to test the cause of Hamlet’s madness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Oh yeah? How do I know you don’t think I’m some evil creature and this is just a plot to get me alone so you can finally kill “Don’t be stupid,” she said. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It involves people making very sophisticated decisions on the spur of the moment, without the benefit of any kind of script or plot. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The court agreed and divided the original Lacks plantation into two plots “of equal value.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The tape of Nixon and his staff plotting to use the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation of the Watergate break-in proved to be the smoking gun prosecutors were looking for. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We went to an empty plot of ground. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The Rosenberg trial sparked fears inside the United States that living throughout the country were communist sympathizers plotting to overthrow the government. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "Adolf Hitler has pronounced the raging fire a Communist plot," cries the newscaster. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “But why would he write that? He said I wanted to kill him. That I was plotting horrible things. None of that was true!” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Larson noticed she was reading Incident at Hawk Hill, and his mind tried to recall the plot, searching for some hidden meaning in Cara’s choice of that particular book. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Comfortable little houses set off in plots of brown grass—Singer walked in these parts also. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Now, until this moment I did not stop to think very much about the plot of Native Son. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Taller taller it grows, to fantastic size, till its wide shadow shelters a small corn plot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He wandered around the cemetery and sat down on the cement curb of the Williams family plot. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She had a sudden, cold fear that this was all a trick, a plot to separate her from Dallas. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Or this bit about Nick: “Everyone agrees that Nick Allen masterminded this plot that cleverly raises issues about free speech and academic rules. He is the boy who invented the new word.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z What Griggs was saying was true, but it was simply utterly impossible for me to calculate, to scheme, to act, to plot all the time. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to give the plot enough spark to grab a radio audience, he’d have to make so many changes to Wells’s story that he’d be starting from scratch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A few days later, asked for his opinion of a rumor circulating about that a “Red Chinese” plot brought about the murder, Farmer said, “I would not say it is impossible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, since he was considered effeminate and a man who let himself be controlled by his mother, he was despised, and as a result the army plotted against him and murdered him. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The knight carried Jeanne across a peasant’s garden plot, scattering chickens as he went. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There may be bands of turncoats secretly plotting to overthrow their former government, but I certainly haven’t run across them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Miltie,” she asked my father one day, “you bought for me the place next topapou'i” “Don’t worry, Ma. It’s a double plot.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While they plotted how to reconvert me, I plotted how to let them. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He mixed in various plot lines from Austrian, Norwegian and German sagas, and set about moulding them into a coherent dramatic whole. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When it came to the latter, it was our job to translate the intricate plot twists and romantic entanglements. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It would surely be believed that they were plotting vengeance. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The state cited the Freedom Charter as both proof of our Communist intentions and evidence of our plot to overthrow the existing authorities. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to know why Shin had tipped off the school’s night guard about the escape plot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I looked over my plot, squatted down, and fingered the soil awhile. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In the moldy old Crane plot was a wide granite headstone that joined three graves—like a triple bed, you might say. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z They seem to be accusing him of plotting to destroy the Chateau de Saint-Malo, though why they might believe this is not clear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It was a plot our father helped devise but did not carry through, since by then we had fled to the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Dad hated the idea, however, and refused to help Mom, so she plotted on her own. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I will fetch you a candle, sir; and, in Heaven’s name, get up. Somebody has plotted something: you cannot too soon find out who and what it is.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Because you’re not only smart, you’re the detective who is going to learn the truth about what those two are plotting.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Rumors of plots and conspiracies calling for the death of both Cleopatra and Mark Antony had been circulating for months. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Her plot was a shadow of something that lived elsewhere, out of sight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z While plotting his course— where he would have to leap, where to skirt a clump of bushes—a loud guffaw startled him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The plot of Blade II is that Blade is a guy who runs around killing vampires. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The intent of his queries, as he soon established, was to introduce a subject the prosecution had emphatically avoided: the question of Wells’ own role in the murder plot, and his own moral liability. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nobody, right now. Mr. Kreuk usually comes in at eight thirty. When he gets in, I'll ask him to take care of her. I'll ask him to find a burial plot.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Now the kids were plotting to kill him, too. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z They were unaccustomed to army discipline but willing to exchange scalps for bounty or to kill Native people in exchange for a plot of land. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z "I can see right through your little plot, madam! And my answer is no! Matilda stays where she is and it is up to you to see that she behaves herself." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The plot to kill Washington had been uncovered. