| 单词 | punishment |
| 例句 | In the South, crimes like murder or assault might send you to prison, but interracial sex was a transgression in its own unique category of danger with correspondingly extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z As long as I pretended to listen and said I was sorry for any infractions, I got off without much punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We filed a petition to challenge Joe's sentence as unconstitutionally cruel and unusual punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A floating blue island in a pink house where I spilled out my guts and then hoped I wasn’t tossed out to sea to wait for my punishment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Let bookworms gnaw his entrails...and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for ever. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Today and tomorrow and the next day and all the other days as well would be nothing but punishment and pain, unhappiness and despair. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z I can’t guess what form my punishment will take, how wide the net will be cast, but when it is finished, there will most likely be nothing left. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11, 2001, and threats of terrorism and global conflict seemed to disrupt the progress toward a repeal of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Wasn’t it punishment enough to live as Spares, with lesser magic, and now they had to be far from their families too? Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The bag thing is manageable, but having to actually clean the bowl in its current state is just cruel and unusual punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The student had failed to hand in her homework on time, and Teacher Li had told her to copy the assignment over five times as punishment. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I may not deserve punishment for this, but I deserve punishment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Malfoy flushed with anger, but apparently the memory of Moody’s punishment was still sufficiently painful to stop him from retorting. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Do the Americans punish their children by making them sit on a punishment chair, the way my parents once did? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The punishment for speaking out of turn was a day’s worth of isolation, handcuffed to one of the gateposts in the Garden regardless of the temperature or the weather. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z No judge wants to deal with attack ads that highlight the grisly details of a murder case in which the judge failed to impose the most severe punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “My lord, Actaeon trespassed in gazing at the goddess. Being turned into a stag and devoured by his own dogs was a fitting punishment,” I said. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “She interrupted the punishment of a confessed criminal.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Our minds were turned, I suppose, to our fates, should our expedition fail, and to the torments that awaited us; and thus our conversation turned upon the dismal subject of punishment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Normally that would be met with severe punishment, but Kelton’s not himself. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z A punishment tour for Clevinger was fifty minutes of a weekend hour spent pacing back and forth before the provost marshal’s building with a ton of an unloaded rifle on his shoulder. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z They also knew the punishments for disobeying the rules, and they knew them well, because they had broken every rule in the Boxton Creek Home. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z It was not a fear of the Communist party that had made him confess, but a fear of the punishment that he would exact of himself that made him tell of his wrongdoings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t log it. That’s a waste of time. Won’t no punishment come out of it for him, ’cause he’s a bug. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What did he mean when he said my future would be punishment enough? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the small, isolated villages, even local people suspected of sorcery were ostracized or killed — the punishment was even worse for a touri. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z If her punishment was bad now, it would worsen tenfold when he pieced that together. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Under the punishment inflicted by the Council his mercurial spirit had fallen low and he had become the apathetic wretch the sight of whom had so much shocked Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, I guess I’m not lying to save you from getting caught or receiving punishment,” she thought out loud. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z I managed to cram my piano punishment in before dinner, playing with a light heart and a sure, spirited touch, if I do say so myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I crossed my arms and waited for her tell me what my punishment would be, hoping she wouldn’t ground me and forbid me from going to Fall Fiesta. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A couple of years earlier, I had been invited to Brazil to talk about punishment and the unjust treatment of disfavored people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Caesar strung up by the grinning mob; Caesar a brutalized mess on the floor of the slave catcher’s wagon, halfway back to Randall and the waiting punishments. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The punishment against us was never enunciated as an official policy, but it was a renewal of the harsh atmosphere that prevailed upon our arrival on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment for hiding people is imprisonment, a cold, damp cell in Scheveningen, where I’ve heard of people disappearing for months without even getting hearings. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He once wrote and told her that all the punishment and whippings doled out by Danny had, for all their horror, one positive side effect. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Take these little hyenas to the punishment hut,” hissed the Spirit Medium. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Daddy was just turning onto our street when he said, “We need to talk about your punishment.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z My imagination boggled at the punishment I would deserve if in fact I did abuse a book of Mrs. Flowers’. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I, of course, would find this punishment completely unfair. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Her accuser recanted after he was struck with mysterious boils. Some said these proved his charges, while others said they were God’s punishment for his wicked lies.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Apparently he hadn’t remembered there were victims of past punishments lying on the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And secret punishment had grown to be almost a creative thing with him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As those days of May brought more and more physical punishment, for the first time in four months I was assigned a personal bodyguard to follow me from class to class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way the French see it, the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z An evil voice had whispered that it might be a punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They make all decisions: work details, food rations per family, severity of punishment. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z No teacher would ever entertain the thought of mitigating, in any way, the punishment of a truant. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z To this perpetual accusation Elizabeth had never replied; she merely regarded her aunt with a wide-eyed, insolent stare, meant at once to register her disdain and to thwart any pretext for punishment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z He was only our camp director because Zeus had sent him here as a punishment for chasing some off-limits wood nymph. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Tehlu said that the man and wife were each other’s fitting punishment. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And the punishment hadn’t hurt him as badly as the crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, sir, but Mr. Curran and I will devise a sufficient punishment.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Their father argued, but not too vehemently, and in the end, everyone agreed that the punishment had been perhaps harsh but fair. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Their punishments were humane, and their policymakers took rehabilitation of criminal offenders very seriously, which made me excited about the award and the trip. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When they were done, she scored them out with her red pen to make sure that old lines were not recycled for new punishments. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You would have a God who forgives all, but when it comes to your personal whims you seek punishment for your vengeance. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Gun violence with no reported injuries frequently result in sentences of less than ten years for adult defendants, even in this era of harsh punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The only thing that she asked of God for many years was that he would not visit on her the punishment of dying before Rebeca. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I thought the TB might just be a punishment for living the kind of double life Buddy lived and feeling so superior to people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The caricature of the Sapphire has been said to act as a warning or punishment for going against society's norm that women should be passive, nonthreatening, and unseen. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z The punishment for making something barely edible was having to eat it yourself. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Harry his longest-ever punishment. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The only thing that intrigued Úrsula after almost two months of punishment was that Meme did not take a bath in the morning like everyone else, but at seven in the evening. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Even the youngest child could mete out the punishment without fear of reprisal. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z It was enough to make her reckless, to wish for any punishment that would take her far from him—even a quick death. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z What if he’s actually angry with me, and is waiting to dole out punishment once I’m in Japan? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Once I was sure she wasn’t going to hit me with a eucalyptus stick as punishment, I smiled inside, because that rotten, lying thief Alfonso and his wife got what they deserved. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As punishment, Mamita beat me with a eucalyptus stick, but later, when I told Matilde about it, teary and embarrassed, she held my hand and used that same soothing voice. l’ll help you, little sister. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Standing there waiting for my punishment, I heard my mother speak in a dry voice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As punishment, Germany had to relinquish its territories. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I am desperately bored and will devise creative punishments if you do not comply. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Stephens described his realization that he could no longer take the punishment of reducing as “the biggest disappointment of my life.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z All afternoon and into the night, the punishment continued. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “Well, there’s got to be some type of punishment, whether we like it or not. The chief’s taking too much grief over this.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought she had the last word on the matter and that it was over until they returned home, where, no doubt Scythe Faraday would inflict some annoying but fair punishment that fit the crime. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The severity of this punishment was unprecedented in the federal system. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “We may keep a boy on short rations for a day if he misbehaves, but we never use physical punishment. It’s against everything the Keepers believe in.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The laws of this state permit the hearing of evidence to ascertain the degree of responsibility. And, also, the law permits the offering of evidence toward the mitigation of punishment.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The children of Faerie seem to be holding a single indrawn breath, waiting to see what my punishment will be for putting hands on Cardan the day before. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He told the principal that Louie craved attention but had never won it in the form of praise, so he sought it in the form of punishment. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z He ended up behind on all his schoolwork, and his parents levied all forms of punishment—which they promptly forgot to enforce—one of the perks of being the lettuce. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Jason didn’t see how Apollo deserved to be singled out for punishment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Knew what Pilate’s version of punishment was when somebody took another person’s life. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He might be mad about Grandpa making me break punishment, but if the dern thing wouldn’t start, or broke down halfway to the store, he and I together might could figure out the trouble. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Scowling, Snape said, “The Dark Lord does not expect Draco to succeed. This is merely punishment for Lucius’s recent failures. Slow torture for Draco’s parents, while they watch him fail and pay the price.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Whatever punishment awaited the other Smokies, it would be a hundred times worse for them. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z But he had suddenly understood that in the whole world there was just one person to whom he could transfer his punishment—one body that he could thrust between himself and the rats. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z “Run to the bridge!” is a standard Mr. Carver punishment. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Like a punishment. The first night. That guy. The hacker. It was like I was being punished for even trying. That . . . he . . .” Now the color was coming back into her face. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So he inflicted a terrible punishment upon the old man. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not care about finding his captor, repaying insults, or inflicting eternal punishments. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I knew that if I messed up, the punishment would be severe for all of us, simply because a Nazi was watching. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “This is the punishment for escape! All of you will share the blame!” the watch officer yelled. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z In each case, the high court had cited the Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution, which bans “cruel and unusual” punishment. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z ‘That was the punishment. Instead you got exile. You should have stayed away. Your father Orcus may not approve of broken oaths. But my father Hades really doesn’t approve of those who escape punishment.