| 单词 | relative |
| 例句 | You sent one of your sons to work in a nearby village for a relative. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I tried to retrieve the paper, but he kept it from me—an easy task, considering our relative heights. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z He was a relative of Mr. Schmitt and he had always had something wrong with his mind. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I also learned that our house had been raided and the police had detained a young relative of Winnie’s. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Our plan was to disembark in Queenstown, make our way to the house of a relative, and then make arrangements for the necessary documents. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Every family I’ve ever met up here has at least one relative in the penitentiary,” a character in the book remarks forebodingly as they drive up. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Walowick said he hated weddings and funerals because all of his relatives got together and fought. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was wonderful being with all my relatives, and I was able to convince them not to talk about Central High. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I wonder if she preferred it that way, when it was just the two of them and there were no children or relatives to share his attention with. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I wasn’t lying when I said my bar mitzvah was a tribute to my family killed during the Holocaust and the scores of relatives who never got the chance to be born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Another relative said he “always found her a child whose heart it was easy to reach.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, the Doctorita piles us all in the truck for a trip to her relatives’ house in Santa Rosa, a couple of hours away. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Atawallpa’s generals took the Inka as a captive to Qosqo and executed his wives, children, and relatives in front of him. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z After authorities failed to investigate—“They never would have done anything,” one of Lewis’s relatives said—her family hired a private detective. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This chemical, like parathion and its relatives, destroys the protective enzyme cholinesterase. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Siddhartha saw the river hasten, made up of himself and his relatives and all the people he had ever seen. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw them on the side of the streets still in their bloody hospital robes. Some were walking and others were pushed in carts or hospital beds by their relatives.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Planning to visit relatives in California, they took a truckload of potatoes to sell along the way to help pay expenses. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, a relative or friend of one of the boys called out a greeting from the sidewalk or ran out into the street for a quick handshake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She buys in bulk and has to watch out for relatives wanting to shop in her kitchen. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z It’s possible some of them are distant relatives. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Now look at the second tree, where the relative clause has been put in the passive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Garikayi and his relatives were conducting ceremonies for the baby boy. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “I mean that filling their houses up with lots of relatives is part of their culture. They believe in living under very crowded conditions.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Because Bill unexpectedly outlived Rita by a few days, he had inherited much of her wealth, and upon his death the money went to one of his relatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z This did not suit Jo at all, but she accepted the place since nothing better appeared and, to every one’s surprise, got on remarkably well with her irascible relative. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z If a company grows to twenty times its original size, the relative proportions of its departments will not stay the same. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She hopped into my car and we set off on a wild ride through the untamed veld, to get to the remote rondavel of her relative. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, many onlookers will be friends or relatives of only one combatant and will side with that person, escalating the two-person fight into a general brawl. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Mum boasts to visitors and relatives how, no matter what, we sit round as a family to share an evening meal. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Aunt Ruth was my mother’s only sibling and my only close relative save Grandma Post. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z They stop to wave back at the row of relatives waving madly from the observation deck, little cousins propped up on uncles’ shoulders. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There were other roomers, who had jobs, and I knew she received help from relatives; still there was no mistake, Mary loved a variety of food and this concentration upon cabbage was no accident. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were Richard’s words when he told his mother that their relatives were coming—the way he’d trailed off when he said they hadn’t been to Daffodil Manor since...since when? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z For permission to stay in the relative safety of the river encampment, the leader, El Tirindaro, who is addicted to heroin, usually wants drugs or beer. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Apparently there was always at least one stray relative living at the Finneys’ temporarily. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z When relatives from India continue to address letters and cards to “Mrs. Moushumi Ganguli,” she will shake her head and sigh. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Zeitoun had picked up and dropped off friends and relatives at the station a handful of times over the years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I made Ma promise not to tell our relatives I was coming to the country right across the border. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It is the cost of that kind of technology, and its relative effectiveness, that must be compared with the cost and effectiveness of the vaccine. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That thought and the loss of our friends and relatives at the Gilo haunted us. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z My one relative who spoke no word of English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the death of her parents she had not had contact with anyone in town or received letters or messages, nor had she been heard to speak of any relatives. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z During those ten days, the school went back to relative normality. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Next, he broke off some bread, a chunk that he would have been excited to share with his siblings if a relative had visited and brought it as a gift. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “Or is he a relative?” he added with a glance at Harry’s red curly hair. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z In the middle of the night, they call their relatives in India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Of all her relatives, her father’s sister came closest to setting Jean Louise’s teeth permanently on edge. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I sat on the side of my bed and rustled through the drawer of the night table, through the tissues and reading glasses and Christian Science leaflets belonging to one of Francis’s aged female relatives. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Because she was afraid of what our relatives would think if word got out that Shohreh let her daughter pluck her brows before she'd turned fifteen. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He didn’t have to worry about a wife or her relatives dictating how his time should be spent. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I threw it all on them like confetti while relatives and guests leaned down to kiss them and put money under their tear-soaked pillows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z All the blood relatives I knew at the time fell into a range of color. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Lazlo squinted across the distance, gauging the blocks’ position relative to the great seraph overhead. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Karim was a people smuggler—it was a pretty lucrative business then, driving people out of Sfoorawt-occupied Kabul to the relative safety of Pakistan. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z After the doctors warned that Garfield's recuperation could be slow, the family decided that the two youngest children should remain in Ohio with relatives throughout the summer. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z But she had not understood being excluded from the family’s plans to travel to Calcutta that summer to see their relatives and scatter Ashoke’s ashes in the Ganges. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I decided to tell Marisol something about a sick relative, about how we had to go take care of him, and how it was an all-of-a-sudden kind of thing. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We followed on foot behind, relatives, friends, well-wishers and hangers-on. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z One only needed to look at the earth’s relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Light waves should travel through the ether as sound waves travel through air, and their speed should therefore be relative to the ether. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents tell him that they each have two names, too, as do all their Bengali friends in America, and all their relatives in Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Moss grows on the north side of the tree. Once you find north, everything else is relative to that.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Particularly surprising is the large number of species of African and American mammals that were never domesticated, despite their having Eurasian close relatives or counterparts that were domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the Frisbys had always come to the garden, preferring the relative safety and freedom of the outdoors. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She, being the nearest woman relative, raised a formal lament for the dead of the family. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z My relatives at home had dinners after funerals too. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z So many relatives that I had never known, would never know. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Berkner suggests that there may have been cycles of oxygen production and carbon dioxide consumption, depending on relative abundances of plant and animal life, with the ice ages representing periods of apnea. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I did ask something of Miss Havisham, however, sir. I asked her to give me some information relative to her adopted daughter, and she gave me all she possessed.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z If I had grown to adulthood in a Dinka village like my brothers and sisters before me, I would have had many relatives and many traditions to guide me along the way. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The difference is the relative loudness of all the different harmonics compared to each other. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Our relatives regularly went to him for advice on their businesses, rocky marriages, or dysfunctional relationships with their children. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It felt a little bougie, the kind of thing that would elicit a skeptical side eye from my South Side relatives. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Their friendship grew At university when Emenike lived with him in the boys’ quarters of his mother’s house, people had sometimes mistaken him for a relative. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z You’re not supposed to see the limbs of your friends and relatives crammed into plastic bags, all tangled up together because no one knows who the limbs belong to. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My mother didn’t have an idea of what was going on until I got caught by one of my relatives. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “But next time, I’ll make sure there are no Indian relatives around.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The fresh air might be good for the children, the relatives thought. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even in church, a place where many people seek solace in times of grief and sorrow, families often keep secret the imprisonment of their children or relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z My uncle I had heard was dead—my only relative; ever since being made aware of his existence, I had cherished the hope of one day seeing him: now, I never should. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The salesman had told Hale that because he wasn’t Roan’s relative, he could become his beneficiary only if he were his creditor. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It is the air, the rice, the wind, their relatives casually remark; they were not made to survive in a poor country, they say. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was around the same time that the piano’s close relative the organ also mastered the art of volume control, thanks to a device called a ‘ratchet swell pedal’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was a nice break from the turmoil of his home, which lately had been filled with more relatives than any human being should be expected to endure. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z None of the relatives would be able to come. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Having never heard such delighted noises from her relatives before, the girl got out of bed and was astonished to see her old aunt and uncle dancing with firewood around a large pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He oversaw the gang’s expansion and ushered in a new era of prosperity and relative peace. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What is more natural than the tics and habits of one’s close relatives? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z While Meng says farewell to our relatives, I stand with Chou, holding on to her hand. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, Debbie wished Sasha would ease up a little—resist correcting well-meaning relatives who said he instead of they, for example. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a ludicrous idea, to travel fifteen hundred miles when her blood relatives lived fifty miles from New Orleans, but she’d run to Yuko’s house before and could do so again. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z They were given names and relatives, and special responsibilities for the cosmic services they were expected to perform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Handing over the key, Maddie explained that she had had a renter there for more than ten years, a single gentleman who had died without any relatives. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z From one point of view, the knowledge we end up with seems to be culturally relative, contingent, peculiar; from another it seems to be commonsensical, predictable, inevitable. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “The request of Mrs. Ferris for the ashes was refused,” the undertaker said, “because the dead man left closer relatives.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like any celebrity, Ignatius had attracted his fans: his mother’s jinxed relatives, neighbors, people Mrs. Reilly had not seen for years. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We save our clothes for the relatives in Haiti. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Just for the record, and no matter what my relatives might say, I did not hit the horse in the back of his head. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It's just the four of us now, in the relative quiet. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Before our marriage, she had moved in circles of relative wealth and comfort, a life very different from the often hand-to- mouth existence of the freedom fighter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re, like, coiled up in bottles and nobody loves them. God, wouldn’t it be depressing if after you died your relatives, like, preserved you in formaldehyde and kept you in a giant jar?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The relatives there can send it on to the remaining aunts and their children and, after a good harvest, to the children and grandchildren of my grandfather’s two minor wives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "The others we have planted at the request of relatives who have no tools or who live too far." Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Our closest living relatives include chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Stein, our relative from Antwerp, continued to visit us and, from time to time, he would bring a half portion of bread: “Here, this is for you, Eliezer.” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence this stigma engenders among family members, neighbors, friends, relatives, co-workers, and strangers is perhaps the most painful—yet least acknowledged—aspect of the new system of control. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If you don’t have parents you have to call your grandparents or your foster parents or some relative or family friend. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z For many years during the Depression, he had no work, and my father and his older brother were sent to live with relatives. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “Planchette has a control named Merrigot,” she explained, “and Merrigot takes a genuine personal interest in Arthur; brings him word from relatives, and so on.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z These were aunts and cousins and other relatives, and they all had large huts where they kept all their property and ate their meals at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The ship settled into the bay’s relative calm. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z They knew people in common; and suspected they had at least one relative in common. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By noting which species appeared in which strata, you could work out the relative ages of rocks wherever they appeared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Finally, Agent Wren arrived as an Indian medicine man who claimed to be searching for his relatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z When Cofield returned alone, the staff refused to give him the records because he wasn’t a doctor or a relative of the patient. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Markets always sort themselves out. It just takes some time. Values are relative.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary school, to camp, to relatives in Kentucky, to college. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Or, if they’re lucky, the family they work for lets them stay on and they can have the baby, but then the baby goes to live with relatives in the homelands. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Blood relative or not, they had only met twice before with their other blood relative/stranger. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps she had exaggerated; people very often were wrong about their relatives. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Our closest animal relatives, the gorillas and chimpanzees and bonobos of Africa, also live in bands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The horses were simply standing there, at relative peace—no nervousness at all—and there was something about them that seemed, well, inviting. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Using this procedure, observers who are moving relative to each other will assign different times and positions to the same event. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z During this time, most of us stayed with relatives or friends in Burundi so we would be available for the interviews. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A friend or a relative might say something about how they supported the death penalty—just not for Walter—and he would find himself shaken. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I’d seen it happen a million times already, kids caught out there in one way or another—killed, imprisoned, shipped off to distant relatives. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He knew of the many stories of friends and relatives who, in the harsh glare of life abroad, became unreliable, even hostile, versions of their former selves. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “It’s Bigfoot Bob. Canadian champion 1998. I thought you were in the Andes, looking for your relatives.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z After her son’s arrest, she could not bring herself to tell friends and relatives and kept the family’s suffering private. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Tucked away in Tututepec, 8-Deer assembled a private army, staffed it with many relatives, and in a series of swift campaigns seized dozens of neighboring villages and city-states. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Some have families eagerly awaiting them—families who are willing to let their newly released relative sleep on the couch, floor, or extra bed indefinitely. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I felt dread, knowing that others—strangers even though they were relatives—were debating my destiny. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother told me that the relatives of black prisoners were seldom notified about the whereabouts of their loved ones. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanley Goldfarb died and his relatives and the congregation gathered for an evening of prayers and mourning. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My relatives all declared their feelings about the set from their astonishment at live people dancing in the living room, to we need to get one or come to your house every night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Theresa analyzed the relative merits of action versus inaction until her choice seemed not so much between paths, as between going blindly left or right in a featureless wood. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I say that we don’t have no relatives, but that ain’t the truth. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z If he had been an ordinary mouse without a motorcycle, all his little relatives would not have come flocking into the lobby. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z One day in 2001, I got a call from John’s relatives in Texas saying he had just arrived in America. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “No! The ngozi killed my relatives. It made my daughter sterile. It will kill us all if it doesn’t get satisfaction.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Gogol knows that his relatives will stand there until the plane has drifted away, until the flashing lights are no longer visible in the sky. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Pleasants’ father came from a family of Quakers, and one of his distant relatives had been the first to fight successfully to free his own slaves through the Virginia courts. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Her only relative was a niece in Boston, who arranged for a local lawyer to liquidate Mrs. Garner’s property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Out of this haze of relatives and authority figures loomed a dominating presence that would come and go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This leads to people throwing themselves in front of trains and spending all their money and not speaking to their relatives and never going home for Christmas and never eating anything with chocolate in it. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z They walked along in relative silence, their classmates melting off onto various paths and striding over grass to go to the places where their pictures beckoned. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Grace Wexler raised her hand, lowered it, raised it halfway, then lowered it again, torn between her claim as Sam Westing's relative and being accused of murder. