| 单词 | property |
| 例句 | This stunt, I knew, had every chance of getting us kicked off company property again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Inseparable from the idea of discovery were the ideas of progress and intellectual property. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The barn and the farmhouse burned down years ago—before my parents bought the property and built a one-story brick rancher. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Some contracts also included a promise that they would be given some property or other goods when their term ended. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They didn’t want me catching pneumonia now that I was company property. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The fines and damages that Garrett had to pay took every dollar of his property. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like I was wearing a pair of gloves with magic properties. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It looked deserted: trees and bushes grew thick in the property behind her house, and long grass and weeds filled the front yard. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z “And if I happen to return somebody’s property, seems to me I deserve a reward.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z We can't own property or attend schools, and even the mildest transgression results in enslavement. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One could trace the illusory properties of the Potomac’s waters all the way back to John Smith, who first explored the mouth of what the Algonquin Indians had named “Petomek,” meaning “trading place,” in 1608. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Curly considered a quick trip to the minimart to rent some videos, but that would require crossing the property to reach his truck. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Does that mean you surrender and will give back the property you’ve stolen from us?” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “This was abandoned property. It is now my house.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He wondered if they could sneak around the monsters, but when he looked left and right, he saw more campfires in either direction, as if the ogres had surrounded the property. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Along the way he made a slow loop around the pancake-house property, but there wasn’t a soul to be seen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Who is it wants to take my property? East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Outside Kensington Palace, Alex takes Henry’s phone out of his hand and swiftly opens a blank contact page before he can protest or sic a PPO on him for violating royal property. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Most were philosophers, and inquired into the workings of time and memory, natural history, the properties of light, heat, and petrifaction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Upon close questioning, the earl had confessed that most of his property had recently been consumed by fire. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Then there was, as always, his desire to demonstrate the cyclotron’s unique properties. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The mere suggestion of it, I understood now, caused stable, middle-class families to bail preemptively for the suburbs, worried their property values would drop. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Henry Roan was killed on an Osage allotment that hadn’t been sold to whites; moreover, the Osage property owner was under guardianship and considered a ward of the federal government. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You are all my prisoners! My property! Seal the entrance, men!” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Law enforcement gained a pecuniary interest not only in the forfeited property, but in the profitability of the drug market itself. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Calvin says, “It says Benny fell from a ladder on that property and that a playmate of Benny’s found him.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Carefully lifting the latch on the property room door, I eased it open. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He had told Bebe to leave the property, two police officers flanking him like bodyguards. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z To make sure these properties were constant throughout the park, Burnham had his chief engineer, Abraham Gottlieb, test locations earmarked for other buildings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “This time they messed up some private property.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the past two years this DNA was said to have the strange property of lacking cytosine, a feature obviously impossible for our model. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I halted before the property room door, like a condemned man at the foot of the gallows. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Black told Gold that the Soviet government had abolished private property and was making all the decisions about what the economy should produce, and how goods should be distributed. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I shouted when my eyes fell upon the camouflaged men who jumped from the green truck that had crashed onto our property. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Reckless driving: “operating a vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of person or property.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was imperative that I swiftly find employment, having no coin nor credit nor property for barter. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Like the pictures that show Axel and Byrd with Aunt Nancy, George, Emmett, and Ray on their special property, in these special woods in Pennsylvania. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z All day he and Maxine walk about the property barefoot in their bathing suits. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the edge of their property he stopped the sled for a moment and looked back at the farmhouse. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I think, in fact, that he had been aware of this property of the area. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He began work on a series of rules for thinking which would help him establish the truth; he sold some property so that he could be self-sufficient and concentrate on his great enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It made me nervous, but he went ahead and put a trailer on property he owned in Monroe County and resettled there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The act remedied this insanity to some extent; it provides an “innocent owner” defense to those whose property has been seized. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He was known to us all as being a most cruel wretch,—a common drunkard, who had, by his reckless mismanagement and profligate dissipation, already wasted a large portion of his father’s property. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z It happened almost every night, and every night more demigods straggled over the property line with the satyr guides, usually with some nasty monsters pursuing them, but almost all of them made it through. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “But as your grandfather has warned you, some of those creatures can be deadly. There are many places on the property where even he does not dare venture.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Before the cars come to a complete stop, the doors open, and a stream of men pour out all over the property. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z As the last house on its street, it was set back from the surrounding properties and shielded by a grove. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Zero times anything must be zero; it’s a property of our number system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This didn’t bother him too much actually, but when he heard Grover was being charged again, in a case with a different judge, he threatened to testify unless Grover bought the property back. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I do not hold with slavery, but I cannot help you. We do not interfere with Loyalist property. Return to your mistress.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z His avid sons thereafter dividing up the property by lot gave me a wretched portion, a poor house. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you think he would want to know a witch built a shack on his property?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Though most of the perpetrators were Storm Troopers and SS, many Hitler Youth joined in the attacks on Jews and Jewish property. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z No wonder they lost track of their property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The property, which had once seemed to him like paradise and had been his pride and joy, was now a nuisance. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In youth she had been so thoroughly beautiful that her beauty had been public property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I wonder he didn’t marry her and get all the property,” said I. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z A tall concrete wall surrounded the property with a metal gate on the side. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Someone—I can’t remember who it was—claimed after the lesson that what Miss Emily had said was that Norfolk was England’s “lost corner,” where all the lost property found in the country ended up. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Here and there hedges have sprouted up, tall as Windsurfers, to partition the property parcels. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Most phrases have a head: a single word inside the phrase that determines its properties. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Apprehensively, she said, “There’s a fine; I’m the property, the legal property, of the association. I’m not an escaped android who fled here from Mars; I’m not in the same class as the others.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I walked through gas station and motel forecourts and across restaurant parking lots, clambered over concrete barriers, crossed lawns, and pushed through neglected ranks of privet or honeysuckle at property boundaries. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Land went from being accessible to all to being private property where no one could go without permission from the owners. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Even though the water has not been proven to contain any special properties, it was used in the elixir that seems to have helped many people overcome the sickness still plaguing so many outside Manifest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Some years back snow had fallen on Christmas Eve and continued falling, and when Bobby set out the next morning for the Clutter property, a three-mile walk, he had had to fight through deep drifts. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Theft implies the possession of another’s property,” Hemme said in reasonable tones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Two enormous weeping willows, like woolly mammoths, on either side of the property. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z These are chemicals with extraordinary properties which are used to convert plants or animals into a sort of Medea’s robe by making them actually poisonous. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If so, the best way to find out what a gene was and how it duplicated was to study the properties of viruses. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “You will leave this property at once,” she said in a steely voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I'd like to sit down, but I'm not sure I want to plant my bare bottom on some public piece of university property. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s my private property! Nobody here’s got a right to tell me what to do with my property!” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Hoping they will vote for him—when they are grown up and have enough property.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Other than our chaos, it was so quiet on the block, you could almost hear the tick, tick, tick of the property values dropping as passersby took in the tableau of horror. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The main nuisance of sharks was that they made being in the water risky, like trespassing on a property where there’s a sign saying Beware of Dog. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It got so bad that they had to be told who actually owned the property where vice was practiced, what the rents were and what little hardships might be the result of their closing. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Had life been wrecked as well as property? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She did not understand the money talk, but she knew people being sold as property when she heard it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The natural assumption of children, Markman argues, is that if an object or person is given a second label, then that label must refer to some secondary property or attribute of that object. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “And what will the city do with this marvelous property once they shut down this dilapidated excuse for a school?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At any rate, you are on the memory property ladder. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Staring at the house and the properties next door, it looked to Mai like there was a jungle behind where Willow lived. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z This is the property of an infinitely distant point—a zero at infinity. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A thought comes to my brain: We are making something awesome right on the property of the old Buttle farm. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Look, it’s none of my business if you guys are smoking. But it is my business when you’re on my property. You guys need to leave. I catch you here again, I’m calling your parents.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Well, he’s still liable, or his estate is now. And he did own property—a sizeable chunk of it up near Penn Lake, where his widow lives.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Inkatha members then proceeded to occupy the abandoned shacks and confiscate all the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His space-time had the curious property that the whole universe was rotating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another night. I’m planning a special excursion for you tomorrow. In the afternoon I need to visit the granary, and I mean to take you with me, let you see more of the property.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She distributed the extra goodies to the other family members who lived around the property. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He stepped toward me again, quickly, as if he were going to pick me up like a chunk of log and heave me off the property. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s somewhere on this property. Susie said she could see it. And it’s not like we have a lot of carved wooden boxes it could be in.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The sound of fighting comes from the practice grounds as I cut toward the back of the property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Back then, we all lived side by side in adjoining houses on a piece of property which belonged to my grandparents. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z After my grandparents gave their daughter away to her husband’s family, they had dispensed all the adventure and all the property. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after three days of rest and the wondrous healing properties of Coach Hedge’s gooey brown gunk, Nico started to dissolve the moment he shadow-jumped. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Grandpa had moved out and she was getting the property in shape. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The policeman couldn’t see what there was to be vandalized on the property, which was basically a few acres of scraggly weeds. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe the rental properties would be something she could manage on her own. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “If I arrest the boy, I’ll have to arrest everybody else on the property, too.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He told them that he never left New Orleans during storms, and that he had a number of properties he wanted to watch over. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The mere fact that the sugar masters treated their workers as some form of property did not mean the Indians had to accept that definition. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They surrounded the property and a handful of officers entered the main building and the principal outbuilding. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Tok hasn’t actually seen the paper chain, since he’s banned from school property. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The concept of uncertainty pertains to scientists’ ability to describe the properties of a particle. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Gray had killed six of the ogres, but judging from the campfires around the property, there were dozens more—all waiting to cook Frank for breakfast. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Canty had a prior felony arrest for possession of stolen property. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He should surrender the town without resistance on the condition that the lives and property of Liberals would be respected. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Almost never is inductive reasoning taught or are mathematical phenomena studied with an eye toward guessing the relevant properties and rules. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The alien land laws prevented him from owning property, but he could lease the land, or make a tenancy deal and work it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Deed said, “It’s the way of the world, Sleepy. It’s against the law for a Negro to own any property out where the Log Cabin is so Mr. C. put it in my name.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z After the meal, I snuck out to the forbidden part of the property where the servants' families lived in their little shanty shacks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z “They spoke outside. They walked our property for thirty or forty minutes.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z There was one condition—that Justin hold off on making tracks until he finished the stone wall around the man’s property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As the son of Macon Dead the first, he paid homage to his own father’s life and death by loving what that father had loved: property, good solid property, the bountifulness of life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z This holds true whether you jump off the bell tower or the Purina Tower, whether it’s school property or not.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But there were properties nobody wanted yet, or little edges of property somebody didn’t want Jews to have, or Catholics to have, or properties nobody knew were of any value yet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z That cliff and all the property the DiAngelos now own was all part of our stomping grounds. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Just ask our friendly government visitor from Topeka. He’s got his report all ready about the high metal content in the water and how it has healing properties. Go ahead, son, make your presentation.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z All this has come about because of the sudden rise and prodigious growth of an industry for the production of man-made or synthetic chemicals with insecticidal properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She could not imagine calling Obinze to ask him for reduced rent in one of his properties. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It has been proven that the devil has sulphuric properties and this is just a little corrosive sublimate.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Fine, let’s go settle this once and for all. But afterwards, you have one minute to get off my property before I call the police.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if they overlooked private property and sheriffs writing citations, most of the highways feature narrow shoulders, in a landscape that gets so pitch-black at night, any car rushing past would likely kill them all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It called on reforms in education, employment, property rights, religion, and, most notably, suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny,” Jackson explained, “the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Vannevar Bush balked at the sum, complaining that it was too much for the government to spend on equipment that would remain the property of the University of California. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Every plant here has medicinal properties. Somewhere in the Amazon forest there's a plant that will cure cancer." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z According to quantum theory, everything—light, electrons, protons, small dogs—have both wavelike and particlelike properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He was a busy man with many properties. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Many lives were saved, but months passed before anyone felt the worst was over; protecting property, restoring sanitation facilities, building temporary shelters, and supplying food and clean water were constant challenges. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Thirty days to bring me at least half of your back taxes, or go to prison. Or”—he splayed one hand out—“you can forfeit your property, and I’ll clear your debt.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The middle-class whites living to the east formed property owners’ protective associations to hold the line against a black “invasion.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Better to stick to your task. You have plundered this dead man’s property, you have all the toys you need to keep you alive; now may we move on?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Those developments include religious warfare, the notion that land should be private property, the concept of white supremacy, and the desire for gold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He says this property used to be an orphanage run by nuns. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z This property allows hemoglobin to shuttle oxygen from the lung to the heart and the brain. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She rushed to a judge, demanding to have her property back. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In the new United States, the Revolution gave white men with property a sense of freedom, while Africans were still enslaved. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The auction letter is on top, and under it are a notice of sale of tax-defaulted property, a notice to parties of interest, redemption amounts, rights of parties of interest after sale... The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z But while the purloined guitar presented no ownership problem, his remaining property did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The family had fled the first day the riots broke out, and had left three vicious dogs to guard their property behind a high fence. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stop thinking about the bizarre incidents at the Mother Paula’s property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember, Miss Lumley, they were found on my property and that means I can do with ’em as I please. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The financier David Rubinstein bought a fifteen-acre waterfront property, tore down the existing house, as many wealthy buyers have done, and put up an 8,000-square-foot home. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Anya waited for him to disappear around the trees before she spun to Mama and said, “What did he mean? Prison? Forfeit our property?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He even went so far as to "nationalize" property and factories owned by Americans, repossessing them for the benefit of the Cuban people. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “Those planes belong to the syndicate, and everybody has a share. Confiscate? How can you possibly confiscate your own private property? Confiscate, indeed! I’ve never heard anything so depraved in my whole life.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z But that it was our countryman Roger Bacon who first discovered the verticity of it, or its property of pointing towards the pole, and this about 400 years since. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I recalled how we got kicked off the DiAngelos’ property and hoped it didn’t mean Mrs. DiAngelo would never ask me to baby-sit Ben again. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The individual creators of this property— writers, musicians, artists—can and will find alternative means of generating income, they’re convinced. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He further recommended that parents who allowed their children to join the Swing Youth and who supported liberal, individual ways should be sent to concentration camps and should have their property confiscated. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z With a child's instinct, I knew the man was safe, for occasionally, strangers my grandfather had met on his travels came for a visit and wandered over to our property. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The jerfalcon which had been given to Lancelot was not property through her moult Like Hamlet she was fat and scant of breath. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The Coleman property had been abandoned for a number of years. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Putting the two assumptions together, we conclude that the average toy block in this collection has the interesting property of having three inches to a side and a volume of sixty-three cubic inches! Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Take action now, they warned white homeowners, before property values fall. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And when Frank got engaged the following yean he built a house on Emma’s property so that Bernard could see his grandmother every day as ever. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay. See these papers here? They say we can buy eighty acres that Mr. Blake has next to the McKenzie property we bought.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hear me out,—but if I were to remove Joe into a higher sphere, as I shall hope to remove him when I fully come into my property, they would hardly do him justice.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He imposed obligatory military service for men over eighteen, declared to be public property any animals walking the streets after six in the evening, and made men who were overage wear red armbands. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z What standing could such dedicated pacifists enjoy among veterans of the Revolution, who, as Jackson put it, “at the risk of their lives and fortunes, secured to the community their liberty and property?” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We drove through the entire length of the prison, and then along a winding dirt road through a rather wild, wooded area at the rear of the property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Which isn’t exactly true, because all the motion sensors are on the perimeter of our property, but Jacqui doesn’t need to know that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Now that the artifact’s sole power had been used, it no longer possessed any magical properties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z "I have the right to check the personal property of any of the detainees. How do I know there aren't drugs or weapons in there? He stole a car, too! I've got witnesses!" Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z “More, of course. Food costs more here. Tell him that your daughter, who is the oldest, must inherit his property. You have to establish these things at the start. Don’t begin meek.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody was afraid of children hurting themselves or of children hurting school property. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While certain insects overran us, some of the other normal inhabitants of our property, such as earthworms, disappeared. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I am not property,” the Indians were showing. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I know it sucks for the people’s property, but getting away with it is a part of the thrill. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This is a singularity, a concept that became very important later in the history of science—but at this early stage, mathematicians knew little more than the artists about the properties of zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Because ratios were the keys to understanding nature, the Pythagoreans and later Greek mathematicians spent much of their energy investigating their properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The newspapers had stories about people hoarding money and property. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z What business could Mr. Heminges have with me, particularly in the property room? The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z These were aunts and cousins and other relatives, and they all had large huts where they kept all their property and ate their meals at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She Was not an insensate piece of property, to be taken up or laid down at his convenience. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Most incarcerated women—nearly two-thirds—are in prison for nonviolent, low-level drug crimes or property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “We stayed the last two nights on the property, me and the policeman here, and it’s been peaceful as a church house. Ain’t that right, David?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z James’s uncle and aunt lived on the adjacent property, and they did what they could to help Eliza manage her land. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “It’s not on company property. We could go up there.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Maya,” Officer Jameson asks, “have there been any other incidents of this kind? Anything else off school property?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z But thanks to the odd mathematical and philosophical properties of zero, it would clash with the fundamental philosophy of the West. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “But before honorably handing over my property, you stole twenty dollars.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z I barely felt a warm tingle from the flower under my jacket and thought of Ishtar's warning about how its properties might affect my...condition. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z How did you keep a butterfly from leaving your property? Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The ingenious property of the gene was that it offered a potential solution to all these problems in a single sweep. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She thought she had property rights in the foal, Specklebottom’s blood line being what it was. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Now packs of them began chasing the cows all over the Rantz property, relentlessly nipping at their legs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Our Lady of Mount Carmel Monastery sits on a large, shaded property. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Company property is for company business, not for launching rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Prompted by Cora one night, Ridgeway maintained that he’d never owned a slave in his life, save for the fourteen hours Homer was his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On May 5, a property owners’ association convened a raucous meeting, exhorting white residents to hold the line against the threatening wave moving toward them out of the Black Belt. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Arson, too, was a growing problem, as blacks, still unable to obtain justice in the white man’s courts, torched property belonging to their victimizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mother was in the kitchen when I arrived, stirring a stew with one hand and with the other holding the phone and explaining the properties of motherwort. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I got to defend my property,” he said. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z ‘We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “All of you are so generous with my property.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Chuck Muckle wasn’t a very jolly fellow, though, especially after seeing the newspaper article about the police car being spray-painted on Mother Paula’s property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Richard Garrett made a claim against the U.S. government for compensation, for the value of his property, including the burned barn and the corn and hay consumed by the cavalry horses. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A long trail snaked through the property, marked with different-colored mile markers. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z The constable knew Mr. Armin, and when he was satisfied that the duel had arisen over stolen property, he let us go free. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Robert made Isaac the heir to all his property, including the lordship of the manor, and Hannah brought to the union as her dowry property worth £50 per year. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z She had said it was better to own property rather than cash but he suspected that, for her, it was a safety net in case Port Harcourt fell. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Therefore, efforts were made to keep the markets and streets free of offensive-smelling matter, and the laws holding homeowners responsible for cleaning up their property were strengthened. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z During my first twenty or so years in prison, I accumulated very few possessions, but in the last few years I had amassed enough property — mainly books and papers — to make up for previous decades. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The group warned Mayor Grabarek about the situation and asked that the council deny Greenberg’s request for a zoning waiver that would allow him to build even more properties in Edgemont. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Instead, Sandy is living with his brother, Mikey, who was old enough to get himself a bit of property way out on the edge of town. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z His family lived in two canvas tents while they cleared their newly purchased property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He’d loaded some of his grandmother’s, porcelain in a wagon and toted it into the yard, where he set up targets on old fenceposts at the edge of the property. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z By the end of 1993, the rate of property crime and violent crime, including homicides, had already fallen nearly 20 percent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Liberal landowners, who had supported the revolution in the beginning, had made secret alliances with the Conservative landowners in order to stop the revision of property titles. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If genes were discrete particles specifying one trait, then how could this property be reconciled with the occurrence of human characteristics, say, height or skin color, in continuous curves? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Crossing the state line was a capital offense in Georgia; sometimes a master preferred an example over the return of his property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This inmate had transferred a couple of weeks before to R-gallery from the Box, but they had not yet returned his personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A year later the partner died, and Murray and his wife, Odetta, decided to use the property for a hotel. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Ravenclaw’s was supposed to have magical properties, enhance the wisdom of the wearer.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Later, as Officer Delinko was retrieving his third thermos of coffee from the squad car, he thought he saw a series of small white flashes at the other end of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what can happen in a year? Houses fall. Kingdoms fall. While you sit in your laboratory learning the properties of metal?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar, but Úrsula paid no attention to him, although she took the children off to pray. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z They were considered to be property and could be m bought or sold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Ajarry spent three months as the property of a Welshman who eventually lost her, three other slaves, and two hogs in a game of whist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Those caveats, which stem from the properties of zero and infinity, can become very important, however. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The important thing, the reason he and Mom had decided to acquire this particular piece of property, was that it came with plenty of land to build our new house. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked around her in wonder, as if she had been deposited on Ida Nee’s property by mistake. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z He jerked his head, indicating the old coal shed at the back of the property where Mamita's gardener, Florentino, kept his tools. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Zeitoun was planning to check on one of his rental properties, about two miles away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A two-story white farmhouse sits on the back of the property. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She was completely free of ambition, with no affection for money, property or things, no greed, no desire to command attention or compliments—no ego. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Because the spray planes were paid by the gallon rather than by the acre there was no effort to be conservative, and many properties were sprayed not once but several times. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Landowners and farmers whose property was being seized for this purpose objected. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Back before Axel was born, Byrd green-scaped the whole property from the turn up the driveway to the big red barn. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Halley was certainly not plunged into abject poverty by these events—he had property of his own and his wife had brought a good dowry with her. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Jamison was aware that his usual audience, milling outside the property, observed him with undefined expectations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now that I’m grounded from roaming the property, I spend a lot of time playing card games with Sam on our patio. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “What better peace offering,” Chiron said, “than to have the son of Poseidon return Zeus’s property?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They submitted to searches of their person and property and subjected themselves to long waits in order to spend a short time in Sing Sing’s Visit Room. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We raised our children and reared our crops; we let infants grow, and property develop. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Buy stolen property from a kid, and next thing you knew you’d have an enraged adult accusing you of having given little Johnnie or Matilda a tenner for their wedding ring. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “And one of her sons who lived on their property was a convicted felon?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The footsteps approached and halted before the door of the property room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z There was only one explanation that I could think of for the bike being there, and now it was on our property. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When the planter elite in Virginia refused to provide militia support for his scheme, Bacon retaliated, leading an attack on the elite, their homes, and their property. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Come down out of there. I work for this railroad. You are not supposed to be in there. This car is railroad property.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Mona had spent her whole life, apparently, studying the medicinal properties of herbs. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The property begins to take on its old groomed look of a park. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The property clerk went back to a cubby, opened the plastic bag containing the hat and the money, and pulled out the hat. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z Gandhi saw indenture for what it was: “almost as bad as slavery. Like the slave the indentured labourer was the property of his master.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To me nembutal was a powerful and mysterious liquid, but when I asked questions about its properties I could not obtain a single intelligent answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At a time when women had few options and were treated as property, Hypatia moved freely and unselfconsciously through traditional male domains. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Charles added a strip of land about three hundred yards long on the western boundary of the property. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The hottest girl in the eighth grade came to my house to tutor me, and I booted her off of my property. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We just happened to be on foot that day and we were going to arrest them for criminal damage to property when we discovered the heroin. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Satyagraha is the opposite of the idea that a human being can be made into property by someone else’s laws, or guns, or prejudice. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I being entailed as their rightful property, thought I, it answers to the dictates of ownership as well as expediency that they should provide me with clothing. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Some princes were tolerant and allowed freedom of worship; others insisted that all their subjects convert to the new flavour of the month or forfeit their property at once. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z “No way intellectual property will be controlled,” he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “The police called and asked me to press charges against her for stealing church property. They say she took some of our fans. You know anything about that?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z To the Americans, owning and controlling property was the difference between freedom and slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Frantically he gathered the gourds and the little bags that were their property. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, thank you. That card is now property of Team Kyle.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The most important property of a line is its slope, and to measure this, mathematicians look at how high a line rises in a certain amount of distance. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The key to a black hole’s strange properties is the way it curves space-time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Perhaps, but what can a mother do? A daughter is her father’s property,” Isabel says without bitterness. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z But as long as they could still see Africans as property, they could not treat Haitians as equally brave and courageous human beings. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The unemployment caused home foreclosures, leading to shortfalls in property tax receipts, and therefore holes in the school budget. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Theft implies acquisition of another’s property. It is ridiculous to imply you cannot destroy what you have stolen.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Though the property was on the lake, there were no docks or boats in sight, only a mansion-like clubhouse, two paddle tennis courts, and a swimming pool. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Northern white elites were sympathetic to the demand for their “property rights” to be respected, as they, too, wanted the Constitution to protect their property interests. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In revolutionary France, the defenders of slaves began to win the argument against the advocates of property rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The beginnings of mathematical thought were found in the desire to count sheep and in the need to keep track of property and of the passage of time. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The woods just beyond the property were full of bears and cougars. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I try not to bring unnecessary technology onto the property,” he continued, dipping the wand again. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z J. G. Crowther has neatly summed up the real root of the problem, which Oldenburg fanned into flame: ‘Hooke could not understand what tact had to do with science...Newton regarded discoveries as private property’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z In September 1965, a white landlord named Abe Greenberg bought more than a score of properties in East Durham and promptly raised rents, although he had not made any improvements to the dilapidated houses. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A small window opened and displayed the item’s properties. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z His foster parents had a three-bedroom mobile home on a property that also had a plant nursery. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z After forging the blade, she had spent another three months using Transformation to engrave the weapon, imbuing it with its magical properties. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “The girl’s her property. She has to decide what to do with her.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z On the expansive property of my father’s house stood high poplar, oak, the few elm not yet fallen with disease. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I assure you we will address your grievance, but the first item on the agenda is the settlement of the Widow Cane’s property.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But here was a ghost who had once been property, a man who had died peacefully in his sleep and instead of passing on had decided to wait for his wife. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Jonas pulled his suitcase close, fearful that any minute it, too, might become Soviet property. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He got there just in time to see the fire taking hold of his neighbor’s shed and fence, while the breeze blew a rain fire on his property. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He had seen similar structures before, on the properties of his clients who kept dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “They are sneaking around, trying to rally and protest something that is perfectly within my right to do. Apparently, your abuela and abuelo didn’t learn that in this country, people are free to buy property.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “Were you two involved in the vandalism incidents on the Mother Paula’s property?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Supper was held outside the meeting house, the biggest building on the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Kabuo pulled into a turnout one rainy afternoon and explained to her in grave tones that he intended to repurchase his parents’ property as soon as the chance arose. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “I refuse to remove myself from this property until James Daley is arrested for the murder of my friend.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At the end of the video he asks, “Is this on your property?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Dad owned the red, yellow, and green properties and had them loaded up with hotels just waiting to bankrupt us out of the game. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Gloria came back to live in a neat wood house in the middle of a coconut grove behind her mother’s property. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Beginning in the Administration Building, with a single wind tunnel, the lab grew until space limits pushed it to expand to the west onto several large properties tracing their provenance to colonial-era plantations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The body plans of vertebrates depend on this property: if hemoglobin’s capacity to deliver oxygen to distant sites was disrupted, our bodies would be forced to be small and cold. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Congress effectively outlawed their communal property, passing vast acreages into the public domain, tracts which then suddenly wound up in the hands of large American ranching enterprises like the Devine Company. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the Constitution’s emphasis on protecting private property runs contrary to Haudenosaunee traditions of communal ownership. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He started thinking about the properties of wood and the corrosiveness of salt water. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In 1946, the Smuts government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, which curtailed the free movement of Indians, circumscribed the areas where Indians could reside and trade, and severely restricted their right to buy property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is perhaps the property of M. Ratchett?” suggested the doctor. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tillermans skirted the trees at the edge of the property and cut down to the water when they saw it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the most widely cited examples involved wealthy whites whose property was seized. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Nathaniel Bacon was a white property owner in Jamestown, Virginia, who managed to unite slaves, indentured servants, and poor whites in a revolutionary effort to overthrow the planter elite. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not only for its galvanic properties, but because pieces of sky-iron like this often had rare metals mingled with the iron. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Before long his property was littered with busted vehicles and scrap metal. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Up the drive she went, and south on the road that ran past the property. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z No trees grow on the property, no shrubs flank the front door, so that the cement of the foundation is clearly visible to the eye. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Once the property was seized, the owner had no right of counsel, and the burden was placed on him to prove the property’s “innocence.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were not the property of some wealthy community, with money to bind their books in gold. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z With their victory, the people of Saint Domingue announced that the conflict between freedom and property was over: “All men are equal” meant that no men are property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Ridgeway gathered renown with his facility for ensuring that property remained property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Well, he made it plain he had offered as much as he was going to. He also made it plain that the store and all his other property would go to your mother and Loma.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z If discovered here in the morning, I could contrive some explanation of how I came to be shut up in the property room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Squelch's dad's only a dustman but his garden's like a National Trust property. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z That his intentions were honorable and that he himself was certainly worthy of the doctor’s consideration as a gentleman friend for Miss Foster since, at twenty-five, he was already a colored man of property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The unicorn’s horn, blood and hair all have highly magical properties. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But keep your property, and rule your house, and let no man, against your will, make havoc of your possessions, while there’s life on Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z That the anti-tumor properties of any number of chemicals are being explored. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “This land where I’m standing is private property.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z It is with regret that I confirm the report that has come to your ears: The experimental subject has indeed absconded from the property, and, at present, has not been located. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They named the property Marianna Farm, combining Marian’s name and her mother’s, and stocked the place with a collection of farm animals that included horses and cows, chickens, pigs, and sheep. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Now these strangers are here and milling around, and they must be the ones who own this property and this house. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z An Eastern concept, born in the Fertile Crescent a few centuries before the birth of Christ, zero not only evoked images of a primal void, it also had dangerous mathematical properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “Would Trudy rather have them poking about her property than us?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He became a collector of Louis XV furniture, good pictures and rare books, and all these beautiful things together with the two properties are still in the family. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He was fanatical, violent, and antiquated, but he represented better than anybody else the values of family, tradition, private property, law and order. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘If you will give me back my property,’Johnny said politely, ‘I’ll take it to Mr. Revere or Mr. Burt. Four pounds is all I really need.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sir, you are trespassing on private property. Now are you gonna tell me your name?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As we headed out of London by the dismal Westway, he gave me his condensed version: no property law, therefore no capital, therefore no wealth. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If England could take an American's property, he was not a free man. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Cautiously I moved across to the door of the property room. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z For here are suitors eating up your property as long as she holds out—a plan some god put in her mind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you can’t protect us. I might be under eighteen. I might legally be your property or whatever, but I’m my own person. Cilla was her own person.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Now that the hyper-rich have achieved a critical mass, property values have zoomed so high that the less- well-off are being forced to leave and the island is becoming nature’s ultimate gated community. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Electrons determine the chemical properties of the atom—the glitter of gold, the cold feel of iron, the crystal structure of the carbon diamond. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The property was so large, he hadn’t explored all of it yet. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It gave him more than enough time to pitch the hay and tend to the animals on his own modest property, located on five acres just outside Tremonton. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z We put her down at the edge of the property, near the disused railway line. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z At this time molecular work on DNA in England was, for all practical purposes, the personal property of Maurice Wilkins, a bachelor who worked in London at King’s College.* Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “About a month,” said Elizabeth; and then, unwilling to let the subject drop, added, “He is a man of very large property in Derbyshire, I understand.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Sisulu ran a real estate office that specialized in properties for Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The probable cause showing could be based on nothing more than hearsay, innuendo, or even the paid, self-serving testimony of someone with interests clearly adverse to the property owner. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When they first arrived, the officers told us, inmates segregated here received no privileges beyond an hour of daily exercise—no reading or writing materials, no personal property. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I heard your dad is building a runway on your property. That’s against the zoning laws around here.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z This property allows the neutron to be absorbed more easily in substances with a high hydrogen content, such as biological tissues. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The family had once owned vast amounts of land, many businesses, and other kinds of property. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the Indians were not property; they were not defined by their years of labor as indentures. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I walk my bike along the back edge of the property to where the trees swallow the sun. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I could see Chi-Boy already scouting the property for things to take with us. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The slaves insisted they were not property; like the Jews in Egypt, they were God’s children, who were owed their basic human rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All those properties they had stolen he was going to distribute among the poor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The university was closed down until further notice as a result of the damage to university property and the atmosphere of unrest. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z As I leave, the old man calls out, “Don’t be stealing nothing. That’s all motel property.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z “And I’m tired of those Rude cows wandering onto my property. The deer, too. And whatever else is creeping around.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Those ancestors walked into the gathering as legal property and emerged as free citizens of the United States of America. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z If a woman suddenly came into an inheritance, it immediately became her husband’s property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z One can also use the sum over histories, along with the no boundary proposal, to find which properties of the universe are likely to occur together. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This amount of property value has a vast influence on the minds of its owners, very naturally. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When I came out here, I thought only of having a piece of property to call my own. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z If tissue samples—including blood cells—became patients’ property, researchers taking them without getting consent and property rights up front would risk being charged with theft. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Consequently, the Constitution was designed so the federal government would be weak, not only in its relationship to private property, but also in relationship to the rights of states to conduct their own affairs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The field at Indian Creek was a free-for-all in the afternoons; there were no fences around the property, and neighborhood teenagers were constantly popping out of the surrounding woods. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He had worked the railroads for fifteen years, making enough money to build his wife a house on a nice property of a hundred acres of land. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For hypotheses should be employed only in explaining the properties of things, but not assumed in determining them; unless so far as they may furnish experiments. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z There were more turbulent council meetings, and several incidents of arson involving DHA property. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Rupp property is on a rise, an exposed plateau, from which he could see the harvested, glowing land of River Valley Farm—scenery that occupied him for perhaps an hour. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of Mrs. Strawberry’s property, two hills meet in a swamp. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere along the line they started buying buildings, apartments, and houses, and now they had six properties with eighteen tenants. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I was thinking, when she continued, “Do you have any property, a bank account that will guarantee your return?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Barry wished he could find the courage to step forward and say, “Get off my property!” I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z One day, I was on the front lawn of the property and aimed the gun at a sparrow perched high in a tree. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I owned the railroads, the utilities, and the orange properties. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was an old Anglican private school, established for the daughters of English clergy, property owners, and overseers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once they had my husband’s property, they had no more use for me. They said widows were unlucky to have about. The truth is that I am too old for hard work.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “You say the third chick’s in a nest box on your property and its parents are taking care of it?” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z She felt sorry for Adelaide, though, and after taking the passport, she turned the backpack in to a lost properties office. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But thinking about how the SIM raided our property, how Tío Toni had to disappear, how I have to erase everything in my diary, I know that Oscar is telling the truth. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z She mortgaged her property and borrowed money from a neighbor for her journey. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then we borrowed Slats to haul the planks from the collapsed barn on Bando’s property. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She would have to sell the rental properties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The boy was probably a slave, I realized, the property of Rufus’s family. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Slave owners fought back, arguing that owners should be able to list their slaves as property when they arrived in France and take them with them when they left. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The parabola has a special property: it takes the rays of light from the sun, or any distant source, and focuses them to a point, concentrating all the light’s energy on a very small area. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z A property man, dressed in black, moved items around the stage, concealed by his dark clothing, lighting, and the imagination of the audience. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z And part of your job, aside from parsing abstract intellectual property issues for big corporations, is to help cultivate the next set of young lawyers being courted by the firm. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He is getting the intellectual property from these three applications, said Juster, and they are empowering him to start a company with very little money. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z To the ancients, zero’s mathematical properties were inexplicable, as shrouded in mystery as the birth of the universe. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Moving to this quiet New Jersey neighborhood—owning a bit of land after his family lost the ancestral property during the war—restored him. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z During most of recorded history property could be owned only by flesh-and-blood humans, the kind that stood on two legs and had big brains. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d tackled gun control, the meaning of intellectual property, the structure of American education, and the future of networked computing. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Through various inquiries Holmes learned of Minnie’s inheritance and of the fact that it consisted largely of a parcel of property in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It is part of the natural world, the common property of all humanity. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the morning, Taran saw Gurgi’s leg was much worse, and he left the campsite to search the woods for healing plants, glad that Coll had taught him the properties of herbs. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The whips were the property of the stolen truck’s rightful custodian, a cattleman; it had been Latham’s notion to use them as garrotes—which, after robbing the women, is what they did. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “This property is rather eccentric,” Miss Marsh is telling Milton one September afternoon as she leads him up the driveway. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Alfred Stoecklein, the only employee who actually lived on the property, was waiting to admit them. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s okay. Potassium nitrate has much the same property and exactly the same number of oxygen atoms as potassium chlorate. Mix saltpeter and sugar and we should get the same reaction we just saw.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z An inmate moving from one cell to another often had big garbage bags full of property to carry; you didn’t help him with it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Take a walk ’round the property or something? Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Inside, in the light of a candle, I could make out a figure crouched over one of the property trunks, lifting some object from it. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z She felt willing to push and pull about this; seven acres was near one-quarter of the property, one-quarter of their holdings. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The strong nuclear force has a curious property called confinement: it always binds particles together into combinations that have no color. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “The student must pay for the replacement or repair of the property.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Right, but there’s so many possible accomplices. Pickett has, like, thousands of employees. And who knows how many people working on that property. I mean, they have a zoologist.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “You! Tramps! Get off my property!” a woman shouted. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Unlike his father and brother, James did not use his property to gratify himself. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Arturo, the city owns the property. And the city board members will vote.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If he had to spend the rest of his life thinking about rents and property, he’d lose his mind. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In retaliation I had accused him of theft, destruction of property, and Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We’d never get them back through the narrow opening in the fence line, but we could get them off our property. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The biggest surprise lay in store for the migrants who had sold property and brought cash from the South, expecting to purchase a nice home in their new city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Hard to work. Good sun, bad drainage. Least productive acres on the property. He knows that. That’s why he asked for it. Knows it’s the only piece I’d think of letting go.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Bodies, furniture, clothes, and all kinds of property were scattered all over. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was the common property of us all. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Most of us lack expert knowledge of the flaking properties of flint and basalt and the fine motor skills needed to work them precisely. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The door of the property room, which always stood open during performances to give the players quick access to their properties, was now firmly closed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z Already those who could see the writing on the wall were torching their own property for the insurance money before it became worthless. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z To deactivate the bow’s special properties, I need only tell it “Good night.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z You cannot “see” this cube nor feel its edges—but it shares the one property that all physical objects must possess: it generates shadows. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The difficulty lay not in finding vacant rooms—for there were whole houses vacant—but rather vacant rooms in houses where owners were present still to let out their property. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Lieutenant Baker dismounts and opens the property’s main gate. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Never had the farm—and with a kind of surprise they remembered that it was their own farm, every inch of it their own property—appeared to the animals so desirable a place. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But how could they sue Grover over property they didn’t own? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran down the front steps and across our property so I could watch the long line of them pass. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s the king’s property, and you aren’t of noble blood. You need permission from either him or the prince.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The judges sided with Pauline—she was real to them, human, not a piece of property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z All the same, he was not doing what he wanted to do; the son of a farmer, he had from the beginning aimed at operating a property of his own. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The truth is nothing more than a small green room with dirty windows and a lingering smell of cigarettes, even though it has been illegal to smoke on school property for years. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It starts near the River Outlets, then passes by retail shops and commercial properties before moving through newer residential developments, older houses, farmland, and then just fields. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z We would be going back to Richard’s property again and this time it would be just the two of us. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Roy, they own the property. They can do pretty much whatever they please.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They were now the property of the eldest son by Leon’s second marriage and installed in a castle somewhere in the Scottish Highlands. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When Emmett and George bought the property, his house didn't even exist. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Holmes’s building and land were valuable to begin with, given Englewood’s continued growth, but now his property seemed the equivalent of a seam of gold ore. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Africans had lived and owned property in Sophiatown for over fifty years; now the government was callously planning on relocating all Sophiatown’s African residents to another black township. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The old mansion still stands deep within this property, though most of the flimsier structures around it have been swallowed by time and the elements. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Mrs. Waller had specifically requested Agriculture officials not to spray her property, because it would be impossible to avoid the pastures in spraying the woodlands. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the time of the divorce the Blooms had been eighty-three thousand dollars in the hole; there followed bankruptcy declarations and a substantial loss of valuable suburban property. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They would be liable for damage if their equipment caused harm to clients’ property. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It did not occur to Browne that the notion of intellectual property owed as much to Columbus as to the printing press. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then they prepared the earth for planting, thankful that the lava and ash had fallen on the other side, sparing the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His family lived in their own two-room cottage at the rear of the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Or that the government should have somehow foreseen the freak hurricane in the West Country that had caused so much damage to both people and property? Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “All those bird feeders on the motel property. Calling it the Blue Jay Extended Stay Lodge. The way he looked at those birds up on the Wonder Dome that day.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z ‘Tou have Vera, you have money. Just go away. Buy some beach property in San Juan and you and Vera can lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z The core of the audience he saw in his mind’s eye consisted of those adult white males who owned sufficient property to qualify for the vote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z No one should be afraid to increase his property for fear that it will be taken away from him, while no one should shrink from undertaking any business through fear of taxes. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The government wanted to control the movements of all Africans, and such control was far more difficult in freehold urban townships, where blacks could own property, and people came and went as they pleased. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before settling down in front of the television, Curly took out his gun and made a quick tour of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here it is: ‘Last Monday, unknown intruders uprooted survey stakes from the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a land deed from the small chunk of Clover property Deborah bought with two thousand dollars from her father’s asbestos settlement. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know this land is posted? This is private property.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The property on Stone Canyon Drive out in Terra Vista Valley, sir.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Of course you have burned a man’s property—barn, farm implements, hay, and grain; you have polluted his well with coal oil and terrified his family. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Darwin wondered incessantly about a mechanism of heredity that could achieve these counterbalanced properties. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She kept saying that over and over: ‘I have property.’ Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Afterwards, as we waited by Keith’s van for a promised lift to the trailhead, we stood in an awkward silence, like adversaries in a property dispute waiting to be summoned into the judge’s chambers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Instead of being housed inside the prison, they were brought to the football stadium on the property. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Specifically, the vertical columns put together chemicals that have similar properties. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z So the next time we saw a swastika spray painted on a wall or newspaper stand we could represent ourselves, the Freedom Writers, without destroying property. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “The maze is my property,” the ghost said, “not Daedalus’s! Those who intrude deserve madness.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Pa and Mr. Clemson would cover our property lines, so we headed south knowing the Widow Kerensky didn’t have much help around her place. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Carl would sleep until one o’clock in the afternoon, then eat again and go out to work on the property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Rumors from the big house held that their master meant to dispose of some property to cover debts from the disappointing crop. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His property was kind of a local tourist attraction—he’d even offered tours at one time. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “I walked up and around the property. There’s no one there. All of the windows are still intact, and the front door is latched. It’s like they left on an errand and never came back.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “I am not offended. I should have explained to him my business here in Afghanistan. I am not here to sell property. I’m going to Kabul to find a boy.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Not only did he get part of Nigel’s earnings, but he got the assurance that Nigel, his only valuable piece of property, was not likely to run away again soon. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I also asked if he would be willing to give us masking tape to tape our logos and not destroy outside property. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The rest of the room was property common to all. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A special type of star, called a Cepheid variable, had a property that allowed Hubble to measure the distance to faraway objects. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z In Greek mythology the sorceress Medea, enraged at being supplanted by a rival for the affections of her husband Jason, presented the new bride with a robe possessing magic properties. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Mr. Burton, if you’ll sign the papers with the county clerk, we’ll move on to the rest of the Widow Cane’s property.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “James,” he said, “you need to keep better account of your property.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Men of property too among the crowd, but nobody seemed to get any further than the store. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It was common knowledge she hadn’t left a will, so the county owned the property now. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z They have destroyed the cliche that whenever Negroes move into an area the property values go down. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z "You, Sikander, aren't a god, but you have the benefit of being more or less immortal, so the sea's properties won't affect you. And Mo's already dead. The worst is over for him." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z One rumor originating in Hartman’s Cafe involved Taylor Jones, a rancher whose property adjoins River Valley Farm. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z As interesting as this was, to the Pythagoreans the most important property of the pentagram was not in this self-replication but was hidden within the lines of the star. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z All those times Vincent had said, what I make is yours, your property. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z So the properties of these standing waves, which are always produced in very specific groups, or series, have far-reaching effects on music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I guess they want to make sure they get me out of here in one piece, and that no one rolls off with Mercy Hospital property. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z As for properties and banked monies, I could not raise cash from them without endangering the men I dealt with, and the better friends they were to me the worse their danger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I knew she wanted it to be the Ministry of Environment that confiscated bonobos, in order to make it clear that it was the government of Congo taking peoples property, not her. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The grounds were crosshatched with downed branches, but otherwise the property was undamaged. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Even with a nice pension and some properties, a person couldn’t afford a stepson like that. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It can open a bank account and own property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed behind in the kitchen and looked out the picture window with the binoculars, spotting a small boat moored close to Vern’s property. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z "I'm not dramatizing anything, it's my personal property that happens to be lying on my desk." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Randall retained the services of a witch to goofer his property so that no one with African blood could escape without being stricken with hideous palsy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was explained that he was going to be at the party so he could watch his property, that no one questioned that they were his. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z To add to the confusion, there were all the new properties and painted backdrops our hired men had constructed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The newer ones—the latest additions the men put up now that the corn was picked—followed an identical style, with more spacious rooms, and were distributed on the property with more care. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In early June, community leaders focused attention once again on landlord Abe Greenberg’s refusal to bring his Hayti properties up to code—and on the city’s refusal to press the issue. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “There’s my property line,” she said, pointing it out. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you know the place on his property where that clump of cedars sticks out—you know, right on the county road?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Dragon hide, blood, heart, fiver and horn all have highly magical properties, but dragon eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sugar turned human beings into property, yet sugar led people to reject the idea that any person could be owned by another. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The great seesaw between freedom and property kept swinging. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “So it's all right for you to spend six hundred pounds on a golf-club membership you hardly ever use, but it isn't all right for me to improve our property?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The enslaved Africans who were taken to the sugar plantations lost their names; they were meant to be pure property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Large amounts of real estate and other property had been destroyed in the war, industry was disorganized, and hundreds of thousands of men had been killed or maimed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I walked past houses that had letters “G R,” George Rex, carved into the front door, property stolen in the name of the King. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The southwest corner of the fence abutted the main road but also separated the Lonogan property from the Rude farm. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas didn’t have as much land as my great-grandmother, but he had a few fruit trees and pecan trees on his property. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z It was technically illegal to bury anyone on company property, but the colored people had a cemetery somewhere up Snakeroot Hollow. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The women discussed inheritance rights of widows, property rights, and control of their wages. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Why does this property—being the least divisible unit of a larger form—imbue these particular ideas with such potency and force? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was some hours before he could be coaxed back to the property. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The rich people pressed enough cash into someone’s hands to keep it lush and vagrant free, and a new, all-American bandstand stood whitewashed against the greenery at the back of the property. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “She came to me and asked if she could build a shack on my property. She promised to keep to herself. I saw no harm in it. You shouldn’t go bothering her.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Because the properties repeated themselves periodically, the invention became known as the periodic table. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Of course it didn’t help that we’d all been booted off the property a few days ago. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z This isn’t a matter of simply needing more precise instruments; it is an immutable property of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z From the way Beatrice was acting, Roy assumed they weren’t alone on the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They scoured the property, dug up the fields, and found the buried boxes full of their incriminating cargo as well as an old box of papers. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rent’s going up this month. On the whole block. You think this ain’t hot property?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She decided to investigate and discovered a car-painting shop on one side of the property and several empty warehouse bays with roll-front gates on the other. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z There is no law that requires the universe to fill itself with small particles of matter or to produce light and gravity and the other physical properties on which our existence hinges. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z People from the neighborhood and the nearby boardinghouse had heard the commotion and were now pouring onto the church property. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I told you not to cancel the property insurance,” she said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He had a hundred things on his mind, and a pipe at one of the rental properties had just burst. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Thus the owners of immovable property find themselves supporting swarms of guests, and they are getting pretty angry about it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Much of social reality consists of institutional facts: property, for example, or marriage. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Soon after Byrd started to care for the property, Aunt Nancy came to live in the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At first he’d said he was snooping around the Mother Paula’s property in order to heist a load of Gladiator cigarettes. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’ve done enough to botch this affair. I bid five thousand dollars on the rest of the property, Carlson. Let’s get this thing over with.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “What I think of, Wemmick, is the poor owner of the property.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Or the teenage boys who were swallowed whole by a man-made quicksand pit on the property of an Illinois businessman. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Like they were property that the doctors could do with as they pleased. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z About five miles outside the town of San Lucas, along a ruined path overgrown with weeds and full of potholes, there was a wooden sign with the name of the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ridgeway became a proper slave catcher after his first trip to New Jersey, when he went up to retrieve the property of a local planter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They asked first that he renounce the revision of property titles in order to get back the support of the Liberal landowners. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Private security guards warned business owners of the danger to their property, urging them to get downtown to their stores and offices as quickly as possible, but the mob was not stopped until ten a.m. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For two saddles, a handful of bridles, and two sacks of oats, he became for all intents and purposes the property of Freddie Johnson. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But he doesn’t feel the need to hide anything: sexual possessiveness is bourgeois, and just a hangover from notions about the sanctity of private property. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z If we were on someone's private property, we would be trespassing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It was like we had a secret language, because on the school property no one else but Quang-ha spoke Vietnamese. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z And as soon as HeLa became “general scientific property,” people started wondering about the woman behind the cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Mala sprang at him, shrieking that he had no business with her property. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Charles, like many physicists of his time, was fascinated with the very different properties of gases. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The reason I remember this so well is the impression it made on me because “mutilation” of Army property was a crime for which you could get severely punished. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z After work, I called around and found that this practice is entirely legal: if the purse is on the boss’s property— which of course it was—the boss has the right to examine its contents. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I stumbled from the property room and ran headlong into Mr. Armin. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z We hadn’t been worried about the new property owners seeing us because their new house was out of sight, up the hill beyond their new, three-car garage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The sharers were in the property room, discussing some matter so intently that none of them so much as raised a hand to greet us. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The shaking lasted for four minutes with the usual devastating effects to property. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z It was at once property and source of food, for a man with a boat can guarantee a woman that she will eat something. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z They kicked Abel out of the garage, which I thought was hilarious because the garage, which was freestanding, was the only piece of the property left unscathed. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Tall oaks shaded much of the Mosses’ property, but when the temperature and humidity were both high, we were miserable. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Women did not have the right to own property. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At that, I drew myself up with wounded pride and strode off to "our" side of the property. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z If the quarter had any magical properties, they weren’t revealed in its item description, which was completely empty. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An article entitled “The Effect of the Fire upon Real Estate” concluded that “Chicago property now stands better classified, and its future more distinctly marked, than could have been possible before the fire.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Although she was assured that no farms would be sprayed, her property received two direct sprayings and, in addition, was twice subjected to drifting spray. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “You know that Carlos and I are earning more in our jobs here. In a few years we’ll build another, small house on this property. A house for you. Your own house.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is private property, don’t you know that? You wanna go to jail, junior?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just wanted directions and the next thing I know”—I gave a cheerfully dismayed laugh—“this man’s telling me I’m on private property and he’s impounding my car.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Vincent follows this proposal with a letter the next day, making sure that Theo understands that they are partners: “My studies and everything in the way of work in the studio is definitely your property.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It was a criminal conspiracy devoted to theft of property, and Ridgeway suffered their brazenness as a personal slur. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Why does he have to stay up all night, grinding his dashers and destroying people’s property? Why can’t he go to sleep, like any decent animal?” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Yes. And you have filed a destruction of personal property report, which I have right here.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “It has come to my attention that Shady Howard has been producing illegal substances on public property.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Quentin sighed and then explained in some detail the chemical’s properties. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The whole country is a prince’s private property. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They were paying me to distract Bigger with ping- pong, checkers, swimming, marbles, and baseball in order that he might not roam the streets and harm the valuable white property which adjoined the Black Belt. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had tom down the old slave quarters on his property. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Also,” said the Englishman, “the Philosopher’s Stone has a fascinating property. A small sliver of the stone can transform large quantities of metal into gold.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Martin had brought the wagon as far back into his property as he dared. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Xaro assures me that in Qarth, man and woman each retain their own property after they are wed. The dragons are mine." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The property had a small pasture with two feet of grass and a three-sided shed, was surrounded by tall ponderosa pines for shade and little else. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She and Zeitoun spoke on the phone throughout every day, about everything—painting, the rental properties, things to fix and do and pick up, often just to say hello. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Encircling the property, contentedly grazing on the rich land, was a herd of at least fifty cattle and perhaps five hundred sheep. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They had better be at the house first thing in the morning, ready to fix the ceiling permanently and to offer restitution for the property damage their carelessness had caused. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He suggested that when elements were arranged by weight they appeared to repeat certain properties–in a sense to harmonize–at every eighth place along the scale. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They were tight enough to fight too, and we were on their private property. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The gunfire and screams came from farther away, deeper in the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was off company property, so perhaps he felt I had followed his orders, at least to an extent that satisfied him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z No doubt he had heard about the meetings Manolo and Minerva were conducting on our property. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Either it was a sin to keep another as property, or it had God’s own blessing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She had become public property—no longer the mother of seven children, but a woman desired by many. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Under the new law, drug busts motivated by the desire to seize cash, cars, homes, and other property are still perfectly legal. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Then he asked, “Is your riverbank private property?” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They had no trouble with the philosophical contradiction of cherishing the children they had with a slave and simultaneously thinking of slaves as property. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Failure to follow these instructions may lead to serious personal injury and possibly property damage.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She invited us onto her property, a desolate piece of land we would have never imagined was inhabited, set far enough back from the road that we hadn’t seen it through the trees. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the great contest over whether a human, any human, could ever be property, the tide was turning. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Anything she doesn’t want found on her property—drugs, or stolen goods. Good thing I ran her off, then.” Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z When Harry had taken his place between Ron and Hermione, she said, “Wetll be repotting Mandrakes today. Now, who can tell me the properties of the Mandrake?” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They lived in one of the trailers on the property. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z At the beginning of this century, for example, it was thought that everything could be explained in terms of the properties of continuous matter, such as elasticity and heat conduction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Neither the owner of the property nor anyone else need be charged with a crime, much less found guilty of one. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They may not be worth much, but, after all, they’re property and portable. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z I suspect it is the property of Countess Andrenyi, since her luggage contained only a chiffon negligee so. elaborate as to be more a tea gown than a dressing gown. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z But as annoying as this property was, the true power of zero becomes apparent with division, not multiplication. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The concept of real property is deeply implanted in us as the source and symbol of wealth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This nondecreasing property of the event horizon’s area placed an important restriction on the possible behavior of black holes. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But crimes of property and “stranger” crimes—like muggings—are lower. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As planned, the black residents applauded Brown’s reassertion that Greenberg should not be granted another delay in repairing his properties. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once a storm blew down the fence to the Turner property, and a neighbor’s cow wandered onto their land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z One afternoon, I was on one of these getaway rampages, racing down the small side roads that spiderweb our property. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Cox has forty former slaves living on his farm, it is too dangerous for Booth and Herold to stay on the property. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Taken collectively, they are not simply twelve million people; in reality they constitute a separate nation, stunted, stripped, and held captive within this nation, devoid of political, social, economic, and property rights. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The parrot and the mocking-bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z The first warm day falls on a Saturday, which is how we end up in Prairieton at the Blue Hole, a three-acre lake that sits on private property. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I looked at the brick walls surrounding the property. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Thus was the brunt of one brother’s ire toward another borne by property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wove a tale of a group of black boys trespassing upon the property of a white man and the lynching that followed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not entirely sure it is on their property,” Mr. Trepid said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z He proposed to settle his debts by giving the group a mortgage secured by his various properties. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They killed to get property rights to vuvv resorts and locations for energy rendering plants. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Counted as property by someone far away, perhaps, but not here. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If this were true, then it would not be a question only of sharing property, as such. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A sectional understanding had emerged whereby northern states had agreed not to tamper with the property rights of southern states. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As they left the property and ran along the lane, they waved at an incoming car, and a girl waved back. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I braced myself, expecting her to yell at me or to kick me off her property. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The Guardian is distributed by a group of kids to their friends on privately owned property before or after school hours. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z I relished these hours of quiet, but on most evenings I would leave the property to attend meetings, returning in the middle of the night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Scientists count the puffs and by such means take us very slightly closer to understanding the fundamental properties of the universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One of these numbers, i, held the key to zero’s strange properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Later William Capp, an attorney with the Texas firm of Capp & Canty, said, “Anna had no property of her own, and such a change as described in her letter meant everything for her.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Did you list your property with a real estate agent, Mr. Jurgensen?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The important thing is to unleash your Inner Stickler, while at the same time not getting punched on the nose, or arrested for damage to private property. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “This is private property. Can’t just walk in here and not expect my son to defend himself.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Just hoping for a little conversation. It’s regarding your boys here. And some of my property.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Dis ain’t no business proposition, and no race after property and tides. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Some scholars imagine ancient hunter-gatherer societies as peaceful paradises, and argue that war and violence began only with the Agricultural Revolution, when people started to accumulate private property. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, to own such a glorious property! she thought with an intake of breath. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Born to a typical dwarf cavern-dwelling family, Mulch had decided early that mining was not for him, and resolved to put his talents to another use, namely digging and entering, generally entering Mud People’s property. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was, however, the property of the Portuguese spirit. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He followed the same ritual at another hole in a far corner of the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be vandalism, plain and ugly, defacement of school property. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z I sold my property and we lived in a “house car.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes. The present Mr. Rochester has not been very long in possession of the property; only about nine years.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Then it was a mental hospital for a hot second in the seventies, then a crack house. Now it’s abandoned. City doesn’t know what to do with the property, I guess.