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “Just because you were sent here as a punishment doesn’t mean you have to be a lazy jerk! This is your civilization, too. Maybe you could try helping out a little!” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But he was still in charge of punishments, so I definitely didn't want to get reported. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z On the eve of Big Anthony’s punishment—whenever white men put off punishment some theater was bound to be involved—Caesar visited Hob. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It was meant to be a punishment for Mr. D’s bad behavior on Olympus, but it ended up being a punishment for all of us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Was I in for such punishment all night long? The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He had devised a method for dealing with sickness which resembled punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Have you ever heard the term “hostages”? That’s the latest punishment for saboteurs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The grave was not enough for punishment, for justice, for revenge. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “We will convene in twenty-one days, to grant you full-fledged Witch status, or for your punishment, which, according to the Oracle...” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But there is more to this silence: they want me to participate in her punishment. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was trapped in a cycle of acting out and punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Dunnan said yes, he would; and Shultz then said, “Do you recall being asked whether or not you were averse to capital punishment?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Friends, there exists on this planet a delicate balance, a balance between good and evil, righteousness and wretchedness, crime and punishment. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They circled around me and advanced on Florence, their eyes flashing with the thought of the punishment they would impose on the non-believer. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "I was just saying, you know there's someone else at this table who might be guilty of doing the same thing. Running kids for punishment." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z When the rage had passed and he had come to himself he would show a most disarming penitence and agree humbly to any punishment it was proposed to inflict on him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes kids could negotiate their punishment: The discipline director would say, “I’ll give you ten whacks,” and the kids would lobby for five whacks on a hand, five on the rear. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He was becoming increasingly edgy, and gave very severe punishments to anybody who disturbed the quiet of the common room in the evenings. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Behind his gentle presentations, Walter had become fiercely opposed to capital punishment, an issue he readily admitted he had never thought about until his own experience confronting it. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Punishment is frightening, and confinement, the modern punishment of choice, frightens in a particular way. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Reason does not matter, Aspirant Veturius. Only loyalty. If you defy the order, you fail the Trial. The punishment for failure is death.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z This time the punishment would be more than harsh words or three strokes of a bamboo cane. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “She could help Miss Peregrine—and then we wouldn’t have to go anywhere near the punishment loops!” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z He took the awful punishment meant for me, but held his ground. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Filthy brat. Go upstairs to the bathroom and wash yourself. Then take an oilcloth and a fresh blanket from the airing cupboard and go back to bed. We’ll discuss your punishment in the morning.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z “Could you think of another punishment for my sister and me?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, I convinced myself, I had violated the code and thus would have to submit to punishment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It also included Gay’s comments about my cruel punishments. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The sting shot pain all the way to my elbow, causing me to marvel at how much punishment a minuscule creature can inflict. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some say that the Pythagoreans tossed Hippasus overboard, drowning him, a just punishment for ruining a beautiful theory with harsh facts. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The people financing these elections are largely unconcerned with whatever modest differences exist between candidates on crime, but punishment gets the votes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Don’t worry at the way they’ve been mistreated, don’t worry about their punishments, don’t worry about the guns constantly trained on their backs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But that he had to watch, helpless, knowing how depraved it was—this was punishment for the other prisoners, too. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The clock by the tunnel to the staff room where kids are made to stand as a punishment through their lunchtimes told me I had eight minutes to live. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The punishment didn’t begin to fit the crime. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z “Marcus saw you stay behind after the whipping. He and Zak are telling everyone that you thought the punishment was too harsh.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The punishment of Tantalus is described often, first in the Odyssey, from which I have taken it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “It is a punishment I impose on myself,” La Llorona began. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Gladys’s son Gary believed all disease was the wrath of the Lord—punishment for Adam eating the apple from Eve. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Your punishment is death. You will serve it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She is waiting eagerly to see what I have written this morning, I know, as it has not been explained to her what I actually did last night to warrant such vicious punishment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As Anatole says, if you look hard enough you can always see reasons, but you’ll go crazy if you think it’s all punishment for your sins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just an accident, Mrs. Gordon. He was frightened the first time. But don’t blame him or punish him. I wouldn’t want him to connect punishment with coming here.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Matt could see the boy was deeply disturbed about the punishment he’d received the night before. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The evidence linking increased punishment with lower crime rates is very strong. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “This punishment will be brutal, my dear, but your mortal flesh will bear it, because it must. Take comfort that in reaffirming His order we give Him thanks.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “But at home Ma only makes us do them on Saturdays. And our house is always pretty clean,” Genie told her, fearing this might be some kind of punishment. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They say it ain’t punishment, but it sure feels that way. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “You misunderstand. This is not a punishment. Curiosity is human; I merely allowed you to get it out of your system. I have to say, it took you long enough.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She raises her eyebrows at Mr. Nielsen, and I can tell they’ve already decided on a punishment. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “New crimes will entail new punishments,” Grandma warned. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He had slapped and punched many of his classmates in a round-robin of collective punishment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They probably think it’s a “fitting punishment” for what you did. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The crime wave of the 1920s and 1930s, the great gangster era, increased public interest in prisons and punishment, and the interest of Hollywood in particular. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Regardless, it fell out that Katherine and I were saved the corporal punishment and instead assigned house duty for two weeks. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “You seemed like you wanted to take Taryn’s head from her shoulders. She played you false. I don’t know what you might consider a fitting punishment.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z "You are much too kind," her mother said to Mrs. Fanning, and then in a hard voice with the promise of later punishment, she addressed the four girls, "What do you say?" How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z This was unlikely to be one of those times when our parents issued a punishment and then forgot to follow through on it. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z They would all learn more about punishments soon. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we passed the church and I thought about God’s punishment for sinners. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Massachusetts Board of Education bans disproportionate punishment. But it still happens. Even in private, independent schools like Middlefield Prep.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z In fact, it seems we’ve outgrown punishment altogether in the last few months. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He brings drought sometimes, followed by torrential rains, and if these things aren’t always what I had in mind, they aren’t my punishment either. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The contempt that earned him would be punishment enough. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I had no idea what my punishment would be, but it would be bad. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z School officials said it was for their own protection, but it sounded like punishment and discrimination to me when Qareeb came home and told us what had happened to him. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But I'm glad to leave the punishment block far behind us, and it's nice to see Malli smiling as she reaches the schoolroom ahead of me. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z North Vietnam’s strategy was to keep fighting, to keep absorbing punishment, until the American public tired of war and demanded the withdrawal of American troops. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z What is the point of this static punishment?’ Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z We protested that going without dinner was enough punishment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “I confess. I obey. I take my punishment,” Matt said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't really know anything about capital punishment and hadn't even taken a class in criminal procedure yet. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Dessert came and the revelers moved inside to be free of the mosquitoes while Big Anthony’s punishment continued. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I understand that this isn’t necessarily meant as a punishment for me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This bitter punishment was inflicted upon them because of a physical condition over which they had no control. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosecution and defense argued for months about the punishment. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As further punishment, he increased the number of rituals I had to participate in. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think one can manage without corporal punishment?” they had asked Elam Lynds. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Telling other people about the Hideout is punishment enough, but of course I don’t say that out loud. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Had she been caught, or had she confessed, her punishment would have been a short suspension from school, at most, plus a fine for her parents, and a stern reprimand. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He was alarmed, it was not like Hooper, he had expected a roar of fury, and then the tale-telling, and the punishments. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The object of this law is to caution the Court to seek to find out why a man killed and to allow that why to be the measure of the mitigation of the punishment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When the work was done, and the day’s punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Can I trade being grounded for a different punishment?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Of course, I couldn’t protest too much because we all understood that this was my punishment for hacking away at it, and only fitting, too. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Shin ate this meal nearly every day for twenty-three years, unless he was denied food as punishment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z What would be the punishment for stealing a prince’s servant? The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We couldn’t turn them in; we’d tried that plenty in middle school, and it inevitably resulted in more punishment. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I assumed that if you committed a crime, you got the punishment you deserved, and innocent people would always be proven innocent. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z He had no right to talk to a white man as he had, not with me to take the punishment . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As a punishment the ride would have been cruel and unusual, but it was a prize, a gift, an honor, and an eminence. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their house spirit, the domovoi, was furious, and in retaliation, he did one of his favorite punishments: knotting Anya’s hair as she slept. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z So the child took his punishment and kept quiet, leaving well enough alone. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a kind of punishment favored by mobs and self-appointed judges—coal oil in the culprit’s well. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Helmuth winces, doesn't want to think about the punishment that dust brings. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I am not eager to face any more punishment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the past I had taken punishment that was not mine to protect the solidarity of the gang, and I had seen other boys do the same. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her wails were full of an agony whose intensity told me that my punishment would be measured by its depth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is some punishment sent us,” I hear them bawling from the hill. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anne Frank, as punishment for talking in class, write an essay entitled ‘“Quack, Quack, Quack,” Said Mistress Chatterback.’” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And a tough, strutty little man said, “I believe in capital punishment. It’s like the Bible says—an eye for an eye. And even so were two pair short!” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember the story now. Nemesis was the goddess who cursed you, because you broke so many hearts. Your punishment was to fall in love with your own reflection.