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon after breakfast people loaded with gifts would begin to stream out of their homes to wish friends and relatives a happy New Year. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In Zaire during the 1976 outbreak, grieving relatives kissed and embraced the dead or prepared the body for burial, and then, three to fourteen days later, they broke with Ebola. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus the next several days were to be spent using a plumb line and a measuring stick to obtain the relative positions of all atoms in a single nucleotide. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Haven’t you got any relatives in this part of the country?” he asked. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the responsibility and relative sacrifice meant something completely different, like a landscape taking on new colors, or all the furniture in a house being rearranged so that now everything appeared perfectly in place. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Do you have any relatives still living in Turkey?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I wear a beard and mustache but shave my cheeks; said beard, having a dark skunk stripe up the middle and white edges, commemorates certain relatives. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She doesn’t care that her boy friend and three of his relatives are in the living room, listening. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It might have been that my tardiness in learning to sense white people as “white” people came from the fact that many of my relatives were “white”-looking people. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When May died, Ob and me had to talk business with the funeral parlor, religion with the preacher, and make small talk with dozens of relatives and people we’d hardly ever seen before. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think it’s time we visited your relatives at Mtoroshanga,” she said. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Often relatives sit by the beds and weep or talk softly and awkwardly. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Everybody was at my house—from my closest relatives to people that I’ve only talked to once or twice. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The idea was you were buried with all your favorite things and in a thousand years a relative would dig you up and sift through your rotted remains and stuff. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It means that young black children have continued to make gains relative to their white counterparts. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Families who had walked hundreds of miles told how relatives had been killed and their houses burned. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They live with doubts, suspecting dead relatives or old family friends or guardians—some of whom might be guilty and some of whom might be innocent. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If he moved back upstairs, his relatives would follow. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “No, they’re all alive and making each other miserable. Too spiteful to die, if you ask me. They moved into some relatives’ house in Delaware. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We bought our children balloons and colored ribbons, purchased sweetmeats by the kilo, paid calls in taxis to relatives we had not seen throughout the year. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They were married in an aspen grove on a clear July day, and afterward they and all their friends and relatives had a wedding supper on the banks of the river. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z ‘I’d never have picked him for a relative. But beggars can’t be choosers—and happens I’m a beggar. It’s on to time to get ready to go to him.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With each group came cries of relief, relatives diving under the rope to lead off their husbands, wives, children, parents, siblings. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On a typical night, Bertram kept his thoughts close until his third drink, when the whiskey unstoppered him and he rambled animatedly about Massachusetts blizzards, medical-school hazing rituals, or the relative intelligence of Virginia opossum. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z If my Uptown relatives were here...,I think but don’t say. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For Christmases and birthday parties and summers packed with distant relatives. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “I have made arrangements,” he said finally, “for you to be raised by a distant relative of yours who lives on the other side of town. His name is Count Olaf.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z I had a good handle on Europe, as my family had gone to Germany the summer before to visit my dad's relatives. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Apparently she has a relative in America. She gets letters from him. He’s in Pennsylvania.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I had, however, made a decision relative to this problem only a few days before receiving your letter. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalton’s contribution was to consider the relative sizes and characters of these atoms and how they fit together. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In my relatives’ eyes, my destiny is like the rest of my cousins’. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z But if you take a few steps in any direction, until you reach the edge of the stationary platform, then the relative position of the horses will appear to change all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In place of the atmosphere of malicious gossip, perversion, grafting, hateful guards, there was more relative “culture,” as “culture” is interpreted in prisons. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving his children with relatives, he went off to do his duty. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They will carry the phone numbers of friends in Miami and the life savings of relatives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z "Whole carloads of people...come around looking for me, some of them acquaintances or relatives of the six men who were executed," Dasch revealed. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Not your relatives. It’s the mother, father and brother of that chap who died. They’ve traveled all the way from New York to see a dying soldier, and you’re the handiest one we’ve got.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z At the lodge, I gave a little concert one night, in the main room, with my relatives and the dead game animals mounted on the wall as my audience. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When Celia’s parents divorced, they dispersed their children among relatives throughout the island. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore relatively conservative clothing on his stocky frame, at least relative to what Mrs. Torrance normally wore. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mothers, fathers, relatives who went astray, and friends who lost their way. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Others were elaborate scrapbooks depicting trips to Disney or the Grand Canyon and included formal portraits of relatives. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Because Seabiscuit’s fans had made him the prohibitive favorite in the race, his rivals had become relative long shots. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She rarely goes to mass, but she’s got the required crucifix over the kitchen doorway, the rosary in the dresser drawer, and the stack of dead relatives’ funeral cards, held together with a rubber band. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Relieved but still shaken, I return to the relative safety of my deep chair. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z One part of the rule is correct: it’s odd to use that with a nonrestrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes, that cost a thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Part of the issue was that old acquaintances and distant relatives were surfacing from nowhere and with a flood of inquiries. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z After five months of growing barely enough to feed itself, the family gave up and went to stay with relatives who had moved to Khartoum. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Their long black hair glistened from being brushed again and again by loving relatives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Through a posting on a school librarians’ Web site she sought out family reunions, where she imagined she would encounter interesting frictions between prosperous siblings and relatives still mired at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z During those bad troubles, my father’s family traveled north to a small village to stay with relatives. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “No. We are all relatives. We come over here together, long time ago.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She pushed her way to the newlyweds through a crowd of relatives and well-wishers. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “But we’ve worked together before, and he knows I have relatives out there I can stay with. We’ll finally get to meet each other.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But I don’t recall that I had a single thought during those first minutes of relative safety. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The train delivered quite a crowd for Salinas, returning relatives home for Thanksgiving, their hands entangled in cartons and gift- wrapped paper boxes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their other relatives had modern electric bread ovens now, but Sitti refused to touch them. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead of renting an apartment of their own, they spend eight months with their various relatives, shuttling from home to home. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The outermost sphere carried the so-called fixed stars, which always stay in the same positions relative to each other but which rotate together across the sky. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence if a productive crop is already available, incipient farmers will surely proceed to grow it rather than start all over again by gathering its not yet so useful wild relative and redomesticating it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The guard seemed too tired to argue, or perhaps he saw in Jacqueline’s face traces of some long-dead female relative whom he had not done enough to please while she was still alive. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Ralph knew there were not really a million mice in the inn, although he had to admit that in wintertime the mouseholes were crowded, because his rough outdoor relatives moved inside to keep warm. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z In 1627 Isaac Beeckman and his associates planned a programme of research using models to ascertain the relative merits of vertical and horizontal windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Only most of it goes to my hungry relatives back in Nigeria,” Ifemelu said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z But while he did not look at her very closely during the routine questioning, mostly about relatives who might cause trouble, something in Mr. Edwards’ body began to feel her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A minor key is called the relative minor of the major key that has the same key signature. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Then some of the women in their greed began to claim to have more children than they had, and nonexistent relatives, and there were jealousies and spite and bitter argument. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Ella told me about other relatives from that branch of the family. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What are the relative majors of the minor keys in Figure 4.18? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Herrero is at pains to stress that black bear attacks are infrequent, relative to their numbers. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Anywhere between eight days and a halfmonth, depending on where it is in its solar orbit relative to Gethen. It might be on the other side of the sun.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Phillips sent her a telegraph: “Let us urge you at once to advise and insist upon this woman’s returning to her relatives.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The relative of someone who knew someone he knew. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z When Antonio was released from the hospital, his mother sent him to live with relatives in Las Vegas, where he tried to recover from the tragedy of Jose's death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z In September the average number of deaths per day began to rise at an alarming rate, and relatives and neighbors hurried anyone they suspected of having yellow fever off to Bush Hill. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Here’s another case. A man has relatives in the old country but he can’t get them over here on account of a lot of red tape. Well, Tammany can fix that up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once, when he went to open the window, he found sticks of dynamite behind the curtain,” a relative recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Yet he cannot picture his family occupying a house like this, playing board games on rainy afternoons, watching shooting stars at night, all their relatives gathered neatly on a small strip of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was the first time in what seemed like weeks that I had sat anywhere in relative comfort. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z And he laughed harshly and called out to his fellows, “Here we may stop, my comrades, for this is a rich man and my relative!” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Thereafter never a week went by but she brought news of this boy or that, and she and I and Nathan spent long hours trying to assess their relative merits. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I can only assume they’ve been handed down from her mother or perhaps another successful relative. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “The war made us not friends but relatives,” she said. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Food service workers brought them in and sold them to the cafeteria crews, who in turn had friends or relatives mail them the payments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z So be it; but, sir, I wish, whether motion is relative or no, we would move. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A woman poured ashes into a mortar and pounded them as she called the names of Vatete's relatives who lived too far away to attend the funeral. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t have any relatives in New York. Who will help you?” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z “Most of them did,” said Matt, “but a few of your outdoor relatives still hang around, hoping you’ll bring the motorcycle back.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Royalty, ” the king said, “has many responsibilities. And one of them is not becoming involved personally with even the distant relatives of one’s enemies. Put him down, Pea. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He had visited the homes of dozens of her relatives, eaten the plates full of syrupy mishti, patiently posed for countless photographs on rooftops, surrounded by her cousins. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That night, my relatives gathered at our house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z I had relatives in Maryland—people who would help me if I needed them, and if I could reach them. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The number of these relative tiddlers in Earth-crossing orbits is almost certainly in the hundreds of thousands and possibly in the millions, and they are nearly impossible to track. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The plan was to introduce Harry as “Cousin Barny” and trust to the great number of Weasley relatives to camouflage him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Tío Carlos is back from driving two shifts of relatives to the subway, and now he’s lying in bed, reading some history book that would put even an owl to sleep. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z The people who die here have no relatives to grieve for them. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z So if the Prophet had blood relatives, they were special. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was only in the second half of the seventeenth century that he was rescued from relative obscurity and hailed as the prophet of a new age. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aunt Chipo killed a chicken in honor of Vatete, who had returned with her, and several other relatives arrived from the other village with baskets of food. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, every serviceman in the Pacific knew secrets that had to be kept from his civilian friends and relatives back in the States. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I could get identities for the police, learn who to go after for damages, and maybe even find out what their relative had been looking for. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Her mother had taken them to visit relatives, and her brother was sleeping over at a friend’s house. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z When I was young, he would drive the family from Florida back to our hometown in western Pennsylvania to visit relatives. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Next we’re going to Seoul to visit Grandma’s friends and do a lot of sightseeing, and then Seosan to visit Grandpa’s relatives who still live there. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Dad is one of five kids, so there are still lots more relatives out there. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z No midwife attended her, and no relative or neighbor gave her comfort. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Over the next night or two the relative positions of the stars and Jupiter changed oddly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The fair remained open, informally, on October 31, and many men and women came to the grounds for one last visit, as if paying their respects to a lost relative. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Donner—who always treated his workers like close friends, like relatives—had invited Gimpys family to his house for dinner more than once. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Although their marriage was predicted from the time they had come into the world, when they expressed their desire to be married their own relatives tried to stop it. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Hal took it upon himself to send telegrams containing the doctors’ updates to relatives and friends in Ohio. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The clerk did not look pleased that I had a living relative. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The noise terrified his little relatives, who thought the clock was out to get them. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z She looked familiar—perhaps our paths had crossed at the market or she was the relative of a neighbor or a friend. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z This third person does not believe that a fetus is the 1:1 equivalent of a newborn, yet neither does he believe that a fetus has no relative value. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I’m spending most of the summer with relatives in Charleston. You know, South Carolina.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Since you know so much about terrorists, you probably know a whole lot about the KKK. Or do you have Klansmen relatives, so they don’t count?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Other striking examples involve wild species that were not domesticated in areas where food production never arose spontaneously, even though those wild species had close relatives domesticated elsewhere. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The productivity and relative importance of those crop types varied considerably on different islands, depending on their environments. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hundreds of people flood the Midway, rushing to the relative safety of their blocks. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z She sang with volume and pitch and a heartbreaking wail that echoed through her relatives’ bones, rattling them in the ground under the school itself. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It states simply that in the long run the difference between the probability of some event and the relative frequency with which it occurs approaches zero. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, each of Richard’s relatives came forward to do the same. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I was in open water, away from the relative safety of the rock. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z It was not his fault his young relatives did not have motorcycles. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Frank allowed only Piper to come with him, thinking her charmspeak might be useful if they ran into his shape-shifting relatives. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z On taxi rides through the city, going to visit the various homes of his relatives, his father had pointed out the name elsewhere, on the awnings of confectioners, and stationers, and opticians. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At twelve o’clock the parade of friends, relatives, and acquaintances began to file in to express their sympathy to the family. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His work ethic was set at the same high level as those relatives of his who put in murderous hours inside their taverns, pizza joints, and hoagie shops. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The rest of the house was plain and uncomfortable and noisy with the complaints of twenty relatives. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee looked up from the page, and he answered the book as he would answer one of his ancient relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You were lucky you slept because the sound tears the heart. I could hear babies crying in it. I could hear tortured people screaming, and the cries of their relatives who had to watch.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If you were going to devise an experiment to measure the relative influences of nature versus nurture, you couldn’t come up with anything better than my life. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa and those few blood relatives who could be present each threw a handful of sand over her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no relatives at hand; and as Arthur had to be back the next day to attend at his father’s funeral, we were unable to notify any one who should have been bidden. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z One even says, Aren’t you lucky to have so many relatives? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z However, most musicians can be trained to recognize relative pitch. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It had only been seven weeks, but relatives came in from hundreds of miles away. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph longed to return to the inn, but he knew that even if he found a way to get there, he could never face the jeering little relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Horace didn’t want to stay on the ranch all his life, and his wife had an urge to live in Salinas where she had relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Why worry that once she found out about me, she might diss me like my Uptown relatives? Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I’d seen places like this before on those rare occasions when Grandma and I passed through as we went to visit friends or our relatives in North Little Rock. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry had met this attitude before: Witches and wizards seemed stunned that his closest living relatives took so little interest in the famous Harry Potter. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Musab told me all families head to Ankara to find separated relatives. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z Maybe Mr. Poe was going to take them by train to another relative. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z Professors, relatives, random people I met, asked what was next for me, and when I mentioned I was bound for law school—Harvard Law School, as it turned out—the affirmation was overwhelming. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z If I don’t kiss each and every relative on the cheek hello and goodbye, even if I don’t know them, Amá calls me a malcriada, a badly raised daughter. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A memory came to her, undiminished after so many years, of the day Aunty Uju's General died, how Aunty Uju had threatened his relatives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He then drew four straight lines on to which the notes would be placed, so that it was instantly possible to see the relative positions of every note. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It wasn’t visible to her, but the guards had delineated an area within which the prisoners’ relatives were not allowed. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z I was lorded over by Mommy, my older siblings, friends of Ma’s, and relatives on my father’s and stepfather’s sides whom, years later, I would recognize as guiding forces in my life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was hot now, but the sun was high and to his rear and he sat in the shade of the tree in relative comfort. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Horan was flat-out glad to be alive, and relieved to be back in the safety and relative comfort of the Marine Corps. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Mom didn’t want our relatives to see me looking like I’d been in a “prize fight.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Although the whole assemblage is tearing around the planet itself at some 20 kilometers per second, the relative speed of two adjacent particles is very low, only some few centimeters per minute. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When she was only five years old, she was asked by her relatives if she planned to get married in a red sari or a white gown. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Brakes are kicked free, and one by one old people exit the sliding doors surrounded by relatives. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Hardly,” he said, with a bit of disdain in his voice for relatives Citra had no interest in knowing about. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z My relative, Chief Mdingi, suggested the name Zenani, which means “What have you brought to the world?” — a poetic name that embodies a challenge, suggesting that one must contribute something to society. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the same time the relatives were coming from Chicago and Georgia, the Marine pilots from around America began to land in Ravenel, began to arrive in transports and jets, and private planes. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone assumed that Pong must be some distant relative of the old man. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z A restrictive relative clause is essential to the meaning of the sentence, often because it pinpoints the referent of the noun from among a set of alternatives. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Anyone whose family immigrated in the last century has a story to tell about how hard their relatives have worked, the contributions they make to the country, the taxes they pay. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z A crowd of people are gathered at the port waiting to see if their relatives or friends are onboard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her Spanish voice came near, like the face of a never-before-seen relative in the instant before I was kissed. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Scythe Mandela believed that Citra was staying with a relative of Scythe Curie in Amazonia, and he had no reason to suspect it wasn’t true. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I said I had just left my small estate in the South of France, following the death of my wife, to come to America to stay—temporarily, I made it clear—with an invalid relative. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I said to the guards, “I’m going in there, even if I have to be the latest dead relative. Kill me, too, if you want. I don’t care.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By knowing each other’s clan—the clan of the mother that we were born to, the clan of the father that we were born for—we can recognize our relatives. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z But there was a knight called Sir Pinel, who was a distant relative of the Pellinores, and he considered that revenge was necessary. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shouldn't you be out scaring small children or killing your relatives?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z There was a woman at the desk who wrote down Catherine’s name, age, address, relatives and religion, in a book. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Like most self-pitying people, I had very little pity for my relatives’ anxiety. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The chief reason, however, for its legendary status, and the main reason why we can call it “The Duel” without much fear of being misunderstood, is the relative prominence of the two participants. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It becomes obvious that I don’t quite fit in with my relatives, although the same blood runs through my veins. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z At that same moment, many of our friends, relatives, and colleagues were finding their seats on the platform outside. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Only close relatives of the Inka were seen as of sufficient purity to produce his heir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If he left it behind, some of his older cousins would grab it and stay in the lobby—at least until they wore it out or wrecked it—and the younger relatives would stay too. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Father had exchanged messages with her through a contact at the electrical works, but there was still nothing about Hershel or our other relatives in Narewka. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “Good day to you, Harry Potter’s relatives!” said Dedalus happily, striding into the living room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Then they made the rounds of the morgue, claiming bodies as long-lost relatives—although Carpenter was not above simply stealing bodies from the coroner when he had to. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “When I went to India and had to meet all my mom’s relatives, those were the only two phrases I needed.” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Ralph was enjoying a good stretch when he saw five of his relatives peering in at him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z If only he could make his relatives behave. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The relative importance of local invention and of borrowing depends mainly on two factors: the ease of invention of the particular technology, and the proximity of the particular society to other societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Walter heard his parents and relatives talk about lynchings when he was a young child. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to take a chance on Fluffy’s relatives stopping by. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z To Lourdes, it seems as though every relative in Honduras who has money troubles thinks they can ask her for help. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Scoville put acquaintances and relatives on the witness stand to describe the defendant's odd conduct. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Some of the angriest letters—and by far the most disturbing to read—came from relatives of the deceased. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Three cats hiss from the relative safety of their cages. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I thought she was a very distant relative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The people of the house had gone away for three days to visit relatives; Gabriel had driven them to the railroad station after supper, leaving Esther clearing up the kitchen. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Many relatives from the north had arrived for the Moon Festival and were staying for the week. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z While I was focused on Public Allies, Barack had settled into what was—by his standard, anyway—a period of relative tameness and predictability. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’ll have a Point of View on serious subjects such as Immigration, the role of the Catholic Church in an increasingly secular society, the relative suckage of professional football teams. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z There were eight other passengers aboard, and they were all saying good-by to their relatives just as we were saying good-by to my father. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “And he’d be a great help, only my mother put him out to a miller, so until—” “Have you someone to look out for you in Lowell? A relative, or a friend?” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The method provided only relative distances, not absolute distances, but even so it was the first time that anyone had come up with a usable way to measure the large-scale universe. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Undaunted by the chilly weather, families had flooded the city on their frenetic rounds to visit relatives. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “It’s a means of determining the relative merits of propellants. By using the number denoting the specific impulse, calculations can be made to determine the exhaust velocity of a rocket and ultimately its overall performance.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z According to Nelson’s accounting, nearly half my father’s congregation were relatives of dead twins. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It stayed visible for eighteen months, and in all that time it never moved relative to the other stars. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Over the preceding weeks he’d sat, tucked away, next to the couch in the living room, listening while Habib and Uncle Amin called their relatives and friends in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The only reason they got involved in speed-dating is that they once had an argument at a party about the relative merits of arranged marriages and love marriages. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z But friends and relatives fanned their outrage, and convinced them that those responsible needed to be held accountable. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Maybe a long-lost relative will be found and want to take me in. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Through them, I am connected; I have close relatives, once removed, all over the place. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We hadn't found another place to live and had to regress back to our old fobby selves and shack up with relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Shusgis? house was a whole island, housing over a hundred employees, domestic servants, clerks, technical advisers, and so on, but no relatives, no kinfolk. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “I expect her relatives will know how to deal with it.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Planeloads of pilgrims were taking off every few minutes, but the airport was jammed with more, and their friends and relatives waiting to see them off. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I kept tossing and turning as my relatives grunted, sighed, and snored in their sleep. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If it were right, however, the model would also accurately predict the relative intensities of the various X-ray reflections. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Morality, as well as the sense of taste, is relative,” Obiora said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The air inside stayed so cool that when relatives died, the family kept their corpses in the front hallway for days so people could visit and pay respects. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z For my mother that which is personal can only be said to a relative—her only intimates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Cursing whatever friend, relative or stranger had sniffed out my homecoming, I padded barefoot downstairs. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He finally settled back in the relative safety of the United States and dies in a car crash driving me to a basketball game. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And why didn’t his own father, and Pilate, know any of their own relatives? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z And some other relative is now the mother of a nine-pound baby boy. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered being dragged by her to the local cemetery in Houston, where they’d clean up their relatives’ gravesites and put out offerings of lemonade, cookies, and fresh marigolds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was to succeed a distant relative, an aged country lawyer who had a well-established practice. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these important efforts, what is most striking about the civil rights community’s response to the mass incarceration of people of color is the relative quiet. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I wondered, since in Puerto Rico, all of the people I’d ever met were either black or had a black relative somewhere in their family. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The head functions like an internal GPS system, and the position relative to the head and the tail gives each segment a unique “address” in the embryo. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Murderers suddenly found themselves face-to-face with their victim’s relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dana, Caroline, and I set up shop by the Smart Board, painstakingly listing parents and siblings, relatives and friends. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He was asked whether Maman ever complained about me, and he said yes but that some of it was just a way the residents all had of complaining about their relatives. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z I huffed toward the relative security of the serac’s crest with all the haste I could muster, but since I wasn’t acclimatized my fastest pace was no better than a crawl. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z When I was about ten years old, I was outside of our church with my friends, one of whom had brought a visiting relative to the service. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z And when the suitcases were emptied, the relatives asked what else the Hsus had brought. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the quiet, relative peace that surrounded our careful efforts to be inconspicuous, time sped up. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Though risky because the Khmer Rouge may still control sections of the route, we will travel by foot again and hope to be reunited with our relatives. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever she lived with us in America, she would scramble to put on her head scarf if a male relative entered the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z When relatives visited her grandfather’s home, Red Corn recalled, he was scared. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The observed pattern of behaviour of the planets is also linked, in the Copernican model, to their distances from the Sun relative to the distance of the Earth from the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z All these things to prove that we are only visiting relatives and plan to return home to Haiti. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I mused on the funeral day, the coffin, the hearse, the black train of tenants and servants—few was the number of relatives—the gaping vault, the silent church, the solemn service. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Positioning relative to the field is also critical. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He was arranging his blackboard against a tree stump on the first day of classes when a woman, some relative of Special Julius’s, brought her daughter. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As the year came to a close, some people inside the CIA began to fear that the problem lay not with the relative strength of the KGB but deep inside the Agency itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Johnny, didn’t she ever go to those rich relatives and say, “Here I am”?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus time became a more personal concept, relative to the observer who measured it. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Together we discussed and gravely considered the relative merits of side compression straps, spindrift collars, crampon patches, load transfer differentials, air-flow channels, webbing loops, and something called the occipital cutout ratio. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Her mother would take these relatives into their home during hard times. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was important to remember this information so she wouldn’t marry a relative by accident. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt that he was growing rich in dead relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Look. Just come back with a relative in the morning to straighten all this out. Do you understand what I just said?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z What was more, further disappearances had been reported in the Daily Prophet, including several relatives of students at Hogwarts. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z On a group level, though, they were less genetically homogeneous, which conferred some relative advantage; the virus would sweep through them, but not kill quite so many. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the relative darkness, the whole thing looked like some alien vessel rising from the abyss of the ocean. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z They began screening Lost Boys to see whether they had living relatives in Africa, and whether they had fought in the war. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “She even bought me this beautiful set of Samsonite—powder blue, all matching. Because she’d had to borrow old, broken-down suitcases from relatives, and that made her feel so bad and worthless.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z On the rare occasions when they noticed my presence, my relatives commented about how “strong” and “brave” I was, about how “lucky” Jeffrey was to have me for a brother. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His parents had gone on a long trip and left him in Washington, D.C., with a relative. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z We had all written letters that Mother planned to mail to her “contact,” a distant relative who lived in the countryside. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I hoped friends and relatives wouldn't ever talk about how I didn't have light, café au lait skin like Conrad did. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Unlike her parents, and her other relatives, her grandmother had not admonished Ashima not to eat beef or wear skirts or cut off her hair or forget her family the moment she landed in Boston. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was she who made us feel the breathless height of the structure and the relative puniness of the humans who had built it. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Mobutu’s chief postal minister, a relative of Mobutu’s wife, stopped paying all the postal workers for the last year so he could use the money to build himself a mansion in Thysville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Pattie assumed that relatives would fly into town or that family friends would, once alerted, take over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z By 11 o'clock, relatives had arrived and had started frying fish and other food to sell. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Next week their relatives were spinning new webs in the corners and between the legs of the tin stove. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nokomis had told her that the bear must be addressed with the greatest respect, as a treasured relative, that the bear had human qualities and nobody quite understood the bear. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I woke up in the home of a relative near the capital of Burundi. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But the relative positions of the two sides were closer than commonly believed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "I don't know why you think the Revolution was so great, Sonia. It says here that some people even turned their own relatives in. Thousands died at the guillotine." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “The midwife or a relative would take the back of a girl baby’s head in her hand and turn her face into the ashes,” said my mother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As for white people, except for that relative handful privy to certain police or prison files, not five hundred white people in all of America knew we existed. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They were always having to resist relatives who were more crowded—his uncle, with his endless brood of children, coaxing. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It’s a great change for Anatole to have relatives and a wife, after his lifelong status as an orphan. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Erma’s parents had died when she was young, Mom explained, and she had been shipped off to one relative after another who had treated her like a servant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The closer she got to the day that the relatives from Virginia would arrive, the more Ophie worried that she would end up face-to-face with a murderer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Except for Mom, the only relatives the Greystone kids had were each other. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Consumed by fear and ill health, she gave her third child, Anna, to a relative to be raised. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “My mother died when I was twelve. Cousin Lottie raised me, and she died last year. She was eighty-five. I’m my own last living relative, so to speak.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I was at the home of one of my relatives in Mingora one evening when I heard a strange sobbing coming from the radio. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In addition to the ready perspective it offers on relative risk, the safety index underscores the obvious fact that every activity carries some risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the girl’s relatives even volunteered to help hold her down. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Padre Leo takes down the migrants’ information, then gives them a meal card or arranges to pick up money wired by relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z White high school students typically buy drugs from white classmates, friends, or older relatives. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z After each man, she updates her relative ranking of her suitors and wonders what rule she should follow in order to maximize her chances of choosing the best of her projected N suitors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z No one would have ever called him handsome, but there was about him a gentleness, a sweetness that made me wish he were a relative. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She could hear the relatives downstairs, talking about it. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Passing relatives in the hallways of the crowded home and not speaking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly Batia Reich, a relative who lived with us, entered the room: “Someone is knocking at the sealed window, the one that faces outside!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “He studied with a famous doctor in Maputo. The doctor told him to kill a close relative so he could force the spirit to serve him.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The souls of Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham’s relatives might be looking for someone to possess. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 There were the usual band of close relatives, and then some new ones, because folks had gotten married. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He’d been wondering how it would feel for him to grow up without relatives. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And she had Mrs. Murdo, who was somewhere between a friend and a relative. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I jumped over the log and took off after her, eager for the excitement of a welcome party expedition, where you didn’t know if you’d find blood relatives, poachers, or strangers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z You can begin practicing harmonic analysis by practicing identifying whether a piece is in the major key or in its relative minor. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z These diseases are also shared with, or similar to the diseases of, our closest wild relatives, the African great apes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bunderson began by asking Dr. Strayer whether a “significantly greater risk,” which is a relative term, implied that it was a “substantial risk,” which is a more objective term. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Several of Ngwenya’s relatives were freedom fighters in the Patriotic Front, and I visited him one evening to find out more about revolutionary fighting. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We like to regard the olfactory bulb as a sort of archeologic find, and we speak of the ancient olfactory parts of the brain as though they were elderly, dotty relatives in need of hobbies. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, with some restrictive relatives, which is the only option, such as That which doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and The book in which I scribbled my notes is worthless. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Parents and other relatives took up the right and left sides of the auditorium stage. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Around me the newly arrived boat people talk excitedly to their friends and family, and deliver them news of relatives in Vietnam. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He says his mother was so excited about showing off the baby to the upstream relatives he got jealous and hid out, and she plumb forgot to take him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the body trade grew so reckless that relatives took to holding graveside vigils, lest their loved ones disappear in the night. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Our old radio was broken, so I hadn’t heard his latest broadcasts, but I heard them at friends’ and relatives’ houses, and my friends at school repeated his nightly sermons almost word for word. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z This map shows the homelands of the Pequot Nation, relative to neighboring nations in what are currently called the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “Fiddle-dee-dee. It’s just the thing. No nasty germs drifting about. For a reasonably bright boy, you show a distressing lack of intelligence. Quite a few of my relatives recovered here.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z But still, it was nice to know that I’d have a couple of relatives there who didn’t need to chug a can of Geritol to stay awake for the whole performance. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Their work fed a tsunami of inquiry into the interactions between natives and newcomers in the era when they faced each other as relative equals. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It’s well documented among animals, notably our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As Burnham talked with her, a relative also entered the room. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All they did was visit her relatives, he said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I swear to you, I thought my relatives would never leave. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Yes, it all came back to him with relative ease. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As I grew older, it occurred to me at some point that we had some relatives we had never seen. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Telling him which poem somehow feels too personal to share even after the admission that I converse with dead relatives. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Johnny wrote a note saying Francie was going to live with relatives at such and such an address and wanted a transfer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Here are the top five names among high-end and low-end families, in order of their relative disparity with the other category. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “There are our friends the Arapaho and the Cheyenne. Our enemies, too, the Crow. Then the Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara. Our relatives the Dakota and the Nakota are here, too.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Luke almost felt he knew his relatives, though they lived hundreds of miles away. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z No matter that Nhamo had spent her entire life with Mother’s relatives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My da used to say every Irishman you meet in America swears to have a relative who fought alongside Michael Collins. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In stressing that facts are ‘established’, and that you have to learn how to establish them, I do not want to imply that they are subjective or culturally relative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mum can cook real food, when relatives visit, say. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I could have no visitors, no other relatives, no villagers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “They have cottages and a house cup, like the one we had for the Murphey Awards. And he’s also an orphan who was abused by relatives.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Up until the war there were still quite a few rich relatives. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z By a conservative calculation, this huge expansion of New York’s police force would be expected to reduce crime in New York by 18 percent relative to the national average. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A relative once observed that Hoover was “quite a tyrant about food” and that if the yolk seeped at all, he would send it back to the kitchen. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You’ll have to talk to social services and start the paperwork to be Gerald’s temporary guardian. Are you his only relative? Does he have a father?” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Did people who committed acts of violence think their victims and their victims’ relatives would just forget? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z In one blow, all of our extended family in Narewka, some one hundred relatives—my grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins—had been murdered. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of my parents’ relatives still lived in Haiti. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z My hand is gripping the bag that’s stuffed with the money I collected from generous relatives excited to see me for the first time in eight years, and I try not to bump into people. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It was 6:15 p.m. when a cordon of policemen arrived flanking Sister Betty and four close relatives and friends who entered the funeral home in a glare of flashbulbs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z What had occurred since, calculated to change his and my relative positions? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z I’m not sure what I am most: embarrassed or freaked out or just knocked to my senses by seeing a forgotten blood relative. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Light Hair was here on a visit with his two Sicangu mothers’ relatives. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z If you go outside, you must be accompanied by a mahram, a male relative. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z At first, my mother had enjoyed his sermons when she listened to them with our relatives—especially when he spoke about the need for daily prayer. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z As children, Laura must have played the role of the big sister who exposed the stupidity of the little sister, always with kindness and good cheer, and preferably in the company of adult relatives. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was hungry to talk, frantic to talk, about her relatives, her friends, and how she wasn’t used to this. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s not because we have an array of relatives we can’t imagine not having present on our big day. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z She has never tried to find out what happened to her family—her mother or her relatives in Ireland. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z “I can’t do this anymore—too many employees, tax problems, lawsuits, greedy fake relatives, interviews and autograph seekers. I’m sick of it.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancestors of most of the founder crops have wild relatives, in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere, that would also have been suitable for domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She might start asking him questions, and he didn’t want to trouble her with a new-found relative who was as black as Jake. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then let’s go to Vegas and pretend we haven’t got relatives.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a moment of relative silence, enough for Milton to hear the slamming of Morrison’s screen door across the street. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Some several of the new investors were merchant relatives of Mr. Gitney’s, the Young Men whom I had seen about the house in earlier days, but whose presence had never amounted to much. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z No one would guess that we were almost relatives. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The relatives gather in the hospital waiting room. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The person has to be a male and could be a father or relative, teacher, or friend. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The relatives would start saying good-bye in the living room, then spend another hour saying good-bye at the door. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Ants are quite powerful, actually, relative to their size.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The god of the dead looked stunned when his relatives clapped him on the back. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z There had to be room for his friends, his relatives, as well as his family. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I wish I was a better archer ... I wouldn’t mind shooting my Roman relative off his high horse. Actually, I wish I could use any of my father’s gifts to stop this war.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Their faces command relatives in foreign lands—“Send money”—and posterity forever—“Put food in front of this picture.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother must use a high-pitched tone of voice when she addresses people who are not relatives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time, he would leave his mother, older brother and two sisters, and many other close relatives. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Other tempo markings are verbal descriptions which are more relative and subjective. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z It was the sort of voice doctors used to relatives at a nursing-home when they came to enquire. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say. “You gave me the backpack in Denver,” I said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “He was here visiting relatives,” Grandpa Nyles said, taking the soup off the grate. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z She folded the red velvet embroidered dress that her faraway relatives had stitched for her long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The relatives I’d been sent to all seemed to have raised their broods; I was an add-on. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Not now, but he has had—or, at least, relatives. He lost his elder brother a few years since.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “Look, I’m not going to argue with you over the relative merits of trash—” “That has nothing to do with it. I’m tired of you. I want my supper.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For many of the microbes responsible for our unique diseases, molecular biologists can now identify the microbe’s closest relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This means the substituted chord is the relative minor of the tonic chord. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Lucky has become such a relative term, when the standards to meet it involve only not being treated like a criminal in your own home city. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z According to the traditional rule, the choice depends on which of two kinds of relative clause the word is introducing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Once, White invited him to a relative’s ranch: “We do not have to rough it on his ranch, for he has every convenience except air cooling and you don’t need that.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z For a while I was punished for being so uppity that I wouldn’t speak; and then came the thrashings, given by any relative who felt himself offended. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We waited till everybody had gone through and out of the station and gotten into buses, or taken cabs, or were walking with their friends or relatives through the dark into the town. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “There are some relatives here to see you. Oh, don’t worry,” he added with a laugh. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z A relative would know personal names and secrets about husbands, babies, renegades and decide which ones were lucky in a chant, but these outside women had to build a path from scraps. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The position of the gap indicates the role that the modified phrase played in the deep structure; to understand the relative clause, we mentally fill it back in. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I had close to a dozen relatives on my father’s side scattered all over Johannesburg; yet since my father’s arrest none had come forward to help us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, Chen lived apart as a rainmaker, neither relatives nor the monks willing to bring lightning upon themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But what if he didn’t like his wife’s relatives? Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Their relatives had hung the house in mourning. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s true! Values are relative in art. Like light and dark. Mr. Reilly says in a dark picture, even gray can seem like light.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He felt brave and noble because his going out into the strange world would protect the safety of his little relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Any observer can work out precisely what time and position any other observer will assign to an event, provided he knows the other observer’s relative velocity. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z You can bring up your motions relative to that ruling this afternoon or if there's a break. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z My position in the household was a delicate one; I was a minor, an uninvited dependent, a blood relative who professed no salvation and whose soul stood in mortal peril. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who in their right mind would hire a stranger to watch their kids when they have relatives around?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He doesn’t allot quality time to his relatives either. absence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was hung up on the idea that our relatives still wanted us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But you could see the relatives and the villagers getting more worried about what to do with the girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He shelved his newly completed fourth symphony, sensing that its dark modernity might make matters worse, and for a while retreated to the relative safety of film scoring. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Also, I feel that crying is almost—like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever—totally avoidable if you follow two very simple rules: 1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “Mia is still unconscious, but her vital signs are improving,” she tells the assembled relatives, who have abandoned their distractions haphazardly on the chairs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Others bring a small Bible with telephone numbers, penciled in the margins, of their mothers or fathers or other relatives in the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And when old Italian relatives like Great-Aunt Maria or Great-Uncle Frank shoved money secretly into her and Malcolm’s hands, they knew what they were supposed to do. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s like he’s talking about a relative who I’m supposed to know but have never met. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z These five groups constitute or represent all the major divisions of humanity except for Aboriginal Australians and their relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her father, Frank Andalee, had relatives from North Africa and northern Europe, and her mother, Norma Andalee, was from the Middle East. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z He had at least ten adult relatives pointing at him all at once. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was only trying to make his pack of pushing, shoving, grabbing relatives behave. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z It's somewhat surprising that I'm a serious contender for the title of world heavyweight champion, not because I'm slow or weak but because I'm a relative newcomer to the sport. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z After the third week of my vanishing, friends and relatives stopped coming over to Middlesex in such numbers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Chiron was among the crowd, but his relatives were almost nothing like him. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They write well enough to communicate ‘news’ to relatives in letters. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite its relative lack of drama, the New York Times—the very epitome of the eastern establishment—called the race “stunning.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “The children were placed with a relative, and you’re no kin to them.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Uh, Sam ... I have to wait for my relatives to leave,” I said. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z A bold sea bird, it resembled its close relative the gull, but was not a fisher. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z "Once you get to Mark, how fast a relative velocity can you handle?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They revealed the shreds of their lives and hoped that relatives, or anyone who knew them, would hear the news and pass it on. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z He had no friends, no other relatives — he didn’t belong to the library, so he’d never even got rude notes asking for books back. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z When Bobby denied the very existence of Auschwitz, refusing to acknowledge that more than one million people had been murdered there, Laszlo told him about relatives who’d been exterminated in concentration camps. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By then, most of my friends and relatives had either been killed or had escaped the country to Pakistan or Iran. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were several letters about distant relatives dying, school and job acceptance letters, invitations to weddings. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z What really grabbed me was footage of Clover, an old plantation town in southern Virginia, where some of Henrietta’s relatives still seemed to live. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “My father’s parents worked in the cane fields there before they went to California. Luke could be a relative of mine.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z My mom’s relatives tended to gather at Southside’s house around the corner—drawn by my grandfather’s cooking, the ongoing games of bid whist, and the exuberant blasting of jazz. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The task, in other words, is to understand how reliable knowledge and scientific progress can and do result from a flawed, profoundly contingent, culturally relative, all-too-human process. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This morning when I left, all my relatives were there to say good-bye. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Whenever neighbors or relatives came to talk about the bad things white people were doing, it was like adding height and weight to this monster that lived in my mind. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Where was Joana, and where were the rest of our relatives? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “Aren’t you going to arrange a wedding for her?” relatives would ask her parents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To Hercules’ question who was dead he answered quietly that a woman of his household, but no relative of his, was to be buried that day. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You certainly seem to talk. I wonder if you have relatives in other villages. Did a witch put a curse on Rumpy’s foot? What do you do when someone gets sick? Do you have ngangas?” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught them to jiao ren\\ Though there was only one relative to name, Helen would ask, Who’s that? as Theresa entered the room. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z After the ceremony, my mother's relatives hiked back to their village and left her with her new husband and his family in their village. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z It was a popular spot for duels precisely because of its relative isolation and inaccessibility. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z As it turned out, their relatives had correctly predicted their fate: their age gap would lead to long-term problems in their marriage. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Devastated people were scattered across the fields, our friends, neighbors, and relatives, facing unthinkable grief. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I was lorded over by Mommy, my older siblings, friends of Ma’s, and relatives on my father’s and stepfather’s sides whom, years later, I would recognize as guiding forces in my life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Truth, it seems, is indeed relative, for it is a matter not only of what our eyes tell us but also of the concepts through which our perceptions are filtered. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “His spirit wanders. He has become an ngozi without a resting place, without heirs. He seeks revenge. He is the one who slew your relatives—and that one’s father is responsible!” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After the roll call, the prisoners from all the blocks dispersed, looking for friends, relatives, or neighbors among the arrivals of the latest convoy. days went by. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “They don’t let just anyone write to Capone, you know. You have to be a relative and then it’s censored.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I mumble that all my relatives are in Poland. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The correlation is probably explained by the relative wealth of these societies, bringing about both increased milk consumption and more cancer due to greater longevity. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And women, he said, should stay at home in purdah quarters at all times: They should go out only in emergencies and only wearing a burqa and only with a male relative. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z They’d go another round or two of protesting and insisting, until the relative would finally say, Come on. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z In March 1956, after several months of relative freedom, I received my third ban, which restricted me to Johannesburg for five years and prohibited me from attending meetings for that same period. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He got up and started for Long Wharf where his great relative had his counting house. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “My uncle,” he said to Mr. Jacob Benally, using the polite form of address to show he respected this man like a relative, “are those other children in bilagaanaa clothing also Navajos?” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Then my father’s relatives held a feast and killed a cow to roast and invited a lot of people to come and enjoy the meat and help us build a new house. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z And we actually were strong, perhaps, relative to groups of clients Hall had ushered up the mountain in past years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z They are exposed to the music of their parents and siblings, friends, and relatives, casting a wide net over multiple experiences and genres. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The way Lola tells it, they had relatives who found them farm jobs out in the Central Valley; then during off-seasons they worked in restaurants and hotels and department stores—cleaning, fixing, serving. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They ran through their list of relatives, but anyone in their extended family would wonder why they weren’t using Baba’s nauka. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Bands are the tiniest societies, consisting typically of 5 to 80 people, most or all of them close relatives by birth or by marriage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is when my mother would take out a box of old ski sweaters sent to us by unseen relatives from Vancouver. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Burkhart said that he had protested when Hale had informed him of his intention to blow up the whole house and everyone in it, including his own relatives. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He never told us anything, like where he was bom, or if he had any family or relatives. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still worried about Clara, and what might happen once the relatives from Virginia arrived, but she tried to push it all to the back of her mind. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His relative climbed into the passenger’s seat and pulled his tail in after him. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “So it doesn’t have to be, like...my dead relatives that go into my pictures, right?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I figure if I keep my head down, maybe I can serve out the balance of my life sentence in relative peace. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was not in keeping with the prejudices of the time to explain the phases or eclipses of the Moon by the relative geometry of the Earth, the Moon and the self-luminous Sun. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z People were sitting on cartons or mill-ing around, with their backs to the wind, waiting to see which friends or relatives might be on this bus. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z He needed to call a half-dozen relatives, to let them know he was alive. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “It does appear that Paul Nemenyi was the real father,” the relative said. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I did. He talked to her at length, but when I got back on, he said he hadn't the foggiest idea. She claimed to be his relative.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “Stop eating them. Learn about their behavior. Respect that they have been here far longer than any of our human relatives,” he said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Would survivors and relatives of the Lakota Sioux Indians butchered at the Wounded Knee Massacre, which took place just three years before the symphony’s first performance, have recognised its melodies as theirs? The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z People were stunned and overwhelmed, and probably feared the worst about relatives and friends who might have been in the path of the Great Fire. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Because shortly after breakfast, the relatives from Virginia began to arrive. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Instead, I devised an alternative plan, and told her that I preferred to marry a girl who was a relative of the queen’s, whom I found desirable as a prospective partner. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it looked too much like one of his relatives. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z “How will it pleasure their relatives to know that lies is wrote over them, and that everybody in the place knows that they be lies?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z I relished seeing the familiar faces of my relatives, and I essentially met my grandparents for the first time. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She showed me an exhibit of photographs of many of the 2,229 allotted members of the tribe, including several of her relatives, who had each received a headright in 1906. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Jack’s parents frequently entertained friends and relatives, some of whom stayed with the family for weeks at a time. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z I tramped across the veld to visit friends and relatives, but the magic world of my childhood had fled. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who wants to see the new addition?” she sang out, pouring herself some chardonnay before marching a troupe of relatives up the stairs. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Hiring himself out to neighbors and relatives, he chopped wood, plowed fields, brought in hay, and built barns and cabins. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Joe Justice had never even met his cousin until he saw her in the trailer, but afterward he told his wife that it was “abhorrent” for a close relative to be in foster care. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His parents had called Uncle Amin from Peshawar, as they had all their relatives, to tell them what had happened. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Over the next fortnight I moved back and forth between Qunu and Mqhekezweni, staying by turns with my mother and No- England, visiting and receiving friends and relatives. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When strangers fight, few people present will be friends or relatives of both combatants, with self-interest in stopping the fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For one day, enormous families of relatives would visit and there would be so many people that the noise and the bodies would spill out to the backyard and front porch. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes grieves for these victims as if they were beloved relatives. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her weekends home were always divided between visits with her high school friends and our cousins and other relatives. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “You mean, you’re looking for who all is listed as survivors? So maybe you can find relatives you haven’t met who might have more info about your mom?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z It is hardly surprising that a composer like Schubert should be attracted to poetic texts that placed emotions in the relative safety of natural metaphor. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z He could hop onto it and trek right on back to the RV, which, relative to his present surroundings, is the world’s lushest palace full of what Dad would call “first-world luxuries.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z The first and most obvious factor is relative economic advantage compared with existing technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And in the picture frame, like some kind of lost relative, was a photo of a lemur. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Alcantara, for example, told of one day double-parking his van in Harlem so that he could drop off something at a relative’s apartment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She noticed that friends and relatives were avoiding her. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They invited various relatives and friends, who took the train out from the city, and all the landed gentry from the neighborhood, without overlooking the town notables. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With the new year, Lourdes, her boyfriend, and their relatives decide to leave North Carolina. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z But when McNeil returned to Greensboro after spending Christmas with relatives in Wilmington, North Carolina, the waiter at the lunch counter in the bus station had refused to serve him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She’s probably uploading the latest family snapshots on Facebook for our out-of-town relatives. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He was even more ashamed of the way he had treated his little relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z My attacker’s actions changed the way I looked at older men, and at male relatives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z You may find it helpful to notice that the "relative major" of the Dorian begins one whole step lower. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Some angry grumbling erupted because the older relatives thought they should be sleeping in the village with their family, not in a hotel. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Ralph remained behind at the inn, where he rides around every night in his sports car, generously giving rides to his relatives and enjoying their company now that they have benefited from his education. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z We gave some of our rooms to relatives who had been driven out of their homes. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Heidelberg is fairly quiet relative to the rest of the country. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Luckily, however, M. Yoshoto said the picture belonged to his cousin, who was away visiting relatives in Japan. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z He'd asked Big Harm's husband, who shares the Das surname because he's some sort of relative, to snip a lock of Baba's hair and put it in the urn before... You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z By Dinka custom, families move to places where the father has relatives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Some distinctive feature is needed,” Burnham continued, “something to take the relative position in the World’s Columbian Exposition that was filled by the Eiffel Tower at the Paris Exposition.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z ‘At least, Papa, he’s a deal handsomer than most of my relatives. Isn’t he, Cousin Sewall?’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Nina Chandler Murray, an eighty-five-year-old relative of the Poor family of Standard & Poor’s, the investment credit rating firm, is convinced that the world of the elite was more genteel in the old days. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Grandma and Grandpa Larsen had been visiting relatives in South Carolina. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The phone kept ringing, relatives from the old country calling with congratulations for the old man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Before we left the relative safety of earth orbit, we wanted to make sure that our navigational equipment was working properly, and that meant using our sextant to sight on two stars. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I learned a great deal about being formal just by listening to the way my father and other male relatives of his generation spoke. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z All of Southwest Asia’s founder crops preempted domestication of any of their close relatives throughout the whole expanse of western Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When we traveled by car to visit relatives in other cities, we made sure everyone went to the bathroom before we left. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One chose getting a Christmas tree with his dad; another had decided on baking holiday treats with her mom; several were going to focus on vacations with relatives who lived up north. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But she just holds my hand limply, the way you would if you were at the deathbed of a relative you barely knew and liked even less. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Because relatives were sometimes impossible to locate, the committee began to administer the estates of the deceased who had no legal heirs or executors available. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z My dad’s favorite story to tell strangers and indulgent relatives was the day he and Mom tried to button me up into a blue one for his birthday party when I was three. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Has your wife now any surviving relatives outside of the two children she has by you?” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Mother sent for the minister to give me the last rites, and relatives were gathering to say farewell. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t even know if the strange old lady at the door was a relative or something. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z In Lake Charles, Louisiana, the news bulletins from New York City worried Theodore and his family, who had relatives in the city. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Initially, one of the most puzzling features of animal domestication is the seeming arbitrariness with which some species have been domesticated while their close relatives have not. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m glad you’re going to a relative’s house. It’s not safe for you girls to be traveling in Mexico alone.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The last housegirl, brought by a relative of Gabriel’s, was thickset and had arrived clutching a duffel bag. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Neither did I look like the role models in my life—my stepfather, my godparents, other relatives—all of whom were black. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z When a relative was feeling bad, Mamita would grab one of the little creatures and stuff it in a sack. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Foremost among them are the subordinator that and relative pronouns like which and who, which can signal the beginning of a relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Urged him to give the relatives he barely remembered a chance to reach out. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, the Yanomamo are relative newcomers to their homeland, many of them moving there only in the seventeenth century as they fled European diseases and cruelty further south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A few relatives, the Connellys from next door, a couple old guys from the plumbing place where the corpse used to work. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “The only close relative I’ve got left is my sister,” he said. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But I can’t go home—Uncle Max is probably still there, eating dinner at our family table, talking to everyone like he’s the favorite relative they’ve all been missing. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was my brother’s football game, which we brought a VCR tape of for my relatives to watch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z Its position relative to the crescent moon would have been just as was depicted. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A lot of those guys had more friends and relatives in prison than out. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “No, I wasn't all right” He heard the “relatives” shouting in the parlour. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Letter writing was one of the centers of social life in nineteenth-century England, along with visiting relatives and friends and going to or giving parties. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The scoffing of his relatives was something Ralph could not face. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “Besides, haven’t you gone to India and just stood among your relatives and listened to their stories and felt like...I don’t know, like you wanted to tell more people?” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z In the mornings when he was around the house, his children treated him like a familiar relative, an uncle maybe, but not a father. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now that Declaration had spent a whole summer with Grandmother Lucy and all her mama’s relatives, I’d have to wait a long time for all the latest advice to wear off. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ants and bees can also work together in huge numbers, but they do so in a very rigid manner and only with close relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The charred and bloodied bodies of relatives remained where they had fallen, with no one to perform proper rites for burials, no one to say the prayers for the dead. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t have any relatives or a will, so the government absorbed all the assets they could find. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The outcome of a revolution is, he argues, culturally relative, contingent, peculiar; but it leads to a period of stability during which progress is the norm. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It seemed to him ‘as something divine that men could know the motions of the stars so accurately that they could long before foretell their places and relative positions’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I drag myself into a state of relative alertness, eat a can of potato and bean stew, and sit against the wall facing the door. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Around the same time, Dorothy Vaughans relative, Matilda West, possibly the black computer accused of disloyalty, was fired from her job at the laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Either that woman’s a diviner or she’s got relatives in the fairy kingdom she isn’t telling me about.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “They died in a car crash, you nasty little liar, and left you to be a burden on their decent, hardworking relatives!” screamed Aunt Marge, swelling with fury. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z It was Christmas break, and she was flying off to Cleveland to visit relatives. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She departed one day, In a relative way, And arrived on the previous night. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All those people, the hundreds of wounded, the relatives, the medics from 13, are no more. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z When we overseas Chinese send money, do the relatives divide it evenly among the commune? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I push past him to get into the relative warmth of the house. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The fact that Florence had married a black man did not sit well with her German relatives, and she was made to feel unwelcome. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z They dug in one spot, then another, moving each time their shovels hit the coffins of unknown relatives buried with no markers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Two men and three women, relatives of The General, had bullied Adamu to open the gate, and now stood at the front door, shouting. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He told them the visitor was a relative from an outlying farm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Different observers, moving relative to the ether, would see light coming toward them at different speeds, but light’s speed relative to the ether would remain fixed. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe the pigeon wanted to get away from his relatives. If he doesn’t like the new coop, he’ll fly back to the old one when he gets out again.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z As one of Henrietta’s relatives said to me, “If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that’s dishonest. It’s taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We traveled four hours north to the Wimbe trading center, where my relatives were waiting to greet us. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “These people have come to me, a son of an nganga, and want to be told who killed their relatives. Was it a mudzimu, a family spirit?” he asked. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When relatives and Spanish-speaking friends of my parents came to the house, my brother and sisters seemed reticent to use Spanish, but at least they managed to say a few necessary words before being excused. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And we wouldn’t be allowed to go outside our homes without a male relative to accompany us. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He is held for perhaps a week without charge or bail, without the privilege of communicating with anyone, including his own relatives. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't that I was jealous that they had rich relatives, I just didn't think Smitty needed to be flashing his new stuff every minute. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z He added to the Not Marty side of his list, “Not forced to visit relatives, & to bend in every trifle.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z When an item is modified by a relative clause, and its role inside the clause is the object of the verb, the reader is faced with a long span between the filler and the gap. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z According to relatives, their love was genuine, and in 1928 they were married. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Children are able to discern the timbre of a sound from a very young age, including the vocal timbres of peers, relatives, and teachers, as well as the timbres of different instruments. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Uncles would come visiting, cousins, relatives to feast and listen to stories and tease endlessly. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Lillian spent a full, enervating day on the telephone notifying a staggering number of relatives on both sides of the family. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the relatives had left the next morning. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A few weeks later the Doctorita comes back from her relatives’ house with a little pile of used clothes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They said they wouldn’t budge until she produced the relatives. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As children they used to torment each other with “the look” at the Sunday lunches their parents gave for elderly relatives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Demetrius’s decade-long tenure, in any case, was marked by relative stability, marred only by his promotion of nanny-state laws that limited citizens’ gods-given right to flaunt their wealth in the faces of the destitute majority. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z We stopped at Bramley, and the bus immediately filled with black women in maid uniforms, returning to work after their day off Sunday visiting their children or husbands or relatives in the ghetto. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Héctor, the boy in our family, was the only one to get new pants and shirts, because none of Mami’s New York relatives had boys his age. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Aside from my dayee Mehrdad, who had an American wife, we were the only other family among my relatives who bothered to celebrate Christmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z After we opened our presents at home, we visited Adele’s relatives and played with her three grandchildren, who were close to my age. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Living in the era of antibiotics, we find it difficult to imagine the simultaneous deaths of siblings, parents, relatives, and friends. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A muezzin gave the last call to prayer of the day over a loudspeaker from the nearby mosque and all the relatives rose up in unison and turned their backs on Liyana’s family. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Although hundreds of people had wanted to attend, Charlotte kept this gathering small, just a few close friends and relatives. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You one of his relatives or the preacher in his church?’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z This one, a gangly teenager with gigantic feet, had just turned off the corridor light, and in the relative darkness was checking to see if any light escaped from beneath the students’ doors. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z It saddened my mother to learn that some relatives forced their children to start working right after high school. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But while I was forced into isolation from my dad's family back in the day, I still had more relatives living in the Bay Area than most of my American friends. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Our relatives, I know, murmured that the match was below me; my mother herself was not happy, but I was without beauty and without dowry and it was the best she could do. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps she resembles some distant relative,” other family members had started to say. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Maybe you spend three years in Massachusetts, studying constitutional law and discussing the relative merits of exclusionary vertical agreements in antitrust cases. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z On the morning of the funeral, Morrie’s relatives came down the steps of his tenement building on the poor Lower East Side of Manhattan. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z "But why? Why are the colored people doing all that...rioting? I'm trying to understand. Do you know anything? I mean, do you know people over there or maybe have relatives?" It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z We never visited him again, though, because Papa said that although the Igwe had converted, he still let his pagan relatives carry out sacrifices in his palace. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z My father bought a small white chicken, my mother brewed beer, a few relatives were invited, and a small celebration was held to mark George’s passage from infancy to childhood. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They settled down to a life of relative comfort. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z A few yards away, I realize that I know that dark hair that always gleams, even in relative darkness, and that long nose with a narrow bridge. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z “But we are very crowded right now, that’s the truth. We can’t send letters to relatives who might want to help, because the mail isn’t being delivered.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This old lady, as far as I could gather, was just about the only surviving relative we had on either side of our family. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The effect of a chemical of supposedly innocuous nature can be drastically changed by the action of another; one of the best examples is a close relative of DDT called methoxychlor. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Brinker, in his accelerating change from absolute to relative virtue, came up with plan after plan, each more insulated from the fighting than the last. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole restaurant is rented out for the party, and almost every person in the room is a relative of the Matsumoto family. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z His sandy mustache droops on either side of his mouth, and despite his relative youth, his movements as he sits are slow and deliberate. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The relatives of the family had torn the flesh of their arms, bodies, and faces, so that they were covered with clotted blood;... Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z C minor is the relative minor of E flat major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She and her family were with relatives in Iowa now. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Our house was often full of relatives from Shangla who came to Mingora when they needed to go to the doctor or do some shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Maybe before I go back to Arizona, I’ll visit Mexico. I’m sure I have relatives there.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z At the funeral parlor a few days after, I knelt with my relatives during the rosary. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bond committee, the friends and relatives, the simple unhonored spectators didn’t think of leaving the field. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Nearly every kid there that day had lost someone—a friend, relative, neighbor—to a bullet. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was in the cadence of his speech, and this had the effect of making men, and women too, tell him things they would not tell to relatives or close friends. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the relative quiet, I began to nod off against Miles’s shoulder. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They were fully aware that they could only inherit their uncle’s fortune if “closer” relatives—such as a wife or child—are proven not to be rightful heirs. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z For the rest, he obtained money from greedy relatives in exchange for shares of the profits. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Caesar and his family rode in the widow’s buggy to the farms of freemen, they visited relatives on estates for the Lord’s holidays and New Year’s Day. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Back in the United States, Liyana’s classes had oral history assignments where they were supposed to go home and ask their oldest relatives or neighbors what the world was like long ago. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Pattie assumed that relatives would fly into town or that family friends would, once alerted, take over. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z From a few incidents in which before and after totals are known with relative certainty, Dobyns calculated that in the first 130 years of contact about 95 percent of the people in the Americas died. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Though the sentence may be beyond salvation, passivizing the relative clause would be a place to start: the former United Nations diplomat who has been tapped by protesters demanding Mr. Morsi’s ouster. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And in this way she got the media’s funhouse picture of the state of the city via her husband’s relatives halfway around the world. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She would sometimes become so distraught and ill that her sisters would have to find a relative to take her to the hospital. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was as if we’d stepped into the larger crosscurrents of culture and history, reminded suddenly of our relative smallness in the wider arc of time. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Around him was a raucous entourage of assistants, sycophants, distant relatives and assorted hangers-on. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When the curtain rose at the Family Theater, my relatives expected to get the whole story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And I still don’t know our neighbors or relatives well enough to attempt to chat about the goings-on in our village. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The ranch was a relative, and when he left it he plunged a knife into a darling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z So he'd had to borrow money from his relatives to buy a train ticket from the seaport town of Stettin to the bustling big city of Berlin. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z There is relative calm in the audience, and people start to talk to each other as we are escorted, row by row, toward the gym. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Now is when we learn everything there is to know about the people down the road and in the daywork houses, about the Sisters at the Kingdom Hall and the faraway relatives we rarely see. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z I love Christmas—the tree with its ornaments, visiting relatives with their houses decorated for the holiday, and carols on the radio, which Mom sings along to as long as Dad’s not in the car. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And so it was that I entered that enormous L-shaped room, on his arm, in my cashmere finery, to the applause, and then the raised glasses of fifty relatives. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z When Allies grew frustrated with poorly organized community meetings or problematic clients at their agencies, I counseled them to keep perspective, reminding them of their own relative good fortune. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Although we are not blood relatives, I still think of him as my first father. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But my father was not shy, I realized, when I’d watch him speaking Spanish with relatives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents and relatives sat in the first few rows. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z But that’s the kind of luck we have—dumb dead relatives who go outta their way to interrupt your good-night’s sleep to give you a lucky number that only brings you bad luck. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Mercedes came home for Christmas, and other relatives gathered at the Chavez house. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z We eat in relative silence until I say, “Do you think Ellis will ever stop being so freaked out about it?” Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The real decision is not whether to use that or which but whether to use a restrictive or a nonrestrictive relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The luckiest migrants were scooped up out of the chaos by waiting friends or relatives. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Many people had seen the bright glow in the distance, but the true degree of disaster was not known until burned-out friends and relatives began knocking on their doors. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Between her update and the previous story, I am able to mark my paper map to show the relative positions of the opposing armies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A gruff, hard-drinking man who often carried a bone-handled six-shooter and, for good measure, a knife slipped into his leather boot, he was brasher than Tom—“rough and ready,” as a relative described him. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The pattern for the minor scale starts a half step plus a whole step lower than the major scale pattern, so a relative minor is always three half steps lower than its relative major. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Otherwise you could tilt toward that depending on the degree of restrictiveness, that is, the degree to which the meaning of the sentence critically depends on the relative clause. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Sooner or later all fugitive slaves in the city went there seeking information about their relatives, or with requests for help of one kind or another. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, for the sake of argument, let’s ask an outrageous question: what is the relative value of a fetus and a newborn? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, they were not like any relatives Liyana had ever met before. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing wrong with using which to introduce a restrictive relative clause, as in The pair of shoes which cost five thousand dollars was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On other occasions I waited apprehensively while my mother read onion-paper letters airmailed from Mexico with news of a relative’s illness or death. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew one good thing; she had few relatives. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A young boy who was about twelve had wheeled him into the church, probably his grandson or a relative. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z People in the garden told friends and relatives. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The relatives in London thought he looked “uncommonly well and stout,” though that was often misleading. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Different stars have different spectra, but the relative brightness of the different colors is always exactly what one would expect to find in the light emitted by an object that is glowing red hot. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z These small relatives of the mink, with their valuable fur that turns white in winter, enter lemming nests and kill and eat the young. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no groomsmen, no bridesmaids, no relatives to wait for or marshal: none but Mr. Rochester and I. Mrs. Fairfax stood in the hall as we passed. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Some of these fixed stars do, in fact, appear to change very slightly their positions relative to each other as the earth orbits around the sun: they are not really fixed at all! A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In a tribe, where many people are still close relatives and everyone at least knows everybody else by name, mutual relatives and mutual friends mediate the quarrel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z We wash and dry in relative quiet for a while. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z She had no relatives left—no person on whom she had any claim—certainly there was no one to enquire whether she made a living or how much longer she could continue to do so. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z By Friday, I had memorized the introductory lines to the Declaration of Independence and could recite them with relative ease. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z One of Lourdes’s roommates has a relative who arrives at their apartment. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Edith had relatives in New Jersey, and she was worried about their safety. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z After the relative wealth of Midtown Manhattan, my section of Brooklyn feels even poorer. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The “harmless” insecticides malathion and methoxychlor are less poisonous than their relatives only because a liver enzyme deals with them, altering their molecules in such a way that their capacity for harm is lessened. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Third, relative to the size of the black population, lynchings were exceedingly rare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The bus also takes me uptown, but not as far uptown as my relatives live. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z The next morning, other relatives were coming to help. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “But it’s not what you think—” “Goddammit. I told you, Carter,” Old Cob burst out with the sort of frightened anger only relatives and close friends can muster. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Heaven was to her a nice home ranch inhabited by her dead relatives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I saw relatives I had not seen since I was a child, and I met some new ones I had never seen before. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z "Hey," the fat man in the ticket booth peered at me through the grating, "don't cry. Who you got there, honey, some relative?" The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z And I truthfully said I knew of no living relatives. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn't that I didn't want to talk to my relatives; it was that I didn't know what to say. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Apart from visiting relatives there was nothing to do in Calcutta. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In the first months of 1940, I could still walk the streets of Kraków in relative freedom, even if no longer fearlessly. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Red Corn did not know more than these fragmentary details relayed to her by relatives, and she hoped that I could investigate her grandfather’s death. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I could only assume she meant Three Crossings, where we went to visit relatives when I was very young. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Surrounded by grandparents and dozens of aunts and uncles and cousins, in a community where neighbors counted as family, pitching in when relatives couldn’t, Dorothy’s children’s lives would change very little. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Their relatives had kept away and lunch would be the usual rice and stew. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Troublesome old relatives would be chained in the carport. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Out of this haze of relatives and authority figures loomed a dominating presence that would come and go. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Others told tales of returning only to be spurned by their villages for having broken caste or to be preyed upon by relatives who stole their money. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And some relative’s son is graduating from college this year. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our American relatives wrote letters and sent packages to us, packages filled with food donated by other friends from Narewka now living in the United States. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I never discussed it with anyone, but I knew very well because friends and relatives also told me the same thing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z On the rare occasion that the phone does ring lately, it’s Doctor Neal, calling with more bad test results, or a relative checking on Mother. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My mother and father were deeply pious catolicos; all my relatives were Catholics. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Not at all like a child being kissed by female relatives. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, I just haven’t...maybe I will. I don’t know. Are the Richmond relatives all well?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Just like in a real family, you got some “relatives” you’re cool with and others you can’t stand, or who act up all the time. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Papa used to tell the story of his first stroll through town, just off the boat and wanting to stretch his legs before looking up his relatives. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They had learned all they knew from their own relatives and from wise elders who knew many things, people who lived with us. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Out on the patio, the visiting relatives have left, and only the compound folks remain, talking in low, preoccupied voices. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z All their friends and relatives would come again for large gatherings, including Grandfather. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z But even the younger boys who didn’t have relatives wanted to earn the older boys’ respect. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Again as we discussed above, the crop’s rapid spread preempted any possible further attempts to domesticate its relatives, as well as to redomesticate its ancestor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I lead him around the long way, away from Shiloh’s pen, and he doesn’t even notice because he’s unwrapping his kite, made of silk or something, which one of his relatives brought him. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The amplitude of a sound is a particular number, usually measured in decibels, but dynamics are relative; an orchestra playing fortissimo sounds much louder than a single violin playing fortissimo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Telling the story later, some relatives said she read the whole thing, others said she started it and asked her mother to finish reading it to her. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A scalded relative was a dull figure in Irene’s dramatic gallery. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But Auntie Aggie and her sisters have proven to be as wise as ever, and we are living still in relative comfort. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Walter's relatives ran up to him to hug him, and they hugged me, too. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There has been one improvement since she left six years before: a relative built a small cinder-block house next door. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Even though they have the same key signature, a minor key and its relative major sound very different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That way, they couldn’t remind me of it, like Aunt Ivy and all the other relatives that I’d lived with. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “We have no relatives in this country,” Ashima informs the guidance counselor. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he missed events in my life, like Proclamation Day, but our house was always so crowded with friends and relatives, I didn’t really notice. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z If I had had female relatives of my own, they would have helped me prepare the feast, but instead other Dinka women came with food. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He suspected she was tending a dying relative. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I did speak differently than some of my relatives, and so did Craig. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He had taken to calling them relatives from the very first. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z If the wind was blowing on race day, whoever was assigned lanes five and six would likely start off with about a two-length handicap to overcome relative to the inside lanes. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They were way less famous than the other great apes, the chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans, even though a recent study showed they were our closest relatives, sharing over 98.7 percent of our DNA. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while, one is taken down when a connection is made by a distant relative who remembers: My cousin had a child by that name. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We went from party to party to meet relatives, to restaurants and shops, and to sites like the mosques, gardens, and the Lahore Fort. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a relative of Bat Lady’s. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z He was not so sure about his littlest relatives, however. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry to tell you this, children, but I cannot allow you to be raised by someone who is not a relative.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z On Sundays, she would invite his relatives for pounded yam and onugbu soup and then watch over to make sure everyone was suitably overfed. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She would merely drown, and her spirit would wander without any hope of rejoining her relatives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the Huangs, the same old complaining relatives now embarrassed by this poor showing, the entertainers with their violins and flutes. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A nonrestrictive relative clause is set offby commas, dashes, or parentheses, and expresses a comment from the peanut gallery, as in The pair of shoes, which cost five thousand dollars, was hideous. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Though Nye planned to interview these relatives, and anyone else who might have knowledge of the suspect’s whereabouts, his main objective was to obtain the aid of the local law agencies. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay goes to her room to call elderly relatives who are surprisingly still alive, and Trey and I load up this Michael Jackson video game on the Wii Dad bought when we were younger. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “You don’t know me? . . . You don’t recognize me. I’m your relative, Stein. Already forgotten? Stein. Stein from Antwerp. Reizel’s husband. Your wife was Reizel’s aunt. . . She often wrote to us . . . and such letters!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Three years before I lived with Mr. and Mrs. Potts, a relative reported that their son, who allegedly had been charged with attempted murder, was living in their home while a foster child was there. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Those relatives of his expect me to start the paperwork all over!” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z But since he had a working son, he could receive only a small portion of what he would get if he had no living relatives. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Migrants describe being locked up by police officers until a relative in the United States can wire the kidnapper’s fee and buy their freedom. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Sure, I’m honoring my relatives who died in the Holocaust and the cousins who were never born. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z "Call out my relative velocity to Mark every two seconds or so." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ashoke takes photographs of every room, Gogol standing somewhere in the frame, to send to relatives in India. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To him the terms of his parents’ marriage are something at once unthinkable and unremarkable; nearly all their friends and relatives had been married in the same way. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Then went on to demand the ‘solution’ of affirmative action, thereby repeating the mistake of claiming benefits for the relative few because of the absence of the many. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The guidance counselor suggests that perhaps Gogol could join his parents later, after the school year ends, stay with a relative until June. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was American pipe-tobacco that he wanted, but my relatives had stopped sending it or it was being held up. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Soiled and subdued, she looked like a small malnourished relative of my previous sister. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the organisms of distant lands like Australia and Madagascar evolved in isolation for millions upon millions of years, taking on shapes and natures very different from those of their distant Afro-Asian relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The relatives came but couldn’t help; neither could our neighbours. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The source of his brittle elation was the relative smallness of his misfortune. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Moreover, my mother said, my father’s relatives would never sanction such a move. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z We would go to parties held by relatives, not by other kids. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z But despite the relative proximity of the bus to civilization, for all practical purposes McCandless was cut off from the rest of the world. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In this they are encouraged by wives and relatives, and it’s such a sweet trap. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson began to gather, from relatives and newspaper clippings and other records, bits of information about the murder—an endeavor that spanned two decades. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He tried to draw maps of the United States, discussing details he had heard from friends or relatives. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z They also phoned our parents at their places of work and any other relatives or friends they could annoy. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By altering the relative proportions of earth and fire, say, you would be able, they thought, to change copper into gold. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The masters were entertaining their friends and relatives in their big, comfortable houses. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z My father had to pay many cows to her male relatives as a sign of his respect before he could marry her and give their children his name. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Hay a naiya yana, I have come upon it, I have come upon blessing People, my relatives, I have come upon blessing People, my relatives, blessed . Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z His relatives from Kacanik are now scattered from Norway to England to Australia, a world away from both Kacanik and his new home outside Atlanta. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Members of a band knew each other very intimately, and were surrounded throughout their lives by friends and relatives. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was a home with a chronically ill relative who was interested in regular examination by a young person who would listen endlessly to ailments and take precise notes. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Her effective status as an only child, as well as the relative isolation of the Tallis house, kept her, at least during the long summer holidays, from girlish intrigues with friends. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering Under Hitler’s anti-Jewish laws. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But in western Eurasia only one of several potentially useful wild species was domesticated—probably because that one spread so quickly that people soon stopped gathering the other wild relatives and ate only the crop. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Sherman said she was going upstate to live with relatives near the hospital that housed her daughter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then she told him her relatives were asking what his intentions were. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z After three months of living here and there, with strangers and relatives, we were finally on our way home. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “Anak, we don’t have any close relatives there. And what will you do about Lou? Who will cook her shrimp and peel them for her?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z And Wang Lung was exceedingly angry and the more angry because he must bury it all in his heart and answer with smiles and welcome his relatives. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Something about the way she exhales sounds like she’s happy she’s in this tiny shack in this ancient neighborhood with a bunch of my dad’s relatives. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z For another seven hundred meters, the boats held their relative positions. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z For this reason, Egyptian religious holidays had a tendency to slip backward relative to the seasons. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z How could she stay there all alone, not surrounded by relatives? Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z With a buggy, he and Booth can travel quickly and in relative comfort. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Nor was it likely to improve its relative status vis-à-vis the other regions of Earth, except for what vigor the South American provinces lent it. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The house where Pasqual’s relatives lived was more or less a big box, with a good yard because they worked on it when they had time off. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Nurses and doctors, weeping relatives, and volunteers from the Free African Society whispered their sorrows. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Neighbors and relatives used to pester my mom. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The subject is a little like a ne’er-do-well relative; it’s sometimes a shameful reminder, sometimes openly acknowledged, but always there, even, or especially, when it’s never mentioned. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A black woman in New Jersey, trying to locate relatives down South, wrote the Mutual for information. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, Soraya came to us, tailed by a procession of young female relatives. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The relative anonymity of these kids seemed to aggravate their plight and their despair. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Once Ralph’s indoor relatives had been happy to have Ralph push them up and down the halls on his motorcycle, but this treat was not enough for his rowdy outdoor relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Leavitt’s genius was to realize that by comparing the relative magnitudes of Cepheids at different points in the sky you could work out where they were in relation to each other. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z All my relatives, including my dad’s family from Ohio, came to the house around ten A.M. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t she send the baby to her sister’s? Or another relative?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z My relatives have brewed beer and my oldest son has bought a goat to sacrifice at the coming-home ceremony. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Luck of some sort came when my maternal grandmother—who had been away in the Shangaan Bantustan attending a ceremony to exorcise evil spirits from a raving mad relative—came back unexpectedly. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Uju was dampened only when her driver told her that The General’s wife had heard about the pregnancy and was furious; there had, apparently, been a tense family meeting with his relatives and hers. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They had all brought their mothers-in-law and children, and even their village friends who were not lucky enough to have overseas Chinese relatives to show off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My ‘long-horned’ relatives, the ones who have long curvy feelers coming out of their heads, make their music simply by rubbing the edges of their two top wings together. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Every year or two the relative positions of the planets and the physics of Kepler and Newton permit the launch of a spacecraft to Mars or Venus with a minimum expenditure of energy. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Consciousness is a relative concept when you’re pumped full of psychoactive meds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “But misfortunes are commonplace, Taylor, and relative. Look at the misfortune Nick Yew has endured this year. Or Ross Wilcox. How is destroying your classmate's property going to help your father?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He asked me did I have any friends or relatives and I said no I dont have any. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z “But are your relatives so very poor? Are they working people?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The vast mortality, involving something over 50 million of us each year, takes place in relative secrecy. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There was little chance of treading on the toes of a relative. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Who knows how many lost relatives of ours are waiting to be discovered in other caves, on other islands, and in other climes. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In this dispute the question of the relative merits of ancient and modern science was at first entirely secondary. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Just in case there might be any doubt, some time after Tycho’s death several of his relatives signed a legal declaration that his children were legitimate and that their mother had been his wife. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z They all knew that she was my relative. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Instead, they were passed down from generation to generation by the older relatives who whispered or spoke them to me time and again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It would say that Security had gone on a trip to visit his relatives in Los Angeles, and that he would be home in a few days. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He was at the door of the cabin, calling hello to his relatives. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Even relative freedom from fallout, well short of the 95 percent cleanliness Strauss and the scientists had mentioned, could be achieved only from reducing yields. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Simply having an ear well-trained in "relative pitch" is extremely useful in many ways. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Or, even better, he stayed overnight at relatives’. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Barack’s rowdy Hawaiian high school guy posse mingled happily with a handful of his Kenyan relatives, who wore brightly colored East African hats. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z What she did not know—and I discovered many years later—was that someone in Florida had neglected to get the court’s permission for us to live with our relatives in the first place. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z If a villein inherited enough strips of land to support his family, or if he was lucky enough to serve an honest and generous lord, he might live in relative comfort. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z With the help of relatives and fund-raising organizations, we managed to bail them all out within two weeks. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Saying they had relatives in the New Jersey-New York area, people wanted to know if lists of casualties were available. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Jean-Pierre hadn’t hunted in years, though he had grown up hunting boar with his relatives in northern France. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Others came because a relative or hometown buddy said, Man, you best see this place before you die; or, We got room now, so pack your suitcase and don’t bring no high-top shoes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Doctor Orangehair, probably better known as Dr. McFall, was used to irate or worried relatives, and was not intimidated by Aunt Queen’s dramatic entrance. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, does she have any friends or relatives?” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I was not the closest living relative, they said. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This sentence is encumbered, among other things, by a long stretch between the filler of the relative clause, the former United Nations diplomat, and the gap after tapped seven words later. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “That is what the relatives of the ugly monkey, enwe, told him to make him feel better, that good looks come in different ways.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z After a brief stay at the home of relatives in Chislehurst, he and the boys left for Paris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A party was going on at the McLaughlins’ to celebrate the arrival of a relative from Ireland. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “My relative, you will return to balance again,” that bigger boy, whose name I later learned was Jesse Chee, whispered in my ear in Navajo. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not want to be taken for one of the poor relatives. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z They often provided money to wives and relatives who would not otherwise have been able to visit us on the island. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “They have a bunch of relatives over to see the new baby, and Theresa and Jimmy have to entertain their cousins.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I discovered for the first time people of my own age firmly aligned with the liberation struggle, who were prepared, despite their relative privilege, to sacrifice themselves for the cause of the oppressed. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The minute after that I’ve got tax problems and employee difficulties and threats of lawsuits and greedy relatives no one’s ever heard of before and I’m sick to death of being rich. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, my father, who was drinking a whiskey sour, growled, “You’re not going anywhere until your relatives leave. You hear me?” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z There were always suitcases and bags in the flat; sometimes a relative or two would sleep on the floor of the living room for weeks. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z That’s not because the music is quieter, of course, but simply that your position relative to it has changed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “Your father’s dead, and as your only living relative, I’m taking you in.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Looking at my family, all there together, I felt like a relative from out of town. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Percy still couldn’t get over the fact that Frank was a distant relative. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, if I were to proceed with the task my plan would be to interview the relatives of Mrs. Lakes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Friends and relatives came and went all day long in this home, unannounced, just like our home in Congo. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z “We tried,” his parents explain to friends and relatives who ask why their son lacks a good name, “but he would only respond to Gogol. The school insisted.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She no longer woke up worrying about her relatives and what might happen to them. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As soon as my uncle reached the gate of the school, like all the other parents and relatives who had traveled far to bring their children there, he was told that he had to go. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “That’s right, and it isn’t like he didn’t have relatives to go to. A brother-in-law and cousins right in Monterey. Why should I worry about him?” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother and all my relatives were there, beaming with pride as the principal read a long list of my academic and athletic achievements. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After all this time, I sometimes forget she’s not my blood relative. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But because of his race and his confinement to a racially segregated ghetto, the black kid has a criminal record, while the white frat boy, because of his race and relative privilege, does not. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The church was overflowing with people, with friends, relatives, and men in uniform. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the factory my father had been warned not to leave after work; the streets were too dangerous, so he stayed overnight, in relative safety. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Having the school’s god as my relative helped in some other ways too. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Many families left the camp, to search for relatives or to hide in the bush from the Nigerian soldiers who were coming with whips. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then she asked them to leave in a voice hoarse from tears, but the relatives’ shouting intensified, and so Aunty Uju turned to go back indoors. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It meant that they were late for lunch sometimes, but it also meant that they could all change in relative privacy, which they should have thought of months ago. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Royal relatives, ministers, and titled courtiers from high houses and merchant houses crowd the table. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “It’s such a sad situation. The children’s parents are both dead. No uncles, no aunts, no living relatives.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z “We won’t even tell our little relatives about it,” said another. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Only a few relatives knew that two generations before, the name had been Doufinakas, but his Greek ancestor George, as far as Dell was concerned, had done the right thing. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Jesus plucks three sweaters from a nylon bag, hand-me- downs from relatives. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She found her female relatives and the children settled around Grandmother. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the conversations were about lost relatives and friends. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She fled back to the campfires and fell on her knees in front of her astonished relatives. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z However, five main contributing factors can still be identified; the controversies revolve mainly around their relative importance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Gradually, as the nights passed, these fictional relatives began to crystallize in their minds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The only break I got was when Mameh would send me to her relatives in New York during summers, but in fact, my responsibility for the store grew after my brother Sam ran off. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z After the dentist’s office, my mom drove me to the cemetery where a lot of her relatives are buried. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z I told her that friends and relatives would look after her while I was gone. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Pauline, a ten-year-old, has been orphaned and sent to live with some relatives, who mistreat her. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My father felt terribly nervous about handing him the family business, but he wanted no trouble from chiefs or relatives. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Missiles from the wall had slackened off, giving Cluny’s horde a chance to desert the ditch for the relative safety of the meadows. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We usually have relatives over for the day. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “There’s the Illinois Central. The Southern Pacific. And right there goes the queen of them all, the Rock Island Line. That’s the one that half your Chicago relatives work on, Ben. Watch where you’re whizzin’. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The same rule creates relative clauses that begin with a preposition and a wh-word such as the better with which to see you or It’s you of whom she’s thinking. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I have so much excitement to share with my relatives that I can hardly contain myself. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I was only allowed to wear it to visit relatives. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z This new breed of brokers would often receive advance payment in cash from affluent or middle-income South Korean families seeking the release of a relative. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There were also abominable creatures haunting the reeds and tussocks that from the sound of them were evil relatives of the cricket. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z My father never mentioned Him—it was as if God was one of Roses relatives he’d rather not get involved with. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The chemical chosen for a fresh attack was DDD, a close relative of DDT but apparently offering fewer threats to fish life. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What nobody tells you is that miscarriage happens all the time, to more women than you’d ever guess, given the relative silence around it. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Can we send something back with your relative?” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Richardson had called all their relatives to share the good news; Mr. Richardson arrived home with a cake. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My great-great-grandparents emigrated to America at the turn of the twentieth century; any relatives of mine who died in the Holocaust were cousins of ancestors I never knew. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z And as long as there was peace—well, relative peace. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z There was nothing in him that reminded me of any of my relatives. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you didn’t have any relatives,” said Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Up until then I had never been particularly disturbed about seeing a corpse—even when I’d have to sit for an hour or so at a funeral parlor when some relative had died. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Let’s say that he is forced, for the sake of argument, to affix a relative value, and he decides that 1 newborn is worth 100 fetuses. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z For decades most researchers believed manioc, like maize, had no wild ancestor; the crop was thought to have arisen from a chance combination of several relatives. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In many versions, though, today’s Indians are seen as relative latecomers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Shawnee, having seen the separatists’ brutal ways of war, moved their people to a place of relative safety. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z She sat beside her brother, her hand on his arm, the other hand on the arm of a shriveled old woman, precious relative. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z It is easy to predict where the relative minor of a major key can be found. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z She suspected this was a test for Maya to see whether or not her newly discovered biological relative was a homophobic nightmare. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z She felt awkward around her relatives, as if they had more in mind for her than she could ever have dreamed. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The relative size of the spheres and the extent of their displacement with regard to each other determines the size of the zone of dry land. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The elderly woman he greeted looked completely indifferent, as though it was often that an Igbo-speaking white man came in to ask about her relative. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He can be as heartless as his daughter, but he’s the only relative I have who treats me like family. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The first of the three is-phrases, is brutally targeting civilians, is the most deeply embedded one; it is part of a relative clause that modifies third-rate Serbian military. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Maize, she suggested, might have been created by repeatedly crossing Zea diploperennis, a rare maize relative, and another cousin species, Eastern gamagrass. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z With this data, we can make an educated guess about the relative importance of walnuts in their diet. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z This Cousin Wilse Graham was her sister’s son; his visit would mean news of the Kentucky country where Ellen had been bom, and of the relatives from whom she so seldom heard. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother sent me to fetch my father’s relatives, with the hope that they might find some way to secure his release. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They are naked and not conscious of being different from their bear relatives. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Its tranquil beauty mocked the relative prosperity peasant families had enjoyed for centuries, before the dam was built. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The choice between that and which, according to the rule, is simple: nonrestrictive relative clauses take which; restrictive relative clauses take that. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He ran through the streets, and kept running until he reached the steps of a relative’s house, where he collapsed on the porch. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This strategy worked to some extent for a segment of the African American community, particularly those who had access to education and relative privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “You have no family name you want—no inviting trap for a rich relative, no proud name to re-create?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We still do not really know why there are only nine planets, more or less, and why they have the relative distances from the Sun that they do. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The following day, Nhamo and her relatives would travel to Goré’s village for the second part of the marriage. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She lay on her belly, arms tucked under her and held close against the relative cool of the night. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was an old practice, holding family members responsible for the crime of a relative. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The few days we spent here went by pleasantly enough, in relative calm. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other roomers, who had jobs, and I knew she received help from relatives; still there was no mistake, Mary loved a variety of food and this concentration upon cabbage was no accident. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z For days at a time they’d leave my mom and auntie with relatives so they could travel for work. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Shortly after lunch, I spot the first nursing home resident being wheeled up the street by relatives. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z For the past three weeks, since we arrived in Lahore, we’ve been rotating through our relatives’ homes for lunch, chai—which basically turns into a second lunch—and dinner. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z After his strenuous night of riding through puddles, fending off his relatives, trying to repair his motorcycle, and rebuilding his nest, Ralph napped soundly. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z Twenty years we have been saving all kinds of things for the relatives in Haiti. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But privilege is always relative to something else. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Female common chimpanzees cannot take lessons from their bonobo relatives and stage a feminist revolution. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Nights when relatives visited and the front rooms were warmed by Spanish sounds, I slipped quietly out of the house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We did have one blood relative in Princeton, Dandy’s younger sister, whom we knew as Aunt Sis. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A week after he had sworn on her death certificate that she died of another stroke, a relative alerted the police that Friedgood was about to leave the country for London. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The bridegroom arrived; his parents, his relatives, our friends, the priests. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z She feared a judge would say she’s too old; or worse, send me to live with relatives who didn’t want me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z But she had sixty varieties of roses, and most everybody in Cold Sassy was beholden to her for nursing a relative back to health or laying out the body for burial. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For the next decade, Ogden and Kira enjoyed a peaceful, happy existence, living and working in relative seclusion. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I heard from old friends and relatives in Africa on Facebook. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z About fifty of his closest relatives—brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews—are arrayed around him. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Some manner of beast, a horseish gazelle, relative of the giraffe. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 0 and 1, the relative distance between the two people on the Dumper/Dumpee range. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Finally, their priorities are heavily influenced by the relative values they attach to different lifestyles—just as we can see today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While Emily lay in obscurity on the floor, in the shadow of a sofa, with a medical uncle applying an expert tourniquet, a dozen relatives worked to calm her sister. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But I quickly discovered that “integrated” was relative. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z One thing was sure, I was there for one reason and one reason only, so Bodega could have one of Vera’s relatives there next to him. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z She and Mr. Byrne will be gone for the day, visiting relatives out of town. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She woke up every day worrying about frightening things that could happen to her other relatives. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z He spent that day and went to everyone, relatives and Mends, and said his goodbyes. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Suddenly Nate was an orphan with just one living relative in the world: the uncle that Papa had always hated. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z He was surrounded by several generations of relatives, all of whom welcomed us enthusiastically. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z There is a sense in which it is acceptable to describe the Earth as the centre of the Universe, and to make all measurements relative to the Earth. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z But, the relative added, “Hale and his bunch were determined to kill him.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Second, there is the claim that the concept of rationality is always culturally relative. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Marriage promises to turn strangers into friendly relatives—a nation of siblings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The ants of one species, proceeding jerkily across a path, leave trails that can be followed by their own relatives but not by others. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They therefore change their apparent position relative to other stars. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z They depend upon the relative good will or fairness of their employers each day. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z One of my husband’s male relatives had died and he had to attend the funeral. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z We met with Walter's family at our office and agreed that he should move to Huntsville to live with a relative who could provide consistent care. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Maybe he was someone’s relative who had just gotten out of the loony bin. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She yanked bones straight that had been crooked for years while relatives held the cripples down, and she did all this never dressed less elegantly than when she stepped out of the sedan chair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He had to be buried and I knew of no relatives; someone had to see that he was placed in the ground. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z By each name is a capsule description of what Yolanda might remember of that relative: the one with the kidney bean swimming pool, the fat one, the one who was an ambassador. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I could not understand how anyone could take me away from my loving relatives and make me live with strangers who were mostly indifferent and sometimes brutal. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z She would always be grateful for her family aboard the Argo II - but she had so many other friends and relatives she wished she could see one last time. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Already without family, she was further isolated from her people, for, except for the relative bliss on the island, every other resource was denied her: partnership in marriage, confessional friendship, and communal religion. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z At a preliminary hearing, on March 12, Osage men and women, many of them relatives of the victims, crammed into the courtroom to bear witness. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I’m a bad mouse, he thought, filled with gloom and guilt. l am a rotten rodent, not my relatives. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z In the High District, a few students, afire with idealism, made faces at their relatives huddled before the television screen with grim expressions and went out to join the procession. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, no one believed him, but when he gave them news about their relatives in Germany, they were convinced. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Bobby Moch had asked his father for the addresses of his relatives in Switzerland and Alsace-Lorraine, so he could visit them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t the last time he stayed with his mothers’ relatives, though. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But now she's skipped over the hoping part and is acting totally sure that this stranger is my relative after one quick glance. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z My grandmother’s parents left Havana in the 1930s in search of work; at the time Jamaica was an island of relative prosperity amid the worldwide Great Depression. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Many of the pictures had been sent to us over the years from relatives in Korea, many of these very old, and no one had ever organized them or placed them in albums. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to look after many children, whereas the money at our disposal is limited, very limited. So if, as in the case of your nephews, we do find out that there are relatives...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z When Mom announced we were going to Iran, every Persian family in the Willamette Valley started calling her, asking if she could take something to Iran for a relative, or bring something back. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Had the Republic murdered relatives of my Drake classmates too, all those people who died in combat or in accidents or of illnesses? Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z A relative who lives in the cinder-block house next door moves out. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z By such means was he able to arrive at the relative weights of the known elements. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The drinks cabinet is only opened when visitors and relatives come. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He had died a sixty-seven-year-old bachelor, with no living relatives and, by most accounts, without a single friend. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z As a result, many families are reluctant to allow their relatives—particularly those who are recently released from prison—to stay with them, even temporarily. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Despite the fact that he was now our closest living relative, he was the last person I wanted to see—a busybody who had once proved to me he was not to be trusted. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z You are introduced to your relatives, your oldest friends, as if you’ve never met them before; you get a second chance with them, better than forgiveness because you can begin innocent. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "But you've always wanted to explore the outside, no? You're a big boy now. You need to go to a bigger school. And they're trying to find your relatives. Don't you want to meet them?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Although it was unclear if he or his older relatives would wield real power, propagandists worked overtime manufacturing a new cult of personality. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “That ignoramus Gowon pledged a miserable, measly amount for more than two million refugees. Did he think it was chickens that died and it is the surviving relatives of those chickens who have returned home?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Clara’s death had to be the key to helping her pass on, but Ophie didn’t have any suspects except for the relatives who would be arriving on the morrow. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z After Aunt Seah got too old to keep me, I was shuffled from one relative to another—some of them pretty far down on the shirttail. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z My relatives worked hard all the time but never seemed to prosper. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z About her mom’s hysterics, about how she lost it in front of my relatives, who were very gracious about the whole thing. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the only thing in the living room is debris: price tags from all the gifts they’ve packed for their relatives, plastic hangers, cardboard from shirts. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And at times relatives spoke scornfully of pale, white skin. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a culture in which enormous attention is paid to the relative standing of any two people in a conversation. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “There’s one more thing. Although you didn’t live with her, you are her only documented relative. That entitles you to a year of immunity from gleaning.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z If I were hungry, I would happily hunt anything that runs or crawls or flies, even relatives, and tear them down with my teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z We can pretend that we don’t belong there anymore, while we’re living in relative safety in this place, but we do. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Even if my Uptown relatives don’t want me, at least they could rescue Mama Ya-Ya. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z Among the seven others, Don Linton, the chief deputy county attorney, held relative primacy. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z There's a lot of chatter about Palestine, about relatives in America. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z There were aunts, uncles, cousins — the home behind the red gate doors was really a village of relatives. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z They hauled buckets of water up from a relative’s home two blocks down the hill. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “Is that name Gladstone, do you think? Could be a relative of the prime minister. But I can’t make out anything else.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Two years ago, she had tried to evict them on the pretext that relatives from China were coming to live there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the war, Chargaff and his students had been painstakingly analyzing various DNA samples for the relative proportions of their purine and pyrimidine bases. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Pascal’s wager on God’s existence, for example, can be cast as a choice between the relative probabilities and consequences of Type I and Type II errors. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The envelope contained a letter from his father, the letter Bobby had requested, listing the addresses of the relatives he hoped to visit in Europe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z All the while, neighbors and relatives popped in to say hello to the younger Obamas and to congratulate us on our engagement. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z In it Paul Revere was begged by a make-believe relative in Ipswich to come in all haste. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And more frames hold relatives at balloon- filled birthdays and First Communions and baptisms—parents and sisters and brothers and nieces and nephews, all arm in arm, fitting together perfectly. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well” — the dragon looked down at the fish with a wry smile — “either one of us would be a very strange relative to you, Fish. Why did you think I was your aunt? ” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Not my relatives; they would think I had gone crazy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in Clover could take all ten children, so relatives divided them up —one with this cousin, one with that aunt. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There would be no furniture to get in his way and no little relatives to make him feel guilty for not sharing his motorcycle. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z They did not own country homes or have relatives or friends outside the city who would be willing to put them up until the fever ended. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There were always tons of people—relatives and neighbors—and lots of confusion. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z In the summer of his sixteenth year, he left the orphanage to which he returned annually and set off to find his Gaunt relatives. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “Wait till your relatives see you riding around in a Laser XL7,” remarked Matt. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z This concern is supported by ethnographic work suggesting that employers have fears of violence by black men relative to other groups of applicants and act on those fears when making hiring decisions. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Historians have subsequently pointed out to me that Europe’s fragmentation, China’s unity, and Europe’s and China’s relative strengths were all more complex than depicted in my account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So he borrowed money from his relatives to buy a train ticket to Berlin. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “Can you imagine any relative of Abe’s being so perfectly clueless?” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z His first reaction, which did not fade when he stepped into the relative coolness of the hallway, was that he had been cheated. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Just like my Uptown relatives forgot today was my birthday. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z I had waited all year to see all the relatives who weren’t at Thanksgiving. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “A few relatives and close friends. Beautiful prayers. People gave little speeches about him, and Grandpa Ted and I held hands. Gemma called it very tasteful.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z They invited us to stay in their home as long as we needed to, but Hamameh wanted to find her relatives in Amman. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Or quell the loneliness he felt being moved from one relative to the next? Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Well, if it’s as easy as catching my future from a blood relative, then I guess I’m due to be a drunk, pregnant, dropout stripper any day now. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z The relative lack of material goods has led some to regard these groups as exemplifying an ethic of living lightly on the land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was, after all, a trail of prostrating visitors to Chief’s house, relatives and friends bringing other relatives and friends, their pockets full of requests and appeals. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z When Edwina and Marshall’s relatives were called, they hurried to the police station, paid the teenagers’ fines, and got them out ofjail. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z When he met his relatives in Europe, Gaston Moch told his son, he was going to learn for the first time that he and his family were Jewish. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z But in the Bree-land, at any rate, the hobbits were decent and prosperous, and no more rustic than most of their distant relatives Inside. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, has relatives fighting for the Confederacy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z She talked right over Carlton, telling me about their relatives who’d farmed the Lacks Plantation, and their relation to Ben and Albert Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Many people came to the morgue to search for missing relatives and friends. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z But it was the advent of DDT and all its many relatives that ushered in the true Age of Resistance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Have you ever noticed about my relatives...how all my cousins are on Grandpa’s side and not Grandma’s?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z For as long as I can remember, our house had been full of people: neighbors, relatives, and friends of my father’s—and a never-ending stream of cousins, male and female. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Her younger daughter with Ernest, Anna, whom a relative had been raising since Mollie became seriously ill, had died. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Great! Now my relatives in Ohio found out. Like I need their stress on top of my own.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The house was filling with people and the hours passed in a dreadful streaky blur of relatives, neighbors, crying children, covered dishes, blocked driveways, ringing telephones, bright lights, strange faces, awkward conversations. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Traveling close to the speed of light you would hardly age at all, but your friends and your relatives back home would be aging at the usual rate. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I envisioned all my relatives and friends being there for me whenever I returned. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z "Did you ever try and find any relatives? They must have had some brothers or sisters?" City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Similarly, wheats, barley, lentil, chickpea, beans, and flax all have numerous wild relatives besides the ones that became domesticated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ralph, who came from a long line of intelligent mice, knew that most of his relatives had learned to avoid traps and poisons. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z He had scattered Delsa, Norma, Héctor, and Alicia among relatives, hadn’t visited them regularly, and hadn’t seemed to care what happened to them. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In the relative quiet, the birds take back the woods. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z I take another run, and when I get back to the store and stack my empty hot bags under the stainless-steel counter, there is relative calm. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “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 Led by his male relatives, Raman arrived on a horse covered with a cloth embroidered with small, round mirrors. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z “And if such an enchantment exists, then the ownership of the house is most likely to pass to the eldest of Sirius’s living relatives, which would mean his cousin, Bellatrix Lestrange.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z |
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