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1860, Stanton prepared a speech in defense of married women’s property rights and returned before the Judiciary Committee of the New York State Legislature to present it. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He wanted to find out what had happened last night at the Mother Paula’s property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was wrong: because there she was one afternoon in sunshine, getting a ball that had flown onto our property. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Artemis, give it up. No human has ever succeeded in keeping fairy gold. And they’ve been trying for centuries. The LEP will do anything to protect their property.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Throughout 1918, property owners’ associations stepped up their rhetoric to stop the invasion. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then the road took a slight turn inland at the point where private homes and private property began and the state beach ended. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z To him fell the job of organizing the workers, restoring order, and reconstructing the wreckage of the entire property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The realtor who represents this property is sick.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At the back of the property was a shed where the coal bins were kept for the laundry fires for boiling the white clothes, a shed known to be haunted. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The same amount of property would have an equal influence upon us if owned in the North. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After making sure Ivan was gone, she pulled the cart at a trot across the road and down the slope onto her property. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z The parrot and the mocking bird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not this season, son. I’ve monitored the books quite closely, and I think this year we will make quite a profit without selling any property.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Our orders are to protect British property and citizens.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Hundreds of tents and fires surrounded the property. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “She and her greedy uncle want the Riverview property for a luxury condominium complex.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z All that night he kept recalling the faces of the peasants, whom he had seen come into this world on his property, as they moved off along the highway. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If you make the ninety-first cut of the apple pie, if you slice a carbon nucleus, you make not a smaller piece of carbon, but something else—an atom with completely different chemical properties. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Winslow house was theirs free and clear; Mrs. Richardson’s parents had bought it as an investment property when she was a teenager. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The document also commended the local sheriff for his prompt and successful action to protect property and persons in the vicinity and for his judgment in selecting his deputies. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z Yet all these gases have very basic properties in common: heat them up and they expand; cool them down and they contract. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z After Curly retired to the air-conditioned comfort of the trailer, the patrolman began walking the property, following the line of his flashlight beam from one survey stake to the next. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The greatest failure of the Reform Act, however, has nothing to do with one’s due process rights once property has been seized in a drug investigation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My mom applied for a license to be able to operate a business on the property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So far, the policeman hadn’t seen much out of the ordinary except for the scene earlier that day: a wild-eyed man waving a red umbrella and chasing several giant black dogs around the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One will then see the simplicity with which these concepts lead to properties already known and to an infinity of others which ordinary geometry does not seem to touch easily. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She stepped over the low stone border and onto Uncle’s property. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “It says here we’re the property of the United States Government,” Caesar pointed out. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Mom guessed it was because he had lodged his complaint about the property sale but she wasn’t certain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He would, however, allow them to walk unchaperoned around the property, provided that they did not go too far and that they returned before dark. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other edge of the property, a tall palm tree and several smaller, bluish silver eucalyptus trees trembled together in the late-afternoon wind. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of a property company, either, let alone one that might realistically be hiring. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She learned about the effects of carbon dioxide on different plants, the medicinal properties of hops and licorice and red clover. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “No, I'm here representing my own property. I’d like to speak with the person in charge.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z We heard him tell the property manager the solitude was driving him insane. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In the event of a problem with the heir or transfer of property, it’s the chief who must decide an outcome. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z The cold store cellar on the edge of the property became my favorite place. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Rain had told me to stay off the county roads, but that I’d be okay so long as I stuck to Garland property. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Contagiousness, in other words, is an unexpected property of all kinds of things, and we have to remember that, if we are to recognize and diagnose epidemic change. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z According to the house slaves, Master James was more upset that his brother had touched his property, and before so many witnesses, than with Chester and Cora. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Not in a car, for. they were all Palace property here; would a ship or landboat give him passage? The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes hadn’t approved of Pilar’s painting, not at all, but she wouldn’t tolerate people telling her what to do on her own property. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The work was especially meaningful to him: as a firefighter, he was saving lives and property not killing and destroying. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Have you ever driven through a vacation community and noticed the offhanded signs identifying the properties? Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He made it clear to the officers that the building was private property. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Newly successful businessmen erected mansions, filled them with imported objets d’art, hung costly crystal chandeliers in every room, and encircled their properties with groves of graceful maple trees and fragrant magnolias. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “They are engaged to protect our property, you understand?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z This property is now the biggest and richest in the whole area—an example, the envy of everyone around, a model hacienda. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I owned some property and small home at the time. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The magical wallet and cap belong to the properties fairy tales abound in everywhere. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know you can’t lay around here? You got to get off. This is private property!” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those are deeds to your home and property in Kaunas,” said Mrs. Rimas, looking at the paperwork. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She rolled the dice, bought the last available property, and once again we’d all been trounced by our sweet Grandma, the Monopoly champ. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The floors inside were covered with straw and manure; they’d collapsed in several places under the weight of cows that now roamed free on the property. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It regulated the junk food that got sold to children via vending machines on school property while also giving funding to schools to establish gardens and use locally grown produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Thousands of women have been sentenced to lengthy terms in prison for writing bad checks or for minor property crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z If my roots stretched past the property line that separated them, well, that’s never been my concern. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Someone was taking over the property; there were liens against his assets. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z According to Chomsky, who has examined it as a biologist looks at live tissue, language “must simply be a biological property of the human mind.” The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the DiAngelos’ property, yes, but only the week before it had belonged to Digger’s grandfather, and many times we had come to swim in the little cove to cool off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Then Mack would offer a second time to watch over and preserve Lee’s property—and at the second refusal, Lee could smell the smoke, could see the little flames creeping up the walls. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a tiny girl, he would send me out to the bushes on the edge of our property with a small tin pail to collect them. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Apply this property to zero and something strange happens. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z This will always be the case when he abstains from the property of his citizens and subjects, and from their women. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z It was tiny, crowded on one side by a school district van and on the other by the chain-link fence that wrapped around the entire property. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z On November 15, while she was waiting for the westbound ten-thirty-two, she was astonished to see two ambulances cross the railroad tracks and turn toward the Clutter property. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It was understandable; he risked the confiscation of his property by sheltering us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Tyrion curled up in his fur with his back against the trunk, took a sip of the wine, and began to read about the properties of dragonbone. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was the only really private property Seymour and I ever had in Bessie’s entire kibbutz. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Leaving the mess hall with food was theft of state property, an offense right out of the book. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No one my age in my country has a bank account or even dreams of having one, much less property to declare. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Then, as the white elite increased its power, they used literacy tests and property requirements to strip blacks of the vote. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once I am past the garage house, I have a clear view of curious Mr. Bender’s property, but I don’t see him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z The vehicle whooped and wailed off school property, then returned to making its silent way through traffic to the Donnellys’. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Factories, mines, land, houses, transport—everything had been taken away from them; and since these things were no longer private property, it followed that they must be public property. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Candice’s grandmother had only owned her house there for a few years before she moved to Atlanta, but she kept the house as a furnished rental property. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Vivian’s paying me to do a spring cleanup of her property—get rid of dead branches and all that. You?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Grandma didn’t seem to be bothered that we had just brought down the property values of the entire neighborhood by offering to host this rusted-out piece of garbage. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather, foragers lived in communes devoid of private property, monogamous relationships and even fatherhood. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not like we’re destroying property that matters anymore,” Charity told us before we left. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Within these families certain notes have more prominence than others, a hierarchy evolved from the natural properties of sounds in all resonant materials. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Plus, it didn’t seem fair for me to lay claim to public property. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Miles of bunting draped dozens of platforms, where speakers, by virtue of their prestige as men of property or of exceptional eloquence, found themselves called upon to fan the wrath of the people. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Only a small minority are rearrested for violent crimes; the vast majority are rearrested for property offenses, drug offenses, and offenses against the public order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z His father had sat for five nights on a split-rail fence cradling a shotgun and in the end died protecting his property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z They had a half-dozen properties to look after, he reminded her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “The fetus is the property of the entire society,” he proclaimed. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z And from that moment on, it would become the property of those so desperately devoted to it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Six seconds later Lavadie called, wanting to know could he shoot her or not, because she went through a fence on his property and zigzagged around a field, killed a couple of sheep, then left.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “This looks like company property to me. Where did you get it?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z For everyday numbers to make sense, they have to have something called the distributive property, which is best seen through an example. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Each man had property rights inviolable in his space. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The upper reaches of his property had been logged for the first time just a dozen years before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He is explaining that the new government will be returning the compound to us, that we’ll have to decide if we want to sell the property or keep it. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Usually it was the Southerners and the West Indians who not only managed to own the places where they lived, but also at least one other house which they rented as income property. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They acted as if they owned us, as if we were their private property. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “And that picture was taken right here on this property last night.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Many took the train that stopped at the back end of Garfield's property. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A woman could not have custody of her children if she divorced her husband for any reason; her children—like all of her property—belonged to her husband. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Despite the fact we were off company property, we would later hear that some people in Coalwood were still unhappy over what we were doing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I was hopeful, and thinking that I might someday have wealth, property, and status. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is clear that this slave has violated the person of her master, destroyed valuable property, and attempted to run away, all contrary to the laws of our colony.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “They had their chance to buy the property. Now it’s up for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “No! Now leave my property before I call the sheriff!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I considered walking on past the property room and out the rear door. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But after a few seconds the smell’s chemical properties seared his nostrils, and he covered his nose with his handkerchief. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z However, there is another property of the strong nuclear force, called asymptotic freedom, that makes the concept of quarks and gluons well defined. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z At that meeting, Lewis and Clark told the tribal leaders that their land was now the property of the United States, and that a man in the east was their new great father. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “That is my right. I am your grandfather. And this is my property.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Later, Lima went to Greyhound, where he saw the men’s property laid out on a table. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My father had kept a savings account in a Kraków bank, but those funds had disappeared when all Jewish bank accounts became the property of the Nazis. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Haiti was born free; human rights won over property rights. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He’d thought it was some property of the metal that it was reactive with skin, but he was the only one who had reacted to it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z After breakfast we walked on top of the wall that separated the Hulls’ property from the Chinese farms. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He says he is here to inspect the property. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Except of course for the opal-haworthia plant, which Seven had been trying for years to grow just for its invisibility properties, but no dice. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And if several million Irish pounds’ worth of property damage happened to ensue, well, that was just a bonus. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z If it’s on their property, what do they care who knows where it is?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor, and my property. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “My sergeant’s going to kick it back down to me because, technically, nothing really got vandalized. Some kids came on the property and pulled a bunch of sticks out of the ground.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hurry! It’s about time we landlords took a good look at the property. We’ll start with the furnace room.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “It would be punishing him for theft and for destruction of property.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Mr. Pickett doesn’t like staff on the property after dark or before dawn,” he answered. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z On the first floor there they kept their extra supplies—tools, paints, brushes, drop cloths, everything—and on the second floor they had their offices, with their computers, files, maps, invoices, deeds to the properties. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “It is theft of my property. Your labor belongs to me.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was a bother to be stopped on the road in a Free State when the lost property turned out to have a silver tongue. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “If you don’t get off my property, I’m calling the police to haul you out of here.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It’s the property of the champion he stole it from,” said Moody. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “The second amendment doesn’t apply to BB guns, you jerk. And anyway, guns aren’t allowed on city property.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z Some of them had spilled out onto the steps; groups of them had formed circles on the lawn, laughing and kicking hacky sacks and, in some cases, even smoking right there on school property. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In a small garage on the dealership property, the detailers used little blue rags to make spotless the used or new cars and ready them for sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Undoubtedly older heads than this boy’s had egged him on to this wretched, scurvy trick, but Mr. Lyte had no wish to go into the matter beyond the recovery of his own property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z For better or worse Dove was now his own private property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are burnt beyond recognition,” he added, looking at his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z We had run pretty far beyond our property. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z His last uncle had just died and left him a large fortune consisting of property in the South and in Fort Worth, Texas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Then check if we can use my property as bail,” Zeitoun said. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Some odd optical property of our highly polarized and unequal society makes the poor almost invisible to their economic superiors. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Tires crunching over the gravel, they passed several signs advertising that they were on private property. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The guy tries to talk about the highlights of the property. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z An enraged mob killed the black man, then continued in its fury to destroy property owned by blacks in the surrounding area. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I know you would never approve of messing with someone else’s property. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “They said I was trespassing on private property,” he says. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “The peasants are up in arms. Every day there are new demands. It seems as if they want to be patrones themselves. The best thing you can do is sell the property.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Harold Puthoff, the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin, Texas, believes that a quantum sail would simply alter the properties of the vacuum. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Thick hedges created a rectangular perimeter along the property line. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “Daddy wouldn’t sell property to a barmaid. Daddy, would you let us live next to a barmaid?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling persecuted from all sides, the O’Learys eventually sold their property and fled the area. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “I think I’ll plant a row of rosebushes. Along the back of the property.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z We made sure that certain varieties, having properties we consider desirable, preferentially reproduced. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every man’s business,” said Wemmick, rather reproachfully towards me, “is portable property.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Trabb,” said I, “it’s an unpleasant thing to have to mention, because it looks like boasting; but I have come into a handsome property.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z If you were caught harboring any enemies of the regime even if you yourself were not involved in their schemes, you would be jailed, and everything you owned would become the property of the government. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about 11:00 a.m., and we passed Mr. Jones, the white man who owned our property, walking to his own church. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z It is an important property of the force-carrying particles that they do not obey the exclusion principle. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I heard him in the living room on Sundays: “They don’t take care of their properties. They let everything go to hell.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Nobody in Europe or Asia that I know of ever understood the properties of charcoal in soil.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The farmhouse and property had been purchased by the movement for the purpose of having a safe house for those underground. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The house is obnoxiously huge, like the rest of the houses around it, built out to as close to the edge of the property line as allowable by law. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Here in the cedar swamp verticality wasn’t an essential property of trees. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z This property really upset Einstein, who had thought that general relativity wouldn’t allow time travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the turn of the century, blacks had owned at least as much rental property in Hayti as had whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Now that we no longer belonged to the Company, we somehow had to acquire a thousand dollars worth of property, a faraway figure when you can only save nickels and dimes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z When the mob arrived at the property several out-of-work men and tsotsis who were our leaders conferred on what to do with the dogs in order to break into the stores. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Sharia meant that all aspects of life—from property disputes to personal hygiene—would be dictated by religious judges. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was only the matter of his properties, looking after them, and of course the dogs. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Frank brought out a thermos full of nectar and explained its healing properties to Ella. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z One side of the hallway is reserved for people who have been convicted of drug or property crimes and who have relatively short sentences of five years or fewer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rules of mathematics were built around counting sheep and surveying property, yet these very rules govern the way the universe works. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “She has only one daughter, the heiress of Rosings, and of very extensive property.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z “Owns lots of property besides our building, and does other business too.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’ll claim it’s community property, divvy it out to her minions, and there goes our emergency supply.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z They were denied the chance, for Mr. Clutter, an abstainer aggressively opposed to drink and drunkards, seized a gun and marched them off his property. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, they saved, and scratched, and piled away what they could in the rented hovels, looking forward to the day of property. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Bon and Bleoberis were crouching over a bright fire, to which the bitter wind seemed to have given the property of throwing out light without heat Even the fire seemed frozen, like a painted one. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But the explanation was really very simple.The van had previously been the property of the knacker, and had been bought by the veterinary surgeon, who had not yet painted the old name out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Knowing that there was such a thing as outdoors bred in us a hunger for property, for ownership. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, setting her own barn on fire made no sense, especially since the O’Learys carried no insurance on their property. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z At the time, a wife could own property in three-quarters of the states, and she could keep her own paycheck in two-thirds of the states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I who had never owned anything suddenly possessed property. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The properties of historical systems that complicate attempts at prediction can be described in several alternative ways. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not so fast. What do you mean, you passed my barn? This is private property and I’m in the middle of nowhere.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I learned that the whole property had fallen into terrible disrepair. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z As I have said, what makes him hated above all else is being rapacious and a usurper of the property and the women of his subjects. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z One, large for his age, made smithereens out of the flowerpots and china because his hands seemed to have the property of breaking everything they touched. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then the other said, “Massa Charles’s property,” and I thought they would never stop. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The grounds were graced with raised beds of mixed bouquets, and the full perimeter of the property was edged with azaleas, which fit the house like a gilded frame fits a beautiful painting. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As we left the property I had taken one last look. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z She looked at several pieces of property before the broker showed her a four-acre lot not far from our home. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They could even live on his property until they found their footing; he’d expanded his acreage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As I did, my mind raced backward almost an entire year, to when the DiAngelos first bought the property from Digger’s grandfather. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Certainly he should not. Unless he wants to get rid of the friend,—and then it becomes a question how much portable property it may be worth to get rid of him.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z This could provide a solution to the problem, raised earlier, of why different regions in the early universe have the same properties. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Nesbitt had every right to defend his property, every right not to be robbed. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z There were some big trees on the property, and the house was right on the waterfront. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals? Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have property that does not have enough meadow to feed a horse, but I call it a horse farm.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Indentured servants who ran away were considered to have broken a contract, but they were not considered property. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He was the guy who wrote the properties of things, like how aloe soothes skin, and ginseng gives you focus. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Mr. Crow had entered into a sort of border war with Bob Timmons, his neighbor to the north, claiming that Bob’s grove of western hemlocks actually grew on his property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Either the kid they’d caught last night had a hidden accomplice, or someone else had sneaked onto the property after Curly had departed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed that his necktie knot wasn’t adjusted property. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Such a drop in carbon dioxide may have impaired the “greenhouse” property of the atmosphere, which holds in the solar heat otherwise lost by radiation from the earth’s surface. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Dogs patrol the grass around the property, sniffing the ground. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z I was out alone on a walk on their large property and returning to the house. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z We do not yet have such a theory, and we may still be a long way from having one, but we do already know many of the properties that it must have. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For the moment Holmes held off on doing anything more with Minnie’s property. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Instead, I just ran back and forth across our property line like a guard dog on a tight leash. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Me and another fella went to see him about buying the piece of property next door to his store. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If he did not go to the barn, Baker would burn all of the Garrett property. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They were at the very bottom of the hill, across the narrow road that led to the entrance of his grandparents’ property. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “But it doesn’t belong to you. The Fugitive Slave Law says I have a right to return this property to its owner. That’s what I aim to do.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He grew loganberries, and picked apples and pears from old trees on the property. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I don’t know who this thief is or who he’s supposed to have stolen from, but no one is going to kill anyone on my property. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z After all, they had put the things on the Professor’s property, and maybe that meant they were his now. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They had abstracted real boar-spears from the armoury, so they were property armed. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z As we head for the back of the property, we hear hurried footsteps coming down the walk toward us. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “If I find you on my property tomorrow I’ll have you castrated like the pariah dog that you are! I’ll have you killed!” The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Turned out he was heading back to Montevideo, where he was from, and the guy who owned the building back then wanted him to find a replacement to manage the property. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The man was the head of the household, and his wife, along with everything she possessed, was his property. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The property was huge—more wilderness than lawn. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z England now had no excuse; the abolitionists would force their countrymen to face the question: Was England a nation built on Christian beliefs or on treating people as property? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To become a Sixer, you had to sign a contract stipulating, among other things, that if you found Halliday’s egg, the prize would become the sole property of your employer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The periodic table arranges elements according to their physical properties and to what else?” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was doing 6 months on a stolen property charge. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z I finally found out the properties of nembutal by consulting medical books, but I never told Brand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Since when is it the policy of the American government to confiscate the private property of its citizens ? Shame on you I Shame on all of you for even thinking such a horrible thought.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z We both destroyed property, but what was being sprayed was way differ-ent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z There must have been hundreds of ancient oaks on the property, but Angelo seemed to know every one of them. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Bereft of players and properties, it bore no resemblance to a castle in Denmark. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He had stayed to guard his property, to watch over his business. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One of the most widely known and respected wildlife biologists in the country, Dr. Clarence Cottam, called on some of the farmers whose property had been treated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The English were getting richer because Africans were being turned into property. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Strangely enough, the cottage on the O’Leary property would survive with little damage. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Mom showed me where the property started and ended, with rows of bushes like fences. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z As explained above, scholars cannot even agree on the basics, such as the existence of private property, nuclear families and monogamous relationships. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A subsequent investigation revealed that the primary motivation for the raid was the possibility of forfeiting Scott’s property. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In March, the banker and real estate mogul Jesse Binga was the target of two bombs, one at his real estate office, one at a property on his listings. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I woke in the morning to the sound of footsteps, and the property room door being unlocked. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z “She acted like she knew him. I went pretty far. Maybe I was off his property.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Most of the Europeans who traveled to what they called the New World in 1492 and after were those whose families had been displaced when the commons were converted to private property. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z But above all else, he should abstain from seizing the property of others; for men forget the death of their father more quickly than the loss of their patrimony. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z He don’t care a thing for our property any more and I fear the worst kind of tyranny to come. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There are so many of them to explore farther up on the property, but this one, this one might hold a secret. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z According to the law, most of them were still property, their names on pieces of paper in cabinets kept by the United States Government. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had built a tin-roofed room at the back of his property, no more than a shack, with a dirt floor, no heat, no electricity, no running water. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Whether my siege were to last a month or a year, I am certain that ultimately everyone would let me alone after the total carnage and destruction of property had been evaluated. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These were simply not the kind of concerns that a gentleman of property should take seriously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z States are slaves, looked upon as property, as nothing but property. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “No respect for private property whatsoever,” cried Mr. Benz, who lived next door. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A gene, whatever it was, was capable of motion, transmission, and of energy-induced change—properties generally associated with chemical matter. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z While you work for their benefit they are completely yours, offering you their blood, their property, their lives, and their sons, as I said above, when the need to do so is far away. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The girl who plays Hangman with me on the church missal until Mom glares at us and Dad grounds us for a week for not respecting church property. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Indeed, a person could be found innocent of any criminal conduct and the property could still be subject to forfeiture. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z V had recognized the property immediately, as soon as it had appeared through the trees at the end of the long dirt road. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “This is our house. We own it together. The statue is a part of our property.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Is that true, Kyle? Would you actually destroy property if it stood between you and your prize?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “Then ask him to take Levy Pants off our hands. I talked to three Realtors this week. Every one of them said it was the most unsalable property they’d ever seen.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The October 1933 conference, which was devoted specifically to “the structure and properties of the atomic nucleus,” was the seventh in the series founded by the Belgian chemist and industrialist Ernest Solvay in 1911. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “The one who understands how truly valuable this property is.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z “You have to know the properties of metals before you can hope to alter them.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Throughout the morning the callers would want to know if Zeitoun could board up their windows and doors, if he would be clearing his equipment off their property before the winds came. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Over the years, the list of properties subject to forfeiture expanded greatly, and the required connection to illegal drug activity became increasingly remote, leading to many instances of abuse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Leaving the city meant leaving all their properties, leaving their tenants’ homes, and this they couldn’t do unless absolutely necessary. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z How could they openly discuss wandering around and disrupting Jawad Sahib's property? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They set up in a small equipment shed on the property. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The books were his own, he said, and not property of the library. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Janie found out very soon that her widowhood and property was a great challenge in South Florida. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z There were quieter expeditions ashore, other days, with the Master Herbal who taught the ways and properties of things that grow; and the Master Hand taught sleight and jugglery and the lesser arts of Changing. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z And because Stirling Middle probably wouldn't authorize half of this, they planned to have some of the attractions off school property. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z And yet the Declaration also said that “property is an inviolable and sacred right.” Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Are we going to have a summer place, or are you just selling property?” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “E’lir Kvothe’s complaints are redundant. You cannot charge a student with both theft and destruction of the same property, it is either one or the other.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I head straight toward an abandoned outbuilding on the far edge of the property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The solicitor's letter added that if Miss Honey would kindly call in to the office as soon as possible, then the property and the money could be transferred into her name very rapidly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z “Well, what do you think of private property?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Clutter seldom encountered trespassers on his property; a mile and a half from the highway, and arrived at by obscure roads, it was not a place that strangers came upon by chance. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “That does not make it the exclusive property of Mr. Potter, whatever Dumbledore may have decided.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Many properties of light, including diffraction, are naturally explained by the wave theory, and in subsequent years Huygens’ view carried the day. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But to find yourself in a strange land and learn that you have become someone’s chattel, property to a white stranger, was unbearable. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He told my mom that the weeds in the public gutter along the front of our property had grown too high. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her country’s new leaders were now attempting to improve life with an untried system of government called communism, in which property, goods, and services are owned by the community and shared according to need. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Miss Saunders says we were cutting class in the bathroom, smoking, destroying property. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The charter does not speak about the eradication of classes and private property, or public ownership of the means of production, or promulgate any of the tenets of scientific socialism. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I find the blog of a woman named Josephine who explains the healing properties of gemstones and how to use them. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The Age of Revolutions was pressing ideas of freedom against the rights of property, and no one was sure where these great clashes would lead. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The law would require that students and teachers inform the administration if they thought someone in the school might be interested in doing harm to students, teachers, or school property. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Desperate for low-cost housing to replace their demolished units, blacks moved in and the lower-class whites who could afford to leave sold their property at a loss and fled to the suburbs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When we got back to Shady’s property, we saw that there was a note nailed to the trunk of Fort Treeconderoga. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z This law held true for private property owners only, however. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It don’t signify to you with your brilliant lookout, but as to myself, my guiding-star always is, ‘Get hold of portable property’.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “Unless you find a profit in fencing off universal properties of mankind into exclusive tribal ownership.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “No. It is merely a shrine meant to honor her. Similar shrines abound on my property, and all can be dangerous.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z "I done ask you to put my property down." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Burton’s property includes a spring, which is considered a public resource, therefore it is required that the taxes on that land go to the nearest township. In this case, the township of Manifest.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The colt’s body, built low to the ground, had all the properties of a cinder block. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A good number of medications have the property that they’re demonstrably better than nothing, but not by much. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The close similarity of the measles virus to the rinderpest virus suggests that the latter transferred from cattle to humans and then evolved into the measles virus by changing its properties to adapt to us. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the group entered the man’s property, a horn was sounded, signaling neighboring black and white abolitionists to converge on the farm armed with guns, pitchforks, and other weapons. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As a result, most people who had their cash or property seized did not challenge the government’s action, especially because the government could retaliate by filing criminal charges—baseless or not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At the time, a local kid nicknamed “the Nebraska Wildcat” was the hottest boxing property around. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent most of his time on the streets, where police stopped him for violations including trespassing, stealing a bike, and property crimes committed with his older brother and other older teens. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It had most certainly once been the property of King August. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I learned through the camp network that Pesza had also been assigned to a similar sub-camp on the property of the electrical factory where she worked. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A great many citizens felt such measures were harsh and unfair, especially after being fined when mosquito eggs were found on their property. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Then they went past the boat works and turned down into the park-like property of the Hopkins Marine Station. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Eril-Fane explained its properties to them—its imperviousness to everything, all heat, all tools. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z They were property—things—and so had no rights. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The mayor doesn’t strike me as a foolish man, so I can’t imagine he would tolerate the kind of incompetence that would allow the undead on his property. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “We were trespassing on private property, so the police came. They called our parents and cut our dance short,” Mrs. Hidalgo said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Most embezzlers lead quiet and theoretically happy lives; employees who steal company property are rarely detected. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He dismissed all the tenants, warning them that if he ever caught them prowling around his property they would suffer the same fate as their animals. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though he was thirteen, the judge condemned Ian for living in the streets, for not having good parental supervision, and for his multiple prior arrests for shoplifting and minor property crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Next, we take the cow farther down the dirt road, to the groves of fruit trees on Don Arturo’s property. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He owned property all over the Black Belt, and he owned property where white folks lived, too. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But I end up with a bunch of the cheaper properties, so we trade money back and forth. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The only sounds were inside their heads — the moaning and wailing of the ghosts of all the poor slobs who had ever blundered onto Finsterwald’s property. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As Frank had feared, a loose ring of campfires glowed in the woods, completely surrounding the property, but the house itself seemed untouched. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In The Stolen Prince I was the property man, and I also played a pennywhistle, in an imitation of Japanese music, for atmosphere. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “She handed over to you the property deed at that time?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t answer when I asked whether he considered train tickets material or intellectual property. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because at Hailsham, we had our own “Lost Corner” up on the third floor, where the lost property was kept; if you lost or found anything, that’s where you went. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got out of her car, I saw that Mr. Castellan had been standing at the edge of his property, watching us through the metalwork on his fence. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z “Why heck,” Gramps said, “this here’s a river. I never heard of no river being private property.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z After about half an hour, he’d worked his way down to the section of the property where the earthmoving equipment was parked in preparation for the site clearing. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And though lie himself did not discover the magic properties of that wardrobe, someone else did. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z "The properties of one flower could cancel the properties of the other." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Before the law could declare him to be just another piece of property subject to disposal as the tailor’s heirs saw fit, Jones applied to the courts for protection and obtained a certificate of freedom. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The festivities will take place on Sunday three weeks hence, on the newly acquired property formerly belonging to the Widow Cane. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Well,” said Grace, “according to Uncle Charley, Mrs. Malvolio wants them to sell this property. To her uncle, who just happens to be Heath Huxley.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would tell us how his property would be divided among all of his kids if he passed away, not just given to the boys, per the tradition. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z The Byrd house sat on a neat lawn separated by a white picket fence from the field grass on either side of the property. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Even if that were true, it wouldn't make it your property. You never wear Granddad's watch. Does that make it my property?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When you find oil on somebody’s property, it doesn’t automatically belong to them, but they do get a portion of the profits. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Whistling and looking for food and shelter, I went on up the mountain, following the stone walls, discovering many things about my property. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, Erik and Arthur will make full restitution to all of you for all of your stolen property. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We know they are composed of water ice, because the spectral properties of sunlight reflected off the rings match those of ice in the laboratory measurements. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no records of Fannie’s life, but she was most likely born a slave on the Lacks property, and like most Lacks slaves who stayed on the plantation as sharecroppers, she never left. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The pantyhose, he said, had the properties of a good-luck charm. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Prince wouldn’t even have been allowed on the property. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The others saw him disappearing off the edge of the property. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Weinberg-Salam theory exhibits a property known as spontaneous symmetry breaking. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He suspected that something newsworthy must have happened last night at the pancake-house property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It curved on around the property and abruptly stopped. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Statistical mechanics—the theory of wiggles—explained some of the basic properties of matter, and it even seemed to explain the nature of light itself. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She owned some property, he would say, and she was “in society.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite their secrets, both men were pleased not to be spending the night alone on the property. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “And must return the property or the price of the property plus a fine of one silver talent.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He could reimburse the government for all the people and property he had destroyed and still have enough money left over to continue buying Egyptian cotton. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z “But misfortunes are commonplace, Taylor, and relative. Look at the misfortune Nick Yew has endured this year. Or Ross Wilcox. How is destroying your classmate's property going to help your father?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Yelling at the police to get off his property. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He was just about to forbid him to set foot on the property when Clara convinced him that this was hardly the time to place his political enmities before the peasants’ Christian fervor. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Frear and Wood hurried away as quickly as possible, weaving around the piles of personal property abandoned in the road. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Legally this was the case, because Ammu, as a daughter, had no claim to the property. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "Take it from the trunk. It'll be kept in the property room." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He moves a few steps forward and disappears from view, hidden by the edge of a eucalyptus grove that borders both our properties. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z We bought a rural property far enough from the zoo that we could keep the horses but close enough that the drive to work wasn’t that bad. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Theirs was the only property for kilometers where a grove of tall sundari trees provided shade for the house and most of the yard. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z The swarm of particles makes it difficult to get a measurement of the electron’s mass and charge, because the particles interfere with the measurement, masking the electron’s true properties. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z She gives us a key and property map and tells us about the complimentary continental breakfast buffet. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “You’re always helping little beggars to our property!” screeched the other of them—the woman—as ornate gold pins in her hair shook. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z A courageous Tory was chasing the men whom he had found tacking a placard on his property. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came the worst news yet: In Germany and Austria, on the night of November 9—10, 1938, synagogues and Torah scrolls were burned and Jewish property destroyed. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z There are no documents kept on people’s property from before the takeover in 1975. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were wearing pretty dresses and sitting together on one of the low brick walls that ran all around the property. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “What happened is called destruction of personal property. And it is unacceptable at Seaward Pines.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z As far as it goes, it’s property and portable. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Even though we mourned when other people on the island lost family and friends and property, the deepest part of me trusted that Gran would protect us. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Today the AT is a wilderness by design—actually, by fiat, since many of the properties Shaffer passed were later compulsorily purchased and quietly returned to woodland. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I tipped Michael and earnestly wished him luck with property rights and poverty. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Most of the security cameras show expected activity on the property. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It suggested that one billion dollars' worth of the South’s property was insecure. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, he’s cutting irrigation water into his father’s piece of property over there on the west side.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As we step onto school property, Link brings up something I hadn’t considered. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Journalists and investigators have documented numerous other instances in which police departments have engaged in illegal shakedowns, searches, and threats in search of forfeitable property and cash. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Of course, child. Everybody has slaves. How do you think we handle this land? But my Patrick is a good man and does not mistreat his property. Our slaves like it here.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he began a methodical search, back and forth across the property, eyes glued to the ground. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was at the very edge of the property, which was bordered with a chain-link fence. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Since this part of our property adjoined the palacio of the dictator's daughter and son-in-law, my grandfather had been reluctant to erect a high wall lest it be considered a snub. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The cop said, “I’m warning you, the Flint police are on the way, this here is private property and they have orders to shoot anyone who tries to get on this train.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s clear how the above property of numbers led to Archimedes’ famous pronouncement that given a fulcrum, a long enough lever, and a place to stand, he alone could physically lift the earth. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know it’s private property, but we love the woods.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Without the certificate, I suddenly felt like unclaimed property. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z You couldn’t see any other house from there; the property was surrounded by forest. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For all the wear, the complaints from deep in the wood at every step, the cabins had the always-quality of the hills to the west, of the creek that bisected the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Whatever poor creature they had surrounded was clearly the property of an elderly, fashionably dressed woman who swung her handbag wildly while calling out, “Please, children, keep your distance! Leave my Reginald alone!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Maybe you can train the snakes to guard the property,” Chuck Muckle was saying, “since the dogs didn’t work out.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But Khalilou’s family had asked us to stay behind and follow them with the rest of their property if things didn’t improve in the subsequent days, so we stayed put. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z It was hotter than last time, so Angelo felt the pigs would be keeping to the shadier parts of the property. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z |
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