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a tiny plot, unkempt and overgrown, and one would not even know that anyone lived there, except for the guard who stood in front. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hey, will you just print out a map of the U.S. so I can plot the points?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z There was no secret plot for me to take over his position. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z If Ares had known about Henry’s plot, Henry would be flying somewhere right now and Gregor would be... Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His complicity in behind-the-scenes political plotting was common knowledge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After the subjects went through the simulator, a senior thesis student plotted the individual performances on a graph. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We’d taken her down home to be buried with Granny Washington—the bank couldn’t take the family plot away. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Octavian believed they existed and were secretly plotting against Rome. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As soon as he joined the legion, Champe took note of Arnold’s habits and, with the aid of two of Washington’s agents in New York, plotted a kidnapping. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Don Apolinar Moscote made fun of his faith in homeopathy, but those who were in on the plot recognized another one of their people in him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She tried to explain its totally unbelievable plot. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The judge agreed, and for a moment Hale personally buttonholed Burkhart in the courtroom, the plot unfolding this time right in front of White. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Now that he knew what to look for, he saw irrefutable signs of this plot everywhere. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time I joined the guard, Ruth and the others had already known for ages about the plot to kidnap Miss Geraldine. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, justly served for their treachery. Hamlet learned of their role in Claudius’s plot to kill him, and he sealed their fate first.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Nana filled the courtroom with stories about the time she caught a shark off the coast of Key West, and the time she single-handedly uncovered a plot to murder the pope. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z To Captain Black, every officer who supported his Glorious Loyalty Oath Crusade was a competitor, and he planned and plotted twenty- four hours a day to keep one step ahead. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “There has been much debate about whether he was privy to Henry’s plot.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Decoded, the letters revealed a German plot that centered on India. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Mrs. Laroux ruffled her perfect hair as if she were thinking, and angry, and plotting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I could not even afford to pay the fifty-pound balance still owing on the plot of land that I had purchased in Umtata, and had to give it up. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you were plotting together in secret? Remember what happened last time you tried this?” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He told Hamilton that his Farewell Address was aimed especially at “the Yeomanry of the country,” which meant ordinary farmers working small plots of land and living in households. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I had tried to plot her possible travels, but just as the grass stood for too much, so Margo stood for too much. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola’s father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Where Anatole France’s work had been about ideas and wit, and Thomas Mann had been about precision and the ordering of character and plot, Honoré de Balzac, to me, was all about character. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There was no plot, no action, nothing save atmosphere and longing and death. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So he sent word to Eadgils in exile, and helped him with men and equipment, and plotted a campaign for him. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z Within hours of Guiteau's attack, rumors spread, accusing Arthur of participating in a plot to kill Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In 1869, President Andrew Johnson released the body of John Wilkes Booth to the assassin’s brother, Edwin, who had him buried quietly in the family plot at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I only plotted the escape from the fire above. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “My God, you don’t suppose there is a plot, do you? It’s a perfect time; the country celebrates; if Guilder were about to be five hundred years old, I know I’d attack them.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Booth suspects that Atzerodt may be unwilling to go along with the new plot. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Garden plots were planted in random spots between the buildings, twenty or so one-story structures made from long planks of wood. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z All their own wealth and good fortune seemed to them as nothing compared with Psyche’s, and their envious anger so worked in them that they came finally to plotting how to ruin her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I am feeding the clucking chickens and singing a chicken song and plotting my journey to the Angels, Los Angeles. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z He says he has a cemetery plot already and should be able to arrange for a grave to be dug by tomorrow morning. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z His enemies made much of the deception, labeling Lincoln a coward and refusing to believe that such a plot existed in the first place. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z “Nonsense! Our daughter, regardless of any infirmity, must be buried with honor in our family plot,” he told her. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But he turned around and said they were plotting to overthrow him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The kidnap plot failed because on the night it was to happen Arnold loaded his American Legion, including Champe, on board a transport and sailed to Virginia, where he attacked Richmond. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z And the maid in the attic stretched her phantom limbs and began to plot. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z I tried to concentrate on the bald newspaper columns, and later to lose myself in the racy plot of the novel in my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On Monday when Dad returned, Mom showed him the four-acre plot of land. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Or that Louis V. Gerstner, the former IBM chief executive, hired a Boston litigator to help him push through a plan for a large new house on his $11 million waterfront plot? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z “He’s totally fed up with her. His father and grandfather were both custodians here. Someone from theLyons family has always worked on this plot of land, ever since the seventeen hundreds.