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Yet these civil penalties, although not considered punishment by our courts, often make it virtually impossible for people who have been convicted of crimes to integrate into the mainstream society and economy upon release. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “I don’t think I should stop till I get to a hundred. I can feel the sentences working. I think I need the whole punishment to make me stop spitting.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Since then, the courts have found the extremity of that kind of treatment to constitute cruel and unusual punishment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Anytime I got in trouble it was tough love, lectures, punishment, and hidings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Owen’s big punishment is that he has to go clean up his room before dinner. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z It would clear her of any wrongdoing, and the true culprit would receive whatever punishment awaits a scythe-killer. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I thought Father was going to make us do a lot of chores or something to make up for yesterday, but the atmosphere in the house was punishment enough. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “Now, take off your shirt and receive your punishment.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I tried to keep my cool, because I was all the way clear on what the punishment would be if I did something stupid. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Means all over the country there’s a pattern of brown and black kids receiving harsher school punishments than white students.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It was an emasculation, a sentence, and this—what he was feeling now—this torture was his punishment for breaking her ridiculous vase. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She wasn’t looking to punish Reggie for the sake of punishment, but she couldn’t stand someone who victimized other people and just acted like it was the victim’s fault, or there was no blame. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Candice didn’t know what had happened to change Ms. Jones’s mind, but when Brandon called on Tuesday morning and said that he was off punishment, she didn’t question him about it. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With three men twice my age and stature, I went up to receive my punishment. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z By the time Michael got to Randall, some torture or punishment had addled his senses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She could hardly imagine the punishment given someone who had done something bad enough to be worth five hundred thousand. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She scratched her chin and looked like she was gearing herself up for punishment—another long chapter she’d have to endure, and then I'd be badgering her about what she thought. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It was also the hard labor and jail time, punishments that were even more brutal here than back in Romania. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Another crime-drop explanation is often cited in tandem with imprisonment: the increased use of capital punishment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “How sad. What happened to her? Did the magician kill her, too, as her punishment?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z We had nodded at one another after that punishment, which we all agreed was unnecessary. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z That as punishment, his mother hadn’t taken him to the store? Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The punishment consisted in being thrown into the water three times from the mainmast tree, and his comrades used to acclaim each belly-flopper with a cheer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have determined a punishment befitting his disappointing behavior.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z There’s no punishment for juveniles unless they do something like Tyrone did. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When, a few days past, the Articles of War were read to us all, great shew was made over those words devoted to the punishments for soldiers who dare desert. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This was not punishment, just what must be done. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z The only good thing about our punishment was that it gave Annabeth and me a common enemy and lots of time to talk. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z But Dad hated unprintable words, and the fact that he had stood up for his son didn’t prevent him from holding a full-dress court of inquiry once he got home, and administering the called-for punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z If we did not mend our ways and introduce sharia, or Islamic law, more severe punishment would come. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Like schoolyard bullies, they wanted to provoke us, and then they would beat us as punishment. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Even when Dad administered vitally needed punishment on the conventional area, the area where it is supposed to do the most good, Mother tried to intervene. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She balled her fists and dug her nails into her palm, wanting the pain, wanting some punishment, wanting something to be different because she could never do what had to be done. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Her father had given one explanation for the separation of the races in fratricidal punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In his worldview, as Farmer understands it, people turn themselves into animals for shifty reasons, or else local sorcerers turn them into animals as punishment, or simply for food. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Lucky for Juliet, she died and she didn’t see the reaction of her parents, nor did she have to go through punishments. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The whip was the standard punishment for disobedience. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I pull my shoulders back and sit up straight, ready to hear my punishment. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z As Shin stood beside his mother, the guard invented a punishment for her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Mother seemed sobered by this news from our teachers, as if she had earned a special punishment from God. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Gandhi invited each person in the theater to join him in an exceptional oath, a pledge not to register, not to accept the government’s rules, even if that resulted in severe punishment. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Reducing the matter to a few brief words, let me say that on the part of the conspirator there is nothing but fear, apprehension, and the terrifying thought of punishment. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z This was our first event in the Transvaal, and it was necessary to have prominent figures lead the defiers, otherwise the leaders would appear to be hanging back while the masses took the punishment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Leo Valdez deserved a special punishment,” she said. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Still..being turned into a monstrous immortal spider seemed like a pretty harsh punishment for bragging. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “He couldn’t let a runaway go without some punishment. If he did, there’d be ten more taking off tomorrow. He was easy on you, though, because he figured your running away was my fault.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There were times when so many children were in so many corners that I would have to hunt for a space for my own punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Mistakes and accidents were not excuses, and punishment was not avoidable. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The police couldn’t let that kind of thing slide if a reporter were to wonder who was at fault and maybe call for someone’s punishment. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Those who do step out of line often face little unexplained punishments, such as having their schedules or their work assignments unilaterally changed. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was ‘desolated to leave so early’, she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m no angel, but I’ve never really done anything worthy of punishment. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Supposedly he was transferring in during the middle of a term as punishment for running away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z “I will humbly accept any punishment you deem—” “I am not here to punish you. In any case, your future is punishment enough. Tell me, Elias. Why are you here? Why are you at Blackcliff?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The Germans are generous enough when it comes to punishment. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Mama, the one doing the beating, was really mad and threatened even more punishment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I had been shaking my fist, thinking of all kinds of punishments for Vonetta. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z I shouted, “there will be no punishment, there will be no penance! His sins are forgiven!” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I wish that the courts would give him a suitable punishment so that he can learn from this instead of just being institutionalized.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn’t interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z What punishment would there be if I took the pencil in my hand and gouged out the eye of the girl sitting next to me in chem class? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z My real punishment in not following the Board’s advice and going to Stockholm was a thousand dollars. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Going to stay with Jack for the summer was not punishment for me. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “She is the one who deserves punishment, not us.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Although the majority criticized Welles and his program, others urged against government action as punishment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “So be it. Sal Lockton, it is the order of this court that you be branded on your right cheek with the letter of I in punishment for your crimes against your lady mistress.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d always known the punishment for what she’d done was going to be bad, but this was far worse than anything she could have fathomed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Newspapers inveighed against Milo with glaring headlines, and Congressmen denounced the atrocity in stentorian wrath and clamored for punishment. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Smith opted for a companion who could take a little more punishment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They’ve made up their minds, and arguing with them will only make my punishment worse. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “All of the American leaders have committed treason against the King. You cannot deny that. Treason is the highest offense under English law, worse than murder. And what is the punishment for treason, my friends?” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally lava began to flow, and as a crowning punishment, ash fell on the villages close to the volcano. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had not eaten the nuts; I was sorry that I had called her Aunt Addie; but I did not want to be singled out for gratuitous punishment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They were racked with guilt for being alive, racked with pain in their heads and fear of ghosts, racked with nightmares and strange compulsions, punishments for being alive when the others were dead. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Bailey could count on very few punishments for his consistently outrageous behavior, for he was the pride of the Henderson/Johnson family. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z On any other occasion, Mr. Pittluck would have silenced these remarks, but he seemed to view them as part of her punishment. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z His punishment is the Word, and his deficiencies are failures of words—as when he grows impatient with translation and strikes out precariously on his own, telling parables in his wildly half-baked Kikongo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even being Caesar’s daughter would not save her from some dreadful punishment if it was believed she criticized him, even in the privacy of her heart. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z "That's all, sir, except that I want to say that I'm sorry for what I did and that I hold no hard feelings. What I did was unintentional, but I'm in agreement with my punishment." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Running away was a transgression so large that the punishment enveloped every generous soul on her brief tour of freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They were works in progress, malleable, and could be set on the right path if the law behaved like a stem but loving parent rather than as an instrument of punishment. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially for so great a girl—she looked thirteen or upwards. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “That be the punishment round these parts for runaway indentured gals. An iron collar with hooks on it.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If they arrived to work even a few minutes late, as punishment they were locked in the basement for an hour and not allowed to go to their sewing machines. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z In the early years of this punishment, the water—which could be icy cold in winter—was released all at once upon the naked inmate, delivering a terrible shock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of freaking when I described the most gruesome of the Mosses’ punishments, she spoke calmly. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He understood the nature of his acts, and that they were prohibited, and that he was subject to punishment. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She could blast through a punishment in half the time it took him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I had never been beaten that way before—would never have thought I could absorb so much punishment without losing consciousness. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s like the pain of punishment, when it’s a craving you succumb to. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “Why should they escape all punishment for their crimes? That’s not justice. What if the cops had nabbed two kids from Tangerine for robbing our houses? They’d be in jail now.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Several years later, he finds his punishment will never end. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When we occasionally disobeyed a rule, Daddy enforced punishment that we would long remember. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z When he spoke, Clarkson brandished whips and handcuffs used on slaves; he published testimonials from sailors and ship doctors who described the atrocities and punishments on slave ships. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Prison was for punishment; it wasn’t ours to forgive. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I could hide behind the door, wait until she comes, hobbles along the hall, bearing whatever sentence, penance, punishment, jump out at her, knock her down, kick her sharply and accurately in the head. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn't afraid because I thought smuggling hash was wrong—I was afraid because of the punishment. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Mom felt that Grandma Smith nagged and badgered, setting rules and punishments for breaking the rules. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z That is my punishment—every toilet, every tub, every garbage pail. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A crime like that cried out for punishment. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the SIM snuck into our house in the middle of the night and stabbed her in punishment for not taking Mr. Smith’s phone call? Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Stiff punishment, indeed, for a minor drug offense—especially for his children, who are innocent of any crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Since he had no will of his own, the punishments for his actions would fall upon the heads of those issuing the orders. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z It really isn’t much of a punishment unless you like the television programs right after school or are very concerned with your permanent record. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Coach had promised Mom that disciplinary action was being taken, though we didn’t know the full extent of Will’s punishment. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z It was this: Even slavish obedience didn’t protect you from punishment. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “All the same, a rule is of no value unless the punishment is enforced. You will have to stay in your room for the rest of your stay.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z If I opened the gate, there was no telling what punishment Madam would demand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the note Doris had left for me with my punishment on it. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Weight is a serious concern, so they're not made to stand up to much punishment. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But to his “field” slaves, he was a monster, whose preferred punishment for those who tried to run away was what he called “Derby’s dose.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Part of a prisoner's punishment is not knowing his execution date. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He had not been so foolish as to fight the slavers, as Jorah Mormont had, but that did not mean he had escaped punishment. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As you can tell, Mrs. Baker had me reading The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark for May—which I think was punishment for taking off April. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z To escape from Filch’s office without punishment was probably some kind of school record. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z As punishment for that, she was grounded, but she didn’t let it stop her. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Step down. Your sponsoring scythe will choose your punishment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And, he added, “This conduct is very egregious and I don’t think anybody would argue that if it were committed by an adult that the punishment would be cruel and unusual.” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I wasn’t even sure what the punishment was for switching tables. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Where I come from,” the snake girl said, “the punishment for treason is being covered in honey, bound to an open boat, and floated out into a stagnant pond. The flies eat you alive.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z If convicted, he faced a maximum sentence of life in prison, a punishment he would never have faced if he had been charged as a juvenile. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Of course, corporal punishment was forbidden in the schools. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is what’s going to happen. Marcus, you are suspended until further notice. We will look at the details of this incident and consider all punishments, including expulsion.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Constitution had abolished slavery but allowed one major exception: slavery remained appropriate as punishment for a crime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You know we don’t change the sheets but once a month. You’ll have to sleep in that bed as your punishment.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Then take your punishment like the pathetic creature that you are.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Always as a punishment, the consequence of a foolish love. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Every soldier knew that the punishment for desertion was execution. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t known what kind of punishment I’d get for it, I would have burst out into tears. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And the old king, afraid the desperation would lead the people into disorder, had imposed strict laws with harsh punishments. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z “Any killing will result in harsh punishment. No s’mores at the campfire for a week! Now ready your chariots!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “When this is all over, I’m going to give that boy the punishment of his life.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z He didn’t even intend this as a punishment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The punishment for a repeat offense was something so terrible, Sam wouldn’t or couldn’t talk about it when she finally returned to our cabin two days later. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Worst of all, the treaty forced Germany to accept full responsibility for starting the war and pay huge reparations as punishment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She wore it till evening, patient, unresentful, regarding it as a deserved punishment. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Once they were considered the visible punishments for concealed sins. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know a lot about the school district’s system of punishment. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Snape loved taking points from Harry, and had certainly never missed an opportunity to give him punishments, or even to suggest that he should be suspended from the school. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Martha Whites were a form of punishment only T. Ray could have dreamed up. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I admit I somewhat downplayed the punishment loops’ dangers. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I reflected on how mass imprisonment has littered the national landscape with carceral monuments of reckless and excessive punishment and ravaged communities with our hopeless willingness to condemn and discard the most vulnerable among us. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Think of your time here as an opportunity rather than a punishment and take advantage of all there is to offer. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The governor himself began to get irritated with Osborne over his repeated attacks on capital punishment—the warden made a point of being out of town whenever an electrocution was scheduled. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes—not very often, for inevitably it caused sadness—people described their places of origin: places with cruel governments, harsh punishments, desperate poverty, or false comforts. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The real question of capital punishment in this country is, Do we deserve to kill? Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Du Barry made us write fifty lines each as punishment. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Mr. Moss also relinquished rights to his adopted children but received no further punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She wishes the punishment were more brutal, even though it’s pretty bad already and, thanks to Seth Greggory, about to get worse. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “I’m impressed by your initiative,” Mom said, “but that’s not going to get you out of the punishment your father and I have been talking about.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But a man cares about his son, eh? Displease me, old man, and the next time my guards inflict a punishment, it will be on him!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Feeling the cold grip my bones, I continue walking, disputing with myself this question of disobedience and punishment. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Matt’s mind churned over the punishment Maria would endure because she had brought him food. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Athena drove them mad as a punishment, and they killed themselves, jumping from the Acropolis. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The silent treatment would be Ophie’s punishment, but for now Mama seemed more intent on getting them out of the attic than anything else. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Further, I want to prevail upon this Court to consider this boy’s plea of guilty as evidence mitigating his punishment. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z What a fantastic punishment; no bus ride, no Dana! Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I went back to law school with an intense desire to understand the laws and doctrines that sanctioned the death penalty and extreme punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Another row showcased iron cuffs so thick that no saw could bite them, and cuffs so thin that only the thought of punishment prevented their wearer from splitting them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The punishment used for small children was a regulated system of smacks with the discipline wand: a thin, flexible weapon that stung painfully when it was wielded. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Either he arose from this theater, never to return, putting behind him the world and its pleasures, its honors, and its glories, or he remained here with the wicked and partook of their certain punishment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “Like we could just waltz into a punishment loop . . .” Millard was hyperventilating, hysterical—and it scared me. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Her new god was an expert in punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I made two simple rules, you understood them, and you broke them. Just because I chose not to share all my reasons for making the rules, you think you should escape punishment?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z At the gate there was a bundle of switches tied together with a cord, the symbol adopted by local ruffians as a warning of punishment to follow. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Then it’s not a punishment at all, but a pleasant perk of rudeness. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Many Africans died of malnutrition, overwork, or injuries inflicted by punishments—and were merely replaced by a fresh crop from the slave boats. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Not that it matters. This is my punishment for thinking that being like all of you was the answer.” Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z They were sure, because where you were supposed to write “I am writing this punishment with a pen,” everyone was writing the word frindle every fourth or fifth sentence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Fuller waved me out the door and sent me away with no further punishment than my shame and having missed lunchtime. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “It’s my punishment for eavesdropping. I accept it.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He remembered the punishment of Tantalus, who’d been permanently stuck in a pool of water under a fruit tree but couldn’t reach either food or drink. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z People thought he was a glutton for punishment, that he liked getting dumped. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “You heard what Fudge said. Black isn’t affected by Azkaban like normal people are. It’s not a punishment for him like it is for the others.” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Florence’s punishment for being late was to stand in the middle of the aisle with his arms out spread. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z If the men did not take me away that afternoon, I would get an even worse punishment than I had before. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z What you choose to do as parents is your matter but this is my school, and these are my students, and I will choose what punishment they will face. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z Drowning or burning, the punishment was all the same. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The cause of this blight was well known: God had sent it as punishment for our sins. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z “This has been a terrible ordeal for her. There will be no punishment. Older and wiser wizards than she have been hoodwinked by Lord Voldemort.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z I was more worried about what punishment she’d lay down when we got home. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Surprisingly, all of the other boys had gotten off without punishment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I thought he was going to let me run, but I guess this was the real last part of my punishment. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Some prisoners were tortured with electric cattle prods as punishment for violations of the prison’s rule. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Supreme Court announced its decision: Life imprisonment without parole sentences imposed on children convicted of non-homicide crimes is cruel and unusual punishment and constitutionally impermissible. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z We get caught and the punishment is going to be far worse than housework. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But there was no punishment for me that day. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Not the punishment of death, but the gift of life. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Anyone who attempted to smuggle silkworm eggs out of China faced punishment of death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As we faced days of grueling punishment, I was also coping with the fact that despite the newspaper article, we had heard no word from the North Little Rock school administrators about Mama’s job. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the soldiers killed them all as punishment, even the children.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I’m ready for this punishment to be over, though. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z He looked encouraged, and Grandma left him to Mrs. Wilcox, which was meant as a punishment. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I already picked a punishment. Now you just pick who we’re going to rain our mighty wrath down on.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Was this her penalty, then, her punishment for being aloof to her own mother’s suffering? A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He waited for punishment, dreaded the start of every day, now, because of what might happen to him. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Winter is an inimical world; its punishment for doing things wrong is sure and prompt: death from cold or death from hunger. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Next week the newspaper reported the man’s capture and described the nature of his punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The punishment united the often jealous, often indifferent, separate colonies, as the Tea Party itself had not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards imposed harsh discipline, consisting of compulsory physical exercise, denial of evening meals, solitary confinement, and corporal punishment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The “punishment” Mama had mentioned wasn’t too severe—I had to help her out on the farm early in the mornings for the next week. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was a standard punishment whenever a girl did wrong. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But it was not until communion—it was not until we finally took God into our mouth and swallowed Him—that we were free of that sin and free of the punishment of hell. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like he was sorry for every bad thing he’d ever done in his life, because he didn’t know there could be a punishment like this. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z “Young people don’t always do what they’re told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. How’s that?” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z His punishment was deserved, but his daughter suffered as terribly as he and she was innocent of all wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z But generally during this era, throughout the Western world, the nature of criminal punishment was undergoing profound change. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Being close to suffering, death, executions, and cruel punishments didn't just illuminate the brokenness of others; in a moment of anguish and heartbreak, it also exposed my own brokenness. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Inside the trailer Mrs. Moss drummed her fingers on the counter as she contemplated my punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z They still hanged black people as a form of punishment for the smallest of deeds, but at Bethel AME, every member of the church was welcome and loved. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was solitary confinement, a place of punishment within a place of punishment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lot a folks think if you talk back to you husband, you crossed the line. And that justifies punishment. You believe in that line?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z But the most common, and most feared, new punishment was the cold-water bath. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “That sounds like an adequate punishment,” I say. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Means harsh punishment for almost anything,” Mom explained. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It housed an ancient castle as well as the Tombs—where Twelve Towns criminals went to receive punishment. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Then he realized, by the immobility of the other children and by the way they avoided looking at him, that it was he who was selected for punishment. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z But also upsetting: Christianity decreed that people deserve punishment for offending God, Newman said. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Doris would never ask Jazz to do anything like this for a punishment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z He would writhe and scream and howl until the monster retreated, satiated for the time being, leaving Joaquin wrung out and exhausted, beyond comfort, beyond punishment. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z According to the Christians, the Jews are blabbing their secrets to the Germans, denouncing their helpers and causing them to suffer the dreadful fate and punishments that have already been meted out to so many. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z If we decided not to listen, we knew harsh punishment would follow. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Along with the punishment, she’s also doing the thing she most wants to do: flee. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z His punishment was that Hooper was not dead, that everything was the same, and the thought of that was worse than anything. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It was further confirmation of his guilt, and the beginning of his punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She was there to calm me and feed me pills that I saw were my own inadequate aspirins, and to assure me that my punishment was over, that I was all right. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z As a further punishment for concocting lies about a big hare and a young mouse, Redtooth ordered that the twelve be starved until further notice. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He realized that, as always, he had got carried away with his punishment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the many ways we’ve legalized vengeful and cruel punishments, how we’ve allowed our victimization to justify the victimization of others. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z You and Manny, who are equal in pretty much every way apart from race, could commit the same crime, but it’s almost guaranteed that he would receive a harsher punishment than you. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I assumed, as usual, it was my presence that brought on punishment. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Dobby doubts it, sir. Dobby is always having to punish himself for something, sir. They lets Dobby get on with it, sir. Sometimes they reminds me to do extra punishments. “But why don’t you leave? Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Much like his godly forefather, Orcus, the underworld god of punishment, Bryce was completely remorseless. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Because of my punishment for going into Olga’s room, all I can do is read, draw, and write in my journal. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was the first time in as long as I could remember that hunger wasn’t a punishment or a crime or a weapon or a mode of self-destruction. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if the elephant is smart enough to connect me to her punishment and wonder why I didn’t do anything to stop it, but I am and I do. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Shin thought her punishment was just and fair, and he never became angry with his teacher for killing her. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe you could give us a reduced punishment as a warning. Then the full punishment if we mess up again.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z I don’t know if I’d have survived the twenty lashes that were to be my punishment. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z This book is about getting closer to mass incarceration and extreme punishment in America. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She got into an argument with her aunt, and now she’s on punishment. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Thursday Lecture day, the day of public punishment, was two days away. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z This was punishment and purification, all in one. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z If Tennessee had a temperament, it took after the dark personality of the world, with a taste for arbitrary punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Executive Order #13 of the Post-Flares Coalition, by recommendation of the Population Control Committee, to be considered TOP-SECRET, of the highest priority, on penalty of capital punishment. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I swung them in anticipation of Mom’s punishment. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The second flaw in the capital punishment argument is even more obvious. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Changing your mind doesn't buy you penance. I’ll decide your punishment, but you will never disrespect me again.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We didn’t realize what sort of punishment the fishermen had given us until we stopped running away from their village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Like the two other boys, Jeff was taking a lot of brutal physical punishment. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Zeus appointed him director of Camp Half-Blood to dry out for a hundred years—a punishment for chasing some off-limits wood nymph. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Without himself he would have died, for which else, of them all, would not have stopped running after such punishment? Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In punishment for the uprising, each of the twelve districts must provide one girl and one boy, called tributes, to participate. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Like Mommy, my sisters have learned to absorb punishment and get up off the ground after the shock of life’s blows wears off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He welcomed it with relief, because it was, at last, the punishment he deserved. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z But perhaps that would only result in punishment for her. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “No, we don’t believe in capital punishment for the genetically damaged.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z When Fern told her mother that Avery had tried to hit the Zuckermans’ spider with a stick, Mrs. Arable was so shocked that she sent Avery to bed without any supper, as punishment. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Like the majority of American law-enforcement officials, Dewey is certain that capital punishment is a deterrent to violent crime, and he felt that if ever the penalty had been earned, the present instance was it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z No words or punishment could have possibly made me doubt. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s Christmas, and it’s not a crime to want to come to a party. Just this once, we’II forget any punishment; you may stay, Draco.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z We didn’t know whether she wanted us all to get malaria now, for punishment, or if she had simply lost her mind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Now having accepted my punishment, I wanted to remember nothing connected with Trueblood or the Golden Day. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Together they agreed that it probably resulted from her feelings when she had reluctantly dealt punishment to the citizen who had broken the major rules a second time. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Lord Cheldthorpe strolled around before us so that he could view our faces and judge the visage of punishment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The way Fozia said he loved to dole out punishments and had personally burned an entire village to the ground. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Louie absorbed the punishment in tearless silence, then committed the same crimes again, just to show he could. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Pandora was not sent to man as a punishment, but as a reward—” “Was not,” Ben said. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I’m still torn between wanting my colors back and feeling like it’s an appropriate punishment that they’re gone. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He went so far as to hope that human justice would mete out punishment unflinchingly. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z If the offender was at Mother’s end of the table, out of Dad’s reach, he’d signal her to administer the skull punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Williams is pretty tough, but I don’t think she’d give out that kind of punishment. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Thomas hated all this talk about punishment, even more than he hated having to keep his mouth shut. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z This fact, he points out, can be seen most clearly by putting crime and punishment in comparative perspective. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The punishment was the gleaning of the offender’s entire family. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I anticipate rewards for goodness, and wait for the ax of punishment to fall upon evil, in spite of the years I’ve rocked in this cradle of rewarded evils and murdered goodness. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But generally during this era, throughout the Western world, the nature of criminal punishment was undergoing profound change. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This doesn’t feel like a life; it feels like a never-ending punishment. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z They all stood in a line in front of me, and I braced myself for yelling, or more punishment, or something else equally terrible. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z For ordinary rabbits, the punishments were more severe. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Cursing like a madman, he threatened them with such punishment and vengeance that they could only respond with laughter. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a common punishment in Imperial China,” said O’Brien as didactically as ever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z So she wouldn’t have to suffer alone through whatever punishment was in store. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She woke from them battered and confused and listless, which led to punishments for lost work, and recuperation from punishments led to more lost work. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Adah was what God sent me, either as punishment or reward. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Lady Isobel, who viewed it as a punishment for Ash, did not object. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was unaided and easily condemned by a system that was inattentive to the precise legal requirements of capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to walk fifty-seven punishment tours. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z There were six of them altogether, constructed in an empty water tank especially for punishment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The neighbor had caught him, but instead of reporting him to the cops, he made Brian eat the entire jarful as punishment. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He waited paralyzed for whatever punishment might strike him down. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a boy,” said he, “this was my punishment. Standing with Milton weighing upon one hand and Shakespeare the other. But you ... you shall be encumbered with your own past, hm?” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Frustrated prison staff frequently subject them to abusive punishment, solitary confinement, or the most extreme forms of available detention. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z North Korea announced a new policy of harsh punishment for illegal border crossings, with prison terms of up to five years. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Stepping back out into the sun after the cool shadows of Mr. Gideon's lab is like a punishment all its own. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z But after my embarrassment faded, I realized that this punishment meant I was simply being treated as one of the group. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So when we were released in August and put under house arrest, you'd have thought I was getting just the punishment for me. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The door would be closed, and they would be left outside, dismissed to await allotted work or punishment. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And when Dad banned me from all school sports teams as punishment, it wasn’t for plunging the whole town into darkness for three days. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He may have thought that being put in charge of a women’s flight regiment was his punishment. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Before this case, the maximum punishment in Illinois for children younger than thirteen was probation and counseling. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z As punishment, the Soviets wanted Germany to pay high reparations and to be forbidden to rebuild their factories and farms. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Embarrassingly, almost all of the traffic was the other way—scores of English joined the locals despite promises of dire punishment. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Admitting a mistake in foster care had just brought further punishment, so I never backed down. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z As early as 1682, William Penn’s colonial government experimented with incarceration as an alternative to corporal and capital punishment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He remained uncertain afterward what her eyes had meant—punishment, sorrow, pain. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Unless the punishments are enforced, rules lose all their power.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Reform, not punishment, is her modus operandi, and Celia has succeeded in converting many young delinquents into productive revolutionaries. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The runaways that were caught and brought back were immediately sold South, as a punishment for running away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court had grown impatient with challenges to capital punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z They gave him limitless opportunity; Seabiscuit was one of the biggest stories in the country, so they just kept coming back for more punishment. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It would take her until the next morning to think of a suitable punishment for Izzy: confiscating her beloved Doc Martens and throwing them in the trash. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "I totally understand. I mean, I get it. Not the punishment part, but the part about your mom. My secret is sorta like that too." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Competitive rowing is an undertaking of extraordinary beauty preceded by brutal punishment. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It seems a more fitting punishment than death, anyway. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “Haven’t any of you read about the punishment loops in your peculiar history books?” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And with that, he punctured the tension in the room and deflected any punishment I might have called down upon myself. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The fire spread far into the countryside, and now the rebels are huddled in the blackened ruins as fitting punishment for their incendiary havoc. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Mr. Turner concluded: “‘It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.’” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z My mum threatens us with weird punishments sometimes. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t know what he’s done to deserve this punishment, but there is always the chance that there will be more. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Yale historian David Musto and other scholars have documented a disturbing, though unsurprising, pattern: punishment becomes more severe when drug use is associated with people of color but softens when it is associated with whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Certainly, outlawing barbaric punishments was evidence of progress in penal practice, and perhaps of progress in American civilization as well. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t think they saw it as a punishment. Lena was probably a victim of good intentions.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The cause of all the misfortunes was held to be an ancestor, a King of Lydia named Tantalus, who brought upon himself a most terrible punishment by a most wicked deed. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Cora would have said it served him right, had his punishment not made her shiver to think about. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Prometheus was a Greek god who championed mankind, stealing fire for them from Zeus, being tortured for eternity as his punishment. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z They had no instrument to calibrate how much punishment he could take. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z If my dad slowed down the car to shove me out of it, the cops probably would have deemed it a fair punishment. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Collective punishment at school also turned classmates against each other. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He tried to wrangle for more favorable treatment but decided that there was no punishment he was willing to accept for a murder he hadn't committed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Because without blame, how would there be punishment? Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The punishment was popular among prison officials because inmates so feared it and because it left no disfiguring marks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From En-gland and Europe, the United States had inherited a system of mainly corporal punishment for crimes. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this was my punishment for leaving Mr. Sheep Sheep. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “Suppose he robbed you through deception. Would that thief deserve the same punishment as a bandit?” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I began to imagine the entire town was some sort of bizarre experimental prison camp without walls—a punishment center where criminals were sentenced to living only with other criminals. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The worst part of being on punishment isn’t the cleaning up and washing dishes and raking leaves, it’s not being able to go over to Suesetta’s house after church. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Each time the whip struck, it would make cuts and lay the man’s back bare—a vicious punishment from which men often died. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What had they done that deserved such punishment? The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z This was his punishment, and it wasn’t a mistake he’d make again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z This is the friendliest and best-paying maid service I have encountered—$6.65 an hour, though as a punishment this will drop to $6 for two weeks if I fail to show up for a day. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rachel, you have told me that you lost your marriage, you lost your job—do you not think this is punishment enough?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment for being a person in hiding—an onderduiker—is immediate deportation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We didn’t learn nothing ’bout no family breeding contests, and Mr. Travis commenced handing out lines as punishment and licks as reminders. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z She stares out the window for a few minutes, and I know she’s trying to figure out my punishment. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z The boys were preoccupied with avoiding punishment at home. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Now be was ready to take his punishment. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z They used corporal punishment—they beat us on the behind with a stick. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d dropped out of secondary school, and manual labour would be his punishment, though I had a feeling it would do him good to get out of his parents’ flat and work. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Bryan," he said at some point during our short flight, “capital punishment means 'them without the capital get the punishment.' We can't help people on death row without help from people like you." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I know about frostbite: your fingers and toes fall off, as punishment for drink. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I also find that he has spoken on behalf of the abolition of capital punishment and contributed generously to research institutions engaged in criminal neurophysiology. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z As the sailors’ discontent subsided, Shackleton took McNeish aside and exchanged a few quiet words with him, perhaps reminding him that execution was a legal punishment for mutiny. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “This one is from my fantastic childhood. Childhood punishments. The tiny closet upstairs.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z State legislatures enacted harsh new punishments for crimes, naming statutes after particular victims. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The Jury meted out punishment for nonexpellable offenses, for everything from staying out past curfew to smoking. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The problem was so significant in Illinois that in 2003, Governor George Ryan, a Republican, citing the unreliability of capital punishment, commuted the death sentences of all 167 people on death row. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “No, your punishment will be no lessons today. You will help me in the garden instead of going to school.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Despite similar crime rates, each government chose to impose different levels of punishment. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He turned: There was Lucius Malfoy sitting in the darkest corner, ragged and still bearing the marks of the punishment he had received after the boy’s last escape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Mother disapproved of all forms of corporal punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The more I think about it, an embargo sounds an awful lot like the punishment chair at home whenever we misbehave. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Smeath has God all sewed up, she knows what things are his punishments. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Of course, none of the vast crowd who would be there today would know that she wasn’t there of her own free will, but had been condemned to watch the spectacle as a punishment. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z And then the kids said Mrs. Granger didn’t even look at their punishment papers anymore. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He lost Jacob’s labor, though if the man had been talented the overseer would have subjected him to a less drastic punishment. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Such a punishment, indeed, would have seemed a freedom. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We stayed flat on the ground for almost two hours, taking the storm’s punishment, barely able to breathe in the driving rain. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But his leaders were serious, and they threatened him with punishment if he disobeyed. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z These fictional dramas, like the evening news, tend to focus on individual stories of crime, victimization, and punishment, and the stories are typically told from the point of view of law enforcement. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They were sentenced to public punishment by toad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z So it wasn’t capital punishment that drove crime down, nor was it the booming economy. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I bet she made you come down here as a punishment for telling me too much.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He always took the blame, the responsibility—and the punishment. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Denying his help, any possibility of making amends, was his punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So even in a death penalty advocate’s best-case scenario, capital punishment could explain only one twenty-fifth of the drop in homicides in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The resulting legislation was once again extraordinarily punitive, this time extending far beyond traditional criminal punishments and including new “civil penalties” for people convicted of drug crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Harry wondered what their punishment was going to be. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z Baaz seemed to genuinely not know what she was talking about, which meant he’d either inhaled too much smoke last night or had far worse plans for her punishment. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Marriage to me would not be a punishment. And why are you so certain I would marry you? I would not. Not if Inti himself commanded it.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z Part of her punishment was the surrender of her phone. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z He doesn’t believe in physical punishment; he believes in staring so cold at me that I turn into a ice-covered ice cube with an icy filling. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Does Mario have to work for the money as punishment—or does he just have to get it somewhere?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z And the question that really haunted him: “How were we serving American purposes in raining down punishment on the people in these houses?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was weary from practice, the constant punishment his body took, the frustration of never getting a play off, never completing a pass, the coach’s sarcasm, the lingering September heat. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She can’t go forward, because forward is more miles of self-imposed punishment—flat back-country roads plus the heat of summer, red T-shirts, and the inconceivable and undeserving support of strangers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s to receive ten lashes for her incompetence. If you’re intent on helping her, perhaps you wish to take on her punishment?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We were not concerned with getting off or lessening our punishment, but with having the trial strengthen the cause for which we were all struggling — at whatever cost to ourselves. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Their fate indeed was a proof that suffering was not a punishment for wrongdoing; the innocent suffered as often as the guilty. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Telling on myself saved my pride somehow, but it didn’t ease the punishment. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A punishment for Jazz would be more like keeping her from watching TV. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z And terrible punishments were promised him, such as being locked up in the cellar with the rats for a week, if he even so much as dared to climb over the fence. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z After two weeks of no TV, no phone, and no going out whatsoever, Amá says maybe she’ll end my punishment today. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It began like any other calamity that strikes the poor but quickly took on the characteristics of a divine punishment. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of November goes by extra slow because I’ve been on punishment the entire month. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She couldn’t help herself thinking that my arrival was part of some settling of accounts, that Milton had been punished and that her punishment was just beginning. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The boy’s face contorted with agony as Guy made him kneel in the deep grass in punishment. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Dad thinks if he just keeps slamming me with punishment after punishment, I’ll wise up. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z There was a kind of pleasure in her demands for punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And while he copied out all their various offenses and punishments, he wondered what was going on outside, where the match would have just started...Ginny playing Seeker against Cho... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z ‘He sends punishments to people who are too proud.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Abstractions about capital punishment were one thing, but the details of systematically killing someone who is not a threat are completely different. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I wondered if the dead child were not a punishment for my having turned my back on my religious calling? In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Even many of the Tories were talking like that, for the punishment fell equally heavily upon the King’s most loyal subjects in Boston and on the very ‘Indians’ who had tossed the tea overboard. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He promised to abolish the Treaty of Versailles, calling it "unfair punishment." Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z As punishment, his leader ordered him to run laps around a drill field. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Like all Blackcliff students, I came to the school at the age of six, and in the fourteen years since, I've witnessed punishments thousands of times. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z To decline the man would bring terrible punishment upon her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I never did feel it again, for I never stole again; and what kept me from it was the knowledge that, for me, crime carried its own punishment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Her lip curled in anger and she said, “You have been absent all day and you expect no punishment? Come here!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother reads the charges against me, which I don't pay much attention to, and pronounces the punishment, which I also ignore. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Leon had thought he was inflicting punishment on the fellows selected to do the job but the discipline backfired. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But I saw it as my punishment: to go out with my mother, back to the beach, to help her find Bing’s body. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The prosecutor insisted that Charlie be tried as an adult, and he announced that he intended to seek the maximum punishment permitted by law. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Shouldn’t the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who has offended him. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z She deserved the chill, the loneliness, the drunks and the trash, a thousand worse punishments and tortures. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z By got put on punishment for a month, but even before a week was gone he started up again. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There were goals, rewards, and instant punishments for failure. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The adventure all began with a glass of milk being overturned by an elbow and Jack and Sarah being turned out from the house for the morning in punishment. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This was part of his punishment—no phone, no computer, no contact with anyone in the outside world. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z And don’t think the Malfoy name will prevent me inflicting punishment. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z The likelihood of punishment was so low—this was the heyday of a liberal justice system and the criminals’ rights movement—that it simply didn’t cost very much to commit a crime. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z We hear a thud and a howl—the sort of howl that came from the punishment block in jail. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z We hear also of the punishment accorded them: The enemy has chained each white Loyalist to a black man taken in flight to Lord Dunmore and our Regiment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Death had not improved Thackeray Porringer’s temper, and now he was shouting, “I know you’re here somewhere! Come out and take your punishment, you, you thief!” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He was sentenced to be hanged inside the penitentiary, and White, though opposed to capital punishment, was given the grim task of overseeing the execution, much as his father had done in Texas. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But they needed food to work and the cotton demanded the punishment be brief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The permeability of North Korea’s border tends to improve when border guards and local officials can accept bribes without draconian punishment from higher-ups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was a punishment tough enough to demand explanation, but the stewards still refused to reveal what had happened. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They visited with terrible punishment those who shed the blood of kindred. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see what had happened to provoke the punishment. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z It is for the few to know that in the great old days of Virginia there were three punishments for high crimes—death, exile to Texas, and imprisonment, in that order. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mother and I know how hard you are on yourself. There’s no punishment that’s going to make you feel more miserable than you are right now.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He just waited for her to say, “Step down. Scythe Faraday will choose your punishment.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z It was one of those ridiculous punishments that had somehow become codified in the gangs. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Ishmael still could not read what her eyes meant—punishment, sorrow, perhaps buried anger, perhaps all three simultaneously. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Seeing as how you didn’t deserve the punishment you got, and I know how much it’s been bothering you.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z What sorts of punishments would scythes devise for their disgraced disciples? Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z This informal punishment would doubtless be the worst. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If we taste some foods we are struck down, in punishment for eating them. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just a brief hovercraft ride away is an arena where, tomorrow, Peeta and I and the other tributes will face our own form of punishment. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Without his consent he could not have been punished by anyone—yet nobody ever endured so many punishments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Treacherous daughters did not deserve to be mothers, and this was just punishment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The real punishment was not the raid swiftly inflicted by the villagers, but the family’s deliberately forgetting her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I gave a detailed description of the squatting punishments, and another child explained how Mrs. Moss forced her to squat for hours at a time. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z In this monologue, Edgar is gambling that the punishment for setting Simon’s hawk free will not be more than he can bear. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z She doled out a light punishment of extra chores, and that, we hoped, was the end of that. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z If Momma just gave Byron some stupid punishment, then maybe it would be worth it for me to flush some Nazis down the drain myself. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Being inside a basket of durian is punishment enough. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She’d bragged about her tapestries being better than Athena’s, which had led to Mount Olympus’s first reality TV punishment program: So You Think You Can Weave Better Than a Goddess? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Thanks, but don’t worry I should hold it, as punishment for wearing it in the first place.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z As if they’d given up or decided that a small freedom was the worst punishment of all, presenting the bounty of true freedom into painful relief. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I can never repent it, though we hated to kill. Our country owed all her troubles to him, and God simply made men the instrument of his punishment.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z As Jeremy Travis has observed, “In this brave new world, punishment for the original offense is no longer enough; one’s debt to society is never paid.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mom was a master at delivering creative punishment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Those shocks and bursts of euphoria weren’t punishments and rewards, nor were they random. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As punishment, he ordered all 160 boys to march into an ice-cold river. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The practice, which wasn't declared unconstitutional until 2002, was one of many degrading and dangerous punishments imposed on incarcerated people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I wanted more, I wanted to eat until I was full and worry about the punishment later. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Mary Anne never went anywhere, the punishment did not seem to compensate for the heinousness of the crime. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Master Archivist, what is the punishment for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “This isn’t a punishment, Michael. It’s an opportunity. If we can’t conduct ourselves with decorum during the film, we’ll jump ahead with mathematics, and what can be better than to leap ahead?” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z But she feels this in her heart and soul and with every searing and burning step: A crime must have a punishment, and this is part of hers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z But it was hard not to wonder if his body could endure the physical punishment of the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Flux continued, “When a child is naughty and is sent to sit in a corner, who insists on the length of the punishment? Tell us, Time Out.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Doris was known for having spies on the block, clocking my every move whenever I was on punishment. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z A small percentage included men awaiting court-martial, who joined to escape punishment. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z For three days his body had absorbed punishment. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though capital punishment quadrupled within a decade, there were still only 478 executions in the entire United States during the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In this case the punishment for the arrogance the gods detested fell not on Queen Cassiopeia, Andromeda’s mother, but on her daughter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z We the jury find the defendant, Richard Eugene Hickock, guilty of murder in the first degree, and the punishment is death.’” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “Aurora would not, but a few vows have been broken. The punishment is severe. The one at fault is banished to live alone in the Underland,” said Luxa. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To disregard these laws often meant severe punishment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t think of anything I’d done that would merit punishment. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z But by then I had gotten used to not smoking and it wasn’t a punishment anymore. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z But not all, for Tehlu spoke truly when he said that punishment cannot be avoided. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “The scariest thing I can think of is something bad happening to one of you. That’s why I have to give punishments.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Anything would be better than not knowing my punishment. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z This was unusual, since many men viewed working for Rondon as a form of punishment. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z To these men “poverty was a punishment for sins,” not a condition to be remedied—and most especially not by government intervention. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Nevertheless, unless you can prove that you have at least one close Wizarding relative, you are now deemed to have obtained your magical power illegally and must suffer the punishment.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z “It is not a school as you know it, and definitely not a place where you go because no one else wants you or likes you anymore. It’s not a place for punishment.” Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He apparently believes in the cure, rather than the punishment of crime. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is time to face my sentence, and my punishment. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We knew we needed to show Mama utmost respect—showing Mama disrespect always, without fail, meant severe punishment. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “So now the penance you’ve given yourself is to be a scythe, forever doomed to take lives as punishment for that one childhood act.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z That same punishment was given to the other boys and girls who spoke Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Virginia, the Court recognized that executing people with intellectual disabilities is cruel and unusual punishment and banned the practice as unconstitutional. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Four and a half in favor of suspending punishment,” the Chancellor said after a pause. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I was supposed to come home after school every day, and we were going to spend more Family Time together, but somehow that didn’t seem like a punishment. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Instead, like a brutal punishment, Lourdes feels the grip of her mother’s hand on her bare infant leg, hears her mother’s words before she left for the asylum: “I will not remember her name.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Is this some trick to postpone your punishment?” Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z My punishment was to stay after school and write I will not steal two hundred times on the chalkboard. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Luther recalled that in some stables a bug boy’s punishment for losing a race was a stout beating. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He launches into a lively description of Okeus, the vengeful god, who requires sacrifices of tobacco, copper, beads, and sometimes animal blood, and sends punishment if he is not made happy. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “Not as wrong as hiding from my crimes for two thousand years. Genius does not excuse evil, Percy. My time-has come. I must face my punishment.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Nobody wanted to stop a monthlong mission after only six days, but if the MAV took any more punishment, we'd all have gotten stranded down there. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z If the boys had owned up to the crime they might have escaped some of the punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “This is no punishment, Ophelia, but a blessing,” she says, touching my belly again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I don’t know what possessed me, but I grabbed her wrist, the list of punishments for touching an authority figure running through my head like a skipping CD, each scratch sharper than the next. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z However much we fear the punishment for stealing, our desperation is too strong to stop us. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It is no longer concerned primarily with the prevention and punishment of crime, but rather with the management and control of the dispossessed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I feel heartless as I leave her there to face Mother’s punishment. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z If I got more punishment or a whipping, I’d hold on to that fact. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z With the exception of the story of Prometheus’ punishment, told by Aeschylus in the fifth century, I have taken the material of this chapter chiefly from Hesiod, who lived at least three hundred years earlier. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My ma was the one to discipline me, and depending on my crime, I had a good idea of what my punishment would be. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Even last night, before they’d run, Mama had been prepared to take a punishment that she hadn’t deserved, to give up her own freedom so that Koffi didn’t have to give up hers. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z In the amendments to the state’s constitution, the punishment for possessing seditious writings, or for aiding and abetting a colored person, was left to the discretion of local authorities. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z A third ingenious punishment might possibly have been inflicted in the market-place below you. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “No form of punishment will be inflicted,” I continue. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Michael Tonry explains in Thinking About Crime: “Governments decide how much punishment they want, and these decisions are in no simple way related to crime rates.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If students volunteered enough transgressions, punishments were usually a smack on the head and a warning to work harder. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When he determined that a slave deserved punishment, he experimented with new forms of torture. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “We have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to physical altercations. School rules dictate she be expelled. Taking her scholarship is the smallest punishment I can offer.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Incarceration, the best punishment we have been able to think up, has itself become a social problem. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Unsurprisingly, the punishment for talking back to a PSF or camp controller was the same, only you also weren’t given food and, sometimes, not even water. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I mean, Lee Lee’s aunt is always overreacting and fussing and putting Lee Lee on punishment for something. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I started to think that making Byron spend all of his summer in this heat was more punishment than even a juvenile delinquent like him deserved. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Their purpose was to escape punishment, or work, or responsibility, and they were used for profit. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The punishments for such acts are grave, but our hunger does not allow this to stop us from sometimes stealing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Even after the term of punishment expires, some states deny the right to vote for a period ranging from a number of years to the rest of one’s life. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Prisoners reported that they were still being beaten by correctional staff and subjected to humiliation in stockades and other degrading punishments. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It seemed like more punishment than I deserved for letting Raymond have an accident. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Sometimes his grandmother pulls out a belt at night when Enrique is naked in bed and therefore unable to quickly escape her punishment by running outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z As punishment, he ordered GM and the other companies to pay a fine of $5,000 each. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z When they reached far-distant Illyria the gods changed them into serpents, not as a punishment, for they had done no wrong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am not sorry you lost them, for you broke the rules, and deserved some punishment for disobedience,” was the severe reply, which rather disappointed the young lady, who expected nothing but sympathy. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z All of them, however, tell of the unending futility of the task the forty-nine Danaïds were compelled to pursue in the lower world as a punishment for murdering their husbands. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘We will speak of your punishment later. For now, you will wait on Olympus.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I mean, my father was Thomas Edison when it came to inventing punishments. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is illegal to subject pretrial detainees like Walter and Myers to confinement that constitutes punishment. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She bent her whole mind to delivering her sister and devising a fit punishment for her husband. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Supreme Court, where it was argued that electrocution would constitute “cruel and unusual punishment.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It seems to me that all I can do is take my punishment. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Later on I realized that that too was part of the punishment. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Allowances were decided by the Council, which also meted out rewards and punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The body always demanded and received payment for the punishment it endured in a basketball game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Or perhaps the punishment was for her life, for the conflict that had been between them, which had only ended now she was dead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Both depict indigenous people as passively accepting whatever is meted out to them, whether it is the fruits of undisturbed ecosystems or the punishment for altering them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is neither a punishment meted out nor a lesson conferred. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z How Ares had ended up with a dragon for a son, Frank didn’t want to know; but as punishment for the dragon’s death, Ares turned Cadmus into a snake. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her curse had devoured the first Royal; he had been begotten in sin, and he had perished in sin; it was God’s punishment, and it was just. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z What a miserable little poltroon had fear, engendered of unjust punishment, made of me in those days! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z It occurred to me that mine and Mary Toy’s punishments never had been equal. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z This was only punishment, and I knew it. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I have had enough punishment for today, Apa says without turning around. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Is this Dr. Hauptmanns idea of a reward or a punishment? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A clean face, an open face, an eye raised to meet an eye—these drew attention and attention drawn brought punishment. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The punishment for refusing to bow to the king was worse than the punishment for witchcraft. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z For punishment, she dictated that the next week I had to go to church in my stocking feet. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She slowed her pace, then at the thought of having to go back to Miss Susan and whatever form of punishment she and her husband would have devised, she started running again. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He bites his nails whenever he does something wrong and has to sit on the punishment chair until Papi comes home. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z “No questions asked. No punishment for missing today’s practice or for leaving the game.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The burn in my legs feels less like exercise and more like a dreadful punishment. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Most of them were huddled together in groups, cowering as if they expected some horrible punishment from the new arrivals. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z When Florida was caught breaking one of the rules, she was more likely to argue and, as a result, to earn extra punishments. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z The damage in Shangla was even worse, and fundamentalist religious leaders suggested once again that God had sent a natural disaster as punishment for enjoying un-Islamic behaviors. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Another scythe might have exacted a punishment far worse. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I relished the attention and the relative immunity from punishment that my new status gave me, and I relished, above all, the sudden right to privacy. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “He deserves to see his daughter making out with the preacher’s kid as punishment for making me grow up in this hick town. But come on.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z The stripes they had endured would scar his back, their punishment would be his, their portion his, his their humiliation, anguish, chains, their dungeon his, their death his. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “You know, Kyle,” said his dad, looking at his mother, who nodded, “since you worked extra hard and did such a bang-up job on your essay, I think we might consider suspending your punishment.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Despite the brutal, debilitating impact of these “collateral consequences” on the lives of those convicted of crimes, courts have generally declined to find that such sanctions are actually “punishment” for constitutional purposes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Rowan imagined a jury of scythes would be very creative in their methods of punishment. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z He couldn’t help looking at her, just as children in a classroom can’t help looking at the pupil whose name is spoken by a teacher in the tone that means trouble and punishment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Anya didn’t think he deserved punishment, but she couldn’t say that. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z However, the mother's punishment was not delayed for long. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z “Probably not. At least not directly. The punishment has been administered.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He started to panic, thinking maybe this was his eternal punishment. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My punishment is seeing Holly’s face, when she rushes into the kitchen to see what the crash was, completely polarized with fear. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt, though, that she could achieve better results in the long run by objecting to the part of the anatomy selected for punishment, rather than the punishment itself. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z So what kind of punishment would he dream up for me? Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z They invented sins that would satisfy teachers without provoking draconian punishment. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z With his great back to the storm, taking its full punishment, he had made it possible for me to live. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z These experiences are not part of a sustainable lifestyle, even a lifestyle of chronic deprivation and relentless low-level punishment. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Our lessons had started again, and I knew I’d have to make up the practice, plus an additional half hour as punishment. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Now she’s less likely to actually punch someone since middle school punishments equal getting suspended and having to spend the day at home with her mom, but that’s probably for the best. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The final stage has been dubbed by some advocates as the “period of invisible punishment.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Go and see Sister Caterina, Ernesto,” Ida instructed him, “and tell her from me to take the books back from the boys. She should also send them to their rooms as a punishment.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Dad then would catch the eye of a child sitting near the offender and, by signals, would deputize him to carry out the punishment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “I will tell you what to expect. Hard work, that is what. Hard work and more hard work. And punishment if you do not perform well and on time, without complaints.” The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The punishment this time was four days in isolation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The unexpectedly freezing water that caused her to gasp was his punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was the first time the Court had issued a categorical ban on a punishment other than the death penalty. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The class had to stay inside during recess as punishment for bad behavior. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z My punishment, on this occasion, was to write five hundred times, “I will never, never hit any student in Public School 125.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Every Wednesday night, Rasheed listened to the Voice of Shari’a when the Taliban would announce the names of those scheduled for punishment. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Frankie and I sat next to each other in a small office watching the two administrators go back and forth deciding what our punishment should be. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I thought the girl in charge was going to stamp her foot in anger when everyone else agreed on that “punishment.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He did not exist, he was banished, and this was also the punishment. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z If we didn’t bring home all A’s on our report cards it was understood we’d receive some sort of punishment. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z If Mrs. Moss caught him biting off hunks of soap, eating big globs of toothpaste, or drinking from the shampoo bottle, he would get the hot-sauce punishment. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery—our mere existence is punishment enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z We’ve all heard of punishment beatings and fines in rebel- held cities for women who fail to dress a certain way. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Matilda's wonderfully subtle mind was already at work devising yet another suitable punishment for the poisonous parent. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z For an hour, they left us there before coming to inflict their punishment. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z From a historical perspective, however, the lack of correlation between crime and punishment is nothing new. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Devan’s exclusion must have seemed a rebuke, a punishment for some failure on his part, or perhaps for some failure of his father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z |
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