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Atzerodt told him many details about the plot to kill Lincoln, the kidnapping plot, and the conspirators’ final meeting on April 14. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The resistance, the black market—she thinks we’re all one network, sharing information, plotting against the Germans. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Hoping to deal the Nazis a more direct blow, he and his friends concocted a plot to kidnap Vidkun Quisling, leader of the Norwegian Nazis. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z And suitors gathered, primed with friendly words, despite the deadly plotting in their hearts— but these, and all their crowd, he kept away from. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The original objective had been to detect terrorist plots, but now the NSA was raking in and storing data on citizens not suspected of any crime. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He’d seen us watching him in the cemetery that first day when he was measuring out a burial plot. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Most of us get our flags pulled and land in jail, and the rest of us plot elaborate rescue missions. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Luma didn’t care much for American football, but she thought the boys might enjoy the plot. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “But for what purpose—all this intriguing, this hiding and power-seeking and plotting—what was it all for, Estraven? What were you after?” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The house plots were modest, typically about six thousand square feet, but they were footholds on the dream. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the middle of each plot stood a hut made of mud or cement. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was suggesting that the tank had been deliberately destroyed by anarchists, foreigners who were probably part of a Russian-inspired Communist plot to raise havoc in the United States. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Mrs. Miller says I have “lost the plot,” and am now just making lists of things that happened to fill space. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If they remained in the Caribbean, they could get a small plot of land of their own. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Rachel informs me I’ve had my brains washed by a Communist plot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Two fists can fit in this plot, and I’m shuffling the bird’s body and head off the newspaper and into the hole right when a flash goes off behind me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The surveying group, which was responsible for plotting the course and measuring the length of the river, had their work cut out for them. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Although he was two years older she had grown faster than him, and in the summer-time they used to wrestle and fight out on the plot of grass by the street. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z You’d first build a shanty on your plot, a makeshift structure of plywood and corrugated iron. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z That she liked him, too, even though she had temporarily lost the plot and was going after Lewis Shore for some reason. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s a new plot, and pretty well worked up—language good, and so on,” was Mr. Dashwood’s affable reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The little holes in that wall in the strip mall— maybe a map that plotted points with thumbtacks? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z In 1939, she really was listening for spies—and Uncle Sam was counting on her to uncover their plots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He picked out a casket, chose a plot, ordered a headstone, and paid for die death notices in the newspaper. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then I headed back to the woods, where I picked a few bachelor buttons that grew wild in the plots of sunshine before getting bored and tossing them away. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She remembered, from her childhood in Rook Hill, visiting her grandparents’ graves in the family plot behind her mother’s old home. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever she was plotting, it was a whole lot more devious than I had given her credit for. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z "I bet, in all your vigorous plotting, you didn't learn about Heather Beauregard." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was better to wait until their plots had been penetrated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora thought of her garden back on Randall, the plot she cherished. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But there was a plot three yards square and the hearty stuff that sprouted from it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I felt a flush of embarrassment to be caught shopping when I should have been plotting a revolution. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Athena’s appearance, in point of fact, harms a good plot. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Atzerodt’s reluctance to kill Johnson put the whole plot at risk. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Wick was out there, plotting, sending these dead things to ruin her life. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She needed both the sun’s rays and the magnetic field to plot her course. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z I kept praying that Hess wouldn’t tell me the plot of his new script. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “He related to us that he and Karen did the killing and, ah, plotted together to put it off on Johnny D.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They did not accuse him of plotting against the United States. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Mayor Matthews, him who plotted to kill General Washington, escaped from the rebel prison and returned to New York in triumph. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as though the house was built half onto a plot of land, half in a forest, like it was emerging from the trees. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z On the way home from Drunken Igor’s, while already plotting my return visit, I received an emergency text from Heather, my informant: Noah at Devil's Drop in 15. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Plots with charcoal alone grew little, but those treated with a combination of charcoal and fertilizer yielded as much as 880 percent more than plots with fertilizer alone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I knew something about literature and what people plotted in their hearts and thought and suspected, but he knew the secret why behind each thought. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It rested beside a plot growing tomatoes tied to wooden stakes with pieces of nylon hose. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z After years of lobbying, Mom had finally convinced the government to give the plot to her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Wemmick’s house was a little wooden cottage in the midst of plots of garden, and the top of it was cut out and painted like a battery mounted with guns. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Also, look for picture books that summarize the plot of a famous opera or ballet. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “I don’t like the business you’re in. But then,” she added with her amazing detachment, “I suppose someone has to bury the dead. How much is a plot?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That very afternoon, while Adria and I were moping in the church parking lot, my mom called some brokers and arranged to see a few plots of land for sale nearby. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It is flowing and sophisticated, beginning with a brief passage summarizing the plot. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He had no designs but wanted the plot gone on principle. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On a day filled with bright, hot sunshine, I am digging up a plot, getting it ready to plant more wheat. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The buried cider was half-consciously plotted at the hub of the carnival. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Agnes arrived immediately, nearly falling over herself with joy that Gilly had not only invited her over but was actually asking for her help in carrying out a secret and obviously illegal plot. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z And plotting how the hell we can get out of this place. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One senator denounced the various “illegal plots, counterplots, espionage, decoys, dictographs” that were being used not to “detect and prosecute crime but...to shield profiteers, bribe takers and favorites.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The kings and priests of ancient Sumer wanted writing to be used by professional scribes to record numbers of sheep owed in taxes, not by the masses to write poetry and hatch plots. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From habit, I headed for the Toy burial plot. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He followed the interne out of the building and across a plot of grass to the infirmary. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Father says it is the lot of every young woman to learn humility and God plots for each her chosen way. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the plot couldn’t be cluttered with too many settings and characters because the audience kept track without visual hints. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z And the painted dolphins on your sister’s wall cannot plot deadly schemes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Your top-down system is heavily invested, and it gets reinforced by the bottom-up pings alerting you to what are, in a sense, plot updates. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s all a reality show, plotted to make the Director happy. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The moment I began to write, the plot fell out, so to speak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Stanton believed that the Lincoln and Seward assassinations had exposed a Confederate plot to kill the leaders of the national government in an attempt to reverse the results of the Civil War. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In the other direction, the children were gathering in excited little knots, plotting and planning, for the first time any of them could remember, for the future. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The teacher had not received any credit from his superiors for uncovering the escape plot. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A jacket over the arm could be hiding a gun, and there had recently been many rumors about plots against El Jefe. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night someone will have claimed the plot, she thought, turned the dirt over. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She told them the plot of Little Women in ten minutes, a miracle of compression, especially since her book report had been seven typed pages. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Doris sounded as if she and Ifemelu somehow shared the same plot, the same view of the world. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He describes the plot without giving too many details. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Down the street, the trees are imprisoned equidistantly in square plots of dirt. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A gander who had been privy to the plot had confessed his guilt to Squealer and immediately committed suicide by swallowing deadly nightshade berries. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z We set it up along the edge of the garden plot and took turns climbing up it to “supervise” the weeding. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “The freedman who plotted rebellion down in South Carolina.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The plot was that I was to be successfully taken off the island, but killed in a dramatic shootout with security forces at the airport as I tried to leave the country. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He asked her if Ernest had ever told her anything about Hale’s plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Her joys, her plot, that block of sugar maple she perched on like a vulture. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It turns out that the SIM discovered the plot and most of our uncle’s friends were arrested. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Baker’s face was pinched when we came back into the class—the disappointment of a failed assassination plot. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Both stations agreed on one thing: The plot did not work. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z A captured spy in enemy territory, plotting her spectacular escape. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings were solemn and orderly with little plots of grass around them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We were at first allotted a tiny plot of land tucked away behind the tennis courts, next to a toolshed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I realize now the proximity was just a clandestine plot to force us to like each other. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Cora sat by the edge of her plot on her block of sugar maple and worked dirt from under her fingernails. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The overly dramatic gestures make the plot easy to follow even without a soundtrack. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The plots and stories in the novels did not interest me so much as the point of view revealed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort and Wormtail had been talking about someone they had killed, though Harry could not remember the name . . . and they had been plotting to kill someone else . . . him. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z The idea for my plot began with a ribald tale of mistaken love I had once read to Gertrude. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But then she straightened and what I could read glancing over at her notes made it clear that she was plotting for John Kwang alone. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tell me where you feel it and I’ll plot a course for us that will confound its pursuit.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z At night, each child had to weigh himself, plot the figure on a graph, and initial the process charts again after he had done his homework, washed his hands and face, and brushed his teeth. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed so sure of himself, like he had already plotted out this course. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Rutledge said he believed he would, and I, pretending to be unaware of the plot, obliged by hanging around the fruit stalls. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass on Anna’s plot had barely had time to grow back. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The murder plots depended upon doctors who falsified death certificates and upon undertakers who quickly and quietly buried bodies. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z We drew close to a ramshackle house and garage on a scrubby plot of land. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z However, he was not altogether without hope, for he too had plotted an escape. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The plantings had, by then, expanded from the hothouse to a plot of land by the abbey—a twenty-foot-by-hundred-foot rectangle of loam that bordered the refectory, visible from his room. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yes. I have a little plot of vegetables. Not now, obviously; it's winter. But in the summer. Why?” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He trotted over the route he had rehearsed the previous year in preparing for the kidnapping plot. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If Elnora found my belongings to be missing, or Laertes reported that our father's goods had been taken, would my death be doubted and my plot discovered? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They soon uncovered a wide range of Nazi plots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As a kid, wherever I went, whatever building I was in, I was always plotting my escape. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It had kept this small plot of land safe. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z "He swears he knew naught of the plot. Who can say? The man is half Lannister, half Frey, and all liar. I put him in Jaime's old tower cell." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Unlike our playful plot to deceive the king and my father, this device that Hamlet rehearsed had a dark and serious purpose I could not fathom. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “That one, brother, he bite,” she said, pointing her knuckly hand at a small tree he was wresting from his garden plot. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I get down on all fours and look more closely to see if she has plotted her direction—and she has! On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z While the tribe waited for the federal government to respond, Mollie lived in dread, knowing that she was the likely next target in the apparent plot to eliminate her family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She fears that criminals are lurking around every comer, plotting to steal more of her things. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Elizebeth and William first saw the letters, British and American officials already knew the broad outline of the plot, and many Indians who had worked with the Germans had been arrested. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Two days before this uprising was to take place, the plot was revealed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Janssen's vegetable plot is just a small square of frozen dirt. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Nehemia had every reason to deceive them, to plot against them. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The bearded gravedigger, dressed in a filthy plaid shirt, turns to me and then back to my mother’s plot. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z We don’t care about the plot or the dialogue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Plans and plots. The lady in the ground. Big plans for Percy. Macrobiotic jerky for Ella.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He is old enough to know that he himself will be burned, not buried, that his body will occupy no plot of earth, that no stone in this country will bear his name beyond life. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Or kneeling by the little plot of dirt around the mailbox, the cemetery of all the flowers she’d tried to grow. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Murdering Lumumba, keeping Mobutu in power, starting it all over again in Angola—these sound like plots between men but they are betrayals, by men, of children. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And my grandmother blessed my parents’ marriage, after vigorously plotting against it, only because she didn’t think Milton would survive to the end of the week. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But she knew Michael’s route had been carefully plotted to avoid guns and airfields, and that their most dangerous moment had probably been when they crossed the shipping convoy. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Which, I imagine, would have been the prime purpose of the plot.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The lines Masaccio drew to plot out the composition on geometrical principles are still visible in the plaster. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He created his plot by imagining What if...? Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z No one else was plotting on her behalf, either. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour later, when Marshall came in sleepy-eyed and dragging Security, several of the other paper families had been brought into the plot. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Some trucks carried hay bales which farmers dumped into dusty corrals or into minuscule overgrazed plots for horses and sheep. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was statistically unusual, but not totally improbable, and was certainly not incontrovertible evidence of a plot. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z You’ll sleep on stone, too exhausted to complain or plot, and soon you ’11forget what it was like to be warm, but you might remember what it was to be a man. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In Umtata, with Walter’s help, I made a down payment to C. K. Sakwe for a plot of land he owned in town. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Ms. Crane were plotting an assassination, let’s see how we’d fare in diverting the course of history.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I didn't understand their language, but I understood the tone: a stupid survival plot, as if they actually had a say in their fate. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We have marked off a little plot of ground and buried it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She got a city map from a gas station and plotted out our routes in advance. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ramsey, who referred to the plot as “the state of the game,” eventually agreed, and he lured Roan down into the canyon, promising him whiskey. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Every spring, Mom had us dumping layers of bagged soil and manure on top of the garden plot to help the seeds along. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Getting our packet to Margarita took some plotting. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She had uncovered a plot to attack the Governor. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z "You knew of this plot, and yet you did nothing." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The larger clans had been openly plotting to nuke the Sixer Operations Complex for several years now, but they’d never managed to get past the defense grid or reach the planet’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A coyote was always plotting the demise of a smirking long-necked bird. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z A snitch helped to expose the kidnapping plot. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something universally chilling about a new plot. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Maddie gave me a look, like she was plotting something deep and dark. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “A plot against me. You're all in it, every one of you. Someone’s paid this half-wit, I tell you. Paid him to tell his string of dirty lies.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But she couldn’t, wouldn’t, believe that Ernest had been involved in such a plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z While these three talked, the suitors in the field had come together plotting—what but death for Telemakhos?—when from the left an eagle crossed high with a rockdove in his claws. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was trying my hardest to fence my best at every competition, they were plotting to get other fencers on the team instead of me. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The event was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, which stands on a 413-acre plot of land in the middle of New York’s East River. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That’s how it is with people who are plotting something awful. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z "I plot the course and execute it," he said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A pawn in the monstrous bourgeois plot to subvert the revolution. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Although he was convinced at that time of the urgency of liquidating the Conservative regime, the plot horrified him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Booth loads his gun for one last shot, still plotting his next course of action. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z I retreated to the Corner, plotting revenge and seeking wisdom from my main man, Chicken Man. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the physical divorce, I could not evade the obvious strategy and plotting coming out of Chicago to eliminate me from the Nation of Islam ... if not from this world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t believe my own mother with her bad nerves was part of a secret plot! Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Erin was cool as Mr. Freeze explaining mastermind plots to Batman. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z “Those who plot against me. Just look!” he cried, pointing to the shuttered western shore. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Gawaine, it is true, was decent enough to refuse to have a hand in plots against Lancelot’s life, and Gaheris was dull. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower section—on the river—went to Benjamin Lacks; the upper plot—now known as Lacks Town— went to the black Lackses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z During the Civil War, several Southern military officers, as well as a handful of officials in the Confederate Secret Service, considered plots against Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I can enjoy this plot much more.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Assumption was not a plot to destroy the political integrity of the states; it was a plan to consolidate their debts and nationalize the economy for the benefit of all. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Our family is poor and survives by farming a small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A fraternal lodge to which he had belonged gave her a cemetery plot. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I anonymously posted the plot not just on Diana’s page but also her boyfriend’s and then Chrissie’s and her co-conspirators’ too. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z “Not even after your faction’s leaders decided to join in a plot to overthrow the government?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z "The burial arrangements. Will you be needing a traditional plot or...or a special one?" Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We had our own little plot cooked up to present to his father—the day before university classes started. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some days I feel like I’m still not okay. Some days I feel fine. Happy, even. It took me a few years to stop plotting revenge, though.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to own her like a plot of land. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But her nefarious plot to bore me to death failed again, because The Tempest was even better than The Merchant of Venice. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It demanded that Ernest share a bed with Mollie, and raise children with her, all while plotting and scheming against her family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Armed with sextant, chronometers, compass, and nautical tables, Frank Worsley, skipper of Endurance, had been able to calculate and plot their every position. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z I forget to take a pill one morning and she peppers me with comments about my preternatural plotting to burden our life. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was shot in black and white, and had subtitles and a plot heavy on symbolism, so fewer than a dozen people came, even though it was free. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z A second method for identifying a crop’s or animal’s site of domestication is to plot on a map the dates of the domesticated form’s first appearance at each locality. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You must come here each day. You must learn all the plants. Look—” The woman gestured at the garden plot, thick with thriving plants, many in summer-start bloom. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had drawn them into the plot simply by letting them see what I was doing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve done enough plotting for one day,” I say, giving her a light shove. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Now, as rain fell and thunder clapped outside the courtroom, Morrison testified that Hale had plotted to eliminate all the members of Mollie’s family. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z What was the point of plotting a course if I could not act on it? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Conspirators who plotted against the American cause had been arrested all over the city and in several close-by villages. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the law had not been changed, and White suspected that this setback had prompted Hale to turn to the insurance murder plot. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They were set in small grassless plots littered with broken things, bricks, planks, crockery, things of a once utilitarian value. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually you get to Paul writing letters to the Ephesians and it loses the plot, but the Old Testament and the Gospels? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Soheil is already at the bare plot, raking the earth, spreading out the soil where seeds will grow. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z “Due west seven, middle west seven. Leaves plots north and south. I told him better the northwest seven. If I was going to sell. It’s hilly anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Mama was so tired after working our plot and putting dinner together, she could barely keep her eyes open after supper. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Although Americans had stayed out of the war so far, they were eager to read reports about secret agents and the foiling of foreign plots. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He helped us store fish for the upcoming storms and plot out a burial yard for more than a hundred bodies, including the man who wound his watch. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z This was before the use of radio signals to plot position, before radar, before satellites. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Turned out he’d been cheating folks for years, shorting their coffins and burial plots by six inches to a foot while charging full price. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In this way we built up a list of people we knew to be in on the plot—guardians and students whom we declared our sworn enemies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He haunted the theater for western movies, losing track of the plots while he stared at the scenery. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z And there, next to a small garden plot and a stable and two wooden chairs seated in a flowering arbor—an enormous tree. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The vegetable garden was completely stripped, but the flower plot remained though its plants were trampled. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My plot to assassinate Snow seems so stupid now. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z As far back as Yossarian could recall, he explained to Clevinger with a patient smile, somebody was always hatching a plot to kill him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For a while Ignatius was relatively still, reacting to the unfolding plot with only an occasional subdued snort. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Boggs, who came to 2 when I did, told me that even with all the plotting, it was a little too easy to rescue Peeta. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z At dawn and according to the strict schedule Colonel Meecham had plotted in Atlanta, they had come within sixty-five miles of the Marine Corps air station at Ravenel. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Wheels were spinning inside Charles’s head as he plotted his next moves. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z I remember the plot clearly, or at least the premise, because the main character was a corpse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Whilst they plotted Washington’s downfall, I dozed in a chair in the hallway in case they needed victuals or a bottle of port. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Our crucifix wearing and praying was a plot. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody knew what their conversations were about, or what exactly they were plotting. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He plotted courses to Paulet Island, Elephant Island, Clarence Island, even far-off South Georgia Island, where they had last set foot on land. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “So,” Brinker curled his lip at me, “your little plot didn’t work so well after all.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Five days after the fight, he took his son to the edge of their plot to repair a fence. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Although she was not particularly religious, the mother liked to make her plots providential. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z "There was no murder. The coroner was part of the plot." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am overruling these guards on this matter! You are obviously a part of this—of this conspiracy plot. I'm taking you in for questioning immediately!” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z It turned out to be a good thing really, because they were just in time to find out about a plot. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The suds were dashed on a plot of ground beside the kitchen door. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not think; I did not plan; I did not plot. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She was so busy thinking and plotting that she barely noticed her parents nodding sadly at each other when they saw the empty fishbowl. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z When her marriage ended, she had no guidebook to turn to, nothing that plotted a future course for a woman whose husband declared himself gay. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Mami wore a printed dress she called a muumuu, which stretched across her pregnant belly like a round plot of exotic flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He yielded as before, and very soon the two wicked women arrived, with their plot carefully worked out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z And the tiny plot of earth that holds it seems to say, I am the land, a small piece but precious. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z “We mean secession, and on a scale a thousand times greater than was that of the South. We are plotting a revolution.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Each farmer has his own plot by the marsh—nothing official with papers or signatures, just a piece of ground you always know is yours. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z He told me that Cambodia is fighting a civil war, and that most Cambodians do not live in cities but in rural villages, farming their small plot of land. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage, meanwhile, had taken their own steps to protect themselves against future plots, persuading Congress to pass a new law. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is not possible, by listening to the music, to perceive the underlying design, although a skilled score reader may be able to plot its workings by studying the music on the page. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In some of those pyramids, the Sons of the Harpy are plotting new murders even now, and I am powerless to stop them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Ralph intended to rest there while he plotted to get his motorcycle away from Ryan, but his full meal made him drowsy, and instead he fell asleep. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Entire plots were hatched around swiping food, complete with double-crossing, backstabbing, intrigue, outright robbery, and gobbled evidence. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you can enchant a building so it’s impossible to plot on a map, can’t you?” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure they won’t have that at Video ’n’ Go,” I told her back after she explained the plot. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z |
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